[Redacted] is as harmful to colleagues as secondhand smoking...
Oooh, go on, have a guess!
Bringing cake into work is as harmful to colleagues as secondhand smoking, Britain's top food tsar has warned.
*blinks* Wait, what?
Professor Susan Jebb, the Food Standards Agency chairwoman, argues that passive smoke inflicts harm on others in the office ‘and exactly the same is true of food’.
How? I mean, do cake particles from the next desk make their way over to me, or something?
Prof Jebb, who teaches diet and population health at the University of Oxford, told the Times: 'If nobody brought in cakes into the office, I would not eat cakes in the day, but because people do bring cakes in, I eat them.
Well, love, that's on you. If a colleague brings in a fruit cake, nothing would induce me to eat it!
'Now, okay, I have made a choice, but people were making a choice to go into a smoky pub.'
Which is an argument for not restricting that choice, isn't it? Not for adding to the nannying fussbucketry...
She has also slammed ministers over a decision to delay a watershed for junk food advertising, adding that it has led to a 'complete market failure' that has squeezed out health foods.
Because no-one will eat tofu if they see a Big Mac on screen? Good lord, if this woman's an example of what abstinence does to your brain, someone bring me an eclair, quick!
H/T: PubCurmudgeon via Twitter
Isn't the carbon dioxide these people breathe out a greenhouse gas?
ReplyDeleteThe point is ... she's right. It is "as harmful to colleagues as secondhand smoking", i.e. not at all (well, except to the psyches of the perpetual victims out there).
ReplyDeleteI well remember the hopeful calls for support from smokers when the completely unnecessary, and based on manipulated and entirely constructed pseudo-science, restrictions and penalties were forced on them. And ... not one of you did anything, well other than demand TPTB do even more.
So now they're coming for your Mr. Kiplings based on some spurious Lysenko-wannabe Karens 'feelz' (and they gleefully 'tell you' it's based on the same 'tobacco template' methodology of how they banned smoking, but you still refuse to see that if 'this' is rubbish, then it 'all' was).
So? You had your Neimuller chance. I shall look on with satisfaction as they take your snacks and nibbles, drive you to stand out in the rain when peckish, and refuse treatment for your broken-leg since you have crumbs on your collar. I'm already a non-person, banned, excluded and vilified, and 'what goes around, comes around' - I think I'll point out to them that drinking anything other than tepid tap-water is also harmful to the 'willpower, blame-anyone-but-themselves, deficient', so coffee, tea and sodas 'will' be joining 'the list' too.
;-)
Shirley, she is a Tzarina?
ReplyDeleteInterestingly I read that this English word is derived from the German word Czarin. Yeeass. German for "bossy boots". I want to see the manager.
Also, she has let her greedy little klepto habit slip out.
Now her current and past colleagues will know who the phantom cake snaffler is.
Straight from Guardian Central Casting 'Daft Bints R Us'. What a terminally stupid woman!
ReplyDelete"Isn't the carbon dioxide these people breathe out a greenhouse gas?"
ReplyDeleteGood point! They should stop doing that. 😏
"The point is ... she's right. It is "as harmful to colleagues as secondhand smoking", i.e. not at all (well, except to the psyches of the perpetual victims out there)."
Yes, I don't think anyone has considered that...
"Now her current and past colleagues will know who the phantom cake snaffler is."
Heh!
"Straight from Guardian Central Casting 'Daft Bints R Us'."
The public sector is full of people like this.