As I have often stated on this site, living in the Nanny state (where everything is spoon fed to you, people are obliged to follow petty rules and procedures and we are discouraged from thinking for themselves) rots the brain.
Hey ho...and here we have proof, if it were ever needed, that the Nanny state really does rot the brain.
Jaz Bhogal, 15, found this to his cost the other day when he went to his local 99p store at Wisbech Cambridgeshire to buy some wine gums.
Can you guess what happened next loyal readers?
Yes, that's right, the shop assistant refused to sell them to him because Jaz was under 18.
Factoid: wine gums do not contain alcohol.
A cursory glance at the list of ingredients of said packet could have verified that, not to mention the fact that most people with half a brain know that.
However, living in the Nanny state rots the brain and the fact that the word "wine" was in the label ensured that an automatic "you're underage" mindset kicked in.
Not surprisingly the store owners have realised that they look like numpties and have apologised. Seemingly there was a "glitch" in the electronic till which flagged the product as "booze".
So that's alright then?
No it's not, because commonsense should have told the shop assistant that the till was wrong!
As noted, we have become a nation of brain dead numpties thanks to Nanny.
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On a slightly less mad note, I notice that on the xmas selections in M&S, the liquor chocolates are marked as for adult sale only.
ReplyDeleteI wonder just how many of these chocs you would have to eat to become drunk?
Maybe I shall have to try it. I'll start with 10 boxes and see where I go from there.
Nanny must be very proud of her education system....Afterall, Nanny tells us that educational standards are higher than ever; Yeah right!!
ReplyDeletePerhaps when the tills are programmed, they also programme the mindless drones as well....I am a robot, I am a robot, I cannot think, I cannot think.
Anyway, stay off the wine gums and M&S liquors this weekend but, have it large!!
Enjoy wine gums responsibly.
To be fair, some of the better quality liquor chocs DO contain real spirits and given that M&S deal in the quality end of things it's possible their chocs could be classed as "drink".
ReplyDeleteBut as for wine gums containing wine.............!!!!
So computers think for us now?
ReplyDeleteIts like some crappy 1950s science fiction film.
So computers think for us now?
ReplyDeleteIts like some crappy 1950s science fiction film.
I dont know how I manged to post that twice. Computer error?
ReplyDeleteOh the irony...
I seem to remember as a child that one of the attractions of Wine Gums was the faint suggestion that they might be somehow alcoholic.
ReplyDeleteHowever, even as a 7 year old kid, I was well aware that they are not, in fact, alcoholic.
On the other hand, I now regularly drink more units of alcohol per week than Nanny advises. It must be the fault of the Wine Gums, so Nanny really ought to pull her finger out and ban them!
Hurray for this shop for taking front line action on the War Against Enjoyment. Nanny will be proud.
What the fark is wine gum?
ReplyDelete--Your American Readers
A highly dangerous carcinogenic substance that can kill innocent people at 100 yards. If you cover to Blightly and see someone recklessly eating wine gums in public, run for cover.
ReplyDeleteLess reasonable folk might describe it as a chewy sweet (that's candy to you guys) with silly names like "Port" and "Sherry" stamped into the said sugary article. Delicious they are.
I'm rather surprised that this store wasn't awarded 'Prats Of The Week' for their sheer knobheadery.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous above admits he or she "now regularly drink more units of alcohol per week than Nanny advises" - what! SOAB!
ReplyDeleteSurely Anonymous cannot be telling the truth. As everyone knows, drinking more than what nanny advises means that person would be dead by now!
LOL! Not only am I a raging alcoholic according to Nanny, I also dare to leave the house without wearing a hi-viz vest and I even ride a bike, without, GASP, wearing a helmet! I've even been known to eat bacon...
ReplyDeleteI must be the luckiest man on Earth to have done all that and still be alive eh?
Question. Can anyone tell me whether you can still buy a canned soft drink called 'shandy', which I seem to remember contains 0.2% alcohol.
ReplyDeleteAll I can to this is my own tale of how, in the late '70s at a popular UK seaside resort, a woman refused to let my mum buy a rum and raisin ice cream for me (then 10ish).
ReplyDeleteThis really is taking the p**s! I regularly ate wine gums as a child, but cannot recall ever getting drunk, or even slightly 'merry'!
ReplyDeleteYou pointed out, Ken, that "...a cursory glance at the list of ingredients of said packet could have verified that, not to mention the fact that most people with half a brain know that (wine gums do not contain alcohol)"
Very true, Ken, but these morons don't have half a brain cell. I agree with David J Hilton, that the store in question should have been awarded 'prat of the week'!