Comments on: What a Disgusting Little Fascist

By: Cheeky Bob

Cheeky Bob — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 09:31:53 +0000

“And the parents who turf their kids out of the house as soon as they get home from school, who give them money for chips every night, who never wash their childrens clothes, who never hear them read, who never set aside quiet time for homework, never cook any breakfast, who allow strangers to move into the house and abuse their children, they are OK are they?”

No, because they’re almost certainly smokers too. But if we banned smoking outright, all these other problems would melt into the ether, because of course giving up smoking doesn’t have any temperamental side-effects whatsoever. Good Lord, no.

(I shared an office with an ex chainsmoker once. It was four months of pure hell, and when I saw him light up again I inwardly cheered)

By: Monty

Monty — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 02:09:24 +0000

And the parents who turf their kids out of the house as soon as they get home from school, who give them money for chips every night, who never wash their childrens clothes, who never hear them read, who never set aside quiet time for homework, never cook any breakfast, who allow strangers to move into the house and abuse their children, they are OK are they?

This creep has no idea of the real problems faced by children, and he doesn’t want to know. He just wants to take a cheap shot at a sector of society which has become an easy target. Faced with a real kid with real problems, he would run a mile and take a shower.

Children in this country are beset by many problems. Smoking parents is nowhere on the scale of deprivation. Smirking hacks don’t help.

By: Tim Almond

Tim Almond — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 20:59:47 +0000

If the government was sincere about protecting those most vulnerable, it wouldn’t have introduced a smoking ban in enclosed private places.

By: Cheeky Bob

Cheeky Bob — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 18:44:46 +0000

I thought Timetocare was Chris’s only supporter, not Chris himself.

Mind you, your explanation makes as much sense – but do you know for certain that they’re the same person?

By: devilskitchen

devilskitchen — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 18:38:45 +0000

Chris has replied to his detractors. Naturally, he's doing it for the good of society. Equally naturally, I have replied. DK

By: Longrider » Evil Little Fascist

Longrider » Evil Little Fascist — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 17:26:04 +0000

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By: Robert Hale

Robert Hale — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 13:43:02 +0000

Interesting to see that many of the comments on the Graun website are taking the mick out of this Hallam guy.

By: Maud Flanders

Maud Flanders — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 13:12:03 +0000

The children! Will someone please think of the children?

By: Jock

Jock — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 13:10:47 +0000

Is that a Malapropism? Should it be “welter”?

By: Mark Wadsworth

Mark Wadsworth — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 11:43:49 +0000

I like the phrase “a wealth of legislation”.