Must not mention suntans
A story from Australia. Australians might not be the big-time tanners that Californians are but it is close:
"A Brisbane radio station has pulled a promotional advertisement off the air after it was deemed to inadvertently glorify tanning. The advertisement, a summer promotion for B105.3FM, featured voiceovers with young females saying what they like about summer. One girl said she liked going to South Bank to ``check out cute boys'' and get a suntan; another said she liked jumping in the car and heading to the Gold Coast beaches to ''get a tan''.
The promotion has aired during the State Government's $1 million ``Dark Side of Tanning'' anti-skin cancer campaign. Cancer Council Queensland SunSmart co-ordinator Lisa Naumann said advertisements such as the B105 promotion ''certainly don't help our SunSmart message''. ''It is extremely frustrating that while we work tirelessly to promote a SunSmart message we have that negated by irresponsible advertisers.'' She said Queenslanders, who had more skin cancers than residents in any other state, did not need any more encouragement to flout the skin-cancer message.
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6 comments:
Political correctness is turning us all into sheep. It is a far greater threat to freedom than is terrorism, yet the weak, mindless people seem powerless and/or unwilling to stop it. In fact, in most cases, they see it as something "hip and chic", proving just how brain-dead they really are! People have no clue as to the real damage PC is doing to them, their countries, their languages, traditions, histories, and their ability to live their own lives.
Or, is it simply that the people truly are sheep and need to be led, not caring to where or by whom.
QUOTABLE QUOTES
"Political Correctness is about turning a blind eye to painful reality because your comfortable feelings are more important to you than saving lives and providing quality of life to people who work their ass off to be productive and are a benefit to this great American Dream.” – Ted Nugent
nothing wrong with getting a tan (unless you're a lobster like me who gets sunburn in minutes).
The trick is not to overdo it, but government messages can't say that, can they?
They have to tell you that any exposure to the sun whatsoever will immediately give you skin cancer.
I'd walk a mile for a good tan.
(cough, cough)
Perhpas in the nanny state of the near future, we'll all live in a dome, shielded from the sun, and any sense of personal responsibility. Oh wait, we're half way there already!
Would it be ok for the kangaroo and emu to kick those buricrats in the head to get their nonworking brains in finaly working
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