Quote Originally Posted by Divine Wright View Post
It’s weird how there are a far greater number of obese, alcoholic gamblers in an age of wall-to-wall media and constant paddy power adverts.

Chuck into that mix a lack of job opportunities and a poor level of education and you’ll tend to get a lot more druggies and alkies.

The system is rigged and in washing your hands of any responsibility, you are an advocate for this hyper-competitive, cut-throat meritocracy that our society is rapidly becoming.

You vote for Boris Johnson with comments like the one above.

YOU are the bad egg from where I am sitting.
I stated out of the gate in the message you responded to that people choose their addictions. You didn't dispute that assertion, instead you absolved their weakness(es) because of a low IQ or having a poor income. I sense your remarks have much greater merit than the lousy nurturing or was fingered by uncle Fred line that some favour as a pretext.

I'd guess the number one addiction amongst Britons by a country mile is staring at the goggle box for several hours a day every day, closely followed by gawping at other screens found on mobile phones and computers.

I've acknowledged in this thread that I'm a nicotine addict and both parents died prematurely because one was also hooked on it and the other could never get enough whisky down his neck. Neither they or I, nor I suspect any other addict of anything else ever had a knife held to their throat or gun to their head.