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Old 04-10-2015, 09:45 AM
 
Location: New Jersey
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See, all you cons!

And you thought Michelle Obama was bad!

Bet you feel lucky to have her, now!

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Old 04-10-2015, 04:00 PM
 
Location: Between the Alps and the North Sea
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Except that what's being talked about here is an American trend that's spread overseas. Political correctness and the nanny state began in the USA, and after they fouled up the US started fouling up other places.
That's not what is talked about in this thread, and the OP was trying to make an entirely different point, but concerning the origins of the nanny state you are correct.
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Old 04-10-2015, 04:20 PM
 
Location: Southern California
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Scotland: The poster child for a nanny state?
I was waiting for the article to end with, "Just Kidding," but, alas, no.

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Old 04-10-2015, 05:03 PM
 
Location: on a hill
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I was waiting for the article to end with, "Just Kidding," but, alas, no.

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Especially to a Highlander. Most of the Scottish Left is down in Edinburgh and Glasgow.
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Old 04-10-2015, 08:47 PM
 
Location: Dallas
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Def scary tho banning smoking around kids where they can't escape 2nd hand smoke I'm def Ok with. It ain't just a "Scot" thing in 2015.
Second hand smoke never hurt anybody.
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Old 04-10-2015, 08:49 PM
 
Location: Dallas
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In the mind of the average American suburban dweller ANY European country, whether Scotland or Germany or Norway or Greece or France, is a cross between a third-world slum and a concentration camp
So you agree that the government should tell people what songs they can sing?

Pathetic.
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Old 04-10-2015, 08:50 PM
 
Location: Dallas
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WOW! It's just amazing how many who consider places a cross between third-world slums and concentration camps choose to vacation in those places, eh?
What does vacations have to do with the Nanny State?
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Old 04-10-2015, 08:50 PM
 
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Im sure the scottish laws will be as effective as our own, like the drug laws that have brought consumption to a near screeching halt
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Old 04-10-2015, 08:51 PM
 
Location: Dallas
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See, all you cons!

And you thought Michelle Obama was bad!

Bet you feel lucky to have her, now!

Very few humans on earth feel lucky to have Michelle. And those that do are pathetic idiots.
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Old 04-11-2015, 05:20 AM
 
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Second hand smoke never hurt anybody.
It does bug me, like loud "music" bugs me. That's why many people have gone to E cigs, they're much better.
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