‘Scores of Carlsberg workers have walked off their jobs to protest the Danish brewer’s new limits on beer drinking at work.’
Whether you agree or not, this puts Australia’s ‘nanny state’ mentality into perspective. Of course drinking beer at work isn’t world’s best practice, yet the Danes aren’t wielding the big clog here, they only want brewery workers not to get drunk while drinking beer on the job. The drivers are exempt from this ruling. Apparently they can drink, but the caveat is an alcohol ignition lock on the trucks.
The Danes aren’t stupid.
The Danes also aren’t over-worrying, do-gooders who want to beat the joie de vivre out of anyone who doesn’t follow their lifestyle. Of course, this Danish example is slanted to one side of the argument, yet Australian authorities seem far pressed the other way.
You can barely blink today without some faux authority coming down on you like a ton of bricks. Take your dog for a walk? Take a plastic bag? In my day, dog shit was biodegradable. Honk your horn whilst driving? Be prepared for a $230 fine, even if it was just to say hello to a friend. Yet these same governmental do-gooders somehow fail to stop youths carrying knives. They have no control over cultural elements in society who are intent on destroying our way of life. Nonetheless they insist on reigning in our freedoms.
This is the crux of the matter; pacifying much of the populace with ‘Milky Bars‘, while giving free reign to immigrants to remake this country in their image. That the Danes manage to send Carlsberg Beer across the world, while enjoying a lager or two at lunch time, makes a mockery of our nanny state imposing baby rules of behaviour, rather than policing the issues that many Australians are concerned about.
