You can’t trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.
Therefore he said:-
Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake.
W C Fields
You can imagine what he would have thought about the proliferation of wowsers we see today
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There seems to be a collective madness about at the moment with all the penny-ante movements coming out to play. We’ve got the unionistas playing up, the Auckland mayors seeking to outdo each other in nuttiness and bad behaviours.
Now we’ve got the a sort of revived Temperance Alliance, ably led by Geoffrey Palmer. If we showed a picture of him to overseas guests in that role, and better still turned up the sound when he speaks they would shudder as pictures of a cross between Savonarola and Elmer Gantry sprang to mind.. put a cloak on him and he’d be one of the Four Horsemen.
But the facts belie the NZ drinking image.. according to Wikipedia we are about 18th on the list of countries by pure alcohol consumption, mid table in the OECD, and woefully, 16th in beer consumption with Aussie outstripping us by 41% in litres consumed.
Geoffrey and his mates had better look a bit deeper into this and come up with the real causes of alcohol abuse. They could start with that antiquated notion of the mega pub that persists; in the early days they were designed to get the drunks off the street, safely corralled so decent women could go about their business in relative safety from molestation. They could bite the bullet and discover this is a consumption by race problem, that we have a younger median age than just about anywhere in the Western world. Add in our high rural/urban split, heavy reliance on agriculture and rugby that necessitates use of a car to get around plus our roads quality and its actually surprising that we don’t have more fatalities.
In fact our road stats aren’t that bad compared to the rest of the world.. high enough in the OECD but not bad.
If Palmer and co would point out that safer roads would both improve productivity and save many lives we’d all be on a winner.
JC