Sunday, December 18, 2005

Residents dislike the nightlife...
My flatmate, anthony (lack of uppercase intentional, matching my lack of respect), bitched about this when we were watching the news (scroll down to 'Hobart nightclub closes after complaints').

Thankfully he didn’t claim that pokies are ruining such places, but others have- in NSW Fred Nile claimed that pokies are ruining the live music industry. Perhaps Nile should accept that consumer choice drives such things, and any ‘damage’ is far from permanent.

A neighbour even blamed PM Howard for ‘making Australians more morally conservative’. I explained that the Liberals are pro-enterprise, and when this didn’t work, reminded this neighbour that the ALP controls the Tasmanian Parliament and therefore any regulation of Hobart’s almost non-existent nightlife. I also noted the Tasmanian Government's anti-smoking regulations (somewhere in that link) as an example of such control. What's the saying? You can lead a horse (in this case, ass) to water, but you cant make it drink.

That Fascist, General Howard, gets more cunning and evil every day...

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