Beyond parody
Friday, January 10, 2014 at 18:53 A few years ago we considered launching a spoof campaign.
The name we came up with was Action on Sausages and Health (ASH, geddit?).
The idea was that every anti-tobacco campaign would be replicated by a similar anti-sausage campaign or soundbite.
Concerned that it might upset sausage manufacturers, we then considered adopting the name 'Fingerwaggers Alliance', a term first coined by former MSP and journalist Dorothy-Grace Elder.
I wrote and asked her if we could use it. I still have her response:
Hello, Simon. No objection to Fingerwaggers Alliance but give me a credit!
As parodies go, however, nothing can beat Action on Sugar and tweets such as:
H/T Chris Snowdon
Satire, it seems, is not dead. It's risen from the dead and is stalking the world disguised as 'public health'.
Reader Comments (2)
I will take great pleasure from ignoring the plaintive bleats of this new AoS mini-group as I have drawn from similarly ignoring the frantic shrieks from its sister organisation, ASH.
My morning corn-flakes will still be dredged with a goodly helping of sweet crystals despite everything that this new and despicable group come up with.
The self-same 'scientist' that I mentioned on another thread during the same interview justified his view that sugar is addictive by reference to teenagers whose grumpiness can be directly attributed to their need of a sugar fix. I'm sure that everyone could come up with a 101 reasons why teenagers are grumpy and sugar withdrawal wouldn't feature in any.
Yes, these people are beyond parody.