Middle-aged people will be encouraged to get more sleep as part of a government campaign to help them live more healthy lifestyles and reduce the risk of serious illness.
Public Health England is planning to encourage adults between the ages of 40 and 60 to spend more time in bed as part of a wide-ranging campaign to boost the nation’s health.
It is part of a new wide-ranging campaign which asks adults to make seven lifestyle changes including stopping smoking, drinking less and exercising more.
For crying out loud! Is there nowhere that the government will not poke, pry and generally interfere? How much sleep I get or any other lifestyle decisions are mine to make. I do not need nanny to tell me what to do. So just fuck off and die. Soon, please.
What really pisses me off, is that I lack sleep because I need to work and then the state steals that hard-earned money from me and pisses it up the wall on these idiotic campaigns designed to tell me how to live my life. If anything is designed to raise my blood pressure and cause my health to suffer, it is this.
The years between ages 40 and 60 are thus a unique but neglected opportunity for intervention.
I do not need your intervention, you interfering, parasitic cunts.
The reason i can’t sleep more than about 5 hours a night is that i get chronic backache once that 5 hours is up.
That’s because i did the right thing, as many of my/our generation did, and worked meself (still am) from an early age (the days before full time eduction lasted till you were grey haired) into no doubt an early grave.
So yes, they can fuck off and stick their advice where the sun don’t shine, up their collective arses on a nail.
Poncy twats never done a real days work in their miserable lives, telling me/us how we should live, bollocks.
Soon, they’re going to find they’re just talking to themselves – it really can’t be long before the drones waken up and realize it’s no longer just the nasty smokers who’re being nagged at. After all, we did warn them when the ban came in….
How dare HMG squeal that there’s no money when they’re pissing it away on the contemptible leeches that comprise Public Health (snort).
Doctor: “Government health advice is for you to get more sleep.”
Patient: “Zzzzzzzz.”
Doctor: “I SAID THAT GOVERNMENT HEALTH ADVICE IS FOR YOU TO GET MORE SLEEP!”
Patient: “Pardon Doctor? I must have drifted off there for a minute.”
But, according to a well researched study published in The Lancet, excessive sleep can cause cancer. The BMA define excessive sleep as 21 units of sleep per week.
What about us eighty year ols -don’t we count?
An occasional sleeping tablet wouled be a boon as well.
I guess this is just to ensure that we don’t have any time left to relax and enjoy ourselves. What with our pre-breakfast jog, making up our own muesli from organically-grown oats, getting ourselves to our jobs, pushing ourselves through eight hours of work, getting ourselves home again, visiting the gym on the way, stopping at the supermarket and scouring every product for the low-salt, low-fat, low-sugar options, getting home to prepare a home-cooked supper (convenience food not permitted), clearing up to ensure one’s home is of pristine, zero-bacteria standard, jumping in the bath to ensure one’s bits and pieces are equally pristine and zero-bacteria, applying countless creams, lotions and potions to ensure that our middle-aged bodies look like those of a 20-year-old, the only time remaining to – err – do something that we actually enjoy and want to do is that teeny-weeny window of time before bed. Now they even want to close that, and have us all – like good little children – tucked up for bye-byes by ten o’clock, so that we wake refreshed and ready for our pre-breakfast jog, making our own muesli from organic oats…..
So, yeah. What you said, LR!
PS: I blame Thatcher!
That Thatcher has a lot to answer for.
That Thatcher had a reputation for needing very little sleep.