Something rotten in state of Denmark

Joe,

Regarding your reply to Rick in the post Convicts to Australia, Puritans to America, we have the same thing here in Denmark. Our Dear Leaders have long ago decided to fight for our poor livers, and Hell, a gallon of the cheapest booze is more like a hundred US dollars up here. Rick forgot to mention that self-same do-gooders, buy all their booze tax- and VAT-free -- if they've managed to kill all the bottles they get from lobbyists, that is.

I bet it's the same thing in Australia. (Their government consists of politicians, just like the Danish ones.) The Dear Ones also decided a few years back, that smoking should be prohibited in all public buildings. Two exceptions: Parliament and the MP's office block, the pols are smoking like chimneys during sessions. Twenty years ago subsidies to canteens were rescinded; only one exception in the entire state of Denmark: the canteen in the prime minister's office. The PM and his goblins eat like earls for five dollars a pop while school kids were not allowed a fridge for their lunchbag. No wonder most of them prefer donuts and candy bars.

Venlig hilsen/Best regards

Roger
Copenhagen, Denmark

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Dear Roger:

Yes, but you Danes have paid-for beer breaks for construction workers and those Danish women. That makes up for a hell of a lot of government screw jobs. In fact, given enough beer and the right Danish woman, I could probably live happily in shackles.

Solidarity,

Joe

PS: Given that I do not live in Denmark, I have done the next best thing. I am married to a direct descendant of both Rollo Rognvaldsson, coastal raider and founder of Normandy (who probably wasn't really a Dane, much as the Danes love to claim him) AND Ivor the Boneless (infamous for administering the "blood red eagle," wherein his men cut out an enemy's ribs, opened them like wings, seized the lungs, and spread them across his body!) Needless to say, I petty much grovel in humble wonder at points below her waist and do exactly as she orders me to do.  ;-)