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Lazy Get syndrome : Government to appoint Tsar Tsar.
Tired of dealing with the medical mayhem caused by the Scots' collective liking for doing fuck all, the government this week pledged this week to address the nation’s fitness problems by appointing a Russian Tsar as, er, Tsar.

"Look at Russian history" a government spokessphygmomanometer told the JT: "say what you like about feudal Russia but most serfs were as a fit as fuck."

The new appointee, Tsar Peter the Sadistic, plans to abolish parliamentary democracy, reinstate feudal vassalage and invade Poland. Again.

Speaking from St.Petersburg Tsar Peter refused to answer The JT editor’s questions, preferring to having him flogged for his impertinence, damn his eyes.

The new system of indentured servitude will involve the entire Scottish population tilling the land by hand for 16 hours a day, sustained only by the occasional potato doled out on Orthodox Church feast days.

Great swathes of the landscape will be made over to acres of ill-roofed mud huts with no sanitation or street lighting - much like present day Coatbridge except way better.

Until the new Tsar comes into post, Health promotion bodies will continue to press home the health message in a series of TV ads, ever hopeful that the Scottish target audience will prove too lazy to reach for the remote to turn the telly off.

Inside: Let’s cook Russian style! First, peel a potato and then... well, that’s it basically.
June 2002

Previously in the Jaggy Thistle:
Scottish poor health is just fine by us: say alcohol and tobacco lobby. May 2000
New Health Strategy latest: perfectly legal drugs industry applauds "customer maintenance programme" November 2000

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