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Steparoo's Big Adventure

I'm sorry for the lack of posting this week. Trouble is, I've been pissing my sides laughing so hard that I've been unable to sit still long enough to use a keyboard since the weekend.

That is, since I saw This.

Steparoo the Smokefree Kangaroo. ?? WTF??? etc???


Steparoo the Smokefree Kangaroo is touring the North West to encourage smokers to Take 7 Steps Out from their home when smoking to protect the health of their families. For more information visit take7stepsout.co.uk.


Please do. Please, please visit Take Seven Steps Out. It's the biggest pile of anti smoking rubbish in one place that you are likely to see. All brought to us, using our money, by the righteous at Smokefree Northwest.

In the meantime, let's meet Steparoo and find out what he (she/it) has been up to lately. Are we sitting comfortably, boys and girls?

It seems Steppy the Righteous Kangaroo has been to Warrington.

The guys from Smokefree North West asked me and Lil’ Roo along to their roadshow one last time to help the spread the word to Take 7 Steps Out. The roadshow visited every county across the NW and along the way we met some really bonza people!
"Bonza" people. We're not trying to get down with the kids are we? By the way, I thing Steppy is a single mom as there's no mention or a Mr Roo.

Warrington Borough Councillor Mike Biggin (Might be a name worth looking into) and some of the helpful people from NHS Warrington’s Stop Smoking Service came by to lend a hand. Sheila and Linda from Warrington Smokefree Families also stopped by to help out and tell people all about their new scheme. They are asking people to pledge to make their homes smokefree and in return not only will people protect their family but also receive a free information pack- sounds rad!
Sounds Rad? Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha oh fucking hell, here I go again ha ha ha ha ha ha gis a minute *gulp*

I was so excited when Rugby League Challenge Cup winner Wolfie from Warrington wolves stopped by to support the campaign. Everyone wanted their photos taken with us- we were the Kylie and Jason of Warrington- I felt like a superstar!


My favourite part of the day though had to be when glamorous gran Joy, stopped by for a chat. Joy hadn’t heard about Take 7 Steps Out until her grandkids Leigha and Jake who had seen the advert asked their gran to start smoking outside. Joy now Takes 7 Steps Out before she lights up and even has a chair 7 steps away from the back door, what a beaut idea!
*Boggle*. Glamorous Gran Joy should have told the little brats to knob right off. Another perfect example of how we are training our kids to dictate adult lifestyle.

What a load of hogwash.

I'm sure there will be plenty more from Stroppy The Righteous Kangaroo in the future.

Stay in school kids!

23 Comments:

Timdog said...

Sweet jesus.

The first thing I laid eyes on when I opened the link was - "Search our house". That's right, the message to kids is - we'll help you search your parents house so you can tell them, the adults and the people responsible for everything you do, what they should do.

Way to transfer responsibility in absolutely the wrong direction. As you say, this horseshit about parents and even grandparents taking direction from children is ludicrous.

My sons can start telling me how to live my life when they're 18 or finished having their education paid for, whichever comes last. I'll ignore them mind, but I'll let them tell me nonetheless.

Angry Exile said...

Thank fuck for that, I thought it was going to be something here. Okay, my suggestion is to try to avoid the good, meaty bits when you shoot. When you come to cook it use a little olive oil on each side as it's often very lean and doesn't have enough of it's own juices to cook in. Oh, and if you can have the butcher set some aside for curing, because it's very tasty smoked.

Failing that a good loud 'fuck off' might be appropriate.

Bucko said...

Aye Timdog, It's bollox isn't it. I've just been through that simulated house and it's full of rubbish statements about the harm passive smoking does to the cheeeeldren, without an ounce of evidence to back it up. I thought cot death was unexplained so I don't know how they can attribute SHS to it.

AE - My mouth is watering. Might have to get the shotty out and go on a kangaroo hunt, eh?

Smoking Hot said...

Give me the Hookah Smoking Caterpillar of Alice in Wonderland instead of the illegal immigrant Roo.

l tried to picture me as child putting my grandmothers chair outside but it also brought up pictures of her then knocking my head off!

Angry Exile said...

Can't use a shotty. You could certainly get close enough to hit 'em in some places where they see lots of people and aren't too shy, but hunters expect to be further off. Besides, who wants a steak full of shot? Nice, accurate rifles and head shots are the name of the game. Or going to the supermarket for a little tray of marinaded tail steaks or something. Serve with a nice tossed salad unless the Righteous a watching, in which case serve with lard, rissoles, burgers, lard, sausages and lard, with beers and cigarettes all round even for the supportive non-smokers (we don't need to actually light them to mindfuck the Righteous).

Bucko said...

Smoking - The Hookah Caterpillar probably took 7 steps accross the ceiling.
My Grandma didn't smoke; she was rather fat though and died of altzheimers. Maybe I should have been encouraging her to take up smoking, it would have helped on both counts.

AE - It's near bloody impossible to get a rifle in England. It wouldn't be so bad, though. Chew, spit, ting.

The Filthy Engineer said...

And it's all filled with "Think of the Cheeeldren" crap.

Phil is a taxi driver and single dad. When discovering his previous wife was pregnant, he made sure he started smoking outside of the house to help protect the baby.

His daughter is now 2, but he still continues to only smoke outside. To help encourage him, Phil built a shed in the garden so that he can still smoke outside even if it’s cold or raining.

Phil told us:

- He smokes a lot less with not smoking in the house

- "People have to think about their kids"

Bucko said...

Phil could maybe turn his shed into a smokey drinkey. Maybe then I wouldn't think he's as much of a cunt.

Jayce Kay said...

"Phil could maybe turn his shed into a smokey drinkey. Maybe then I wouldn't think he's as much of a cunt."

Fucking priceless.

Erm and yeah complete waste of time money energy, blah blah, come the revolution these motherfuckers will be the first against the wall for brainwashing kids into browbeating the parents to do the work of some bunch of fuckers who were never elected anyway.

Bucko said...

Jace - I wish that revolution would hurry up. I'm not sure how much more of this my ribs can take :-)

Macheath said...

What a pity Mao's Red Guard didn't have a mascot like Steparoo - if they had, we'd surely all be waving our Little Red Books and doing Loyalty Dances.

Macheath said...

PS - Someone was presumably paid a shed-load of money to come up with this stuff and is now feeling very, very proud. I just feel very, very sick - mainly courtesy of 'Lil' Roo'.

@ Smoking Hot, remember that in some cities a grandmother these days is about 32. Meanwhile, I'm puzzled by little Leigha; offspring of a dyslexic Star Wars fan, perhaps.

Fascist Hippy said...

FFs, when can we start killing these fuckwits?

Bucko said...

Macheath - The old time communists used blunt force. We seem to be that docile that a prat in a kangaroo suit can do the job.

As you say. "glamerous Granny" probably was in her thirties to be endorsing this crap.

Angry Exile said...

Macheath, for the anti- crowd I think that'd be Little Read Book.

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Anonymous said...

Jesus! I'm in tears - but I don't know if they're from laughter or desperation. Why do these people seem to be such cunts? Is it some sort of employment scheme for unemployable fuckwits? Who would to do this kind of hectoring shit for a living?

Bucko said...

MIB - I think it gives otherwise small and insignificant people, a little taste of power over others.
They must have very empty lives to start doing this kind of crap.

Leg-iron said...

I'm in my house and I'm smoking.

The only effect a talking kangaroo would have is to make me take a very close look at what I'm smoking.

Then I'd place a large order for more...

Bucko said...

....and that's the best comment yet. I nearly spilled my Guinness. Have a gold star!

Bucko said...

Having said that, I'm also in my house and I'm smoking a big cigar with a cat on my lap. (I can't sit at the computer without a cat on lap) Stroppy the Moaning Cuntaroo says we also need to protect our pets from fag smoke.
Peanut doesn't seem to mind!

Man with Many Chins said...

"Serve with a nice tossed salad unless the Righteous a watching, in which case serve with lard, rissoles, burgers, lard, sausages and lard, with beers and cigarettes all round even for the supportive non-smokers (we don't need to actually light them to mindfuck the Righteous)."

AE, you are a cunt of the highest quality.
That made me spit my coffee out! Fucking superb :-)

Penseivat said...

My mother smoked, my father didn't. He kept trying to get her to stop till he read that chemicals in cigarettes acted as an aphrodisiac. After that, he couldn't get my mother to smoke enough cigarettes. My mother died at 78, from an unrelated illness to smoking. My father died, in bed, 8 years earlier, from heart failure. I would always like to think he had a smile on his face at the end.