Government advice

is nearly always totally obvious, or sometimes just plain wrong or misguided.

Advice which fell into the former category this week concerned the current heat, (Shock: In mid-summer it's warm - declare a level 3 emergency!)

Now it's the usual moron obvious stuff like drink plenty, don't go out at the hotest part of the day if you can avoid it, wear sunscreen ~ dah type stuff. But for, the absolute, clear, 100% "everyone in the world knows this" so why are we paying someone to give us this advice? How's this.

A government spokesperson told me, when I was driving:

If I was hot, wind the windows down ~ she actually said this ~ I could not help but ponder if there were really thousands of people thinking "eureka" as she said it, what a great idea.

She went on "If you have air conditioning use it" This advice became actually dangerous because I was laughing so hard at the time, I could hardly control the car. Indeed, if you need a giggle, phone NHS direct, and ask them a series of mindlesly obvious questions about the heat and what you should do. when you've stopped laughing, remember, your taxes pay these people, and think to yourself, yes, we really should have some tax cuts.