It can't be April already?

[caulkhead]

According to a report picked up by the Independent, 'Midsomer murders' is obscuring important public health messages by its concentration on 'bizarre murder methods'

http://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/midsomers-murders-are-affecting-public-health-messages-9132121.html

I invite the floor to suggest what public health messages *are* in fact effectively conveyed by Midsomer Murders? Or the rest of the detective canon, in fact?

ETA

Nope. Still not convinced it isn't April.
http://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/feb/17/south-bank-university-fake-pub-alcohol-research-drinking

(I wonder what they'd make of a Batmoot?)

Comments

[oursin]

Personally I think they should be giving more thought to the extent to which Romantic Heroes are potential domestic abusers and the public health message romance conveys.

[caulkhead]

Where are the Public Health Warnings about Wuthering Heights, eh? Eh? And they teach this stuff in schools, too.

[antisoppist]

The woman who has written that book about being a romantic heroine or everything she learned she learned from books or something, keeps turning up on radio 4 saying how Wuthering Heights was her favourite romantic book, and I want to say "but everybody is dead and then he digs her up again! And he hangs puppies!"

[caulkhead]

Perhaps someone should write a book about 'How to be a Romantic heroine', but it probably boils down to 'Don't'.