No western country is more amusing to me than Britain, I present exhibit A:
A bizarre Government-funded campaign is being launched to encourage people to exercise while they’re waiting for a bus.
According to the campaign’s organisers, those minutes spent at the bus stop watching the traffic go by could be spent more usefully – by standing on one leg, pointing your toes or clenching your buttocks.
[From Buttock-clenching at the bus stop: The nanny state's new bid to get us all fit | Mail Online]
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