editorrealtalk:

I had a dream that a dentist kidnapped me.  He kidnapped me and installed a device in my chest, surgically under anaesthetic, that wrapped a wire around my heart.  With a remote control he could kill me at any time by pressing a button which would cause my heart to stop via electrical current.

He did this because he’d seen me on TV before and felt I was compelling, he figured that he wasn’t making money from dentistry and because I was compelling, he would force me to appear on late night home shopping advertorials where I would pimp his tooth whitening / other dental products.  I had no choice but to comply otherwise he’d kill me with his heart electrocutor.

One night on the show, I get an idea.  I say right into camera 1  ”This is the dental care solution, right now, for me”. As I say dental I put my fingers to my mouth and move them away with my thumb out, as I say right now I point with my right hand fingers to my upturned left palm and move both hands forward, as I say for me I point to my own chest with my right hand. I say; “That’s how I feel, seriously!” the audience wows, and I put my right hand wrist’s top to the underside of my left hand’s wrist for emphasis.  ”Call now!” I say as I put my right thumb near my ear hole and my little finger to my mouth like a phone, “time is running out!” – thumb and forefinger of right hand make a C shape to my left hand near my watch.

Of course if you’re a Deaf Australian, what’s you’ve just witnessed is “Please.  Help me.  I am a prisoner.  Call the police.” in Australian sign language.

The only Deaf person who witnessed it, called the TV station instead of the police.  As the dentist is torturing me to get me to explain how I got word of my situation out, I wake up.

The human brain is weird man.

Yes it’s a thing, yes it’s this week.

One of two things is the case, exclusively;

1. Addictive gambling is a pathology, and “responsible gambling awareness week” will be an example of attempting to treat a pathology by awareness; i.e. it’ll be as effective as “headache awareness week” is in treating headaches, or
2. Addictive gambling is not a pathology and we’re attempting therefore to deal with a non-medical pattern of deliberately irresponsible and destructive behaviour by making people aware of it, with much the same likelihood of success

But that’s cool at least we get to dedicate another week to being aware of something, because nobody is fatigued by that beyond the point where these token events have any relevance.

Ignore the doctors talking about how kids do better with one male and one female parent.  This is not their medical opinion, they are just bigots.  If it seems plausible it’s just because it’s unusual for someone to use their medical degree instead of their religion to try and legitimise their idealogical position.