Brits turn into nation of Prozac-sodden eunuchs

THE UK'S OLDEST newspaper tells us today that we're all glugging gallons of water loaded with the Prozac drug - whether we like it, like it not or are simply not bothered in the slightest.

According to the Observer, Prozac is being prescribed by so many quacks in Blighty that an alarming quantity is building up in drinking water.

Scots who take their whisky neat and believe in the old WC Fields adage that they're not drinking anything that fish have urinated in**, aren't at all edgy about the report, for different reasons.

The Observer quotes the Environment Agency as saying that Prozac was a potential concern, although perhaps the civil servants are drinking so much water that really it's very serious indeed.

As well as quaffing water infused with Prozac, Britain's drinking water is also full of way too much oestrogen, according to a previous Environment Agency report.

But we musn't panic at being turned into emasculated Prozac-dosed Zombies. In fact, it's nothing to worry about at all, is it? µ

* IN OTHER news, the Taipei Times reports that DuPont is facing an investigation into reports that elements of its Teflon product are widespread in the environment, with as many as 90% of US citizens showing one of the active chemicals in their blood streams. Still, not to worry, eh?

** WASN'T that supposed to be "have had sex in"? Ed.

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