Yet, while I can appreciate that the legislation comes with our health in mind, banning substances like poppers isn't saving us from ourselves; it's policing relatively harmless behaviours and pushing us towards others that could ultimately be more harmful.
It is like an old friend whose eccentricity has hitherto been rather charming and harmless, but whose behaviour is now more erratic and disturbing.
This bacterium was used as a supposedly harmless proxy to simulate the behaviour, in terms of dispersal and penetration, of biological warfare aerosols.
Anyone who has been on these trips will tell you that participants have a good time and that their behaviour is generally harmless.
This inorganic compound was used by Cold War scientists in the UK and the US as a supposedly harmless proxy to simulate the behaviour, in the lower atmosphere and on the ground, of biological warfare substances.
Stanley G. Weinbaum won immediate and lasting acclaim with his more sophisticated approach in A Martian Odyssey (1934), which presented aliens whose behaviour, though whimsical, harmless, and colourful, was profoundly inexplicable to human mentality.
Such behaviour is almost entirely harmless.
This is quite clearly a comedy context, and there is a difference between harmless innuendo and abusive or sexist behaviour.
Kay, 35, told the newspaper he treated the messages as "harmless banter" but now realised his behaviour was not appropriate for a married man.
This behaviour is known in harmless snakes, such as the American ring-necked snake (Diadophis), as well as venomous snakes, such as the Southern coral snake (Micrurus frontalis), with red, orange, or yellow undersides.
