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Original Message 1/67                 Date: 28-Nov-02  @  06:38 PM   -   No Smoking?

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Apparently, on the Brighton to London line, where the trains are 'NON-SMOKING', the commuters have taken over a carriage and smoke al lthe way from Brighton to London.

This has been going on for a couple of years, and apparently if the guards try to tell them to stop smoking they just get told to fuck off..

heh



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Message 2/67                 Date: 10-Dec-02  @  02:06 PM   -   RE: No Smoking?

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Yeah when I used to commute from Tunbridge Wells to London we had a carriage at the back of the train where all the smokers would hang out.



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Message 3/67                 Date: 10-Dec-02  @  08:58 PM   -   RE: No Smoking?

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I think that's great. You do that here in the states, and people will get pissed and file a lawsuit. (Of course no one smokes here anyway)



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Message 4/67                 Date: 11-Dec-02  @  12:02 AM   -   RE: No Smoking?

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Greetings from Sunny California. You cannot smoke inside a public building or transport unless the owner is the only employee and he allows it, and then only if it's a watering hole. You cannot even smoke within 15 feet of an entrance to a public place.

Funny thing I work with a girl who was the aid to the assembly person that authored and pushed the law through state congress... MOST UPTIGHT person I've ever known...

hehehe

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Message 5/67                 Date: 11-Dec-02  @  02:41 AM   -   RE: No Smoking?

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I think its perfectly fair. those of us that dont smoke dont want to have to breathe that shit all the time.

clean air is a right. smoking is not. bleah



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Message 6/67                 Date: 11-Dec-02  @  09:38 AM   -   RE: No Smoking?

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man your attitude is polluting

underlining immortality with your over zealous paper morality

i have put up with your foul opinion stinking up my psyche and possibly giving me long term inhibitions about whatever it is you are thinking about. JEESUS think about what you are thinking

"Do you know what this stuff does to kids"



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Message 7/67                 Date: 11-Dec-02  @  09:40 AM   -   RE: No Smoking?

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too many people with too much time and too many lawyers

progression, to where...?



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Message 8/67                 Date: 11-Dec-02  @  11:24 AM   -   RE: No Smoking?

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"man your attitude is polluting "

mine?

I never said shit about morality. I wanna breathe clean air in a public space. go smoke outside. shouldnt even need to be a law



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Message 9/67                 Date: 11-Dec-02  @  11:49 AM   -   RE: No Smoking?

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smoking is a natural right, as is paving the entire earth and mass producing until there's no room for anythnig else.

"i'm sick of that. tv tells me environmentalism is just another attitude in this crazy, mixed up, jolly human potpourri of attitudes and opinions. that means i can ignore what you're saying."



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Message 10/67                 Date: 11-Dec-02  @  04:11 PM   -   RE: No Smoking?

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clean air my arse! - it's just an excuse for nasty fucked up people to come down on others and feel all self righteous & smug - you dont see those same dozy fucks writing or protesting etc to the gov't about the INVISIBLE air pollution that's really fucking them or their kids up do you?... NO you don't!... they are all driving round in some fucking gas-guzzling 4x4 or space-waggon with a sticker on it saying: "BACK OFF - BABY ON BOARD!", "SAVE THE RAINFORESTS" or "SAVE THE FUCKING WHALE" or some such crap.



like these dweeb middle-class mums and all their 'smoking round my kid' bollox... then every day they strap them in a seat and fill their lungs with pollution while they drive them round town all day... AND they LIVE in a city, enforcing pollution on their childen because they are too snotty to move out of town and take a menial job in a supermarket or something.

Even if it'd benefit their kids to move out, their 'power-job' and all the rest of that city-life stuff is more important THEN than their fucking brat's lungs... so they stick in the city making up all sorts of brainy 'intellectual' reasons WHY their job is SO important that their kids HAVE to suffer breathing in tons of lead and other toxic fumes, yet YOUR cigarette is going to destroy their precious little kiddies life or 'ruin' their evening etc... yeah right!.. it's just Victorian style 'swooning' for the new millenium.

they can all fuck off imo, bunch of idiots. 200 years ago they'd be rounding people up for wtchcraft - it's just another modern urban myth pile of crap all that anti 'smoking' rubbish, and particularly I might add, it seems to be practiced by societies which have the absolutely WORST record for treating people nicely and fairly who are lower in society. It's just a fucking middle-class power game, cos smokers tend to be working class nowadays mostly.

also almost ALL the great scientists, writers, inventors, academics and others who created shit in the past, from Einstein or Lewis to the crew of Nasa or IBM or whoever etc have all smoked... Now those people are banished from institutional life and replaced by squeeky-clean brainwashed dweebs who fill in ineffectual 'target' forms all day.... fucking bunch of idiots... and look at the brave new world we have, all whitewashed on the outside and sanitary, and corrupt as fuck under the surface.

rubbish I say!!... NO-ONE used to complain about smoking but it's the new ethic like as if it's suddenly cool to call people 'niggers' or whatever... fucking rediculous, people are CONDITIONED to elicit that response, but ask them to provide ONE SINGLE scrap of evidence about any ill effects compared to that which they already are effected by daily and they can't cos they just knee-jerk and trumpet that shit without even thinking.

THAT is how STUPID people have become nowadays. 'smoking will kill you'... what a load of fucking shite. Of ALL the people I know who died NOT ONE died from smoking, even the ones who smoked!! - and also add the ones who gave up and then died of something else!!... I know people who have been killed by cars (several people I know died in crashes), trucks (my uncle was mowed down by a juggernaut), bikes (my mate ran down on a crossing), motorbikes (several mates died in crashes), 2 I know drowned, a few died of using badly cut heroin, one died of motor neuron disease, some died of cancer of the: bowels, prostrate, stomach, brain, another few died of heart attacks/disease (they DIDN'T smoke) etc etc... not one single SMOKING related death out of about 30 people or so I know who died!

I'm NOT saying smoking isn't BAD for you, of course it is, but so are MANY things we take for granted.

it's all just part again, of this brave-new-world ethic which these idiots preach....

that THEY in some way can DETERMINE the time and method of their own death... That is the most arrogant & rediculous thing I ever heard in my whole life & just further goes to show that our society is actualy completely INSANE.

"Yes that's right!.. I will decide when & how I die!!"

ha ha ha LOL!!! - do me a favour... You're bigger than 'God' or the force of the universe now are you!?.. what utter and total dimwitted arrogance!

people in the west are TRULY fucked up in the head it has to be said, and sadly the rest of the world seems to be following their truly terrible example..

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Message 11/67                 Date: 11-Dec-02  @  04:22 PM   -   RE: No Smoking?

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hehe. i thought you got laid? has it worn off?  

you know the argument that goes "well, they cost the nhs more money so they should pay more tax" (that's used by both sides really) ? well, i read the other month that smokers actually cost the nhs less money coz they all tend to die sooner from *cough* *hack* cancer and not linger on into their nineties needing extended hospital treatment or home help etc.



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Message 12/67                 Date: 11-Dec-02  @  05:54 PM   -   RE: No Smoking?

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exactly!... I rest my case.



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Message 13/67                 Date: 11-Dec-02  @  06:58 PM   -   RE: No Smoking?

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Perhaps the Govt. shoyuld run a

'Smoke more, Pay Less Tax' campaign?

And forget the 4x4 pollution what about the pollution caused by generating the veyr electricty we are using to power our computers, plus the horrible pollution caused by the manufacture of silicon..

Now thye've got mothers scared to sleep with their babies based on some highly dubious statistically unconvincing crap piece of research...

And they are selling 'anti-bacterial' cleansers which not only are breeeding a race of 'super-bacteria' (which I, for one, welcome) but crippling our children's immune system... which needs to be exposed to a nice variety of bacteria to kick it into developmental action...

hohum... pass me a big ciggie..



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Message 14/67                 Date: 11-Dec-02  @  07:01 PM   -   RE: No Smoking?

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Wow, do you smoke K...?

I'm with Influx on this. It shouldn't have to be a law. If you smoke, you should have some common f+ckin decency and not do it around my kid, or my pregnant girlfriend! I live in a city, and I support and WORK toward pollution cutting endeavors. I also drive a car when I have to, but bike and walk when I can... I'm not saying this to make myself feel superior but because you stereotyped the hell out of everyone who takes this position. I AM NOT a suburban Soccer mom and I do not feel superior to smokers. But I do support the right of non-smokers not to have this disfunctional ADDICTION forced down their throats while they're trying to eat, or conduct necesarry business in the world...

If a junkie shot-up in front of my kid at the grocery store you can bet I'd straighten him out! I don't really see a difference aside form the severity of the habit...

So there,  

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Message 15/67                 Date: 11-Dec-02  @  08:49 PM   -   RE: No Smoking?

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and have you seen how they have babies? aah, it's out, grab it, toss it to the other side of the room and do some tests, see, yer out now baby, big world, lots of tests. taken straight away from the mother. which is good, because now we have an individual that adapts more readily to changes in conditions brought on by superior force well. obedience levels up 5% sir!

got your musician's license? sorry, you're not permitted to use accidentals yet. you'll pay, because you can smell the money.. ooh, lurvely munny..

everyone stand in line! (easier for giant flying robots to strafe that way) you want civility, try treating ME with some first, ie. that means using your fucking head before your mouth. you can suck my dick, you know? i'm not taking that crap.



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Message 16/67                 Date: 11-Dec-02  @  08:57 PM   -   RE: No Smoking?

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I'm sososososososo tired of this "your inhibitng my freedom" crap when it comes to smoker's rights! It's simple, In a society one should have every right to do wahtever one pleases as long as one's pleasure does not harm any one else. That's civility. And you'll get plenty from me.

I'm not talking about offending sensibilities!! I'm talking about direct physical harm. I'm not some whinging political correctness machine here. I'm just speaking to the direct condition of selfish disregard for others. Unfortunately when people behave like children they get treated like children!

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Message 17/67                 Date: 11-Dec-02  @  09:04 PM   -   RE: No Smoking?

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my MAN, KILO! you just threw the baby out with the bathwater, right on top of the ol' mans head!

I wasnt talking about fecking pollution. I am well aware that there are larger fish to fry. I was talking about going into an enclosed space and not being able to BREATHE

yeah, Im a snotty, programmed selfish lemming because Id like to be able to breate. piss of with THAT shit.

oh, and your argument about "it used to be ok to smoke...never was a problem before"

??!?!?!?!?!?!?!

I used to be ok to say nigger and treat blacks accordingly. It USED TO BE OK to treat women as inferior. It USED TO BE ok to use Thalidamide (sp) on pregnant women

but these things are changing or have changed because of a key concept. AWARENESS

smoking in a public place without adequate ventilation infringes on non-smokers simple desire to breathe freely. simple as that. Again..I dont believe in laws to regulate this shit, and I dont think smokers should be financially penalized, but I do think its completely fair to have separate smoking sections on trains, in bars, in restaurants, etc..and that those sections should be heavily ventilated so as to not affect those around them.

its not punishment of any sort. just mere consideration.

someone got up on the wrong side of the bed, eh?



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Message 18/67                 Date: 11-Dec-02  @  09:32 PM   -   RE: No Smoking?

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So what gives any one of the right to pump out carcinogens out of your gas guzzling monstrosities at 'baby-head' level.. this dysfunctional addiction to cars when public transport would do fine gets right up my nose... why do you think asthma levels in children have gone through the roof? Smoking? I dont think so...



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Message 19/67                 Date: 11-Dec-02  @  09:33 PM   -   RE: No Smoking?

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does anyone remember that 'smoke tabs'
advert in viz a few years back? at the bottom it
had the government health warning 'Smoking
whilst pregant can lead to low birth weight.
Mind you, who wants a fat baby anyway?'.

*insert comment about getting my coat here*



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Message 20/67                 Date: 11-Dec-02  @  11:30 PM   -   RE: No Smoking?

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"So what gives any one of the right to pump out carcinogens out of your gas guzzling monstrosities at 'baby-head' level.. this dysfunctional addiction to cars when public transport would do fine gets right up my nose... why do you think asthma levels in children have gone through the roof? Smoking? I dont think so... "

didnt say anything about that either. Do you not drive, zazza? at ALL?

public transportation SUCKS in SoCal. I would honestly love to be able to forego a car unless I really needed it.

there are even bigger "pollution" problems but again Im not talking about pollution. Its a small issue the smoke thing.

zazza..youre a really good hair splitter...Id love for you to sit and analyze everything you do because ultimately..what ISNT destructive?

such saints!



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Message 21/67                 Date: 11-Dec-02  @  11:41 PM     Edit: 11-Dec-02  |  11:42 PM   -   RE: No Smoking?

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ANYONE who drives a car or uses electricity from a major power corp really has little reason to complain about smokers. What you do to everyone's environment in a single day is far worse than what a legion of smokers can do in a lifetime. It's all pollution, just on different scales...

I've always had an on again off again relationship with nicotine, one which is currently off, and in general I dunna have a problem with "smoking areas." An' yeah, smoking is bad, but it doesn't even come close to the damage done by power plants and cars. And for those who say a car/electrical power is necessary, why?

Personally, I dunna care if we all get black lung, things are as they are. Bring on the industrial waste, the acid rain, and make sure to keep watering yer lawn cos we want to look good as we all waste our resources... Trust me, in the end it'll all sort out just fine...

I for one...



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Message 22/67                 Date: 11-Dec-02  @  11:51 PM   -   RE: No Smoking?

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I should repeat that Im not talking about "pollution" in the sense of making the air worse than it already is. I just dont want to have to breathe condensed smoke every time I want to go to a bar, etc.

my only point was that the requirement that people not smoke in close public places is fair IMO.



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Message 23/67                 Date: 11-Dec-02  @  11:59 PM     Edit: 12-Dec-02  |  12:00 AM   -   RE: No Smoking?

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Influx - I ain't ragging on you, me friend, not a whit.... But by the same token, I could say the same about not wanting to breathe the crap I breathe when I walk outside... It is about pollution, whether micro oor macro, in one fashion or other... Seriously though, I AM NOT bustin' yer chops, just spewing off....=)

As for not smoking in closed public places, I follow whatever society dictates... I do admit I thought it most amusing that when I was in Holland, the non-smoking areas were these little pariah-like areas, usually filled with Americans...

Although, honestly Influx, I don't feel right in a bar without it being properly smoky, whether or not I'm actually smoking...



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Message 24/67                 Date: 12-Dec-02  @  12:48 AM   -   RE: No Smoking?

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I do not see a connection between a social problem like environmental polution and a personal issue like an as*hole smoker being completely inconsiderate of the people around them. Smoking in an enclosed spaced is rude and obnoxious.

I'm not arguing that this environmental polution arguement isn't valid. I just think it's a different thing entirely. Like saying people who take baths support the bathtub industry and more people hurt themselves in the tub than anywhere else, so bathtakers have no right to complain about people who bludgeon others with baseball bats.

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Message 25/67                 Date: 12-Dec-02  @  12:59 AM   -   RE: No Smoking?

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yeah yeah.. you see your logic is bullcrap - you just cant ADMIT the air in the street and the air wafting into your home isnt poisoning your kid, and you probably will feed it on loads of cereal all it's life with milk and sugar too which is rammed with hormones and antibiotics and other animal drugs & shit... like i said, it's EASIER to just talke it out on smokers... urg! we see smoke, we smell smoke...etc" - I must say tho - cigarettes reek nowadsys, rollups or pipes or gigars or whatever are ok tho...

whatever, I'd agree for the smell, not any potential damage - that's western hysteria, keep you buying more crap to flush down the rivers and streams then you're wingin about the welfare of your kids... it's bollox & we all know it and should just groiwup and admit it and fling this crappy psuedo sceientific cobblers about..

Look you can smoke in the bank or wherever in Spain, they are civilised people.. It's a cool place, people are relaxed... no-ones uptight.


and I too welcome our super-bacteria overlords

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Message 26/67                 Date: 12-Dec-02  @  01:05 AM   -   RE: No Smoking?

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just a quick stone rose mention - second coming, the who

was down a gentlemans mine once, SA - huge country, but i forgot my cigarettes...I dream of a lift in California...anywhere...

Hey airplanes with relaxed hostesses

When it comes to cars, really 4 star near the playground...hmmm.

and really who is giving a fk, cities getting bigger maybe that what it is that makes them there

what do you want to do and what do i need to care about it, f all i say... take the assesment. and get an o level for passing in front..., know nothing me



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Message 27/67                 Date: 12-Dec-02  @  01:09 AM     Edit: 12-Dec-02  |  01:10 AM   -   RE: No Smoking?

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Well for me, the folks who drive/use electric are just as obnoxious and just as much an arsehole as smokers. You dunna like smoking that's fine by me. However, no point in trying to convince you that the two are the same if you don't want to believe that....



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Message 28/67                 Date: 12-Dec-02  @  01:10 AM   -   RE: No Smoking?

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you guys need to relax - who the fuck wants to live in a world like that full of cretinous uptight self absorbed people who want to live forver.. bunch of loons.

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Message 29/67                 Date: 12-Dec-02  @  01:14 AM   -   RE: No Smoking?

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Maybe my lifestyle isn't too evident around here. And it seems Awfully honest of you to make such suppositions...

Much respect all around to everyone here, but just don't smoke in my face or around my kid... I don't personaly have an issue with 2nd hand smoke. I smoked for 10 years... Don't want to be all high and mighty, do as you please... just don't do it to those who would prefer you didn't!

BTW... I'm a big Fuggin hippie!!! I only drive when I leave town or have to take the kids a long way... I bike otherwise, or walk! I buy only organics and feed my children accordingly. The Organic cereal they eat is sweetened with fruit juisce, and the milk they drink is hormone free! The only hormones that get inot my family's food get there through cross pollination... unless I grow my own that's a fact of life, and I haven't the time or know how to do it! I DO still suck on the tit of corporate power but the dark ages are still a bit rough for this tender ass... however I am diligently (honest) working toward solar panels so that I can ween myself from that one as well!!! SEE, I'm a big FAT HIPPIE, that would like smokers to stop smoking around people who don't want to inhale smoke... "Is that so wrong" hehehehe

None of the above was intended to make myself feel special, BTW... it was in answer to the scathing indictment leveld at me for prefering good health to sickness...

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Message 30/67                 Date: 12-Dec-02  @  01:19 AM   -   RE: No Smoking?

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MS I know you werent diggin at me.



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Message 31/67                 Date: 12-Dec-02  @  01:27 AM   -   RE: No Smoking?

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dark ages are fucking cool! but next time i do it, it's gonig to be somewhere it don't fucking freeze!

"frugal soup.." it's an arcology thing. but really.. take my word for it. you take away all the power, all the wires, all the cars and computers and gadgets, boys be having a good time!

you just need a couple of square miles of raw countryside to wander around and grow stuff in. take away that autonymity.. well.. i'm dead miserable living in a city.



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Message 32/67                 Date: 12-Dec-02  @  01:27 AM   -   RE: No Smoking?

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the kids alright..

but the rest looks like the nylon cord round stonehenge, (its only 20cm from the ground) but the guy with the radio and waterproof just managed to divert me from walking to the stones

I said it to the the first big one who spoke to me eventually. Chalklands apparently they will fall over - and its better for photos - apparently

so what.. they fall over, like you hear every second and how dare it



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Message 33/67                 Date: 12-Dec-02  @  02:40 AM   -   RE: No Smoking?

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i'm just windin' you up - lol!   - hippies!!

but really, it's cafe culture mate sorry, it has life... not that sanitised world it has no soul, it's art is also vapid and commercialised tripe in most cases, it's whole cultural basis is to create some sort of squeeky clean artifice, with sanitised everything.. it's the price you pay.. you want people to be arrested for smoking within a certain distance of a building then you also get the rest of that sanitised thing too... it's THAT world, it all starts with something inconsequential and then the cultural revolution sorta thing comes down it seems.

seriously, no-one is going to argue about what you like in your own home, but the CONSEQUENCE of you bringing that child into the world should be that the world conforms to your wishes?... it's a false reality isnt it in some way then? - I mean, it's this whole rights in public places and you cant tell me that smoking in a park or coffee house or whatever, it's called culture mate... it's something humans have done for time, and i do say it's a more non working people thing, dont you?... would bar survive without it in a working area in the USA if it was like sanitised and no smoking and shit or is there a law about it all over?

I have to say, there is a distinct difference between a house owned by smokers and those not.. one smells like a toilet fresh...

NOT a rock n roll smell!


I feel more european myself which has that whole crossover cultural thing which just doesnt fit with plastic wrapped sandwiches, shitty weak coffee and that whole sort of superclean vibe.

You cant imagine these same people who make a scene in a resterant or whatever making a scene when they walk into the local bar up a mountain in Tibet (where they are 'finding themselves') and there's like 20 old guys sitting around smoking rancid cheap cigarettes... THEN it's 'wonderfuly cultural' or some such thing  

lol! - sorry, i'm in an odd mood

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Message 34/67                 Date: 12-Dec-02  @  04:12 AM   -   RE: No Smoking?

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Ha ha

Read my first post to this... I know I come off like I'm real nice and worked up... But honestly, I should stress "there shouldn't have to be a law"! I'm asking people to behave like civil hoo-mahns and not blow poison on my kids or on people who don't want it! That's all...

No way do i expect the world to conform to my values for my children! I understand personal responsibility... But that won't stop me from saying that people are behaving badly and that they should stop! That doesn't mean I expect people to have the same attitude, and I think loutish obnoxious people who complain and whine about these requests to stop smoking around people who don't want to smoke are just that, loutish and obnoxious...

I think it goes too far to suggest that they should be fined or arrested. We cannot legislate good manners, and common respect. And we shouldn't try... But wouldn't be real decent and fine if people just showed a little courtesy and differed to the needs and wishes of those who mislike their invasive behaviour? On a strictly personal level mind you?

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Message 35/67                 Date: 12-Dec-02  @  09:30 AM     Edit: 12-Dec-02  |  09:37 AM   -   RE: No Smoking?

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It's funny to watch these conversations develop. They allways seem to follow the same path. Why is that? Because we are all humans. Opinionated and lost! Humans are humans. The new-fangled concept of humanity (kindness, decency, blah, blah) is a load of shit! We are animals who have mistakingly wandered into a world of work, slavery and bizarre automated tasks.

In other words. We be fucked and all the whinging in the world aint gonna make any difference.  

It's just funny, that's all.  

Regards.

Steve.



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Message 36/67                 Date: 12-Dec-02  @  11:40 AM   -   RE: No Smoking?

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no. i've seen the future. lived in it. humans, like all animals, also possess the ability to refine, make observations and choices.

one of the biggest shock to me in life is that most western children seem to enjoy hurting things.. shooting doves, smashing flies et al. i was never like that.. i understand/remember that i always had a profound respect for living creatures, ie. ailing fly on the windowsill, i'd keep putting him on his feet.

you will NEVER convince me otherwise that *my* wonderful instinct isn't absolutely natural and "your" stupid instinct isn't ingrained by television.

the end, full stop, you see.

now. link. every day, in every way, i think 'future.'

if the lifestyle there isn't frugal enough, there's a thingy at arco called 'frugal soup,' where leftover bread and soup makes the meal. all the workers, idealists, big name field specialists on site all sit in a circle and eat this "unremarkable" fare while trading stories starting off with, well, frugal sort of stuff. healthy exercise, bloody filling.

anyway, you don't need much. really. you'll excuse me for attempting to disseminate this info. i like trees and rocks and shit, and my body doesn't seem to benefit from being roboty.



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Message 37/67                 Date: 12-Dec-02  @  05:31 PM   -   RE: No Smoking?

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Oh the joys; the wonderfully fulfilling sense of glowing numbness that you are missing xoxos.  

Steve.



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Message 38/67                 Date: 12-Dec-02  @  05:54 PM   -   RE: No Smoking?

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Wow... you really think like that?

Why do you continue to push forward with your life when you've this notion that we're f*cked animals that don't have any business acting like decent little creatures? That's not an attack, I'm genuinely curious as to how it's possible for someone to feel that way and not eat his children/family! Do you connect with other humans for the simple safety in numbers? Do you use these forums to simply improve your personal opinion of yourself? Again it's not an accusation, but I can't see any other motivation for living among others with an attitude like that.

Enlighten me, please.

really

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Message 39/67                 Date: 12-Dec-02  @  07:55 PM   -   RE: No Smoking?

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"The new-fangled concept of humanity (kindness, decency, blah, blah) is a load of shit!"

we ARE ed right now, but as xoxos says..the potential for something light years ahead IS there.

I firmly believe this, and its the only thing that keeps me from doing VERY nasty things sometimes.



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Message 40/67                 Date: 12-Dec-02  @  08:24 PM   -   RE: No Smoking?

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we were perfect once before.

don't you remember?

psy



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Message 41/67                 Date: 12-Dec-02  @  08:32 PM   -   RE: No Smoking?

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We are perfect right now, Don't you see?

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Message 42/67                 Date: 12-Dec-02  @  09:36 PM   -   RE: No Smoking?

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Message 43/67                 Date: 12-Dec-02  @  10:01 PM     Edit: 12-Dec-02  |  10:19 PM   -   RE: No Smoking?

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"the potential for something light years ahead IS there"

In full agreement with you there mate. I am very optimistic about the capabilities of the human race. But I'm just saying that were lost now. What I mean is that all we have come to now is a bit of a random mess that we never had, nor shall have - for a while at least, any control over, and it's a funny thing to watch from the sidelines every now and then (although who am I to say I am watching from the sidelines? The very fact that I assume I can distance myself from other humans is confusing and funny in itsself.).

Errata, my trick to survival, when it's necessary, is to realise that I am just as f*cked as everyone else (probably more so, for thinking this way, but that is another story), and so I'll act like everyone else. It's easy, and occasionaly funny  

And my opinion of myself is kind of hard to get across without actually meeting you. But, to use an example to try to sum it up, rather than freak out about the majority; all the "idiots" and accuse them of lesserness (if that is a word), I sooner accuse myself, as I am the minority afterall  .

I know I don't make sense in text, but it seems okay to me.    

Regards.

Steve.



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Message 44/67                 Date: 12-Dec-02  @  10:21 PM   -   RE: No Smoking?

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We ain't lost... we ain't went nowhere yet...=)

Seriously, we live in a bitchin' cool period... an' if yer one that looks, that's always been/always will be available. Same with the bad shite...

An' errata, if I were in a smokin' mood, I wouldna do it around you or your's... less'n y'all lit up first. I'd probably even be that way if you were on "my" turf. I'm actually a fairly nice human...

An' really folks, things ain't nearly as bad as they might seem (then again, maybe from yer prespective they are...). Enlightenment ain't waitin' at some mile marker up ahead... it's in the sex, the signs, and the secrets....

Hmmmm... I need an organic smoothie.... and a Big Mac to wash it down...=)

Peace All



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Message 45/67                 Date: 12-Dec-02  @  10:32 PM     Edit: 12-Dec-02  |  11:01 PM   -   RE: No Smoking?

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Wayaey! Cannae fault ya there mon! Life is damned good  

Regards.

Steve.



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Message 46/67                 Date: 12-Dec-02  @  11:53 PM   -   RE: No Smoking?

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Steve: Just looked sooooo pessimistic. Not trying to get in your soul. Just seemed a bit over the top...

MS: I gathered as much.
"Enlightenment ain't waitin' at some mile marker up ahead... it's in the sex, the signs, and the secrets...."

Just brilliant...

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Message 47/67                 Date: 13-Dec-02  @  03:37 AM   -   RE: No Smoking?

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2nd hand smoke...blech...finally, goto a pub/club and only be able to smell YOURSELF instead of Phillip Morris funk.



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why on earth would i want to smell myself?



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Avoiding congregations is how I preserve what's left of what little sanity I ever possessed.



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So you're the one that possessed all the sanity... Greedy bugger...=)



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Message 51/67                 Date: 13-Dec-02  @  10:20 AM   -   RE: No Smoking?

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So i said before "am i getting old or is this all repeating"

I said before "look at the benefit / gain and work back to find out who and why"

I said before "i hate learning and i love that the same things keep amazing me again and again"

I say now, we are spoiled pleasure seekers who know how to get to the second hand

Handle the moment babies, it's all there can ever be (said that before as well )

Smoking in public? I see your face not smiling and the changes because you are thinking and if they are ugly then you are thinking ugly or remembering ugly and i see it all, except when the smoke obscures your face



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Message 52/67                 Date: 13-Dec-02  @  03:42 PM   -   RE: No Smoking?

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gatwick!



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Is a long ride from Heathrow...



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Message 54/67                 Date: 13-Dec-02  @  09:32 PM   -   RE: No Smoking?

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i'm refraining real hard on this one  



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Message 55/67                 Date: 20-Dec-02  @  10:06 PM   -   RE: No Smoking?

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It shouldn't be the dominion of the government to tell a business owner what can and can't be done in his business. If the owner wants to allow smoking, then people like Influx and Errata will naturally gravitate away from those businesses. If enough people think the way they do, then those businesses will fail. Doesn't anybody believe in Darwinism any more? ;)

If you don't want to be in a smoky place then don't go to smokey places. Don't infringe on others by banning smoking everywhere - that's just as opressive as allowing smoking everywhere, just in reverse.

-Craig



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Message 56/67                 Date: 20-Dec-02  @  11:50 PM   -   RE: No Smoking?

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"If you don't want to be in a smoky place then don't go to smokey places. Don't infringe on others by banning smoking everywhere - that's just as opressive as allowing smoking everywhere, just in reverse."

but craig...sorry, I have to disagree with you here...in "public" spaces (even privatepublic) it is the smokers who make it unpleasant for non smokers

Personally I would love to see better ventilated places, is all. I can totally deal with some smoke...but when it gets to where i literally feel ill and my eyes are burning...thats just BAD.

I dont want the govt regulating it, though, but...for the sake of "cant we all get along" smokers should be more considerate

hell...lets talk about LITTERING and how fucking disgusted I am by what I see every single day (INCLUDING asshole smokers who just flick their butts out the WINDOW?!?!!?!?)



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Message 57/67                 Date: 21-Dec-02  @  04:55 AM   -   RE: No Smoking?

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Why, me kitty just littered...she should be binned



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Message 58/67                 Date: 21-Dec-02  @  06:54 AM   -   RE: No Smoking?

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how about smoke polltion and sound polltion guys, here it comes, you ready to stay on the fence?

to many people, too many lawyers and to much time

and while we are poking sticks at old embers in roaring fireplaces remembered.

The signature. A written description of you. This could also be arrived at if you group and tabulate what you spend your money on or time doing - still a unique descriptor of you. How does it change? What if we extend to a community, society. CAn we compare (geographically / chronologicaly different groups, say by analysing what m2 of retail outlets are selling what products, or how tax revenues are spent on which type of activity. Appologies to pro sociologists if this has already been explored but if not then we can compare and track social evolution.

By the way - I don't believe in this for a second - anyone who knows anythings about statistics can tell you about results being suited to the analysis method used in the data treatment, but maybe for you and me we can take the view of how we write and how others will read us



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the shit just stinks.
I don't wanna smell it.
Just like I don't want people passing gas around me.

Same thing.
Just common courtesy folks. Has nothing to do with environment or health.



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Message 60/67                 Date: 21-Dec-02  @  11:02 AM   -   RE: No Smoking?

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great cheddar...yet again another clear, concise argument.

jesus man...how much effort do you put into being obtuse?



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Message 61/67                 Date: 23-Dec-02  @  12:01 PM   -   RE: No Smoking?

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yaawwwn... only the americans could sanitise cafe culture so effectively, like making a fake shopping 'boulevarde' mall, with nice reproduction bollards and nice new repro-cobbles and phoney ye rustic shoppes housing GAP & Starfucks etc - sorta the Disney world lifestyle. That's what I object to. The way they go round ripping out old/original culture and replacing it with a fake sanitised corporate version.

My local little shopping 'green' used to have an old family italian cafe full of taxi drivers, the gaggia, etc etc, next door was a bicycle shop, etc... now it's all closed down and we have a bloody Starfucks selling piss weak shitty yank coffe in a crappy cardboard cup with a stupid little wooden dental stick to stir it with... The cafe is gone, the taxi guys are all gone, the bike shop is all gone.... and now on a sunday morning it's just parked-up Range-rovers & BMW 4x4's loaded with tossers in shin-length barbour coats with the little 'shelock-holmes' cape-let bit over the shoulders - fuck 'em all I say.

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I had an idea for a script once. It's basically Jaws except when the guys in the boat are going after Jaws, they look around and there's an even bigger Jaws. The guys have to team up with Jaws to get Bigger Jaws.... I call it... Big Jaws!!!



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Message 62/67                 Date: 23-Dec-02  @  04:54 PM   -   RE: No Smoking?

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Well, I've nothing wrong with smoking, it sure would be nice to have the OPTION to go to someplace where I don't come out with a "phillip morris funk", as someone so ellquently put it. I've a little one on the way, and my wife and I still like to go out every once in a while and socialize. Tough to do that when she wants to avoid smoky places. Too bad the marketplace hasn't picked up on the need for a smoke free joint here and there. I'm not for regulating it either, as I have an on/off relationship with smoking, but options are nice.

k - sounds like you're FOR stripping soccer moms of their right to pollute, while maintaing YOUR right to pollute... ;-)



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Message 63/67                 Date: 23-Dec-02  @  10:22 PM   -   RE: No Smoking?

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Hehehe, indeed K! Americans to piss about the profusion of "english" style pubs running our traditional piss stinking derelict bars out of business... 'cause it's americans who go there and spend the money.

I'll bet there's not a "yank" among your land rovering neighbors at the coffee shop! If American culture is spreading outside it's borders it's because people find that bland, sanitized generic ugliness appealing... can't blame anyone specific for that.

I agree that some business owners SHOULD be able to allow smoking when the employees of the business are also the people making that decision. You've a right to poison yourself for profit, and I wouldn't dream of taking that right...

there is an arguement to be made for the employees's of a business being forced to work in UNHEALTHY conditions or loose their jobs. It's an issue that speaks directly to workers rights!

Still, I have a bit of the libertarian in me still, and I honestly don't like the idea of legislated decency. Just act like adults for f+cks sake!

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Message 64/67                 Date: 24-Dec-02  @  02:25 AM   -   RE: No Smoking?

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"It wasn't PCP. It was Angeldust"



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PCP - I saw this picture of guy who had taken a bunch, nipped of to the toilet in his flat for a minute and sliced his face off with a razon - Not for me thanks.

This no smoking argument - I can't believe we are still here. Look, I do more like what I do, most people do more like what they should do. Thats OK, its a shame cos you only get 1 life (lets not go there eh!) but DO NOT think i am believing this common benefit leading to legislation is progress, its people ing with you and me, smoking, jaywalking, stand on the left. Its like an intolerant excuse and a ratchet and it moves. Its OK that the US don't smoke and put (what few?) people in glass boxes in airports, Americans live there and have to put up with that. But it moves, empowerment and presidence globalization of legislation - don't you see - they make morality a franchise, once you buy it the whole thing comes - a behavioral theme park where all of your moral choices are laid out for you - most efficient that way.

I agree with respect but not globalized respect, and certainly not legislated respect, then you are in a world that needs soo many lawyers and victory = money. Fck that all over.

Anyway I think my comparison about sound pollution is worth a word, anythoughts?

ching chinga ching



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well, it's odd... you can go into the bank or at the airport etc in Spain for example and smoke, no one has a pink fit or throws a wobbly. How do you think the Spanish deal with it? - If they BAN cigarettes as the worst drug on the planet (which they ARE) then FINE... but the hypocracy of on the one hand selling it, taxing it, profitting from it etc, and on the other hand treating those people who smoke as social outcasts is a rediculous double-standard imo.

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I agree with the banned but legal rant! It's not OK for the government to say it's bad and hurts you but we'll tax the sh*t out of it and take advantage of your addiction! And that IS where the hypocrisy runs the deepest!!!

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