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Trademark 
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 Posted: April 09 2009 at 13:27 |
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Gee, for once the internet is just like real life. The smokers are loud, boorish and annoying.
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Dean
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Posted: April 09 2009 at 13:33 |
you betcha 
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The Doctor
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Posted: April 09 2009 at 13:34 |
 Trademark wrote:
Gee, for once the internet is just like real life. The smokers are loud, boorish and annoying. |
What? Did you run out of metal bands and fans to attack? 
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I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you?
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stonebeard
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Posted: April 09 2009 at 14:30 |
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Slartibartfast
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Posted: April 09 2009 at 14:31 |
Hey, like I got no problem with smoking as long as you don't exhale. 
Edited by Slartibartfast - April 09 2009 at 15:18
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jammun
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Posted: April 09 2009 at 14:48 |
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Can you tell me where we're headin'?
Lincoln County Road or Armageddon.
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Slartibartfast
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Posted: April 09 2009 at 15:17 |
Yes? Damp with what? Alcohol I presume? 
Edited by Slartibartfast - April 09 2009 at 15:58
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jammun
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Posted: April 09 2009 at 15:35 |
Slartibartfast wrote:
Yes? Damp with what? Alcohol I presume?
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Specifically? Slightly used -- or should I say pre-owned? -- Coors 3.2% beer was generally the moistener of choice. I know I left more than a few pitchers of same on those floors 
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Can you tell me where we're headin'?
Lincoln County Road or Armageddon.
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Slartibartfast
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Posted: April 09 2009 at 15:57 |
Come to think of it beer's not all that flammable.
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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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limeyrob
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Posted: April 09 2009 at 16:18 |
I have to say that I find the results of the smoking ban quite amusing in one way and typical of smokers in another.
On a wet, cold and windy winter's day you see groups of smokers congregating in the allocated smoking areas freezing their preverbials off whilst getting their fix. It is almost worth the constant aggro management face with the extra time off smokers get to have their fix. Where I used to work there were no tea breaks as such but workers could grab a brew and consume at their desks.
On the other hand every time I go into town you have to face the clouds of smoke outside office building entrances because smokers just don't seem to twig that their habit is a filthy one and people just don't want to inhale their smoke.
Public areas are now so much nicer though I wish the smoking b  ds would pick up their fag ends. |
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Dean
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Posted: April 09 2009 at 16:35 |
We're not allowed within 3m of a building entrance - I suggest you attempt to advise us of that at sometime, other than that we tend to congregate in whatever shelter we can find that isn't enclosed on three sides, because that is regarded as being "inside" as far as the law is concerned, avoiding those areas shouldn't present too much difficulty.
Fag ends are biodegradable and my ashtray isn't weatherproof - I stopped caring on the 1st July 2007
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rushfan4
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Posted: April 09 2009 at 16:39 |
I believe that we are really seeing the Darq side of Dean come out in this thread. 
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Dean
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Posted: April 09 2009 at 16:58 |
The office I work in has been voluntarily smoke-free for 20 years, I've never smoked while people near me are eating, nor have I consciously smoked near infants and small children; until the ban I never smoked in the car and still don't if I have passengers - I don't need a two-bit law to tell me to behave responsibly, but now we have one I fully intend to be as irresponsible as the law permits and the more draconian that law becomes the more antisocial I shall become.
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Tony R
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Posted: April 09 2009 at 17:13 |
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Petrovsk Mizinski
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Posted: April 09 2009 at 17:19 |
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^Geezus.
To me, even 20 a day is heaps, let alone 120-160 in the space of a day. I don't think I've ever met anyone, at least not in real life, that has smoked that much in a day.
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micky
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Posted: April 09 2009 at 18:06 |
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yowsers...even at my worst... it was only 3 packs a day..
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The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
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Garion81
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Posted: April 09 2009 at 19:06 |
The laws in California were constructed under the safety in workplace laws not as a customer preference. A bartender or waitress who works a long shift with basically no break in people smoking were the ones who actually were the focus of such laws. I wonder how you would feel if you were exposed to noxious fumes or smoke in your workplace not of your own making?
I like not smoking in bars and I liked it when I was smoking.
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"What are you going to do when that damn thing rusts?"
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Dean
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Posted: April 09 2009 at 20:12 |
As a result of the smoking ban, the EU now wants to ban these:
Yay! And since we don't really need them let's ban these too:
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Alitare
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Posted: April 09 2009 at 20:46 |
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I don't agree or disagree. I don't smoke, and don't care if other people smoke, so It doesn't affect me too much.
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cobb2
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Posted: April 09 2009 at 21:18 |
Trademark wrote:
Gee, for once the internet is just like real life. The smokers are loud, boorish and annoying. |
Wow- I'm flabbergasted with that last statement. Perhaps that's one of the tags they should add on cigarette packets- it might frighten us more than the medical warnings.
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