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Post by Zippy on Jan 15, 2004 1:02:04 GMT
Don't Like Smoking? Don't SmokeGreg's message is short and succinct: "If the smoke's that good, why blow so much of it at me?!". He, like many other people, intensely dislikes the fact that he is forced to share other people's smoke. Do you find that you can sympathise with Greg's article? Explain and discuss.
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Post by Geg on Jan 15, 2004 20:30:33 GMT
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Post by Jakk on Jan 15, 2004 22:34:08 GMT
Personally i dont care at all, in fact i would rather be a victim of passive smoking.
I dont smoke habitually, however i have been known to when im out and in all honesty i would much rather drop down dead from liver disease (shock horror i drink too...), a heart attack (...and eat junk food...) or lung cancer at the age of 50-60 (because afterall, life is starting to pass you by by then and your full fo hell because of it) when ive still got all my faculties about me and i am still myself than live a super healthy lifestyle of consuming nothng but salad and...salad with a side order of... salad for good measure to end up in a retirment home at the age of 86 involuntarily pissing myself and unable to distinguish my own family members from any other person who happens to come near me.
The scientists and health gurus may well be cramming the message that "living healthily increases ones lifespan" down our throats, but is the increased lifespan really going to be worth it, or for that matter somethign we're even full mentally aware of by the tiem we reach it?
--Jakk
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Post by DrSmartEsq on Jan 16, 2004 0:32:10 GMT
An increased lifespan is worth it when you can screw even more pensions out of the annoyingly right wing 'socialist' government bleeding their coffers dry and if it changes to a tory government it'll be like getting blood out of a stone but worth the effort to see the pain on their faces when they have to keep dishing out cash. personally i feel people can go too far when it comes to smoking, bans in all public places is too much, designated areas for smoking in shopping centres and such would be a good idea, i feel smoking ruins food so it should be banned completely in restaurants along with the annoyance of mobile phone conversations about "little jimmys warts" on the next table over. but to vindictively expose people to smoke is just as bad as vindictively making an entire town non smoking, but which is the lesser of two evils? personally if i want cancer i'd smoke myself, but apparently i dont have to all i have to do is eat salmon and the like because everything is bad for you now. in the long run i feel smokers should tollerate people who dont wish to smoke by being nice enough to stand in a pre set area or if asked by someone to put it out because its not pleasant they should put it out, if they show a willingness to compromise then anti smokers will do the same, but if one gets their back up so will the other and its cutting your nose off to spite your face.
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Post by Geg on Jan 16, 2004 16:50:40 GMT
Besides... it reeks.
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Post by Zander on Jan 16, 2004 16:59:15 GMT
I dont smoke so I aint particuarly keen to have smoke puffed into my face. however I dont mind if my friends wish to smoke as many of them do. I think its the duty of the smoker to be a bit more "responsible" (if you will let me use the term) with their smoke. IE maybe smoking near a window/under an extraction fan as my mates do in their flat when I am there. I allow people to smoke in my car so long as the window is open as the smoke is sucked out. however I DO think this passive smoking thing is going too far. whats next?!?! Passive RADIATION from mobile phones.
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Post by Tassadara C on Jan 16, 2004 19:30:06 GMT
They should come in zesty fresh flavors, like citrus or vanilla. Something besides horrible chemical cancerous death.
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Post by Zippy on Jan 16, 2004 19:31:52 GMT
They should have school-associated smells so that it's hardly detectable, like "New shoe smell" for college, "Carpet glue smell" for Comprehensive and "Plasticine" for Primary, I mean come on... who DOESN'T smoke in Proimary school in Hartlepool anymore?
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Post by Tassadara C on Jan 16, 2004 19:41:08 GMT
They should have school-associated smells so that it's hardly detectable, like "New shoe smell" for college, "Carpet glue smell" for Comprehensive and "Plasticine" for Primary, I mean come on... who DOESN'T smoke in Proimary school in Hartlepool anymore? Heehee, at the end of terms when grades come out they could have a limited-edition flavor of "suicidal despair"
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Post by Zippy on Jan 16, 2004 19:47:29 GMT
Hahaha, I think that quote should be put in "i h8 teenage poetry" 's thread too, as it's supposedly true. That, or it's just for peoepl feeling sorry for themselves.
Muahaha.
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Post by GunstarHero on Jan 16, 2004 20:19:25 GMT
i hate smoking anyone who decides to blow it in my face should drop dead, and no ive never been particularly accepting !
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Post by Cruel on Jan 16, 2004 21:52:33 GMT
I really dislike the comments made by Jakk, i dont believe that it is something you should be joking about. If your not joking then i feel really sorry becuase if you feel life isn't worth living to the full then your missing out. I have seen the effects of what smoking does, my dads mate had it real bad. He was skinny as hell and canny short, he had the worse teeth ever all black and disgusting. He was always really frustrated because he couldnt manage to quie and always tried for a long time. Dying of cancer or having cancer must be horrifying and it is a way i would not like to go. It is defiantly something that should be taken so lightly like you did Jakk, by the way im not having a go at you i just dont like the comments you made.
Personally I am never going to die, i am going to live as long as possible!!!!!! Until the world implodes!
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Post by Tassadara C on Jan 16, 2004 21:57:31 GMT
Personally I am never going to die, i am going to live as long as possible!!!!!! Until the world implodes! I'm immortal. Eventually, if I get bored of this body, I'll translate my brainwaves to the internet and become it's queen.
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Post by GunstarHero on Jan 16, 2004 22:06:19 GMT
and then u woke up, it was dark and the bed covers were damp
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Post by Zippy on Jan 16, 2004 22:11:45 GMT
Smoking sucks. I reckon that in every 200 there should be one cyanide-laced one, just to teach the bastards
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Post by Tassadara C on Jan 16, 2004 22:15:08 GMT
Smoking sucks. I reckon that in every 200 there should be one cyanide-laced one, just to teach the bastards already is, that's one of the ingredients...along with arsenic and u-238...amazing any smoker lives long enough for the company to turn a profit, really
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Post by Zippy on Jan 16, 2004 22:19:03 GMT
Ok, replace tobacco with ANTHRAX (the powder, not the band)
"Bring tha' NOIIIIIIIIIISE!"
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Post by GunstarHero on Jan 16, 2004 22:19:45 GMT
yes or arsenic, that'll teach the bastards
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Post by GunstarHero on Jan 16, 2004 22:21:40 GMT
beaten to it by the all knowing american, ok so why dont we just get the washington sniper out of prison, bring him to hartlepool and tell him to kill as many smokers and people in stripery fred perry jumpers as he likes, best for both parties, he gets to kill ppl like he enjoys, all the shits get eradicated - what more could u possibly want?
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Post by Zippy on Jan 16, 2004 22:43:09 GMT
A fully-modded racing lobster Incubus live at The Studio No Atlantic Ocean for easy access to America A longer bed due to my crappy tallness White Toblerone
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Post by GunstarHero on Jan 16, 2004 22:56:12 GMT
ok all the others but white toblerone - thats just too greedy man, white toblerone is for the gods among us, like me, phil collins and jack daniels
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Post by Jakk on Jan 16, 2004 23:04:37 GMT
beaten to it by the all knowing american, ok so why dont we just get the washington sniper out of prison, bring him to hartlepool and tell him to kill as many smokers and people in stripery fred perry jumpers as he likes, best for both parties, he gets to kill ppl like he enjoys, all the rubbishs get eradicated - what more could you possibly want? To be fair i would rather see all these 'alternative' types get a high velocity .50 between the eyes, its such a load of bollocks, middle class goody two shoes kids being 'rebellious' in so far as they listened to pathetic watered down versions of music that was once alternative (in the 80's maybe), dye their hair, all wear the same 'alternative' clothes (in addition to the tracksuit army we now see the black cladded legion), BLOODY HELL!!, the future of the human race is doomed, what next, the little buggers will be Jay-Walking of all things .. THE REBELLIOUS TIDE MUST BE STOPPED!! To all 'alternatives', your middle class, arty farty, conformists, and always will be no matter how hard you try, if you want to be shocking go twocing cars every friday night or if thats not intellectual enough for you, form an extreme political movement, putting on a 'Murderdolls' T-Shirt however does not elevate you to any level of rebelliousness, if anything, it makes you even more of a pathetic conformist --Jakk
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Post by GunstarHero on Jan 16, 2004 23:20:20 GMT
yes or the army of gothics wearing:
"you laff at me because im different, i laff at you cos you're all the same"
t-shirts, i think the joke is on them - no?
i fucking hate them, their about as alternative as shitting in a kettle, its been done thousands of times before but its only funny the first time (not that i ever did shit in a kettle)
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Post by Jakk on Jan 16, 2004 23:22:05 GMT
rubbishting through the eye of a needle is a much used phrase, however it has now been ovetaken in my glossary of terms by 'rubbishting through the spout of a kettle'
--Jakk
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Post by GunstarHero on Jan 16, 2004 23:27:45 GMT
yay something i said is in a glossary of terms - people ive made it in life !
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Post by Zippy on Jan 16, 2004 23:36:09 GMT
"Looks like someone has been shitting in your cereal. BONGGG!"
I generally dislike these attitudes towards poetry; the other big reason people publish poetry is so others can catch their gist and understand them; however, if all it's saying is "F**K OFF U C**K MUNCH!" and so on, people are going to be asking questions. People who address their own feelings in poetry but fail to show the reader what they're on about, yet publish them anyway - they want to be showered with questions like "are you ok??" and actions such as hugs and kisses. Lame.
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Post by Zander on Jan 17, 2004 1:05:49 GMT
MDG - thats actually a cunning idea. however I cant talk - reek of smoke. didn have any thou.I stuck to my beer.
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Post by DrSmartEsq on Jan 17, 2004 20:41:51 GMT
12 year old people listening to 'rock' music and all that are trying to be non conformist but if they look around ironically they're conforming to a pre defined style of non conformism. they need slapping in the head with a 2 by 4 with a nail in it
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Post by DrSmartEsq on Jan 17, 2004 20:44:13 GMT
i think it needs to be clarified mind, smoking doesn't cause cancer, it just leads to an increased risk of it, so its a gamble, like russian roulette. but why gamble, cancer is incurable so why gamble by increasing the risk of contracting it, its like russian roulette with 4 out of 6 chambers loaded
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Post by Geg on Jan 17, 2004 21:34:53 GMT
Heehee, at the end of terms when grades come out they could have a limited-edition flavor of "suicidal despair" All year round - for the "alternative" market.
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