Benevolent Dictators

[Chris_Hughes]

Following on from Mark\'s Fascist Bully Boys thread. Given that less than 30% of British adults smoke tobacco and, it has been less than 50% for some 25 years. The banning of smoking in public places is long overdue, and as far as I\'m concerned the actions of the Metro Centre are those of a benevolent dictator.

I look forward to enjoying a drink in a public house and a meal in a restaurant, without breathing in second hand tobacco smoke.

Hopefully, soon, smoking will be a pastime indulged in by consenting adults in enclosed spaces only.

[Ell]

Desperately thinking of a snappy comeback Chris. No joy yet but watch this space

[Ell]

Chris the best I can come up with is .................Public Houses have been known since the year blank as places to go to where, if needs be, you can get daft drunk. eat pickled eggs and smoke your tits off. I know some strange people that ONLY smoke in Pubs. If you would rather imbibe in a smoke free zone, devoid of smoking people, then I respectfully suggest you invent a new form of meeting place. Don\'t dare call it a pub, cause that means \"Public\" call it like it is a \"Smoke free food ingesting facilty\" or something like that. If there\'s that many of you lung-full peopl out there then build your own temples to health.

Leave our pubs alone you destroyers of culture, barbarian thugs, nanny statist\'s, purveryers of over-priced vitamin tablets etc. Just because the posh drugs are injected or snorted doesn\'t mean to say that a boozer is a haven of desperados. I really hope the government has drafted this bill well.......... because I will make a point of smoking legal herbs on the street , setting fire to my hair and other smoke producing activities. cheers Chris you healthy Get

[Edited on 5/3/2004 by Ell]

[mark]

I\'m still undediced on how to respond to this one.

have to say that if a smoky pub is not to your liking the don\'t go to a pub.

I absolutley hate pot noodles, but guess what I find life so much easier if I don\'t buy them, but maybe if we made possesion of a pot noodle a criminal offence, I\'d feel so much happier going into tesco, safe in the knowledge there would be no pot noodles and better still nobody carrying them round taunting me with them.

So I\'m going to be a social pariah on principle and smoke even more, might even buy a meerschaum and find the stinkiest ready rubbed possible, or better still that hideous NTB stuff you could but a few years ago, smelt like burning tyres

I was in a hotel in manchester just after christmas, sat happily in the bar in fug of tobacco amoke oif my own creation, no-one esle in the bar just me when a couple came in, sat the other side of the bar then had the audacity to come over and asked \"If I would mind not smoking\" my reply (I\'d had a bad day) was \"not at all if I can shag your wife instead\"

they left shortly afterwards.


I want to be the first person to go to prison for smoking

I mean to say, where\'s it going to end, they\'ll make pis sing in the street illegal next


oh yeah, BMW drivers annoy the hell out me as well and are menace to every one around them so they ought be banned from public places as well


And as for Ell, you\'ve got nee hair to set fire to