Smoking Up That Scotland

[Charlie_Thompson]

Rang me mam from a phone box and it had a sign inside saying \"This is a non smoking premises area\" Luckily the liittle shelf for chopping out your chizz has not been removed, and the floor was awash with pish. So that\'s that sorted then

[Oblickta]

Sh*te in Scotland if u dont smoke cos there\'s no one to talk to in the pubs cos they\'re all outside havin a smoke. Then u gotta wait ages for a beer cos the staff are outside havin a smoke with all the customers, no one to play pool with cos the table happens to be inside the pub and no one to have a fight with unless u go outside and say to someone \"Oi you, inside now\"

[mark]

the mishnish in tobermory is now painted black on the outside instead of bright yellow to mourn the passing of beer and tabs as a combo (true, was in there this week)

so here\'s me, dreading going in for the customary few pints and tabs, as we do. big no smoking sign on the door - GULP!

but lo, shangri la, awaits inside, lunchtime, midweek, just a handfull of the lads off the fishing boats just visible through the Fug of Old Holborn, AHHH bliss, told the bar man I could kiss him for his inability to spot miscreants in his establishment

comfy by the fire, in walks mister and missus middle england visiting the colonies from surrey,, a few ahhemm ahhemm\'s later they demand of the barman that its now law that he prevent such criminal activity elsewhere, lest they take their custom for a white wine spritzer elsewhere.

now they are in a pub, with half a dozen, hardened sea dogs, all merrily chain smoking......

All I heard/could translate of the exchange that followed was, \"if I was married to her I\'d be asking for more than a white wine spritzer\" and \"**** off and boil yer heed\"

strangely they left

I\'m moving house next week

[Charlie_Thompson]

Class

[SIXFOOTSTEVE]

[Marc]

I\'ve just got back from 5 days of chasing Michelle Pfeifer around the lunar landscapes of Kinlochewe and Skye in the highlands, coming up against the same thing. In a village of about 6 houses, a shop and 1 pub the same stickers were everywhere. No smoking in the pub at all then 200 and odd film crew turn up and the pub decides to allow smoking. They crew refused to enter the pub cos they couldn\'t smoke. Probably the fullest the pub has ever been and had to back down, just for the money not the law.