Gridlock Mikey

Don't know how old you are Dave but what have you been doing for the past x amount of years? You know, before the band wagon came along

Do "most" of your friends hug trees and sit in the middle of roads as well

Gridlock Mikey

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imlach

Well, you got any figures to show smokers are in the majority ***-breath?

Leslie

Dont see why a non smoker should be any more of a "Goon" than a smoker, just because he chooses not to smoke and he is entitled not to like the smell of it anyway or to risk being told by his doctor that he has a limited time left before he turns up his toes.

Les

davegtt

what have I been doing for x amount of years? same thing as you I expect, sat in the pub smoking, except I have to breath in your used smoke.... not exactly a good choice is it, go home or breath in other peoples smoke....

What bandwagon? people dont like smoking simple. People are agreeing with what the government want thats all thats changed....

no most of my friends dont hug trees and sit in the middle of roads.... why would they? because we dont have a filthy habit? Maybe we should start picking our nose and leaving the remains on chairs etc.... Would you like that? Leaving chewing gum under the table in the pub, and when you grab the table and feel a warm wet spoggy sat there all over your fingers you can claim someone is a dirty bassa.... eh?

Gridlock Mikey

Nope That would totally ruin the thread if I were able to conclusivley prove that we were in the majority.
Anyway, the majority of the nation said No to Poll Tax, look what happened there So just being in the majority doesn't automatically mean you are in the driving seat!

Dracoro

So instead of spending your money on cigs, you end up spending it on beer or petrol etc. Funny how the tax revenues won't go down eh!

Gridlock Mikey

Sorry to tell you this Les, I ain't no doctor but I reckon that YOU TOO ONLY HAVE A LIMITED TIME LEFT! We all pass away eventually. Why is a smoking 100 year old considered a one off?
Maybe, just maybe it isn't as damaging as the government will have us believe!! Maybe

Gridlock Mikey

Good Point!

Scooby.Newbie

So you are going to assume that if I smoke less I will drive more to feel the empty void in my life? No, I will just smoke less or not at all, I would not spend any more time in the pub or in the car.

Oh lord, why couldn't you have given me the abilty maybe save for a brighter future for my family but instead force me to be only able to blow all of my disposable income in highly taxed luxuries .....

Hanslow

Mikeeeeeeeyyyyyyyyyy

Chill dude!

I really don't give a toss whether you smoke or not. I'd just prefer it if you didn't do it near me. You may recall that I have not ever asked you to not smoke though as I respected your rights as a complete **** I have also noticed though that you had/have respected my rights and kindly not lit up when you've been over to our (old) house.

Like I've already said, I've no probs with people smoking in their cars (if I'm not in there with them) or in their home. I appreciate their right to smoke. A friend of ours always asks us if it's OK to smoke when we visit them in their home. We've never said no. We don't like passive smoking but it's a bit of respect for other people. We could say no and/or leave, but they're still mates.

Gridlock Mikey

AHhh Bollox!! Now they know that I've been to your house

The only reason I never stayed longer is because I was dying for a ***, never did have an appointment to rush too

Dracoro

Put it this way, you'll spend the X amount extra you have a year on SOMETHING? Whether that be material possessions, savings, beer, cars etc. All these things are taxed. Obviously too a lesser extent than cigs but the cost to the NHS will be less and the rest of the shortfall can be made up from more tax on alcohol for example. The govt. will get the money somehow.

Robbie T

iTrader: (8)

I gave up smoking properly about 3 years ago, but i do have the occasional one when i'm out drinking (a bit backwards i know). Basically i'm impartial, i don't appreciate people blowing smoke straight in my face as i never would.

We're all gonna die of bird flu or whatever next weeks horrible epidemic may be so live for the day.

Bit of a rubbish point i know!!

Hanslow

LOL now that really wouldn't surprise me

Wish Ame a happy birthday for me

I always knew you were dying for a *** anyway....it's the way that you walk that gives it away

Scooby.Newbie

Nooooooooo.......... take it back!!! Not the alcohol, I will cut down, I promise

TonyG

If I'm out with friends who smoke, then I grin and bear it - that's my choice. What isn't my choice is when I have to endure the smoke of strangers without any choice. As for choice of pub, as far as I know at the moment, there are two non-smoking pubs in Nottingham. That's out of a total of over a hundred.
Personally, I'd like to see separate rooms for smoking rather than a complete ban, but that would probably cost too much, especially as now most pubs seem to be open-plan.

And don't get me started on people who smoke in restaurants when I'm eating...

Reality

If you want to Kill yourself feel free.

If you couldn't give a **** that you could be killing everybody around you then you need to take a long hard look in the mirror and decide what sort of **** is looking back at you !

Scooby.Newbie

As a smoker I agree with that, I don't and would never smoke in a restaurant while people were eating, but down the local it is a completely different scenario. I guess i'm lucky enough to live in a rural area were all the pubs still seem to have a public and a lounge bar, I have a choice which to use, and although smoking is permitted in both it could be easily be set up that it isn't.

Us smokers would obviously get the lounge side, on average being more cool and sophisticated and all

Gridlock Mikey

See now THAT I can understand and it is something that I don't do. I'm aware that the smell of smoke is not nice to some people and if they have just spent £30, £40, £50 on a meal then fair enough, I wouldn't want to ruin it for them. It's the ******* who are stood at a bar or just sat having a drink and a bit of smoke wafts over or the people who walk into a room and waft their hands infront of their faces and make a remark about the smoke. It's those people that are ruining the momentum of this ban and pi55ing people like me off. Smoking and eating do not go together, I agree on that one

Gridlock Mikey

Been on here long have we

Hanslow

So what about smoking in pubs that serve food when someone 10-15ft away could be sat down eating. Do you smoke then because it's not a restaurant?

I know what **** would be looking back at Mikey....it'd be a cheeky ****

Gridlock Mikey

If i'm not hungry or don't plan to eat, I don't goto places that serve food, simple

Hanslow

But I've seen you not eating in the Trip, the Sal, the Bell, the Tap n Tumbler, etc.

They serve food.

Do you not go home then if you are not feeling hungry?

OllyK

I'm out most Saturday nights and I have yet to have a problem. Local pub has a smoking bar and a non-smoking bar.

ScoobyDoo555

alright, alright "Smokey".......

take it to "Fight Club"........

In there, you'll find a prescription for "Crying Pills" and the resources to fax your concern to somebody who cares!!!


Dan

Gridlock Mikey

Those places are not full of tossers complaining about smoke. Those pubs are all rock pubs and we really don't give a **** about the band wagon that is mooching through town
Besides, I was smoking in those boozers long before the breweries decided that food was more important for profits.
Anyway, I digress, You bunch of non smoking *******, get off my case and YOU change YOUR lifestyle to avoid ME

DeltaBravo 9

i can't wait till they ban smoking , i'm fed up of stinking like an ashtray when i get out of the pub , nail them up i say !! nail some sense into them !

Gridlock Mikey

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