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Post by staffs on Nov 10, 2004 20:11:09 GMT
adder (uk) do you ever forget where you put the bit of paper that you wrote on where you left the car that reminded you not to forget where yopu left the car just in case you forgot where it was that you left it ?
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Post by taylorsman on Nov 10, 2004 22:34:19 GMT
I quit smoking from 40 to 60 a day 16 years ago just at the time I joined The Craft. However I fed up to my back teeth with the way this Government is trying to micromanage people's lives. I would love to stuff the 5 portions of fruit and veg they tell you to eat, (and which I dont), into the appropriate orfice of the Minster of Health, I like a drink, I like my meat, cream in my coffee, white bread. If the Government has to interfere let it be with bad employers, bad landlords, crooked traders etc.
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Post by Stash on Nov 10, 2004 22:39:47 GMT
[quote author=Taylorsman However I fed up to my back teeth with the way this Government is trying to micromanage people's lives. I would love to stuff the 5 portions of fruit and veg they tell you to eat, (and which I dont), into the appropriate orfice of the Minster of Health, I like a drink, I like my meat, cream in my coffee, white bread. If the Government has to interfere let it be with bad employers, bad landlords, crooked traders etc.[/quote] I couldn't agree with all that more!! My government is probably even worse for it
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Post by adder on Nov 11, 2004 5:51:06 GMT
adder (uk) do you ever forget where you put the bit of paper that you wrote on where you left the car that reminded you not to forget where yopu left the car just in case you forgot where it was that you left it ? Not any more!!The only time my wallet,keys and reminder cocks are not on my person is when I'm in bed or the shower.Some things you just,well, learn.
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Post by ruffashlar on Nov 11, 2004 7:47:33 GMT
Brethren,
I do not smoke, have never smoked, and there's even less chance of me taking it up now than there is of me becoming a Shirley Bassey impersonator.
However, I am appalled at the idea of banning smoking in pubs and restaurants. It's an intolerable liberty to take. Why not insist on the installation of extractor fans in all pubs? Introduce a smoking licence, put more beer gardens outside pubs, and give people some choice about where they go and what they do.
Pretty soon, they'll ban pi**ing in toilets.
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Post by kizzy on Nov 11, 2004 8:04:12 GMT
Exactly Ruff! We are treated like children by this lot.
Now I thought you Jocks, especially in Glasgow, didn't take things lying down? Look to the likes of the post WWI era, the "Greats" such as Maxton, Shinwell, John MacLean etc. Make Mc Connell and his stooges take notice. They remind me of Bro Burn's quote, "Such as parcel of rogues in a nation".
BTW on another tack I enjoyed the football result last night and hope the Gers can do the same again on Sat 20th. ;D
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Post by leonardo on Nov 11, 2004 13:53:30 GMT
Don't you just love the IDSBB. (I don't smoke but brigade) Always great for a laugh. The health of a Nation is not their concern. Get over it lads/lassies it going to happen! I am a non-smoker, the worst kind, in fact, as I do not have any sympathy for those who have made the coice to smoke. I remember idiots in school trying to tell me the benifits of putting a cigy in my mouth, etc. I see some of these to day, my own brother is one of them, on deaths door. He, the bro, gasps for breath every time he comes and does a bit of work for me.
His own fault. All smoker made their choice. Now they suffer. How many smokers do we actually know who are so delighted they started to smoke? I know none.
To those who wish to quit I wish the very best. I know it will be difficult but it can be done.
I am pleased my Country was the first to ban smoking. I am also pleased others will follow. It started in New York, but Ireland is the first Country to have actually do it. Now that it's done there is no turning back. Thank God.
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Post by Agent J on Nov 11, 2004 14:26:00 GMT
Giving up smoking is easy...I've done it hundreds of times. I sincerely hope I'll manage to finally ditch it one day. However, if the restrictions we're talking about have the (presumed) desired effect, and just as a crazy maybe, everyone gives up smoking, then what?...it appears that the tax collected on cigarette sales finances, among other things, the NHS...higher taxes for everyone, anyone?
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Post by bod on Nov 11, 2004 14:45:51 GMT
Yeah, and maybe next they'll ban all those noisy musicians who pollute the air with their cacaphonous row. Can't go into a pub or a tube station these days without some discordant racket being inflicted on your ears by some talentless twerp thinking the world owes them a living - all that noise pollution causes seious problems to passive listeners, it's allright for those who choose to make music or chopose to listen to it. It's us poor individuals who don't have the choice and have it inflicted on us.....blah blah blah
All I want - and this won't change when I become an ex-smoker - is for us to enjoy the freedoms that millions of men and women gave their lives for - not too much to ask is it? I'm fed up of petty minded idiots thinking the answer to everything is a ban or further regulations - all that does is increase the tax burden for questionable benefit. A perfect example is the over zealous gun laws we have in this country. Since they were introduced we have seen more illegal weapons on the street than any other time, and more murders and injuries from illegal weapons than we ever saw under the old legislation. Not to mention the fact that it is now uncommon to see an armed policeman in Central London.
Leo - this isn't directed at you, so please don't take it as a personal attack -thanks.
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Post by staffs on Nov 11, 2004 14:51:15 GMT
bod,youmust have heard leo singing then ?? and doing his riverdance impersonation
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Post by leonardo on Nov 11, 2004 18:05:10 GMT
Lee, Michael Flat-head isn't a patch on me. ;D Bod, believe it or not but I use to busk in Paris. And yes I did make a racket, but I still made a few bob/franc, or to be slangy and if memory serves, du bal
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Post by ruffashlar on Nov 13, 2004 9:53:14 GMT
Kizzy, "'Such a parcel of rogues in a nation'" Well, we voted them in, so if it's "hireling traitor's wages", we paid 'em. Several times over, to judge by Holyrood. "BTW on another tack I enjoyed the football result last night and hope the Gers can do the same again on Sat 20th" I should warn you, I support Celtic , so you'll forgive me for being at variance with you on that one ;D Besides, they've been playing so badly of late , the poor things really needed the win we let them have ;D
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