Are you sure you are in the right forum???
Posted on 01/08/2005 9:20:21 AM PST by SheLion
I am surprised Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson didn’t refer to the smokers as swine in a pig sty. Isn’t that, after all one of the one of the first images that comes to mind when think of a pen? Before I am offended by “da mayor” I would have to be offended by the reference to the term smoking pens. In a city and state that was founded by a group of people so seriously reviled for their own beliefs in years past, you would think they would be among the first to take a “live and let live” attitude about the behavior and choices of others. Clearly the past lessons learned about intolerance by the Mormons must now have been forgotten.
Only 88 airports nationwide is hardly a mandate to make one’s own airport smoke free. Furthermore if these “smoking kiosks” are eliminated it will only cause people to find other places to smoke. Delta Airlines is correct in standing behind the rights of the smokers. Perhaps they have taken note that incidence of “air rage” only became prevalent AFTER smoking was banned on aircraft. It should also be noted that since the ban, they no longer use fresh air to ventilate the planes; instead, they just run the air through a filtrations system which in an enclosed environment further exacerbates the problem.
Mayor Anderson’s pompous arrogance in stating that the ban will help smokers to “break the habit” is outrageous. It is not his job to be neither a social engineer nor the arbiter of personal choices. I do know however, that as long as Salt Lake City and Utah continue down this Draconian path of heavy handed intolerance, I will avoid their state in very way possible. I will not travel to it, I will not travel thru it, and I will not support my company scheduling a convention there.
BANS ARE BAD! Read it again, BANS ARE BAD! Banning blacks from white facilities---BAD! Banning books---BAD! Banning Beer---Bad! If the people of Utah agree that these bans are bad, then they must also agree that banning smoking is also BAD! I would certainly hope at this juncture they are starting to realize that any action, that would favor a smoking ban of any type, will only create far more harm than good. IN all fairness I should note their may be one kind of good ban. That of course would be banning Mayor Anderson from further political office at the next election.
"Someone ask me recently if it's illegal to drink and drive, why do bars still have parking lots? LOL!"
LOL.....I've always wondered that myself.
LOL...they're out of luck, then. *grin*
You can't make up stuff this funny...
Owwwww. I've done that. Or go to take the cigarette out of your lips and it is stuck there and your fingers sail down the cigarette right to the lit coal. Ouch!
Gosh, you are a glutton for punishment, aren't you? :)
Well, I didn't want something as permanent as a tatoo, so there you go. :)
I get that way when I see a cute guy. :) No headache, though. heh!
I'm happy you quit. I wished I had never started. If I had known then about how smoker's were going to be so controlled and restricted, I probably would never have started. Who needs the grief.
But I really enjoy smoking. I quit once for 5 days. Most miserable 5 days of my life. Every day seemed to be 24 hours long, and I'm not kidding.
So, I never put myself through the quitting experience again. When my number is up, it's up and it won't matter one iota if I ever smoked a day in my life or not.
Are you sure you are in the right forum???
These people are obviously from the bottom of the gene pool, and are so stuck on themselves that they actually believe that they should live forever.
Are you ready for this? that's actually an "argument" that they have repeatedly used to justify never allowing "smoking areas".
D'OH!
Of course. I know how to act accordingly in the company I find myself. I can have a trucker's mouth too, but I know when to park the truck at the curb. :)
That reminds me of something that happened to me once. I was going to try to quit so I got a couple of those fake cigarettes you carry around so as to occupy your hands. Well, sure enough, walking down the street, some idiot starts to cough and starts waving my "smoke" away. I cracked up laughing.
What kind of terminally unconscious and delusional moron would presume to give anybody an unsolicited "lecture"?
Don't you have a dog?
An abused wife?
Cowering children?
A punching bag?
It wouldn't have to be from the safety of my keyboard. I'd question yours to your face.
A man is someone who faces life on life's terms and doesn't bitch and moan about cigarette smoke.
I've never seen a whiner that I considered a man, and that includes you.
ROTFLMAO!!!
Shows you what kind of people we're dealing with.
Well, I don't know.
My nipple rings always get a lot of attention.
BWAHAHAHHAHA!!!
I bet they do! :)
I am much more "malicious" than you. I own a few plastic cigarettes for the sole purpose of having it in my mouth at malls, offices, department stores, just for amusement. I have no intention of quitting.
And they have the gall to justify their indignance at the imaginary assault on their senses with redoubled vitriol!
Nope, it's not a neurosis.
LOL!
Looks like the weirdos went off to see their therapists to figure out why their straw men arguments still makes them look like whining, helpless neurotics.
I'm off for another smoke...
Or worse, the cherry falls into your crotch. owwww Lighting them on the worng end never taste good either.
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