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smoke like an Egyptian (Hookah bars struggle in Texas)
The Economist ^
| 25-sept-05
| The Economist
Posted on 09/25/2005 8:13:41 AM PDT by voletti
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To: Vision
The article is about hookah bars, where patrons smoke tobacco. When you refer to "getting high," are you talking about tobacco? Or are you going off-article-topic to illegal drugs? I just want to be clear on what you're saying.
Of course, tobacco is also not a necessity of life -- but surely you're not proposing that only life's necessities should be legal...?
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posted on
09/25/2005 12:46:29 PM PDT
by
ellery
(The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts. - Edmund Burke)
To: Vision
You druggies are all the same, always trying to intellectualize your beliefs. I am not a druggie. I do not smoke anything, tobacco included. I do like red wine and single malt scotch, although neither to excess.
The hookah was not designed and is not primarily used to smoke tobacco.
You are simply mistaken. Maybe it's because I live in the Middle East, but never, either here or in the United States, have I seen anyone use a hookah for anything other than tobacco. Out of curiosity, have you ever been in a hookah bar? As for spelling, please forgive me, kind sir or madam, for carelessly misspelling the words "sustain" and "ingest.". I hope that you understand that English is my fourth language and that you always hold yourself to the same liguistic standards to which you hold others. I'm curious to converse with you in your fourth language.
Yours ever sincerely,
Alter Kaker
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posted on
09/25/2005 1:02:10 PM PDT
by
Alter Kaker
(Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one’s nose.-Heine)
To: voletti
Real men drink the bong water.
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posted on
09/25/2005 1:05:52 PM PDT
by
toddlintown
(Your papers please.)
To: Starwolf
Hookahs are shared between fiends. Its a communal activity, not unlike eating from the same plate/table in a middle eastern resturant. Provides a bit of bonding. I hope your fiends don't have mouth sores.
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posted on
09/25/2005 1:06:20 PM PDT
by
Moonman62
(Federal creed: If it moves tax it. If it keeps moving regulate it. If it stops moving subsidize it)
To: Alter Kaker
Bingo!!! Hookahs aren't generally used for anything other than tobacco. And the tobacco used in a hookah is usually a flavored tobacco, like strawberry or cherry, vanilla, etc., with molasses and/honey mixed in - not your usual cigarette or cigar tobacco. This idea of hookahs being used for pot or opium is fueled by stupid movies and TV shows and is inaccurate. It's a social activity that goes waaaaaaaaaaay back in history...and while I don't partake (pregnant and a nonsmoker anyway), my husband breaks out his hookah when his buddies come over and they enjoy it, much like people enjoy smoking a good cigar.
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posted on
09/25/2005 3:05:43 PM PDT
by
coop71
(Being a redhead means never having to say you're sorry...)
To: toddlintown
Real men drink the bong water.Hookas, of course, aren't bongs.
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posted on
09/25/2005 3:12:16 PM PDT
by
Alter Kaker
(Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one’s nose.-Heine)
To: coop71
Are you saying pot and coke it won't work with the hooker?
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posted on
09/25/2005 3:16:57 PM PDT
by
Tarpon
To: Alter Kaker
We went to a Lebanese-cuisine restaurant with friends a couple of month ago. We got a hookah with dessert and coffee, with some apple-flavored tobacco. I don't smoke cigarettes, and maybe smoke a cigar once every month or two. With that said, I must say, it was pretty darn civilized, smoking that hookah. I liked it.
Everyone had their own plastic mouthpieces, which you removed when you passed the hookah hose around, for those wondering about that.
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posted on
09/25/2005 3:24:45 PM PDT
by
FreedomPoster
(Guns themselves are fairly robust; their chief enemies are rust and politicians) (NRA)
To: voletti
I just can't help it. I laugh and think about Steve Martin, singing "Walk with an erection". Smoke like an......
To: FreedomPoster
Sounds like a bunch of happy hookahs!
Leni
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posted on
09/25/2005 3:30:17 PM PDT
by
MinuteGal
(The Anti-Americans, Anti-Military - "They want to live in the garden but not tend the garden")
To: Tarpon
LOL. Well, they might work with hookers, but I don't think they'd work so well with a hookah. : ) Actually, I think you can smoke pot with them but it's a lot of effort.
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posted on
09/25/2005 3:43:33 PM PDT
by
coop71
(Being a redhead means never having to say you're sorry...)
To: coop71
With a hookah, you put something in your mouth and suck.
With a hooker, they put something in their mouth and...
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posted on
09/25/2005 3:51:22 PM PDT
by
Tall_Texan
(Austin TX - and staying put.)
To: ellery
The article is about hookah bars, where patrons smoke tobacco. When you refer to "getting high," are you talking about tobacco? Or are you going off-article-topic to illegal drugs? I just want to be clear on what you're saying.
I don't know any people who are into hookah bars who don't get high. That's all I'm saying.
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posted on
09/25/2005 7:37:01 PM PDT
by
Vision
(When Hillary Says She's Going To Put The Military On Our Borders...She Becomes Our Next President)
To: Alter Kaker
You are simply mistaken. Maybe it's because I live in the Middle East, but never, either here or in the United States, have I seen anyone use a hookah for anything other than tobacco
Come on
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posted on
09/25/2005 7:38:46 PM PDT
by
Vision
(When Hillary Says She's Going To Put The Military On Our Borders...She Becomes Our Next President)
To: Tall_Texan
And with a Democrat, well, they just suck.
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posted on
09/25/2005 8:40:08 PM PDT
by
coop71
(Being a redhead means never having to say you're sorry...)
To: Vision
Come onI'm not saying it doesn't happen, I'm saying I've never seen it. Moreover, are you suggesting that hookah bars in the US, open to the general public, are for smoking cannabis, not tobacco? Because that's just silly. I doubt anyone's that stupid.
By the way, you never told me what your fourth language was. Second language?
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posted on
09/25/2005 9:39:18 PM PDT
by
Alter Kaker
(Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one’s nose.-Heine)
To: Alter Kaker
In every crowd there are a few that have a over simplistic world view and lack experience or a broadness of viewpoint to understand others with divergent views. Most of the time they are elected liberals, but occasionally a conservative falls into that mode. Forgive him and move on.
Comparing languages spoken is effectively a "mine bigger" game in an area in which most Americans have no interest. We think that everyone ought to just speak American English and get on with things. Most of the world seems to agree. That said I do 3 human languages, about a dozen computer languages teaching in about half of them.
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posted on
09/25/2005 9:48:12 PM PDT
by
Starwolf
To: Vision
The hookah was not designed and is not primarily used to smoke tobacco.Source?
To: Gabz
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posted on
09/25/2005 9:55:32 PM PDT
by
RandallFlagg
(Roll your own cigarettes! You'll save $$$ and smoke less!(Magnetic bumper stickers-click my name)
To: Alter Kaker
It's really funny when you see someone talking about something, and you know that they have no clue what they're talking about. Vision hasn't the slightest idea on how a hookah operates or he wouldn't even try to make the assertion that it's MJ mainly smoked in them.
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