Smoking Ban Faces Little Protest (???) Boston

Yahoo News ^ | 16 October 2002

[MacDorcha]

:) thnx bro

i think ill leave this post on that note. a good one. any more responses to me in a negative tone will not be dealt with.

[Great Dane]

do you not see us at least acting s equals?

From what I have read of your posts.....NO.

[Great Dane]

any more responses to me in a negative tone will not be dealt with.

This is just too funny, I suggest you read all your own posts again, then come back and tell us about negative tones.

Just too darn funny.

[Gabz]

if you would kindly read what i say and catch up, im sure youll find i have backed off from several of my previous holdings.

All well and good - and many of us are thrilled with it - however - you seem to be rather picky in your own catching up and taking to ignoring of posts to you. Could that be because you have no answers, or just an unwillingness to attempt a rational discousre??

[Max McGarrity]

addiction also isnt applied to caffine as a drug world wide even now, and yet, if you take away an avid coffee drinkers cup of joe? instant wreck.

And you believe it's a good thing to corrupt the definition of a word so it no longer has any real meaning?

[realwoman]

Well, I guess I know where not to take my vacation dollars next year!

[Gabz]

It makes no difference they weren't directed to me - you did and I responded to you - and made a request of an answer from you.

People having been smoking for hundreds of years -m it's obviously you.

People make choices whether to smoke or not - it is human nature to make choices about what they choose to do - what more lesson do you need than that?

It matters not to me if they were directed to me, I answered - my questions are still directed to you.

[Just another Joe]

Oh, shoot, we can give you a whole list of places.
There might not be that many places left after you read the list. LOL

[Gabz]

i think ill leave this post on that note. a good one. any more responses to me in a negative tone will not be dealt with.

That is a rather juvenile attitude to take.

Most of the negative posts toward you were deserved because of your own negative attitude.

I never took a negative or flaming or insulting attitude toward you - yet you have chosen to ignore much of what I had to say to you.

I can only make the assumption ( I hate assuming anything) that you can not answer any of my questions or refute any of my facts and were not a big enough man to say so. I guess that goes along with your heritage.

I will thank you for showing that you were wrong and most of what you posted was also incorrect.

[realwoman]

Cool. I could use some new vacation ideas. The smoking part doesn't really matter, I quit recently. But TELLING me I CAN'T does matter!

[Just another Joe]

Sorry, I meant we could give you a list of places NOT to go.

[SheLion]

Well, I guess I know where not to take my vacation dollars next year!

Isn't this a mess? Boston is so beautiful, and the pubs and clubs are so fine, and they will really suffer. If these prissy nosed a-holes with their anti smoking agenda pass this bill, do you really think they are going to spend their money to pick up the slack from the loss of business?

Heck no! They are too "prissy nosed" to even consider going into a pub or club to begin with. They drink and smoke behind closed doors, and lay down laws that the "lowly" have to live with.

[SheLion]

LOL, Seems coffee and cigarettes works better than just sitting down.

Trouble with me, I can sit here for HOURS working, THINKING, researching with my coffee mug (BIG MUG), and my cigarettes. I am happy as can be...

[Great Dane]

It seems in the 2 months Mac has been here, this is the one and only thread he has posted on. Hummmmm.

[MacDorcha]

After speaking between Joe and Dane, i have decided that i owe an apology to others who had taken more time than myself to research the subject of this thread. I am sorry if i missed anyone i need to say this to. Please, everyone I upset, allow me that one screw up, and give me another chance. I flamed people in reaction to ill-will i felt i was being given by others. I did not intend to come to this thread to make people feel bad, I just happen to be a very frank person. The words i said in anger were just that. The words i said in ignorance were also that. I did try to spend some time and effort to find out all I could on the subject before i opened my yap, but all that i had ever heard of was just one side of the story.

To SheLion and oldtimer especially:
I am humbly sorry for my outburst towards you two in particular. I tend to stand for myself when I think its needed, and at the time I counter-flamed you guys, it was not needed. Please allow me another time or post to not be connected with the feelings I'm sure i made you feel on this thread.

Again, I'm sorry if I missed anyone, but i think i found all that i had been in heat with. Feel free to contact me without such outbursts again. I really am a good guy, just stubborn as a scottish, teenaged, male would ever be is all. I'll try to keep that in check in the future.

Fregards to you and yours.

[Great Dane]

It takes a big man to apologize, apology accepted.

There really is a lot of good info here, I have learned a lot, so can you, I don't expect it to change your mind but it's still good to look at both sides of the coin.

[Gabz]

I am impressed with you. It takes a very big person to admit a mistake. You have proven to be a very big person.

Welcome to the fray - hang out read and learn some things.

No one is going to make any attempt to try to get you to take up smoking - all we want is the ability to get our side of the story heard.

And it is obvious, based on your post, that we are starting to make a little headway.

Thank you for being big enough to make an apology - you prove there is still hope for the next generation.

[Just another Joe]

Mac, welcome to the FRay. Keep the attitude that you will stand by your values but are willing to learn and you will do well in whatever you attempt.

[SheLion]

I really am a good guy.

MacDorcha!! Thank you SO much! You know you are welcome here with us! Smokers and non-smokers alike. We are all good friends here in trying to keep America Free. You don't have to love smoking in order to do that!

So much hate and bile has been put forth by the anti's against decent people who choose to buy and smoke a legal commodity. So, it's not your fault that you have been brow beaten into thinking it's all true.

I really thank you for giving us a chance to prove the anti's are wrong to you. We have (and do) a lot of research on this smoking and second hand smoke business. Like several articles say "It's All Smoke and Mirrors."

Thanks, MacDorcha!

[Max McGarrity]

Kewl. We don't mind disagreement, Mac, just disagreeable disagreement which does no one any good.