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Mon Oct-15-07 03:05 PM
Response to Reply #76 |
| 77. "I saw this old man smoking a cigarette one day so I went up to him... |
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"...and said 'a man your age and still smoking, you're my hero.' and he said 'What? I'm 28!'"
(Slightly paraphrased, but whatever, haha.)
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| -I smoke, get over it. |
Cleetus |
Oct-14-07 06:31 PM |
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I'm with ya |
greenbriar |
Oct-14-07 06:35 PM |
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How dare you smoke in a smoking area when no one's around. |
tyedyeto |
Oct-14-07 06:35 PM |
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I'm over it... |
adsosletter |
Oct-14-07 06:37 PM |
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You, sir, are worse than Hitler. |
Elrond Hubbard |
Oct-14-07 06:38 PM |
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I quit, but I support your right to smoke |
Yael |
Oct-14-07 06:44 PM |
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assuming he is in a smoking section. Also, no where was it mentioned that the person who coughed |
still_one |
Oct-14-07 06:50 PM |
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I was coming from a once-ex-smoker position with that post |
Yael |
Oct-14-07 07:01 PM |
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That is a different issue, someone intentially trying to stir up trouble /nt |
still_one |
Oct-14-07 07:07 PM |
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I quit every night. |
emilyg |
Oct-14-07 06:47 PM |
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lol |
againes654 |
Oct-15-07 02:46 PM |
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Several points, assuming you are in a smoking section, which most casinos are |
still_one |
Oct-14-07 06:47 PM |
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An interesting experiment: |
Artiechoke |
Oct-14-07 06:49 PM |
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Tobacco smoke rarely bothers me. I have, however, seen that behavior often. |
TahitiNut |
Oct-14-07 06:52 PM |
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Mind if I quote you? |
Artiechoke |
Oct-14-07 06:58 PM |
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No problem ... do it at your own risk, though. I can never tell how folks react. |
TahitiNut |
Oct-14-07 07:00 PM |
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Come on now. You expect asthmatics to have to wear masks when |
pnwmom |
Oct-14-07 07:56 PM |
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Read much? That's YOUR strawman. Play with him yourself. |
TahitiNut |
Oct-14-07 08:05 PM |
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Think much? Apparently not. n/t |
pnwmom |
Oct-14-07 09:38 PM |
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cigarette smoke provokes an athsma attack in me |
Capn Sunshine |
Oct-15-07 07:27 PM |
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didn't they have a "non smoking" section.? |
sweets |
Oct-14-07 06:54 PM |
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I am with you, however the OP seems to have left out if it was a smoking or non-smoking section |
still_one |
Oct-14-07 06:59 PM |
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This is Nevada, smoking OK where I was.. |
Cleetus |
Oct-14-07 10:26 PM |
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i smoke too -- but i'm guessing she wanted your machine. |
xchrom |
Oct-14-07 06:56 PM |
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Bewildered by the smoking threads |
Mike03 |
Oct-14-07 06:59 PM |
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I guess this is what happens when the debates begin 3 years before the actual |
Yael |
Oct-14-07 07:01 PM |
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Ah, but your bad habits don't get in anyone else's lungs or bloodstream. n/t |
pnwmom |
Oct-14-07 07:59 PM |
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Good point |
Mike03 |
Oct-14-07 08:06 PM |
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right there with you, bud |
ixion |
Oct-14-07 06:59 PM |
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hey that happened to me once, almost identically 'cept for a change in locale |
mark414 |
Oct-14-07 07:01 PM |
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ROFL... good for you |
ixion |
Oct-14-07 07:10 PM |
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and i don't even smoke anymore! |
mark414 |
Oct-14-07 07:13 PM |
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In all honesty, why couldn't you just be polite and say you were there first |
still_one |
Oct-14-07 07:11 PM |
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because he did it on purpose |
mark414 |
Oct-14-07 07:18 PM |
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I am just saying all you had to do is tell him you were here first. The profanity |
still_one |
Oct-14-07 07:24 PM |
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i don't think that there is any inherent "right to smoke" |
mark414 |
Oct-14-07 07:29 PM |
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you are right, but it is a nice diversion from war and illegal spying on it citizens /nt |
still_one |
Oct-14-07 07:32 PM |
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you should have put it out on her face |
JVS |
Oct-14-07 07:11 PM |
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That is mighty nice of you. She didn't ask him not to smoke, and for all you know |
still_one |
Oct-14-07 07:16 PM |
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Then why did she sit next to him |
Oeditpus Rex |
Oct-14-07 07:55 PM |
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If she's anything like my mom, she'd probably sought out a particular kind of machine. |
Shakespeare |
Oct-15-07 02:38 PM |
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Maybe she was coughing because she was a smoker too? |
Avabea |
Oct-15-07 02:44 PM |
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That was pretty inconsiderate of you. |
CT_Progressive |
Oct-14-07 07:14 PM |
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"What a jerkwad."? |
TahitiNut |
Oct-14-07 07:18 PM |
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The reality is that smokers don't respect what they do to their own bodies |
still_one |
Oct-14-07 07:21 PM |
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It would appear she chose to be in the smoking section. He was within his rights |
mondo joe |
Oct-14-07 07:57 PM |
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Nobody cares. |
Prisoner_Number_Six |
Oct-14-07 07:15 PM |
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LOL, not a very major issue to get so bent out of shape over, is it /nt |
still_one |
Oct-14-07 07:17 PM |
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Not something I'm gonna have a hissy over. |
Prisoner_Number_Six |
Oct-14-07 07:24 PM |
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Funny though, I wouldn't be surprised if an issue like this was brought up before the Supreme Court |
still_one |
Oct-14-07 07:26 PM |
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Happens to me at the casino too..I just smoke away..I have always been |
budibudinski |
Oct-14-07 07:20 PM |
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No. Casinos will be the next target. It's about the only place left where smokers can smoke, so |
in_cog_ni_to |
Oct-14-07 07:42 PM |
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colorado casinos will be smoke-free jan. 1 |
kagehime |
Oct-14-07 09:54 PM |
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It's presumably a place where you're allowed to smoke, so I don't see what her problem is. |
impeachdubya |
Oct-14-07 07:26 PM |
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California is a bell whether state. Of course I am bias since that's where I live |
still_one |
Oct-14-07 07:30 PM |
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I can't speak for, say, the Indian Casinos or card clubs, but all bars are now non-smoking in CA. |
impeachdubya |
Oct-14-07 07:40 PM |
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Cool /nt |
still_one |
Oct-14-07 07:45 PM |
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I am extremely pro-smoking restrictions, BUT |
hlthe2b |
Oct-14-07 07:35 PM |
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Was there a non-smoking section in this casino? |
RPM |
Oct-14-07 07:36 PM |
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I'm an ex-smoker, so I'll defer to Bill Hicks on this one: |
Tafiti |
Oct-14-07 07:48 PM |
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that's what I thought of as well, |
anarch |
Oct-15-07 02:55 PM |
#76 |
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"I saw this old man smoking a cigarette one day so I went up to him... |
primate1 |
Oct-15-07 03:05 PM |
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"I smoke, get over it." |
durrrty libby |
Oct-14-07 07:55 PM |
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Fucking disgusting. |
Blue-Jay |
Oct-14-07 08:02 PM |
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Of course you are correct. I forgot.Go for the gusto. Do it unfiltered |
durrrty libby |
Oct-14-07 08:23 PM |
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lol. Those controlling the agenda don't have to get over it. Tax hike please. |
IndianaJones |
Oct-14-07 08:00 PM |
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In Minnesota, casinos are the last place where you can smoke inside |
dflprincess |
Oct-14-07 08:06 PM |
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.It is about where this woman chose to sit. If my choice was to sit beside a person who |
budibudinski |
Oct-14-07 09:00 PM |
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She should have sat elsewhere.... |
emdee |
Oct-14-07 08:09 PM |
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You're assuming it wasn't a no-smoking section. n/t |
pnwmom |
Oct-14-07 09:45 PM |
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Yes, I am. nt |
emdee |
Oct-15-07 07:07 PM |
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Wow. A NORMAL ex-smoker. |
in_cog_ni_to |
Oct-14-07 10:21 PM |
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Sure thing. nt |
emdee |
Oct-15-07 07:10 PM |
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So were you in a smoking section or not? Cause that IS relevant. n/t |
pnwmom |
Oct-14-07 09:44 PM |
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When smokers smoke anywhere in a building, the whole building stinks of smoke. |
Oregonian |
Oct-14-07 10:01 PM |
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. |
Lautremont |
Oct-14-07 11:02 PM |
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I was nominally involved in the campaign to ban indoor smoking in NM |
abq e streeter |
Oct-14-07 11:29 PM |
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One reason I hate casinos: the smoke |
kwassa |
Oct-15-07 02:34 PM |
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The last bastion of indoor smoking in Oklahoma. The smokers' Masada. |
triguy46 |
Oct-15-07 02:54 PM |
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if we made it illegal. most people who now condemn you would have sympathy for you. |
lionesspriyanka |
Oct-15-07 02:45 PM |
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Nice post, Smokey |
BlueDogDemocratNH |
Oct-15-07 02:47 PM |
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This happened to me all the time |
lost-in-nj |
Oct-15-07 03:10 PM |
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I smoke too. Yet as I believe the responsibility... |
LanternWaste |
Oct-15-07 03:10 PM |
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ah, the Rob Riener method |
Neo |
Oct-15-07 07:14 PM |
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I would have lit a 2nd one and offered it to her... |
RetroLounge |
Oct-15-07 07:16 PM |
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So, if there were that many machines around that weren't being used |
TK421 |
Oct-15-07 07:20 PM |
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Yeah Sure Pol Pot! |
Southpawkicker |
Oct-15-07 07:22 PM |
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