tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18009508.post114375395429197780..comments2023-11-05T10:06:05.380+00:00Comments on Clairwil: Defying The Ban!Clairwilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10503239355248016287noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18009508.post-1144113671691920332006-04-04T02:21:00.000+01:002006-04-04T02:21:00.000+01:00Your description of "thin slit of displeasure" wom...Your description of "thin slit of displeasure" woman - surely there's a nickname in there somewhere - reminds me of this quote from American writer <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mencken" REL="nofollow">H.L. Mencken</A>: "Puritanism - The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18009508.post-1143820868034099272006-03-31T17:01:00.000+01:002006-03-31T17:01:00.000+01:00Good to see you've defied the smoking ban. Even a...Good to see you've defied the smoking ban. Even as a non-smoker I don't think the ban it right.<BR/><BR/>Perhaps an oxymoron but I don't care. <BR/><BR/>If I die of passive smoking it's what come with going into pubs to often. It's all about rights and the majority (in our country assuming they are telling the truth) don't smoke (ahem).<BR/><BR/>Perhaps a truth policy is i order!Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10352650648729179475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18009508.post-1143790559720560682006-03-31T08:35:00.000+01:002006-03-31T08:35:00.000+01:00If they had had a limited ban so that you could sm...If they had had a limited ban so that you could smoke in some pubs but not others do you think people working in the pub would chose to work at a non-smoking pub or a smoking one? That would have been interesting to see.<BR/><BR/>I'm a non-smoker, and I honestly don't mind people smoking around me (as long as they don't blow it directly into my face) and I certainly wouldn't hassle a smoker. Their body, their choice and so on. I do think such a draconian ban isn't really called for.<BR/><BR/>The one thing I've never understood about smoking is why people do it. At least booze and drugs have some kind of pleasant effect at least in moderate quantities. Maybe I'm missing something here, as I must have smoked no more than 100 cigarettes in my life.Billyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17841187654606981532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18009508.post-1143762217327549112006-03-31T00:43:00.000+01:002006-03-31T00:43:00.000+01:00Surreal moment from Sunday night. Some bloke light...Surreal moment from Sunday night. Some bloke lights up in the big new pub at the bottom of my street. He's smoking roll ups and i'm sure the bar staff clocked him. Anyway, I left to go back up the road and my folks came in about half an hour later. <BR/><BR/>This is the tale they told. A member of bar staff was in the process of asking a group of smokers to move from the doorway of the pub out into the pissing rain when she was informed by my mother that there was a gent IN the pub smoking away like a chimney. 'You served him, he had a fag in his mouth at the time, I saw it' my mother said. This pleased the already harassed outdoor smokers no end. The excuse was that he had gone to the bar with the fag unlit, thus it was deemed to be perfectly satisfactory. Of course, by this time he had lit up again and the poor sod had to go back in and ask him to stub it out. <BR/><BR/>My position? As a non smoker, I can't feasibly argue for smokers rights, as the main reason I gave up was that I had started to find the habit deeply unenjoyable to the point of it making me retch. I do think that limited bans (restaurants/venues) and bans based on pub size and ventilation would have been appropriate but they've decided to go for the 'no half measures' approach. The hope being that people give up rather than put themselves through the hassle of having to leave company and go outdoors twice an hour. As Clairwil points out though, one meets fellow travellers in these situations and depending on how uplifting/depressing one finds these gatherings, people will act accordingly. I'd wager that a large proportion of people will not be deterred by a bit of outsider status.<BR/><BR/>Anyway, I'll leave it at that, i've rambled aimlessly enough tonight.iLL Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08107892879700381858noreply@blogger.com