ban it in 2004

refusing to do something i want

I say ban IQ tests and make SQ tests (Stupidity Quotient) mandatory. Those most prone to just being completely worthless to society due to an overwhelming propensity for stupidity would lose their right to breed. I'm not talking people of average intelligence, or those with not a lot of education here. I'm talking about people who say, call 911 to order a taxi or pizza, or those folks who need to ask what the number for the operator is.

All this stuff that''s being banned, we are going to need one ginormouse dumpster & a huge incinerator & that'll make more air pollution or else get a huge landfill site & that'll attract vast flocks of birds squawking & shrieking & crapping everywhere.

Well, oakman. We could always recycle it.

Letty, Recycle it ? You can't carry much on a bicycle you know. And where you gonna take this stuff ? Huh ?
Back where it came from I spose or some 3rd world nation where anything goes.

Well, Oak, for example, we could recycle Onyx's kid's movies into some worthwhile film like Snow White and the Seven Brats for seven Brothers.

in that case where will you find the 7 brides that will be required for said brats/brothers or is Snow White gonna do bigamy or similar.

Hmmmm, Oak. I'll have to consult Brigham Young about that, but there are mail order brides and such. Frankly, Disney always scared the crap out of me with his so called "fairy tales". as did Hans Christian Anderson.

I see you have grabbed the gnocchi numchucks!*



* Okay, how come I'm suddenly speaking with my words not in sync with my speech? Hmmm?

Signed, Jacqueline Chan

Aha, little-dog-with-red-ribboned-doggy-bone!!! My ferret-fu is too powerful for your red-topping-of-tomatos!! Haha!! Take that, small-dog-of-two-colors!!! You shall know the meaning of hichigofikisiapachnoguki when I am through with you! See the gnocchi numchucks, and tremble in gonikilosigasosiragu!!!!

Ah, I am now tossing the gemellis of death! Watch as they whiz by your ferrety ears! Hyah!

And I wonder if all you smoker-banning peeps are the ones that would like to see marijuana legalized? Pray tell - if smoking is banned, where do you puff on your blunt when it is all legal and stuff? Are you fecked off outside to puff your weed with the tobaccy lovers?

Well when smoking is banned absolutely everywhere but the cubby you build in your backyard where you have to squat in freezing cold and freshen your hair/clothes before you are again allowed entry to your home by your significant other/family/cohabitants, will there be different rules if the smoking is marijuana laced or not? Perhaps smoke-houses will be built so that people can go there to fill their lungs to capacity with all manner of stuff - maybe some alcohol could be introduced to this smoke-house and then social gatherings might occur and then ... oh wait, isn't that what we used to call a pub? Yeah I remember them!

Good points, Heeven. Maybe if those pubs would also allow blunt smoking, there would be less hoo-hah over the tobacco?

Piffka ------- Irish pubs have banned smoking. More people wanna ban smoking in UK pubs. You've used UK pubs, have felt the smoking to be problem ? Can you smoke in bars/pubs in the States ?

I wanna ban my car which doesn't go faster than 160 km/h...livin' in Germany is a burden.

OAK -- I'd heard there was going to be a ban in pubs and that it's becoming a trend throughout Europe as it is here. I have a very sensitive nose and I'm an ex-smoker so even walking by the cigarette aisles in grocery stores can bother me. I can often smell the cigarettes as soon as my neighbors light up (they smoke outside).

As to public houses... it really depends on the ability of the pub to condition the air. If the smoke isn't swiftly moved out, then the smoke can become quickly noxious. Stagnant air of any kind is hard on me, so I prefer to spend a lot of time outside. I've left taverns (In the US we call beer halls, taverns; if they serve hard liquor, they're lounges.) if the smoke is too awful. I particularly don't like to eat while someone is blowing smoke nearby. Restaurants here had smoking sections and non-smoking sections -- they could be good -- nicely separated, well-ventilated and fair for all or they could be a joke. A new law just went into effect in this county where there is no public smoking at all, not even outside in parks. How stupid is that?

It does seem pretty ridiculous, even to a non-smoker like me, that the publicans don't get to choose whether they'll have smoking in their establishment. This "it's-for-your-own-good" law is not to my taste. I can forsee the proliferation of speak-easy-type clubs where illicit smokers will go th enjoy their tobacco.

Anyway, I've always thought that it wasn't so much the tobacco as the additives that made cigarettes so harmful to health. Why don't the governments have the cigarette manufacturers clean up their acts first?

Uhhh, what was the question?

Piffka --------- thanks for your comments. I agree with what you say.

I still smoke but like you I find the noxious atmosphere in a crowded or poorly ventilated pub or restaurant a real pain. A lot places here have introduced a policy of no smoking areas of about 75% of floor space & thus 25% for smoking. I think by & large it works fairly well. If I'm in a place that chooses to ban smoking, then that's fine, I accept it.
I must say, I cringe when I see people standing outside their place of work puffing their way thru their habit. They look really sad.
Back in 1990, a major company I was doing some work for had a total ban on in-house smoking except for 1 room that had been made available for smoking. A pal of mine took me in there & it was evil. A series of cheap chairs, about 20 of them, most in use& the occupants puffing away as if there were no tomorrow & their faces looked as if the gas chamber was the next stop. The pollution in the room was beyond belief. I was outta there & never went back.

Yep, people standing outside smoking seem impossibly miserable.

There is a place nearby called Nativity House, possibly the only day-house for indigents that was designed specifically for them. Upstairs they have one room designated for smoking. It has its own special HV (Heating Ventilating) system. You'd think that people so poor they don't have a place to live would quit smoking, but no. It seems, sometimes, to be their only pleasure. The Nativity House managers were kind enough to recognize that and create a space for them.

Piffka --- spot on with what you say there. Along with the boozing homeless, the people you refer to seem trapped in their own downfall. The illness of the lost people. People lost & unfrachised in their own country.
I find it amazing that the UK, with the worlds 4th biggest economy, plenty of jobs out there, loads of immigrants, both legal & illegal, can't put a decent program together to help these people. OK some don't want help or are beyond it, even so, there is an old saying that says charity begins at home.
So I think we should do more to ban the "illness of the lost people." Try & introduce some dignity & self respect into them.

I was just reading about a Peace Corps volunteer who came home and was so surprised at the extent of poverty within this country. It is amazing that though both of our countries have large economies, the kindest help for the poor comes from private organizations. Sadly, in the U.S. many of the people needing help were turned out of mental hospitals during some governmental "belt-tightening" and that's the reason they live on the street. Anyway, maybe we should ban poverty in 2004.