THE BRITISH THREAD II

A government adviser Prof: Julian Le grand (a former advisor to Tony Blair) has strongly suggested that people wishing to smoke should apply for a permit to buy cigarettes.

This correctly labels smokers as 'ADDICTS'

They will need to obtain a Doctors signature that their health is not at massive risk by smoking in order to obtain a licence or permit to smoke.

The permits are to cost the smokers £200 a year.

Really it's a little like ensuring you put your seat belt on in the car. If you're thick enough to drive without, you could end up like Lady Di and Dodi.

Point taken?

I'm all for it, I think it should be totally outlawed, the addicts can then be taken to a place of safety and weaned off this disgusting, unholy, ungodly filthy health damaging, money sucking habit in the most stringent manners possible.

Sounds a bit extreme to me.

But I like it.

Not in Manc yet, chuck.

Mathos-

It's really getting to you is this stopping smoking lark you're on at the moment.

Your pathetic attempts to convince the real you, which obviously craves a long suck on a roll-up and to drag the divine smoke deep down into your being, that the other you, the idiotic one who wishes to live forever because it cannot abide thinking about a world continuing after it is no longer capable of inflicting itself upon things, have my deepest sympathy.

And why is tobacco "ungodly"? The divine tobacco plant, which contains what J.M. Barrie called My Lady Nicotine was put on the earth by our Father in heaven for the precise purpose that His most magnificent creation, Man, could benefit from it.

You have been socialising with doctors, I can tell. Why do you think they all want you to stop smoking.

Do you really think they give two foots about how long you live.

Follow the money mate! First rule of journalism. And there is no second.

Rats and koala-bears, fluffy toy imitations as well, don't smoke. Are you suggesting we should adopt their ways?

The reason Koalas don't smoke is because they are full of Eucalyptus oil and would explode. Rather sensible of them I believe.

And Its Koala NOT Koala-bear.

Well dp- they call them koala-bears here. It's probably more to do with Teddy-bears than it is with grizzly bears but I'm not sure as I'm not an expert on Australian usage.

They are certainly cute and there's no arguing with that. All the ladies go "Aaaaaahh!!" when they see a movie of one. Especially when one does a slow blink and looks helpless.

Well now you'll be able to inform your friends of the correct terminology. Koalsa are not bears never have been and never will be. we do not use the term bear in association with koalas

Koala's bite, scratch, piddle and smell to high heaven spendy. Best to steer clear and find a woman to cuddle.

I'd never go near a koala-bear, they've all got conjunctivitis.

Mornin' everyone!

Last day of light traffic, kids are back on Monday. Which means there's been loads in the Jobcentre this week. I was watching some Father/Son bonding in the waiting area yesterday. The boy couldn't have been older than 11, I heard the Dad telling him him that we were "a shower of ****"... how guaint, then we all watched aghast when he took the boy outside, took two cigs out and they both lit up!!!! We were pondering whether to call Social Services... but what's the point? It was very depressing.

x

If they are not bears...

What are they?

Do they have no relation to bears?

What's their genus?

x

Marsupials, like a lot of other critters in the land of OZ.

No relation to bears at all, I'm afraid. Apparently due to the toxic nature of their diet, they are always stoned, mostly grumpy, and when they piss on you, just throw the clothes away. That's how bad it stinks.

Phascolarctos cinereus
(Greek: phaskolos means pouch; arktos means bear. Latin: cinereus means ash-colored.)
Koalas are marsupials, females having a pouch in which their young first develop. Their pouch faces the rear and has a drawstringlike muscle that the mother can tighten. They are the sole member of the family Phascolarctidae.

Late edit. Forgot the link. Some interesting facts I didn't know here, Smorgs.

http://koalas.org/koala-info.html

Thanks buider, I shall share that with my work colleagues today, I gurantee, it will go something like this:

smorgs: koalas aren't bears you know!

Eunuch: They look like bears.

smorgs: They are marsupial thingys

Eunuch: Well why do they call them bears then?

smorgs: Dunno...

Eunuch: Thanks for the effin' nature lesson. You coming for a cig
or what?

x

No probs Smorgs. How did Eunuch get such a handle?

On the smoking issue, I was a quitter for 18 months while I struggled to put myself through college. Simply couldn't afford to smoke. I was the worst anti-smoker I've ever encountered.

This time off the evil weed at least gave me some insight into how much tobacco really stinks. Mind you, I can go for days without smoking, and I no longer smoke in my own car.

But when I have a lager or six, the smoking quota seems to increase inversely proportional to my beer intake. :wink:

I was going to post something extremely witty and relevant regarding koalas spendius smoking and something then realised I have to go. TTFN

I've seen film of when daddy koala wants a bit of conjugals and mummy koala isn't having it. Not a pretty sight, and you wouldnt't think of them as cosy and cuddly if you saw it.

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I haven't seen that, but I have seen, in person, dolphins gang-banging one of their own. Nothing nice about that either.

I see the other contributors are noting just how thick and ill-educated you are, as I have been pointing out for some years!

Two pages past the final turns of Salambo and the oink is like a fish out of water in the real world!

Well it's quite a pleasant morning, I shall take my bicycle out for a forty mile airing have a little lunch and then go to the gym for a couple of hours!

Farmerman


Nice to see you visiting our pages my old friend, trust you are keeping well.

PS

TORCHWOOD

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Doctor Who (A little childish really)


Spendi probably watches such trivia.

Mathos-

Did you not notice this-



Which means an ash coloured bear with a pouch.

Looks like you're projecting again. And your evident preference for Australian scholarship over the British version shows an incipient disloyalty to your country of birth which is all the more touching for being in error.

BTW- It's Salammbo.