THE BRITISH THREAD II

It's an intellectual disaster of monumental proportions.

It presages "Goodbye to your best friends".

When control freakery reaches the masses the game is up.

We've lost it.

The baton will pass to another culture.

What goes up must come down.

It isn't even worth explaining. One might as well piss into a gale from the north.

Maybe it presages a new subculture of shebeens and speakeasies which shall be called smoke-easies where genius such as evidenced by you, Spendy, and your ilk can be propagated and nourished.

On the other hand, prrhaps you'll catch your death going outside into the cold and damp especially when they ban the use of these patio space heaters because of their adverse effect on global warming and like the dinosaur and the smoked haddock you will be replaced as Darwin described by more adaptable specie.

I'm glad all you nicotine junkies are suffering. It will get worse. I caught a bloke rolling his own fag in the pub yesterday. He was immediately arrested and charged with intent to commit a criminal offense. I have arranged with the landlord for customers' cigarettes placed open view to be confiscated and given to the winos.

Heard in the pub last night:

What was the first law passed by Adolf Hitler's National Socialist Party when it assumed power?

-The banning of smoking in public places.

Pretty inaccurate.

Hitler forbiden Jews to smoke in Germany in 1938...

(It was a plot of them to poison the Aryan race..)

1938, smoking was prohibited in buildings/offices of the air force and German Post.

1939 in most public offices, hospitals and all NSDAP buildings, offices, at party meetings etc.

(Actually, Hitler campaigned indeed a smoking ban since the early 20's, and in the early 30's he claimed that the NSDAP never would have got pwer, if he hadn't stopped drinking and smoking.)

July 20, 1940, on all cigarette packages warnings like today were printed.


In 1923, German physicans found out that lung cancer ans smoking was conneced. The supported the ideas the NSDAP, not only politically (50% were members) but especially re non-smoking.

Btw: Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin were smokers, Hitler, Mussolini and Franco didn't ...


You can tell him, McTag, that he really knows a lot, but ... :wink:

I just remember that my father studied at Jena university .... and had lectures at the "Research institute for the dangers of smoking".
(Which led him finally become a pulmonologist but the three years in France after the war [POW] made him an heavy smoker :wink: )

Okay where's Smorgs, fer chrissake, it's nearly the weekend.

The whole policy, front to back, top to bottom and side to side was, and is, motivated by envy.

Envy of -

1- The contribution smokers make to tax gathering.

2- Envy of the smoker's preference for quality of life over quantity.

3- Envy of the stylishness of smoking.

4- Envy of the far more interesting nature of the smoker's conversation.

5- Envy of the pleasure smokers get from tobacco which non-smokers can't afford due to their driving and flying which pollutes everything in any way one can think of.

6- Envy of the smoker's avoidance of the long drawn out demise coming the way of non-smokers and accompanied by brain degeneration, arthritis and other horrors which might well bankrupt the economy and test the patience of their loved ones and the long delay in passing on any money they have.

7- Envy generally of anybody doing anything.

8- Envy of the power to order others about of the type one often sees in officious traffic wardens.

And the whole thing is based on two bare-assed lies-

1- That smoking cost the NHS £1.7 billion a year.

2- That 600 people a year die of passive smoking and that none of those deaths are due to anything else such as welding, industrial activity, traffic fumes or neurotic psychologies and bad diet.

It is quite understandable that Hitler would be in the same camp as this load of useless, degenerative busy-bodies because tobacco renders an increase in intelligence and Hitler wouldn't want that at any cost and neither do boring, fear-ridden pansies.

That the British Government fell for that load of nonsense is a matter of the utmost shame and it betrays every man and woman who died or was injured in our long and glorious fight for freedom.

And the pathetic and humiliating behaviour we are now witnessing is a blot on our landscape.

And what will they turn their attention to next now that they have been excited by their great victory.

I hope it is the foul stench of perfume, bathroom freshener, disinfectants and cleaning fluids of which the pub now reeks and which is no doubt overpowering in the homes and cars of the average non-smoker.

And further to that this is what Rod Liddle said last weekend under the headline "Smoking ban zealot is bad for my health"-



(Punctuation as printed in the Sunday Times).

With a name like that one imagines Mr Donaldson is a puritanical, presbyterian pillock of the Scottish variety possibly intent on sabotage.

yes smoking guarantees a rich and fulfilling life, if short, and a simple painless death.

Or the police talks to you: BBC link

yeah well its not all smokers that irritate me, just those bleaters like Spendy

And I'm the first to admit there are lots of other things going around that kill non smokers pretty quickly too.

Tour de France tomorrow!

How do you feel about it? (Tour de France).

I hope, Booth's and other pharmacies could deliver all the stuff needed in time!

For the Mancs:

Mr Eriksson's first task at City will be to strengthen his strike-force. It appears that the mis-firing duo from last season are on the way out.

Hence the headline: Sven Chops Dichov.

great really looking forward to it

I will be there with bicycle baggette beret et onions

supporting T mobile

The Daily Star titles (leaving out page three et. al. for the moment):

Steve wrote-




It isn't my fault Steve if you haven't taken the trouble or have the capacity to understand the import of this type of legislation. It is another attack on freedom, by the city-based paperwork party, based on smoke and mirrors. And the passive effects of that sort of smoke I consider deadly to our nation's future.

If you want to lie down before the steamroller which is coming your way from these puritanical forces, and puritanism is a city religion, which have been deployed in this case, where tax money has been used to tell us lies, and in other cases, that is your affair.

If they are not stopped you will soon need authorisation, from a member of the PPP of course, to leave your residence.

This ban does not affect me in the slightest. I don't smoke in public places. Their bloody superior frowns were quite sufficient for me.

I wasn't being subjective. I leave that sort of shite to folk like you.



They are control freaks and they will go from strength to strength if they only have the likes of you to deal with.

When an intellectual argument is categorised as "bleating" it is merely a dressing up of white-flag waving for self reassurance.