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  • 24-03-2004 12:10am
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    Registered Users Posts: 8,139 ✭✭✭


    Anyone else get this god awful worst piece of unwanted mail ever in their inboxes lately? God at least the cheap viagra had some worthwhile purpose to it.


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  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 10,243 Mod ✭✭✭✭flogen


    :rolleyes:
    is that a joke?? wreckingMEbuzz??? 'smoke my head off'??? wtf??

    aint gotten it yet, and I could write a novel on the stupidity of the points made on the site, but its nothing that hasnt been said over and over in many places...
    and to think, someone spent good money on that domain!!
    <edit>two domains, actually, its also accessable through www.wreckingmybuzz.com

    Flogen


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 147 ✭✭JippoKelly


    Great name. Really encourages you to take what she is saying seriously. We're probably not meant to take it seriously though.
    "Smoking and drinking go hand in hand and I believe that a night out in the pub is an integral part of Irish culture"

    For you maybe muppet, but not for everyone. I can certainly drink without smoking. I only gave in to one form of peer pressure! ;)

    If pubs and clubs were legally obliged to install proper smoke extraction ventilation systems, then maybe I wouldn't care if the ban was dropped. But they aren't and even if they were they wouldn't.

    I hate the smell of my clothes coming home from the pub. I smell like an extra from London's Burning. It's disgusting.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 10,243 Mod ✭✭✭✭flogen


    as far as i know it was proven that even the best ventilation doesnt do enough... and as you said, even if they had to, they would arse about getting them installed, we'd all be dead (be it smoke related or not) by the time they did sort it out.

    Nah, all for it mesmelf, and ditto on the smell of my clothes.... its annoying... cos i cant wear them the next day then!!;)

    Flogen


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 147 ✭✭JippoKelly


    I hear ya barking Flogen. :)

    I feel real sorry for the people who work in bars. Within 2 minutes of entering a pub/club my throat goes and my voice gets all hoarse. And they have to work in that kind of environment.

    I'd say they can't wait for next week.


  • Hosted Moderators Posts: 4,698 ✭✭✭garthv


    yeh jippo,im a barman and it aint gonna be a pretty night :/


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,810 ✭✭✭lodgepole


    Originally posted by JippoKelly
    Within 2 minutes of entering a pub/club my throat goes and my voice gets all hoarse.

    You should really see a doctor then, that shouldn't happen to a healthy person. No matter how much lingering second hand smoke there is in your local.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 147 ✭✭JippoKelly


    Lodgepole, it was a bit of an exagerration. Maybe 15 minutes! But I have messed up sinuses, so that's why it happens.

    I'm just surprised the government actually stuck to their guns and didn't give in to the pressure from the powerful lobby groups looking for the ban to be abolished.

    I don't envy you Garth_Vader. Things might/will get nasty.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 10,243 Mod ✭✭✭✭flogen


    they knew well that the majority of Irish people supported them and it would mean some hope of votes (we might forget about the 1000 other things they pissed up)

    also if they did back down after being so certain theyd look like idiots, they had to be subborn about it, and thank god for that

    Flogen


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,946 ✭✭✭red_ice


    Originally posted by Ronan|Raven
    Anyone else get this god awful worst piece of unwanted mail ever in their inboxes lately? God at least the cheap viagra had some worthwhile purpose to it.

    So thats what attracted you to the site eh ronan? :p

    yea i got that email in the junk a couple of days back, i just deleted it. I only remember the url because its catchy...


  • Registered Users Posts: 19,608 ✭✭✭✭sceptre


    Originally posted by flogen
    as far as i know it was proven that even the best ventilation doesnt do enough
    It has been. A group in Sydney released a report only about a fortnight ago.


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  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 4,560 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ivan


    Its not just about the fact that smoking will (finally) be banned in pubs. Its the fact we never had a right to choose. Nobody asked us if we wanted a smoking ban and when it comes in, nobody will ask us if we want people kicked out of pubs for smoking.

    Its not fair, its not democratic.

    Maybe cigarettes will get the full chop (finally) who am I to say. There seems to be an increasing aversion to it, as there should be.

    The fact is, if that website is correct and 42% of Irish people are smokers and 65% of nightclub go-ers are smokers then I seriously doubt it that this is what the majority of the Irish people want.

    Thats what you should be signing it for, not because you're for or against smoking but because you're against removing our right to choose.


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,892 ✭✭✭bizmark


    It’s the states job to protect its citizens this ban is doing just that


  • Registered Users Posts: 19,608 ✭✭✭✭sceptre


    Originally posted by Ivan
    The fact is, if that website is correct and 42% of Irish people are smokers
    I think someone's added about 10 percentage points to the real figures while someone wasn't looking.


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,628 ✭✭✭Asok


    mad_camel.jpg


    Smoke!


  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 24,924 Mod ✭✭✭✭BuffyBot


    Oh sweet lord, we're not having this debate again :mad:


  • Registered Users Posts: 55,432 ✭✭✭✭Mr E


    I am a smoker
    I am not smoker
    I'm an ex smoker
    None of the above

    What the hell does "None of the above" apply to?

    Nice domain name, though.

    (She hasn't a hope of getting 50,000 signatures this late in the game. Even if she does, the government isn't going to back down. Roll on next Monday!)


  • Registered Users Posts: 16,402 ✭✭✭✭Trojan


    Smokers should be shot.


  • Registered Users Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Originally posted by TmB
    What the hell does "None of the above" apply to?
    All of those in denial.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,599 ✭✭✭ferdi


    i see smoking cigarettes as a pointless activity but i support peoples right to smoke as long as it dosnt fvck with me.


  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 17,977 Mod ✭✭✭✭ixoy


    Originally posted by Ivan
    The fact is, if that website is correct and 42% of Irish people are smokers and 65% of nightclub go-ers are smokers then I seriously doubt it that this is what the majority of the Irish people want.
    From my experience of nightclubs, that's utter sh1te. I imagine that either the figures are blatant lies or just misleading - it's probable that 65% of nightclub go-ers have smoked, or would smoke on occasion in a nightclub, rather than are bona fide smokers. Either way, polls all point to a support for the ban and that includes any smoking friend that I've spoken to....

    As to that website - I find the actual name as offensive of the content. I can just hear the mangled use of English in my head. Who designed it - Deco?


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  • Registered Users Posts: 8,819 ✭✭✭rymus


    Originally posted by ixoy
    and that includes any smoking friend that I've spoken to....

    Here here. The general way of thinking about the ban among smokers I know is that it'll give them some incentive to give up.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,808 ✭✭✭Ste.phen


    Report the junk mail to their ISP and hosting company, maybe they'll think twice about spamming me again?


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,097 ✭✭✭kiffer


    Originally posted by Ivan
    The fact is, if that website is correct and 42% of Irish people are smokers and 65% of nightclub go-ers are smokers then I seriously doubt it that this is what the majority of the Irish people want.

    um it could just a easly be showing that some people who dont smoke are'nt going to night clubs because of the smoke...
    and as non smokers are in the majority the night club would make more money with more nonsmokers.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,808 ✭✭✭Ste.phen


    I agree with some of that;
    i know that as a non smoker i avoid going out to pubs/clubs in favor of house parties because the smell is never nearly as bad and I dont usually have to worry about choking my guts up (i'm athsmatic, by the way).

    But the other point, that non smokers have more money to spend in pubs, is a little off i think.
    Surely people who are both non smokers and serious enough to not drink in pubs often becasue of it would also be drink more moderately?

    (ppst. dont tell teh VFI, they'll implement a 20% price rise across the board to make up for that)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 121 ✭✭Humphrey


    Well done Ivan I agree with your comments 100% and that is why I am against the ban even though I am a non smoker and frequent smokey pubs regularly.

    On the point of ventilation I can notice a hugh difference in pubs with good and bad systems in place (or non at all).

    What will this government TELL us we cant do next, eat Fast Food, drink over 6 pints per night......

    Humphrey.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,201 ✭✭✭netman


    Lads... let's have a look at the bigger picture...

    I mean, what about all those heroin addicts and their rights?

    Personally, I'd prefer to see them shooting up and getting their buzz in a pub, at least they're not doing me any harm. :)

    And all the poor cocaine addicts? I mean their most basic human rights are being affected! They can't even snort up on the bar, or the workplace, or the bus.. well, actually they'll probably get away with it on the bus..

    I think the nicotine/tar addicts should stop discriminating other groups, they've enjoyed special treatment for years, and it's about time they get treated equally! :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 18,484 ✭✭✭✭Stephen


    wreckin me buzz, schwee.

    what a sap.

    Its a pity there's no "i think you're a gobshite and don't want to support your poxy petition" option there.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 10,243 Mod ✭✭✭✭flogen


    Its a pity there's no "i think you're a gob****e and don't want to support your poxy petition" option there.

    harrumph to that one

    Flogen


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 121 ✭✭Humphrey


    Stephen if you don't want to support this guys petition don't sign it thats your choice.

    There is no need to slag this guy for trying to stop something he believes in.


    Humphrey


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,591 ✭✭✭LizardKing


    First off it is NOT an all out "SMOKING BAN" .. its a Smoking ban in the WORKPLACE , and secondly the % figures quoted should be polled from the workers ... I doubt many Bar Staff like working in smoky pubs with very little fresh air etc....

    Face it there will be no smoking in the workplace from March 29th .. a Good thing IMO


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