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Are smokers genetically predisposed to being an asshat?

  • 07-09-2017 2:21pm
    #1
    Pelvis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,758 ✭✭✭


    So, sitting outside a londis having a late lunch, a large selection of tables available over a large area, when someone decides a meter away from me is the perfect place to smoke their cigarette.

    Like, seriously, are smokers just totally oblivious to just how disgusting the habit is? It doesn't occur to someone that perhaps the person they've decided to stand next to, who is having their lunch, doesn't want to breath in their second hand smoke?

    And of course, when they're done, the butt goes on the ground. Which bizarrely, seems be a mandatory act for smokers. Should be a minimum €1000 fine for this carry on for a start. Scum.

    Rant over. :D


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  • #2
    Hector Bellend
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,667 ✭✭✭Hector Bellend


    They wouldn't do it if they knew how disgusting it is or more likely they sjmply don't care


  • #3
    dont bother
    Closed Accounts Posts: 542 ✭✭✭dont bother


    jaysus OP you obviously havent much to worry about.
    you sound like a SJW with that type of OTT reaction to a bit of smoke coming your way OUTDOORS.

    sure some people dont like hearing the horrible sound of some yoke eating up a big mayonaissey sandwich in their faces either. why would anyone ever sit outside a LONDIS to eat lunch - it's hardly the type of place you can expect a "high caliber" of clientele now is it?

    do you regularly go around looking for trouble, or just with smokers?

    :rolleyes:


  • #4
    Pelvis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,758 ✭✭✭Pelvis


    Wow, SJW comes up in the second post, new record that!


  • #5
    Noveight
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,813 ✭✭✭Noveight


    I too despise the Devils Lettuce. No thank you "dude", I get my highs from life!


  • #6
    DrumSteve
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,798 ✭✭✭✭DrumSteve


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  • #7
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    Generally the other way round tbh


  • #8
    MickDoyle1979
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 82 ✭✭MickDoyle1979


    It says "Smoking Kills" and has pictures of the medical horrors of smoking on the packaging. They can see the money draining from their bank account - how much will a pack go up in the in next budget? For decades there have been anti smoking adverts and we all know people have died of lung cancer or are wheezing their way to an early grave.

    Anyone who smokes is a moron and they deserve their horrible death.

    They have no excuse.

    No pity or sympathy for anyone who smokes.


  • #9
    Dr. Kenneth Noisewater
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,236 ✭✭✭Dr. Kenneth Noisewater


    MickDoyle1979 wrote: »
    Anyone who smokes is a moron and they deserve their horrible death.

    Well, aren't you a treat


  • #10
    Are Am Eye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,166 ✭✭✭Are Am Eye


    Pelvis, don't be old all your life.


  • #11
    Hector Bellend
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,667 ✭✭✭Hector Bellend


    Pelvis wrote: »
    Wow, SJW comes up in the second post, new record that!

    You think I'm an "SJW". Holy sh1t.Besides. you started it.


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  • #12
    Omackeral
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    I dunno about any of that but anytime I see a 10 lighting up a smoke she instantly becomes a 2. It's the biggest turn off for me.


  • #13
    Pelvis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,758 ✭✭✭Pelvis


    Hector Bellend wrote: »
    You think I'm an "SJW". Holy sh1t

    2nd post AFTER mine.


  • #14
    Allinall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,893 ✭✭✭Allinall


    Not nearly as big an asshat as people that start a sentence with "like".


  • #15
    ThisRegard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,833 ✭✭✭✭ThisRegard


    dont bother wrote: »
    jaysus OP you obviously havent much to worry about.
    you sound like a SJW with that type of OTT reaction to a bit of smoke coming your way OUTDOORS.

    sure some people dont like hearing the horrible sound of some yoke eating up a big mayonaissey sandwich in their faces either. why would anyone ever sit outside a LONDIS to eat lunch - it's hardly the type of place you can expect a "high caliber" of clientele now is it?

    do you regularly go around looking for trouble, or just with smokers?

    :rolleyes:

    Seems like someone needs a nicotine hit.


  • #16
    Boom_Bap
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,734 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    I bet they looked cool though :pac:


    But seriously, people smoking around me is not a bother. It wasn't too long ago where the smoking ban didn't exist and we freely went into places with people smoking freely.


  • #17
    Jim Bob Scratcher
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,231 ✭✭✭Jim Bob Scratcher


    Pelvis wrote: »
    So, sitting outside a londis having a late lunch, a large selection of tables available over a large area, when someone decides a meter away from me is the perfect place to smoke their cigarette.

    Like, seriously, are smokers just totally oblivious to just how disgusting the habit is? It doesn't occur to someone that perhaps the person they've decided to stand next to, who is having their lunch, doesn't want to breath in their second hand smoke?

    And of course, when they're done, the butt goes on the ground. Which bizarrely, seems be a mandatory act for smokers. Should be a minimum €1000 fine for this carry on for a start. Scum.

    Rant over. :D

    Why didn't you eat inside then ?


  • #18
    ThisRegard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,833 ✭✭✭✭ThisRegard


    The Simpsons hit the nail on the head again, The Flandersersers this time

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  • #19
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    I think most smokers realise how horrible their addiction is, the harm it causes them and others, and that there's nothing as disgusting as a fag butt on a pavement. Such is addiction.

    Arseholes rarely realise that they are arseholes though.


  • #20
    Ralf and Florian
    Site Banned Posts: 1,489 ✭✭✭Ralf and Florian


    Whats an asshat?


  • #21
    dont bother
    Closed Accounts Posts: 542 ✭✭✭dont bother


    ThisRegard wrote: »
    Seems like someone needs a nicotine hit.

    I dont smoke


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  • #22
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


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  • #23
    ThisRegard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,833 ✭✭✭✭ThisRegard


    dont bother wrote: »
    I dont smoke

    I didn't say you did.


  • #24
    dont bother
    Closed Accounts Posts: 542 ✭✭✭dont bother


    ThisRegard wrote: »
    I didn't say you did.

    obtuse.

    well you implied i needed a nicotine hit.

    goon


  • #25
    HalloweenJack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,281 ✭✭✭HalloweenJack


    I get people not liking smoking and not wanting to be disturbed by the smoke... but apart from that who cares if they smoke? It's their business.


  • #26
    Fanny Wank
    Registered Users Posts: 1,288 ✭✭✭Fanny Wank


    Asshat???


  • #27
    ThisRegard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,833 ✭✭✭✭ThisRegard


    dont bother wrote: »
    obtuse.

    well you implied i needed a nicotine hit.

    goon

    I did, might relax you a bit. You seem highly strung with your aggression and name calling. Either that or heroin.


  • #28
    Sparks43
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,056 ✭✭✭Sparks43


    Do not discriminate against me just because of the colour of my lungs.


  • #29
    Lollipops23
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,420 ✭✭✭Lollipops23


    I have to agree about the lack of consideration from many smokers out in public. Particularly at bus stops when you're queued up and have no option but to stay put. Face full of smoke.


  • #30
    Pac1Man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,394 ✭✭✭Pac1Man


    Just when I thought we had hats for everything that needed a hat...

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  • #31
    Kimbot
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 18,751 Mod ✭✭✭✭Kimbot


    Feck sake, they are outside where they are allowed to smoke. Stop moaning about it and if you dont like it then go inside where they cant be anywhere near you.


  • #32
    marcbrophy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,549 ✭✭✭marcbrophy


    Boom_Bap wrote: »
    I bet they looked cool though :pac:


    But seriously, people smoking around me is not a bother. It wasn't too long ago where the smoking ban didn't exist and we freely went into places with people smoking freely.

    You'd think so, but it was brought in 13.5 years ago :D

    At this stage, the smoking ban is an unruly teenager, about to try their first smoke! :eek:


  • #33
    trixiebust
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,111 ✭✭✭trixiebust


    Pelvis wrote:
    Like, seriously, are smokers just totally oblivious to just how disgusting the habit is? It doesn't occur to someone that perhaps the person they've decided to stand next to, who is having their lunch, doesn't want to breath in their second hand smoke?

    Like, seriously, let me have my fag in peace;)


  • #34
    Boom_Bap
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,734 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    marcbrophy wrote: »
    You'd think so, but it was brought in 13.5 years ago :D

    That's not too long ago :)


  • #35
    c68zapdsm5i1ru
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,709 ✭✭✭c68zapdsm5i1ru


    HalloweenJack wrote: »
    I get people not liking smoking and not wanting to be disturbed by the smoke... but apart from that who cares if they smoke? It's their business.

    I don't think most people do care if they smoke. But it's only their business if they smoke where they're not impacting on anyone else.

    I was staying in a hotel recently where the tables outside the front door were clearly marked as 'No Smoking'. Everytime I walked past at least one moron was sitting there puffing away. :mad:


  • #36
    RoisinClare6
    Closed Accounts Posts: 249 ✭✭RoisinClare6


    Hakuna your Tata's


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  • #37
    PARlance
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,430 ✭✭✭✭PARlance


    suicide_circus wrote: »
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    Smokers get all the women?


  • #38
    McCrack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,985 ✭✭✭McCrack


    Smoking is rotten but I understand the power of nicotine addiction.

    People smoking in public should be considerate to others around them and not blow or have their smoke hitting others and if that means not lighting up then so be it..but in reality I guess that's not going to happen.


  • #39
    Pelvis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,758 ✭✭✭Pelvis


    Allinall wrote: »
    Not nearly as big an asshat as people that start a sentence with "like".
    Indeed.


  • #40
    pappyodaniel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,779 ✭✭✭pappyodaniel


    Omackeral wrote: »
    I dunno about any of that but anytime I see a 10 lighting up a smoke she instantly becomes a 2. It's the biggest turn off for me.

    So how often do you pull a "10"?


  • #41
    c68zapdsm5i1ru
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,709 ✭✭✭c68zapdsm5i1ru


    jonnycivic wrote: »
    Feck sake, they are outside where they are allowed to smoke. Stop moaning about it and if you dont like it then go inside where they cant be anywhere near you.

    There's lots of things you're 'allowed' to do out of doors; doesn't necessarily mean they're not inconsiderate, rude or selfish.


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  • #42
    dont bother
    Closed Accounts Posts: 542 ✭✭✭dont bother


    ThisRegard wrote: »
    I did, might relax you a bit. You seem highly strung with your aggression and name calling. Either that or heroin.

    what is this sh!t? ???
    why wouldnt i be aggressive with some cross eyed drooling troll trying to make me aggressive suggesting im on heroin? anyway, this level of your so-called "aggression" isnt out of the norm for me, i'm quite an aggressive person. are you ashamed of your own aggression? it's human nature. stop being an idiot, or at least coming across as one.

    i'll smoke YOU.


  • #43
    Kimbot
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 18,751 Mod ✭✭✭✭Kimbot


    Jaziel Fat Soup wrote: »
    There's lots of things you're 'allowed' to do out of doors; doesn't necessarily mean they're not inconsiderate, rude or selfish.

    Its not a big issue in fairness, people smoking outside is normal so if you dont want to be around it then go indoors where you know you wont be affected by it.


  • #44
    Pelvis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,758 ✭✭✭Pelvis


    jonnycivic wrote: »
    Its not a big issue in fairness, people smoking outside is normal so if you dont want to be around it then go indoors where you know you wont be affected by it.
    But then how do I get to work?


  • #45
    c68zapdsm5i1ru
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,709 ✭✭✭c68zapdsm5i1ru


    jonnycivic wrote: »
    Its not a big issue in fairness, people smoking outside is normal so if you dont want to be around it then go indoors where you know you wont be affected by it.

    How can you go indoors if you're standing in a bus queue or waiting to use the ATM machine or somesuch.

    Also, in the OPs case, there were plenty of tables away from where he was already sitting, so why couldn't the smokers use a bit of cop on and consideration instead of lighting up right beside him?


  • #46
    pappyodaniel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,779 ✭✭✭pappyodaniel


    You do realise that not so very long ago, people smoked in pubs, restaurants, trains, planes, elevators, the cinema, hospitals etc. We have come a long way in fairness so a little 2nd hand smoke is no big deal.
    Bunch of wimps.


  • #47
    c68zapdsm5i1ru
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,709 ✭✭✭c68zapdsm5i1ru


    pappyodaniel wrote: »
    You do realise that not so very long ago, people smoked in pubs, restaurants, trains, planes, elevators, the cinema, hospitals etc. We have come a long way in fairness so a little 2nd hand smoke is no big deal.
    Bunch of wimps.

    Mightn't be a big deal to you. But it is to us 'wimps'.


  • #48
    WinnyThePoo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,417 ✭✭✭WinnyThePoo


    Pelvis wrote: »
    But then how do I get to work?

    How do you find the time to work?


  • #49
    Guy:Incognito
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,247 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    HalloweenJack wrote: »
    I get people not liking smoking and not wanting to be disturbed by the smoke... but apart from that who cares if they smoke? It's their business.

    No one as long as it's not blown in their face. People can kill themselves all they like asfar as I'm concerned, as long as it doesn't impact me.


  • #50
    Obvious Otter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 132 ✭✭Obvious Otter


    Omackeral wrote: »
    I dunno about any of that but anytime I see a 10 lighting up a smoke she instantly becomes a 2. It's the biggest turn off for me.

    I'd say they're devasted about what you think of them


  • #51
    chrissb8
    Registered Users Posts: 1,190 ✭✭✭chrissb8


    dont bother wrote: »
    jaysus OP you obviously havent much to worry about.
    you sound like a SJW with that type of OTT reaction to a bit of smoke coming your way OUTDOORS.

    sure some people dont like hearing the horrible sound of some yoke eating up a big mayonaissey sandwich in their faces either. why would anyone ever sit outside a LONDIS to eat lunch - it's hardly the type of place you can expect a "high caliber" of clientele now is it?

    do you regularly go around looking for trouble, or just with smokers?

    :rolleyes:

    I don't think it's much to ask to not smell like s**t as a result of a smoker near you in a spaced area. At least my sambo is flinging all over the smoker is it?


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