Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie
Hi there,
There is an issue with role permissions that is being worked on at the moment.
If you are having trouble with access or permissions on regional forums please post here to get access: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058365403/you-do-not-have-permission-for-that#latest

Are smokers genetically predisposed to being an asshat?

24

Comments

  • Closed Accounts Posts: 232 ✭✭Benjamin Buttons


    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.

    While you yourself remain a constant 10 of course.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,361 ✭✭✭✭One eyed Jack


    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


    OP you do have a point, that person was incredibly inconsiderate of others, but there's no correlation between people who are assholes, and people who smoke. See below for an example of same -

    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.


    I don't need either an excuse, nor your pity nor sympathy. I have private health insurance, which also drains money from my bank account and will also be guaranteed to go up after the next budget.


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


    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.

    I don't want to breath in the smoke of a moron who has chosen a slow death


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 232 ✭✭Benjamin Buttons


    I don't want to breath in the smoke of a moron who has chosen a slow death
    .

    Oh to be able to choose and know how we're going to die. Lucky you!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,128 ✭✭✭✭Oranage2


    People just throwing the butt on the ground and stamping it out, completely filthy.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,555 ✭✭✭Roger Hassenforder


    .

    Oh to be able to choose and know how we're going to die. Lucky you!

    They're certainly willingly increasing the odds of an early slow painful death.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,886 ✭✭✭✭Roger_007


    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.

    You will also get a face full of noxious smoke and fumes from every bus that pulls up..........in my experience!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 232 ✭✭Benjamin Buttons


    They're certainly willingly increasing the odds of an early slow painful death.

    Can't gainsay that, particularly when your post lacks the rancour, spite and acrimony of the one I responded to.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,413 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    I smoke maybe one or two rollies a
    month.

    Tonight I think ill have one .


  • Advertisement
  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,407 ✭✭✭✭Collie D


    I smoke maybe one or two rollies a
    month.

    Tonight I think ill have one .


    Me too, just to annoy people...might do it while cycling


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,188 ✭✭✭Malayalam


    I smoke maybe one or two rollies a
    month.

    Tonight I think ill have one .

    Me too. I have the occasional contemplative rollie, looking out over the fields or gazing into an outside fire. But getting a face full of someone elses breathed out fag smoke in public is pretty yuck, to be fair. Still, nothing compared to the days when the pretty stewardess would smile back at us in non-smoking, and draw across the tiny blue curtains over the head rests on the plane, so that we could be protected from the smoke and the smoking passengers could light up in peace. Well, except for when the No Smoking sign was on, then Heaven forbid! :rolleyes:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,555 ✭✭✭Roger Hassenforder


    Can't gainsay that, particularly when your post lacks the rancour, spite and acrimony of the one I responded to.

    damit , I need to up my game!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,585 ✭✭✭jca


    So how often do you pull a "10"?

    5 digits+5 digits =10, often enough I'd say.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,888 ✭✭✭Atoms for Peace


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

    Like bhoy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,235 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    What is an SJW?


  • Advertisement
  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,409 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    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.

    Bet it's not as big a turnoff as when a guy ranks women out of ten.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,085 ✭✭✭Rubberchikken


    Disgusting habit.
    Can't and won't share space with a smoker. Don't care how offended they may be. Though something tells me their hide is too thick to get a hint.


    Outside tables seem to be for people who want to smoke and eat so I'd never sit outside. Ban all smoking I say🙂


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 436 ✭✭eleventh


    Some smoke is unavoidable I suppose, although I don't like it and will move away if I can, it's a fact of city life.

    What should be avoidable though is the footpaths being littered with butts. It's a real sign of an idiot, anyone who throws rubbish on the ground.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,313 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


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

    What the fcuk is an asshat?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,162 ✭✭✭MadDog76


    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'm sure Miss 10 will get over you not wanting her anymore ............ :rolleyes:


  • Advertisement
  • Closed Accounts Posts: 429 ✭✭JimmyMcGill


    What is an SJW?


    A Sarah Jessica ****. Looking at a horse whilst ****.


    I could be wrong mind.


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,544 ✭✭✭Samaris


    I think the shortest answer to your question is just plain "No."


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 346 ✭✭reason vs religion


    Glad someone else thinks it. Really pïsses me off that smokers have no problem imposing the unpleasant effects of their activity on others.

    Only because of convention is it still socially acceptable. I thought of doing a social experiment whereby I'd light a stick, or something that smokes, standing beside someone who had just finished their cigarette. Reckon they'd be pretty annoyed, even though I would view the two as equivalent.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,162 ✭✭✭MadDog76


    Glad someone else thinks it. Really pïsses me off that smokers have no problem imposing the unpleasant effects of their activity on others.

    Only because of convention is it still socially acceptable. I thought of doing a social experiment whereby I'd light a stick, or something that smokes, standing beside someone who had just finished their cigarette. Reckon they'd be pretty annoyed, even though I would view the two as equivalent.

    If somebody stood next to me with a lit stick I wouldn't be annoyed ........ I'd be confused ........ and if it bothered me in any way I'd just go somewhere else .......... INSIDE, for example. :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,166 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    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
    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.
    I don't want to breath in the smoke of a moron who has chosen a slow death
    Disgusting habit.
    Can't and won't share space with a smoker. Don't care how offended they may be. Though something tells me their hide is too thick to get a hint.


    Outside tables seem to be for people who want to smoke and eat so I'd never sit outside. Ban all smoking I say🙂
    Glad someone else thinks it. Really pes me off that smokers have no problem imposing the unpleasant effects of their activity on others.

    Only because of convention is it still socially acceptable. I thought of doing a social experiment whereby I'd light a stick, or something that smokes, standing beside someone who had just finished their cigarette. Reckon they'd be pretty annoyed, even though I would view the two as equivalent.

    I'm a smoker.

    I'm also a blood platelets donor, I donate every 4 weeks. God forbid you or your family ever need a transfusion, make sure you tell the hospital how much you hate smokers, tell them that you don't want a transfusion from a smoker, tell them how you hate the smell and that smokers are scum etc. :D

    I bet you won't.


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


    Fr_Dougal wrote: »
    I bet you won't.

    Why would I? You're making no sense Dougal.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,162 ✭✭✭MadDog76


    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

    AssHat (North American Slang)

    "An idiot, moron or stupid person ......... someone with their head up their own ass."

    Ironic that you think all smokers are "asshats"! :D

    Americans don't get irony though ..........


  • Registered Users Posts: 528 ✭✭✭marcus001


    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 it knocks about 2-3 points off at most. Whenever I see a girl whose kind of middling to begin with and is a smoker I just think, "you're not exactly selling yourself here love".


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


    So is asshat essentially an arsehole (for those of us that speak in normal, non-Americanised English)?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,162 ✭✭✭MadDog76


    marcus001 wrote: »
    I'd say it knocks about 2-3 points off at most. Whenever I see a girl whose kind of middling to begin with and is a smoker I just think, "you're not exactly selling yourself here love".

    I feel so sorry for all these stunning girls who are missing out on the likes of yourself! :D


  • Advertisement
  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,162 ✭✭✭MadDog76


    Fanny **** wrote: »
    So is asshat essentially an arsehole (for those of us that speak in normal, non-Americanised English)?

    No ........ "asshat", in Irish, is an eejit.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 232 ✭✭Benjamin Buttons


    Fanny **** wrote: »
    So is asshat essentially an arsehole (for those of us that speak in normal, non-Americanised English)?

    Otherwise your username would mean something slightly different.


  • Registered Users Posts: 861 ✭✭✭jbt123


    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.

    As I sit here drawing on a nice Marlboro light....I can't help but wish,that you are a parent and your kids/grandkids end up smoking.

    Just a thought.....


  • Registered Users Posts: 528 ✭✭✭marcus001


    MadDog76 wrote: »
    I feel so sorry for all these stunning girls who are missing out on the likes of yourself! :D

    All the nonsmokers are missing out on me as well :pac:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 346 ✭✭reason vs religion


    Fr_Dougal wrote: »
    I'm a smoker.

    I'm also a blood platelets donor, I donate every 4 weeks. God forbid you or your family ever need a transfusion, make sure you tell the hospital how much you hate smokers, tell them that you don't want a transfusion from a smoker, tell them how you hate the smell and that smokers are scum etc. :D

    I bet you won't.

    What an appallingly bad argument.

    MadDog76 wrote: »
    If somebody stood next to me with a lit stick I wouldn't be annoyed ........ I'd be confused ........ and if it bothered me in any way I'd just go somewhere else .......... INSIDE, for example. :)

    First, I think it would bother you, as you meekly concede with the "and if it did..." addendum. And, because of that, I don't think you would happily move inside if you were to encounter it frequently, as non-smokers do.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,313 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    Fanny **** wrote: »
    So is asshat essentially an arsehole (for those of us that speak in normal, non-Americanised English)?
    Asshole is an American slang word ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,643 ✭✭✭✭Donald Trump


    Jaysus. Plenty of stupid arguments on here.

    Someone was called a social justice warrior for telling a story about someone smoking in their vicinity......obviously people see the term sjw bandied about and don't know what it means and think it's cool or smart to use it in any situation.

    Some fella says a stunning girl becomes unattractive, or less attractive, if they are smoking and people make snide remarks about him not being able to pull her.
    I don't think you need to be able to pull a certain girl to be able to say she's otherwise very physically attractive to you but something about her makes her less so


  • Registered Users Posts: 528 ✭✭✭marcus001


    Jaysus. Plenty of stupid arguments on here.

    Someone was called a social justice warrior for telling a story about someone smoking in their vicinity......obviously people see the term sjw bandied about and don't know what it means and think it's cool or smart to use it in any situation.

    Some fella says a stunning girl becomes unattractive, or less attractive, if they are smoking and people make snide remarks about him not being able to pull her.
    I don't think you need to be able to pull a certain girl to be able to say she's otherwise very physically attractive to you but something about her makes her less so

    I didn't think the remark was snide. At least I hope it wasn't. I took it as banter


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 232 ✭✭Benjamin Buttons


    Sam Kade wrote: »
    Asshole is an American slang word ;)

    But he didn't say 'asshole' he said 'arsehole'.....taking the level of debate up a couple of notches of course.


  • Advertisement
  • Closed Accounts Posts: 386 ✭✭Spider Web


    I have a cigarette when drinking, so I smoke weekly (and I buy my own! I leave them in my bag for the week - I just don't enjoy them without a few drinks first) and I do agree there is an acceptance of just dropping cigarette butts on the ground, but any other littering is a no-no. Also, don't blow smoke in people's faces or light up right next to a person who is not smoking. Not many people do it, to be fair, but it's obnoxious!

    Companies should limit fag breaks too - going out for five minutes every hour is too much.

    But no, not all smokers are "asshats".


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,543 ✭✭✭con___manx1


    Fr_Dougal wrote: »
    I'm a smoker.

    I'm also a blood platelets donor, I donate every 4 weeks. God forbid you or your family ever need a transfusion, make sure you tell the hospital how much you hate smokers, tell them that you don't want a transfusion from a smoker, tell them how you hate the smell and that smokers are scum etc. :D

    I bet you won't.

    I'm a smoker to and have given blood a good few times.my doctor smokes like a trooper ; )


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 436 ✭✭eleventh


    MadDog76 wrote: »
    If somebody stood next to me with a lit stick I wouldn't be annoyed ........ I'd be confused ........ and if it bothered me in any way I'd just go somewhere else .......... INSIDE, for example. :)
    Which you can't if - as someone mentioned earlier - you're in a queue for an ATM or waiting for a bus.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    I dont have time to read through 93 replies, too much of a drag. How many peer reviewed studies were discussed?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,313 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    But he didn't say 'asshole' he said 'arsehole'.....taking the level of debate up a couple of notches of course.

    So that makes it Irish :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,166 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    What an appallingly bad argument.




    First, I think it would bother you, as you meekly concede with the "and if it did..." addendum. And, because of that, I don't think you would happily move inside if you were to encounter it frequently, as non-smokers do.

    No. You're wrong.


  • Advertisement
  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,162 ✭✭✭MadDog76


    First, I think it would bother you, as you meekly concede with the "and if it did..." addendum. And, because of that, I don't think you would happily move inside if you were to encounter it frequently, as non-smokers do.

    If you're going around with lit sticks thinking it's going to upset smokers you're in for a shock ......... we'd probably just ask you if we can light up off your big cute matchstick!!! :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,162 ✭✭✭MadDog76


    eleventh wrote: »
    Which you can't if - as someone mentioned earlier - you're in a queue for an ATM or waiting for a bus.

    Boohoo .......... you'll survive. :cool:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,344 ✭✭✭Heckler


    I'm a smoker.

    I don't smoke around my nieces and nephews. I don't light up at bus stops unless I'm standing well away from others. When I started giving lifts to work to colleagues I asked them if it was ok for me to smoke in the car. In fairness, if they said no it would be the last lift they got but Hey I asked.

    I will smoke walking down the street, sitting at any cafe, pub, restaurant etc that has either a designated smoking area or just a general outdoor area.

    I don't throw butts on the ground.



    From about :10 secs in

    Enjoy. I'm out for a fag.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,261 ✭✭✭Baron Kurtz


    Pac1Man wrote: »
    Just when I thought we had hats for everything that needed a hat...

    15545183-Handsome-Donkey-in-a-hat-of-the-cowboy-poses-in-park-Stock-Photo.jpg

    He looks like he's re-living a humorous moment in his life just there. Or looks like he knows something the rest of us aren't prescient enough to grasp or realise.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,620 ✭✭✭✭dr.fuzzenstein


    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.

    I quit 4 years ago and reading obnoxious sh*te like this makes me want to start again so I don't turn into such a horrible, bitter person.
    As for money, I am proud of the fact that I bought all my tobacco from Aldi in Germany. 40g for €3.40 at the time. Packet would do me a week, x52 = €176.80 pet annum.
    So overall a very reasonably priced affair. And safer than those Chinese fags 3/4 of Irish smokers are smoking that will put them in hospital far quicker than the proper fags and will cost the state a sh*tload of money.
    Why?
    Because of the bat excrement insane prices of a packet of cigarettes.
    Result?
    People will by illegal counterfeit cigarettes, brought in by criminal gangs. Government loses tax revenue. Government now has to spend millions combating criminal gangs that are extremely wealthy and heavily armed, so double loss. Meanwhile more people will end up needing hospital treatment due to illegal fags contaminated with god knows what.
    So triple loss.
    Stupidly expensive cigarettes will end up costing the Irish government billions. And that's without the legal option of taking the ferry to France and loading up with fags and booze (more losses due to idiotic high alcohol prices).
    The Irish government is practically machine gunning it's own feet.


  • Advertisement
Advertisement