Smoking Ban... What F€#kin Smoking Ban???

[InsertHandle] · 30-03-2005 01:52AM #1

*10 begin drunken rant*

Just back from the pub and a ikkle drunk. I'm a non-smoker and when i first heard the ban was coming in i was sure it wouldn't work ... then it came in and by gorra it wasn't half bad .. .i didn't stink after a night out and there was no loss of atmostphere in the pubs. I was out tonight .. not in Dublin but in a wee town called ardee(best know for it's mental home) 1 hr from dublin.

The craic was great, music and drink flowin', then about 12:25 this guy lit up ... within 20 SECONDS i counted 5 others having lit up too. ok, i work a night shift so i'm not out that often anymore but when i do go out, mostly in drogheda, the smoking ban is adheared to. As much as i hate athority i really like this smoking ban. What was worst was i was out with some cousins of mine from america. One of them had just been talking about how much of a big deal the smoking ban was, 1 yr on and all, then here we were sitting in a cloud of smoke in a pub.

ok this tread has most likely been posted 1000 times in the last year but what the feck good is a smoking ban ... that is being watched by the world as a kinda test case .. if it's all a fraud. I know i'm kinda ranting on here but does this happen often?? From what i can see it's ok in the larger towns/cities .. or is it?? i dunno

additional info: the doors were closed and the shutters were down at the time and we were still drinking, nobody(including myself) said anything about the smoking, but i'm a coward .. ok sobering up and this is one reason why ppl not going outside for a smoke ... still, is this the new norm, after closing time it's drinks and smokes on the quiet??

Damit the only thing Irelands ever shown any balls over and led the rest of the world in and we're pissin' all over it.

*20 end drunken rant*
*30 goto 10*

mukki · 30-03-2005 01:56AM

lol, you were breaking the law tooo

[InsertHandle] · 30-03-2005 01:59AM

mukki wrote:

lol, you were breaking the law tooo

point taken ... but my alcohol filled fun wasn't destroying the health of those around me:)

mad m · 30-03-2005 02:01AM

I love a drunken rant,rant away my son...

Makaveli · 30-03-2005 02:15AM

It was a lock in, so it's not like the pub was open for business. You were all breaking the law anyway.

Wolf · 30-03-2005 02:21AM

When the doors are shut its no longer a Pub as such. It become a place that people are gathering and drink as in like a house therefore smoking is kinda allowed.

Im a smoker and if I still lived in Dublin I probably would have quit. However, if I was in a lock in drinking and I wanted a smoke I would yes probably spark up. Although Id probably go to the jacks or a quiet place to do it.

I know smoking is a filty habit and I try my best not to disrupt others with it. I never smoke around people who are eating, kids, pergnat wemon or anything like that, but, for me a smoke and a drink go together like bread and butter so....

SoupyNorman · 30-03-2005 02:24AM

its one law for pubs in dublin and another for pubs in the country. i have extensive work experience in both types of pubs.

kinkstr · 30-03-2005 02:25AM

Your spelling is very good seen as your a tad drunk

as its been stated above you were breaking the law anyway, and if a landlord has lock-ins i cant see him/her being to worried about the smoking ban

fragile · 30-03-2005 02:25AM

I love it, selectively choosing which laws to obey and disregard :rolleyes:

mad m · 30-03-2005 02:27AM

Wolf wrote:

For me a smoke and a drink go together like bread and butter so....

I can imagine,when I have a cuppa I have to have something with it like bread and butter,makes me cough up my guts though and its a pain in mornings when i wake up looking for some bread&butter with my cuppa.

**

**non-smoker,just kidding btw Wolf.

SoupyNorman · 30-03-2005 02:28AM

I love it, selectively choosing which laws to obey and disregard

the travelling community are the experts in that regard........

Dizzyblabla · 30-03-2005 02:29AM

That happened to me when I was out in the back-arse-of-nowhere in Tipp or Kilkenny or somewhere like that... The minute 12.30 hit, the door was closed and ashtrays were put on all the tables! (being a smoker, and a little tipsy at the time I jumped up and hugged the barman like he was the best thing since the sliced pan!) - I think it's when the doors are closed and stuff they can... although I've never seen it in a pub in the city...

Wolf · 30-03-2005 02:30AM

mad m wrote:

I can imagine,when I have a cuppa I have to have something with it like bread and butter,makes me cough up my guts though and its a pain in mornings when i wake up looking for some bread&butter with my cuppa. **

**non-smoker,just kidding btw Wolf.

Hehe nah I hear ya but for me its like im abusing my body as it is so what hell

mad m · 30-03-2005 02:32AM

Dizzyblabla wrote:

I think it's when the doors are closed and stuff they can... although I've never seen it in a pub in the city...

Look you know and I know a lock in is illegal as well as putting ashtrays on tables after the doors have shut.I think its great that I can put on same sweaty clothes next day and couple more after that without any smoke smells from it....

mad m · 30-03-2005 02:35AM

Wolf wrote:

Hehe nah I hear ya but for me its like im abusing my body as it is so what hell

Well if it makes you happy.Had to put the little note on bottom as you never know if people take you up a bit too seriously.Sometimes type can be mis-understood.

glad you got the funny side.

[InsertHandle] · 30-03-2005 02:37AM

kinkstr wrote:

Your spelling is very good seen as your a tad drunk

It took me ages to get it right... it's worst when i'm sober:)

Wolf · 30-03-2005 02:38AM

Well tbh it doesn't make me happy. For a long time I was a happy smoker now I wish I didn't

However there a large list of other things I must give up first but ill not go into that now.

Yeah I get the funny side

[InsertHandle] · 30-03-2005 02:38AM

fragile wrote:

I love it, selectively choosing which laws to obey and disregard :rolleyes:

It's our God given right as citizens of a free country

Wolf · 30-03-2005 02:39AM

fragile wrote:

I love it, selectively choosing which laws to obey and disregard :rolleyes:

To be honest it one of the things I love about Ireland

[InsertHandle] · 30-03-2005 02:42AM

mad m wrote:

I think its great that I can put on same sweaty clothes next day and couple more after that without any smoke smells from it....

That's the best thing about the ban ... now it's not just my underwear i can wear for a week without changing

fragile · 30-03-2005 02:48AM

I remember about a month after the smoking-ban came in driving through a village in Galway on a week night at something like 2am, and there was people going in and out of pubs to have a smoke outside

Dizzyblabla · 30-03-2005 03:01AM

[InsertHandle] wrote:

That's the best thing about the ban ... now it's not just my underwear i can wear for a week without changing

Guys, that's just soo gross! please tell me after a night out on the beer you don't wear the same clothes again without washing them first? Like, with the smoking ban and all, can you not smell the B/O? never mind all the other body odours, but in all fairness, most guys STINK by the end of the night...

[InsertHandle] · 30-03-2005 03:55AM

Dizzyblabla wrote:

Guys, that's just soo gross! please tell me after a night out on the beer you don't wear the same clothes again without washing them first? Like, with the smoking ban and all, can you not smell the B/O? never mind all the other body odours, but in all fairness, most guys STINK by the end of the night...

not changing cloths out of ... errrm ... protest at ppl breaking smoking ban:rolleyes:

Dizzyblabla · 30-03-2005 04:47AM

[InsertHandle] wrote:

not changing cloths out of ... errrm ... protest at ppl breaking smoking ban:rolleyes:

Well... moreso the smell of body odours than the not changing of clothes...!

Kernel · 30-03-2005 04:58AM

When are they bringing in a smoking ban for skangers on buses/nightlinks?

Dizzyblabla · 30-03-2005 05:03AM

ahh, is that still going on?? I remember my days in Dublin, and although I was a smoker, it drove me nuts to see them all smoking, and once I was soo close to asking someone to put it out, like if the rest of us can wait, why can't they? That day I went to the shop to get lunch and there was the paper, with a photo of this guy who had been beaten to a pulp because he had asked someone to stop smoking on the bus... was I glad I hadn't said it that morning!

stagolee · 30-03-2005 07:42AM

Wolf wrote:

I never smoke around people who are eating, kids, pergnat wemon or anything like that, but, for me a smoke and a drink go together like bread and butter so....

i try not to smoke around people who are eating kids and pregnant women too, the dirty cannibal bastards can buy their own ciggaretes theyre not getting my passive smoke

Chalk · 30-03-2005 08:08AM

ive stopped going to my local since the smoking ban and im a [part time] non smoker,
perhaps they can figure out how to overcome the smell of sweat, piss and **** some other way tbh

last time i was there i felt sick from it

lilulila · 30-03-2005 11:48AM

Anyone at the NAS gig in the point last thurs? Reefers been lit up by the newtime

Stench Blossoms · 30-03-2005 12:29PM

I was in a night club in the back arse of limerick a few months ago and there was a few people smoking. I don't smoke and don't like being around people that do (i only have the use of one lung). So i went up to the bouncer and said it to him and his response was "so what, go run away and tell the minister"

LoneGunM@n · 30-03-2005 12:39PM

What really p!sses me off is the people who are heading out for a smoke & light up before they leave ... it's like they're saying "I know by law I have to go outside so that I can have a smoke, but this is my way of getting a bit of revenge you non-smoking fascists!"

Smoking Ban... What F€#kin Smoking Ban???

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