"Do you have a spare somke?"

hatrickpatrick · 11-11-2014 05:10PM

If asked by a hot girl, "Don't smoke myself, how about a shift instead?"
Obviously done far more stylishly, but has quite an amazing success rate

MadDog76 · 11-11-2014 05:13PM

ElvisChrist6 wrote: »

Some people can't every time though. But even if that doesn't matter, what's the harm in asking honestly? If you don't want to help, that's fine, but it's not a big deal being asked. I don't know many who wouldn't give one up, because they knwo the feeling of not being able to afford their own until the next day or something and craving one, but even the ones that don't aren't bitter about it.

Gives us a bite of ya burger then!!!!

the_syco · 11-11-2014 05:13PM

When I used to smoke, I'd often just say "sorry, I don't smoke"... whilst smoking. That or say "yes", and keep walking. Usually tell the pyjama brigade to "f**k off", though!

Conall Cernach · 11-11-2014 05:24PM

I wonder how it became acceptable to try to bum a cigarette of someone. You wouldn't get complete strangers coming up to you say "Do you have a spare Mars bar" or anything else.

Useful.Idiot · 11-11-2014 05:36PM

It's because of the whole social aspect attached to smoking and smokers. Handing out fags to others is just something that has become a part of it. I for one, whenever I smoke, find a certain joy in giving rollies to friends or even sometimes strangers at nightclubs or smoking rooms (could end up making a new best friend)...maybe not so much knacks on the street as they don't seem to appreciate the gesture as much.

Ken Shamrock · 11-11-2014 05:43PM

Here mister do ya have a smoke?

Yeah I've loads.../

DarkyHughes · 11-11-2014 05:44PM

I look like a badass when I smoke so people are to afraid to ask me.

Birneybau · 11-11-2014 05:47PM

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

If asked by a hot girl, "Don't smoke myself, how about a shift instead?"
Obviously done far more stylishly, but has quite an amazing success rate

I remember teenage discos too.

Padkir · 11-11-2014 05:53PM

MadDog76 wrote: »

he takes the 2 euros every time and hands over the smoke, he actually sold the full box one night and made 43 euros!!

???

B.A._Baracus · 11-11-2014 06:08PM

The most annoying 'tappers' are the ones who see you come out of a shop with smokes in hand, and as you are putting them away you get a big "wouldnt have a spare smoke bud?"

I simply say "nope" with a rude-ish tone. Like when someone generally taps me for a smoke I say "nah sorry man" (shouldnt say sorry but I am being polite) But I hate that 'put you on the spot' crap. They saw you put them in your pocket so they're trying to guilt you into giving one. It deserves a rude response everytime.

Warper · 11-11-2014 06:09PM

I would give someone a cig a lot more easily than i would give someone 50c. Probably the fact i am a smoker myself there seems a difference in perspective to the addiction thing. I often give someone a cig but practically never give someone 50c

masculinist · 11-11-2014 06:23PM

Random dudes who think they can just turn up whine and disappear with cig in hand have another thing going. Women do be at it too. Batting the eyelashes to acquire a cigarette. I have seen them take a cig and not even pause to say thankyou. Once the cig has been acquired the conversation is ended mid sentence. I dont tolerate that sort of nonsense at all. If I go out its for some good banter. If I am having the craic I'm not that possessive over my cigs. Since I rarely smoke anyway I even subconsciously feel like every cig I give away is good for my health ;-)

Generic Dreadhead · 11-11-2014 06:25PM

I only have Menthols usually is a good one

RoboRat · 11-11-2014 06:25PM

I'm a social smoker and enjoy one on the rare occasions that I head out for drinks but I always buy a pack and I am happy to give some away as I won't smoke them all anyhow! Usually find a homeless person and offer what I have left to them rather than taking them home.

Tail Docker · 11-11-2014 06:56PM

Mr.S wrote: »

I smoke menthol and love when people don't want them!

I smoke silk cut silver, has the same effect "Ah Jasus, they're not proper smokes..." Right, grand... saves sharing smokes, a lot. I like em, you don't? Pity that...

Iwasfrozen · 11-11-2014 07:01PM

Stop smoking you idiots, problem => solved.

Lapin · 11-11-2014 08:06PM

MadDog76 wrote: »

Nope ......... if you're a smoker (and I assume you are?) and you have ever had a night out (which I assume you have?) then you must have come across the "I'll buy one off you brigade"???

I have gone from over 20 a day to 0 a day in the last month and intend to keep it that way!
But in over 25 years as a B&H smoker I have had many many nights out both here and abroad and will continue to do so.

I have often had people offering to buy a cigarette from me (not only on nights out, but in general, in airports, at matches etc), but I have never been offered €2 for one let alone a fiver. I always gave a cigarette to the first person asking me for one on any given day but never took any money for it.

If I didn't have a cigarette to spare I always refused people politely. I know what its like to be down on my luck myself and know what its like to crave a highly addictive drug and it isn't a nice feeling.

I don't see the point in being a prick to someone when they are already on their downers, unlike some of the replies on this thread. If I have a cig to spare I'll give it to someone (if they ask nicely). If not, I tell them I don't without rubbing their nose in shít over it. Its only a fucking cigarette after all.

Some of the people replying here sound like the yuppie **** I used to see in London in the late 80's when I first started smoking and going out. I worked in the pub game and they were joy to behold. They spent their evenings showing off by outspending each other on expensive champagne they couldn't pronounce and burning £20 notes in front of homeless people outside the nightclub afterwards before getting into a taxi back to their over mortgaged shoebox in Docklands and arguing with him because the fare was 50p cheaper last weekend. It all came to a sudden end for them when the arse fell out of the property market and they were suddenly out of work and up to their snot in negative equity in their Thames side shoeboxes.

What comes around goes around.

MadDog76 wrote: »

It's a ploy so you know they are genuine and not just a scrounger but it's still annoying ......... so my mate takes full advantage of them!!

I still don't believe your yarn about this mate of yours selling cigs for a fiver though. Perhaps he is the one spinning you along and you're happy to believe it. Fair enough. But if there is any grain of truth in it, he sounds like a complete arsehole.

EDIT: Agreed RE the comment above regarding the pyjama brigade. They can fuck right off.
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Mountainsandh · 11-11-2014 08:15PM

Buona Fortuna wrote: »

Only opened this to see what a Somke was

I was going to settle for some kind of exotic drum or something, but there would have to be a story there.

Hitchens · 11-11-2014 08:39PM

RoboRat wrote: »

I'm a social smoker and enjoy one on the rare occasions that I head out for drinks but I always buy a pack and I am happy to give some away as I won't smoke them all anyhow! Usually find a homeless person and offer what I have left to them rather than taking them home.

wouldn't it be kinder to take them home though?.............................just for a couple of nights anyway?

DEFTLEFTHAND · 11-11-2014 08:54PM

There you go son, enjoy that now.

hatrickpatrick · 11-11-2014 09:38PM

Birneybau wrote: »

I remember teenage discos too.

Works just as well in almost any nightclub on the Harcourt / Camden Street circuit

MadDog76 · 12-11-2014 12:57AM

Lapin wrote: »

I have gone from over 20 a day to 0 a day in the last month and intend to keep it that way!
But in over 25 years as a B&H smoker I have had many many nights out both here and abroad and will continue to do so.

I have often had people offering to buy a cigarette from me (not only on nights out, but in general, in airports, at matches etc), but I have never been offered €2 for one let alone a fiver. I always gave a cigarette to the first person asking me for one on any given day but never took any money for it.

If I didn't have a cigarette to spare I always refused people politely. I know what its like to be down on my luck myself and know what its like to crave a highly addictive drug and it isn't a nice feeling.

I don't see the point in being a prick to someone when they are already on their downers, unlike some of the replies on this thread. If I have a cig to spare I'll give it to someone (if they ask nicely). If not, I tell them I don't without rubbing their nose in shít over it. Its only a fucking cigarette after all.

Some of the people replying here sound like the yuppie **** I used to see in London in the late 80's when I first started smoking and going out. I worked in the pub game and they were joy to behold. They spent their evenings showing off by outspending each other on expensive champagne they couldn't pronounce and burning £20 notes in front of homeless people outside the nightclub afterwards before getting into a taxi back to their over mortgaged shoebox in Docklands and arguing with him because the fare was 50p cheaper last weekend. It all came to a sudden end for them when the arse fell out of the property market and they were suddenly out of work and up to their snot in negative equity in their Thames side shoeboxes.

What comes around goes around.

I still don't believe your yarn about this mate of yours selling cigs for a fiver though. Perhaps he is the one spinning you along and you're happy to believe it. Fair enough. But if there is any grain of truth in it, he sounds like a complete arsehole.

EDIT: Agreed RE the comment above regarding the pyjama brigade. They can fuck right off.
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WOW!!! Somebody has a chip on their shoulder!!!

Whether you believe me or not is irrelevant to me ......... but it does happen, it happens to me all the time on nights out, I get offered ridiculous money for a cigarette and it's not because they're "down on their luck", it's because they're f**king rat-arsed!!

PS This thread is not about how down on your luck you were back in the day and how much you resented people around you who had money .......... bitter much??:rolleyes:

Pretzill · 12-11-2014 01:16AM

Often been asked and will always give a cigarette away as long as I have enough left. More recently I have been asked on more than one occasion "Can I borrow a cigarette?" to which I reply "No you can keep it."

I was in London last year and on one day I reckon I gave away half a packet to all kinds of people day & night - It's an expensive habit alright! I think I feel if someone is desperate enough to ask for one they really need it, it's a smokers empathy but at a tenner a pack now - I'm not as generous.

Doyler92 · 12-11-2014 01:19AM

MadDog76 wrote: »

I get asked this question on a daily basis .......... I usually just reply "no" while holding eye-contact the whole time ........... I find not using a flimsy made-up excuse or looking away avoids any smart-arse or abusive responses.

A friend of mine usually says "sorry, I've only got 16 left" followed by the askee saying "ok, no worries ......" then a pause and a look of confusion as they slowly walk away. Cracks me up every time!!

My sister-in-law always says "I don't buy spare cigarettes" ...... end of discussion.

Was with my brother one day when a young lad said to him "Ya don't have a spare smoke do ya?" to which my brother replied immediately "that's right!"

Another friend of mine actually brings a spare box out with him on nights out for those drunken fools who offer "I'll give ya 2 euros for a smoke?" ......... he takes the 2 euros every time and hands over the smoke, he actually sold the full box one night and made 43 euros!!

Anyway what's your usual response/feeling when asked this question?

Was there 21.5 smokes in the box?

12-11-2014 01:51AM

Always get asked, don't care.. They don't have mad taxes everywhere

BOHtox · 12-11-2014 01:57AM

Doyler92 wrote: »

Was there 21.5 smokes in the box?

Some cigarette boxes have more than 20. 23 Silk cut purple. 25 JP blue, 29 Benson etc. I have no idea where consumers hear of new cigarettes being released though.

MadDog76 · 12-11-2014 02:24AM

Doyler92 wrote: »

Was there 21.5 smokes in the box?

Nope ......... why do you ask?

osarusan · 12-11-2014 02:45AM

What I want to say: "Spare? You mean spare, like cigarettes that I don't need and would just throw away? That kind of spare? You f**king kidding me?"

What I say: "Sorry, no."

Lapin · 12-11-2014 02:55AM

MadDog76 wrote: »

WOW!!! Somebody has a chip on their shoulder!!!

Not true.

MadDog76 wrote: »

bitter much??:rolleyes:

Not a bit.

I think you're reading too much into stuff that isn't there at all.
Nowhere in my post did I suggest I have a chip on my shoulder or am bitter.

All I did was give a response, just like all the others did.

MadDog76 · 12-11-2014 03:01AM

Lapin wrote: »

Not true.

Not a bit.

I think you're reading too much into stuff that isn't there at all.
Nowhere in my post did I suggest I have a chip on my shoulder or am bitter.

All I did was give a response, just like all the others did.

"Some of the people replying here sound like the yuppie **** I used to see in London in the late 80's when I first started smoking and going out. I worked in the pub game and they were joy to behold. They spent their evenings showing off by outspending each other on expensive champagne they couldn't pronounce and burning £20 notes in front of homeless people outside the nightclub afterwards before getting into a taxi back to their over mortgaged shoebox in Docklands and arguing with him because the fare was 50p cheaper last weekend. It all came to a sudden end for them when the arse fell out of the property market and they were suddenly out of work and up to their snot in negative equity in their Thames side shoeboxes.

What comes around goes around."

This part of your post/rant in particular sounded a little angry and bitter .......... and also more about "yuppie ****" you encountered in London showing off with their expensive apartments and rubbing it into your face than it did about the subject of this thread.

That's where I got the impression that you had a chip on your shoulder .....

"Do you have a spare somke?"

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