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What goes through your mind when you see a non-smoker hanging out with a smoker?

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  • 09-03-2019 5:56pm
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    Gossiping Women
    Registered Users Posts: 5 ✭


    What do you think of people who don't smoke hanging out with smokers? I think they look kind of silly. I distinctly remember when I first formed my opinion about this.

    In college there used to be these two guys who smoked. So every now and then you'd see them hanging around outside various building. But sometimes I'd see this other non-smoker I knew hanging around with them as well. I felt like he was letting himself down in a way... not because he was hanging around with them, but because he was hanging around with them when they were smoking. I could also never really view him as one of them. It was something to do with the fact that he would have to go wherever went in order to be with them. Now don't get me wrong, plenty of others would talk to these two smokers - it's just you wouldn't see them hanging out with them when they'd be doing the smoking.

    In these situations the smoker will typically be the one leaning against the wall, and the non-smoker standing opposite them having smoke blown in their face. If ever I have a smoker call me over as I pass by, I will only stop for them very briefly before continue walking. It's like as if they feel like dirt out in the rain and just want something to talk with.

    I made this mistake before. I was coming back from the car to go into the hotel, and ended up talking to someone amongst a bunch of smokers. I can only imagine what an idiot I looked like with my hands in my pockets. I can still see that idiot in front of me blow smoke.


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    wobatkicker23
    Registered Users Posts: 113 ✭✭wobatkicker23


    Agreed OP.

    Smokers and non-smokers should be segregated.

    Would also be in favor for pre rolled smokers and those who smoke rollies to be separated but one step at a time.


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    Force Carrier
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    'something to talk with' is right.


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    Ficheall
    Registered Users Posts: 9,021 ✭✭✭Ficheall


    Gossiping Women wrote: »
    I can only imagine what an idiot I looked like with my hands in my pockets.
    Presumably that wasn't your first ever clue?


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    Trigger Happy
    Registered Users Posts: 6,080 ✭✭✭Trigger Happy


    wobatkicker23 wrote: »
    Agreed OP.

    Smokers and non-smokers should be segregated.

    Would also be in favor for pre rolled smokers and those who smoke rollies to be separated but one step at a time.

    Cigar and pipe smokers, a dying breed, deserve a bit of segregation too.
    As do doobie smokers.


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    Rubberchikken
    Registered Users Posts: 5,083 ✭✭✭Rubberchikken


    as a non smoker, would never stand with smokers. ugh!
    having said that some people don't seem to mind secondhand smoke and smelling disgusting, but hey, each to his own.


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    Gossiping Women
    Registered Users Posts: 5 ✭Gossiping Women


    Force Carrier wrote: »
    'something to talk with' is right.
    Ah what do I care. Where are they now? Probably in hospital the miserable b*stards.


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    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    You seem to struggle with the interpretation of many aspects of these social conventions.


    Do you have a bossy cousin who takes over at funerals too.


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    suicide_circus
    Registered Users Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    some of the best people i know are smokers.

    some of the most tedious and joyless people i know are non smokers


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    Day Lewin
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    The smokers love to watch the company indoors, then escape to the "diary room" or Commentator's Box that is also known as the Smoking area or Great Outdoors.
    There they light up, offer each other cigs and matches, and compare notes on the goody-two-shoes community still indoors.
    It's like permission to be an outsider, to take a break from social duty.
    And of course, tell dirty jokes and make bitchy snide comments. No wonder your smoke-free friend loved to join them in that select clique. No wonder you're jealous!

    #No. 1: Smokers have more fun
    #No. 2: signed by a nostalgic ex-smoker


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    [Deleted User]
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    Well that's Asperger's in text form.


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    Larbre34
    Registered Users Posts: 23,842 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    Nothing goes through my mind about it.

    Children should be kept apart from people who smoke cos they know no better. Everyone else knows what they're in for with second hand smoke and its entirely their own business to be around it or not.

    Mind your own business.


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    Gossiping Women
    Registered Users Posts: 5 ✭Gossiping Women


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Well that's Asperger's in text form.
    Another armchair psychologist


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    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Gossiping Women wrote: »
    That dope smokes too. All bossy women seem to smoke. Interesting

    I thought it was you all right.


    Edit: Deleting the post doesn't kill the quoting of it. ;)


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    #15
    dartboardio
    Registered Users Posts: 2,436 ✭✭✭dartboardio


    I really couldnt care less whether or not people smoke and it wouldnt even pass my mind.

    The only people who should be staying away from smokers are children.. pregnant women and people who hate smoke!


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    mad m
    Registered Users Posts: 9,002 ✭✭✭mad m


    Couple lads I know their other half’s smoke. Don’t know how they live with it. Yuk.


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    endacl
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    Couldn’t agree more OP. I was once seen talking to somebody too. I still feel like such an idiot. Don’t know if I’ll ever get over it.


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    LessOutragePlz
    Registered Users Posts: 1,359 ✭✭✭LessOutragePlz


    As long as they're smoking joints I'm happy out.


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    #19
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users Posts: 12,417 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    Day Lewin wrote: »
    The smokers love to watch the company indoors, then escape to the "diary room" or Commentator's Box that is also known as the Smoking area or Great Outdoors.
    There they light up, offer each other cigs and matches, and compare notes on the goody-two-shoes community still indoors.
    It's like permission to be an outsider, to take a break from social duty.
    And of course, tell dirty jokes and make bitchy snide comments. No wonder your smoke-free friend loved to join them in that select clique. No wonder you're jealous!

    #No. 1: Smokers have more fun
    #No. 2: signed by a nostalgic ex-smoker

    You forgot sneaky spliffs too. :D:D:D

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



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    mdwexford
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    Usually “what will I have for dinner tomorrow” or “who would be harder to beat in a fight, one horse sized duck or 100 duck sized horses”


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    TheValeyard
    Registered Users Posts: 12,227 ✭✭✭✭TheValeyard


    Who the fcuk cares??????

    Fcuk Putin. Glory to Ukraine!



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    Tacklebox
    Registered Users Posts: 419 ✭✭Tacklebox


    Well there's plenty of smoking hot people hanging around with not so smoking hot people...

    I think to myself, oh my they're easy on the eye.....


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    #23
    Giveaway
    Closed Accounts Posts: 382 ✭✭Giveaway


    Passive smoker-what a cheapskate


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    [Deleted User]
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    Gossiping Women wrote: »
    What do you think of people who don't smoke hanging out with smokers? I think they look kind of silly. I distinctly remember when I first formed my opinion about this.

    In college there used to be these two guys who smoked. So every now and then you'd see them hanging around outside various building. But sometimes I'd see this other non-smoker I knew hanging around with them as well. I felt like he was letting himself down in a way... not because he was hanging around with them, but because he was hanging around with them when they were smoking. I could also never really view him as one of them. It was something to do with the fact that he would have to go wherever went in order to be with them. Now don't get me wrong, plenty of others would talk to these two smokers - it's just you wouldn't see them hanging out with them when they'd be doing the smoking.

    In these situations the smoker will typically be the one leaning against the wall, and the non-smoker standing opposite them having smoke blown in their face. If ever I have a smoker call me over as I pass by, I will only stop for them very briefly before continue walking. It's like as if they feel like dirt out in the rain and just want something to talk with.

    I made this mistake before. I was coming back from the car to go into the hotel, and ended up talking to someone amongst a bunch of smokers. I can only imagine what an idiot I looked like with my hands in my pockets. I can still see that idiot in front of me blow smoke.

    The only thing I'd find more degrading than you hanging out with smokers, is A FEMALE obviously belittling you by doing things like asking how you are during breakfast, asking you to fetch milk during a family occasion when supplies are low, or even going so far as to reassure you that you'd do well in a job related situation. Utter bitches, out to demean you left, right and centre.

    I only hope that your magnificence is properly recognized by FEMALES in the future, and that they learn to accept their place and not speak to you out of turn.

    One can but hope.


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