(Normal, sane, rational thinking, assertive nonsmoking people may, but don't have to, disregard this post.)
Since the anti-tobacco bill has been passed a while ago and a few days ago it gained legal power I thought we'd have a little chat.
I'm glad that you're happy. Really. Now that you can go and enjoy the fresh air inside the watering hole of your choice. I can't imagine how such an assertive, self-confident, outspoken group as yourselves could have suffered so much in the past. Oh wait! I know! Your smoking friends, base knaves the lot of 'em, must've dragged you out of your homes to the pub, tied up and gagged you, then chain-smoked, exhaling every single puff in your face. And then they drugged and brainwashed you, or otherwise hoodwinked you into thinking that it was fun. That's why you didn't tell them something along the lines of "Hey, this week let's go to a no-smoking place." After all, you're their friend, so you comply and they're your friends, hence they comply. Wait, they don't? Hmm.. I suggest rethinking that "friendship" concept. Okay, enough with the irony. I know that the number of places with a license to sell alcohol and a smoking ban is scarce. But, since I've never had a problem with going outside, or away from the table (provided of course, that the nonsmokers were a majority or that the answer to the question "Would it bother you if..." was affirmative), even when we were in a smoking-allowed establishment, I get a little pissed with all the comments and opinions floating around on the interwebs along the lines of "Slay these fell beasts which spew pungent fumes out of their gaping maws into the faces of the innocent." (you know who you are) which put me in the same basket as people who simply can't behave and puff along on their cancer sticks in places where they're either not allowed to, or where good manners dictate not to. The truth lies, as with most cases, in the middle. Smoking cigarettes doesn't implicitly make me a dick-head and not smoking doesn't implicitly make you Mahatma-fucking-Gandhi. Not responding to situations which bother you when you're entitled to it on the other hand, well... that's another story.
Funny thing. In most (both rational and heated) debates concerning the ban I've read thus far, the olfactory argument is way more present than the health influence argument. Kind of weird that the fact, that the reek of booze and sweat can bother people just as much (try riding a night bus on Saturday) seems to elude the average nazi-nonsmoker. It's as if in the nazi-nonsmoker reality people don't perspire and ingested alcohol smells of roses and kittens while smokers magically lose their sense of smell and grow a third eyelid (the reptiles that they are!) Smoke gets in my eyes just as much as in yours and I have do the laundry just as you.
Despite being a smoker I support this new law, but there's one thing I'd support way more. Obligatory air conditioning in every pub, club, discotheque or other social gathering establishment, both smoking and nonsmoking. And one other - common fucking sense.
Oh, and if you still want to blame someone, blame Christopher Columbus. If he hadn't discovered America those pesky darn Indians Phillip Black-Raven and Morris White-Feather wouldn't have sold the concept of tobacco to us Europeans (I know, I'm oversimplifying;) Or you could blame the government for not banning a substance that has been proven cancerogenic and in large amounts lethal over fifty years ago.
Since the anti-tobacco bill has been passed a while ago and a few days ago it gained legal power I thought we'd have a little chat.
I'm glad that you're happy. Really. Now that you can go and enjoy the fresh air inside the watering hole of your choice. I can't imagine how such an assertive, self-confident, outspoken group as yourselves could have suffered so much in the past. Oh wait! I know! Your smoking friends, base knaves the lot of 'em, must've dragged you out of your homes to the pub, tied up and gagged you, then chain-smoked, exhaling every single puff in your face. And then they drugged and brainwashed you, or otherwise hoodwinked you into thinking that it was fun. That's why you didn't tell them something along the lines of "Hey, this week let's go to a no-smoking place." After all, you're their friend, so you comply and they're your friends, hence they comply. Wait, they don't? Hmm.. I suggest rethinking that "friendship" concept. Okay, enough with the irony. I know that the number of places with a license to sell alcohol and a smoking ban is scarce. But, since I've never had a problem with going outside, or away from the table (provided of course, that the nonsmokers were a majority or that the answer to the question "Would it bother you if..." was affirmative), even when we were in a smoking-allowed establishment, I get a little pissed with all the comments and opinions floating around on the interwebs along the lines of "Slay these fell beasts which spew pungent fumes out of their gaping maws into the faces of the innocent." (you know who you are) which put me in the same basket as people who simply can't behave and puff along on their cancer sticks in places where they're either not allowed to, or where good manners dictate not to. The truth lies, as with most cases, in the middle. Smoking cigarettes doesn't implicitly make me a dick-head and not smoking doesn't implicitly make you Mahatma-fucking-Gandhi. Not responding to situations which bother you when you're entitled to it on the other hand, well... that's another story.
Funny thing. In most (both rational and heated) debates concerning the ban I've read thus far, the olfactory argument is way more present than the health influence argument. Kind of weird that the fact, that the reek of booze and sweat can bother people just as much (try riding a night bus on Saturday) seems to elude the average nazi-nonsmoker. It's as if in the nazi-nonsmoker reality people don't perspire and ingested alcohol smells of roses and kittens while smokers magically lose their sense of smell and grow a third eyelid (the reptiles that they are!) Smoke gets in my eyes just as much as in yours and I have do the laundry just as you.
Despite being a smoker I support this new law, but there's one thing I'd support way more. Obligatory air conditioning in every pub, club, discotheque or other social gathering establishment, both smoking and nonsmoking. And one other - common fucking sense.
Oh, and if you still want to blame someone, blame Christopher Columbus. If he hadn't discovered America those pesky darn Indians Phillip Black-Raven and Morris White-Feather wouldn't have sold the concept of tobacco to us Europeans (I know, I'm oversimplifying;) Or you could blame the government for not banning a substance that has been proven cancerogenic and in large amounts lethal over fifty years ago.
"common fucking sense" - sposób w jaki rozłożyłam pauzy i akcent czytając to stwierdzenie sprawił, że wyrażenie nabrało dla mnie całkiem nowego znaczenia i 'rozświetliło' całą notkę XDDD.
ReplyDeleteOK, od dziś stanie się to moim ulubionym memem ;D. Jak by nie spojrzeć, tego właśnie ludzkości od zarania dziejów brakuje.
ReplyDeleteSwoją drogą, słyszałam już starsze panie opierdalające młodych ludzi z papierosami na ulicach. Następnym razem, jak taką rajcującą usłyszę, najpierw poproszę opierdalanego palacza, by mnie poczęstował papierosem (mimo, że nie palę od jakiegoś czasu, bo nie mam ochoty), a potem wyłożę jej, czym są owe miejsca publiczne według ustawy. Zastanawiam się nad zapytaniem, czy zdradza męża...
@Mo - krzywdę mi zrobiłaś XDDD
ReplyDelete@Jo - czasami mam wrażenie, że to jest jakiś szczególny podgatunek ludzi. Taki, który się przyczepi do tego, że sąsiad za ścianą nierówno oddycha, albo do tego, że nie ma się do czego przyczepić. Homo czepiens? ;)