Smoking at work........

**adrianh** · 07-Mar-13, 09:16 AM

My question to you > Have you any idea why a raven is like a writing desk?

None whatsoever...but I'm sure you'll tell me.

**Newretailer** · 07-Mar-13, 10:55 AM

Originally Posted by tec0

I have a tendency to call a duck a duck.

Did I judge the duck? Nope just call it by its name....

Do you honestly think you have the right to prescribe to the whole world how they must feel, what they may say, who they must employ? Sounds like a god complex. See, I just named the duck a duck

**tec0** · 07-Mar-13, 03:15 PM

Originally Posted by Newretailer

Do you honestly think you have the right to prescribe to the whole world how they must feel, what they may say, who they must employ? Sounds like a god complex. See, I just named the duck a duck

Again I had something typed out and just deleted at the last minute. Standing up for someone is not a god complex not by any definition. But zeroing in on someone weakness with the aim to take their livelihood away now that is a god complex.

Your play on words may make you look clever and all that... or did it?

I don't know but I do know this... Eventually you and others will have your way and more will suffer. That is not a cool thought at all. I say this because you will move on to the next thing and the next thing and before we know it oppression...

**tec0** · 07-Mar-13, 03:19 PM

My question to you > Have you any idea why a raven is like a writing desk?

Originally Posted by adrianh

None whatsoever...but I'm sure you'll tell me.

No clue but its bugging me...

**tec0** · 07-Mar-13, 03:39 PM

Smoking vs. Over-the-counter-drugs vs. Alcohol

And there we go

**adrianh** · 07-Mar-13, 03:50 PM

I actually think that people who smoke should be castrated because that will stop them from passing the stinky gene on to their children. If the government implieents such a policy then the entire country will be rid of smokers in one generation. An alternative would be for the government to force all cigarette companies to put cyanide inside the cigarettes. That way the smoker will be able to smoke 10 packets in a lifetime and then die an absolutely horrible death.

tec0 - don't you think these are really good ideas to stop the spread of smoking?

I also think that children who are caught smoking should be banned from using their Blackberries for one year, and if they are caught smoking or using their Blackberries in that year their thumbs should be chopped off.

**tec0** · 07-Mar-13, 04:13 PM

Originally Posted by adrianh

I actually think that people who smoke should be castrated because that will stop them from passing the stinky gene on to their children. If the government implieents such a policy then the entire country will be rid of smokers in one generation. An alternative would be for the government to force all cigarette companies to put cyanide inside the cigarettes. That way the smoker will be able to smoke 10 packets in a lifetime and then die an absolutely horrible death.

tec0 - don't you think these are really good ideas to stop the spread of smoking?

I also think that children who are caught smoking should be banned from using their Blackberries for one year, and if they are caught smoking or using their Blackberries in that year their thumbs should be chopped off.

wow sarcasm... All teenagers will be exposed to Alcohol and tobacco smoke before they finish school. Others will be really unlucky and get introduced to hard core drugs. I am not saying it is right but I am saying we need to protect our youth.

Really scary stuff is the possible legalization of Cannabis aka weed. If you want to get angry about something start there.

Me, i am a zero note my name "tec0" that is where I am at in the world and what I will be. So I guess you win because you get to be a 1 "active and relevant" But with that comes some responsibility. The rest is up to you.

**adrianh** · 07-Mar-13, 04:24 PM

I think that boom should be legalized because all the Voortrekker were boom-rookers.

Imagine the Voortrekker getting to them mountains and Gerhardus turns to Hermanus and says: "Faaaaak Hermanus, you wanna cross them mountains with ox wagons, stuff the wagons China, let's smoke up and fly over"
- Mel Miller

**Citizen X** · 07-Mar-13, 04:57 PM

Cigarrette smoking is the least of our concerns with our youth, we have a drug and alcohol abuse problem.

**AndyD** · 07-Mar-13, 10:53 PM

This certainly is an emotive issue where people tend to have very strong views whatever side of the fence they're on.

When the new smoking laws came in, because of the logistics, many of the restaurants and cafes were forced to make their outside areas and balconies the smoking areas and the indoor rooms became the non-smoking areas. It used to make me laugh because obviously the non-smokers wanted the best tables in the place but they'd find themselves sitting at the best tables on the balcony or terraces with a beautiful view of the sea but slap bang in the middle of the smoking areas. I had several evenings of fun waiting for someone to moan about the smoke and then spending the rest of my evening chain smoking and deliberately blowing it in their direction. It actually doubled as a social experiment, I discovered the guys who would sit and moan the loudest to their waiter or the floor manager were actually the people who were the least directly confrontational. Out of at least a dozen evenings that I can remember there was only one guy who actually got physical about things, he was somewhat middle aged and obviously wasn't used to not getting his own way, he'd also had the benifit of a few glasses of wine. There was a brief cabaret moment when after some verbal encouragement he eventually took a couple of lumbering swings and got a flat hand across the ear for his troubles. On other occasions there was a couple of guys who stood up and were verbally confrontational but all except that one backed down when it came to crunch time.