BS: Smoking in public to be banned (UK)

Subject: RE: BS: Smoking in public to be banned (UK)
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 03:21 AM

Bugger! Missed the hundredth post!

Subject: RE: BS: Smoking in public to be banned (UK)
From: Hand-Pulled Boy
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 06:46 AM

Are we all agreed that cars should be banned from pubs? They take up too much bar space anyway.

Subject: RE: BS: Smoking in public to be banned (UK)
From: Sttaw Legend
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 06:57 AM

A bear won't smoke in your car and I've never known a car to get a round in.

Subject: RE: BS: Smoking in public to be banned (UK)
From: The Beast of Farlington
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 07:12 AM

Smoking's banned. foxhunting's banned...flamenco is next!

Hur,hur,hur!

Subject: RE: BS: Smoking in public to be banned (UK)
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 07:42 AM

I'd like to see the touchy feelys trying to ban bullfighting!

Subject: RE: BS: Smoking in public to be banned (UK)
From: jacqui.c
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 08:19 AM

Bull fighting? you call that a sport? Some nipfart in tight pants comes out with a three foot sword, AFTER his lackeys have weakened the bull with a bunch of spears in his shoulder, then he minces around like a friggin' ballet dancer until the bull is hardly able to stand. Then, with a great show of balls, he plunges the sword into the poor beast's heart. Some sport!
I ALWAYS root for the bull. Sometimes one of them will get lucky and gore the macho asshole.
Fox hunting, bull "fighting" and bear baiting are cruel and way below human beings. Well, the humans who are higher on the evolutionary ladder at least. There is no excuse for such barbaric behaviour.

As Rose said in THE AFRICAN QUEEN, "Nature, Mr. Allnutt, is what we were put on this earth to rise above."

Kendall here, not Jacqui.

Subject: RE: BS: Smoking in public to be banned (UK)
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 08:51 AM

Super Ted is a champion Bullfighter, he won loads of medals for it.

Subject: RE: BS: Smoking in public to be banned (UK)
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 08:56 AM

Sure did jOhn! Haven't fought in the ring since Malaga in 1993, I don't half miss it!

Subject: RE: BS: Smoking in public to be banned (UK)
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 09:03 AM

I can never remember the order in which the people appear in the bull ring. Is it Toreador, Matador, Humidor and then Lobster Thermidor???

:D

Subject: RE: BS: Smoking in public to be banned (UK)
From: Strollin' Johnny
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 09:04 AM

JacqiC - not into the bull's heart, they insert the sword in the back of the neck and sever the spinal cord (so I'm reliably informed by a colleague who has witnessed this vile spectacle, although I'm sure someone will correct me).

Whatever, it's amongst the basest forms of human activity, and our spineless European Parliament should get off their over-paid fat useless arses and ban it immediately.

Subject: RE: BS: Smoking in public to be banned (UK)
From: Sttaw Legend
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 09:10 AM

Ted - I feel sure you've been in the ring since 1993.

DtG - and then Backdoor

Kendall - "nipfart" like that

Subject: RE: BS: Smoking in public to be banned (UK)
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 09:14 AM

DtG
   The correct order is picador, matador, toreador.
johnny,
       you thrust the sword down into the neck and on THROUGH the heart, which sits between the bull's front legs.
       In all my fights I always managed a clean kill through the heart.

Subject: RE: BS: Smoking in public to be banned (UK)
From: Sttaw Legend
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 09:21 AM

As far as banning is concerned they haven't got the balls, they're concerned about upsetting the fighters and the people who take great delight in watching for pleasure - and of course the revenue they make.

Subject: RE: BS: Smoking in public to be banned (UK)
From: Strollin' Johnny
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 09:24 AM

Knew you'd put me right Ted (LOL). Did you by any chance puff casually on a Sobranie Black as you delivered the coup-de-grace?

Subject: RE: BS: Smoking in public to be banned (UK)
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 09:24 AM

Isn't a picador a small flute?

So, Tommy Steele got it wrong then:-(

Came the parade, all prepared for a mighty fray
Matadors and picadors and toreadors
And who do you think as well?
Trotting right behind them came the little white bull

:D

Subject: RE: BS: Smoking in public to be banned (UK)
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 09:28 AM

And isn't coup-de-grace mowing the lawn?

I am getting very confused here, but what super ted does to his balkans is nobodies business but his own, Johnny...

:D

Subject: RE: BS: Smoking in public to be banned (UK)
From: Sttaw Legend
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 09:30 AM

"Isn't a picador a small flute?"

NO - its what a bouncer asks you just before he throws you out of a night club.

If you've really been naughty he says "pick a window"

AND if you've really really really been naughty, you dont get a choice

Subject: RE: BS: Smoking in public to be banned (UK)
From: Strollin' Johnny
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 09:32 AM

The mind boggles, Dave!

Subject: RE: BS: Smoking in public to be banned (UK)
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 09:33 AM

1940. The height of the Blitz, London's burning, bombs are still falling, and two fire fighters, black with smoke and dirt, are leaning against a wall, taking a very short rest to catch their breath.

"Ay, mate. I'm dyin' fer one. Got a fag on ya?"
"Now, now, Charlie. Ya knows we can't smoke in public."

Subject: RE: BS: Smoking in public to be banned (UK)
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 09:37 AM

I still have a few recordings of my fights on VHS if you want to borrow them and have a proper look at bullfighting. It's not as easy as you would think.

Subject: RE: BS: Smoking in public to be banned (UK)
From: Gypsy
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 09:48 PM

I am sure that it isn't, but the fight i was dragged to.........now remember, i used to slaughter beef for a living. So seeing a half grown calf, cut, and panting in the hotter than hot sun, was not my idea of sport. I was grateful when they were FINALLY killed. Just not my idea of sport

Subject: RE: BS: Smoking in public to be banned (UK)
From: Ooh-Aah2
Date: 20 Nov 04 - 04:56 AM

I am so glad smoking is banned. When I go back to Britain I might actually be able to go into a pub without coming out stinking of smoke with sore lungs and red eyes.

Subject: RE: BS: Smoking in public to be banned (UK)
From: Hand-Pulled Boy
Date: 20 Nov 04 - 06:34 AM

Ted have you still got some beefburgers from 1993? You must have made loads after your fine, brave kill.

Subject: RE: BS: Smoking in public to be banned (UK)
From: MBSLynne
Date: 20 Nov 04 - 07:55 AM

Fabric conditioner!!! The smell turns my stomach in the same way that the smell of cigarette smoke does. When my daughter has a sleep-over at a friend's house, I have to wash all her clothes and her hair when she gets back, so strongly does she smell of this awful, synthetically perfumed stuff. Not sure if it's just the cheap ones that stink so strongly or if the mothers who use it, use over-large amounts...perhaps to cover up the smell of something else? I only know that it makes me feel sick.

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: BS: Smoking in public to be banned (UK)
From: GUEST,Terry K
Date: 21 Nov 04 - 05:08 AM

I hate it when you have offered someone a lift in the car and they have to have a last cigarette just before they get in. Don't smokers realise how bad their breath is when they have just put their fag out - and they think they are being thoughtful by not smoking in the car.

Subject: RE: BS: Smoking in public to be banned (UK)
From: MBSLynne
Date: 21 Nov 04 - 10:43 AM

I'm sure smokers, even the thoughtful ones, don't really realise how bad they smell.

Subject: RE: BS: Smoking in public to be banned (UK)
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 22 Nov 04 - 04:12 AM

Dereck,
       Me and my freezer are full of bull!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Smoking in public to be banned (UK)
From: Hand-Pulled Boy
Date: 22 Nov 04 - 05:37 AM

Hello Ted, Derrick here. I have no reason to doubt anything you say. You also have magic fingers, where do you keep them when not in use?

Subject: RE: BS: Smoking in public to be banned (UK)
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 22 Nov 04 - 06:59 AM

I keep them in fox fur mittens.

Subject: RE: BS: Smoking in public to be banned (UK)
From: GUEST,Jim
Date: 22 Nov 04 - 08:54 AM

Do smokers take advice? - I once suggested to a motorist that he put his cig out immediately - "Why? - what's it to you!!! ****?" he replied.

I pointed out that bending his head and face up close to inspect the acid level in his car battery was not a good idea. He still asked why......

Bring on the ban asap - for all our sakes

Subject: RE: BS: Smoking in public to be banned (UK)
From: fi_in_nz
Date: 13 Apr 05 - 06:23 AM

We have just arrived back in the UK and will be here for a year. We've come from New Zealand where smoking in pubs was banned in November last year. The stats have still to be compiled for the first year, but it seems that so far pubs have not been adversely effected and since kids can go into pubs over there the number of people drinking in pubs may actually go up.

We are both folk musicians and have a small baby (3 months). We have had a fabulous time in NZ since the birth of Finley and have continued to attend all the festivals, pub sessions and folk club nights we did before he was born (with him in tow). The folk club in Auckland has been non smoking for many years and is full to capacity (about 100 people) nearly every week; anyone who smokes can have a fag outside in the break.

Since Finley comes with us wherever we go and we won't take him to smoking venues, it looks like our folk life is to be severly curtailed in the UK. This is a crying shame since Finley has been used to music from day one - at 5 days old he'd spent more than half of his life at a folk festival. In fact he seems to be a bit of a fiddle fan. I would love to become more acquainted with the UK folk scene at it's roots in the clubs, but it seems there are no non smoking venues in the area where we will be (Huddersfield). I am sure we are not the only family being kept out of the clubs by the current smoking policy of most pubs and folk clubs.

Subject: RE: BS: Smoking in public to be banned (UK)
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 13 Apr 05 - 08:29 AM

fi_in_nz - I think most clubs in my part of the world frown on smoking, so that even if there's no formal ban, people don't smoke - but I live down South, and maybe it's different up North. Still it'd be worth enquiring around.

And the same goes for festival venues, and there are lots of those in your end of the country.

Subject: RE: BS: Smoking in public to be banned (UK)
From: GUEST
Date: 13 Apr 05 - 10:28 AM

i doubt they'll try it in hull, evryone hull smokes!

Subject: RE: BS: Smoking in public to be banned (UK)
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 13 Apr 05 - 03:19 PM

I am a lifelong heavy smoker, and I have no problem with a ban. My legs still work O.K., and I'll go outside for a drag.

Why should I have the right to force others to share my fag?

Don T.

Subject: RE: BS: Smoking in public to be banned (UK)
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 14 Apr 05 - 06:15 AM

I'd never share my fags with anyone!They cost four shillings each now you know!

Subject: RE: BS: Smoking in public to be banned (UK)
From: Hand-Pulled Boy
Date: 14 Apr 05 - 08:46 AM

There was a time they only cost a tanner like;

Subject: RE: BS: Smoking in public to be banned (UK)
From: Sweetfia
Date: 14 Apr 05 - 10:38 AM

I say ban smoking! Sorry Dad.