At last some sense re the smoking ban in Britain

[KalamityKel]

The NHS would be buggered if all the smokers in the UK gave up tho... taxes made from smokers heavily contribute to the NHS...

[atila the gooner]

Bob said - Oops.. sorry about that.. I dozed-off for a minute. Back to reality.

As long as you don't make a habit of doing this behind the wheel of your car!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

As for reality, on this forum? Please, get serious!!!!

[Cassius]

But honestly Atila - how would you expect the guys to get to their away matches.......

[atila the gooner]

The NHS would also find themselves out of work if all the junkies stopped taking drugs, people drove sensibly, stopped having heart attacks, stuck to sensible diets, zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[*Bob*]

Ahh.. I spent many a happy day as a child sitting in a room with Grandad and Co, all puffing away on their Park Drives and congratulating each other on being single-handedly responsible for the upkeep of the NHS.

I can only hope that they contributed enough during the course of their smoking lives to cover the cost of the NHS treatment that was required before their eventual deaths (in agony)

[KalamityKel]

Who's rattled ur cage 2day ATG? Want me to go sort 'em out wiv me cricket bat? :))

[*Bob*]

atila the gooner Wrote:

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> As long as you don't make a habit of doing this

> behind the wheel of your car!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I haven't got one. I'm a happy rainbow person. With a fume-belching motorbike.

[atila the gooner]

KalamityKel Wrote:

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> Who's rattled ur cage 2day ATG? Want me to go

> sort 'em out wiv me cricket bat? :))

It's monday, and I'm venting my spleen on the poxy nanny state and those who think that smoking is the greatest evil on the face of our planet. I'll be ok come 5 o'clock, provided noboby upsets me on the train home!!! A large (or maybe several) glass of something restorative this evening will go down nicely.

[KalamityKel]

I'm glad to hear it's nothing serious... don't say I didn't offer my services with the cricket bat tho ;-)

[Keef]

The ban has become a total git in this cold weather, and like Jah said, it has made me enjoy the pub less.

I hate smoke near food, but with beer I have to smoke!

Thing is, last week I was having an after hours smoke in a pub, and it was great to be sat at a bar with a ciggie going. I don't want to cause anyone else to get ill with my smoke, but don't give me this bo!!ocks about your clothes smelling the next morning. If you don't change your shirt each day you are a pikey.

[KalamityKel]

Not that there's anything wrong wiv being a pikey eh Keef? ;-)

[Nero]

What's with this nanny state business? Try China for size. Or the US of A, where rules and regulations and the rule of law is much more apparent. A sensible person would realise that the government is telling us what it thinks is a good idea for us to do, re drinking, eating, smoking, sexual relationships, child care, etc, so that we can make an informed choice. We don't live in a nanny state. What we do live in is a state in which newspapers like the Daily Mail and Express - which are businesses and which are answerable to noone but their shareholders - peddle lies and half-truths that, unfortunately, more people believe than information given by the government. If you believe you are being nannied, then you'll act like a baby. Nero

[KalamityKel]

Lies and half-truths? I'm intrigued!

[RosieH]

Ahh, KK, you're probably not a reader of the lovely Daily Mail and Express then?

Gypsies ate my baby, immigrants raped our women, it's a PC world gone mad - that kind of thing (sorry that was a bit bathetic, where I'd actually wanted to work to a crescendo of rage. My moral fibre probably deserted me)

Lies, damned lies, and statistics...

[atila the gooner]

Nero Wrote:

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> What's with this nanny state business? Try China

> for size. Or the US of A, where rules and

> regulations and the rule of law is much more

> apparent. A sensible person would realise that the

> government is telling us what it thinks is a good

> idea for us to do, re drinking, eating, smoking,

> sexual relationships, child care, etc, so that we

> can make an informed choice. We don't live in a

> nanny state. What we do live in is a state in

> which newspapers like the Daily Mail and Express -

> which are businesses and which are answerable to

> noone but their shareholders - peddle lies and

> half-truths that, unfortunately, more people

> believe than information given by the government.

> If you believe you are being nannied, then you'll

> act like a baby. Nero

What utter bollocks. What f**king planet do you live on, or are you permanently medicated!!! We do live in a nanny state, and are constantly being told by those who think they know whats best for us, what we can and can,t do. NANNY STATE. Give me strength. Maybe people are fed up with the government and MP's on all sides of the political spectrum peddling lies and half truths. It's not just the media that peddle lies or are you too far gone to notice?

[*Bob*]

Nero Wrote:

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If you believe you are being nannied, then you'll

> act like a baby. Nero

Well put. I think this just about covers the 'nanny state' issue.

[atila the gooner]

*Bob* Wrote:

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> Nero Wrote:

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> If you believe you are being nannied, then you'll

> > act like a baby. Nero

>

> Well put. I think this just about covers the

> 'nanny state' issue.

Another one talking utter bollocks, another one who lives in cloud cuckoo land.

[*Bob*]

Somebody please give Atila his bottle.

[atila the gooner]

Following *Bob* & Neros train of thought, If I think they are talking bollocks then they must be/or will talk bollocks. In that case I've not been disappointed.

[atila the gooner]

*Bob* Wrote:

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> Somebody please give Atila his bottle.

See what I mean, more bollocks. Can't I have yours?

[*Bob*]

I prefer mine straight from the tap.

[KalamityKel]

Wot's wiv all the aggression this morning guys?!!!

[Nero]

CaLm down dear, it's only a internet forum for the bored and restless! I live on planet earth and I don't take any medication. If I did, I'd be insulted by your comments, though.

You are freer than most people in the world. You also don't have to listen to what the government says, never mind about paying heed to it. If you don't like what you hear or read, then listen to or read something else. Or let those people who cheese you off know it, like we all do on this board from time to time. Nero

[*Bob*]

How do we live in a nanny state? Let's have some examples then.. as opposed to just shouting "we do! we do!", which doesn't illustate anything, other than you can't think of any real reasons.

Convince me through the power of reasoned argument.

My current position is that whilst stupid laws exist up and down the land, hardly any of them impinge upon my freedom to - by and large - do exactly what I want.

[atila the gooner]

*Bob* Wrote:

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> My current position is that whilst stupid laws

> exist up and down the land, hardly any of them

> impinge upon my freedom to - by and large - do

> exactly what I want.

My my, if you believe that, you are in a bad way.