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Will the smokers PLEASE stop sitting near me?! You reek. I’m a nonsmoker and enjoy my fresh air so stop fouling it up! If I wanted to smell cigarette smoke, I’d be lighting up too. But I’m not so take your smelly bodies somewhere else and LEAVE ME ALONE. —Damn Stink Weeds
This article appears in Jun 6-12, 2013.
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Do you use perfume/cologne, scented hygiene products, or fabric softeners? To someone who is actually allergic, not just an uppity douche-clown, those scents are more than just an annoyance.
Absolutely, SHITD – an old boss of mine once told me the dirtier people are, the more scent they’ll use. I wondered about that for many years while working in a supposed scent-free building. Sometimes the perfumes would be so strong on the elevator, I had to hold my breath for nine fucking floors.
As far as ciggie smoke goes, as long as said cigarettes are legal, you’re gonna have to suck it up, OP – the world does not revolve around your needs or desires.
If it bothers you, then you move.
Choking on second hand cigarette smoke is very real for some peeps.
BUT,
We don’t get to choose how others smell.
We do get to choose our proximity to smokey folks.
Same with those who sport other “aromas”. B.O., whore lure, garlic breath (or any type of laser breath), any scented products, flatulence (esp. the dreaded SBD), etc.
“whore lure” – Awesome! The Captain is going to re-appropriate that one
OB …why don’t you leave ?
Why don’t you move away , if they are annoying you , then do something about it. While you may think the universe revolves around your wants & needs … it really doesn’t & if something is bothering you , you are quite capable of fixing it ..so get up off your (probably) large ass & move outta there !
(& why did I say large ass ,you may ask folks…because it appears the OB has no problem sitting there getting more & more pissed off at a smoker & doesn’t get up off their butt & move away, then goes & sits down & types up a bich about it ~;P
Lots more where that one came from Cap’n:)
don’t forget to put the bobber on as well Captain.
Let’s you know how you’re doing.
mmmmmm….. garlic…….
*droooooool*
Oceanchick is right op.
You can’t dictate others scents in public places. You’re essentially asking the world to cater to your every desire without even having to open your mouth and ask someone to move out of your breathing space.
Sorry op. You’re a douche. If you don’t like somebody smoking around you, move away from them. The world isn’t yours to dictate. You’re not the only person who uses the public spaces.
I don’t know who you think you are… but you are incredibly entitled.
Will Damn Stink Weeds please identify themself so that smokers will leave him alone?
Please meet Leone Sextus Denys Oswolf Fraudatifilius Tollemache-Tollemache de Orellana Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache – known as Damn Stink Weeds(he was named after a Captain in the British Army who died during the First World War).
Unlike his friends, Damn Stink Weeds was born without arms or legs – a condition known as Tetra-Amelia syndrome. He is unable to walk or move on his own.
Short of spending his day on the bus, dreaming of penguins (his favourite bird), he has little else to do other than to complain about the odour those who sit beside him.
You’re all douches! Making assumptions that s/he was in a public space and that she had smelly cologne/perfume on her/himself. Ya’ll just decided to ignore the bitch and go straight for the jugular. For Shame…
I’m an ex smoker. We can be awfully self righteous. You smoke, you stink, it’s true. Sometimes when somebody lights up I do their inhale for them. Even if I can’t smell it….like if I’m driving past somebody. They stink, I don’t but bloody hell….a gin and tonic and a cig cannot be beat!
uh… of course op was in a public place.
Smoking is banned everywhere else.
Therefore: logic.
Hey cukes – welcome to the Bitch Board Commenters! We like jugulars. Watch out for yours!
“We like jugulars. Watch out for yours!” – And your sanity…
It’s easy to lose track of it in a place like this.
Some constructive criticism from The Captain: calling everyone douches is the fastest way to become a douche. Fact.
This was amother one of mine…..Too bad hoistyhammerSHITman couldn’t figure that out. It was about the disgusting smoker that come to my husbands and I’s church, and about some of our choir members.
So crayons-little miss I come from a single mother that taught me no values- they do smoke in a public and then bring their disgusting devil grass smell inside with them. My husband spoke with our priest this past sunday and she syas it will be addressed in the next sermon. Which is Wedensday night.
Tobacco isn’t a grass Woggie, it’s a member of the nightshade family which includes tomatoes and potatoes. Nightshades themselves are poisonous as are tomato leaves (not fatal but good for a tummy ache).
Grasses are generally not smoked but many are eaten. Think corn, rice, wheat. Some are even ornamental.
It’s fun to smoke a deck of tobacco wands and go to church. It’s what God does on Friday mornings.
Reg- you really couldn’t be more wrong. Just another temptation the devil has put on our doorsteps. I can tell that you would eat the apple as well. The posts you’ve been making scream anti christ. Its sickening!
Insertfunnyusername You brought back fond memories golfing with my flask of gin and pink lemonade (aka panty remover,lol) and my smokes(I smoked then) .I didn’t actually get much play in but I had lots of fun on the course.
Reg is the Anti-Christ!!! The Captain trusts the judgement of blip, and she says Reg is evil, so evil he is!
“Reg- you really couldn’t be more wrong.” – Yeah, Reg! You think you know so much about plants and tobacco and… plant stuff… things… You’re wrong, okay! Blip says so…
So Capt’n you are sayin’ Shit, aka Sarge Shultz is himself a douche. Very interesting…… I always thought he was a dumb ass, self righteous, idiot who has illusions of grandeur. You just called one of your own a douche. Bravo and encore!
“You just called one of your own a douche.” – Huh? Wut? The Captain’s been parroting people, using heavy doses of sarcasm, wheels. Reg is an admirable fellow, not at all an anti-christ.
But, I do call people douches… because they are. But I don’t call EVERYONE a douche.
BTW, wheels… You’re a douche!
Last time I checked churches were public places. See response about public places above.
Your priest cannot control another’s choice to smoke or not to smoke. Only the tobacco companies get to do that.
Tobacco is not the devil. Everybody knows Big Tobacco is.
Tobacco is not terribly addictive. Big Tobacco, aka Satan has additives to ensure enslavement to the devil’s weed. Think pipe and cigar tobacco and ask yourself why those smokers aren’t lighting up every 20 minutes like coffin nail smokers do. (Sure they all smell bad, but it is their choice to do so.)
I thought the Christian faith embraced helping those less fortunate. Instead of, you know, stomping on them.
Sorry to say Ocean, but as a point of clarification:
Churches are not public places. They are privately owned by church groups. In theory, they could ban anyone just like a private homeowner or a mall owner can, but that would just deplete the dwindling prayer groups.
blipblipblip is just a reincarnated Wogdog (or a faux Woggie as Mrs. JC kindly pointed out). This Christian outrage is just to get reaction from you guys, no more, no less – don’t even waste your time responding to her bogus drivel.
And yet I could walk into any church I like to pray. So let’s agree on semi-public, because as you point out, without the public they would have very little reason, or resources to exist, except perhaps as monasteries.
OC, churches, like stores or bars are private property with public access and therefore can ban people, have their own policies or whatever within the laws of Canada.
That may be so but I’m still not sure what they can do about someone smoking prior to entering the holy doors. They can ban smoking on their property, but in my experience smokers smell bad no matter where they smoke.
I don’t think smoking should be allowed in public period for health reasons. Tired of people smoking around kids and sick people especially.
I’m from the valley Blip so I have been tempted by an apple or two. Haven’t seen the Tree of Knowledge apples at the local U-pick though nor any serpents working the counter. If you get to know me you’ll realize I’m no Anti-Christ! I hate the heat for one thing. End of Days to me means end of weekends and I enjoy my weekends. So I’d make a terrible Anti-Christ.
If anything, I would say Blip is the Anti-Christ. God knows she isn’t doing the church any favours by spreading the “word” of the Lord on this site. Think about it, after reading her posts on here who in their right mind would want to be trapped in the same building as her for 1 hour every week?
Aren’t Christians supposed to love everyone and try to accept them into their congregation not push them away?
This thread is fucking stupid.
Blip is bogus – in fact, she’s disappeared off the radar as soon as she was fingered as a previously banned troll, a particularly nasty one with the brain of a fruit fly and the bitter bile of a bellowing banshee. What is it about the letter B, huh?
IF GOD didn’t want us to smoke he wouldn’t have created tobacco plants ( & marijuana, & opium poppies ~:)
Or if his grand design called for those things, & he didn’t want us to smoke he would have made our arms shorter, or not given us the ability to inhale. If smoking really offended God he’d strike the offenders DEAD & SEND them Str8 to HELL , where they obviously belong, as soon as they even contemplated smoking & then going into his sacred house of worship.
Thankfully the FSM is a much more loving & peaceful, omnipotent creator, & not at all like that fictitious invisible bearded old guy , who supposedly sent his only son down here to be MURDERED! ! ! I mean can you seriously get behind worshiping an assh@!# like that ?
Bring on the pasta baby…pass the meatballs .
There was a study done that said it was healthier to smoke 5 cigarettes per day than to be a non-smoker and run 5 k a day in Nova Scotia. There are more toxic industrial emissions that will harm you in our environment, especially NS –smoking cigs is just a moot pointe. Our lung cancer rates are among the highest in the country, yet most of those are non-smokers.