To the lowlife at the Pride parade who decided to light a cigarette two feet from our toddlers and a newborn then loudly proclaimed, “We were here first, suck my dick!” when I politely asked he move it away from them: Had it not been a community event with my kids, I would have reacted with much, much less restraint. I usually wish lung disease on no one, but for you I’ll make an exception. P.S. Your friends and your community are ashamed to be around you. They told me so themselves. —Daddy No Punchy Facey
This article appears in Jul 21-27, 2016.
Yup! Prude is no longer for the gays. It’s a “community event”. No, that’s not a typo.
It’s OUTSIDE, too fucking bad.
We live in a society, taking a couple minutes to walk away from small children to smoke your cancer stick is the right thing to do.
As a card carrying member of PFLAG (yup), I used to enjoy the Pride events and was to many and many across the country.
These last 10 years or so I’ve stopped going to being involved in any way. Pride isn’t about being proud about who you are and accepting of those around you…. now a days it’s more about self-entitlement, in your face crapola.
I don’t need to see your boobies or assless chaps to respect you 364 other days of the year.
see you on the other side.
it was a pride parade, why didn’t you tell him to whip it out?
With vehicle & environmental pollution fumes belching all around, a couple of cigarettes are hardly a big deal.
I will agree, however, that smoker acted like a total douche sack in front of small children. You should have moved away for your kids’ sake, not asked him to do so – sorry, but he was there first.
Everyone is so damn hypersensitive these days. And isn’t it amazing that a majority of the children raised by 1950s & 60s smokers reached adulthood?! How could that possibly happen?!
Advancements in healthcare TTFB.
Advancements in healthcare?!? Why is it then there are so many kids allergic to everything?
I dunno, maybe we’re just better at diagnosing it and less kids are dying because of it? Not sure what that has to do with anything though.
So all those boomers exposed to their parents’ copious cigarette smoke (puffing on non-filtered cigs in a closed car, no less!) should have croaked from the effects of all that 2nd hand smoke. I’m sure a lot of millennials wish to fuck they had. But they didn’t. Now we have a generation of people who practically burst into tears or rage like banshees if someone lights up a cigarette – it’s a hypersensitivity that’s appalling & hilarious at the same time.
Some so-called advances in health care, such as the fanatical use of antibacterial cleaning products, have created a world of allergies, along with the preservatives & chemicals we happily chomp down on each & every day. We negate many advances in health care with a lot more shit than just cigarettes.
@TTFB Not all millennials are hypersensitive, it’s just that they tend to make up the majority I find. They bitch and moan about things that shouldn’t really affect them, while making the smarter more mature millennials look bad by comparison.
I agree with your sentiment that second hand smoke doesn’t really do that much harm, as my parents smoked around me as an asthmatic kid and I am still here. To many bigots and fascists in the anti-smoking movement for my tastes 😉
Of course he wasn’t smoking when we picked the spot, and “It’s outside” is an idiotic comment.
You are aware we’re talking about a grown man consciously choosing to blow cigarette smoke in to 3 year old’s faces from a foot away? Right? Perhaps the polite ask by parents that you walk 15 feet and go do your moronic cancer causing stuff away from the small kids for a minute is very reasonable? Yes?
What’s that you say? Fuck you? Oh that’s right. We’re ‘outside’. Of course you’re not a douchebag, you’re just ‘outside’ so common decency doesn’t apply? Right? Everyone knows it’s cool to fuck over anyone who happens to be next to you when you’re outside…toddlers included!
It’s what makes Halifax a great place to raise a family. There’s so many wonderful community events…just don’t bring kids to the ones that are ‘outside’ because middle aged dirtbags need to smoke wherever and whenever they please. They’re not assholes…they’re ‘outside’!
How about this: Choose to pollute yourself or whatever, and if I, as an adult, choose to stand next to a smoker they can tell me to go fuck myself and that’s fine.
…but you cross in to lowlife territory when you’re blowing smoke and swearing around young children who are watching a parade. (*specifically a parade where families are trying to expose their kids to tolerance and respect.)
Also, it’s a parade. A fucking PARADE! It’s not a bar patio or a 2AM dirtbag party in some redneck’s yard. Take a smoke break 20 feet away and stop swearing around the kids, dirtbags.
Held back a clenched fist. Moved to the back. The kids cried. Day ruined.
Happy pride. Enjoy your smoke, lowlife.
@daveybuoy Any argument that uses the logical fallacy of appealing to emotion’s, is slightly misleading at best or an outright falsehood at worst.
You really need to take a break of that’s all it takes to rile you up. Just saying 🙂
Lol, I highly doubt he was “blowing smoke into your child’s face”. He was probably just smoking, but I can see how you try and make it sound worse than it really is. Fact, smoke rises and three year olds are what? 2 feet tall? So the smoke you were getting was probably way more than what your children were getting.
Did you ask politely? Did you take no for an answer? Let’s face it, he had every right to refuse your request. In reality, it’s your job to move away, not force your will on someone else.
I understand where you’re coming from, because I’m a non-smoker, but you really can’t be pissed off when someone does something that they are entitled to do, regardless of the politeness factor. If a patron told you to take your kids to the back of a restaurant because they were bothering them, would you move because it’s the polite thing to do, or would you recite your rights and be indignant? My guess is no, but I might be wrong!
I mean, I just think it’s a good thing to not smoke right next to kids. If that’s “hypersensitive” then whatever. I’ve smoked cigarettes, and will again. I don’t think 2nd hand smoke is guaranteed to kill you, neither are cigarettes. But there’s a reason there was a huge anti-smoking (and 2nd hand smoke) push 20+ years ago (yea, 20+, not millennials). It increases your risk of cancer. We know that. Maybe it goes from 0.001% to 0.01%, I don’t know the numbers.
There it is, if you prefer exaggerated statements like below, then so be it, I’m not going to change your mind.
“So all those boomers exposed to their parents’ copious cigarette smoke (puffing on non-filtered cigs in a closed car, no less!) should have croaked from the effects of all that 2nd hand smoke. I’m sure a lot of millennials wish to fuck they had. Now we have a generation of people who practically burst into tears or rage like banshees if someone lights up a cigarette – it’s a hypersensitivity that’s appalling & hilarious at the same time. “
or
“@TTFB Not all millennials are hypersensitive, it’s just that they tend to make up the majority I find. They bitch and moan about things that shouldn’t really affect them, while making the smarter more mature millennials look bad by comparison.”
This asshole was literally holding a smoke at his waist, lit, not even 12 inches downwind of a toddlers face. It was completely ridiculous, that why I asked very politely he move it away. The immediate (and really surprising) angry reply was “I was here first, suck my dick”.
If reacting to someone billowing smoke on kids and yelling “suck my dick” at me in front of them makes me hypersensitive, then I will happily plead guilty.
Also, we move our kids in restaurants or anywhere else when they’re fucking up someone’s night, requested or not. Sheesh, why is it so hard to display a little common courtesy.
@daveybouoy Then why not display some courtesy to the guy having a smoke after a hard day’s work then?
Again if that’s all it takes to rile you up Why don’t you take a break and chill. Just saying 🙂
…because it’s not a restaurant it’s a parade, dumbass. Do you know what a parade is? It’s one of those things we do specifically for kids to attend. Are you familiar with the concept?
@daveybouoy You seem upset that someone was taking the time out of their day just to enjoy themselves. That’s not very “inclusive” of you 😉
I always thought that Parades were for everyone and not just kids. Take some time away from the internet Since you seem very tense that someone was enjoying the Pride Parade.
he’s just trolling you davey
Yup. I have a bad habit of taking the bait sometimes.
Davey, you actually think the smoker bent down and blew the smoke in a 3 year old’s face. Also, if mama and papa were so concerned, they could have moved. And yes it was outside where smoking is allowed.
Im with Cumonalready! Its all too corporate and tame now. It seems every politician and corporate entity in town want to be seen there. However a lot of those involved do nothing for the LBGT* community the rest of the year….other than mention they were in the pride parade. The Conservative Party were marching FFS. Its like a big gay nascar event.
People who smoke in front of children at community events, in parks, on beaches, etc. are trash. Period.
Just don’t smoke around little kids. It’s not that hard.
Can’t wait to see what these same dirtbags will be like once pot is legal.
(To be clear I’m an occasional cigarette smoker and I have no issues with pot, legal or not. But there’s a time and a place for both and their stench, and I can only imagine how many people will not recognize that one iota and think it’s ok just to light up a j wherever they please.)
If or when pot becomes legal, it will be mom and dad toking in front of the kids as they believe it is a harmless weed.
Actually, Tim, it’s not a harmless weed, it’s a natural medicine that has been used to treat and enrich peoples body, mind and soul since the dawn of time. Lots of stupid, inconsiderate fucktards partake in many activities, this doesn’t mean it’s the activity that made them that way. Lots of criminals and stupid people drink alcohol, but that doesn’t stop the flow of sensible people running to the liquor store or drinking in front of their children. Just because your antiquated attitude says that people who smoke pot should be shoved into the dark corners of society, doesn’t mean everyone this is like you. There is a time and place for for smoking pot, and I’m not advocating that people fire up blunts in front of their children, but children (as they get older) should be aware and educated about its use, dangers and benefits so they can make an educated choice when they are old enough to partake. It’s attitudes like yours, Tim, that have wasted trillions of dollars on a war against a plant. It’s people with attitudes like yours that have destroyed peoples lives and ripped apart families. The true damage of the war on pot has been inflicted by police and government, while the effects have been felt by the sick, dying and political activists. The prohibition on pot WILL be lifted. It’s not a question of if, it’s a question of when.
I’ll puff to that, Furious P. I have no time for people who demonize fucking weed, just like I have no time for drunks and their self-pitying babble. Legalization can’t happen soon enough.
A friend of mine is built like a bouncer. I’ ve seen him crush the light cigarette into the face 9f any idiot inconsiderate enough to stand in front of him and blow smoke in his face. He only asks once.
Why not move your kids instead? Why does he have to lose his spot? That doesn’t seem fair.
People seem to forget smokers hold their HOT cigargettes down at waist level, which is face level of children! Kids have been burned by this! And a crowded public place (with kids) is NOT the place to smoke as the risk of burning someone increases. Buddy should have left the area to smoke (yes I smoke). Don’t even get me started on people that cuss in front of children, but then the stupid fawktards will say ‘free speech’. Whatever. Davey, I wouldn’t have blamed you if you punched the guy in the throat!