This is yet another smoking bitch… ‘cept I’m gonna direct it at the people who made the Smoke-Free Places Act. You do remember who you are right? The ones who in their sanctimonious ways figured that if there was no smoking on Capital Health property, within 6m of an entrance, in bars and restos, et cetera. then the public health would be not at risk to second-hand smoke. Well let me tell you…I can’t ride a bus without sucking up tobacco fumes (they use the shelters to stay dry at the bus terminals), I can’t enter the front door of the QEII without holding my breath or walking through the shrubs, because they line the sidewalk and everywhere else I have to go. Sidewalks are infested with them. Why? Because you made them smoke outside, where the rest of us are. Sheee-it. Least in smoking rooms I could actually avoid them…now I am stuck sucking it up. —ferretgurl

This article appears in Nov 15-21, 2012.

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  2. Think first… before closing off main traffic arteries, surrounding a building with Halifax’s finest, and attempting to negotiate with an empty house.

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  4. wow. I’m sorry your life isn’t perfect. That the universe doesn’t always perfectly adapt itself to your needs. That must really suck…. You should give lectures to starving africans about how much it sucks to live in a place that tries to accommodate the majority.

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  5. You’re absolutely right, BroTim. It’s only funny after the fact, when no one ends up being inside.

    I just pictured the negotiator, surrounded by cops, talking to an empty house for three hours. I work with a guy who lives on that street. When he tried to leave, not knowing what was going on outside, the cops told him to go hide in his basement.

    It just seems like that particular scenario got blown way out of proportion.

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  6. You’re absolutely right, BroTim. It’s only funny after the fact, when no one ends up being inside.

    I just pictured the negotiator, surrounded by cops, talking to an empty house for three hours. I work with a guy who lives on that street. When he tried to leave, not knowing what was going on outside, the cops told him to go hide in his basement.

    It just seems like that particular scenario got blown way out of proportion.

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  11. Thank you for the concern Captain. I’m alright I guess. Havn’t really been myself the past couple days. Think that Nukka character really rubbed off on me. I feel like he’s influencing everything I say.

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  15. Do you mean that you didn’t type that Furious or do you mean that you didn’t mean to type that? Is Nukka still there?

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  16. yep honey, you have to suck it up. because you were one of those snotty bitches who wanted it that way. live the fuck with it. i do not normally smoke inside a shelter thing, but if it’s pouring out, then fuck you. more so if i’m waiting for a bus that seems to ever come. and we all know which one that is.
    i smoke and have tried quitting on a number of times, but thanks to big brother gubment, it’s fucking hard. i have tried just about everything, including hypno therapy
    so if you want to call the asses stupid, look in the mirror first, you will see one.

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  17. Nukka is just a little hurt in the butt from the trolling that was effed into his a on the thread where he revealed and revelled in his zany prank. He has taken on my avatar and name in an attempt at revenge. In short, he mad. He jelly. He is attempting relevance by impersonating me, not realising that I too am irrelevent. How many likes does it take…to feel loved? Carry on Nukka. Lets see whatcha got.

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  19. ” i do not normally smoke inside a shelter thing, but if it’s pouring out, then fuck you. more so if i’m waiting for a bus that seems to ever come.”

    Yet another shelter commandeered by another self-entitled smoker. When you own the shelter you get to rule it, until then, you are in the wrong. Deal with it.

    “i smoke and have tried quitting on a number of times, but thanks to big brother gubment, it’s fucking hard.”

    No denying it’s hard to quit smoking, but many do. Failure to do so means not enough will-power is being applied. Exactly how the government is in control of a person’s will-power remains a mystery, so go ahead and enlighten us.

    Why should non-smokers have to stand in the rain because some self-entitled twit wants to convert the shelter into their own personal smoking lounge? I have seen a mom with a young child waiting outside in the rain because some “gubment” victimized smoker insists upon their perceived right to use a public (non-smoking designated) shelter as their own personal space.

    Oh, wait, you weren’t serious were you? Just trolling. In that case disregard my rant.

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  21. “Exactly how the government is in control of a person’s will-power remains a mystery, so go ahead and enlighten us.”

    CHEMTRAILS!!!

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  22. Hey, Tim. What’s with a cop wandering around peeking in peoples windows? In order to notice someone in a house with a weapon at 3:00am, that cop must have been violating some privacy/harrassment laws. This is why people resist slackening the laws surrounding privacy and probable cause.

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