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Please Bring The Smoking Ban Back

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by Hahaharoldramis

Please. The last two gigs i've been to (Sebadoh and Johnny Foreigner), i've had to move away from wherever i've been standing due to some horrid walloper dropping the most revolting egg clouds. Seriously, i'm talking proper ill stomachs here. Disgusting people who think they can just lay noxious stinkbombs during gigs and nobody's going to care. It makes me so angry. No, we don't want to smell what you've had for dinner, keep it to yourself, grow some manners you utter cretins.

We wouldn't have to worry about these smells though if people were allowed to smoke during gigs again. I'm almost nostalgic for it. I don't even smoke. I find it deeply sad, watching dweeby little losers all huddled together in the cold. Oh, i'm so tense, i need to smoke! Oh life is so hard! Oh pass me a ciggie, i'm gasping for some tar and i look dead cool standing in the rain with my unnatractive skeletal frame poking holes through my tracksuit, oooh. ALL IS FORGIVEN. FARTERS ARE MUCH WORSE.

Hahaharoldramis | 11 May '08, 17:25 | Send note | Report this | Reply

I'm a non smoker too

I also want smoking back in clubs! It really ruins the atmosphere people going outside all the time because bands end up with 5 people watching them.


If I was drinking anything now

I'd have spat it out. Excellent.


maybe I should more be placing the blame

on the people who for some reason decide to go to a gig, pay for it, and then stand outside the entire evening.

Your reply seems overly angry considering the fact that you actually have your way on this issue! Calm down love!


it was a joke you fool

but yeah its more as you said the fact that people are happy to pay to see bands, but not actually watch them.


I have no conception of sarcasm/saying things for a joke

and undertones in what people are saying in general so don't bother in future please!

Cutting back between this and the drinking thread, I do have to say that there's an irony in the way some people simulataenously bash up their livers and then get wound up about passive smoking. I guess it's not everyone, though.


ok, what ill do is, deprive everyone on this forum

of my razor sharp wit, just so you dont get confused.

Yeah but the fact is passive smoking is somehting youve not chosen to do. and just because some people are irresponsible with drink but dont like smoking shouldnt mean that everyone else has to suffer.


the solution is OBVIOUSLY hookah pipes

obviously.

no, if you would not get sarky with me, I would just genuinely appreciate it, thanks. I do find it hard to navigate, and its not because I'm a thicko. Thanks.


I nearly picked up your ex-magazine today!

But then I just decided to read the Deathset review and put it back on the shelf.


I'm not writing anything

about my ex employers on here since I've realised some of them lurk

(of the record, you chose well :S )


smokers are

or rather were the bane of my life. People who fart in public are a bit selfish, yes, but not even in the same league as those who used to smoke in clubs, bars, etc


everyone does it as well

and its a natural bodily function which cant be helped


There's nothing natural

about smelling ill. Less kebabs and more ordinary food and maybe yeah, but if you're releasing gusts as potent as then ones i've been smelling, you clearly have something wrong with you.

Of course everyone farts, but not everyone farts on other people or in crowded rooms. That's just pathetic.


I agree with this.

Farts generally don't make my clothes smell of shit. Unless it's someone giving it a real go, of course.


if people adhered

to the most simple rules of hygiene and cleanliness, i wouldnt be too arsed about the smoking ban...and i'm a bit of a smoker myself at times...

but they don't, and as a consequence places become very smelly very quickly and its no fun


bring the smoking ban back?

the smoking ban is still in play. i think you've worded this wrong perhaps.

yes i remember the days when girls would hang out in the toilets at gigs/nightclubs.... NO MORE ALAS!!! the lack of smoke means these social hotspots now stink of piss and toilet. fucking unpleasant. i'd rather be inhaling smoke cheers.


Oops

Please go on and unban smoking bans and stuff. That's what me meants.


PLEASE UNDO THE SMOKING BACK*

Is what i meant to say!


I mean

Please ban unsmoking.

Eh.. i mean, please don't please smoke.

OR SOMETHING.


maybe they were at that pissed stage

whereby you cant stop yourself from letting one slip?


Back?


betwixed


breathe through your mouth

when someone drops the bomb

its easy done


Yeah

Eating it is a good plan.

You eat farts. Ew.


why didnt they suggest this

to early nineties starving ethiopians?

bet there was some right eggers flying about over there

"open wide kids!"