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what next I ask, if this carries on they will stop us sending the young blighters up the chimney to clean the soot
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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My wife and I used to smoke in the car when our kids were small. But it put them both off the idea.
I can see why it is a good idea to ban it, but then we should also ban all cars, factories, power stations, etc., etc. Oh, and while we are at it, why not ban all politicians and their placemen?
Veni, vidi, abiit domum
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: while we are at it, why not ban all politicians and their placemen?
Don't think you will get too many dissenters there... 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Should be banned.
In fact tobacco should be banned. Period.
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Being an ex-smoker myself I have mixed feelings about the privacy issues but I understand the ruling.
Second had smoke is proven to be detrimental to ones health so I think it will be a good thing but will they enforce it?
Oddly enough my ex and I were both smokers, she still is and we have 3 kids and none of them smoke?
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See Dalek Dave's post above.
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It makes me feel very uneasy. I don't think many people would argue that smoking in a confined space with anyone else is a good thing. People shouldn't do it - but should it be illegal?
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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For the sake of those who wish to preserve their right to poison children (or others) I point out that it's already illegal in UK law:
Quote: "Whosoever shall unlawfully and maliciously administer to or cause to be administered to or taken by any other person any poison or other destructive or noxious thing, with intent to injure, aggrieve, or annoy such person, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and being convicted thereof shall be liable . . . to be kept in penal servitude . . ."
Offences against the Person Act (1861)
Phil
The opinions expressed in this post are not necessarily those of the author, especially if you find them impolite, inaccurate or inflammatory.
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OriginalGriff wrote: what do you think?
I think it's a good idea to protect children from being force-fed carcinogens.
/ravi
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I should think it would be OK if the child lit up first.
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I've ever tried to smoke when i was in senior middle school, however at last i dropped the cigarette to the trash because i feel very dizzy when i smoke it.
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For those UKians of a certain age there was a period in time back in the early 80's when the PC was just beginning its rise to ubiquity.
The BBC entered the fray with the BBC Computer Literacy Project, a national education program to enlighten and inform people about computers.
At the heart of this lay two important milestones.
Firstly the BBC Microcomputer (Actually quite a good, robust and serious machine) and the main arena for the education, a series of Television Programmes starting with "The Computer Programme"[^].
These were hosted by Ian McNaught-Davis.
A genial, avuncular type who took the nation through what computers are, how they work and what they could do for you.
And today, he died at the age of 85.
For a period of about three or four years he was synonymous with UK computer literacy and I am sure many of us here will remember him.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Aww nuts, I like him! I do remember my Dad saying (at the time) I don't really see how a computer would help me (he was a Civil Engineer!) 
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A total waste of sheep...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Well, it should make it easier for you to fall asleep. you don't have to count very far... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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because the La-Z-Boy[+] was invented today in 1928!
If that is not very important then I do not know what is. 
A moment of silence for Ed Schoemaker and his cousin Edward Knabusch...
Rest (in a La-Z-Boy) in Peace! 
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I was working out at the gym when I spotted a sweet young thing walking in ......
I asked the trainer standing next to me, "What machine should I use to impress that lady over there?"
The trainer looked me over and said, "I would recommend the ATM in the lobby."
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An oldie but a goodie and likewise true.
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I'll have to try that! ^_^
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"Installing iTunes on your new laptop is like pebble-dashing[^] your new sports car"...
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I am straining to get this analogy: is it possible you are using "pebble-dashing" as defined in the Devil's Dictionary: warning: gross content: [^].
“But I don't want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked.
“Oh, you can't help that,” said the Cat: “we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.”
“How do you know I'm mad?” said Alice.
“You must be," said the Cat, or you wouldn't have come here.” Lewis Carroll
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Don't strain too hard 
No - just means it makes it slower and uglier.
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My home town, Crawley, is one of those proverbial "Polaroid moments" of all that is vile in architecture and building practice. There are some very tatty suburbs where pebble-dashing is rife. It looks vile when it's raining; it looks vile when it's sunny. We don't have any around our streets thankfully but in the 50s-built housing there is lots of it.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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...until Olaf Pooley is 100 years old.
Who he?
Wiki[^]
Piccy from 1970[^]
Pooley was born in Poole, convenient that!
If he makes it he will be the only male actor to have appeared in Dr Who to make it to 100 years old (And only the second person ever)
He is also the oldest living person to have appeared in Star Trek.
And one of only 14 Living actors to have been in Star Trek and Dr Who.
(Deep Roy is the only actor ever to have appeared in ST,DW and SW!)
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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