I recommend the ol' "What the [censored] are you looking at?" for this situation. Unless of course, he looks like the type of man who would stab you for saying that.

I've been told to move a few times by people downwind of my smoke. "Are you joking?" I couldn't believe that a wisp of smoke travelling three feet on a light wind was potentially hazardous to their health. If I had a choice, I wouldn't exhale, It'd probably save me money. These days we're like lepers anyway, smokers. All crouched outside pubs and clubs, huddled together against the cold, blowing smoke at one another. All that fresh air between smoke puffs really makes it worthwhile. Especially when you go back into the pub/club and all you can smell is BO, vomit, and dried up booze. I miss the days when places like that smelled of smoke... because being a smoker, I couldn't smell it.

I agree with you though, I do smoke away from people, and don't complain if they ask me to move away from them... as they prod at me... with their long poles, and spikes, pitchforks... and flaming torches...

I hate people with a cause.

I don't care if I agree with that cause, I hate the fact that they are so narrow minded as to not even listen to other points of view.

In fact I hate anyone who is anything other than a sceptic


Also, I hate people who get annoyed by other people. This isn't just poking fun at this thread, I really don't like anyone who forces their norms on others.

Even though for most of my 18 years of life I had to inhale my Dad's second hand smoke when we were outside, I'm still bothered by smoke, even though I should be used to it. So I have respect for the smokers out there who try to avoid people. Most non-smokers, when standing near people smoking, aren't overly concerned about their health, they're more concerned about the smelly smoke blowing in their face.

It died as soon as soon as you stopped being a kid.

Majority of the time I just stare at them until they notice and they look away, but some time's I've had to say something, especially when my girlfriend notices and get's uncomfortable.


I agree with this, but I still try to avoid being close enough for complaint, since I dont like being complained at by random strangers. Although I must say, If I'm the only person on a platform for the train an I'm smoking, and some one walks right up to me or near me then ask's me to move away, even though I was there first, I will ignore them or tell them to move away.

As for the pub thing, I agree. I once quite smoking for 6 months, I started 3 months before the smoking ban in public place's was put into effect. I just remember the first time I went into a pub and caught the wiff of all the pungent smells. The mix of B.O, dry booze, smelly feet, greasy hair and pub lunches congealed in my senses and made some kind of bile like scent. I havent noticed it since then though, alot of the place's I go to are very very clean, I avoid "local's" like the plague because usually they still have those smell's.

I recomend a wetherspoons pub, the smell of the gravy on their sunday roast could drown out 50 skunk's. But the smell of their gravy isnt that nice either.

Ticks me off when smokers congregate under the bus-stop roof to smoke, disregarding other folks. Especially crappy in bad weather, since options are to stay put or go out into the rain. Also, folks who listen music on earphones at a volume level which would be indistinguishable from a regular radio. What are they, deaf? Also, night-time music playing with full bass (hell, even daytime, sometimes- I don't understand how people can squeeze more enjoyment out of music by radical increase in volume and loud 'THUMP-THUMP-THUMP-THUTHUTHUMP!' booming in their ears) and other drunken revelry when dishonest folks are trying to rest and recuperate for a tiring tomorrow. *Grrrr*

Then there's the local drivers. You're not bloody safe on the crossings even when the light is green, 'cos they've got an itchy lead foot and are too steps away from bulldozing you out of your way, you slow pedestrian sods, daring to impede their cruisin' by your slow feet!

That's all I got for now. Work beckons.



This too. Game demos should last a few hours. Full games a lot longer than that.



True'er words, caped crusader. I still can't understand the uproar from a nipble, the bare briast.

Censorship. You'd think we were back in medieval times with the way people look at sixuality or nudity these days. Seriously, watching people beat each other to death is fine, but if someone sees as much as half a nipble then it's all "Oh noes, think of the children!" The same applies to language, if I listen to a rap song on the radio I'd like to hear more than 40% of the [censored] lyrics, either stop censoring music, or don't play it at all if it's so terrible with a few naughty words.

I'll give you a year and we'll be burning people on the stake again. :shakehead:

Yeah it's more the smell than the health risk, if it's outside. I can smell my mom smoking in the backyard from inside the house with my window shut, that's how sensitive my nose is.

Not having a sense of smell isn't so bad when I'm next to smokers or when someone farts in an elevator

I don't really think it's ever been different, and it's probably never going to change. Unlike most of human history, the world is now connected so there are many more people with many more ways for them to voice their outrage at things like nudity.

Except that your nose and sense of smell are one of the body's primary defenses against harmful fumes and chemicals. :whisper:

It's bad even with the fresheners installed though, even in London clubs. If it's not BO and vomit it's a potent scent of two-hundred brands of womens perfume and mens cologne all mixing to create a stink that I imagine smells like concentrated methane. By 2 AM any club you enter just reeks, or is freezing cold from AC on 'Arctic mode' to blast odours out of the club. Those ones that are supposed to smell of fruit or something too! Like http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/north_yorkshire/6741883.stm. Strawberry doesn't smell like strawberry when its mixed with vanilla and chocolate, it smells like death.

I remember some clubs proposing a 'smokers smell' from 'fresheners' to mask the odours. lol Could save on the innovation and just let smokers back in, and kick the non-smokers outside. Half the time when I go out for a smoke, I'm surrounded by non-smokers, because the people having fun are generally the smokers. lol :laugh:

True, I didn't say it was all rainbows and sunshine I'm not really sure what's up with it though, my sense of taste seems fine, I had an amazing steak today. It's just that when i try to smell something, I don't feel any difference. My entire family was going crazy because someone had left an empty milkshake out, but I didn't even notice untill someone told me.

Not true, my uncle was part of a team that did the largest study on smell and found that there are no naturally bad smells, and all smells are subjective. Also there is no relationship between chemical structure and its smell, meaning two similar chemicals can have completely different smells, making the nose a terrible defence mechanism.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNajfwgulQ8

Well, the brain is in charge of everything, including what things smell like to an individual person then. So could it be possible I'm simply not able to differentiate between different smells, so everything smells the same and thus seems to smell like nothing?

I'm a bit disturbed by all the silly little reasons folks are disturbed by other folks.

I mean, we're all bozos on this bus after all.

At first I read the thread title and subtitle as "Disturbing rabbits that you have noticed growing these days."


I suppose that would be my disturbing habit. Or rabbit.

And the reasons why not having a sense of smell is awesome just keep on coming! :hehe:

Speak for yourself. *I* am of the noble crumbum clan.

Haha. It's Ironic really, when I go on night's out we tend to end up in a beer garden outside the club with a large group of friend's all having a laugh, but the funny thing is, after the smoking ban alot of places invested in patio heater's and shelter''s, so we smokers who are "forced outside in the cold" actually end up warmer than the people freezing their nipbles off in the AC blasted club's and we also have room to breath, as opposed to being cramped on a crowded dancefloor. And because of the wonderful invention of fresh air, there's no horrible collaboration's of smell's to put up with.

Although I always wear aftershave on a night out, I usually dab it across the neckline of my shirt/tshirt so if i do encounter a bad smell I can just dip my head and smell my aftershave instead.

What if you smelled a fuel leak in your house? Propane has a pretty distinct smell.

Somebody is less mature than you because they enjoy a less "sophisticated" type of humor than yourself? I know people who make "your mum" jokes nonstop and adore family guy, who are as sensible, compassionate and "mature" as I've ever met.

Who is the more immature one? He who enjoys humor of a more crude variety, or he who judges the personality of others based on their taste in jokes?



This sentiment pretty much reflects my own views. Unless the person in question is directly affecting me (such as smoking while in close vicinity) there's no reason or excuse for me to judge them for it.

That is my exact attire in winter. Even when I go home for Christmas and it's actually cold. Feels good.