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Post by Wolfman on Apr 8, 2018 13:52:07 GMT -5
I’m sitting on a bench minding my own business, when a kid, about my son’s age (8) sits down next to me. My pipe is lit, and out of common courtesy I refrain from puffing. Suddenly, dad notices the pipe and suddenly shouts at the kid “Johnny, let’s go now!” A minute before he tells the kid to sit on the bench. Do I look like Charles Manson? What the heck is wrong with people!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2018 14:04:46 GMT -5
I’m sitting on a bench minding my own business, when a kid, about my son’s age (8) sits down next to me. My pipe is lit, and out of common courtesy I refrain from puffing. Suddenly, dad notices the pipe and suddenly shouts at the kid “Johnny, let’s go now!” A minute before he tells the kid to sit on the bench. Do I look like Charles Manson? What the heck is wrong with people!  I say you need to post a photo of yourself Sam, and we'll get a poll going here  I'm sure its a Sunday thing... |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2018 14:08:50 GMT -5
It is my experience, that anti's never miss an opportunity to insult a fellow citizen.
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Post by puffy on Apr 8, 2018 14:35:12 GMT -5
Sounds like dear old dad is a product of physiological conditioning at it's finest.
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Post by Stanhill on Apr 8, 2018 15:15:47 GMT -5
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Post by daveinlax on Apr 8, 2018 15:26:10 GMT -5
This is why I let my family enjoy my secondhand pipe smoke in the comfort of my home and smoke cigars in public. Cigars are a natural people repellent.  |
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Post by exchef on Apr 8, 2018 15:47:11 GMT -5
I’m sitting on a bench minding my own business, when a kid, about my son’s age (8) sits down next to me. My pipe is lit, and out of common courtesy I refrain from puffing. Suddenly, dad notices the pipe and suddenly shouts at the kid “Johnny, let’s go now!” A minute before he tells the kid to sit on the bench. Do I look like Charles Manson? What the heck is wrong with people! Son'r take it personally. There are too many people who have fallen victim to the nanny state mentality of "smoking = BAD!". While I was away this past few days, I stayed at a hotel with an outdoor fire pit. I asked the management of the hotel if THEY objected to me sitting outside and enjoying either a pipe or cigar, to which they replied "to enjoy myself and that they hoped it stayed warm enough for me". There were several people that came by while I was enjoying my smokes, got the hairy eyeball a few times but for the most part was met with indifference. The strangest look I got was from some younger "gentleman" who happened to be vapping, go figure. Guess what I am trying to say, in a not succinct manner, is do what you enjoy. If the property owners/managers object it is one thing, anyone else if they don't like it can move away from you. ExChef |
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Post by Legend Lover on Apr 8, 2018 16:03:13 GMT -5
It isn't nice that there's a stigma attached to people based on whether or not they do or do not smoke. Culture seems to indoctrinate people into thinking a certain way. I've noticed it myself where I live. It sucks.
Maybe it was simply the dad wanting to go home. I know i've told my kids that they can go do something in a park and then telling them within a minute that it's time to go. Maybe it was a case of coincidental bad timing...maybe that's wishful thinking.
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Post by simnettpratt on Apr 8, 2018 16:09:35 GMT -5
Tell me why folks will spend over a million dollars for thirty seconds of airtime during a SuperBowl, showing a hot chick riding a horse down the beach, then a picture of a bottle of Budweiser.
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Post by daveinlax on Apr 8, 2018 16:26:04 GMT -5
Tell me why folks will spend over a million dollars for thirty seconds of airtime during a SuperBowl, showing a hot chick riding a horse down the beach, then a picture of a bottle of Budweiser. Probably because you are still talking about it months later and now a can of ice cold bud sounds really good right now! |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2018 17:23:49 GMT -5
I’m sitting on a bench minding my own business, when a kid, about my son’s age (8) sits down next to me. My pipe is lit, and out of common courtesy I refrain from puffing. Suddenly, dad notices the pipe and suddenly shouts at the kid “Johnny, let’s go now!” A minute before he tells the kid to sit on the bench. Do I look like Charles Manson? What the heck is wrong with people! I say you need to post a photo of yourself Sam, and we'll get a poll going here I'm sure its a Sunday thing... Maybe you do look like Manson?  |
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Post by trailboss on Apr 8, 2018 17:30:23 GMT -5
Tell me why folks will spend over a million dollars for thirty seconds of airtime during a SuperBowl, showing a hot chick riding a horse down the beach, then a picture of a bottle of Budweiser. Probably because you are still talking about it months later and now a can of ice cold bud sounds really good right now! Funny! NYC unfortunately has waged quite a war on tobacco for quite some time, Bloomberg had quite a fire in his belly to use the office of Mayor to demonize anyone smoking, and he was largely successful. On an episode of Blue Bloods, Police commissioner Frank Reagan was on a pier and lit up a cigar, a rookie cop not knowing who he was walked up and cited him for doing so...Commissioner Reagan, remarked about the nanny state. It has spread elsewhere though and Arizona isn't totally free from the nonsense either, especially since most people bring their perceptions from other places. A few years ago while walking through a Christmas display area, I was smoking my pipe... Stokkebye nougat....the mother and kids several feet behind me exclaimed how wonderful the baked brownies smelled....then they walked past us and the mother saw me smoking a pipe and did the limbo to make sure she got under the airstream.....  Knuckleheads like that are more the exception than the rule though. |
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Post by trailboss on Apr 8, 2018 17:31:43 GMT -5
I say you need to post a photo of yourself Sam, and we'll get a poll going here I'm sure its a Sunday thing... Maybe you do look like Manson? It could be that wolfman look too...  |
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Post by oldcajun123 on Apr 8, 2018 17:39:59 GMT -5
 Yep, need a Picture!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2018 17:54:50 GMT -5
I was at an outside theatre with dad around 1975, smoking a cigarette. No rules then. The lady (or lack thereof) went ballistic on me
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Post by Dramatwist on Apr 8, 2018 18:08:46 GMT -5
I’m sitting on a bench minding my own business, when a kid, about my son’s age (8) sits down next to me. My pipe is lit, and out of common courtesy I refrain from puffing. Suddenly, dad notices the pipe and suddenly shouts at the kid “Johnny, let’s go now!” A minute before he tells the kid to sit on the bench. Do I look like Charles Manson? What the heck is wrong with people! Yes. It is. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2018 18:10:57 GMT -5
It could be that wolfman look too... God Bless Lon Jr, who was every bit as talented as his dad, maybe more so |
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Post by peterd-Buffalo Spirit on Apr 8, 2018 18:51:20 GMT -5
...utter nonsense in how folks respond...especially in outside areas...
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Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2018 3:59:03 GMT -5
On an episode of Blue Bloods, Police commissioner Frank Reagan was on a pier and lit up a cigar, a rookie cop not knowing who he was walked up and cited him for doing so...Commissioner Reagan, remarked about the nanny state. I love that show. |
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Post by mwps70 on Apr 9, 2018 14:48:34 GMT -5
I’m sitting on a bench minding my own business, when a kid, about my son’s age (8) sits down next to me. My pipe is lit, and out of common courtesy I refrain from puffing. Suddenly, dad notices the pipe and suddenly shouts at the kid “Johnny, let’s go now!” A minute before he tells the kid to sit on the bench. Do I look like Charles Manson? What the heck is wrong with people! Son'r take it personally. There are too many people who have fallen victim to the nanny state mentality of "smoking = BAD!". While I was away this past few days, I stayed at a hotel with an outdoor fire pit. I asked the management of the hotel if THEY objected to me sitting outside and enjoying either a pipe or cigar, to which they replied "to enjoy myself and that they hoped it stayed warm enough for me". There were several people that came by while I was enjoying my smokes, got the hairy eyeball a few times but for the most part was met with indifference. The strangest look I got was from some younger "gentleman" who happened to be vapping, go figure. Guess what I am trying to say, in a not succinct manner, is do what you enjoy. If the property owners/managers object it is one thing, anyone else if they don't like it can move away from you. ExChef The vapers are the rude ones...they think that making everyone swim in their vapor cloud is cool. One of these days they will found out how bad vaping is for you, I have no doubt. I sure wouldn't mind the vaping if they weren't so rude about it...in my experience that is. |
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Post by gav on Apr 9, 2018 17:17:38 GMT -5
Maybe he saw you holding the pipe in your lap and thought something else was going on..
What does the pipe look like?(hehe)
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Post by Wolfman on Apr 10, 2018 8:32:48 GMT -5
Maybe he saw you holding the pipe in your lap and thought something else was going on.. What does the pipe look like?(hehe) The pipe is one of those cigar looking ones. He must have thought I was ‘entertaining’ myself! That didn’t happen. Looking back, I was smoking FVF in a Don Warren freehand sitter. Perhaps he’s a Virginia hater? |
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Post by toshtego on Apr 10, 2018 12:40:15 GMT -5
Man with a pipe.
Snots fired.
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Post by gav on Apr 10, 2018 13:19:19 GMT -5
you mean this one? I would have told him to run too. Sandblasted freehanded sitter.  |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2018 15:37:20 GMT -5
This generation of parents were taught that 2nd hand and even 3rd hand smoke causes cancer. That is, even a whiff of smoke or the smell of tobacco from a smoker's clothes will cause cancer, ergo, "Run, Jimmy, run!".
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Post by Legend Lover on Apr 10, 2018 15:53:17 GMT -5
This generation of parents were taught that 2nd hand and even 3rd hand smoke causes cancer. That is, even a whiff of smoke or the smell of tobacco from a smoker's clothes will cause cancer, ergo, "Run, Jimmy, run!". What even IS third-hand smoke? Is that when the parent tells someone else about the smoking incident? |
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Post by Wolfman on Apr 10, 2018 22:08:06 GMT -5
you mean this one? I would have told him to run too. Sandblasted freehanded sitter. Lol! |
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Post by trailboss on Apr 10, 2018 22:19:04 GMT -5
This generation of parents were taught that 2nd hand and even 3rd hand smoke causes cancer. That is, even a whiff of smoke or the smell of tobacco from a smoker's clothes will cause cancer, ergo, "Run, Jimmy, run!". What even IS third-hand smoke? Is that when the parent tells someone else about the smoking incident? Third hand is the most recent danger... simply smelling the smoke on clothing can KILL! |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2018 22:24:26 GMT -5
What even IS third-hand smoke? Is that when the parent tells someone else about the smoking incident? Third hand is the most recent danger... simply smelling the smoke on clothing can KILL! Hope I am not arrested the next time I am in line at the grocery, bank or post office.  |
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Post by Stanhill on Apr 11, 2018 3:06:35 GMT -5
Maybe he saw you holding the pipe in your lap and thought something else was going on.. What does the pipe look like?(hehe) I can understand the father's reaction, if the pipe looked like this. (Yes, it is a pipe).  |
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I say you need to post a photo of yourself Sam, and we'll get a poll going here 
Yep, need a Picture!
