Contact lenses protect my eyes from smoke. My eyes really sting when I don’t wear 'em and it’s smoky. Might just be me, though.
I’m guessing that there is a small positive correlation between smoking and negative behaviour in general.
Most smokers I know are very considerate; but dropping cigarette stubs may be a gateway littering activity, as some people don’t consider throwing their butts on the ground (or in the sand at the beach) as littering.
Taiwan is not the West. There aren’t as many garbage cans, and some people here know that if they drop something on the street, there is a good chance that it will be swept up and thrown away the next morn by the street sweepers.
I see many people smoking while riding their scooters. What do you think they do with the butt when the cigarette is finished? Do they pull over and find an ash tray? No.
Plus, driving in Taiwan requires your full attention. I’m guessing smokers are more likely to plow into parked cars while taking that long and satisfying drag off their cigarrettes . . . and just before they exhale.
Smokers are probably more likely to have persistent colds and coughs, and their “use of the hankerchief” is probably substandard as well.
By virtue of their spending time smoking, they will no doubt have a greater need, and yet less time available, for brushing their teeth and bathing.
Money spent on cigarettes, no doubt reduces the amount available for detergent . . .
I could go on . . .
The way I look at it is this. You’re walking down the street smoking. You’re done. You can
- Put dead ciggie in a trashcan
- Chuck it down the drain.
- Chuck it on the street
Clearly 1) is irresponsible as you may start a fire. I used to do 2) until some German guy told me that it blocked the drains and ‘choked otters’. He reckoned 3) was the best bet “because the Turks will sweep it up”.
So care for the otters, pick 3)
Obviously the Turks argument applies to lots of other things like beer cans or sweet wrappers too.
Ha just kidding Loretta. The correct option is to ‘field strip’ the ciggie and bin it.
wikihow.com/Field-Strip-a-Cigarette
I can’t be arsed myself of course. I’ve never really trusted otters myself, I think they are vapid animals that coast on their cuteness, so I chuck 'em down the drain.
Yeah, Death to otters, for sure.
They’re WAY worse than smokers.
Despite the liberal rhetoric, It’s ultimately a gender issue. Of all those inconsiderate assholes, how many are women?
Smokers or inconsiderate assholes?
Inconsiderate, BC! Duh! Don’t make me ash on your scooter.
No, I just didn’t see the connection. I have never smoked in my life but I’m an inconsiderate asshole. Littering is for amateurs.
Allow me to reiterate: Most smokers are men. Most inconsiderate smokers are men. I’m not trolling. The distinction is gender-based, but predominantly class-based.
Irony:
noun ( pl. -nies)
the expression of one’s meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect :
It’s like rain on your wedding day?
It did rain, just a little, on my wedding day.
But that wasn’t ironic, just typical weather.
The Pixie, however, was pretty smokin’.
Rain during a wedding can also mean wealth and good fortune.
Fucking OTTERS! :fume:
Just the opposite for me. It got to be that I couldn’t wear my contacts out to pubs and bars, etc., my eyes would be stinging within a short time. I figured the contacts trapped the pollution between them and your eyeballs.
I’ve since had laser eye surgery, and find I can put up with the smoke better without having to wear contacts. It still stings after a night out, but not as bad.
Loretta? Fucking with me? I DON’T believe it. He wouldn’t. In any case, good for him. He succeeded in embarrassing me into changing my antisocial ways.
As for the fagends outside my house, Loretta, you think I don’t clean them up? WRONG! I clean them up all the damn time. Its all those smoker fuckers in the tower blocks who aren’t allowed to smoke in their rabbit hutches so they stand out on their kitchen balconies for a puff and ditch their butts over the side and into my alley. Already complained to the building security, but what can they do? There are loads of people doing it, judging by the variety of brands. Cunts.
American scientists recently discovered that passive smoking is cheaper SCNR
King Kog said
[quote]The way I look at it is this. You’re walking down the street smoking. You’re done. You can
- Put dead ciggie in a trashcan
- Chuck it down the drain.
- Chuck it on the street[/quote]
Not really. Well, my grandfather - a gentleman of the old school - did none of these. After extinguishing his cigarette, he would put it in his jacket pocket (wrapped in a cloth I think).
Personally, although a non-smoker, I don’t mind smokers at all. It’s a bit sad they get so much agro. It seems that there always needs to be a few groups that can be vilified. It’s no longer acceptable to target blacks, jews and homosexuals, so society needs new targets.
[quote=“Loretta”]In fairness, I haven’t been personally affronted by a smoker for almost 24 hours, and before that I managed to go several days without anyone really pissing me off with their idiotic selfishness. And I should also acknowledge that I know several smokers who are considerate, decent human beings who don’t deserve to be given a hard time over their addiction. They manage their problem without being more of a pain in the arse for the people around them than anyone else. After all, nobody’s perfect and people who don’t smoke are still capable of being Republicans, petrolheads, limbo dancers, Scotsmen or other forms of life that undermine my faith in natural selection.
So I make this post more in the spirit of scientific inquiry than as a rant. Here are a few examples, and I’d be interested to know whether others think that I’m only noticing the things that confirm my opinion or whether there is a real trend in place here. Observations from enraged smokers about my sensitivity to tobacco smoke are off-topic. A simple “I don’t do that” would suffice, as I’m trying to form an accurate impression of what happens rather than re-ignite the war on smoke.
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I’m coming to the conclusion that a disproportionately high percentage of smokers are also careless, in fact contemptuous, of the environment and people around them. Possibly this attitude contributes to them being smokers? Who knows? What’s going on?
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My feeling is that, despite the shining examples of humanity who swell their ranks, there are more selfish arseholes walking around with cigarettes in their mouths than not. Comments?[/quote]
Not to demean your valid complaint, but try living in Korea. It’s no exaggeration to say 90% of Korean males smoke and almost half of females.
Yes, all buttheads are inconsiderate by nature - if they weren’t, they wouldn’t smoke in public - and their unnecessary and excessive littering is disgusting. But at least the smoke you walk through on a sidewalk is temporary, unless you get a moron who stands up-wind of you at a stop sign.
My real annoyance with Taiwanese smokers (and some westerners too) are those who smoke where it’s clearly marked as non-smoking - taxis, bathrooms, and convenience stores. Is it really too much of an inconvenience for taxi drivers not to smoke in their cabs which are marked as non-smoking, or for buttheads to stomp out their cigarette for the three minutes they are in a toilet or in a store buying more cancer sticks? Outside a 7-11, one should expect the idiots to smoke since they’re going to do it anyway.
As I said, Koreans are worse. All bathrooms are viewed as smoking rooms, including yours in your apartment if you have one over to visit. They also smoke at gas stations while filling their cars, in the subway (though the police never enforce it) and in restaurants. Compared to that, Taiwan is a utopia. At least the air isn’t brown in Taipei as it is in Seoul.
And…Scotsman? Now you’ve started a war. (I’m not one, but I know some who are.)
Scotsmen have such incredibly enormous penises that mere wordy slights cannot faze them at all, at all. So I’ve heard.