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Axionknight said:
Negative Creep said:
The Vambo said:
That shrine shown was for someone who died spraying graffiti on a railway bridge, genuinely.
It's compound council.
I would put money on his family telling the local paper that he was a jack-the-lad and a real character. Which is the council way of saying someone is a complete It's compound council.
.Negative Creep said:
The Vambo said:
That shrine shown was for someone who died spraying graffiti on a railway bridge, genuinely.
It's compound council.
I would put money on his family telling the local paper that he was a jack-the-lad and a real character. Which is the council way of saying someone is a complete It's compound council.
.Reads something along the lines of ' GUESS WHO'S 50" or HAPPY B'DAY TO BIG DAVE'
g3org3y said:
Uncle John said:
Saddle bum said:
Willy Nilly said:
Wearing shoes, normally Ugg boots (council), where the wearers heel (is that the right fking heel Speeling Police?) is over to the side of the shoe and off the edge of the sole - Council.
Mega cahnsil.king heel Speeling Police?) is over to the side of the shoe and off the edge of the sole - Council. Uber council!
Combined with Black Friday we have Council²
nicanary said:
I grew up in the 1950s, when just about everybody smoked, and knew no better. I have seen the huge sea-change in attitudes.
It seems to me that there are, in general, two distinct smoking classes. The working-class/underclass, and the professional classes who don't see why they should give up their habit because middle-class oiks don't like it. People like Clarkson and May. who whine about the ban, but won't admit that they're have an addiction. I reckon it's their public school background - showing off to their mates that they can smoke and look like a working-class man.
It might just be my imagination, but those kids who start when they're 12 years old don't always do so because they are trying to look grown-up- they've been inhaling smoke from their parents throughout their life, and they're already addicted to nicotine fumes before they've had a chance. It's a form of child abuse. Someone tell me I'm wrong, but I've got that idea in my head.
Smoking should in truth be a recreational pleasure.It seems to me that there are, in general, two distinct smoking classes. The working-class/underclass, and the professional classes who don't see why they should give up their habit because middle-class oiks don't like it. People like Clarkson and May. who whine about the ban, but won't admit that they're have an addiction. I reckon it's their public school background - showing off to their mates that they can smoke and look like a working-class man.
It might just be my imagination, but those kids who start when they're 12 years old don't always do so because they are trying to look grown-up- they've been inhaling smoke from their parents throughout their life, and they're already addicted to nicotine fumes before they've had a chance. It's a form of child abuse. Someone tell me I'm wrong, but I've got that idea in my head.
The occasional, or in my case frequent, cigarette (go on use the word addicted it doesn't phase me) when it is more practical or convenient than the more gentlemanly alternatives.
But pipes and cigars are a completely different matter.
A decent cigar will cost a minimum of £12, and a good sized one that allows you a good hour plus of smoking pleasure will be double that. (ignoring the middle to luxury end of the market altogether)
A half decent smoking pipe will set you back £40, and a good one will easily exceed £100. (again ignoring the luxury products).
Smoking either of these should be done in a relaxing environment, and ideally in the company of fellow appreciators of the pleasures of quality tobaccos, and when you have the time to enjoy your entire cigar, or bowl of tobacco.
Not the 'cuppa and a fag' approach at all.
This may well, in some cases, be described as 'aspirational', (this being considered a sin in it's own right by many I am sure), but never council.
'Vaping' as it's called, is almost without a doubt, increasing the number of people addicted to nicotine.
I will admit to having on occasion, and out of necessity, frequented tobacconists of a lower class where those horrid devices are sold.
You commonly hear people admitting that they are taking up smoking for the first time, and that they never would have considered smoking tobacco.
Clearly seeing vaping as being 'cool' is about as council as it gets.
Individually plastic wrapped cigars off the shelf of the local newsagent; council (possibly aspiring to chav).
Some may disagree, allowing that these 'cigars' in place of "the occasional cigarette for practical reasons", is not council. I leave it to others to begin the debate on that one if interested; but I believe council.
nicanary said:
PS Since the smoking ban started, I can't half tell if someone's been smoking before they come into my shop. The smell is disgusting, like they've been rolling fully clothed on the council dump. We never noticed it back when everybody smoked.
Even as a smoker, I know exactly what you refer to.The obvious and most logical solution then is to lift ban.
Goaty Bill 2 said:
This may well, in some cases, be described as 'aspirational', (this being considered a sin in it's own right by many I am sure), but never council.
I don't think aspirational is the right word.Pointless would be a better alternative.
Makes your breath and clothing stink, and discolours your teeth. Who in their right mind would aspire to that?
Goaty Bill 2 said:
Smoking should in truth be a recreational pleasure.
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Smoking either of these should be done in a relaxing environment, and ideally in the company of fellow appreciators of the pleasures of quality tobaccos, and when you have the time to enjoy your entire cigar, or bowl of tobacco.
Not the 'cuppa and a fag' approach at all.
This. I only smoke when there's somewhere quiet and comfortable to sit.- snip -
Smoking either of these should be done in a relaxing environment, and ideally in the company of fellow appreciators of the pleasures of quality tobaccos, and when you have the time to enjoy your entire cigar, or bowl of tobacco.
Not the 'cuppa and a fag' approach at all.
I'm definitely addicted, but I will not compromise on that rule and will happily go without.
Zoon said:
Goaty Bill 2 said:
This may well, in some cases, be described as 'aspirational', (this being considered a sin in it's own right by many I am sure), but never council.
I don't think aspirational is the right word.Pointless would be a better alternative.
Makes your breath and clothing stink, and discolours your teeth. Who in their right mind would aspire to that?
And, without any desire to turn this 'personal' I assure you, I give not a damn what anyone else thinks of it.
Anyone not appreciating how I may 'smell' is welcome to stand or sit elsewhere.
In any case, for clarity, "aspirational" referred exclusively to the choosing of cigars and pipes over cigarettes, rather than to smoking generally.
I would never actively encourage anyone to take up smoking of any description.
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