smoking

a new entry into BAD SHOW ETIQUETTE @ d'angelo last night

every so often this group of cunts in front of me would, like, light up a surreptitious fag and pass it round between them? crouching down to hide it? WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU CAN'T YOU GO TWO GODDAMN HOURS WITHOUT NICOTINE YOU DISGUSTING ADDICTS.

in line with my new ZERO TOLERANCE attitude to bullshit of all stripes i asked them to put it out the second time, and was backed up by the tiny fierce woman next to me AND the woman next to her. they tried to ignore us but one of the women said she WOULD get security if they didn't stub it out.

later on one of the boys got another fag out - with lightning speed my neighbour jabbed him in the ribs and said menacingly "i hope you're not thinking of lighting that"

i hope that at some point in their lives they get cigarettes stubbed out on their eyeballs

― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend), Saturday, February 4, 2012 10:23 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what if they smoked and had relationship drama?

lol. the worst for me is telephone conversations or drunken social interactions. like, there's just no way. something's getting smoked.

― surm, Thursday, March 22, 2012 1:56 PM (22 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ha, yeah. I don't really talk on the phone much anymore but the latter is an issue. I thought driving without smoking would be bad but I got used to that pretty quickly.

acting like an angry middle-aged mom at a show is even worse etiquette

I've never worked in an office where they allowed smoking. I've worked in places where there was a break room with a huge vacuum fan in the ceiling, but never where you could hang out at your desk and have a heater.

xp lol

when i lived in nyc i essentially stopped smoking in winter because fuck going outside in 10-degree weather for any reason

in CA tho cigs are cheap and the weather is usually nice so there went that :/

acting like an angry middle-aged mom at a show is even worse etiquette

lol the two women next to me WERE angry middle-aged mothers. d'angelo fanbase is grown now!

Saw one of the new salesguys standing in the alley the other day, smoking a cigarette and looking at his iPhone. Made me just smdh and think, what's the fucking point of having a smoke break?

It's so so weird to think about standing around smoking at shows but that was such a big part of it at one time. lol I was so hell bent on smoking at shows that I even did so once at an Earth Crisis show in Syracuse. Sure I hid in the corner way in the back but did I go outside? Hell no! lol. rmde @ my 18 yr old self.

what if they smoked and had relationship drama?

i would point out that the smoking was obviously not having its desired effect of relaxing them so they may as well give one of them up

I like the smell of some cigarettes but the smell of cheap cigarettes is really awful

you should move here and walk in front of me all day, you can be my smoke-inhaler

realized on my last trip that I'd quit smoking (or cut way the hell down) if I lived in NY or SF - walking and smoking is something I never mastered (particularly w/ SF's hills) and smoking while driving is the killer for me.

lex man u really angry these days it seems like

I&I hope that jah blesses u with peace

i went to a small community college up in aspen, colo. and fondly remember a literal "smoking box" for smokers to sequester themselves within, a place where they all communally reek and probably get twice the buzz based off enclosed proximity alone. i've never seen that anywhere else - going now to a denver university and smokers are just rampant, pretty much every 8th person has a cig between middle and forefinger.

thing is, tho, the guys who were boxed up in that little box always came to class smelling *the worst* whereas i rarely can smell somebody who had just smoked in my classes today. might attribute that to the larger class size, but i really don't think that stupid glass box did much for the environment nor the community

it brought lols

I visited San Francisco for the first time in 2001, and honest to God, my first thought was "How am I going to deal with that indoor smoking ban out there?"

lex man u really angry these days it seems like

i'm happy and relaxed today! also super excited cuz i'm going to see HUNGER GAMES in a couple of hours

I can see a Starbucks near you offer one of these:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3453/3716600349_99c81bdfbc.jpg

btw Starbucks is one of the last places on earth where people puff away happily outside

I worked in a restaurant that had a wide open smoking section, with smoking tables no more than three feet from non-smoking in parts. I did not get it.

lol when i first visited SF i was like "man, doesn't seem like there's a lot of smokers here, weird"

then i walked up eighty thousand hills and was like OH I GET IT

I don't understand why more airports don't have at least one smoking lounge - if you've got two hours pre-boarding and four or five hours in the air, it seems like good policy to let smokers get their fix just so they're less stressed for the entire experience.

We have a smoking cage here at my work. It's a fenced in area outside that really looks and feels like a cage. I almost feel bad when I walk by it now, like I've let down my woke smoke buddies and have defected or something. I swear to God part of what keeps me an occasional smoker is that it still seems like an act of defiance somehow. Also, telling me that I shouldn't do something makes me want to do it 100x more about 80% of the time.

the only american airport where i've seen a smoking section is mccarran airport in vegas

lol yes, the box looked just like one of those

those are embarrassing. it makes you everyone inside look like some sort of bygone era sychiatric exhibit.

you can smoke and play slots at the same time!

it makes you everyone inside look like some sort of bygone era sychiatric exhibit.

which is what you WILL BE in the future

it seems like all east asian airports have smoking rooms xp

just wanna point out that i knew there was a "p" in "sychiatric"

just sayin

i havent had a cigarette in 82 days!!!!

i have also gained like 15lbs :(

One of my professors in college once called me out for just having smoked before going ot her office hours. I thought she was going to yell at me but instead he was like mMMMMMMM let me smell you, I miss it so!

I was on a patio last weekend (yay!!) and I was trying my best to keep my cigarette and its smoke from hitting the waitress who walked over to serve us.. she did the same thing! Said "when I can't go for a cigarette, this is the next best thing!" haha.

Smoking in NYC! E, will you buy me a pack of reasonably priced Marlboro's? I pay $8 here for my cigarettes, $12 would make me so sad.

people need to smoke more j's in public is the real truth here

― surm, Thursday, March 22, 2012 5:53 PM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I was just walking around in the sun in my lunch break and a dude rolled by in his car, blazing away. WAY TO TEASE THE OFFICE WORKERS, jerk. :(

lol sure I will :)

the cheapest brand of cigarettes in china costs $1 a pack :o

Yay!

In Cuba, everyone smokes everywhere. It was so neat (as a smoker) to be back in that zone - ashtrays on the bar counter, hotel lobbies, etc. They had an airport smoking room too. It was disgusting, but we still went in :P

o god that sounds so nice

It was amazing. The hotel we were at did not have walls, it was all open, so there was a constant breeze getting rid of the smoke. Ashtrays in the bathroom!

Hilariously (but not at the time) a group sat down at a group of couches we were on - we had already lit cigars when it was just us - and this last-minute addition bitch sits right across from me and starts glaring and coughing at me! They were French so I started insulting her under the breath to my husband in broken Frenglish, and then he and I ended up in an argument because he's impossibly polite and I can be a real asshole when wronged. So don't give smokers cuteye when you intrude on THEIR smoking bubble, because that ruined my night and I will forever hate that lady!

NOUS SOMMES DANS CUBA, MADEMOISELLE CHIEN. NOUS FUMIONS LES CIGARS ICI!!! My French is truly atrocious.

whats even worse than non-smoker pomp is french entitlement. i don't get it.

it's like the most clandestine form of European Purity there is.

Miami Int'l Airport boasts what it calls a "smoking terrarium," which is an area outside about the size of your terrace with palm trees surrounded on every side by concourse.

I saw a gen-u-wine smoking lounge in Atlanta as recently as 2008.

Male and female cig use around the world.

The areas where ppl smoke the most are not surprising to me because I already sort of knew that. The gender difference sort of is even though I suppose it shouldn't be. I've just never personally thought of smoking as a gendered thing even though I guess it obviously is.

Marlboro man marketing, ideas of it not being ladylike etc.

i gotta stop this.

maybe i will finally for this thread's ten year anniversary.

which would give me a year. to get hit by a truck before i had to quit.

Your president did it. Where's your Michelle?