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I assumed the smell was what was being objected to. Of vaping that is, not liberalism.

i was wondering if it caused respiratory issues for some ppl in which case fair enough. if it's jsut the smell then get rid of cars first and then we'll talk

liberalism doesn't smell that great either these days

weed smells good

I assumed the smell was what was being objected to. Of vaping that is, not liberalism.

https://ilarge.lisimg.com/image/22657703/740full-night-train-to-lisbon-screenshot.jpg9

Look I thought this was a judgement free zone. Of course ban cars. Ban everything. Murder me.

ban cars

Take it to the reveal your cool revolutionary beliefs thread.

weed smells good

My uncool conservative belief is it smells like shit. Not literally.

sounds like the people smoking near you just haven't found the right strain

It smells good when you're smoking it, terrible when you're not.

weed smells good, so does tobacco and petrol.

No they don't. Paraffin does though.

Tobacco also smells good when you're smoking it. Gasoline smells great at all times (cue 'Gasoline Dreams').

yeah that's good too.

bad smells: burnt hair, moxibustion smoke, halva

Also bad:

Semen Smell

I don't want to necro this thread but it had to be acknowledged somehow.

sounds like the people smoking near you just haven't found the right strain

It's not so much people smoking it as people who've smoked so much of it they stink of it.

I mean if I am walking past someone in the street and they are smoking tobacco or weed or most vape fluids, that's generally a good smell, but any of these infused into stale clothes with sweat are bad.

the weird semen smell from whatever tree that is, it's not offensive but I don't enjoy it

The linden tree? Per that Mitchell and Webb sketch? I never got that at all. Those smells have nothing in common.

I don't know if it's the linden, it really does smell like fruity cum though

it's the bradford pear tree, big tree with white flowers all over in the spring

This is a bit of a tangent but I was really confused when I found out Brits call linden tea 'lime flower tea'. I mean, lime trees are something else entirely.

Was confused about this in a book I just read (Bringing Up the Bodies, maybe):

Tilia is a genus of about 30 species of trees or bushes, native throughout most of the temperate Northern Hemisphere. The tree is known as linden for the European species, and basswood for North American species. In Britain and Ireland they are commonly called lime trees or lime bushes, although they are not closely related to the tree that produces the lime fruit.

semen and weed both smell amazing sheesh

i mean they gotta be fresh otherwise yeah they smell bad

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/under-the-yum-yum-tree/

Male gingko trees, when fruiting, can smell pretty nastily of sex.

As for

It smells good when you're smoking it, terrible when you're not.

This is true of most smokables and most smokers ime. When you're smoking something, it's on fire right underneath your nose. So it smells fine to you because you immediately become nose-blind to it. Everyone around you? Not so much.

Hence, smokers frequently don't understand why nonsmokers are annoyed by the smell of smoke
And nonsmokers don't understand why smokers don't understand their annoyance.

It smells good when you're smoking it, terrible when you're not.

i prefer the smell when someone else is smoking it, especially at a distance. it's sweeter? and i love the smell of weed itself (like, not being smoked) best

Flopson, in my youth I loved the smell of pipe tobacco, but only when someone else was smoking - when I smoked a pipe myself it wasn't nearly as nice (because of the nise-blind phenomenon). My college roommate and I would sometimes take turns for precisely that reason.

Also I have always loved the smell of cigarettes before they're burned. I used to live in a city where when the wind was right you could smell the tobacco drying in barns and it was lovely.

tobacco pre-burnt smells like raisins to me

It's the sweet chestnut that smells of semen. Around June/July, when they're flowering, the woods fair reek of jizz.

there are too many people on the planet.

this one really seems to rile up left-leaning people but i just don't see how it's not true. yes, we have immense capacity for reducing our footprints. yes, often the next step taken from this baseline statement is to start talking about how to reduce that population, which is An Unspeakable Sin, Apparently. but i just think it's so hubristic to deny it. we are animals. the same rules apply to us as other animal populations, broadly speaking.

the most egalitarian way to address this would be to start pushing male birth control hard, but since most of the world seems to be driven by men having unbridled access to women's bodies as property, it seems a change of heart there is unlikely. so capitalism interlocking with colonialism and racism is going to do the "thinnning out" in a very not-egalitarian fashion for us.

Population decline tends to take care of itself.

The reason people yell at you is that any policy measures aimed at population control have a pretty eugenicist stink on them. It's not like it'd be less racist.

It is very funny and strange to me that declining birth rates make economists upset

But yeah when the earth's carrying capacity for humans declines you will have fewer humans, also fertility has been declining globally for decades already https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/06/17/worlds-population-is-projected-to-nearly-stop-growing-by-the-end-of-the-century/

the malthusian issue will only come into play if we actually make the radical changes to our way of life that are required by climate change and then that's the issue that is left over. as that is not going to happen people should have all the kids they want.

just be aware that they live til they're old things will probably suck ass (i kind of want to have a kid despite this)

lol map I appreciate you not beefing with me on FB regarding this, I hear what u are saying but yeah fertility just keeps going down, nature bats last, etc.

Adults shouldn’t use slang.

that sentence slaps

calm

I can't enjoy the deaths of even the very worst murderers and the celebrations online make me feel really queasy.

If they are evil politicians, otoh, I can wholeheartedly join in with the fun.

tbf the worst murderers fail to kill anyone. evil politicians succeed.

if you want to listen to or watch something on public transport you should wear headphones

ppl blasting stuff out of their cars I'm ok with tho

I don't think it's particularly conservative to want people to be baseline courteous when everyone around them is trapped in a tiny box. We even have explicit rules against that behavior on our public transport.

Does it make me conservative to say 95% of the time I hate the music blasting out of cars though? I live in a neighborhood where just the worst garbage driveltunes are blasted to the max with an inverse relationship between taste and volume. Coupled with all those modifications to also make the car itself (engine) as loud as possible as well.

Yeah this no headphones in public thing is getting horrible

The Guardian sends two people on a blind date to a restaurant every week and then asks them about it, this was this week's

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/oct/16/blind-date-andrew-marta

Any awkward moments?
A man on the next table was watching a horror film loudly on his laptop. The constant screams were a tad awkward.