The wife has just read through this thread and now wants to know where this place is.......
Send 'er round to mine.
Mr. Sheerline is the only man to say it how it is. It all boils down to consideration. I love smoking, but I hate to see non-smokers wince as they're forced to inhale smelly smoke -- more so when they're eating.
My old Momma, she raised us on 'baccy, beer and clean clothes. So it's not hard to ask someone, say, in a pub or restuarant, if they mind you smoking, before lighting one up. Nine times out of ten they usually don't mind anyway - it is a pub / restuarant after all. And if they do mind, or if they're eating, then you simply sidle over to the juke box or shoot some pool and smoke at that end of the room.
Recall the scene from The Politician's Wife where the powers-that-be are sat in The Commons, puffing their cigars... in the smoking room. I wonder if the new law applies there also?
But Cat-on-an-engine's thread caught my eye because it says herbal in the title. But I didn't realise it was a question of morality - I thought it was a snippet about herbal fags. Spliffs... ganja... Bob Hope.... etc.
I was pleasantly surprised to hear Bob Wozniak telling the world how he "shared a few joints with his buddies" while talking computers. An old floozy of mine would say, "a contradiction in terms.". She was right. A genius like HIM?... smoking marajuana??!!!
So why do they say dope makes you dopey? How come dopey Wozniak got loads of $$$?
Gents, this latest law might just go the same way as the poll tax fiasco. Besides, The Blue Boar is the meanest, roughest snot-pit in town. I'm there last weekend and even the Plod are there enjoying a smoke. The week previous I'm at the swanky Walnut Tree Hotel, here in this village. Same attitude.... at one end stays the smokers, at the other end stays the non-smokers and diners. Somewhere in the middle is the bar where both sides congregate and dirink the place dry.
Last word to Mr. Sheerline...
Sire, my vocabulary doesn't normally do 'politician'. Can I ask you a couple questions?...
1) Have you ever considered being a politician? (Sounds like you'd be a good 'un).
2) Have you ever considered that vacancy for Knight Of The Round Table?
3) Did not some flooze Cleopatra kick-up a bit of stink when some bozo tried invading her rights?
4) Can you name the man who discovered longitude?
Final word to the whole group...
Gentlemen, apologies for hi-jacking this thread, but can you bear with me while I get this mssg out. Namely, a call to Dave Jacket and Bluebird:
Dudes, moving to new QTH tomorrow. Give me a couple days to get settled in and get the new ISP hook-up. I'll holler from there.
If either of you can fathom-out why the Mayhem site is the only place where my missives don't get bounced back....
Thanks one and all.