No more Fags at Oxford

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A chap I once worked with while a non smoker himself had absolutely no objections to anyone else smoking, just as long as they were self contained (i.e. they smoked inside a plastic bag).
 
There are 2 main issues I have with smoking and chewing gum. The cigarette butts and the chewing gum Itself.
neither are biodegradable, I have less issue with roll ups without a filter, but of course many people think, done now and just sling the butt on the floor. Litter. I have to pay for people to clean that mess up.
Most Chewing gum does not degrade and we pay thousands for the councils to scrub it off the streets where again people can’t be arsed to bin it. It costs an absolute fortune to clean gum off the streets.

Now if those 2 things were dealt with
I would have less objections. For those of a certain age they will remember that you could pull the ring off a drink can and throw it away and the streets were littered with ring pulls Until the industry developed the system which completely removed the issue.
With smoking that just leaves the stink of the ash, for the smokers who dont agree I can best describe it as sitting down to dinner on a nice sunny day in the pub garden after someone has had a crap on a plate on the table and left it there. It really is that bad.
If I'm not eating then I have less of an issue, personally.
Of course the issue is raised of the nanny state and yes there is that, but should I be funding the nhs to cover the costs of the health care for people who smoke and are lining their lungs with tar? Nb: I have worked in the tobacco industry so I do have some knowledge of what your internals will look like after smoking. And of course despite that I did smoke myself For a long time.

It is a debate of freedom to smoke and freedom to not have to eat my dinner with the stink of the ash. Can they make the ash smell nicer? Put pots out that have lids on them to contain the stink? Get people to NOT THROW THEIR BUTTS ON THE FLOOR?

It's a toughie.
 
Fadcode said:
Apparently Oxford Council are going to ban smoking outdoors, throughout the city, and are authorising Council Wardens to give out tickets for anyone caught.
Although I am not a smoker, I do think that we are now seeing a reduction in our freedoms, I would imagine that smokers get some relief from smoking, and although dangerous to health no doubt is beneficial in stress relief etc, and I suppose it will have an ongoing effect on pub attendance , especially to those pubs that don't serve food, I mean you may as well stay at home with the beer from the supermarket and smoke at will.
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Same idiots couldn't enforce the covid UK wide rules about no households mixing, travelling etc but throw a load of money at a law that doesn't exist
 
Apparently only in outside offices and restaurants. I'm completely in favour of it, to be honest. As an ex-smoker myself, I do have a modicum of empathy, but the dangers of smoking are so well-established now that it's almost a deliberate act of irresponsibilitly to continue. And to be perfectly honest, I think it's absolutely pig-ignorant and arrogant of those smokers who expect people to walk through their fog of foul-smelling and dangerous smoke to enter or leave any building.

www.oxfordmail.co.uk

Oxfordshire considering smoking ban for outdoor hospitality seating

The strategy aims to reduce the overall prevalence of smoking in Oxfordshire to below 5 by 2025.
www.oxfordmail.co.uk www.oxfordmail.co.uk
 
Best thing ever to happen was banning smoking in pubs as you can see the type of clientele before you go in.
 
As a former prefect I expected this thread to be about something else.

Glad to know it is just cigarettes Which are to be outlawed. I feared senior boys might have to sit on a cold loo seat in future.
 
I'm not a smoker and hate seeing butts everywhere but these smoker wardens have no rights of arrest or to make you give your details. Your word against theirs. I absolutely wouldn't give them my details. How are they going to get people to pay up?
 
GOOD ! HORRID STICKING THINGS and if the other then Good its about time they rid of the grovelling little turds that will one day rule the world :doh: :rofl: god forbid ??

That chap Gove springs to mind bloody weazel ! bet he was a Fag sucking Git .
 
Bavarianbrit said:
The American SD members may wonder about this thread (a fag = in UK is the nickname for a cigarette).
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I knew that term from reading James Herriot All Creatures Great and Small series of books, the rest of the rhyming slang baffles me. Google has information to quasi teach people who haven't learned and it helps not at all.
 
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Godiva. £5
Score £20
Pony £25
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Ton. £100
Monkey £500
Bag of sand or Large £1,000
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For some of the slang here you'll be wanting to refer to Farmers:


That's not rhyming slang.....but this is:

Gypsy Nell = Hell
Farmer Giles = Piles
Geoff Duke = Puke
Marshall Smuts = Guts
Rory O'Moore = Floor
Two Bob Bits = Sh*ts

Hmmmmm......something of a common theme there.

Our American cousins should be warned that this type of slang becomes even more confusing in common usage, viz:

"Me Farmers are giving me Gyp and I've got trouble with me Marshalls - I was up all night with the Two Bob Bits and then Geoff Duke'd all over the Rory"
 
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