tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22799384.post3748332245206065860..comments2023-12-26T10:28:51.608-05:00Comments on The Bemused Muse: Save the whales!TMTWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03143205295749068093noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22799384.post-60527570538134278292007-08-01T15:10:00.000-05:002007-08-01T15:10:00.000-05:00I do not like porn so I don't visit porno movie ho...I do not like porn so I don't visit porno movie houses. If I decided that I do not want beef, I don't order it in a restaurant. Why then can't nonsmokers simply sit in the nonsmoking section rather than take up a table in a smoking section and then bitch about the smoke?<BR/><BR/>I don't smoke, but I also don't find the smell disgusting. Car fumes are worse than cigarette smoke. <BR/><BR/>I think the perfume is more disgusting than cigarettes because it's like some people take baths in it. They reek. I'd be happier smelling cigarette smoke and pipe tobacco smoke than cheap Walmart or Target perfume. <BR/><BR/>If you can't afford $60+ an ounce perfume, and you don't know how to apply it, then don't wear it. <BR/><BR/>I so agree with the fat kids being the parent's fault. There should be a fat tax and a junk food tax. If they tax the smokers because "health care for them costs money" then tax the damn junk food eaters because my tax dollars pay for their disability when they become too fat and unhealthy to work for a living. Fine parents $20 for every pound a child has over the "mildly obese" level. In other words, children who are morbidly obese, having 20 pounds over their normal and healthy range, should have parents paying $20 for every pound over that 20. Take that money and give it to the smokers to compensate them for all the assholes out there who are rude to them in restaurants. Heeeheee.<BR/><BR/>Love you Auty!<BR/><BR/>BookieAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22799384.post-22134815831351598792007-07-31T20:30:00.000-05:002007-07-31T20:30:00.000-05:00People need to be very careful about letting the g...People need to be <I>very</I> careful about letting the government decide what is good and what is not.<BR/><BR/>Tennessee recently began a series of tax increases on cigarettes "for the children". Supposedly, the money will go toward education. That is also what they said when they started the lottery here.<BR/><BR/>At this point, you would think that every child in TN would attend a wonderful school with the newest equipment and technology. Instead, my son shares books and I send dry-erase markers to school because there is not enough money for the school district to provide them.<BR/><BR/>The next thing?<BR/><BR/>A fat tax. Just wait. It's coming.<BR/><BR/>You want fries with that?Roadchickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10671418568557779263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22799384.post-27595713504796135332007-07-31T19:00:00.000-05:002007-07-31T19:00:00.000-05:00Hi YA ! ! WE just had the smoking ban passed here ...Hi YA ! ! WE just had the smoking ban passed here in Charleston South Carolina ,too! I, personally am GLAD ! Breathing in disgusting cigarette smoke whilst trying to enjoy a lovely meal is not very appetizing!!! ha! And The bars are now smokefree! I LOVE IT! Nothing worse than a person blowing smoke in your face and up your arse at the same time! ha! NOW....the horrible diets of Americans..that is quite another story!! Aieeee! whe nI was in college in the 70's I worked at MacDonalds..They had a meeting before every shift and one of the things I remember is..THe manager told us to always SAY..FRIES with that.? OH GOD! THat was the beginning!Pam Arieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14128538283620147478noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22799384.post-83049764256023089872007-07-31T03:11:00.000-05:002007-07-31T03:11:00.000-05:00Hi Toni,Love it...got to laugh (but it is not funn...Hi Toni,<BR/>Love it...got to laugh (but it is not funny is it). Your comment about 'fries' wih everything reminded me of my own Mother and an ex boyfriend. He passed a remark "This is the only place that you get a meal ....something and fries...and get fries as a side order" Actually his plate was piled that high he HAD TO ASK for another to remove some of those fries so he could find his meal.<BR/><BR/>No.....I am not saying my Mother brough us up to be bad eaters as we had fruit and veg, sweets (candy)only allowed on a Friday night, suppose it was an inherent thig of being a mum just after the second world war when food was scarce.<BR/><BR/>OK...we did not have computers but we were one of the lucky few to have a TV and that viewing was restricted to an HOUR Monday through Friday and that was on the understanding that out homework was done from school. It was more of "You all out in the back yard...football, skipping rope...my hula hoop..."<BR/><BR/>Today there are to many 'convenience foods' people either have just gotten to lazy to cook, or, many just do not know how to. My own daughter used to go shopping with my mum and me on a Saturday. She had some money and her own trolley...her task? Buy the food for dinner that day and then cook it for mum and me..That was when she was 10 years old.<BR/><BR/>So today...20 in a couple of weeks she has progressed from being a Chef at the local restaurant to being the Kitchen Manager and I am proud of her. Being nearly 6ft tall she is not overweight, she eats healthy and comes in at a UK size 14....forget the American size zero...that is NOT HEALTHY.<BR/><BR/>Bless you for including my no smoking thing.<BR/><BR/>Pauline xAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com