jlb1705 said:
I figure that at least that way, I'll get a fucking filter.
I just sat at the bar with my friends and watched the game, while they sat there and smoked probably an entire carton between them. Second-hand, I probably ingested as much of that bullshit as they did.
Yeah, but your friends are also inhaling the second hand smoke without a filter, so they're still getting more than you.
I know that I should have expected something like that in the environment I was putting myself in. Still, is it too much to ask to be able to go out in public and not have to come home with a stuffy nose, a throat full of phlegm, a splitting headache, and clothes that smell like a chimeny?
You can go out in public and avoid cigarette smoke at the same time, too. Try to avoid places like bars where people will be smoking, it's not that difficult.
Seriously though, you weren't being obnoxious, so I won't bash you for it, but I will use this opportunity for a general rant. I'm so tired of hearing people complain about the smoky smell they get from going to bars, or the people who will sit in the smoking section of a restaurant (because the table was the first one open) and then fake cough super loud whenever someone lights a cigarrette.
If you don't like smoke, don't go where the smoke is.
Here's something for you while we're on the subject (sort of) of goverment regulation where it (maybe) shouldn't be:
I got a noise violation about 3 years ago on 4th street between downtown and campus. I was listening to the radio in my old '94 Camry (all stock), and it wasn't even up all the way. I got pulled over and the cop was explaining how far away she was and could hear my music and all that, when some guy on a Harley rides by and practically blows out my eardrums. She asked if I understood and I said "no, I couldn't hear you over the exhaust of that motorcycle that just drove by." She re-explained my ticket and sent me on my way.
How in the hell can it be illegal for my car radio to be heard from 50 feet away, but not illegal for a motorcycle exhaust to rattle the fillings out of my mouth from 500 feet away?
I'm not going to preview this post, because I want to look at it in a couple days and see what it says. I had my wisdom teeth pulled the other day and I'm pretty lit up on pain medication right now. I don't even remember what this thread is about. I hope it's not about the game last night......here goes.