tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post2000382317764998367..comments2024-02-06T07:57:54.467+00:00Comments on underdogs bite upwards: The Eve of the War.Leg-ironhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04932361799889315359noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-4563638446199212952010-02-24T00:09:00.293+00:002010-02-24T00:09:00.293+00:00I *think* I heard that the US mandates that an ant...I *think* I heard that the US mandates that an antidote is added to their version of paracetamol? Hence they are safer.<br /><br />Seem to recall some consternation over here because we refused to take the same approach but instead limited purchases.John Pickworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02166443099429490782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-82117174516359782312010-02-23T23:30:34.648+00:002010-02-23T23:30:34.648+00:00The US might find changes are on the way. Once the...The US might find changes are on the way. Once the State controls their health, it's only a matter of time before they decide to 'improve' it.Leg-ironhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04932361799889315359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-23374025277442090082010-02-23T22:50:17.131+00:002010-02-23T22:50:17.131+00:00One is permitted to purchase 32 paracetamol in one...One is permitted to purchase 32 paracetamol in one go from anywhere, including pharmacies. I find this risible, given that a dozen of the things are sufficient to lead to a slow lingering suicide on life support (with someone like me beside you saying I told you so).<br /><br />I've been watching this stealthy shifting of the boundaries of what you can buy pharmaceutical-wise, with unannounced changes steadily driving down our freedom to choose. While alcohol may be a prime target for control and restriction, there are other quieter fronts in this war on coercion for our own good.<br /><br />Meanwhile in the U.S. they will sell you tubs of 500 paracetamol with no limit on how many tubs you may have in one go. Go figure.PT Barnumnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-90436080548509156192010-02-23T22:20:49.980+00:002010-02-23T22:20:49.980+00:00Laughing cavalier - I know where I can get some du...Laughing cavalier - I know where I can get some duck eggs...Leg-ironhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04932361799889315359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-78265838780063407002010-02-23T22:20:19.882+00:002010-02-23T22:20:19.882+00:00I've heard people complain that they can't...I've heard people complain that they can't buy more than one pack of paracetamol at a time. Yet it's fine if they go through the tills with one pack, then five minutes later go through the same till with another pack.<br /><br />Never touch the things myself. Whisky cures everything.<br /><br />Well, okay, it doesn't really cure anything. You'll still be ill. You just won't mind so much.Leg-ironhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04932361799889315359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-75011619576478617762010-02-23T22:16:43.237+00:002010-02-23T22:16:43.237+00:00John P - 'souls to save'? More like souls ...John P - 'souls to save'? More like souls to collect!<br /><br />JuliaM - Teaspoon or dessert spoon? If it's Ed Balls you could do it with a ladle.Leg-ironhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04932361799889315359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-19286218840953103452010-02-23T22:14:35.892+00:002010-02-23T22:14:35.892+00:00Frank - I stand corrected. Duly adjusted in the te...Frank - I stand corrected. Duly adjusted in the text for accuracy.Leg-ironhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04932361799889315359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-38368709570646976182010-02-23T22:09:22.906+00:002010-02-23T22:09:22.906+00:00Handy SOLUTION for hand wafters,
head shakers and ...Handy SOLUTION for hand wafters,<br />head shakers and forced coughers<br /><br />1 overipe duck egg<br />1 tablespoon bleach<br />1 tablespoon vinegar<br />1 airtight jar<br />1 kiddies water pistol<br /><br />Mix ingredients well and leave in<br />sealed jar for 1 week<br />Pour carefully(nose clamp reccomended) into pistol<br />Proceed to bar popular with hand<br />wafting fraternity/<br />Discretely squit liberal application of duck essence onto<br />rear of wafters attire.<br /><br />Retire to distant corner , wait<br />for a minute or two and enjoy.<br />Try to avoid going red in the face<br />to avoid disclosure.<br /><br /><br />The Laughing CavalierAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-72236055709933995672010-02-23T20:50:34.011+00:002010-02-23T20:50:34.011+00:00As a committed, life-long Pipe smoker .. I'd d...As a committed, life-long Pipe smoker .. I'd dearly love to know precisely how "Cancer" smells ..<br /><br />My response to this interfering old trollop would have been along the lines of .. "Well, do us and yourself a favour and stop breathing" ...<br /><br />I agree with the comments regarding the "Third Degree" to which were all now subjected when buying products containing Codeine .. I find it amazing that a mere shop assistant, with no qualifications is permitted to grill me as to my lifestyle .. <br /><br />They could in fact have been working on the bacon counter at the Co-op last week & in Dolcis next week ..<br /><br />I had a run-in with one such individual in Boots recently .. she told me "I have a duty of care" .. I told her she had a duty to serve me and that if she didn't .. I'd go spend my money elsewhere ..Captain Haddocknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-12071500558356168552010-02-23T14:17:52.786+00:002010-02-23T14:17:52.786+00:00I'm no engineer but pissing on a live rail doe...I'm no engineer but pissing on a live rail doesn't sound like a great idea.naturalnoblehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06577233061177704698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-90832075796738106262010-02-23T12:46:26.682+00:002010-02-23T12:46:26.682+00:00A spoon?! You could have someone's eye out wit...A spoon?! You could have someone's eye out with a spoon!<br /><br />OK, you have to wiggle it around a bit, but it's possible...<br /><br />Julia.<br /><br />You owe me a new keyboard. I've just spat coffee all over it!The Filthy Engineerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07584236558282159183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-31997128277108846312010-02-23T11:04:17.257+00:002010-02-23T11:04:17.257+00:00A spoon?! You could have someone's eye out wit...A spoon?! You could have someone's eye out with a spoon!<br /><br />OK, you have to wiggle it around a bit, but it's possible...JuliaMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07844126589712842477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-17358265121674545552010-02-23T08:38:07.216+00:002010-02-23T08:38:07.216+00:00On a somewhat related piece of government nonsense...On a somewhat related piece of government nonsense which had passed me by til yesterday, it is now against the rules to buy two products from a pharmacy both containing codeine. This change happened three months ago. The consequences of this? As a chronic sufferer of migraines I can either buy one box of expensive branded pills to treat the initial stages and subsequent headache. Or I can choose to buy the branded product for the initial stages and then go to another pharmacy to buy a dirt cheap generic for the rest, when previously I've been able to buy both at the same time.<br /><br />Oh, and it's also not permissable to buy Day Nurse and Night Nurse at the same time for your colds anymore. You may however purchase a box containing small quantities of both.<br /><br />They really do think we are cretinous children who cannot be trusted with anything more dangerous than a spoon and blancmange.P.T. Barnumnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-3222492313365638912010-02-23T07:16:12.732+00:002010-02-23T07:16:12.732+00:00"The actions of an attempted murder or could ...<i>"The actions of an attempted murder or could it be, just maybe, that all he wanted was for her to go away? Could it be that he did not intend to push her off the platform at all?"</i><br /><br />Indeed. If his defence is any good, he'll make a meal out of this.JuliaMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07844126589712842477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-41624098405680716212010-02-23T04:59:38.002+00:002010-02-23T04:59:38.002+00:00It's a horrible story and if the truth actuall...It's a horrible story and if the truth actually was printed in all the papers in all the land and on all the TV and internet sites, the actual facts as they really are, this story in particular forced reading to everyone living and to all students in schools and universities, the whole idea of a smoking ban would become so repulsive to the majority of people that they would remain silent no more while such Nazi inspired brutality, hatred and injustice is permitted to run its course daily through every crook and cranny throughout the land. The fact such a thing goes on is testament to how fascist and hateful our government has gotten and the people begging for such a government by endorsing anti-smoking, are receiving what they asked. Tell me there'll be liberties for the next generation or the one after that and I can only see these kids and grandkids growing up in a world not unlike what Hiter's youths grew up, and this - this today, are what the majority of people are asking for their own children and grandchildren, through their failure to stand up for hateful atrocities against smokers as is outlined in this true story. How very sad to see a free society destroyed - and simply through the fact of spreading a hatred against a puff of smoke. Pure evil is what thought that one up - pure and utter evil from hell.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-18249997842866576772010-02-23T04:30:31.792+00:002010-02-23T04:30:31.792+00:00"if smoking means dying young, at least i won..."if smoking means dying young, at least i wont have to listen to you anymore"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-34610520085337372912010-02-23T01:08:25.793+00:002010-02-23T01:08:25.793+00:00"Is it me or are all vehement faux coughers a...<i>"Is it me or are all vehement faux coughers and sniffers middle class white women?"</i><br /><br />They often seem to be but not exclusively so.<br /><br />Reminds me of a Blog I used to regularly read (sadly no longer online) where a western chap detailed his life living in Thailand. <br /><br />A reoccurring topic was the huge numbers of American and European do-gooders roaming Bangkok's streets trying to free all 'n' sundry from the sex industry, drugs or a multitude of other vices. Invariably, he'd call them 'Fat White Cows'. Often employed by an NGO, charity or other organization to free the natives from 'our interpretation' of repression. However, sometimes these FWC's were independent travelers; for example UK public sector workers taking 3 months off work (presumingly processing parking fines for a council) to spend their free time (who's paying for this I wonder) trawling the bars and clubs of Pattaya or Ko Samui looking for souls to save.<br /><br />Now you'd be forgiven for thinking this is a worthwhile enterprise, something that should be done in a 'think of the children' kind of way? Possibly. But Thailand isn't our country and like it or not, they have their own way to live (and sometimes shady ways of making that living). What right do we have to meddle? More importantly, who's funding this? <br /><br />Who's paying for public sector workers to take 3 or 6 months off while they swan around the world bring Jesus to others? Who do you think is funding British police officers while they patrol with their Thai equivalents in Bangkok? The NGOs and the Charities?<br /><br />These are the righteous in action and they've been doing it for years... and having honed their skills abroad, the Fat White Cows and their friends are coming home to torment us here too.John Pickworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02166443099429490782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-17809693796127545802010-02-22T23:42:18.798+00:002010-02-22T23:42:18.798+00:00"Lots of Labour's imported classes smoke...."Lots of Labour's imported classes smoke."<br /><br />Now there's a thought! A proper multi-cultural movement which seeks to foster racial harmony through the pursuit of an historic ritual.<br /><br />Is it me or are all vehement faux coughers and sniffers middle class white women?P.T. Barnumnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-22922651107386186142010-02-22T23:18:14.127+00:002010-02-22T23:18:14.127+00:00I meant "(or not)" as in "nationali...I meant "(or not)" as in "nationalist", not as in a smoker, as we all know that comes below paedophilia and murder in the taboo list. Apologies. Sigh.Corrugated Soundbitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17305817712647242394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-64250505028194713402010-02-22T23:15:25.384+00:002010-02-22T23:15:25.384+00:00"Romanian Rapisca, of Joyce Green Lane, Dartf..."<b>Romanian</b> Rapisca, of Joyce Green Lane, Dartford, denies grievous bodily harm with intent and two alternative charges of GBH and assault occasioning actual bodily harm."<br /><br />Intriguing how the Mail goes nationalist when the bloke concerned is a smoker (or not). <br /><br />The fake coughs, the dirty looks. I now want to light up in places I never dreamed of lighting up before. The only thing that stops me is that it's what the establishment want. The more of us smoke, and the more often we smoke, the more cash they think they can cream off when the Big Pharma scam a few years down the line kicks off (I look forward to seeing you at our mandatory patch 'n' gum sessions, and DP ought to put in an appearance too ;-)). <br /><br />Lots of Labour's imported classes smoke. You'll find me with the immigrants when it all kicks off.Corrugated Soundbitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17305817712647242394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-89526519403701187322010-02-22T22:47:00.497+00:002010-02-22T22:47:00.497+00:00his is based on a world where smokers and non-smok...<i> his is based on a world where smokers and non-smokers are approaching open warfare,</i> <br /><br />Strictly speaking, it's a world where smokers are declaring war on anti-smokers rather than non-smokers.<br /><br />Reality has caught up with that yet.Frank Davishttp://frank-davis.livejournal.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-51552962986343054532010-02-22T22:05:36.422+00:002010-02-22T22:05:36.422+00:00Indeed, LI. Gloves are off.
It will be interesti...Indeed, LI. Gloves are off. <br /><br />It will be interesting when government finally make our legal pastime illegal. If they have the balls, of course.Dick Puddlecotehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01481866882188932892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-14557820193599527512010-02-22T22:02:42.545+00:002010-02-22T22:02:42.545+00:00Richard - I'm impressed. Then again, nowadays ...Richard - I'm impressed. Then again, nowadays that antismoker would just call the Smoke Police.<br /><br />I'd never smoke in a food shop either, even when it was allowed. Now, I'm find the urge harder and harder to resist.Leg-ironhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04932361799889315359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-72605673882733461972010-02-22T22:01:08.907+00:002010-02-22T22:01:08.907+00:00Filthy Engineer - it would be tempting. The gloves...Filthy Engineer - it would be tempting. The gloves have to come off sometime or we'll all be in Smoker Ghettoes, ring a bell and shout 'unclean' wherever we go and have to wear 'warning - third hand smoke' badges.<br /><br />There'll be one of the rabid drones along in a moment to agree that we should indeed be doing exactly that.<br /><br />Oh, why wait? It must be possible to get those badges made up now.Leg-ironhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04932361799889315359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-22853471433537427892010-02-22T21:58:09.412+00:002010-02-22T21:58:09.412+00:00Not to worry, Mummy. Reality is a bit fuzzy at the...Not to worry, Mummy. Reality is a bit fuzzy at the moment because Labour are busy changing it. Soon we will all 'remember' that the Tories have been running the country for the last 13 years and now it's time for the Brown Gorgon to step in and fix it all.<br /><br />Seriously. That's the whole of their strategy. 'It was all a dream'.<br /><br />When we wake, Bobby Ewing will be alive again.Leg-ironhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04932361799889315359noreply@blogger.com