tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post7620176516613734327..comments2024-02-06T07:57:54.467+00:00Comments on underdogs bite upwards: Smoky Drinky update.Leg-ironhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04932361799889315359noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-19853725098794652172010-07-23T13:51:16.437+01:002010-07-23T13:51:16.437+01:00Leg-iron -- slightly off-topic but you seem the ma...Leg-iron -- slightly off-topic but you seem the man to ask. What might you recommend to a new whisky drinker with a budget of up to, say, £20? How do you rate Grant's?Bobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-67454903216929389722010-07-20T00:18:31.211+01:002010-07-20T00:18:31.211+01:00Tell your arthritic friend to try smoking a joint ...Tell your arthritic friend to try smoking a joint of quality marijuana,if he hasn't already.<br />A few weeks ago you mentioned a smokey-drinker with teenagers who have started smoking dope.I had a bunch of mates who were in a similar situation.The parents of one teen decided to let them smoke it in his bedroom,with the conditon that homework,chores and cleanliness took priority.Their reasoning was that it was less dangerous upstairs than out in god knows where.His dad would pop in for a good toke on his way to bed because it helped him sleep and ease his bad back.<br />Drugs became a brick wall between me and my dad.Watching my mate and his dad share a joint really brought that home.They are all well adjusted men now,with decent jobs.They all still smoke dope.<br />I do find it disgraceful that 14 year old kids are exposed to drugs.When I was a late teenager,a dope dealer who dealt to kids would find himself ostracised by his own customers,nevermind the 'straight' neighbours.But that was nearly 30 years ago.Kids today can get hold of dope easier than fags and booze.If they have the opportunity to score it and come home to smoke it,they are spending less time with undesirables.Thats less exposure to harder drugs or criminal behaviour.Less chance of being picked up by the cops for passing a joint around..they class passing a joint as supply,which looks like drug dealing on a CRB check 10 years down the line.<br />So you can take this as an opportunity to teach your kids some kind of personal responsibility,trust,loyalty.Or you can watch them become strangers in their own home,with a big chunk of their lives off limits to you.Or do what Jack Straw did and grass your kid up to the cops.Why you would want to emulate that evil little shit,I don't know.If my dad had grassed me up,I would have never talked to him ever again.<br />Apols again for banging on about maryjane.northern smokernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-55154216165656718752010-07-19T00:52:43.202+01:002010-07-19T00:52:43.202+01:00Fausty - it wouldn't be worth their while chas...Fausty - it wouldn't be worth their while chasing someone with a couple of plants for their own use. Not unless tobacco was reclassified alongside marijuana. Otherwise they risk getting a smoking judge who might be very interested in hearing the technical details before throwing the case out.<br /><br />When the price gets to where it's worthwhile planting whole fields of it, well...Leg-ironhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04932361799889315359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-86252791432057283572010-07-19T00:50:34.990+01:002010-07-19T00:50:34.990+01:00Dave A - they'd argue that they aren't pre...Dave A - they'd argue that they aren't preventing further use, only that they have to scrutinise that use. Which implies that they have a right of veto of course.<br /><br /><br />Anon 16:02 - Hamas would ban women if they could. I wish they would, then we'd only have to worry about them for one last generation.Leg-ironhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04932361799889315359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-76670907409702927832010-07-18T21:13:06.273+01:002010-07-18T21:13:06.273+01:00"unless the grower *fails* to ...""unless the grower *fails* to ..."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-71911862449939131452010-07-18T21:10:52.846+01:002010-07-18T21:10:52.846+01:00Undoubtedly, councils are acting unlawfully and un...Undoubtedly, councils are acting unlawfully and unethically, fueled by PC. And in the "age of austerity", this kind of expenditure without results has to go. Hopefully, DaveA will help to make that happen.<br /><br />Slightly off topic, Leg-Iron - it seems that increasingly, more people are <a href="http://www.heirloomtobacco.com/Home_Page.php" rel="nofollow">growing and curing their own tobacco</a>.<br /><br />It's not illegal to do so, unless the grower declares it to the IR and pays taxes on it. But the IR has stated that it doesn't chase such cases because it has bigger fish to fry.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-82484317249421131982010-07-18T16:02:25.754+01:002010-07-18T16:02:25.754+01:00Hamas bans women from smoking water pipes in cafes...Hamas bans women from smoking water pipes in cafes<br /><br />http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38296242/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-46257598144770359002010-07-18T11:00:51.839+01:002010-07-18T11:00:51.839+01:00You can see the Norwich Council FOI request here:
...You can see the Norwich Council FOI request here:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/expenditure_etc_to_do_with_the_s#incoming-100906" rel="nofollow">http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/expenditure_etc_to_do_with_the_s#incoming-100906</a>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-20791427985589932632010-07-18T08:45:41.760+01:002010-07-18T08:45:41.760+01:00Hi Leg Iron,
I hope you are well.
Is it possible...Hi Leg Iron,<br /><br />I hope you are well.<br /><br />Is it possible you could send me the details as Eric Pickles the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government I am sure would be most interested. The whole idea of FOI requests is to bring government info into the public domain. Their request not to make the findings public are probably illegal.<br /><br />daveatherton20@hotmail.comDaveAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07249090980650806030noreply@blogger.com