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Durleyfos

Durleyfos

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Do what I did and take up masturbation instead. That's not illegal as long as you confine yourself to one of the traps in the toilet and it has the added bonus of being quicker than a fag (so to speak)

 

You still on 20 a day?

Big Bad Bob

Big Bad Bob

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I'm fairly sure that football grounds weren't included in the smoking ban but the football league chose to impose its own ban on it anyway.

 

The bowl at SMS has always been non-smoking, you've been able to smoke in the concourse before the ban came into place.

 

Even if they changed it so that you could smoke in the bowl you still wouldn't be allowed to smoke in the concoursi

jawillwill

jawillwill

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Complete & utter toss that there isn't a small little out-of-the-way area for us smokers at SMS. I laugh at the amount of pubs going out of business. The whinging landlords bleat that it's due to superstores selling beer really cheap & they can't compete. Bollix. The reason so many pubs are going out of business is twofold; 1) the service a lot of pubs offer is complete CRAP! and 2) the smoking ban. If I walk down the High Street & there are 2 pubs - one with a sign in the window saying 'STRICTLY NO SMOKING PUB' - and the other with a sign saying 'DIRTY OLD SMOKERS WELCOME' - I have the freedom to choose which one I want to drink a pint in. Alas though - that isn't an option anymore as your good old 'New Labour' have seen to that. So now - pubs are closing at an alarming rate (damn shame) and I spend my money instead at Morrisons where I can buy a crate of 20 bottles of Becks for a bloody tenner!

 

You may well scoff. But I watched tonight's BBC News where there was a report that the government is "considering" introducing speed restrictors in your average car - in order to prevent you breaking the speed limit!!! And they're also "considering" rating every internet site with a certificate - just like the movies!!! And 2009 sees the very first introduction of - wait for it - a licence to go...sea fishing!!! It's only "optional" at the moment - but how long before it becomes compulsory? I think we know the answer to that. So yes - you may not have a gripe about us smokers not having just a tiny segment of concrete to stand in at SMS during a game - but isn't life "supposed" to be all about freedom of choice??? Apparently not...

 

 

I think all of them are good ideas to be fair. I don't see why I should have smoke blown in my face whereever I go (in fact I think most people are fairly lenient with it. I believe the law states you can't smoke within about 10m of an entrance to a public place, but I still have to take a deep breath everytime I try and get into a pub etc).

Speed limiters on cars? Surely thats fair enough. If it slows down even one ***tish driver or saves at least one childs life, it's probably worth it.

Ratings for internet sites. Again so what. I assume you're over 18, so it won't effect you in any way, but it'd be nice to know how suitable the content of a site is before you click on it if you're browsing the web with children.

A lisense for sea fishing? So what? They've had lisences for river fishing so why is the sea any different.

 

Some people really do like to whinge about everything.

PhilB

PhilB

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Even with a designated area the smoke drifts into clean areas, polluting it, forcing all us goody goodies to take up your filthy disgusting self centred habit. Best thing that ever happened was to ban smoking in public places...I love it.

Dan Johnson

Dan Johnson

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i was ejected from the ground at half time on sunday for smoking in the concourse.

i know what all you goody goodies are gonna say and maybe quite rightly so, but, after queueing for a beer for ages and the game about to restart, i found a quiet corner away from everybody else and what i thought was out of sight of the gestapo and tried to have a few quick puffs.

big mistake, over came half a dozen of the clubs finest and threw me out.

i had a few choice words for him, (i'd had a few beers) but went fairly quietly.

this brings me to my point

i've been finding it pretty easy to miss games as it is, can't make evenings, quite a few on tv etc, you get out the habit, but as i said at the start of the season, i will not go untill i can go for a fag at half time in a designated smoking area.

obviously, i let that one slip a bit but now i am determined not to set foot in there untill i am catered for.

 

 

Had a simaliar problem on a plane a few months ago... I wasnt allowed out for a smoke mid flight, I shall not be flying again!

 

Considering the state of the aviation industry, and the lack of people flying due to the credit crunch, you'd have thought this situation would have been resolved to ensure customers flew again!

Cricketphilly

Cricketphilly

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No it doesn't bother me about whingers breathing in my smoke. In Tenerife some English woman with a face like she'd swallowed a wasp came over moaning at breakfast about my smoke wafting over. I suggested she sit outside if she didn't like it.:D

 

P.S pubs are **** in england now hardly anyone drinks in them anymore thanks to the smoking ban. It's another example of how Brown and the lefties have destroyed the economy.

 

You were smoking at breakfast as well? You sound like a class act.

londonsaint1604

londonsaint1604

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Even with a designated area the smoke drifts into clean areas, polluting it, forcing all us goody goodies to take up your filthy disgusting self centred habit. Best thing that ever happened was to ban smoking in public places...I love it.

 

Fair point. I don't smoke any more, but the smoking ban was a complete joke and has played a big part in closing down thousands of pubs in this country.

Chez

Chez

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I am, in a way sympathetic to the fact that, maybe there should be an outer concourse, where smokers could go to feed their habit. However, this would be expensive to set-up and would have to be properly stewarded.

 

I don't see why it would be expensive to set up at all. A small section for each home stand cordened off using a few temporary fences (like they have near the ticket office) with three or four stewards for each section. I doubt any extra stewards would need to be employed at all. Besides if you have paid your money for entry you should be able to come in and out of the ground as and when you want. Worst case scenario is that you have to queue to get back in, but so what that would be your choice.

 

Where there is a will there is a way. Unfortunately there is NO will at the club and that is what some supporters appear to be complaining about on hear. Just like public houses, SFC needs to work around these new laws. Every paying fan needs to be accomodated as best as possible and this seems to be a relatively pain free way of pleasing people IMO. Oh and for the record I don't smoke.

Chez

Chez

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Had a simaliar problem on a plane a few months ago... I wasnt allowed out for a smoke mid flight, I shall not be flying again!

 

Considering the state of the aviation industry, and the lack of people flying due to the credit crunch, you'd have thought this situation would have been resolved to ensure customers flew again!

 

nice sarcasm, but unless I'm mistaken there is not an option to step outside the plane as there is at a football stadium.

Bourne Valley Saint

Bourne Valley Saint

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A bloke lit up behind me in the Kingsland on Saturday. He asked the bloke next to him if he minded and the bloke said he did and that if the stewards saw him he'd be chucked out. He had a couple of puffs and put it out fortunatley as I was just about to point out to him that it was against the ground regulations. Ignorant **** seeing as I also had my 4 and 5 year old girls sitting right in front of him.

 

As I had the children with me I left one minute before time and watched the last bit on the tv screen on the concourse. The bloke I ended up standing next to had a fag on the go and the smoke was wafting across our faces, so I moved away.

 

What is it with these ignorant people that they think they can flout the laws just so they can satisfy their craving? I've also taken the girls to the loo at half time (Gents toilet - but they are very young) only to walk into a smoke filled cubicle because the previous occupant has been having a crafty fag.

 

I know that there are some people who can't go more than 45 minutes without a fag so rather than inflict their habit on the rest of us, please just stay away.

Whitey Grandad

Whitey Grandad

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I was at the Dell one evening, East Stand, and there were a couple of young teenage girls in front of me who were desperate for a fag. I explained that it was no-smoking because of the wooden stand and I asked them if they knew about the big fire at Bradford. They had never heard of it. Don't they teach them anything at school these days?

solentstars

solentstars

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A bloke lit up behind me in the Kingsland on Saturday. He asked the bloke next to him if he minded and the bloke said he did and that if the stewards saw him he'd be chucked out. He had a couple of puffs and put it out fortunatley as I was just about to point out to him that it was against the ground regulations. Ignorant **** seeing as I also had my 4 and 5 year old girls sitting right in front of him.

 

As I had the children with me I left one minute before time and watched the last bit on the tv screen on the concourse. The bloke I ended up standing next to had a fag on the go and the smoke was wafting across our faces, so I moved away.

 

What is it with these ignorant people that they think they can flout the laws just so they can satisfy their craving? I've also taken the girls to the loo at half time (Gents toilet - but they are very young) only to walk into a smoke filled cubicle because the previous occupant has been having a crafty fag.

 

I know that there are some people who can't go more than 45 minutes without a fag so rather than inflict their habit on the rest of us, please just stay away.

it shows how sad and pathtic they are.
SaintRobbie

SaintRobbie

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i was ejected from the ground at half time on sunday for smoking in the concourse.

i know what all you goody goodies are gonna say and maybe quite rightly so, but, after queueing for a beer for ages and the game about to restart, i found a quiet corner away from everybody else and what i thought was out of sight of the gestapo and tried to have a few quick puffs.

big mistake, over came half a dozen of the clubs finest and threw me out.

i had a few choice words for him, (i'd had a few beers) but went fairly quietly.

this brings me to my point

i've been finding it pretty easy to miss games as it is, can't make evenings, quite a few on tv etc, you get out the habit, but as i said at the start of the season, i will not go untill i can go for a fag at half time in a designated smoking area.

obviously, i let that one slip a bit but now i am determined not to set foot in there untill i am catered for.

 

 

Did they ask you to stop smoking before throwing you out? Frankly you shouldnt smoke - but the stewards/Lowestapo should have at least requested politely that you stopped. If they did and you delivered choice words then I can understand why they made you leave, but if not... tut tut 'family-oriented' and 'fan-oriented' club.

Deppo

Deppo

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I think the club should put a few suicide booths around the ground. They've got them in the year 3000.

 

You've either been listening to Busted or Dr Octagon.

saintwarwick

saintwarwick

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Did they ask you to stop smoking before throwing you out? Frankly you shouldnt smoke - but the stewards/Lowestapo should have at least requested politely that you stopped. If they did and you delivered choice words then I can understand why they made you leave, but if not... tut tut 'family-oriented' and 'fan-oriented' club.

 

Why do the stewards need to ask him to stop when it's clearly advertised and has been for some time that it is a non smoking stadium. He (smoker) should never have lit up in the first place as he know's it's against the law. As for the 'family oriented' club the smoker clearly didn't give a toss where he blew his smoke bearing in mind there are kids watching.

Julian H. Cope

Julian H. Cope

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You've either been listening to Busted or Dr Octagon.

I do have the Dr.Octagon album. I got the idea from Episode 1 of Futurama.

 

And what league are we in? I'm dying to know.

We are away to Sigue Sigue Sputnik United in the Pukka Pies Give you Dysentry League 9.

hamster

hamster

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And what league are we in? I'm dying to know.

 

According to all sources we are in the top division. Yay!

 

...of the European Super League. Yay!

 

.....and the currrent holders of......

 

.....the intergalactice......

 

..............mixed species..........

 

..................mixed sex................

 

Hockey World Cup.

Whitey Grandad

Whitey Grandad

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Some archaeologist will dig up St. Mary's and wonder what it was built for. He will probably conclude that it had a 'ritual' purpose where the local population would come and worship once a fortnight.

hamster

hamster

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Some archaeologist will dig up St. Mary's and wonder what it was built for. He will probably conclude that it had a 'ritual' purpose where the local population would come and worship once a fortnight.

And probably ask why football club in Southampton would have Pompey shirt buried beneath it?

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