Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/04/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Right, more people die every year as a result of intolerance than from smoking. Douglas sam@osheaven.net schrieb: > NYC has become insanely non-smoking. I have a friend who was given a > ticket for smoking outdoors, above-ground on property owned by the > subway system. I haven't smoked in 25 years, and that's my choice, but > I hate when busy-bodies legislate their will to the masses because > they think they are too stupid to think for themselves. To my mind, we > are going to drop dead from something, and if you want it so, it might > as well be from smoking. What I hate even more is when you make a > statement like I just have, and some sneaky b*stard says "It's not > fair for smokers to cause health insurance rates to increase." These > are the same people who support the right to eat anything you want and > have sex with partners who have incurable, communicable sexual > diseases. Foolish driving, eating lard out of the can, and sex with > diseased partners all raise health insurance rates. And what kind of > morons would allow their lives to be led by insurances companies? > Storm their offices, apprehend their personnel and tie them up in the > public square for children to throw rotten things at. > > All while documenting the events with the fine Leica camera system on > b&w, of course. > > Sam S > > > Philippe Orlent wrote: > >> Good one :). But in fact it's one of the many smokers in Antwerp, >> Belgium, >> in one of those pubs, like there are so many in town: smoking is still >> allowed almost everywhere. This pub -caf? as we call it- is called "Den >> Engel" (the angel) and is next to the town hall. It has remained >> unchanged >> the last 50 years or so. At the end of the day, around 5 PM, town >> officials >> stroll in and have one of those wonderful Belgian beers and talk >> about the >> fatiguing day they had. >> --- >> >> >>> From: "Douglas M. Sharp" <DouglasMSharp@netscape.net> >>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> >>> Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 19:24:19 +0200 >>> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> >>> Subject: Re: [Leica] a new one >>> >>> Is that the last Irish smoker, emigrated to the UK ? >>> Very nice pub shot - looks like a pub I used to go to in the East >>> End of >>> London, just off East India Dock Road. >>> Douglas >>> >>> philippe.orlent@ldv.be schrieb: >>> >>> >>> >>>> cheers: >>>> >>>> http://www.leica-gallery.net/phorlent/image-63837.html >>>> >>>> Comments as always very welcome, >>>> Philippe A. Orlent >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >>> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Ihre bevorzugten Shops, hilfreiche Einkaufs-Hilfen und gro?artige Geschenk Ideen. Erleben Sie das Vergn?gen online einzukaufen mit Shop@Netscape! http://shopping.netscape.de/shopping/