tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585028625507474093.post8731078652786871261..comments2023-10-17T15:56:22.827+01:00Comments on Velvet Glove, Iron Fist: The voluntary banChristopher Snowdonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15963753745009712865noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585028625507474093.post-4810464812853360582015-02-03T00:26:50.043+00:002015-02-03T00:26:50.043+00:00It has become blindingly obvious to me that women ...It has become blindingly obvious to me that women should not be allowed to participate in public life. Given they're never the ones called upon to defend or retain our freedoms, it makes no sense in giving them carte blanch to take them away. Which they inevitably do, trying to run others' lives as they would their kindergartens and households. Which means of course, we're going to have to rescind their right to vote. In 1918, Britain ruled the world, had an empire on which the sun never set. After giving the girlies the vote in that year, it took less than 30 years to reduce the greatest empire the world had known to a European rubble. Thank you.Christopher Snowdonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15963753745009712865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585028625507474093.post-76140436878825118632015-02-02T14:47:38.436+00:002015-02-02T14:47:38.436+00:00Before enacting this ban, it would be interesting ...Before enacting this ban, it would be interesting for the council to first carry out air quality surveys around the proposed ban sites to establish a before and after equation so as to measure the success (or not) of this latest imposition on legal smokers.Christopher Snowdonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15963753745009712865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585028625507474093.post-13401827209433916742015-02-02T14:38:02.281+00:002015-02-02T14:38:02.281+00:00This being Bristol, anywhere people are smoking ci...This being Bristol, anywhere people are smoking cigarettes, there'll also be someone smoking weed, so this might be a stealthy way to cut down on that.Christopher Snowdonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15963753745009712865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585028625507474093.post-90418474334401657212015-02-02T11:36:07.669+00:002015-02-02T11:36:07.669+00:00Knight accepted that it would inconvenience some c...<i>Knight accepted that it would inconvenience some customers of the bars <br />and restaurants in the squares. “But it only takes them about 20 seconds<br /> to walk out of the squares. We don’t want to make the lives of smokers <br />hell.”</i><br /><br />"Inconvenience"? <br /><br />"Only take them about 20 seconds"?<br /><br />"...don’t want to make the lives of smokers <br />hell."?<br /><br />Does this woman live on the same planet as the rest of us? Ye Gods, words fail me...Christopher Snowdonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15963753745009712865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585028625507474093.post-83206930563278862962015-02-02T01:30:32.016+00:002015-02-02T01:30:32.016+00:00Outdoor smoking bans are a travesty. They are dir...Outdoor smoking bans are a travesty. They are direct affront to liberty. They are about social control not health since there is absolutely no health risk to bystanders outdoors (there actually is virtually none indoors either but that's another story). Outdoor bans are intended to denormalize smoking, actually the marginalize smokers and cause societal fragmentation and division. Outdoor smoking bans need to be soundly rejected; indoor bans need to be amended.Christopher Snowdonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15963753745009712865noreply@blogger.com