tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-232613925790974435.post7491162028756449164..comments2024-03-28T14:32:26.870+00:00Comments on The Moose: Tobacco packets attract children. Can't argue with that then.Buckohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03169970711606515445noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-232613925790974435.post-22886980198572530922012-07-25T17:32:55.759+01:002012-07-25T17:32:55.759+01:00XX Nobody 'got you'. You made a choice. I ...XX Nobody 'got you'. You made a choice. I doubt you walked into a shop and thought, "Hey, they look nice", and proceeded to buy a packet. I bet you did the same as most children do when they experiment with cigarettes; you nicked some off your mum, got some off a friend or asked a bigger boy to buy them for you.XX<br /><br />And/or, the twat did as was normal in our area, and buy a couple of "loossies" (5 fags and five matches wrapped in a twist of tinfoil, stuffed in a brown bag for 10p), so "packaging did not bloody enter into it.Furor Teutonicushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13856575077967523322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-232613925790974435.post-33174068211333058252012-07-25T13:12:13.062+01:002012-07-25T13:12:13.062+01:00Radical Rodent - I definately seems to be scripted...Radical Rodent - I definately seems to be scripted. I can't beleive nippers came out with that off the tops of their heads<br /><br />Good comments too. It does help to see that there is a wider disqueit to this ribbisBuckohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03169970711606515445noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-232613925790974435.post-90507220906823690192012-07-25T12:01:28.489+01:002012-07-25T12:01:28.489+01:00Also, some of the follow-up comments are truly del...Also, some of the follow-up comments are truly delicious!<br /><br /><i>Is it legal to smoke or not?<br />If it is, then live (or die) with it.<br />But if no-one is to smoke legally then ban the buggers and lose the tax.<br />(And I've never smoked). -- TheGreatRonRafferty <br /><br /><br /> “They got me at the age of 13. Back then their quest for my attention started with advertising, but it was the slim silvery green pack perfectly complementing my other accessories that coerced me into an addiction that took 25 years to break”<br /><br />This line encapsulates everything I loathe about leftism more concisely than anything I've ever written.<br /><br />"They" didn't get you - you chose to go and buy some cigarettes. That decision having been made, you then chose to buy the packet you liked the look of. The critical decision though, the one which induced you to smoke, would have been made even if cigarettes came wrapped up in yesterday's tabloids.<br /><br />I suppose the fact it took you 25 years to quit was also down to some external factor, and had nothing to do with your own lack of self-control?<br /><br />Leftists - never personally to blame for anything, it's always the fault of 'society' or 'The Tories' or 'Thatcher'. Grow up, start taking responsibility for your own actions and stop blaming others. -- Haru<br /><br /><br /> “I smoke - but i hate it. I'm in a purgatory of painful guilty depression and short term relief.”<br /><br />Then stop, if you really wanted to you would but perhaps you enjoy your victimhood. -- disbelieving<br /><br /><br />“They got me at the age of 13. Back then their quest for my attention started with advertising, but it was the slim silvery green pack perfectly complementing my other accessories that coerced me into an addiction that took 25 years to break.”<br /><br />How very middle class. Not peer pressure, not nicking a fag off your parents, but 'it matched my accessories'.<br /><br />I have peripheral vascular disease in both legs, almost definitely caused by smoking tobacco from the age of 14 to age 36. You want to know whose fault it is that I have peripheral vascular diasease? Mine, 100%.<br /><br />There's a concept called personal responsibility - I commend it to those who believe we are only a couple more bans away from Utopia. -- Batz<br /><br /><br />“A girl about my age approached me in the street with a petition the other week. <br /><br />It was to 'protect our packaging.' To prevent the government from making cigarette packets plain. <br />I asked her why, of ALL the causes to dedicate her time and effort to, she had chosen this? And didn't really get an answer. <br /><br />My guess is that she was being paid.”<br /><br />Firstly, your, or her age is irrelevant, notwithstanding that you don't say how old you are anyway! Secondly, i can never follow the logic of questioning why someone dedicates their time and effort to a particular cause. Do you think she does it just to annoy you? What do you care about? And, following you logic, you're only allowed to care about one thing. And let's hope it's the most important issue of the day. I wouldn't like to have to accuse you of caring about the 'wrong' thing. -- Billysbar</i><br /><br /><br />It is so good to see that it isn’t just the small clique of us reading these posts who are truly fed up with what passes for do-gooding logic, these days<br /><br />Radical RodentAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-232613925790974435.post-74575414285390599372012-07-25T11:37:01.348+01:002012-07-25T11:37:01.348+01:00My immediate response to the video was: “What was ...My immediate response to the video was: “What was the preamble given to the children prior to filming?” Several of them sound as if they are reciting a set piece, or at least giving the reaction that they think is expected of them.<br /><br />Radical RodentAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-232613925790974435.post-51064901559428966842012-07-25T07:13:05.230+01:002012-07-25T07:13:05.230+01:00Humph - I particularly like the way she wades into...Humph - I particularly like the way she wades into the arguement with the arrogant assumption that nobody can disagree with her wisdom, just because she invoked 'The Children'.Buckohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03169970711606515445noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-232613925790974435.post-92066867371464318872012-07-25T00:45:01.252+01:002012-07-25T00:45:01.252+01:00I read all the comments on the first page and the ...I read all the comments on the first page and the overwhelming majority were of the same ilk, smokers and non. It seems to me that most people see this insanity for what it really is. <br /><br />It is clear though that this will happen and frankly I have now come to the point where I think I will rejoice. One, because I can choose from the plethora of creative and (truly) enticing tobacco tins now widely available. I will choose something with a picture of a Ferrari on or something looking like a wonderland of happiness obviously. Two, because people, I think, will actually twig that their booze and Big Macs are heading the same way. Then there'll be a revolution, the PTB will be removed and we will walk again as free men. Well, I can wish.<br /><br />The drivel spouting lunatic leftist can continue writing as much of this as she wants. It's not having the intended effect. Her arguments are so inherently weak and self- defeating that even non-smokers are taking the piss out of her. Dopey bint.Humphnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-232613925790974435.post-51142175234426116932012-07-24T21:08:06.373+01:002012-07-24T21:08:06.373+01:00FE - Yes it's a good one. Nice to see they'...FE - Yes it's a good one. Nice to see they're not all sheep<br /><br />Tony - Cheers mate. Yes that video is full of WTF? momentsBuckohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03169970711606515445noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-232613925790974435.post-19723204717903157762012-07-24T20:30:13.426+01:002012-07-24T20:30:13.426+01:00Superb post mate! Lovely breakdown of the utter in...Superb post mate! Lovely breakdown of the utter insanity of it all.<br /><br />"Wonderland of happiness???" QUE WTF???Tonynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-232613925790974435.post-54616414719763414382012-07-24T20:01:04.625+01:002012-07-24T20:01:04.625+01:00I liked this comment:
Tobacco packets attra...I liked this comment:<br /><br /><br /><br /> Tobacco packets attract children. Now argue against making them plain<br /><br />... won't someone think about the children?<br /><br />... yes, but no, but WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN????<br /><br />... and cue the remainder of hysteria as already spoken, but please feel free to insert this specious argument into any possible article and/or argument from now on into the future.<br /><br />Because no-one, no matter what the argument, can ever going to turn around and say "you know what -- sod the sodding children".The Filthy Engineerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07584236558282159183noreply@blogger.com