Questions you want answered (P&C Edition)

mudbunny wrote:

Why the f*vk do the smokers at my work feel that they can ignore the "No Smoking within 50 feet of door" signs and smoke right next to the door?

They do it Because they can get away with it. Maybe if the sign said "please" they'll listen. Stating "offenders will be ": "fired"/" fined"/"prosecuted"/"shot " may also help convince people to comply.

In Israel there is a law that forbids smoking inside buildings that are not your apartment/home. In places of business like restaurants there are huge fines like 2500$ per smoker, 250$ per ash tray . They only enforced the laws at the very beginning and people can still report a place of business or sue it in civil courts (happened a few times). There are now a new law that says you can't smoke 10 meters from a door (I'm not sure if it's limited to hospitals or not) but it's not enforced. I think the a place of business still have to post warnings about it.

I think the most effective way to fight this is to install smoke detectors by the door. It's still a theory . The 100db noise would probably drive them away. I thought about this when my downstairs neighbor was a smoker and his smoke came through our windows .

Someone told me and some other workers that our employer is actively trying to make the life of the smokers miserable . He also told us about a secret gathering place of smokers :lol:.

I love how people get upset if someone tries to make life miserable for smokers, but I remember well when smokers response to my being made miserable by them was often "Go somewhere else, then" or worse (smoke blown in face, "stfu, it's legal", etc). Allergic asthma/RAD.

I had to leave a Kung Fu class after someone decided that spraying Lysol as an air freshener (the blue scented one, not the regular) would help things smell better. When I pointed out that that was a problem for some of us, she shrugged and said "whatever" and walked away. I worked out, coughing and wheezing with my nose running, until the guy leading the class said he could hear me wheeze and that my color was not good. (I have already made sure that the Sifu understands what my and other students restrictions are, and he's good about it, but he was not there.)

Personally, I'd love to take smokers and restrict their airway to 30% of normal for a day so they can experience it themselves. I have no sympathy for that particular vice where it can impact other people.

Robear wrote:

Personally, I'd love to take smokers and restrict their airway to 30% of normal for a day so they can experience it themselves. I have no sympathy for that particular vice where it can impact other people.

If smokers survive long enough they are likely to develop COPD( Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) and then they will experience it themselves for the rest of their lives.

Do I need to make a sad panda photo of me with a pipe or cigar in my mouth?

KingGorilla wrote:

Do I need to make a sad panda photo of me with a pipe or cigar in my mouth?

Nope, but I'm sure it'd be amusing. It wouldn't garner you much sympathy though. Stinky sad pandas that make it hard for people to breath around them aren't terribly effective as sympathy generators.

KingGorilla wrote:

Do I need to make a sad panda photo of me with a pipe or cigar in my mouth?

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How do you folks manage Poe's Law?

Example from the gun control thread;

Farscry wrote:

Good grief. I wonder where on a Venn diagram of NRA extremists and 'Birthers' these people would fall?

The site collecting it all from the self proclaimed messiah/guy who "solved Lost", etc seems like satire in poor taste. Mind you conspiracy nuts in general tend to leave me in stuck in Poe's law but this one especially just seems like it's more about attention grabbing than actually believing the stuff claimed, perhaps playing a game of seeing how many people they can get to agree with them?

My inclination is to treat people as though they're being honest about their stated views and beliefs, for better or worse. Assuming that all things like this are just trolls doesn't really make it 'better'. Either way ignoring them seems potentially unwise while drawing attention to them (acknowledging that even this post does so :/ ) may just be fueling it.

Do I need to make a sad panda photo of me with a pipe or cigar in my mouth?

Do you smoke them around people who object, and blow smoke in their faces? If not, then you're not anyone the remarks were addressed to.

KingGorilla wrote:

Do I need to make a sad panda photo of me with a pipe or cigar in my mouth?

Smoking doesn't seem like a smart move for an endangered species no matter what their emotional state.

iaintgotnopants wrote:
KingGorilla wrote:

Do I need to make a sad panda photo of me with a pipe or cigar in my mouth?

Smoking doesn't seem like a smart move for an endangered species no matter what their emotional state.

Au contraire. Smoking makes you look cool and sophisticated, n'est pas? So all the lady gorillas are all like "who is that debonair silverback? I wanna save my species with him."

The queen does love my long stemmed churchwarden.

How do you forget to ratify the 13th amendment?

Katy wrote:

How do you forget to ratify the 13th amendment?

By being Mississippi?

SpacePPoliceman wrote:
Katy wrote:

How do you forget to ratify the 13th amendment?

By being Mississippi?

lol and they wonder why people like Tarrantino picked them as a setting for Django Unchained. (recent NPR news blip have people from MS complaining about the movie)

Oh, they thought they did it in 1995. That makes sen...wait, what? 1995? Seriously?

So Rusty Cundieff could have been enjoying the use of his slaves for another 18 years? Unfair!

ranalin wrote:
SpacePPoliceman wrote:
Katy wrote:

How do you forget to ratify the 13th amendment?

By being Mississippi?

lol and they wonder why people like Tarrantino picked them as a setting for Django Unchained. (recent NPR news blip have people from MS complaining about the movie)

It is monstrously unfair that stories that hinge on slavery invariably are set in slave states. Why, Mississippi hasn't tolerated that for....erm...

SpacePPoliceman wrote:
ranalin wrote:
SpacePPoliceman wrote:
Katy wrote:

How do you forget to ratify the 13th amendment?

By being Mississippi?

lol and they wonder why people like Tarrantino picked them as a setting for Django Unchained. (recent NPR news blip have people from MS complaining about the movie)

It is monstrously unfair that stories that hinge on slavery invariably are set in slave states. Why, Mississippi hasn't tolerated that for....erm...

I totally went to the Onion after reading that story totally hoping it was fake and an mistaken copy and paste. I did not have a good time.

South Carolina still flies the Stars and Bars outside their capitol building. And the stars and bars remains part of the Mississippi flag.

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This flag was adopted almost 30 years after the Civil War ended.

Living in Alabama I see the rebel flag all over the place and know more than a few people who regularly say, with conviction, that the "South will rise again." Yeah, this is me NOT being shocked.

Kehama wrote:

Living in Alabama I see the rebel flag all over the place and know more than a few people who regularly say, with conviction, that the "South will rise again." Yeah, this is me NOT being shocked.

South Postpones Rising Again For Yet Another Year

H.P. Lovesauce wrote:
Kehama wrote:

Living in Alabama I see the rebel flag all over the place and know more than a few people who regularly say, with conviction, that the "South will rise again." Yeah, this is me NOT being shocked.

South Postpones Rising Again For Yet Another Year

That was hilarious!

Been wondering this for a while - why do so many people call Benjamin Netanyahu "Bibi"?

dhelor wrote:

Been wondering this for a while - why do so many people call Benjamin Netanyahu "Bibi"?

http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=where+did+b...
Short answer according to the first link that gave me is that he has no idea.

Benjamin in Hebrew is Binyamin. Probably just a diminutive of his first initial.

I like to think a reporter was trying to make fun of him, and he doubled down on the joke. I'm sure the reality is much duller.

Short for "Bigh Fet Bibi?"

Lemme axe you a question: If mental illness is the NRA smokescreen, why don't we make psych evals mandatory for gun permits?

H.P. Lovesauce wrote:

Short for "Bigh Fet Bibi?"

Lemme axe you a question: If mental illness is the NRA smokescreen, why don't we make psych evals mandatory for gun permits?

Because that would still run counter to their goals of easy access to guns? By definition, a smokescreen is only supposed to obfuscate.

There's already a thread for that.

SixteenBlue wrote:

There's already a thread for that.

A thread I got out of approximately 250 posts ago. I'd imagine I'm not the only one willing to discuss the issue reasonably who has ducked out thanks to the level of discourse that was going on there for a good long while...

...and after a quick peak, I don't see as having got much better.

Demosthenes wrote:
SixteenBlue wrote:

There's already a thread for that.

A thread I got out of approximately 250 posts ago. I'd imagine I'm not the only one willing to discuss the issue reasonably who has ducked out thanks to the level of discourse that was going on there for a good long while...

...and after a quick peak, I don't see as having got much better.

That's why I didn't link it. I don't even want to go find it.