Smoking AT the Gym?

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[quote]jsbrook wrote:
You’re definitely being whinier and more premenstrual on this thread than she is taking such a strong stand on this when it really has nothing to do with you.[/quote]

It’s a discussion site genius; most of the threads have nothing to do with anyone. Doesn’t keep you from participating, now does it? Although seeing you take a strong stand on something would be a nice change from your continual wishy-washy brown-nosing.

I’m not defending the smoker. I don’t like smoke any more than any non-smoker does; I simply think it’s retarded to spew that much hate and intolerance at someone simply because they choose to do something you didn’t.

You really think that the inconvenience of holding your breath for a few seconds as you exit a gym warrants this reaction? If you and tekgril fly off the handle for something that innocuous, what do you do when it’s something important?

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[quote]Avoids Roids wrote:
pookie wrote:
tekgrl wrote:

I guess the first part of Mens sana in corpore sano is not for you…

And YOU have a sound mind? Highly unlikely…go have another smoke, you have free healthcare in Canada don’t you? I guess you can keep on puffing until you’re dead.

I don’t smoke. Never did, never will.

But maybe you should. A lot of smokers claim it helps them calm down.

That or add some Midols to your supplements.

Or start smoking Midol.

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Along with your juiced creatine.

Get’s you Blazed brosif!

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[quote]Dedicated wrote:
If you want to smoke go for it, to each their own. However, in my humble opinion to smoke in front of a gym, especially after a workout, is retardation at it’s finest. No matter how insignificant or benign the harm to others may be.[/quote]

It may sound like retardation to you, and me, and 90% of the members here. But thats because we know better.

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I keep wondering if TekGrl is a hottie.
:slight_smile:
She is as sensitive as one.
Hehe, just kidding TekGrl.

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[quote]Tiribulus wrote:
Sometimes I just don’t understand people. Here we have a person being forced to breathe someone else’s poisonous smoke or else quit her gym and some people see her “whining”, that they can avoid by just not clicking on her threads, as being more of an issue than that. Oh the wondrous diversity of human nature.[/quote]

  1. Walking by a person smoking a couple of times a week is not going to poison you in any way.

  2. From the beginning, she should have just approached the woman and asked her nicely not to smoke there, instead of bitching about it first to the gym manager and then to everyone here on the boards. If the woman declined, she then needed to get over herself and hold her breath for 2 seconds when she leaves the gym. (OH, THE AGONY!) People are free to make their own choices, even evil less-than-human smokers.

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Well, there you go… plenty of posterw that believe that everyone in the world must not, in fact, bend to the will or whiny complaints of a singular girl with a stick up her ass.

Who’d have thought?

Ha.

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[quote]pookie wrote:
jsbrook wrote:
You’re definitely being whinier and more premenstrual on this thread than she is taking such a strong stand on this when it really has nothing to do with you.

It’s a discussion site genius; most of the threads have nothing to do with anyone. Doesn’t keep you from participating, now does it? Although seeing you take a strong stand on something would be a nice change from your continual wishy-washy brown-nosing.

I’m not defending the smoker. I don’t like smoke any more than any non-smoker does; I simply think it’s retarded to spew that much hate and intolerance at someone simply because they choose to do something you didn’t.

You really think that the inconvenience of holding your breath for a few seconds as you exit a gym warrants this reaction? If you and tekgril fly off the handle for something that innocuous, what do you do when it’s something important?
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Brown-nosing? You’re full of shit. I always say exactly what I think. Though I may not pick fights over stupid, insignificant issues. Do you think the inconvenience of FOLLOWING the fucking rule that says no smoking by entrances really infringes on ‘smokers rights?’ Move over a few feet.

I’m hardly flying off the handle. It’s not that big a deal to me. But if it was MY gym, you can better believe I’d say something to the smokers directly. I don’t see Tekgirl ‘spewing hate and intolerance’ here, either. All she’s saying is these assholes are breaking the rules, and it’s irritating. Here’s another strong stance: your own psycho-babble/philosophical, pseudo-intellectual posts usually suck.

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[quote]jsbrook wrote:
I’m hardly flying off the handle. It’s not that big a deal to me. But if it was MY gym, you can better believe I’d say something to the smokers directly. I don’t see Tekgirl ‘spewing hate and intolerance’ here, either. All she’s saying is these assholes are breaking the rules, and it’s irritating. Here’s another strong stance: your own psycho-babble/philosophical, pseudo-intellectual posts usually suck.[/quote]

OH Sure! Now we’re assholes!

You ingratefull secondhand smoking hypocrites are getting on my g*d damn nerves.

Buy your own damn cigarettes, you f**cking jagoff! :wink:

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[quote]btm62 wrote:
Zap Branigan wrote:
btm62 wrote:
To defend smoking in any way is the absolute pinnacle of stupidity.

Why is it even legal? If the FDA cared about your health instead of the dollar it would be as illegal as murder. But since there’s big money involved, its tolerated and I can only imagine the smiles on the fat cat’s faces when they hear some dumbass profess how its his/her right to pollute the air with carcinogens.

Talk about being a tool.

I love that your avatar is Duke smoking!

Yes, that is very relevant. I notice yours is also a cartoon character. Should I draw inferences from all your posts from that also, or did you have a meaningful idea on the topic?
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If you have read my posts you will see I am against it but you don’t have to be so crabby about it. Jeez.

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Walking through a cloud of smoke is not a 2 second experience. The shit hangs on your clothes all day. Truly a foul habit.

I wish there was some way to make smokers understand how vile it is. Perhaps they would not be so inconsiderate if they knew.

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[quote]Coldiron wrote:
One mizzle tizzle:
Tek: Lets see . Drop it like its hot. You have had problems wit testicle rhymin’ smelly gym bitch n now cigarette smoke outside yo gym. Get over it, or maybe git over yoself. Possibly a hizzle gym is in orda. Unbelievizzles. [/quote]

Tek is off the muthafuckin’ hizzle. And that’s on the rizzeal.

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[quote]Zap Branigan wrote:
Walking through a cloud of smoke is not a 2 second experience. The shit hangs on your clothes all day. Truly a foul habit.

I wish there was some way to make smokers understand how vile it is. Perhaps they would not be so inconsiderate if they knew.[/quote]

Is it just me, or does your hair smell like smoke the next day in the shower after a long night of being in a place where there was smoke? That shit just lingers there.

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[quote]rcsermas wrote:
<<< 1. Walking by a person smoking a couple of times a week is not going to poison you in any way. >>>[/quote]

I don’t care if it was downright healthy, it’s her choice and mine to not have it in our lungs… ever. Like I said in a previous post. What if someone at a restaurant decided for you that you would like more salt on your steak? That’s not going to poison anyone, but it is just common decency to not impose your personal preferences on someone else against their will.

What is it about smokers that they think the part of the population that chooses not to pollute themselves have the problem? And this at a frickin gym, where people pay money to belong to somewhere to IMPROVE their health. Really, this line of reasoning is clearly a symptom of this post modern me me me and f**k everybody else mindset.

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[quote]Tiribulus wrote:
rcsermas wrote:
<<< 1. Walking by a person smoking a couple of times a week is not going to poison you in any way. >>>

I don’t care if it was downright healthy, it’s her choice and mine to not have it in our lungs… ever. Like I said in a previous post. What if someone at a restaurant decided for you that you would like more salt on your steak? That’s not going to poison anyone, but it is just common decency to not impose your personal preferences on someone else against their will.

What is it about smokers that they think the part of the population that chooses not to pollute themselves have the problem? And this at a frickin gym, where people pay money to belong to somewhere to IMPROVE their health. Really, this line of reasoning is clearly a symptom of this post modern me me me and f**k everybody else mindset.
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If you choose to take the stance of not having it in your lungs ever, then You need to take the actions required to ensure that.

Including but not limited to staying away from it.

The same rant that you put forth about post modern “blah blah, I got sand in my mangina” would also apply to you and your exceptional level of intollerance for smoking in public.

By trying to frame it as being someone elses self centeredness, you merely exposed your own.

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[quote]Tiribulus wrote:
rcsermas wrote:
<<< 1. Walking by a person smoking a couple of times a week is not going to poison you in any way. >>>

I don’t care if it was downright healthy, it’s her choice and mine to not have it in our lungs… ever. Like I said in a previous post. What if someone at a restaurant decided for you that you would like more salt on your steak? That’s not going to poison anyone, but it is just common decency to not impose your personal preferences on someone else against their will.

What is it about smokers that they think the part of the population that chooses not to pollute themselves have the problem? And this at a frickin gym, where people pay money to belong to somewhere to IMPROVE their health. Really, this line of reasoning is clearly a symptom of this post modern me me me and f**k everybody else mindset.
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Using the same salt analogy, I think it would be more like if you were walking from a buffet to your seat, with your plate in your hand, and a guy shaking his salt on his food throws some over his shoulder and his salt goes in the air and lands on your food.

It would annoy most people, and most people would only go as far as giving a dirty look, but it wouldn’t be anything like someone coming up to you, and putting salt in your food as you’re sitting there. That would be grounds for a more physical confrontation.

With the smoker, just like the salt scenario, it can be avoided it you really didn’t want to walk through the cloud of smoke that badly, or if you notice the guy with the salt and walked around where his salt was being thrown.

It’s not like cigarette smoke stays still in the air, especially outside, and it’s not like the person was going out of her way to blow the smoke in people’s faces as they left the building (I don’t think).

I even doubt anyone had to walk through any cloud of smoke unless it was timed just as the smoker was blowing the smoke at the door, at the same time the person was walking out of it (which would be considered rude, and would be closer to the guy actually putting salt in your food, as opposed to the guy throwing a little salt over his shoulder as he puts it on his food, while you happen to be walking by.

That’s my take on it anyway.

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[quote]mazevedo wrote:

Tek is off the muthafuckin’ hizzle. And that’s on the rizzeal.[/quote]

I kizzle what yoe weed-smokin’ puttin tha smack down. Tek needs ta takes a chill pill n buy a mini fan fo wizzle she leaves tha trippin'. Stay coo playa n keep sippin’ tha iron. rap ta you brotha.

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OK, this is going nowhere and I’m bowing out. The burden is on smokers to keep their choice away from non smokers and not the other way around. I cannot fathom how that is even debatable, but apparently it is.

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I don’t smoke, but totally agree with pookie and FightingIrish.

A few of the people who have lockers near mine smell like ass, which is much worse. In fact, I’d love for someone to come and blow a big smoke ring in my face in the locker room – then maybe I wouldn’t have to hold my breath for 10 minutes while getting dressed.

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When I see the cost of health care and the plague that smoking is, I do get a little crabby.

It’s just studendously incredidbly assinine from top to bottom. From the person who smokes that shit and thinks they have “rights” to the whole tobacco industry and the idiot government.

It affects everyone in so many negative ways and there’s not one good thing about it save for a few making massive dollars off of it.

I know I’m preaching to the choir Zap, but yea, I’m a bitch about it.

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Tek, you said you’re from Boston and you’re wondering how to deal with this!? Just pretend you’re back in Beantown and give her some of that oletown spirit. Give her a good, “What the fuck, bitch!” Don’t let Oregon soften you up. Make us proud sista.
Now that I know you’re from Boston ignore my post on the first page.