Re: ya no insurance outlaw it

Jeff Goslin wrote:
tly harmful in the same fashion that me taking a leak on
your shoes is not explicitly harmful, but it IS damn smelly and disgusting is it not?

Agreed, it's a stinky, filthy habit. Stick with that argument, though. Don't go down the whole "second hand smoke kills" route, because there simply isn't the scientific backing for it.


Actually, I don't think I did go that route. I'm all about the "your habit is a disgusting, foul smelling, clothes putrefying, eye burning, nasty ass BITCH of a vice", BUT I choose to not smoke for those reasons and the fact that it is dangerously unhealthy. Since I choose to not breathe smoke, by extension I don't really want to breathe your lung-filtered smoke either. It may or may not be as hazardous as the direct route, but I'd sooner pass anyway just on the off chance.


And yeah, yeah, yeah. Just breathing the air might be more hazardous but you know what? At least I can't SMELL it all over me, and odds are if cigarette smoke wasn't so damn disgustingly odoriferous people wouldn't bitch about it near as much.

That is true. I'll wager that burning leaves on your property wouldn't be an issue if not for the smell as well. Personally, I like the smell of burning leaves in the autumn, it has a very nostalgic feel to it, if you ask me.


I don't burn leaves. If mother nature had meant for my leaves to burn then they would spontaneously ignite when they hit the ground. As it is they either A)rot where they land, or more often then not B)blow onto the neighbors property where he can do as he wishes with them.

As an aside though, I like the smell as well.



Like everyone doesn't do the same thing, just for different reasons? You happen to have tagged on to this reason because it offends your senses in a very specific way. But everyone slacks off at work, in their own special way. You said "I know how the game is played." The reason you know how it's played is because you've played it yourself.

I can't say that I've NEVER taken advantage, but as a rule I did not. Consider this. Since I graduated high-school, if you count the military I've had exactly 3 jobs. Suffice it to say that the Marine Corp wasn't all that big on slackers so we can toss that one out. Now the shipyard I worked at was FULL slackers of the "I'm in the union so just *** OFF and give me my undeserved paycheck" kind. I didn't play that game hence my poor standing in the union population, and my subsequent desertion to the management team. Now I did take the occasional job-site crap which tended to be on the long side (is there a pun there?) but that had (and has) more to do with my particular gastro-intestinal function than a serious desire to F/O. Keep in mind these bathrooms were frequented by approximately 12,000 blue-collared, basically educated general laborers of various trades and questionable hygienic practices. Not my favorite place to hang out.

My next and current job is the business I now own and I can do whatever I wish since I'm the effin boss.

High-school and prior I had exactly 3 jobs, if you count the hay baling I did for a farmer before I a drivers license. If you've ever done that, you KNOW there is no screwing off there. After that it was 6 months for a pharmacy, and then about 2 1/2 years or so as a short order cook. No dickin off th....wait a minute. Ok, I do remember one time gettin the freak on in the walk in fridge with an especially frisky waitress. Sue me for that one!

Number 1 and 3 were ass-busters for the most part. Number 2 was probably the closest I came to true screwing off, in the sense that I didn't bust ass to get the work done because frankly there wasn't a lot of it and I wanted the hours.



when I *WASN'T* looking to smoke a cigarette. Come on now, if we're going to hang out in glass houses, the least we could do is throw equal sized stones through the windows... ;)


Believe it or not my house has fairly thick glass in this regard, but it's not TOTALLY damage proof.

For what it's worth, I'm salaried now, and I have been for a long while, so none of this applies to me now, but wheeeee DOGGIE could I waste time in my high school hardware store job! It's ASTOUNDING how long you can sit in the crapper when you don't want to work. ;)



Salaried? I thought you were self employed. Not that it matters. I'm "salaried" as well except I sign the checks and frankly I've pretty much retired myself at the ripe old age of 43. I've got a good manager running the day to day and the rest of the time I pretty much do as I please. The last time I actually "worked" was back in Jan/Feb when I went to texas and that was because "what the hell, let's spend some time in texas".

It looks like I'm going to Brazil in July for the same reason. Hell, ain't never been there so I'll go down and burn some rod, check out some beach babes on the time off, come home and go back to being an old retired fart. I just need to get some of them shorts, sandals and white ankle socks and I'm good to go. :P

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