Re: OT Parliament

Gid Holyoake wrote... 
In article <L0Nj4oDcAidDFw8h@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Martin Clark generously
decided to share with us..

Yes, but Kim... if you were sitting next to me while I was eating a
meal, whether you were drinking wine or not would have no effect on me
or my enjoyment of the food. If, however, you were sitting next to me
and smoking, the smell of the smoke would seriously impair my enjoyment
of the food and after you had smoked several cigarettes, my eyes would
be stinging and I would start to get a headache.


I suggest you don't sit next to a smoker then.. have you thought of
sitting in the non-smoking section of the restaurant instead?.. most
restaurants seem to have them in my experience.. indeed, the restaurants
that I frequent locally have separate rooms for smoking clients and non-
smoking clients..

Sit in a non-smoking section? What a marvellous idea. I wonder why I have never thought of that. Thank you for suggesting it.....
Don't be so bloody patronising - of course I would prefer to sit in a non-smoking area if one is available. If you read what I wrote you would see that I was making a response to Kim's post, which you have snipped, in which she suggests that smoking with a meal is similar to drinking wine with a meal.

"Don't sit next to a smoker" you say. I wouldn't choose to unless the person I was visiting the pub/restaurant was a smoker and then it would be ridiculous not to sit with him/her. In any case I was citing a hypothetical case comparing the result of sitting next to a person smoking and sitting next to a person drinking wine. And it is only hypothetical since Kim is a non-smoker.

Not to mention the fact
that, when I got home, I would have to strip off and put every item of
clothing I was wearing, including underwear, straight into the washing
machine to prevent the house from smelling like an ashtray.


I suggest you go somewhere with a decent ventilation system then.. if
merely sitting near someone while they smoke allows pentration that far,
the room is obviously very small and badly ventilated.. I would think it
possibly would be a health hazard whether there happened to be smokers
ther or not.. contact your local Environmental Health Office and get the
place shut down immediately, there are rules about this sort of thing
you know.. and whatever you do, don't even *consider* walking on the
streets in a large city with large volumes of traffic.. the amount of
crap that gets on *my* clothes every time I have the misfortune to visit
London is unbelievable..

That's another pretty silly response. Smoke penetrating clothing is something that happens even in rooms that do have ventilation. I'm sure I'm not the only person in this ng who has had the experience of getting home from a pub and finding that all my clothing stinks. To make such a comment, would it be possible that you yourself smoke? If so, it is unlikely that you would notice the smell of cigarette smoke on your own clothing.
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Martin

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