Sweepings From The Floor Of My Brain.
Mood:
blue
Now Playing: Hardly Wait- PJ Harvey
Topic: Aimless Post
Evening,
As the sharp eyed amongst you will have noticed I haven't posted much this week. This is as a direct result of my new and exciting ebay obsession. I have resisted ebay for years now but have found that a good online browse eases the loneliness. To date I have purchased a Christian Dior handbag, a Japanese kimono and a purple dress. I am presently bidding furiously on a shalwar kameez, a turban, a smoking jacket, a fan and a job lot of costume jewelery. Sweet Jesus I think I might be recovering my sense of style at long last!
I have decided that I will not be marching to make poverty history in Edinburgh tomorrow. Any protest march that Jack McConnell and Gordon Brown plan to join is a wee bit too establishment for me.
Moving on, the Scottish Parliament have announced that smoking in pubs will be banned from the 26th March 2006. The 26th March 2006 is also my 31st birthday. As an 18 year old I could smoke and drink in any pub that would have me on my birthday. I was deemed to be an adult, capable of choosing what I do with my own body. At the age of 31 the state has claimed those rights. Wankers!
I don't buy all this crap about 'protecting the workers'. Nobody has to work in a pub. There are many low paid, unskilled jobs to choose from that don't expose you to smoke. There is also the fact that there is no proven link between cancer and passive smoking. Oh yes and ventilation works as proved by
a study conducted in the second finest pub in Glasgow. The irony is none of this is reducing the number of people who smoke. As sales have fallen in the west the tobacco companies have moved into the third world where legislation is virtually non existent regarding health warnings etc. Until the ridiculous smoking bans were proposed we had at last got it more or less right in this country on smoking. There are voluntary bans on public transport, nicotine substitutes available on the NHS and a good policy of public education.
I was going to end there but it's my blog and I'll rant if I want to, fag in one hand typing with the other!
The political wing of the Provisional IRA, Sinn Fein have come out in favour of a smoking ban. At first I thought it was a joke! But no, Sinn Fein think it is acceptable pub behaviour to attack a man with sewer rods and kitchen knives then batter his friend with the same rods before slitting a 2ft wound from his waist to his shoulder, severing his intestine and pulling it out through his ribs, and jumping on his head so hard that one of his eyes is forced out it's socket, as long as you apologise and offer to kill the perpetrators afterwards and don't smoke while you do it. Yet from March next year I'll be the anti-social one.
Cheerio
Posted by Clairwil
at 11:17 PM BST