Comments on Diary of a Goldfish: Smoke without fire

To me it's crazy that churches have to put up no s...

2007-05-18T12:14:00.000+01:00

To me it's crazy that churches have to put up no smoking signs.

The world has gone mad!

What amazes me is the odd people who get done for ...

2007-05-17T20:10:00.000+01:00

What amazes me is the odd people who get done for reading while driving! One character was, believe it ot not, reading a newspaper!

Surely the thing about smoking while driving is me...

2007-05-17T11:33:00.000+01:00

Surely the thing about smoking while driving is mechanical, if you like, rather than health. THat is - ytaking one hand off the wheel to lift the ciggy to lips, tap the ash off - or even light it.

Mind you that doesn't equal a little bit of a "From Our Own Correspondent" which said about a lady using a mobile phone, breast feeding and driving. That's what I call mutli-tasking.....

I think that, as in the case linked there by Goldf...

2007-05-17T10:13:00.000+01:00

I think that, as in the case linked there by Goldfish, it IS. But people - even the people who would hesitate to throw, say, their McDonalds cartons or crisp packets out the window because it's littering and Not Nice - are convinced that "only a cigarette end" doesn't matter, because it's so small/biodegradable/not something they're prepared to keep in the car.

They tend to not be bikers.

If somebody's that dumb, what else will they do? I...

2007-05-16T15:03:00.000+01:00

If somebody's that dumb, what else will they do? I mean, anything thrown from a car window has the potential to be lethal - bottles which smash, metal which cuts; anything hard if it hits the right spot, even a sweet or a lump of chewy could put an eye out....you can't legislate against every possible missile in detail. Seems to me better to make throwing anything out of a moving car a felony in the first place.

Actually S., when we were at primary school (uh un...

2007-05-16T11:30:00.000+01:00

Actually S., when we were at primary school (uh under elevens), there was a point at which we were convinced that you could get high from sniffing wax crayons. I don't know how this started, but there was quite a market in the things, especially the metallic colours which smelt quite distinctly...

I'm with Mary about ash, but that is already covered by littering - in fact there was a case in Poole last year which seemed a little extreme, but still.

Charles, I don't mind people smoking in cars, but ...

2007-05-16T10:44:00.000+01:00

Charles, I don't mind people smoking in cars, but I mind when they flick ash and then a burning cigarette end out of the window and onto a passing/following-behind pedestrian, cyclist, motorcyclist, mobility scooter, kid in a pushchair...

Is it true that smoking while driving is to be mad...

2007-05-16T09:09:00.000+01:00

Is it true that smoking while driving is to be made illegal as well? Why on earth?

Love the illustrations, BTW. If you're not careful the ASH people will pinch them and use them for real!

On the other hand, I once had a class of eleventh ...

2007-05-16T02:35:00.000+01:00

On the other hand, I once had a class of eleventh graders who liked to put pencils up their noses.

(11th grade=16/17...lower 6th???)

Indeed, I have never been bothered by second-hand ...

2007-05-15T22:28:00.000+01:00

Indeed, I have never been bothered by second-hand cigarette smoke in a church in my life - including the period at the Roman Catholic primary school which involved quite a lot of church.

Used to get huge sneezing fits from the incense though. Very keen on the incense, was Father Canstale.

Ha - I thought the world was going mad in this rur...

2007-05-15T19:35:00.000+01:00

Ha - I thought the world was going mad in this rural back water, then I read it on Goldfish: yes, our little village church has to erect a sign outside and adjacent to the the venerable door stating 'No Smoking'. Daft.