Weatherpixie's wrong again... this is becoming a bone of contention for me. Sunny?! my arse! its been pissing it down all day!
Thursday, July 31, 2003
Wednesday, July 30, 2003
Smoking.... ooookay heres an isue thats a bane of my life. I've smoked since I was about 13... thereabouts. Although I had my first when I was 9 i never took it up full time until after that. I gave up two years ago, lasted a year and a half and then had a massive horrible fight with a co-worker, had one to ease the nerves... and i've been back on them since.
I'm in two minds about smoking. On the one hand I hate it... because I hate what it does to me. On the other, its better as far as i'm concearned for me to smoke, than to do one of the many other things I tend to do when I get onto mission self-destruct. Better than alcohol in my case, and better than drugs. Both of which I once did in abudance and refuse to ever again.
So I get a message in my blog feedback about checking out this guys site thats against smoking. Being a desciple of Denis Leary my immediate reaction was to laugh my ass off and flip the finger.
However...
I'm not going to do that. I believe this guy has a worth cause, perhaps a self righteous one but we're all a little self righteous and nothing would ever get done if we didnt stick up for what we believe. I went to his site... read about... i'm not going to sign anything because I think i'd be a massive hypocrite if I did. But losing a family member to any kind of addiction or other easily stopped vice... no joking matter. So keep up the good work guy, hope it affords you some kind of peace. Find the link to his site in the feedback to my last entry.
In the mean time... two pop culture quotes about smoking... both of which I agree with, and both of which I couldnt say better.
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Denis Leary - Smoke
I love to smoke. I smoke seven thousand packs a day, ok. And I am never fucking quitting! I don't care how many laws they make. What's the law now? You can only smoke in your apartment, under a blanket, with all the lights out? Is that the rule now, huh?! The cops are outside, "We know you have the cigarettes. Come out of the house with the cigarettes above your head." "You'll never get me copper! I'm never coming out, you hear? I got a cigarette machine right here in my bedroom. Yeah!"
Know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna get one of those tracheotomies. So I can smoke two cigarettes at the same time. I'm gonna get nine tracheotomies all the way around my neck. I'll be Tracheotomie Man! "He can smoke a pack at a time! He's Tracheotomie Man!"
I can remember a time in this country when men were proud to get cancer, god dammnit! When it was a sign of manhood! John Wayne had cancer twice. Second time, they took out one of his lungs. He said, "Take 'em both! Cuz I don't fuckin' need 'em! I'll grow gills and breathe like a fish!"
We tried to be nice to you non-smokers. We fucking tried. Okay? You wanted your own sections in the restaurants. We gave you that, huh. But that wasn't enough for you. Then you wanted the airplanes. We gave you the whole godamn plane! You happy now? You own the fucking plane! I'd like an explanation about that one folks because I will guarantee you if the plane is going down, the first announcement you're gonna hear is, "Folks, this is your Captain speaking. Look, uhm, light 'em up, 'cause we're going down, okay. I got a carton of Camels non-filters, I'll see you on the ground. Take it easy."
We tried to be nice to you non-smokers. We tried. But you just fucking badger us, you know? You won't leave us alone! You got all your little speeches you're always giving to us. All these little facts that you dig out of a newspaper or pamphlet and you store that little nugget in your little fucking head, and we light up and you spew 'em out at us, don't ya? I love these little facts.
"Well you know. Smoking takes ten years off your life."
Well it's the ten worst years, isn't it folks? It's the ones at the end! It's the wheelchair kidney dialasis fucking years. You can have those years! We don't want 'em, alright!? And I guarantee if I'm still alive, I'll be smoking then. I'll be in my wheelchair, with my adult diapers on and my twenty-five year old non- smoking born again christian son behind me. I'll be going, "Hey! Make sure you wipe this time. I was itching all week for Christ's sake! And get me some more wippets. I'm almost out, you fucking pussy! Come on!"
Because you're always telling us, "You know, ever cigarette takes six minutes off your life. If you quit now you can live an extra ten years. If you quit now, you can live an extra twenty years."
Hey, I got two words for you, ok. Jim Fix. Remember Jim Fix? The big famous jogging guy? Jogged fifteen miles a day. Did a jogging book. Did a jogging video. Dropped out of a heart attack when? When he was fucking jogging, that's when! What do you wanna bet it was two smokers who found the body the next morning and went,
"Hey! That's Jim Fix, isn't it?"
"Wow, what a fucking tragedy. Come on, lets go buy some buds."
It's always the yogurt sprout eating motherfuckers who get run over buy a bus drive by a guy who smokes three and a half packs a day. "Sorry officer, I didn't see him. I was too busy smoking!"
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157,400 - The number of smokers that will die of lung cancer in America alone this year.
Food for thought, huh.
I'm in two minds about smoking. On the one hand I hate it... because I hate what it does to me. On the other, its better as far as i'm concearned for me to smoke, than to do one of the many other things I tend to do when I get onto mission self-destruct. Better than alcohol in my case, and better than drugs. Both of which I once did in abudance and refuse to ever again.
So I get a message in my blog feedback about checking out this guys site thats against smoking. Being a desciple of Denis Leary my immediate reaction was to laugh my ass off and flip the finger.
However...
I'm not going to do that. I believe this guy has a worth cause, perhaps a self righteous one but we're all a little self righteous and nothing would ever get done if we didnt stick up for what we believe. I went to his site... read about... i'm not going to sign anything because I think i'd be a massive hypocrite if I did. But losing a family member to any kind of addiction or other easily stopped vice... no joking matter. So keep up the good work guy, hope it affords you some kind of peace. Find the link to his site in the feedback to my last entry.
In the mean time... two pop culture quotes about smoking... both of which I agree with, and both of which I couldnt say better.
--------------------------------------
Denis Leary - Smoke
I love to smoke. I smoke seven thousand packs a day, ok. And I am never fucking quitting! I don't care how many laws they make. What's the law now? You can only smoke in your apartment, under a blanket, with all the lights out? Is that the rule now, huh?! The cops are outside, "We know you have the cigarettes. Come out of the house with the cigarettes above your head." "You'll never get me copper! I'm never coming out, you hear? I got a cigarette machine right here in my bedroom. Yeah!"
Know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna get one of those tracheotomies. So I can smoke two cigarettes at the same time. I'm gonna get nine tracheotomies all the way around my neck. I'll be Tracheotomie Man! "He can smoke a pack at a time! He's Tracheotomie Man!"
I can remember a time in this country when men were proud to get cancer, god dammnit! When it was a sign of manhood! John Wayne had cancer twice. Second time, they took out one of his lungs. He said, "Take 'em both! Cuz I don't fuckin' need 'em! I'll grow gills and breathe like a fish!"
We tried to be nice to you non-smokers. We fucking tried. Okay? You wanted your own sections in the restaurants. We gave you that, huh. But that wasn't enough for you. Then you wanted the airplanes. We gave you the whole godamn plane! You happy now? You own the fucking plane! I'd like an explanation about that one folks because I will guarantee you if the plane is going down, the first announcement you're gonna hear is, "Folks, this is your Captain speaking. Look, uhm, light 'em up, 'cause we're going down, okay. I got a carton of Camels non-filters, I'll see you on the ground. Take it easy."
We tried to be nice to you non-smokers. We tried. But you just fucking badger us, you know? You won't leave us alone! You got all your little speeches you're always giving to us. All these little facts that you dig out of a newspaper or pamphlet and you store that little nugget in your little fucking head, and we light up and you spew 'em out at us, don't ya? I love these little facts.
"Well you know. Smoking takes ten years off your life."
Well it's the ten worst years, isn't it folks? It's the ones at the end! It's the wheelchair kidney dialasis fucking years. You can have those years! We don't want 'em, alright!? And I guarantee if I'm still alive, I'll be smoking then. I'll be in my wheelchair, with my adult diapers on and my twenty-five year old non- smoking born again christian son behind me. I'll be going, "Hey! Make sure you wipe this time. I was itching all week for Christ's sake! And get me some more wippets. I'm almost out, you fucking pussy! Come on!"
Because you're always telling us, "You know, ever cigarette takes six minutes off your life. If you quit now you can live an extra ten years. If you quit now, you can live an extra twenty years."
Hey, I got two words for you, ok. Jim Fix. Remember Jim Fix? The big famous jogging guy? Jogged fifteen miles a day. Did a jogging book. Did a jogging video. Dropped out of a heart attack when? When he was fucking jogging, that's when! What do you wanna bet it was two smokers who found the body the next morning and went,
"Hey! That's Jim Fix, isn't it?"
"Wow, what a fucking tragedy. Come on, lets go buy some buds."
It's always the yogurt sprout eating motherfuckers who get run over buy a bus drive by a guy who smokes three and a half packs a day. "Sorry officer, I didn't see him. I was too busy smoking!"
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157,400 - The number of smokers that will die of lung cancer in America alone this year.
Food for thought, huh.
