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Ally Doll wrote:As far as pub canopies go, here are the garish ones on Whistler's Mother compared to the nice subtle ones on Peckhams.
Schiehallion wrote:People know the harm fags, drink and fish suppers do to them. It's their choice so they don't really need your moralising.
And as far the gross exaggeration of wading through smokers to get to your flat goes may I respectfully suggest you move to a croft in Sutherland where not only are there no hordes of smokers to push through but you can get away from the nasty exhaust fumes outside your flat as well.
Toaster wrote:crusty_bint wrote:Thanks all. Toaster, do you honestly believe that not installing these canopies will dissuade the crowds of smokers you have to wade through? If you do you are very naive.
Certainly not naive - smokers are one hell of a persistent lot. I mean the amount of information out there now about what it does to you and those around you, combined with the obvious fact that cigarettes smell and taste like sh!t on a stick, and still something like a third of folk do it. But every now and then, the wee light bulb goes on, and one or two look at their next fag and say, hang on, whit's this crap? Anything that helps that is fine by me. Ultimately I'd just find it funnier walking through wee crowds of smokers huddled in misery.
Or perhaps you'd rather the taxes just went up and up?
Nimbyism? Oh aye, definitely. Who says a pub has to have an awning for smokers? Sorry CB, I enjoy your stuff on the Forum loads (and the awning codes thing is a good idea) but if you're looking for sympathy to smokers, talk to the hand
Toaster wrote:Anyway, canopies over streets was a Thompson proposal back in 1868. Different city we'd be living in now if that'd caught on (though I doubt they'd have survived the War)!
allyharp wrote:Ally Doll wrote:As far as pub canopies go, here are the garish ones on Whistler's Mother compared to the nice subtle ones on Peckhams.
Those Whistler's Mother canopies are shite. Have you tried walking past them? I'm not exactly tall but if I was just an inch taller I'd be having to duck.
My Kitten wrote:crusty_bint wrote:Was good to meet you too HH - and remember, I bought a round too (it was the women who were cheap )
I'll buy everyone a round with my first buroo cheque!
Pub Canopies - The Quaich has some rather nice ones, will try and get a pic when I'm passing next.
crusty_bint wrote:On the subject of canopies, I was amazed to read that the Shawlands and Strathbungo Community Council have opposed proposals by several pubs to install these kind of canopies to afford us leper colonies of smokers a little protection, lest we die of pneumonia before the cancer has time to develop.
Anywho, to the point: I dont understand this opposition and I don't understand whose view the Community Council are under the impression they are representing? Is anyone here involved with the CC or know more?
crusty_bint wrote:I wasn't knocking the work the CC do, nor trying to berate or belittle the group, just the way that particular scenario was handled, or at least, how it was portrayed at the the time.
Dexter St. Clair wrote:crusty_bint wrote:I wasn't knocking the work the CC do, nor trying to berate or belittle the group, just the way that particular scenario was handled, or at least, how it was portrayed at the the time.
Community Councils are the bodies that like to say no. The fact thet there is no canopy does not mean smokers won't congregate outside the door of the pub. Community councils objetc to bus shelters, they object to pubs and anything else they think might upset their constituency of pensioners. The only good thing about Community Councils is the torture they apply to Councillors who turn up religiously to be bored to death at their meetings.
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