Why can you do one and not the other?

[Eriazon]

I think it is implied, like when they talk about bread and wine they really mean bread and selzter water.

it puts a no no on getting drunk, but it doesnt say not to drink booz.

 

[jim-00-4.6]

Word!

Why is it not littering when you throw a butt out onto the street??

Officer:" I'm sorry ma'am, I thought you were littering but now I see you were just tossing out a stinky 'ol smoked-up cigarette filter, so nevermind..."

it IS littering, and not every smoker is an assbag that throws shit out their windows.

 

[gugubica]

You shouldnt be allowed to smoke and drive.

Agreed

 

[Chris-St Louis]

A friend of mine, (Steve) once watched a guy throw an ashtray full of cig butts out of his window, the guy worked at the same place as my friend. Steve got so mad, but decided not to confront him right away.


Steve spent the weekend gathering about 200 cig butts and put them in a plastic bag, where they stayed until one day this littering fool left his sunroof open. Steve placed a note on the car, saying "You dropped us!". He then poured the bag of cig butts in the car.

The guy was furious after work, called the police and everything. Steve said the police just kept asking him where he had dropped all of the butts at and if he knew why someone would do this to him and his car.

What a great story. Figures the douchebag got upset. :smilelol:

 

[Bannon88]

Every story in the bible talks about wine, they drank it with everything.....

Jesus and everyone else were boozers.

 

[Roverlady]

Why? Because one ass hole will always take it to the next level. If you let everyone take one shot, next thing you know, half the office would be plastered! And the guy who has had 6 cigs during the day (while no doubt smelling terrible) will not be as likely to kill someone on the way home as the guy who had 6 drinks.

Chris-just tell the smokers at your office to pick up their trash!! Then go home, have a Scotch and post something at least mildly entertaining.

 

[az_max]

My old coworker would go for a two pitcher lunch. After a two shot breakfast. Then he'd start drinking after work. Ever work with a belligerent, loudmouth drunk? I got to hear/see this guy yell all kinds of shit at his warehouse help, screw up deliveries and pee on the wall behind the warehouse. Not pleasant. I'll take a smoker who spends half his day outside anyday.

He was eventually fired for not showing up for a week. I hear he died a year later. I'm betting it was alhocol related.

 

[Chris-St Louis]

Guessing you smoke Sus?

 

[Roverlady]

Nope.

And we just had a woman fired recently who spent half her day outside smoking and drinking coffee...so for once, I am (almost) on your side!!! hahaha

[disclaimer: I do not know if that is why she was fired.]

 

[bri]

Alcohol impairs you. Smoking does not.

The reason you can't have a drink on break is typically liability.

What a f'ing lame thread.

 

[bri]

Chris-just tell the smokers at your office to pick up their trash!!

Just "rat" on them. Tell HR and facilities. Likely that would fix it better than face to face confrontation.

 

[Chris-St Louis]

Great. Well, thanks for your snotty, yet useless post then.


I forgot, its been a couple of months, this is the Cyber Foreplay before my virtual headshot.

Yeah, You'll be smoking something alright!

 

[Slappy]

Three martini lunches. Don't forget about those! The best way to strike a business deal. These days you're only allowed one drink at lunch.
I'm with you on the scotch! I could use one right now.....
Chris, sounds like you need to move to CA.

 

[Chris-St Louis]

Alcohol impairs you. Smoking does not.

The reason you can't have a drink on break is typically liability.

What a f'ing lame thread.

Nicotine is a drug. When youa re addicted to it, you NEED it to function properly.

Immediately after exposure to nicotine, there is a “kick” caused in part by the drug’s stimulation of the adrenal glands and resulting discharge of epinephrine (adrenaline). The rush of adrenaline stimulates the body and causes a sudden release of glucose, as well as an increase in blood pressure, respiration, and heart rate9. Nicotine also suppresses insulin output from the pancreas, which means that smokers are always slightly hyperglycemic (i.e., they have elevated blood sugar levels10). The calming effect of nicotine reported by many users is usually associated with a decline in withdrawal effects rather than direct effects of nicotine.
Moreover, the declining prevalence of cigarette smoking among the general U.S. population is not reflected in patients with mental illnesses. For them, it remains substantially higher, with the incidence of smoking in patients suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, bipolar disorder, major depression, and other mental illness twofold to fourfold higher than the general population, and smoking incidence among people with schizophrenia as high as 90 percent4,5,6.

http://www.nida.nih.gov/researchreports/nicotine/nicotine2.html#impact



Dont defend your nicotine addiction. You need it as much as I need booze.

As far as being lame, Fuck off and dont read it.
atriot:

 

[Roverlady]

Snotty, maybe.

Useless? Nah. My point was that, just like the smokers (at your workplace and many others) take advantage of the fact that they are allowed to take breaks, there would be people who would do it with the alcohol and then ruin the entire 'privilege' for everyone.

Now that the weather is nice, I've started taking 'breaks' to sit outside and read paperwork since my smoking-colleagues do it all the time.

Sorry for trying to support your point in some way.

 

[Bannon88]

Chris,

Move over here to Illinois, the smokers have no rights.

I was out Saturday night and went to a local bar, no stink, no haze, no filthy ashtrays.....it was great.

 

[Chris-St Louis]

Even the strip joints?

 

[Bannon88]

Even the strip joints?

not in any public places, not in restaurants, bars, casinos...

I don't know about the clubs, I think it's banned there as well.

 

[Chris-St Louis]

THat woudl be awesome. PTs gets so smokey you cant enjoy the girls.

 

[Chris-St Louis]

Snotty, maybe.

Useless? Nah. My point was that, just like the smokers (at your workplace and many others) take advantage of the fact that they are allowed to take breaks, there would be people who would do it with the alcohol and then ruin the entire 'privilege' for everyone.

See! SEE!!!! I need a shot! I'm not nearly as big a prick with a buzz on!

Paging Doctor John Black..... Johnnie Walker Black. :bigok: