Mr Chris wrote:
a lightly fragranced woman >>>> sweaty bloke smell (do venture into a gym changing room at least once, it's quite an experience) >>>> fags
Mr. Chris, there's a world of difference between a "lightly fragranced woman" and the reality of public transport. "A heavily sprayed lady in middle-management who is going through 'the change', or has some other reason for stinking of sweat AND chemical death at 7.30 until 9.00".
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HAHAHAHAHA. Indeed. The astute reader would of course immediately have inferred that I was running behind and then past said smoker who was walking in the direction I was running, but I see what you did there.
No fooling YOU with these 'jokes' of mine!
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It's also quite common everywhere else I've been running anywhere near the centre of Bristol (which is where I'm based during the day), but there we are. You buggers are everywhere.
Who - inconsiderate smokers? I'm not one of them. Or at least, I do everything in my power to not be, short of not smoking. I refuse to be part of any "buggers"
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I, as you could of course tell by having actually read my posts, hadn't actually suggested that people should be banned from doing so though, had I?
Okay. Certainly it goes without saying that indeed, one might choose to peruse my own post, in which I don't say anything of the kind; and rather, point out that it's certainly rather more easy to ban the non-smoking jogger, than the smoker. Although, the smoker is rather easier to chhase after. M'lud.
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I was merely commenting on one of the myriad ways in which your apparently entirely innocuous and inoffensive habit is unpleasant (as well as unhealthy) for those people (if any) in your vicinity.
Excuse me sir, but I resent that implication. It has been over six years now since I last publically masturbated, and I have stuck to my promise.
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Health and fitness? Each to their own, mind. As I've mentioned before, I only do it to ensure I can eat and drink like I have an alcoholic tapeworm and not suffer the weighty consequences. Which, to a vain person, is a noble cause.
Yes. I like that you begin with 'Jogging is to make me healthy, I'm healthy Mr. Chris!', and end with your admitting that really, you are simply vain.
So - smoking is bad, putting on weight is bad - alcohol abuse is good?
Excellent. Shall we segue now then into why I find it so ludicrous that so many fervently anti-smoking types (no, I am not categorising you, nor anyone specifically) are so fond of murdering themselves with alcohol; especially since alcohol has been definitely and categorically proven to most certainly and assuredly result in multiple deaths, both accidental and intentional, sometimes on a quite vast scale.
However, alcohol doesn't smell, and it's a
fine old tradition, so I can see why it would be so superfically horrifying. When Britain's last old-fashioned pub has, finally, been redecorated, given a nice lick of paint, maybe an attractive logo out front, I hope this still satisfies. It is perhaps ironic, that as someone who is really quite anti-drink, I find myself petitioning for our pubs to remain traditional. That they are not all converted into these hideous faux-restaurants, in which you can get any drink you like - Fosters, Carlsberg, Carling, John Smiths, Strongbow*, the list is endless - and sit in a nice quite little corner, admiring the 'authentic' decorations that been recently and newly added to this travesty of a shit-tip, whilst you tuck into your authentic, home-cooked burger, and watch the football on Sky on the big TV in the corner.
Truly, that is a glorious future for us all, and when you all stagger out afterwards to die in immense car wrecks, I hope the smell of the smoke from your burning corpse does not offend your delicate nose.
* With possibly one regional ale, from the local brewery. Except it's off.