Never got hooked on smoking myself but I love the smell and miss it.
Still can’t believe that the Irish went along with smoking bans in Pubs.
Never got hooked on smoking myself but I love the smell and miss it.
Still can’t believe that the Irish went along with smoking bans in Pubs.
I like the song and I can relate to it. Except: I have asthma so I definitely don’t miss the public smoking, especially in restaurants and bars. I prefer to be able to breathe. (Which is also why I don’t wear a mask.) My red state’s mask mandate went away today — except in my county and a few others run by Dems. The bastards. I live in the south part of the county,which is majority Republican, and which has a very low Covid death rate. But they don’t care. This infuriates me. Sad to say, my brother is one of those Dem idiots and he’s been absolutely paranoid about Covid. Until he got the shot, the results of which he thinks are going to be wonderful. He refuses to believe that’s unlikely.
It’s the Protestant Ulstermen who refuse to take guff from anybody, either in Ulster or in America where so many settled, forming the backbone of Jacksonian democracy. For this they are hated by English and American elites both, their loyalty to God and country rarely rewarded as it should have been.
The Irish Catholics jump when their betters in Dublin, Rome and Berlin say hop. They always have. Don’t be fooled by their love for finding petty reasons to quarrel. They don’t disagree on anything important.
God help you if you call a spade a spade, the Church of Rome a racket run by pedophiles, or the Irish Free State a joke that only makes sense as a parking lot for German bombers and a storage area for cash that American corporations refuse to pay tax on.
I can’t believe The Rex on Queen went smoke free….
I said it would never happen.
This is another song that deals with the smoky blue atmosphere of a late night bar!
https://youtu.be/ZHQKDVMbOVM
You got fed small doses until you got the overdose.
Helmets on MC, seat belts, no smokin bit by bit, you accepted it all. Now they got you by the balls. And they smotherin you with cancer causin masks.
You didn’t care you didn’t ride MC, oh seatbelts if it saves just one kid, yah smokin it bad. Oh you wanta put what up my where. You lost your freedom little by little. Now they got you by the nuts and the throat
so is puttin things up your ass but you romanticize that huh, and you always take that toke when they hand it to you. Did anyone force you to smoke. See that is how Libs think.
The war on smoking was one of the first communist-type intrusions in my lifetime, but prohibition came before that. Second-hand smoke danger is very overblown. If it were so scary, how come all the war babies and boomers are living to a ripe old age? We were all surrounded by smoke everywhere we went.
“We were all surrounded by smoke everywhere we went.”
Back in the day when you took a long road trip with heavy smokers the air was less than pristine but somehow we survived. Everywhere is correct including greyhound bus, airplanes after the no smoking light went off, all bars and restaurants; most people smoked and a non-smoker was thought of as a bit of a queer duck.
Gee, maybe all the lives saved from the lack of second hand smoke and not smoking in bars have suddenly been lost to COVID. We’re never going to be 100% safe even swaddled in bubble wrap. Will we ever truly learn?
I believe the singer is romanticizing a long, lost past in which people were allowed to make their own choices. I quit smoking a long time ago because I made the decision not to smoke. However, I was never for forcing privately owned establishments to impose no smoking rules on patrons. People can make up their own minds whether to go into a bar or not. Long ago, I also made the decision to not call people I’ve never met and don’t know idiots because I disagree with their opinions. However, I could make an exception in some cases.
Breathing is the new smoking
I quit 20 years ago, but still enjoy the smell when I walk past a smoker. What pisses me off are all the anti smoking Nazi’s. Mind yer own beeswax and leave others alone. As said above, we can make our own choices about entering any establishment and can turn the TV off if we don’t like what’s on.
OK, Karen.