And why do we actually give any limelight to those idiots? Ignore both groups 'til they learned that they are actually insignificant and utterly meaningless to 99% of the people out there.
I feel reminded of the Dead Parrot sketch by Monty Python
cue a flooded street, two men standing in front of a wall of sandbags that tries its best to keep the flood out
A: Hello? I'd like to register a complaint. About the climate change. B: Oh yes, yes, the climate change, the biggest science hoax of the century, yes, what about it? A: What about it? It's coming right up to my front door here! B: Oh no, no, that's just... rain. A: Look, matey, I know a flood if I see one, and that's a flood, no rain. B: No, no, that's rain. We get that a lot lately. Wonderful weather, ain't it? Relaxing and soothing the pitter-patter of drops... A: Pitter-patter? No pitter-patter enters into it, it's a flood! B: Oh, that water you mean? Yes, that's coming down the hill. Happens sometimes. A: Down the hill? The hills are dry as bones since the glaciers went away, but there's no beach anymore. Actually THIS IS the beach! B: It's not (take a pump and pumps some of the water back out behind the sand bags) See? It's reciding! A: You pumped it out. B: That was you moving the water. A: I never did such a thing! B: (pulls a sand bag out of the wall, an arm thick stream of water starts to flood the area). See? It's flooded! A: You made it! B: I what? A: You made the water appear. You're trying to trick me into believing you.
And as soon as you have any kind of indication for this to possibly hold some water, we might even discuss it.
That's the point about science. Yes, we can all come up with all sorts of wacky ideas, don't worry, but in the end, what counts is to be able to at least show that it could be true.
What you're doing here is the equivalent of speculating what was before the Big Bang. There is no way whatsoever to even possibly begin to falsify your claim. And claims that cannot be tested are worthless from a scientific point of view.
Provide a test for your hypothesis or, sorry for be so blunt, get out of the way for someone who can provide one for his.
No, instead I now have the choice to either go outside with the rest and freeze/fry for no good reason whatsoever, and to add insult to injury, without my cocktail.
So standing in smoke is somehow better than sitting in it?
And the only thing these areas accomplished was that all the smokers now go outside and talk there while I can choose to either sit inside alone and ponder the contents of my glass 'til they're done with their cigarettes or join them.
Where the fuck is the difference? Except that it's cold outside during the Winter and hot during the Summer, and in neither case I have my drink with me.
Again, this is hardly the only bar in town and by far the non-smoking bars outnumber those that allow smoking. It's not like you lose anything by this bar allowing smoking.
Ok, you do, it's a very good bar with a really awesome bartender who knows his business well and makes the best White Russian this side of the pond, but shop around, maybe there's another one. And I don't even know whether you like White Russian.
You're by no means obligated to smoke, you can just enjoy your drinks there. I don't smoke and nobody ever bothered me about it, it's not like people start to ask or even demand from you that you light one up.
At some point, though, it becomes less of a hassle to just move out and into another apartment before putting up with an abusive and batshit insane landlord any longer.
Especially if the new apartment is in a nicer neighborhood, has lower rent and better locks at the doors.
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And why do we actually give any limelight to those idiots? Ignore both groups 'til they learned that they are actually insignificant and utterly meaningless to 99% of the people out there.
That's fake news!
They only had perpetual competitions for the best political jokes and the winners got sent to holiday camps.
I was blasting during the speech, I was. People around me didn't like it.
And then I was fired for being a Trumpet player.
Exactly.
Buying politicians, what bullshit. Start leasing, they might become worthless come next election.
Intelligent Devices for the Internet Of Things, or in short IDIOT
Also applicable to anyone buying something from that product group.
If my only choice is to side with pedos or a tyrannical government, I side with the pedos. Out of pure self interest.
I'm way over 18. Guess which of the two is a threat to me.
Yeah, I fucked up in the middle, I shouldn't redress old comedy routines before I had my first coffee.
How about going to a non-smoker bar, then?
Again, there's plenty of non-smoker bars around town, why does it have to be this one?
I feel reminded of the Dead Parrot sketch by Monty Python
cue a flooded street, two men standing in front of a wall of sandbags that tries its best to keep the flood out
A: Hello? I'd like to register a complaint. About the climate change. ... rain.
B: Oh yes, yes, the climate change, the biggest science hoax of the century, yes, what about it?
A: What about it? It's coming right up to my front door here!
B: Oh no, no, that's just
A: Look, matey, I know a flood if I see one, and that's a flood, no rain.
B: No, no, that's rain. We get that a lot lately. Wonderful weather, ain't it? Relaxing and soothing the pitter-patter of drops...
A: Pitter-patter? No pitter-patter enters into it, it's a flood!
B: Oh, that water you mean? Yes, that's coming down the hill. Happens sometimes.
A: Down the hill? The hills are dry as bones since the glaciers went away, but there's no beach anymore. Actually THIS IS the beach!
B: It's not (take a pump and pumps some of the water back out behind the sand bags) See? It's reciding!
A: You pumped it out.
B: That was you moving the water.
A: I never did such a thing!
B: (pulls a sand bag out of the wall, an arm thick stream of water starts to flood the area). See? It's flooded!
A: You made it!
B: I what?
A: You made the water appear. You're trying to trick me into believing you.
and so on.
Here's your broom. Now push back that ocean.
And as soon as you have any kind of indication for this to possibly hold some water, we might even discuss it.
That's the point about science. Yes, we can all come up with all sorts of wacky ideas, don't worry, but in the end, what counts is to be able to at least show that it could be true.
What you're doing here is the equivalent of speculating what was before the Big Bang. There is no way whatsoever to even possibly begin to falsify your claim. And claims that cannot be tested are worthless from a scientific point of view.
Provide a test for your hypothesis or, sorry for be so blunt, get out of the way for someone who can provide one for his.
Oh please, that's just marketing. Remember "Greenland"?
You shouldn't invest in that real estate in Georgia, for Georgia is where we'll collide with Planet IX-533 in roughly 55.2 billion years.
No, instead I now have the choice to either go outside with the rest and freeze/fry for no good reason whatsoever, and to add insult to injury, without my cocktail.
So standing in smoke is somehow better than sitting in it?
And the only thing these areas accomplished was that all the smokers now go outside and talk there while I can choose to either sit inside alone and ponder the contents of my glass 'til they're done with their cigarettes or join them.
Where the fuck is the difference? Except that it's cold outside during the Winter and hot during the Summer, and in neither case I have my drink with me.
Fffft. You whip up a rhyming routine up on the spot in a foreign language.
Again, this is hardly the only bar in town and by far the non-smoking bars outnumber those that allow smoking. It's not like you lose anything by this bar allowing smoking.
Ok, you do, it's a very good bar with a really awesome bartender who knows his business well and makes the best White Russian this side of the pond, but shop around, maybe there's another one. And I don't even know whether you like White Russian.
So instead I should sentence them to a life in misery because they cannot enjoy what they want to enjoy?
That's cruel.
You're by no means obligated to smoke, you can just enjoy your drinks there. I don't smoke and nobody ever bothered me about it, it's not like people start to ask or even demand from you that you light one up.
So ... it's more profitable to run a smoking bar?
And ... we still force bars to be non smoking areas.
Who put the commies in charge?
Do you really know a single bartender that doesn't smoke? I don't.
Let's for a moment imagine I wrote "If you don't like that people smoke, just stay home".
Well? How'd you like that?
iOS is easy to avoid. Unlike Windows.
At some point, though, it becomes less of a hassle to just move out and into another apartment before putting up with an abusive and batshit insane landlord any longer.
Especially if the new apartment is in a nicer neighborhood, has lower rent and better locks at the doors.