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Why do so many smokers smoke in areas that are very clearly marked as no smoking? |
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Why do so many smokers smoke in areas that are very clearly marked as no smoking?
Like bus shelters, outside stations and airports there are usually loads of very clear signs. But smokers just flounce these and light up where they like.
It's horrible for us non smokers that have to wait for a late bus for over an hour and constantly breath in smoke. Couldn't move far away else the bus might quickly come and I could miss it
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Carry a soda syphon and squirt them in the face.
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I don't.
Oh and it's flaunt -not flounce. I am amused by the idea of smokers flouncing about the place though. |
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Because they are addicted
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you think a sign is going to stop them?
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I don't.
Oh and it's flaunt -not flounce. I am amused by the idea of smokers flouncing about the place though. |
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be thankful you are living now, in the good old days I would have been blowing smoke in your mooey once you was on the bus
![]() non-smokers, they ask for an inch then take a mile, dearie me
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It's flout. Flaunt is nearly as funny as flounce.
Funny flaunts flout flounces...funny flaunts flout flounces ..funny flaunts flout flounces. |
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It's flout. Flaunt is nearly as funny as flounce.
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Like bus shelters, outside stations and airports there are usually loads of very clear signs. But smokers just flounce these and light up where they like.
It's horrible for us non smokers that have to wait for a late bus for over an hour and constantly breath in smoke. Couldn't move far away else the bus might quickly come and I could miss it ![]() |
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Like bus shelters, outside stations and airports there are usually loads of very clear signs. But smokers just flounce these and light up where they like.
K It's horrible for us non smokers that have to wait for a late bus for over an hour and constantly breath in smoke. Couldn't move far away else the bus might quickly come and I could miss it ![]()
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Because they are addicted
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Lots of ignorant people about.
Some are smokers. |
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It's flout. Flaunt is nearly as funny as flounce.
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No, I meant flaunt. As in ostentatiously ignoring the signs.
e.g. turning up at a family reunion in a Rolls Royce, or going to an exes wedding where lots of guests know you, and having a 20 y.o. real looker on your arm. Flout is when you deliberately ignore or disobey a rule. Personally I think smokers light up while standing under a No Smoking sign because a) they want to smoke, so screw you, and the signs, and b) they know full well that the worse case scenario would be a copper wagging his finger at them and telling them that they're naughty. |
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Some places the law makes it illegal.
Others on private property it is not illegal. Smoke away there. |
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Once you're outside you're outside. Those signs trying to stop people smoking are frankly ridiculous
There's already a ban on smoking indoors and now they're trying to police the outdoors. OP you sound like a sanctimonious pain in the arse tbh. |
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No, I meant flaunt. As in ostentatiously ignoring the signs.
Flouting is the basic activity that's going on, flaunting is optional in this case. |
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You've made a new tongue twister :
Funny flaunts flout flounces...funny flaunts flout flounces ..funny flaunts flout flounces.
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They're flaunting their contempt by flouting the rules. They may flounce with a fluorish while doing so but that would just make them look more foppish.
Flouting is the basic activity that's going on, flaunting is optional in this case. |
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Hangings too good for them.
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The only way a sign will stop smokers is if you hit them with it
![]() Gave up in 2003, hate smelling the stuff but as I was an arse for so many years doing the same I will never moan about it. |
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They're flaunting their contempt by flouting the rules. They may flounce with a fluorish while doing so but that would just make them look more foppish.
Flouting is the basic activity that's going on, flaunting is optional in this case.
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Once you're outside you're outside. Those signs trying to stop people smoking are frankly ridiculous
There's already a ban on smoking indoors and now they're trying to police the outdoors. OP you sound like a sanctimonious pain in the arse tbh. But it does remind me of a story, when the smoking ban came out I was working for a large advertising agency, there was one pub we all used to go to there would be about 10 of us every lunch time, some would pop in on their way home and on Friday nights there would be about 40 of us the smokers among us would go into the pub gardens to light up. However during the weekend most customers were families who complained about smokers in the gardens on hot days when they wanted to be outside with their kids which is fair enough, however the landlord decided to put a ban on smoking in the garden at any time the consequence for him was that we all just went to another pub., By the time he realised his mistake and lifted the ban during the week it was too late we didn't go back. it really didn't surprise me to see a couple of the bar staff from the old pub working in the new one having been laid off because trade had gone down so badly a few families on weekends didn't compensate for a lot of hard drinking ad people with money to spend. I am still in contact with people from my old work and they are still not drinking in the original pub 9/10 years afterwards |
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