Comments on: Perversion as Spectator Sport.

By: Dick Puddlecote

Dick Puddlecote — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:41:02 +0000

Vimes: “when the Scottish Parliament was introducing the smoking ban, they consulted 32 reports on passive smoking, only 6 of which concluded that there was a link with health problems”

Sounds about right. Here is a comprehensive list of peer-reviewed studies prior to UK smoking bans. Out of 63, just nine showed a minor statistical danger (more than double that suggested a protective effect). Hardly a base for the quite ludicrous current hysteria.

Nice analogy, by the way.

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By: richard

richard — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:28:27 +0000

re: humiliation as entertainment – i saw an episode of “school of silence ” on BBC in which small children were placed in stocks, verbally abused by a man in military uniform minus trousers (!) covered in various buckets of gloop, and under orders to remain silent whilst being monitored from afar by a woman in an office.
WTF?

By: Blink

Blink — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:57:37 +0000

Having spent most of the day under aerial bombardment by the jets presuambly preparing their pilots to be killed in Afghanistan, all in our good name of course, I would find one of the units suitable for my current MP. Having been told already by him that all this disruption is necessary to train ‘our boys’ for Afghanistan why can’t they go without training – they’ll be killed anyway if this government has its way!!

By: The Dean

The Dean — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:31:36 +0000

Anna,

I’m fascinated by your suggestion of a glass booth for wife-beating husbands.

The booth in the photo is perspex so that people can see cigarettes being smoked – so will there be one where I can watch wives being beaten?

By: Anna Raccoon

Anna Raccoon — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:31:37 +0000

Nail on head, Vimes. They used to call them sin bins!

Now what is the psycology behind making them in perspex and putting them in the centre of a busy thoroughfare?

I think I already answered my own question…

By: Vimes

Vimes — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:28:17 +0000

“Ever get the idea that there has been a hysterical [engineered] over-reaction towards passive smoke?”

A little bird (or should that be mole?) once told me that, when the Scottish Parliament was introducing the smoking ban, they consulted 32 reports on passive smoking, only 6 of which concluded that there was a link with health problems – now, if you were buying something new, would you ignore 82% of the available evidence and just accept the 18% which told you that your choice wasn’t a crock of s***e?

By: Vimes

Vimes — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:22:34 +0000

Here’s a novel idea – if you can have small, self-contained, ventilated units like that, why not have one big, self-contained, ventilated unit, that could house 50 people and call it a “Smoking Room”? No non-smoker would have to go into it and everyone would be happy – you could even have them in pubs, or is that just too outrageous for words?

By: ivan

ivan — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:32:15 +0000

As these get bigger because of demand the question will become who is watching whom.

I do agree with Sabot remembering the number of times I traveled in what was supposed to be the smoking section of the plane only to be told I couldn’t smoke my pipe yet there were people with foul smelling cigars allowed to.

By: binlid

binlid — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 10:53:17 +0000

I shouldn’t worry about being seen. Give it 24 hours and the tar will be running in rivulets down the perspex to such an extent that anyone with voyeuristic tendencies will be sadly disappointed.

binlid

By: martha

martha — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 10:23:11 +0000

Dalaman (Turkey) had one 2 years ago, albeit slightly larger about 10ft square, 1 chair, 1 ashtray and 50 people (with luggage) trying not to set fire to the person next to them…

By: Sabot

Sabot — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 09:56:15 +0000

I don’t care. Shove over and pass the ash tray.

By: Constantly Furious

Constantly Furious — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 09:51:12 +0000

There’s a slightly bigger one of those at Bangkok airport.

Full of people just off a 12 hour fag free flight, it looks just like an inexplicably square grey cloud.

My travelling colleague, an avid smoker, point-blank refused to ever go in there. He preferred to wait another 12 hours to get to Australia.

By: Dick Puddlecote

Dick Puddlecote — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 09:46:14 +0000

Hell, at least it’s impervious to the weather.

Ever get the idea that there has been a hysterical [engineered] over-reaction towards passive smoke?

By: Ch

Ch — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 09:40:51 +0000

The plexiglass smokers

By: Allegoricus

Allegoricus — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 09:31:17 +0000

An unconventional approach – what’s wrong with having smokers huddled around the entrance in the pissing rain?