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	Create New Topic   My Posts   My forum buddies   Invite friends   Private messages Russian brides > Main Forum > Smoking in Russia/Ukraine? A turn off or not? Author Post sanchopanza Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 7/13/2004 1:22:12 AM   Soapbox. (try not to take it personal - it's enough that I do) Smoking: I like to breathe clean air. I like my family and my friends to breathe clean air. But, If I don't know you and you are not smoking where I am, then it's none of my business, is it? Well, I plan to live past 100 years. When I am sitting there, blowing out my birthday candles (keep a fire extinguisher handy - that's a lot of candles), I want society to be healthy (and full of good tax-payers), so they can give me a good pension and give me good care. I don't want to be surrounded by people 40 or 60 years younger than me - sitting there with their emphysema and their oxygen masks (and being a burden on the health budget) instead of being out there working and paying taxes. So, it *is* - kind of - my business. And similar thoughts apply to other activities as well! Even in other countries (the world is one big happy family now, is it not). Some stupid guy in Asia or Africa has sex with an AIDS infected prostitute... My government decides to donate a hospital plus money to run it... (money taken from tax-payers - I'm one of them). And my letterbox is full of letters trying to get me to sponsor an orphan whose parents died of AIDS... 'He' had the sex, and now I should pay - through taxes and through private donations. E.T. was a botanist I think, but if he (she?) had been a sociologist there certainly would have been a lot to phone home about. The world we live in is indeed a strange world! PS None of us are very rational. But we could perhaps try to be just a little bit more rational... GLTALLTOAD Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 7/13/2004 1:30:20 AM   You never know if what Sancho posts here are his own thoughts or something he repeated from previous posts or even a comic book, is it? sanchopanza Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 7/13/2004 2:05:40 AM   "You never know if what Sancho posts here are his own thoughts or something he repeated from previous posts or even a comic book, is it?" I do not pretend to receive Divine Revelations. (Do You?) Therefore most of what I post is my interpretation and understanding of what I have heard/read before. Totally original thoughts I have very few of. When I ask a question, it is to get an answer (and not a whack on the head with a baseball bat - that, I believe, does not promote cognitive procedures). When I emphasise a point or reiterate, it is because I am naive enough to believe it is a valid point. If you are so far ahead of me with respect to cerebral matters surely my existence can be no threat to you. You are out there on the ocean in you magnificent ship, and I am just playing on the beach with my little shovel and bucket. Why all the hostility? Dale E Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 7/13/2004 3:36:21 AM   Good question Sancho, You have been unfairly picked on by the boys in us. I am man enough to admit when I'm wrong and offer my apology. You have the same right as me or anyone else here to comment as you please. What may be a trivial question to us could be important to you. You have managed to turn the other cheek when I would have left a long time ago.That is "chutzpah" sanchopanza Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 7/13/2004 10:02:14 AM   Dale E, Thanks for your friendly words. And I have been reading "How to win friends and influence people" - again! -but I think I got a copy with serious misprints in it... idiotdetector Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 7/13/2004 3:58:00 PM   Oh please sanch, just when I was starting to take you seroiusly you tell me that you are reading "how to win friends and influwnce people" I realy do hope that was a joke sanch, please say it is. I have met more than one person who has read this and tried to apply it in life, all toss bags. The book should be tittled, how to go from losser to toss bag in one easy read. sanchopanza Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 7/13/2004 11:58:43 PM   idiotdetector, -and I thought that I got a copy with mis-prints in it... Look what happened... (here I am, surrounded by friends...) idiotdetector Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 7/14/2004 3:47:23 AM   If the book was just called how to make friends sanch, but "how to influence people? You sould not have to influence your friends sanch. You have made friends here by pushing your opinion and standing you ground, winning respect for the type of person that you are. Not by influencing them with some cheap snake oil trick learnt in some crap book realy only printed to make someone money. Dale Karnegy I think, is that correct? What a toss bag her is. idiotdetector Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 7/14/2004 3:47:38 AM   And call me ID idiotdetector Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 7/14/2004 3:50:31 AM   correction, he is ron Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 7/14/2004 5:42:18 AM   /quote as many as 70% of men, 30% of women, and over 50% of teenagers smoke in Russia. /end quote The population of Russia is decreasing each day by 2500 people, of which are 700 smoking related deaths. tradman Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 7/16/2004 12:00:20 PM   that book, and men are mars, and the surrended wife, all tell us things we alread knew, same with"why women can't read maps....if you have ever read one, it is just a collection of common sense that everyone nods along to.....no need to pay for and read, what you already know GLTALLTOAD Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 7/16/2004 12:27:34 PM   I hereby declare my quest for a Nobel Prize (and the money that comes along with it) by announcing my intention to publish a pocket book for men titled: "Why won't western women serve a home cooked meal anymore?" toad Ditto Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 7/16/2004 2:26:29 PM   Toad, I'm not sure the world is ready for your book. We're having trouble defining the word "is". If you truly answer the question, it won't be a pocket book anymore. You'll need a wheelbarrow. GLTALLTOAD Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 7/16/2004 2:50:15 PM   Ditto, it's simple. Only western women and politicians struggle with the definition of what "is" is, lol.... Western men, household pets, fish, mammals in general and even a few plants species know exactly what "is" means. toad PS: I really really really want to write it, lol... Ptichka Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 7/17/2004 6:42:57 AM   And why do really women there don't cook meal at home any more???:) Ok I myself sometimes buy salads in the shop when I don't have enough time to cook them at home, but I personally always cook other dishes. As for baking there was a period when it was impossible to buy good and tasty cakes at the shop, and everybody baked, but it's really a very tiring thing, and now when it's possible to buy good and tasty cakes it is possible not to bake. Especially as some cakes are very very difficult to bake. tradman Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 7/17/2004 9:21:17 AM   because they can't be arsed, once upon a time men hunted and women cooked, don't ask me what the arrangement is now:))))) Your Reply: Your name:   New Registration Password:   Forgot password?   refresh Code:   Russian brides > Main Forum > Smoking in Russia/Ukraine? A turn off or not?
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