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Sad clumps of smokers outside buildings

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TealFanClub · 06/07/2015 13:46

I want to take a photo of them and show it to them. Its never a good look

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TheHouseOnBellSt · 06/07/2015 15:50

Fine nah....she's saying awful things which intimate that the smokers she's looking down on are poor.

Chillyegg · 06/07/2015 15:50

I miss smoking Grin

Id of deeply inhaled my role up whilst staring you down with bitter derision....

Shock At the price of their shoes they MUST of been stolen smokers usually cant afford shoes that expensive Hmm......

FineDamBeaver · 06/07/2015 15:51

Then go get a vapouriser and use 0% liquids, about as dangerous as sniffing the steam from a bath with bubbles in.
Find cheap shoes first though, for the wannabe dm sad face reporters.

But it's a slippery slope, syne. I'd be on crack within a week.
I do have the shoes already, though, so it's a bit of a waste.

WorraLiberty · 06/07/2015 15:52

I'm totally shit at guessing NN's but if I'm right, the OP was/is fairly goady in her other two as well.

Allbymyselfagain · 06/07/2015 15:55

houseonbell I did a happy fag dance, not only do I feel calmer but actually that was quite fun! Thanks for that idea!
rachalragged snap im 30s and still get asked for ID. I think it's sun exposure that causes wrinkles, cigs are the elixir of youth, or we are all just less stressed and so less wrinkled

JakieOH · 06/07/2015 15:55

What's the point in spending more than a few quid on shoes? The soles always end up fucked with all the fag stubbing and running after people that gawp with the hot end of my L&B. I'd say £19.99 was splashing out!

Quiero · 06/07/2015 15:56

I'm pretty shit with NN too Worra but I too reckon this OP has form...

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YouTheCat · 06/07/2015 16:03

Care to share, Worra? 20 Rothmans and a lighter with a picture of a cat on it for you. Grin

Samcro · 06/07/2015 16:04

what a fishy thread

WorraLiberty · 06/07/2015 16:05

Sorry, I gave up smoking years ago Grin

wafflyversatile · 06/07/2015 16:11

Maybe it was being outside a dhss type building that made them sad. That and knowing some sad excuses for human beings, despite being much better off, still need to denigrate them to feel good about themselves for a few minutes.

CoogerAndDark · 06/07/2015 16:20

The thread title is almost Larkinesque.

VenusRising · 06/07/2015 16:23

Smokers know all the gossip IMO.

I stand with them to hear it. I'm wearing flip flops today, does that count?

You do know you can go and have a fag without smoking, dontcha?

Orangeanddemons · 06/07/2015 16:33

I'm no longer a smoker but enjoyed the camaraderie when I did.

I remember one conversation about Cornish Pasties, and how they used to be divided up into a meat section and a fruit section as a pudding. We decided a ciggie section in between the two would be a real bonus!

SorchaN · 06/07/2015 16:41

I'm heading out for a smoke right now, in my ersatz birkenstock shoes that cost me less than a tenner in Aldi about four years ago. I think I'll smoke two or three in a row - surely in that time someone will come along and photograph me looking cool.

HoneyDragon · 06/07/2015 16:45

Man, I miss the days when I had a £4.00 packet of cigs and £350 shoes.

Now I'm a tee total non smoking ass hat in Birkies.

There's no fucking justice in the world.

MagicalHamSandwich · 06/07/2015 16:48

That's why we smoke on the roof - we just wouldn't fit in with the ugly unhappy crowd!

I'm a slim but curvy redhead and my smoking co-workers are both blond hunks. We laugh a lot and look fantastic and since we're all consultants we also wear expensive shoes! Grin

Seriously though, OP, get a life maybe?

claravine · 06/07/2015 16:48

You might be able to get last years birkies for 19.99 in t k maxx honey, freeing up more spends for gin and fags

loveareadingthanks · 06/07/2015 16:48

I smoke and about the only positive to be honest is the smokers' huddle. Especially if you are at a conference/course or similar situation and don't know anyone. It's an instant ice-breaker, takes a group of 100s of people down to a manageable handful to get to know, and there's definitely a camaraderie thing going on. Great way to meet people. Same outside a new pub etc.

usualsuspect333 · 06/07/2015 16:50

It's where we go to gossip about the po faced non smokers.

VodkaJelly · 06/07/2015 16:57

As I said up thread, I have never smoked - and I wear cheap shoes. Where did my life go so wrong?

dadsnkids · 06/07/2015 16:59

Maybe they are holding the cigarette for their friends