Pub next door are planning a smoking shelter ffs! ARGHHHHHHHHHHH

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A bloody village pub and they have decided to protect the poor ickle smokers from the rain.

Oh my heart bleeds for them.

I mean ffs, they are bloody killing themselves so what does it matter if they get bloody wet!!!!

So now theres the chance that they might build this and we'll have everyone and their mother puffing away outside

I might put in an application to build a gallows.

I dont smoke but i have nothing against smokers. The reality is that unless smoking was banned there is no way from staying away from smoking completly, its not possible. I think you are just going to have to put up with it or move. I get really pissed off with people who look down their noses at smokers and are stuck up about it.

well, then, why not campaign against trhe ban, too?

smoking's a legal activity, but there've been a number of posts on here suggesting smokers deserve horrible treatment because they engage in a legal activity outside.

i don't get it.

we've had a ban here for a while and it doesn't seem to have caused so much animosity.

Bozza - I completely get why it bugs you, I just think it's not directly about smokers, its about people drinking in a pub - just happens to be the smokers that are carted off outside - so your assertion that it is inconsiderate smokers that are the problem, when you say yourself that their actual smoking is not an issue, is not quite correct is it?

Unfortunately I am just about to be made redundant so the possibility of moving away from our nice house in a quiet cul-de-sac five minutes from the children's school is slim.

how dare people go to pubs and drink and make merry!?

where are they getting off on that?

some people have KIDS, you know, Scaremy!

I see where you are coming from - and I agree it is more a case of they are "inconsiderate" and "smokers", rather than "inconsiderate smokers". And for all I know their non-smoking mates are keeping them company outside.

expat my DD sleeps through it all, it is me that can still hear it with the double glazed windows closed and ear plugs in.

I would like a campaign against smokers dropping fag butts.

I don't really care what smokers/drinkers do as long as it doesn't affect me but litter and anti-social behaviour do.

Obviously the anti-social behaviour has more to do with the alcohol than the smoking but what the smoking ban has meant is that the alcohol problem is on the streets where previously it was contained indoors.

no no no

if they bloody smoke, they know full well they are on the road to killing themselves or at the least getting some rank disease from it. Its gross and I hate it.
Thats my view and I'm sticking to it.

It was our decision to move here and one we made very carefully.
We've had no other problems from the pub at all.
They have singers in occasionally, a quiz every sunday and they also cater for parties.
Not one complaint from us.

How the hell were we to know when our offer was accepted early last year that a smoking ban would come into affect and the owners would put in plans for a smoking shelter.

Anyway, as I said. Not my problem now.
Doesnt effect me or anyone else so thats all that matters.

So, there were was no-one smoking in the beer garden when you moved there then?

No it wasn't a beer garden. It was an ordinary garden, the previous tenants had children playing, washing out etc - there are a few picnic tables to the front of the pub. But when the smoking ban came in they made a window into a door and erected a smoking shelter. Yes we heard the pub slightly before - karaoke, but not so loud as to disturb us. The noisiest thing was the delivery of beer barrels, but that was at a family friendly time.

Oh, I realise it was not a pub when you moved in Bozza - that was to nbg.

I must admit (and not particularly aimed at this thread but just in general) I hate the way smoking is being made out to be IMMORAL.

It doesn't make you a bad person you know. I really think all this ban this, ban that, ban it whilst you drive, ban it whilst you sit on the loo, is making us so much less tolerant about a whole range of things. We want to ban everything.......

Oh fgs, I agree with Scaremy Vile. This thread makes me want to take up smoking again. Oh sh*t, i already did!

niceglasses, I do know what you mean. I feel the same way about the stuff about weight. It becomes a moral issue to be thin and if you are fat you are somehow immoral.

It's all rubbish.

All I care about is that I can sleep and my street is clean.

A wooden smoking hut?

I dont hate smokers, well I hate the inconsiderate ones yes.

Its something I dont like.

Obvioiusly there were people smoking in the beer garden before but what I'm saying is that now there will be a shelter right in the middle of the garden (and it will be right in the middle too) and it will also block the view to the village green but, hey ho!

expat

i see all that housemoving and fresh air hasnt removed that enormous chip from your shoulder

go walk up a mountain and calm down

telling someone to "get a feckin grip" is uncalled for

Uncalled for? Really?

"get a grip" is a childish phrase, used by people when they dont actually know what to say

Thats a bit nasty, Ive never known expat to have a chip on her shoulder. £8billion a year in revenue - thats what smokers provide go on give them a shelter. I am n ex-smoker BTW but I do still like hanging about outside pubs cause the banters better than non-smokers

Which is exactly the problem hotlove.

smoking is minging but so are drunks (especially when you are sober)

inlaws bought a lovely cottage over a stream from a pub

dh said 'erm, the bridge is outside your gate = loons passing at 11pm?'

'oh phoooey' said they

hahahahahahahahahahahahah

they moan all the goddamn time about the pub

even more now the evil smokers are out the front puffing away, but apparently they have a marquee type affair in the back so in the winter I think they will huddle in there

bozza i dont have a problem