ayrmad Posted November 22, 2016 Share Posted November 22, 2016 (edited) 53 minutes ago, Shandon Par said: There's a restaurant in Fife I go to when I'm passing through and the owner still berates me for setting fire to one of his tablecloths when you could still smoke in there. I used to have the decency to wait 'til others at the table had finished their course but I did smoke in restaurants all the time. I remember going to the Stadium of Light and smoking outside the pub like a frozen snotter as I forgot the smoking ban hadn't been introduced in England at that point. Edited November 22, 2016 by ayrmad 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted November 22, 2016 Share Posted November 22, 2016 11 minutes ago, ayrmad said: I used to have the decency to wait 'til others at the table had finished their course but I did smoke in restaurants all the time. Because of course the smoke stayed around your table and never drifted away to other tables where people were still eating. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ayrmad Posted November 22, 2016 Share Posted November 22, 2016 7 minutes ago, GordonD said: Because of course the smoke stayed around your table and never drifted away to other tables where people were still eating. In all honesty, like most others at that time, I didn't give a shit about the occupants of other tables. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted November 22, 2016 Share Posted November 22, 2016 Just now, ayrmad said: In all honesty, like most others at that time, I didn't give a shit about the occupants of other tables. I guessed as much. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ayrmad Posted November 22, 2016 Share Posted November 22, 2016 38 minutes ago, GordonD said: I guessed as much. That's the way it was, you regularly couldn't see the other end of a busy pub at the weekend. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackislekillie Posted November 22, 2016 Share Posted November 22, 2016 I remember those days too, standing in a queue in the bank or post office with folk puffing away. I was against it at the time but now I think the smoking ban is the most important piece of health legislation since the founding of the NHS. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthernJambo Posted November 22, 2016 Share Posted November 22, 2016 It's like the class misbehaving when the teacher is out of the room. The teachers (mods) seem to have been piling in though? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted November 22, 2016 Share Posted November 22, 2016 25 minutes ago, ayrmad said: That's the way it was, you regularly couldn't see the other end of a busy pub at the weekend. Pubs are different - that was just part of the environment. But I would hate to be in a restaurant having a nice meal when some selfish sod is puffing away at the next table. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PWL Posted November 22, 2016 Share Posted November 22, 2016 I'm old enough to remember smoking on planes. On a flight to Canada in early 90s I made mistake of going to toilet at back of plane and it was like a fog. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Kincardine Posted November 22, 2016 Share Posted November 22, 2016 2 minutes ago, PWL said: I'm old enough to remember smoking on planes. On a flight to Canada in early 90s I made mistake of going to toilet at back of plane and it was like a fog. Planes used to have a handy wee ashtray in the seat arm with a clever opening mechanism which must have cost a fortune to manufacture. Their absence is another example of the decline of society IMO. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boghead ranter Posted November 22, 2016 Share Posted November 22, 2016 1 hour ago, ayrmad said: That's the way it was, you regularly couldn't see the other end of a busy pub at the weekend. 52 minutes ago, blackislekillie said: I remember those days too, standing in a queue in the bank or post office with folk puffing away. I was against it at the time but now I think the smoking ban is the most important piece of health legislation since the founding of the NHS. Or going for a night out and coming home with a hole burned in your shirt where some paralytic smoker bumped into you with their lit fag. In my case, usually this same one of my mates who never smoked sober, but any time he went out, got blootered, and then suddenly wanted to be a chain-smoker. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supermik Posted November 22, 2016 Share Posted November 22, 2016 22 minutes ago, PWL said: I'm old enough to remember smoking on planes. On a flight to Canada in early 90s I made mistake of going to toilet at back of plane and it was like a fog. Every plane that I flew on in the 70's and 80's and up until it was stopped, I always sat in a smoking seat. The seethe from some of the grown ups in the 70's was glorious at times 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted November 22, 2016 Share Posted November 22, 2016 Planes used to have a handy wee ashtray in the seat arm with a clever opening mechanism which must have cost a fortune to manufacture. Their absence is another example of the decline of society IMO. When they allowed smoking they had to regularly recycle the air by law. Since they banned it they don't bother anymore, hence people picking up colds and worse on flights is far more frequent. Health fascism gone mad. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweet Pete Posted November 22, 2016 Share Posted November 22, 2016 Or going for a night out and coming home with a hole burned in your shirt where some paralytic smoker bumped into you with their lit fag. I lost an expensive camel hair duffel coat to this exact scenario. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deej Posted November 22, 2016 Share Posted November 22, 2016 Quick question - do you call it French toast or eggy bread? Not sure if an issue of this magnitude requires a thread of its own, but we'll see how this goes 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Naitch Posted November 22, 2016 Share Posted November 22, 2016 7 minutes ago, dayman said: Quick question - do you call it French toast or eggy bread? Not sure if an issue of this magnitude requires a thread of its own, but we'll see how this goes French toast every time. Anyone calling it eggy dip dip absolutely needs watching. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cardinal Richelieu Posted November 22, 2016 Share Posted November 22, 2016 9 minutes ago, dayman said: Quick question - do you call it French toast or eggy bread? Not sure if an issue of this magnitude requires a thread of its own, but we'll see how this goes See half way down the first page for the abomination that Ric Flair was referring to. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigmouth Strikes Again Posted November 22, 2016 Share Posted November 22, 2016 Eggy bread for me. 'French Toast' is a load of pompous shite. IMO. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted November 22, 2016 Share Posted November 22, 2016 2 hours ago, Boghead ranter said: Or going for a night out and coming home with a hole burned in your shirt where some paralytic smoker bumped into you with their lit fag. In my case, usually this same one of my mates who never smoked sober, but any time he went out, got blootered, and then suddenly wanted to be a chain-smoker. Working in a pub or club and going home reeking of smoke was horrible. Clothes went straight in the wash as soon as you got home regardless of the time, but you could wake up and your room stank of it. The first time I had a shift after the ban came in, I remember waking up the next morning and being pleasantly surprised that the room only smelled of my own manly scent, rather than death sticks. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deej Posted November 22, 2016 Share Posted November 22, 2016 French toast every time. Anyone calling it eggy dip dip absolutely needs watching. Agree with eggy dip dip , never heard anyone call it that though 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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