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jetwolf ([info]jetwolf) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2007-05-02 13:42:00


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The Nazi Legacy: Dead Jews and "No Smoking" Signs
Over in LJ Land there's this fun little community by the name of [info]damnportlanders. It's an awesome comm for the most part, but does have its share of, shall we say, disproportionately passionate folks. Exhibit A: [info]bennetfox.

Yesterday he posted a rant entitled To the Anti-Smoking Gestapo. From zero to Godwin's in 1.3 seconds? This can only get better.

The crux of his complaint is the smoking ban placed on Pioneer Courthouse Square in Portland, Oregon. Bear in mind that this ordinance went into effect on 1 January 2007, so I'm not sure why his frothing rage had to marinate for 5 months first, but okay.

[info]bennetfox is incensed with this inconvenience to his personal liberties, and lashes out at everyone who supported this ban. All of whom are planet-killing SUV owners who deserve a painful and messy death.

And as I watched this unfold yesterday, I was just going to let it be stupid all on its own. But [info]bennetfox returned today, enthusiastically pointing the Gestapo to other major cities that they can "ruin" next.

But really it's all okay cuz he's just doing it for the lulz.

Keep Portland Wanky!


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[info]doomsday
2007-05-02 09:27 pm UTC (link)
one of the most dumbest things

That really speaks for itself, doesn't it?

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[info]onaga
2007-05-02 11:18 pm UTC (link)
As does this:

Besides, I'm not going to spend the rest of my life rotting away in some office box. I am not the cubicle type because I exercise something called "independant thought".

You keep fighting the good fight against English, sunshine!

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[info]sheep
2007-05-02 10:26 pm UTC (link)
What if you support no-smoking public areas and don't drive at all. Does that mean it's ok?

(Not long before it happens here!!! Yay!!)

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[info]also_not_a_pipe
2007-05-03 12:26 am UTC (link)
I seriously thought that this was going to be about my city.

Ohio just passed a state-wide smoking ban, and people are outraged to be denied their Constitutional right to char their lungs. This is what has Ohioans banging on about Orwell and police states and bad government decisions and all.

It's hilarious.

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[info]zinkchan
2007-05-03 12:30 am UTC (link)
The Seattle Com and my college's mailing list was abuzz with "OMG, THE STATE IS OPPRESSING SMOKERS" rage when voters passed the smoking ban.

Not that anyone actually pays much attention to the ban anyway.

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(no subject) - [info]also_not_a_pipe, 2007-05-03 01:28 pm UTC

[info]oar
2007-05-03 03:43 am UTC (link)
That ban passed a statewide vote, too, so it's not just TEH GOBERMINT forcing things on the poor oppressed smokers. Every time someone complains, I feel like asking if they actually voted in the last election.

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(no subject) - [info]also_not_a_pipe, 2007-05-03 01:26 pm UTC
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(no subject) - [info]athy, 2007-05-03 05:32 pm UTC
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[info]zinkchan
2007-05-03 12:28 am UTC (link)
After you're finished ruining Portland, looks like you guys need to take on Phoenix next!

Trust me, the Anti-Smoking Gestapo are too busy trying to enforce the state wide smoking ban in Washington to go to Phoenix at the moment. Their stopover in Portland was mearly a refreshing break from mercilessly making the hipster smokers stand twenty feet away from whatever Belltown bar they were going to that night and ruining Beth's Cafe.

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(no subject) - [info]semtex, 2007-05-03 05:33 am UTC
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(no subject) - [info]semtex, 2007-05-03 05:43 am UTC

[info]lerefuge
2007-05-03 12:41 am UTC (link)
Wow, I am surprised in it the first time since I have been following OTF_wank that we got a smoker wank. Smokers are the most wanky people I know in RL. For all their complaints of 'non smokers nazis', I have never met any non smoker being mean or wanky about smokers but I meet the opposite ALL THE TIME. Some serious persecution syndrome there.

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(no subject) - [info]visp, 2007-05-03 12:53 am UTC
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[info]panthea
2007-05-03 01:08 am UTC (link)
Does Portland have a citywide no-indoors-smoking policy (bars, etc)?

'Cause if not: NO SYMPATHY, PUNKS.

/embittered Boston smoker

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(no subject) - [info]zinkchan, 2007-05-03 01:56 am UTC
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[info]stromatolite
2007-05-03 01:22 am UTC (link)
Wow, that place has not changed. I wish all city-based LJ communities were that awesome.

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[info]lady7jane
2007-05-03 01:43 am UTC (link)
Well, on the plus side, it's got no mention of stupid_free and only one child_free person wanking there.

On the minus side, it's about smoking bans. I wish smoking and secondhand smoke would kill a little more quickly, so we could at least be done with it.

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(no subject) - [info]serai, 2007-05-03 02:44 am UTC

[info]zaliesiren
2007-05-03 02:04 am UTC (link)
There's an episode of Penn and Teller's Bullshit that I adore, because it debunks the belief that second hand smoke = OMGDANGER, but dude... deal. Some people who go to restaurants and the like might not want to, oh I dunno, stink and it does seriously screw with people who have allergies and asthma, so bugger off and chew some gum or something.

Please to stop making us smokers all look like wankers?

...*mops up*

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(no subject) - [info]seiberwing, 2007-05-03 02:39 am UTC
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(no subject) - [info]athy, 2007-05-03 05:40 pm UTC
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[info]serai
2007-05-03 02:41 am UTC (link)
Cars emit carbon dioxide. SUV's and scoorters emit more carbon dioxide than everything else. Did you stop to think about my health?

It's carbon MONoxide, you horse's ass. Carbon dioxide is emitted by HUMANS, not cars.

I wonder how long it'll take before anyone over there points that out to him. Because dude, I learned that in grade school.

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(no subject) - [info]onaga, 2007-05-03 03:50 am UTC
Edumacation! - [info]semtex, 2007-05-03 05:25 am UTC
Re: Edumacation! - [info]serai, 2007-05-03 10:40 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]cookie_love, 2007-05-03 10:33 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]serai, 2007-05-03 10:38 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]cookie_love, 2007-05-04 06:18 am UTC
Also... - [info]cookie_love, 2007-05-03 10:34 pm UTC
Re: Also... - [info]serai, 2007-05-03 10:38 pm UTC
Sigh
[info]emiweebee
2007-05-03 02:42 am UTC (link)
Every time I see Portland wank, I perk up and get all excited, thinking it's one of the OTHER Portlands. I go all, ooh, Maine! I'll know this wank!

I'm not sure if I should be disappointed. I should be happy somewhere I like doesn't wank, right?

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Re: Sigh - [info]catslash, 2007-05-03 03:23 am UTC

[info]rachel_pi
2007-05-03 03:21 am UTC (link)
Heh, the Pittsburgh livejournal community is arguing over much the same thing. Mostly with the libertarian "let the market decide!" people versus the "yay, now I won't come home all stinky" people.

Except our smoking ban is on hold once again. :/

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(no subject) - [info]onaga, 2007-05-03 03:49 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]tangentialone, 2007-05-03 04:59 am UTC
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[info]fauxkaren
2007-05-03 03:49 am UTC (link)
Any other Angelinos here? Cause smoking in enclosed public places has been banned for years and years in Los Angeles, as long as I can remember (I'm only 19... so possibly I can't remember all that far back. heh.) So I kind of laugh when I see people getting all up in arms over smoking bans. Also, it was really weird going back east and having to ask to be seated in the non-smoking section.

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(no subject) - [info]tehrin, 2007-05-03 03:08 pm UTC
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[info]blackjackrocket
2007-05-03 04:47 am UTC (link)
Man, I go there a lot and I *always* see people smoking. Apparently the ban isn't enforced very well.

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[info]tangentialone
2007-05-03 04:55 am UTC (link)
I just wish there were bans on smoking outdoors. That's the real problem, to my mind, because once it's outdoors, it gets everywhere and there's no control over it.

Come onnnnnnnn, War on Drugs!

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(no subject) - [info]semtex, 2007-05-03 05:20 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]tangentialone, 2007-05-03 06:01 am UTC
(no subject) - magpiggles, 2007-05-03 08:22 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]dandywolves, 2007-05-03 08:26 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]sharps, 2007-05-04 04:11 pm UTC

[info]queencallipygos
2007-05-03 01:54 pm UTC (link)
Oh, a smoking ban wank? How cute.

(NB: [Unknown LJ tag] lives in New York City, which has had a smoking ban law in effect since 2002 -- and where all wank was overruled in record time by shitloads of people returning to bars because "yay, we can breathe again" and the bar and restaurant owners saw the increased income and thought "hey, this is a good deal" and everyone GOT OVER IT.

(To date, the only vestige of protest to the ban is that most establishments set big steel cans full of sand outside for smokers to use as ashtrays, and these cans have come to be known as "Bloomberg Buckets" after the city's mayor. But that's it.)

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[info]amymccabe
2007-05-03 02:02 pm UTC (link)
I have severe asthma attacks from cigarette smoke. I literally lose the ability to breath to to cigarette smoke. I would prefer to never encounter cigarette smoke. I don't live anywhere near Portland, Oregon but I would support such a ban if I did. Apparently my desire to breath makes me a member of the Gestapo and magically turns my Camry into a gas guzzling SUV.

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[info]tehrin
2007-05-03 03:06 pm UTC (link)
I think we've had a no-smoking indoors in public areas (resturants etc.) for YEARS in California. In fact, I think we were one of the first states to enact that.

QUIT YOUR BITCHING!

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magpiggles
2007-05-03 05:22 pm UTC (link)
You! Out of my addiction!

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(no subject) - [info]antigone, 2007-05-03 07:37 pm UTC
(no subject) - magpiggles, 2007-05-03 08:21 pm UTC

[info]annabelle_lee
2007-05-03 06:36 pm UTC (link)
Oh, bennetfox is another one of those MY OPINION! assholes. I'm always tempted to call them the raging fuckwipes they are and cut off any retorts with MY OPINION set in 72 point, pink, sparkly Comic Sans font.

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[info]black_spot
2007-05-03 08:28 pm UTC (link)
I know an ex-service club where men who fought in WWII go and nurse half a pint of beer for six hours, smoke two packs, and natter to the their old comrades. After 1st July, they won’t be able to do that anymore.

I propose that each town has a ‘Smokesville’ section where only smokers are allowed. All taxes raised from smoking will only be spent there.

/hardened addict who is considerate to non-smokers

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(no subject) - [info]teruhiko, 2007-05-04 12:17 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]black_spot, 2007-05-04 04:54 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]njyoder, 2007-05-07 06:59 am UTC
What's with the misleading summaries?
[info]njyoder
2007-05-07 06:57 am UTC (link)
Seriously, he never said he was "just doing it for the lulz," nor was it even implied.

You don't seem to know the difference between exaggeration and outright lies. But I guess honesty would be inconvenient if you weren't able to get your 'lulz.'

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Re: What's with the misleading summaries? - [info]jetwolf, 2007-05-07 02:38 pm UTC
Re: What's with the misleading summaries? - [info]njyoder, 2007-05-07 11:52 pm UTC

 
   
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