You know what? Sure, you found me out. I mean, all my posts about working in the library and dealing with people’s strange and grotty shit are all made up.
Honestly, I like your way better - much less disgusting, much less work. I’ll try not to get so confused in the future.
On a totally unrelated note, I find the new edition of the rolleyes smiley to be wholly inadequate for my needs.
Oh, I believe people have returned books in disgusting conditions. What you are lying about is people checking out a book for one week and their chain smoking leaving the book covered in tar and so thoroughly reeking of smoke that nothing can be near it without damage.
Since all things in smokers houses are ruined, I’m seeing a great opportunity here for home protection services. Don’t want your house broken into? Start smoking! No one will want to steal your things since you’ve ruined them with that first puff.
It has come to my attention that people who defecate sometimes touch stuff around their houses or offices afterwards. Sure they washed their hands, but everything they touched touches another object in a great chain of paranoia.
That book you picked up ? You can’t know somebody didn’t read it on the pot.
I’m just going to assume this has been covered over three pages already, but seriously? You’ve never heard of smokers going outside to smoke? Ever?
LOL.
Follies of the young. I’m sorry you bought some stinky stuff from a smoker, but dude, we don’t ALL smoke inside the house while we’re fapping to Reddit, okay?
Holy moly! Not responding to this reply, specifically, but I see that the posse has arrived.
All of the information anyone would need in order to intelligently respond to what I’ve said is “out there”. It isn’t all in the same place or even all in the same field of study, but it’s there, scattered from anthropology to zoology. All anyone would have to do is consider what I said and ask themselves which field of study might hold a piece of the puzzle.
It truly is very basic information. A little historical, a little environmental, somewhat anthropological, biological/physiological/immunological etc., with a splash of geological information thrown in for some “holy moly” thoughts. I get off on “holy moly” thoughts. Most people don’t, and I’m OK with that. Everybody gets to choose for themselves, in that regard.
Anyone who likes puzzles, should be able to search their most basic school memories and find enough bits and pieces to get a good “think” going. But you’ll have to do it yourself. There is all sorts of related information out there, but you’ll have to put it together yourself. There aren’t any “quotes” for you to parrot because most of the relevant scientific fields have created imaginary boundaries that bounce new ideas right back into their own limited territory, where they get distorted or just plain die, and that keep ideas from other fields at bay, rather than allowing thoughts to continue on in any sort of natural direction they might take.
Bottom line, the idea itself is irrelevant. If you can’t consider an idea without someone else doing your thinking for you, then I’m talking to you. You don’t have to like it, but that’s not going to change anything. I don’t care. Call me all the names you want - it’s an excellent excuse for not thinking.
If my name is on the card in the little paper envelope in the front cover of the book, which I’m sure is still how it’s done, you can take it to the bank that I read it on the pot.
I’ve seen it asked of you before, but I didn’t catch your response: Do you have a newsletter that I could subscribe to, or what?
I’ve just told you what’s what so I suppose my answer is “yes” - from your perspective: Regarding the consideration of the implications of a variety of seemingly unrelated ideas and discoveries stemming from various disciplines and the building of new ideas along the path that leads from one idea in one field to another idea in another and another and another - yes, from your perspective, independent thought would, indeed, be considered “making shit up”.
I see no independent thought. Rather, I see someone wallowing in a slough of half-understood factoids and self-congratulatory falsehoods. You’re making mud pies and calling them cakes.
Makes you wonder about HOW we all came to be smokers (not me - at 47 I’m the non-smoking unless you are stupid generation)…Why did we EVER allow it indoors. Why, since its such an obnoxious smell, wasn’t it always an outside habit? When you are around it all the time, you really don’t notice it … but there must have been a time when smoking wasn’t done in places of business (there certainly was a time when it was never done around a lady).
But the idea that smoking might strengthen your immune system isn’t a “holy moly” thought. It’s rooted in the old “adversity makes you stronger” saw. That saying is sometimes true and sometimes false, but it’s hardly obscure. It’s a thought that’s occurred to damn near everybody at one time or another, scientists included, and an idea that’s been tested with respect to smoking (and other drugs) a number of times. Turns out it’s not true.
You’re not a visionary combining human ideas in never-before-seen ways. It’s disappointing, I know, but stamping your feet and shaking your tiny fist at us won’t change that.
I’m a little bit country
And I’m a little bit rock 'n roll
I’m a little bit of Memphis and Nashville
With a little bit of Motown in my soul
I don’t know if it’s good or bad
Well, when tobacco made its climb into being the ubiquitous drug it was, at night we were still shitting in chamberpots and saving it to be thrown out in the morning. The stink of tobacco smoke was probably seen as an improvement over the available odors.