It seems to me the extreme overreaction to Sapo are the ones being “internet tough guys”. Come on, all he did was make an empty threat, it was obvious he wasn’t serious. Everyone does it “man I hate them, I wish…”. Isn’t that what the Pit is for?
Yeah, but god forbid the internet tough guys ever miss a chance to call someone else an internet tough guy.
Although, on their defense, overreacting to pittings is also part of what the pit is for. I see it all as part of the comedy of the place.
“extreme overreaction”?
Am I reading the same thread, where the OP is moaning about his neighbours tobacco smoke — FROM INSIDE HIS OWN HOUSE?
Yes he is, because (he says) the neighbor’s tobacco smoke is constantly coming into his own house.
This annoys him, so he vents his anger by saying mean things about smokers on the internet. This annoys smokers who read it, so they say mean things about him on the internet. Humor allegedly ensues.
The number one cause of death is heart disease. Stress is the biggest contributor to heart disease. Your pitiful whining and determination to hang onto your anger is causing your body stress which is damaging your heart. Pacemakers aren’t cheap and neither is open heart surgery. The cost of keeping someone in a nursing home until the age of 90 is also expensive. You need to get a handle on your stress before it kills you or knocks you out of commission. You are an angry perfectionist who can’t deal with your own problems so you find fault with every little thing you can.
Maybe you should relax a little. Taking 15 minutes to smoke a cigarette usually works for me. Maybe you should try it!
And I think I will call Bull Shit on that right now.
From the OP:
That isn’t smoke I’m smelling, it’s bullshit.
Wait, what? Are you actually saying that I am not smelling my across-the-street neighbor’s smoke in my house? By all means stop by and smell yourself*. Hell, give me a day of advance warning and I will grill something nice for you and have some cold beers. I will even let you smoke on my back yard where the smoke blows away from my house (or anyone’s house for that matter).
And this being a semi-rural area and with my FIL actually having some ornamental cattle, and with my dad having been a 2-pack-a-day kinda guy, I know the difference between cigarette smoke and bullshit.
*Which on a second read sounds different from what I meant to say. Don’t stick your nose to your armpit, I mean come have a smell with your own nose.
A brilliant observation and very pertinent advice. I hope you stop going nutty about some stranger’s random internet ramblings and get a grip on yourself.
Thanks for waving the flag against smokers but you might want to put it down for the remainder. You are getting wolfganged by smokers and nobody seems to really care for the anti-smoke side at this point. As many have already caught, my level of outraged topped at about 0.03 milipissons and I very well know that the guy is in his right.
I wish, as I think you do, that he were not in his right to blow his smoke into my house but as it stands, he is. I think it was Muffin upthread who said it all boiled down to whether it was enough smoke to make it a public nuisance thing (or something like that). I don’t know the pertinent laws, but I am guessing he is orders of magnitude under those levels.
Sit back and PALATR trying to get all riled up over my death wishes and trying to project their impotent rage over my OP. Maybe death wishes do work in their own circuitous ways.
Tell us again, why can’t you just close the windows on the front of the house, open the ones on the back and use a fan, if required.
(But don’t set it on high, or, well, y’know…shiver!)
It’s hot here (with my sincerest apologies to the snow-bound among us). Closing the windows that face the prevailing winds is just not smart. Plus my wind chimes just don’t sound right with the windows closed. And I cannot watch my kids playing on the front yard.
ETA: I almost forgot: Boo!
Even as a smoker I had sympathy for you and was hoping to think of some kind of mutually satisfactory solution. Now I find out you have wind chimes? You deserve whatever you get!
Every repetition of this shames me to my soul, reminding me of my terrible oversensitivity. I weep with humiliation; verily, you have put me in my place!
Or it just makes you look petty. One or the other.
Do continue, though, I’ve turned it into a drinking game.
I had seen a brief article and it was talking about 3rd hand smoking affects. I tell you, I have never before hurt my eyes rolling them that far, fast and hard. I couldn’t even actually read the whole article because of the pain in my eyes, just from the eye-rolling of reading the title. Some people, I swear. :smack:
Just that one, and I got it as a gift. It means nothing to me, I swear! Please.
Wind chimes?
I’d rather live downwind from a pile of burning garbage than a neighbour with windchimes! Talk about air pollution, shiver!
Parcel it up with that bottle of Yugoslav Reisling from your last party, and regift it already.
Meh…lame pitting…
You know I might sympathize with you if you worked up the balls to go over and explain that his second-hand smoke bothers you … or better yet…asked the park supervisor if you can relocate your trailer to another lot.
Ok, now you crossed the line. You leave my Yugoslav Riesling out of this or I will send my mime-trained pit bulls after you.
I’ll feed them my ashtray of Marlboro Light butts, and send them back to breath onto you.