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PostPosted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 8:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Oh and Robert (Privateer) is BoPeep's partner not brother and he's a big guy!


Try me, 7ft, 8in Smile


So you are 4 inches taller than Mr Ross Sambridge, who is Britains tallest man at 7ft 4ins, and the same height as Mr Bao, who is the worlds tallest man at 7ft 8ins.

You didn't mention you were famous 8O
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 9:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Does anyone know if your work place has to provide somewhere for smokers to go, if they decide they wont allow smoking outside the door or in the grounds do they have to provide a little corner or shelter or something.
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 9:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Does anyone know if your work place has to provide somewhere for smokers to go, if they decide they wont allow smoking outside the door or in the grounds do they have to provide a little corner or shelter or something.


No they have no legal obligation to provide a smoking area
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 10:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Does anyone know if your work place has to provide somewhere for smokers to go, if they decide they wont allow smoking outside the door or in the grounds do they have to provide a little corner or shelter or something.
No. You could argue for a smoking shed, but with little prospect of success I fear. Might just as well apply for booze sheds, casino sheds, sex sheds, whatever else you fancy doing whilst not working at the job you're paid to do - strange that toilets ARE provided. It's not your employer's responsibility - 'twas the government which introduced the ban yesterday.
To digress a little, as a former sixty a day smoker and as a former looney lefty trade union official I faced a dilemma many years ago - fight for members to have a smoking room whilst at the same time pressing the employer to ban smoking in the workplace! Any employer was able to introduce a smoking ban back then by simply issuing all employees with a six month notice to quit, with a re-employment offer attached, containing new conditions of contract, specifying no smoking.
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 11:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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I agree its not nice for non smokers to be around smoke but smokers are still human beings no matter what people say and we have a right to do something we enjoy with out being made to feel like outsiders.


You have to consider the balance between the rights of a smoker and the rights of non smokers. The main problem is that a single person smoking in a room effects every other person in the room.

Non smokers outnumber smokers so please go outside and enjoy your carcinogenic habit. Wink
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 7:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Right ok, a sex shed, while sounding good, would be out of the question Wink But I, and the other smokers who work with me, are not asking for time off to indulge in our habit. We are, by law, entitled to a 20 minute break through out the day as well as our hour for lunch. this is the time we have a ciggie. Other companies around us have had smoking shelters installed in the grounds and I thought these had to be provided.

I have no idea what carcinogenic habit means, but I'm guessing its not good! And I do go out side to enjoy my habit and always have. I do not want to force it on to anyone else I respect the rights of non smokers but I also dont want to be made to feel like some kind of outcast who should be shot. Smoking is legal and untill its made ilegal, (which it never will be as it generates too much tax), Those who smoke should be treated as human beings with basic human rights.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 8:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Right ok, a sex shed, while sounding good, would be out of the question Wink But I, and the other smokers who work with me, are not asking for time off to indulge in our habit. We are, by law, entitled to a 20 minute break through out the day as well as our hour for lunch. this is the time we have a ciggie. Other companies around us have had smoking shelters installed in the grounds and I thought these had to be provided.

I have no idea what carcinogenic habit means, but I'm guessing its not good! And I do go out side to enjoy my habit and always have. I do not want to force it on to anyone else I respect the rights of non smokers but I also dont want to be made to feel like some kind of outcast who should be shot. Smoking is legal and untill its made ilegal, (which it never will be as it generates too much tax), Those who smoke should be treated as human beings with basic human rights.



8O Sex Shed, coughs, coughs, coughs, right where the smoking shelters Mr. Green
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 8:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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You didn't mention you were famous 8O



Ssshh, be quite 8)
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 3:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Famous??? just look at his outfit :P And of course spider man would never put a ciggie in his mouth, for one reason his mouth hole is covered up with the mask and for another I think there would be too much wind climbing those high buildings his lighter wouldnt stay lit.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 4:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Famous??? just look at his outfit :P And of course spider man would never put a ciggie in his mouth, for one reason his mouth hole is covered up with the mask and for another I think there would be too much wind climbing those high buildings his lighter wouldnt stay lit.


When I am off duty rid out of my outfit, I have a smoke in the smoking sheilds with white T-Shirt and blue Short on. 8)
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 4:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Famous??? just look at his outfit :P And of course spider man would never put a ciggie in his mouth, for one reason his mouth hole is covered up with the mask and for another I think there would be too much wind climbing those high buildings his lighter wouldnt stay lit.


When I am off duty rid out of my outfit, I have a smoke in the smoking sheilds with white T-Shirt and blue Short on. 8)


Can you take a pic of that I would love you to see you in blue shorts Laughing
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 4:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Other companies around us have had smoking shelters installed in the grounds and I thought these had to be provided.
Not obligatory I'm afraid, just the result of some persuasive talk or perhaps a sympathetic boss, or perhaps a boss who smokes, or perhaps a boss who wants to see where you all are, or perhaps a boss who wants the fire risk and carcinogenic (Cancer-causing) risk isolated into one place (and kill off all the miscreants Burn In Hell On Fire with one blow!!).
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 4:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

what the hell are miscreants and am I one?
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 4:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Famous??? just look at his outfit :P And of course spider man would never put a ciggie in his mouth, for one reason his mouth hole is covered up with the mask and for another I think there would be too much wind climbing those high buildings his lighter wouldnt stay lit.


When I am off duty rid out of my outfit, I have a smoke in the smoking sheilds with white T-Shirt and blue Short on. 8)


Can you take a pic of that I would love you to see you in blue shorts Laughing



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PostPosted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 4:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

bettyboo wrote:
what the hell are miscreants and am I one?

miscreant |ˈmiskrēənt| noun
a person who behaves badly or in a way that breaks the law.

As to whether you are one or not, only you can answer that Smile
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