tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post6225355278621132793..comments2024-01-01T16:01:35.711+00:00Comments on Dick Puddlecote: Beach BullshitDick Puddlecotehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01481866882188932892noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-66047847740234188612015-07-21T17:43:41.740+01:002015-07-21T17:43:41.740+01:00The use of tax on fake quangos doesn't give po...The use of tax on fake quangos doesn't give politicians any credibility.gray coopernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-18776236682917554112015-07-21T17:06:36.165+01:002015-07-21T17:06:36.165+01:00The beach smoking bans are just another incrementa...The beach smoking bans are just another incremental step toward total prohibition. There is zero health risk from second hand smoke outdoors (actually there is essentially no risk indoors either). The antismokers are riding a wave of hysteria and forcing outdoor bans everywhere they can. Outdoor bans are the rage in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the US and now the UK. <br /><br /><br />It is time to tun the tide and stop the outdoor bans, seek repeal of those outdoor bans already enacted, and seek amendment of the pub bans to allow separate smoking areas. The only way to stop this ban mania is to actively fight it!Vinny Gracchusnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-31530220536241029672015-07-21T11:45:35.468+01:002015-07-21T11:45:35.468+01:00I agree. What is more, there is far more litter ...I agree. What is more, there is far more litter harmful to wildlife that is around.<br /><br /><br />We frequently chuck our butts onto the garden, when we are smoking outdoors. If they were that much of a nuisance our flower beds should be at least a foot higher by now! However, each year my husband diligently digs in more horse muck.<br /><br /><br />This is just grasping at straws now by ASH. Bit like the Health & Safety brigade - the ones employed by companies, mostly, who have to keep coming up with more and more bizarre rules to justify their job and, no doubt, very large salaries!truckerlynnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-41683725570951212412015-07-21T05:06:44.275+01:002015-07-21T05:06:44.275+01:00Revenue ticker over, that's all it is. More mo...Revenue ticker over, that's all it is. More money to pay for the errors.jmshighamnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-76191044218958157152015-07-21T03:02:34.420+01:002015-07-21T03:02:34.420+01:00And then there’s the “harmful to wildlife” crap. D...And then there’s the “harmful to wildlife” crap. Do they mean fish? Go and ask a fisherman how many fish he thinks he will catch by<br />using a cigarette butt as bait on his hook? Do they mean birds? It seems that birds are able to discern cigarette butts as a non-food, albeit useful, object.<br /><br /> Birds and cigarette butts:<br /><br />http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/9723213/Birds-line-nests-with-cigarette-butts-to-repel-pests-scientists-claim.html<br /><br /> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/3296193/A-quick-smoke-Its-good-for-the-wings.htmlWhat the....noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-90291242723738409802015-07-21T03:00:50.818+01:002015-07-21T03:00:50.818+01:00As far as I’m aware, cigarette filters are biodegr...As far as I’m aware, cigarette filters are biodegradable:<br /><br />http://www.bat.com/group/sites/UK__3MNFEN.nsf/vwPagesWebLive/4572237B0C2D456CC1257314004EF667<br /><br /> This would make no difference to the fanatics. The sanctimonious,<br />neurotic bigots were whining about cigarette butts a century ago - in<br />pre-filters days.<br /><br /> <b>RUBBISH IN THE SUBWAY.</b><br /><br /><i>There is something a little absurd in the solemnity with which the officials of the Subway discuss the limits of their power to enforce on their patrons the degree of cleanliness required by decency and in the interest of sanitation. It is clear enough to any one that cigarettes and cigar stumps thrown in quantities on the roadbed are unwholesome and disgusting.</i><br /><br />1906<br /><br />http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A00E7DF1E3AE733A25750C0A9649D946797D6CF&scp=171&sq=smoking&st=pWhat the....noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-12438875058581829352015-07-20T23:52:39.687+01:002015-07-20T23:52:39.687+01:00I really don't understand why the cigarette co...I really don't understand why the cigarette companies don't make biodegradable filters (it can't be difficult) and make it known that they are degradable. It won't remove the puritanical nonsense but it would quickly and easily remove that particular litter argumentwoodsy42noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-20609163381285918912015-07-20T22:58:09.742+01:002015-07-20T22:58:09.742+01:00No just violently and purposely vindictiveNo just violently and purposely vindictiveZarniwoopnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-82158117925197899262015-07-20T22:56:34.990+01:002015-07-20T22:56:34.990+01:00Huh? Our local beach is full of dog shit abandoned...Huh? Our local beach is full of dog shit abandoned fishing nets has a sewer pipe ejecting diarrheal effluent in to the bay and broken glass. It's 4 miles long and you could smoke an industrial sized hooka pipe filled with skunk and diesel oil and no one would be in half a mile down wind. I wonder when they will introduce a smoking ban there :DZarniwoopnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-39626533937749920122015-07-20T22:03:10.376+01:002015-07-20T22:03:10.376+01:00Seen the same in Turkey. We're obviously not a...Seen the same in Turkey. We're obviously not a very clever nation (or purposely vindictive, you decide).Dick_Puddlecotenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-9271095948520459452015-07-20T21:46:32.569+01:002015-07-20T21:46:32.569+01:00However, it is a litter problem, not a smoker prob...<i>However, it is a litter problem, not a smoker problem. The<br /> answer would be to encourage smokers to dispose of butts responsibly, <br />maybe hand out portable ashtrays or provide more bins.</i><br /><br />I remember years ago (18 or so, well before the tsunami) when I was on holiday in Phuket, the beaches had lots of permanent beach umbrellas made of bamboo and leaves, and under each umbrella was a clay pot full of sand for people to use as an ashtray, which would be cleaned out daily. There were NO cigarette butts on the beach. And why should there be, when receptacles were provided?nisakimannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-59419294492288126482015-07-20T21:26:32.341+01:002015-07-20T21:26:32.341+01:00"Last year they banned stallholders in the ma...<i>"Last year they banned stallholders in the market from selling e-cigs"</i><br /><br />Jeez, just seen <a href="http://www.lancasterguardian.co.uk/news/business/cautious-council-bans-sale-of-e-cigs-in-its-markets-1-6566305" rel="nofollow">an article on it</a>, unbelievable!<br /><br /><br /><br />As is the rest, how they can plead poverty with a straight face is anyone's guess.Dick_Puddlecotenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-35963910646182522622015-07-20T21:06:13.887+01:002015-07-20T21:06:13.887+01:00Funny you should mention Preston as it - and Lanca...Funny you should mention Preston as it - and Lancashire as a whole - seems to be becoming a capital of this kind of lunacy.<br /><br /><br />Last year they banned stallholders in the market from selling e-cigs.<br /><br /><br />Last month Preston City Council signed up to a £100,000 Lancashire County Council scheme to:<br /><br /><br />1. Erect 'no smoking' signs in play grounds;<br /><br /><br />2. Train park staff to approach and pester smokers and users of e-cigs;<br /><br /><br />3. The 'ban' has no standing in law - but the signs appear to suggest it has. It is to be backed up by the aforementioned park staff pestering smokers and e-cig users;<br /><br /><br />4. The £100,000 will also be spent on 'communications campaigns' ie more anti-smoker denormalisation by public employees.<br /><br /><br />The county council, which is funding part of the campaign, has recently cut support to old people, pleading shortage of cash. The county council and district councils in east Lancs spent £100,000 on a similar campaign in east Lancs last year.<br /><br /><br />Good old UKIP - they featured the waste of money in all their election literature this spring.Blazeawaynoreply@blogger.com