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Tim Deegan 06-12-2011 16:02
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Originally Posted by Russ (Post 35341435)
Change that to 'a possible health hazard' and you're in the right area.
It is a possible health hazard, but that isn't the link. The link is that people can find them both offensive.

Russ 06-12-2011 16:18
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In all my 37 years I have never heard of anyone being 'offended' by smoking :confused:

Tim Deegan 07-12-2011 08:25
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Originally Posted by Russ (Post 35341572)
In all my 37 years I have never heard of anyone being 'offended' by smoking :confused:
Many people find cigarette smoke offensive. Especially if they are forced to inhale it because someone else in the room is smoking.

Pauls9 07-12-2011 08:31
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Originally Posted by Tim Deegan (Post 35341857)
Many people find cigarette smoke offensive. Especially if they are forced to inhale it because someone else in the room is smoking.
Absolutely right.

Russ 07-12-2011 13:16
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Originally Posted by Tim Deegan (Post 35341857)
Many people find cigarette smoke offensive. Especially if they are forced to inhale it because someone else in the room is smoking.
The thing is, so many people these days love to be offended for the sake of being offended (usually in the hope of getting a compensation cheque) that anything they don't like will be regarding as 'offensive'.

I've never smoked, never will and can't stand the stuff but I can honestly say I never have or will be 'offended' by someone smoking. Annoyed most probably but never offended.

Tim Deegan 07-12-2011 13:48
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Originally Posted by Russ (Post 35342001)
The thing is, so many people these days love to be offended for the sake of being offended (usually in the hope of getting a compensation cheque) that anything they don't like will be regarding as 'offensive'.

I've never smoked, never will and can't stand the stuff but I can honestly say I never have or will be 'offended' by someone smoking. Annoyed most probably but never offended.
Well isn't that the same thing?

If someone doesn't like something that someone has done, without any regard to what may annoy other people. Then I would say that they are offended by it. Although you may choose to use different words to describe the same thing.

Most people find a bad smell offensive. Now if you don't smoke, and you hate the smell of smoke, then cigarette smoke can be as offensive as lets say a fart.

Russ 07-12-2011 13:50
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Plenty of people on CF annoy me, very rarely do they offend me.

Tim Deegan 07-12-2011 14:38
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Originally Posted by Russ (Post 35342016)
Plenty of people on CF annoy me, very rarely do they offend me.
Well you are obviously a laid back sort of person, who doesn't take offence easily. :)

thenry 13-12-2011 13:16
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not racism but its rail related :erm:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...Loco-hero.html

:D

Derek 13-12-2011 13:24
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You don't mess with the big man :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uKDm...eature=related

Chris 13-12-2011 13:27
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Pure dead brilliant. I wonder how wee Ned completed his 20 mile journey from Polmont to Edinburgh Park. :D

Damien 13-12-2011 13:28
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Originally Posted by thenry (Post 35344733)
not racism but its rail related :erm:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...Loco-hero.html

:D

Bet they felt awkward when they realise he did have a valid ticket after all. :erm::D

Chris 13-12-2011 13:31
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Not according to the video he didn't.

He had a single from Edinburgh Park to Falkirk (I think - the audio is difficult). He was on a train from Falkirk to Edinburgh Park. The return journey. If he had the correct ticket, he clearly didn't show it to the guard there and then, otherwise there would have been no trouble.

The stop he was thrown off at, Polmont, is a couple of stops up the line from Edinburgh Park by the way. He had a long walk home in the dark.

Damien 13-12-2011 13:33
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Originally Posted by Chris (Post 35344744)
Not according to the video he didn't.

He had a single from Edinburgh Park to Falkirk (I think - the audio is difficult). He was on a train from Falkirk to Edinburgh Park. The return journey. If he had the correct ticket, he clearly didn't show it to the guard there and then, otherwise there would have been no trouble.
Nah I was joking. Although I kind of hope he does have a valid ticket because that would be more amusing.

Stuart 13-12-2011 13:37
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Originally Posted by Tim Deegan (Post 35342014)
Well isn't that the same thing?

It's perfectly possible to be offended without being annoyed. It's also possible to be annoyed without being offended.

For instance, I find it offensive when somebody posts a link to that Let Me Google That For You, rather than just a link to the search results. It offends me because that site has quite a patronising tone. It also offends me because the person may already have googled their question, and found nothing useful, so registered with a forum in the hope of asking a human. It doesn't annoy me though.

But this is getting off topic.


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