Smoking

Don't get used to this, because I don't intend on making a habit of directly replying to my authors.

Smokers are complaining about running out of places to smoke, and the prices being jacked up. JUST QUIT. It's not impossible to quit, you're just too weak to go without. You wanna know how to make a change? DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT. Don't repeat the same damn actions and expect a change. Stop buying cigarettes, even if you just smoke because you enjoy it, stop going to those bars. The price will drop down again eventually. The prices aren't just being raised because of taxes. Stores and companies are using those taxes as an excuse to jack up the prices and make a bigger cut.

Then there is the taxes. It's a well established fact that smoking drastically increases the chance of you getting serious diseases, like lung cancer and emphysema. Add up the millions of dollars it costs Medicare to treat all of those effected by these diseases (just those who smoke), and the taxes really don't seem so much anymore. Not to mention the fact that smoking pisses others off. It seems that smokers are now a minority, and I'm sick of standing around on public property, then walking home coughing my guts up because some asshole smoker decided to fuck around with my lungs. Your' "right" to smoke goes well right up until it conflicts with my rights to good health. Also those who didn't fuck themselves up are deprived of hospital beds and operating theaters because smokers messed themselves up, and now want someone else to make it all better.
Don't Smoke, children.

Smoking

Now hands up how many of you out there are smokers.. yeah i thought so.. now all of you with your hands down how many of you have parents or friends who are smokers? ok so now all your hands should be up.. How many of these smokers are suffering from the global finacial crisis? I personally am not suffering from it I am suffering from a lack of a job at the moment but my parents are suffering from it.. so lets talk money.. When I started smoking in the good ol days a 50g pouch of tobacco was roughly $15 (australian) in NSW. These days they have raised the tax on tobacco.. They do this every year some new tax or legislation.. My pouch now costs between 24-30$ per. This does not include papers and filters although those are only about a dollar per packet each. There is no legislation here, there are millions of smokers out there and what better way to get money to the government than to charge people who "need" to buy cigarettes.. now dont say "oh well they should just quit" because many people find it harder than that. I personally dont want to quit and so this isnt my rant.. This is a rant for all of those people who cant quit and are ending up broke because of a stupid government tax. The cost is going up again as with new laws. Tobacco and as of last month all accessories to tobacco (papers filters pipes etc) is now only allowed to be sold at one register.. This law makes no sense.. doesnt matter how many registers you sell it at your still selling it, all this law makes is ques. But now tobacco needs to be stored out of view of the public.. which makes no sense.. Say I go into a shop and I go hmm today I dont feel like smoking white ox what should I have? well now you dont have the choice of looking.. Say i wanted something sweeter or something harsher how can I look at the packets and tell? Also as of last month any tobacco accessories cannot be sold to under 18's. I understand the law behind this however it annoys me being under 18 myself sometimes I run out of paper and just want to go buy paper.. no tobacco is exchanged hands and yet I still need an ID on me.. I do understand that law but it is inconvinient..
Also as of new legislation smoking is no longer allowed on public streets or public areas. Designated smoking zones are now the only place to smoke.
Is it me or are these new laws just inconvinient? Sure they may be trying to deter people from smoking. But I think there is a hidden agenda behind this.. Its a conspiracy. Tobacco costs more so the government gets more money, cant do it in public makes smoking seem secretive and mysterious to todays youth.. it seems like they are still trying to get people smoking to me.. if they didnt want people to smoke they would just ban it.. so why make all these new laws?

MSN virus

I have a few friends that recently have gotten virus's on their MSN. This is very annoying because they are not the most computer savy and do not know how to fix it but mainly because I use MSN on my phone and I can only have 5 conversations open at once.. someone messages me when I have a convo open and I have to switch over and its their damn "would you like to buy viagra" add that they spam me with.. seriously stop this shit.. learn to fix your damn computers and get rid of your damn virus's. I have resorted to just blocking the people that have those virus's I'm sorry but its really quite annoying! How do people even fall for downloading these if somebody sends me a message saying hey I found these pics of you drunk at a party oh my god my first reaction is not to go oh well obviously they must be right it is to go.. I am a nerd I dont go to partys this must be a virus, and then you look at the link even before clicking it and its like kxybsdsd.xi your like ok well I'm not clicking that.. who seriously goes and clicks it?

consequences of your words. (mature language warning)

I am and always will be an advocator of free speech. everyone should have the right to say what they want when they want hurtful racist sexist sweet polite stupid smart I dont care if you want to say it you have the right to. but there is a time and a place for everything and I learnt that the other day.. My manager at work called me a dropkick who couldn’t do anything because we where in a rush and I refused to put fries down for her cos I was cooking burgers.. I told her to go fuck herself not twenty minutes later it is time to send people on their breaks (I know my job very well and if you dont start sending people at 2 on the dot then we will get stuck in the rush down a crew person) She said I am going to do it my way which I guess was fair enough it was her first ever overnight she doesn’t know how it works.. but then she sends me at 15 to 3. (the nightclubs here close at 3 and we are next to 3 of these clubs so we get a really big rush) I told her I cant go on my break now because its to close to rush time I will go at 4 when its quieter she said I was disobeying her and I told her she was being a fat slutty shit that had been hit by the ugly stick.. (which is true).
well long story short I no longer have a job and am on the lookout for a new one..
my moral of the story.. watch your tongue around some people because they have more leverage than you do.

A Little Too Obvious?

A couple of days ago I was at work at the local supermarket. Quiet place and a good store to work in.
Now I had to pack on this aisle containing all the peanuts and any other nuts that comes to your mind, it was all there. Now whilst I was packing this stuff on i checked the label as to what it said (out of my own boredom). And here is what it stated:

"Note: This product may contain traces of nuts"

Wtf! Are they actually seriously suggesting that we haven't figured this out? My god what stupidity no? Now i suppose it is there responsibility to state this on the packet because only God knows who might eat a peanut from the packet and be deathly allergic to it..

But what really got to me was this. I checked the label on one the most expensive branded nuts compared to a Black&Gold packet of nuts.
Guess which one didn't have that label? Yes it was the expensive company.

Even the cheapest brand has this written for their companies own protection but the expensive company didn't.

Yes it does sound stupid to write such a thing on your products when it is so obvious I definitely agree but if one company does it all the others should too...

On holidays censorship and fishes

So I am on holidays safe from school kids and safe from all of my usual annoyances. its so nice, Lock myself on my property get some music going and sit in the nice sun that has come out just for me. Sure I still have to work full time but i'm not stuck with school kids and because I work at a time that most school kids can't work I feel very good. for once in my life I dont have anything to rant about.. it will hit me later on in the day probably but this morning I feel very good.. mmmm.
Actually there is something i have been a little annoyed at. Censorship.. this is probably the only thing that has gotten to me.. it doesnt affect a large portion of people because a large portion all are in the 18(21 in some places)+ bracket.. but for the people underneath that bracket things get tough with television and movies and going out. Now by now means do I think young people should be drinking alcohol at all.. but I think movies and things are not hurtfull. for instance bruno... Now hands up who saw ali-g... hands up who saw borat. Exactly... now Bruno is rated R want to know why R when the other two where M? Because of the homosexuality aspect.. because in this everything instantly relates to sex.. not necessarily gay sex but sex itself it got an R rating... so now tell me.. a 15 year old can see a man chasing jews with bulls and thats fine but they cant see a man talk about sex with a man? its the same plotline pretty much as all his movies and I believe should get the same rating.. everyone of his movies has controversy thats the point.. in australia they "gay community" apparently want this banned... umm last time I checked the gay community are working to get equal rights and live normal lives not give publicity to a movie....
Another thing, I was watching sesame street (yes I did just come back to add this to the post) and the show's cookie monster no longer allows cookies all the time.. he eats his fruit and veg... cookies are a sometimes food... come on.. its like when i heard count count say fishes. I was so enraged I wanted to rage quit television.. Its fish not fishes.
Ok so my rant sort of went everywhere but hey at least its a good week.