h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

As a lifelong non-driver I get seriously tired of hearing from people who drive all over the place on a daily basis for their own purposes, claiming that my occasional wafts of smoke in their direction is anti-social. If it bothers you that much, flog your car and move to Sark or somewhere you might have a legitimate case.

Oh right, so you walk everywhere, never using an internal combustion engine or other polluting technology for transport or getting your necessities of life (including, presumably, cigarettes)

Of course I do kea; but I'm not the one looking for the banning of traffic, which pollutes my lungs and ears all the time, either. I'm just saying that recreational drivers who object to secondhand smoke don't have much of a case.

Agreed, for *recreational* drivers. But the remaining drivers (99%) who drive out of necessity, have a case.

I don't really understand that line of argument Chris. What you seem to be saying is that let's have multiple pollution (cars AND cigarettes) so that all polluters can not be hassled. Whereas I'm really happy to have restrictions put on car pollution as well as smoking

I'm not putting forward an argument for any legislation at all kea. I would love if the world were utterly pollution-free but we all have needs, whether for weed or speed.

All I ask is the Boy Racer/Chelsea Tractor brigade shut up about my rollies. Sorry, it's not so much an argument as an I'm-rubber-you're-glue kvetch.

It grates on me the way some words are over used.

The latest one is "random" it is used to signify things that are random *and* things or utterances that are surreal, currently by mopp-topped emo kids. It will pass, but not soon enough.

Another word that is over used is "love" we all know about this and to be fair even though some people will use it in a way that we dont agree with you get the feeling tat atleast they have some grasp of its meaning to them.

What gets me more than those to is the use of the word need. It is used wrongly far more than it is used correctly.

So people say "I need to drive for my job" and they are correct, but they do not need to drive.

"I need a car to get to the shops" is a true statement but they do not need a car

Before there were cars all the jobs that had to get done pretty much got done without people driving all ofer the place, likewise people got the prvisionms they needed from somewhere and the human race got along without them for millenia.

People want, desire and like speed and indeeed weed, but neither of them are a necessecity for life.

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"Another word that is over used is "love" we all know about this and to be fair even though some people will use it in a way that we dont agree with you get the feeling tat atleast they have some grasp of its meaning to them....

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Oh I fancy a cigarette now and its only just gone 9!