[jambutty]

At least you appear to accept your part in the pollution of our air DeShark but then you go and try to mitigate it be preferring a motorbike.

What have motorbikes/scooters got to do with it? They are still internal combustion engine driven that pollutes the atmosphere. It doesn’t matter whether you drive a huge gas-guzzling leviathan or a 50 cc Moped you still pollute the air that others, and yourself, breathe. But that’s OK because you also breathe in the gungy air. Talking that argument as a yardstick then it is also OK if I smoke in public because I also breathe in my own smoke.

I wasn’t going to bring the bonfire into the debate but seeing as you have done so, why do I have to suffer the smoke and fumes because a neighbour enjoys his barbeque or enjoys a bonfire in his garden yet he objects to me smoking in his vicinity? I enjoy my fag so if I’m outside anyone nearby will just have to lump it.

A few days either side of Bonfire Night the air is thick with choking, acrid smoke round here. Smoke from that old settee with its foam upholstery. The foam that gives off poisonous fumes that kill before the fire does in a house fire. That’s OK because people are enjoying themselves. The same people who pontificate about passive smoking.

It all boils down to “do as I say not as I do” and for a more classic example of hypocrisy it will be difficult to find.

If you feel that you entitled to defend your position when something impacts on you then why shouldn’t I do the same. Surely you don’t have special human rights do you?

No hate katex, just exasperation at the way society as a whole has degenerated into a me, me, me, me, me society. We used to tolerate each other’s foibles. Not any more! The knives come out at the drop of a hat.