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Couldn't agree more.

It's the constant interference and petty rules brought in by Government, councils, the EU which riles me. Not just on smoking, on anything where they think they know better than you.

We all know smoking is for fools(can't understand why anyone starts these days) but education and example are gradually changing the etiquette of smoking- you rarely see anyone walking around smoking these days(especially women). Smoking in restaurants was dying out long before it was banned, habits are changing.

I've got an ecig, quite effective but I haven't managed the full switch yet although cashman and Flashy did and I know others who have. There's no smell and no evidence that nicotine, while unbelievably addictive, is harmful.

Can't imagine why water vapour would leave you with a dry throat- you weren't drinking Dry Martinis were you?

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I kept expecting you to appear here as the guest speaker today Margaret.
;)

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no......I have been retired for 12 years....I have done my share.

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Dry Martinis Gordon? nope...only proper ale for me.

A few scoops of Ossett Excelsior at 5.25% in the Hop on Granary Wharfe in Leeds tonight after todays talking shop will do me. :D

Won't have any room for Andrew Jone's award winning pies from Huddersfield sold there mores the pity though.

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Somehow life seems to have left us all to one side, we used to choose what was good or bad for ourselves, now we are all told we can't actually think what is good or bad, we should just obey.

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Yes.....we are told, but it doesn't mean we necessarily obey......so they make rebels out of the man in the street.

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Yep, that about sums it up, or at least it would if I could actually be allowed to think for myself.

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Ah Less, we all know that you think for yourself very well......and that there is more than just a little bit of rebel in you:).

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I'll bet they were damn glad I was booked for another venue(Ma's...delivering her home cooked casserole wit fresh veggies).

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Sounds scrummy Margaret...
Pocketed two of Andrew Jones's pies to take home.
One traditional, one with cheese and pickle, better have a full english or my Mrs P is gonna be dissapointed if I scoff em' before we hit Hebden Bridge in the morning.

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Stick em on butties D, a couple of Wigan kebabs.

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I have never heard of Andrew Jones pies.....I haven't lived......have i.
No, I make my own grub....pies pasties and that sort of stuff. I know when you are out and about you have to get what you can......that you know somewhere that makes food your mother/ wife approves of is good....and if they are so good you could eat them both right away......that is a bonus.

Never had a barm cake with a pie in it....Can't fancy it somehow.

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Pie and chips on a stottie, yum yum.

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Oh......NO!
I couldn't eat that at all......I could eat the chips on a butty(without the sauce please)........I could eat pie and chips(with some nice gravy please)....but not that.....sorry!

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nay nay thrice times nay...
gotta be Pease puddin' on a stottie gpick....that's the Geordie in me coming out.