From: franklin@ug.cs.dal.ca (NO CARRIER)
Subject: Re: The wages of Stupidity are Death
Followup-To: alt.flame
Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 22:18:03 GMT

In article <MJD.92Aug16172753@saul.cis.upenn.edu> mjd@saul.cis.upenn.edu ("[*] The Compulsive Reader") writes:
>In article <exuptr.301.713816029@exu.ericsson.se> exuptr@exu.ericsson.se (Patrick Taylor) writes:
>
>
>Oh, hold on.  I think I remember you.  Aren't you the guy who called
>Sean Abbott a `dickhead'?  Ah. Yes.  
>
>Very clever, that.  I don't think I've ever heard `dickhead' before.
>Wait a moment and I'll write it down.
>
>Okay, let's go.

Too bad he didn't listen to his own advice... Instead, read on

>
>>   >There is only minimal health risk associated with moderate tobacco use.
>>   You don't strike me as the smoking type, Dominus.
>
>    Some people in the audience may not realize just how stpuid this
>sounds to me.  Perhaps I can get the point across by changing a few words.
>

   Some of _don't_ realize how stpuid this sounds to you, you're right. Maybe
if you explained stpuidity to us we might. Is this a UNIX joke? Did you
mean setuid? *sigh* I know, I know... it must be tough typing with one hand.
once again - ask lefty for advice on how he does it. He's got it pretty
mastered I am told...

>Let's try it this way:
>
>>   >There is only minimal health risk associated with moderate alcohol use.
>>   You don't strike me as the drinking type, Dominus.
>
>    Whether I smoke or not is irrelevant, Strachenpudlich.  There is, in
>fact, only minimal health risk associated with moderate tobacco use.  It
>is certainly less dangerous than, say, living in West Philadelphia,
>which I do constantly, and yet which no sanctimonious net.assholes see
>fit to berate me about.

   Strachenpu*lich is probably the meanest thing you could call someone.
You dared to cross the lines of etiquette with this one my friend. 
How dare you!
    It's interesting that you don't discuss the financial implications of
smoking. As well, you argue that it is less dangerous than West Philadelphia.
Does this mean that West Philadelphia is carcinogenic in large quantities?
Start to live in W. phillie and your chances of lung cancer soar? 
Also, do people actually become addicted to living in West Philadelphia
after repeated exposure? Does West Philadelphia cost people anywhere from
20-50$ a week just to breath in it's atmosphere? Seems like a poor analogy
on your part. Nice try though I suppose. Have they ever done studies
on how nicotine effects logic?

>
>    There are an awful lot of dangerous things to do in this world, and
>if any of you tedious moralizers were actually worried about me, as
>opposed to being worried about staying on your high horses, you would
>advise me to look both ways before crossing the street, to stay out of
>high-crime areas like the one in which I live, to move away from major
>polution centers such as the one in which I live, to avoid airplanes, to
>cease from my sexual promiscuity, to quit my programming job, so as
>better to avoid harmful VDT radiation, to stop seeing my family members
>(a substantial plurality of murders are committed by family members), to
>avoid social contact with people who are mentally unstable, and soforth.
>All of these are things that probably expose me to more daily risk than
>would smoking, say, a pack of cigarettes a month.

   Ahaha - well - if you smoke enough, then it will cease your sexual
promiscuity for you. Hmmm, that fresh clean taste of burnt leaves and
tar. You could call smoking a natural sort of contraception. Except
it erases all chances of sexual disease by erasing all chances of sex.
(Unless, of course your partener is a smoker too - hey, free smoke after
it's all over!!!)
   
>
>    Of course you are not interested in this; you are only interested in
>self-righteously harassing people who don't adhere to the details of
>your own code.
>
>    I will continue to smoke marijuana, tobacco, psilocybin mushrooms,
>dried banana skins, cane toad skins, and old shoe leather.  If I become

  Okay, joke is over. You have serious problems. DRIED BANANA SKINS?
OLD SHOE LEATHER? Sheesh, why not just smoke your mouse cord? take
all the floppies out of their cases and smoke them too? Any other 
interesting combinations you've concocted? Smoking paper towel? 
erasers? I suggest you get some help my friend.
   I'm not even a fan of drugs. I figure that you should get enough highs
off of reality. clearly you don't. But I have heard that before.
You just can't beat the rush that comes from dried banana peels. Heck,
it's the ultimate in recycling efficiency. Eat the insides, and then
smoke the outsides! I"m impressed

>seriously concerned about the possibility of heart or lung disease, I
>hope I will carefully weigh risks and benefits, and, rather than
>quitting smoking, I hope I will do the smart thing and move out of the
>city.  This will cut my risk substantially; quitting smoking very
>little, if at all.

   Why don't you move out of the city not for your benefit but ours?
Many of us don't appreciate the secondary smoke that attacks our 
respiration at every corner. Besides, what does smoked dried banana
peel breath smell like? God, that's almost evil to think about. 

>
>    Now, please fuck off, all of you.  Do not say I am deluding myself,
>and do not shake your heads sadly and bemoan my lost life; I am doing

  *shake my head sadly and bemoan his lost life*

>what I like and I am taking reasonable precautions while I do it, and,
>if it does kill me, at least I made my own choices with my eyes open,
>instead of blindly following a bunch of Carrie Nation screaming
>fundamentalist moralizer prohibitionist shepherds with voodoo taboos and
>greasy eyelids.
>

  Reasonable precautions? Oh, so you wash the toad skins before you smoke 
them? Make sure you peel of those little stickers before you smoke
the bananas? Don't smoke maryjanes in high buildings? Man, you look
like you're struggling to find a rush from smoking that's missing from
your life. I think you need a break. I've seen people break huge
smoking habits, and you can too if you want to. Underneath your violence
and spiteful posting, you almost seem to be looking for sympathy. You won't
get any. Just advice. Quit.
   It affects us, it affects you. Until you stop realizing that you're a
victim of an industry larger than you can every imagine, then you'll
continue to submit to an evil which is surely worse than West Phillie
itself.

steve
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