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Got my 5. I am very very tired of hypercaffeinated hypertensive hypocrites haranguing me with their hyperbolic descriptions of the heinous crime I'm committing by smoking, and what I'm doing to myself, them, my family, anyone I've ever met, the endangered species of the world and the global credit crunch. I have more respect for the people that just tell me I'm a dumbass for messing with my health an leave it at that. Smokers are already marginalised enough.
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Vasudevan Deepak Kumar wrote: 'passive smoking' jeopardize the health of the surrounding ambience and society as well.
this is the biggest load of non sense humanity has ever come up with, i mean think about it LOGICALLY like a PROGRAMMER is supposed to think...
the smoke i ex-hail has been filtered through my cigarette's filter, my lungs, AND the air between me and you... by the time it reaches YOU theres nothing left to harm your fragile little lungs
if u want to moan that it stinks and its unpleasant for non smokers then SAY WHAT YOU MEAN, dont make stuff up that isn't true and/or be a sheep and just believe and follow everything you hear (second hand smoke kills)
im sorry if this comes across sounding like im gunning you down, but this is one of the few topics that drives me up the walls! another is when a im sick and a non smoker will make a comment about my smoking habits, as if non smokers never get sick...
Harvey Saayman - South Africa
Junior Developer
.Net, C#, SQL
think BIG and kick ASS
you.suck = (you.passion != Programming)
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I will get cramps in my stomach if I'm in the same room as a smoker... have since I was a kid. Also it's not just what comes out of your lungs but what burns off the end of the cigarette when you're not puffing on it.
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still goes through the air from my cigarette tip too you... by that time there isnt anything left to "harm" you
Harvey Saayman - South Africa
Junior Developer
.Net, C#, SQL
think BIG and kick ASS
you.suck = (you.passion != Programming)
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Thanks voice of doom for clearing that one up, if only smokers knew this stuff already surely they'd quit in a flash!
Seriously, nagging smokers with this crap makes absolutely zero difference, don't waste your time. They all quite when they are good and ready to or die, not a moment before.
"The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."
- Walter Bagehot
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What an amazing double standard. I don't smoke, so I don't get several extra smoke breaks during the day? A group of developers used to go out every day at 2:00pm for our "smoke break" and throw around a football. Management got pissed at us and told us we can't do that. So while we're inside, the smokers take many breaks...
I'm not saying that every smoker is bad... Just most of them.
Hogan
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snorkie wrote: Just most of them.
"And all it takes is most of them." 
“Time and space can be a bitch.”
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Hey, there's nothing in the world stopping you from starting smoking, it's fun, it's easy and all the cool people do it. Plus you get bonuses like extra long and multiple breaks. You become more productive with those breaks and as a result you put out better and more code than your non smoking bretheren.
"The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."
- Walter Bagehot
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I have found that the less breaks I take the less time I have to spend in this god-foraken town.
I commute two hours one way to a stinking hell-hole, which I guess is better than starving in my jobless blackhole of a home town. 
So yeah, no breaks.
S.Nowlin
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I'm a Techwriter Monkey -- handy, just less useful than the Bathroom Monkey.
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Egads  .
Tell us where you live and work, so we know two places to avoid.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Let's just say, avoid Shreveport Louisiana and the surrounding ArkLaTex area. 
S.Nowlin
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I'm a Techwriter Monkey -- handy, just less useful than the Bathroom Monkey.
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Thanks for the heads-up.
Hope things improve ![Rose | [Rose]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif) .
Software Zen: delete this;
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Being the optimistic pessimist that I am, I'm sure it won't LOL. But it's all good in the end. I love my job at least.
S.Nowlin
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I'm a Techwriter Monkey -- handy, just less useful than the Bathroom Monkey.
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snowlin wrote: optimistic pessimist
"I'm an optimist by temperament, and a pessimist by policy."
- Me 
snowlin wrote: I love my job at least.
That goes a loooong way toward making it worthwhile.
Software Zen: delete this;
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LOL no the mortgage makes it a necessity, but yeah!
S.Nowlin
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I'm a Techwriter Monkey -- handy, just less useful than the Bathroom Monkey.
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snowlin wrote: Let's just say, avoid Shreveport Louisiana and the surrounding ArkLaTex area.
Funny, I'm in Baton Rouge and my love for this city has all but vanished. Look at the upside, at least you're not in DeRidder or Leesville. 
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"all but vanished"? does this mean you love it more than ever or love it less than before?
I actually love my home town, my family is there, but there just isn't a demand for technical writers.
S.Nowlin
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I'm a Techwriter Monkey -- handy, just less useful than the Bathroom Monkey.
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snowlin wrote: "all but vanished"? does this mean you love it more than ever or love it less than before?
Less. I moved to New Orleans for a bit, but when I came back it just wasn't the same.
snowlin wrote: I actually love my home town, my family is there, but there just isn't a demand for technical writers.
Ah, well, at least we can cook down here.
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New Orleans, it isn't the same anymore either.
Oh well, you guys have your mudbugs, we have our razorbacks and Shreveport has it crime...somewhere there is a happy balance, I just hate the drive :P
S.Nowlin
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snowlin wrote: New Orleans, it isn't the same anymore either.
Yeah, it's not the "always open" type of place it used to be.
snowlin wrote: mudbugs
If only the rest of the world figure out it's really spelt crawfish for crying out loud.
snowlin wrote: I just hate the drive
If you makes you feel better, I used to have to commute across lake pontchartrain. And yeah, I'm not gonna lie, that sucked.
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: crawfish
You know, I was taught the word for them was crayfish and my less edumacated cousins called them crawdads.
S.Nowlin
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I'm a Techwriter Monkey -- handy, just less useful than the Bathroom Monkey.
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One company I worked for had a sub-company in Shreveport. When we merged they came up here. Basically, they didn't like our procedures...or any IT procedures for that matter. Guess their 'free-n-easy' philosophy about life also transferred over into their work as well. Plus, their work-place environments down there must've been like the 1950's as far what was appropriate to say in the workplace. Needless to say, they had to go through some 'adjustments'.
What does an agnostic, dyslexic, insomniac do?
He lies awake at night wondering if there's a dog.
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I totally know what you're talking about when it comes to "appropriate". I don't think that had much to do with an era as it had to do with home training and the lack there of.
I was raised down south and I know better what to say in public vs what can be said candidly among friends--not that I use such language, "I'm just sayin'" :P
S.Nowlin
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z974647 wrote: Needless to say, they had to go through some 'adjustments'.
Like survival tactics for bland food consumption.
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15 minute breaks are billable hours whereas lunch breaks are not.
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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. -- Ernest Hemingway
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