prsmith

painfully


mack

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of


Wrong place at the wrong time. As I said elsewhere, shit happens. All you
can do is "look both ways - twice - before stepping off the curb"


Brilliant repartee. Just brilliant.


such


dangers,


Do you not comprehend the difference between "significantly reduce risk" and
"guarantee safety". Surely you're bright enough to grasp that simple
concept? Oh, I forgot, you're a smoker. Sorry.


Oh, bullshit. I don't know why I bother but I'll give it one more go before
I give up and label you as too dense to understand. Take a bull rider. He
knows that sitting on a two ton animal whose only goal is to get the rider
the hell off his back and, if possible, to stomp the rider into the ground
is a very dangerous thing to do. The rider knows that the probability of
getting injured or dying is high. Now some riders strap on their spurs and
tighten up the string on their Stetson and take the chance. The smarter
riders wear kevlar vests and helmets in order to reduce the risk of serious
injury or death. Can they still get injured? Of course. Can they still
die from their encounter with the bull? Of course. But the odds of those
things happening is significantly reduced.

On a more practical level, you can significantly reduce your risk of having
an automobile accident by not talking on the phone, putting on makeup,
reading the newspaper, controlling children, etc. while driving. Does that
guarantee that you wont' get flattened by a Mack truck on the way to work in
rush hour traffic? No, of course not. It simply makes it less likely to
happen.

Opinion noted - discarded.

Nope. The only thing that confuses me is your appartent lack of
intelligence. Makes it very difficult to carry on an adult conversation.

Umm, that's because they're all dead sweetcheeks. Sheesh, major dense.

You may well live to be 80 or even 108. Statistics tell us that a large
percentage of smokers don't, however.

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which

Umm, no, just forgot about your lack of intelligence and insight. Sorry.


Poorly worded possibly but the idea remains. Given what went above,
however, I don't expect you to understand that.

have

Of course I have. Only an idiot would think otherwise.

Do you even know the #1 factor


Doesn't matter whether I have responded to the rest of the risk factors or
not (and, yes, noting the genetic factor about which you can do nothing). I
have significantly reduced my risks of developing several nasty diseases by
quitting smoking.

moonbug

Like I was saying.


And we now see that looking both ways is not a situation that one
would usually lose their life to, therefore, its pointless to bring it up.


What more can I say when you're acting so naive?

Again Paulie. You cant seem to grasp the point. Let me try yet
again.

Its doenst matter what you do. Thats why they are called accidents.
Because they *are* accidents. Someone looks both way but still gets
hit. Accident.

Then on the non accidental occurances, well, they are not accidental
so there is nothing one could have done to significantly reduce that
non accidental occurance.

Me either.

but I'll give it one more go before

I've already labled you a dense anti-smoking self-absorded idiot. So
it makes no difference to me.


Lets not and say we did.
He

blah.....blah....blah. You're right, you shouldnt have bothered.
You're being an idiot. Cant argue with an idiot. Its like arguing
with a 3yo.

You'll never get any point Paulie. You're obviously not capable. I
am totally amazed that people like you even exist. There outta be a law.


Of course. You most certainly wouldnt use that as a means to
straighten your sorry ass out. You would rather continue being a
sorry ass.

Thats your choice.


Hogwash (god I love that word now). Whats impossible is having an
adult conversation with a very dense childish anti-smoking
self-absorbed idiot as yourself.


First of all, I'm not your sweetcheeks. I wouldnt give someone like
yourself the time of day. Dense? You call me dense when you give an
answer like that? What part of "I havent met a smoker YET (meeting
them would obviously mean they are alive) that hasnt had that
opportunity (meaning they got to see their children grow up) did you
not understand?

Pathetic you are.


Bullshit. Numbers mean nothing to you anyway, remember?

No surprise there.


Thats right Paulie. Take my words on you and use them back. Makes
you feel cool, doesnt it?

You're merely nothing more than an obnoxious teenager stuck in an old
farts body.


No. Only an idiot would think like you do. But seeing you're such
an idiot, you wouldnt know any different. Its natural for you to
think that.


Sure it does. When you use it as an example, it most certainly does.

moonbug

On 23 Jun 2003 17:28:34 -0600, anon3c67@nyx.nyx.net (Bruce Watson)

Your prediction is ridiculous. Thats insinuating only females smoke.

prsmith

odds,


again,


I don't care one way or the other. She, like millions of other dead people,
wasn't a friend of ours and we don't deserve to have her pushed in our faces
in an underhanded effort to make us feel bad. Yes, you deflected the
argument but you haven't changed our minds. Doing simple things like
looking before stepping off the curb and not smoking improve the odds of a
long life.

moonbug

Then why act like I was lying about it?

Awww. Do you feel like I was pushing something on you? How's it
feel Paulie?

Changing your mind is not what its about. Its obvious you would never
admit to being wrong about something. You're not nearly man enough to
do so.

alex w.

improve the odds of a

Ahh, I get it. So when you and your comrades start sobbing
about all the poor children that will come to harm and die
because of cigarette smoke and all the hundreds of thousands
of hapless innocent smokers who die because of a conspiracy
of the greedy tobacco manufacturers, that is somehow
magically different, is it? Those are deaths that deserve
to be pushed in everybody's faces in an underhanded effort
to make smokers feel bad, right?

You're so hypocritical, you are practically schizophrenic,
Paulie....

alex w.

Bruce's predictions are always ridiculous.
Its their defining characteristic.
Just wait until election time when he confidently predicts
the winner.
Not.

alex w.

Well, actually, that is quite wrong.
Most accidents happen in the home.
If you pursue a life as a paranoid shut-in <waves at
Paulie>, your chances of having an accident (up to and
including fatal) rise significantly.

Even quitting smoking won't change those stats....


That is not Paulie's trouble.
He hasn't learned to live with the fact that life happens.
Shit happens. Life is not controllable and predictable.
This is a truth which has absolutely and utterly terrified
Paulie. Unfortunately for the rest of humanity, his method
of coping with this terror is to focus it all onto one
displacement activity. He loads all his fear onto one
scapegoat activity which happens to be smoking in the hope
that if he can only slay this one dragon, all his fears will
go away. Of course they won't, but try telling that to the
little boy cowering in a deep, dank corner of his mind
gibbering with fear.

anon3c67@nyx.nyx.net (bruce

Smokers already feel bad.

kyoteee

On 25 Jun 2003 17:04:03 -0600, anon3c67@nyx.nyx.net (Bruce Watson)


They only thing they feel bad about are the AuntieNazis like you who
truly believe that everyone else's business is theirs to control.