Daggers

Air Dolomiti can go suck a c0ck. Hopeless fvckers.

Well, an old article in the Grauniad isn’t the basis for an objection to current policy. 1. It’s bollocks. 2. It can’t be implemented. Prove I’m a smoker and not the victim of secondhand smoke. You can’t. No one can. You can take CO readings but that still doesn’t prove anything. In fact, it’s cheaper to deliver treatment than to conduct testing to deny treatment. Plus, it’s not even on any party’s radar and fag sales will then be banned on a rolling basis.

I bless I’m seriously missing something - where is the removal of access to NhS services?

They aren’t telling you, your non-presence in the UK notwithstanding, they’re telling people far stupider than you - and there’s a fvckton of them. Smoking is more entrenched in socially deprived communities and those suffering from other forms of disadvantagement. Communities highly resistant to change and education. You aren’t having your right to smoke removed, your children’s children are having their right to buy preprepared and processed tobacco products removed. I don’t see the issue with this at all - beyond it being done in a cackhanded fashion. Should’ve raised the age of sale to 21 for 3-5 years then outright ban on tobacco sales. Plenty of time for people to ween off or quit.

Well done UFS. 👏 Mostly, well done for not slaying the bunch of cvnts running this club. Your ability to remain calm far exceeds mine.

Ngl, the morning has improved immeasurably since I drank that first red. I imagine it will continue improving until I’m denied permission to board the flight and thrown off airport premises.

NZ dropped the plan due to their equivalent of Truss/Johnson/other assorted loons in the pay of tobacco companies. Vaping does not need to be controlled over and above smoking. Vaping is an approach to tobacco use as clean syringes are to heroin addiction and AIDS transmission or seat belts are to car driving. Smoking rates are at record lows BECAUSE of vaping. The numbers of kids vaping daily is very small and remains almost exclusively confined to those who used to or continue to smoke. Teens vaping instead of smoking is the same net gain as it is for adults.

Can honestly say that Florence would be better off installing a torture room at the airport in place of its business lounge as this would be a sound improvement. I holds all the visual delights of an underground, windowless NHS waiting area crossed with a large cleaning products storage cupboard. Next to no seats, no air conditioning, pathetic range of food - and what there is is manky as fvck. The bar - one red, one white, one bottle of Cinzano, some orange stuff, and a self pour beer. Compared to other places it’s beyond abysmal. “Oh poor you, you elitist fop, bitching about having to drink just one of two wines for free for four hours.” Yes, you have a point. Shut up. No chairs and crying children. Everyone can shut up this very minute.

It isn’t being miserable to want to kill cinema goers who exhibit no social skills and make you want to commit death by popcorn.

Download the AT (Autolinee Toscane) app. The app is in English. €1.70 buys an hour’s travel on trams and buses. Tram stop directly outside the airport runs directly to the city centre. You can block book tickets to make it cheaper. They are stored in the app and you activate one by tapping on its image. It’s easy stuff - I managed it. Failing that, you can buy tickets from tram stop machines and kiosks - but these need to be stamped when in transit. Again, same thing about an hour’s transport time.

Barbie was all kinds of better. Oppenheimer screamed out for a better editing.

Going to be a real wrench to leave Florence today, it’s been a stunning five day break. Duolingo did its bit so I could confidently order and buy things, even if it seems every Italian has a better command of English that your average British knuckle dragger. Fancy Eastern Europe next.

And that is all just wonderful, superb stuff. Y’know, apart from the productivity thing - but all of us who thump keyboards for a living deal with that every day 😁 All the best with the comp. You can’t beat a decent Attaboy moment.

I feel I should be offering words of support or something to make things a bit better, but I’ve no idea what to write to this, Debs. Your post is screaming out for a hug. Really hope you and the girl can talk it out, our’s is a right bugger to get to open up too. I’ve no doubt your lad loved you very much because you come across as a really lovely person with a big heart. Stay strong, these things will pass.

Can understand. I’ve found I have this effect on people all the time tbf.

Never go fullFinnegan.

I got searched in case I had a lighter at Fiorentina tonight. Genoa were letting off bombs throughout the match and videos of riots went live by half time. I need to find someone to apologise to for distracting security with my presence 😁 But **** me was the sound glorious for 90 minutes, it was like being at a football match again..which it was.

Couldn’t be nicer weather for a match - and everyone is friendly as shit

They were a 1930s re-enactment club 🤫

I know that the statement ‘there were no fat people in the 60s’ is completely false. That was my point.

Just seen. Pfft. Bethesda. Bethesda never changes. 😂

err… BUUUUUUULLLLLLSSSSHHHHHIIIIIT.

Fallout Britain (or whatever it’s called) is downloadable at the end of the month.

I too despise La Riley. Fwiw: https://thetriallawyermagazine.com/2021/07/bill-barr-is-the-master-of-covering-up-political-scandals/