There’s something touchingly naive in the idea that naming and shaming ISPs with “offensive content” wouldn’t drive many more people to search out those hosts. Who’d have thought that government ministers were so unworldly?

He’s following his own rule here by calling him Senator Tarzan.

Thing is, if Obama changed his name to Tarzan, he’d probably get more votes.

That begs the question; what do you consider ” reasonably priced” ?

I suppose what I really meant was “priced similarly to the average bar”. I didn’t like being charged a premium for clean air. There were, at the time, two non-smoking bars to my knowledge: Arcadia and Oxygen. They were the two of the most expensive bars I knew of, and Arcadia was far out of my way.

I don’t mean “If there was a reasonably priced bar anywhere in Leeds then it would be okay” but I personally wouldn’t care so much. Realistically, if it doesn’t affect me personally somehow, the plight of smoke-breathing bar staff ranks pretty low on my mental ‘World Problems Priority List’.

I oppose smoking bans for one simple reason ; they prevent consenting adults from enjoying a legal product inside privately owned buildings.
It`s that simple really… consenting adults, legal product, privately owned buildings.Are you opposed to this idea?

That is a good argument, and obviously in principle I agree, but you being pragmatic about things, the ideal is not always the right thing to do and in this case the fact is that there’s no way to survive without an income and there’s often no way to get a suitable income without a job, so these ‘privately owned buildings’ are ones that people have no choice but to enter and I think it’s reasonable based on that to make a few inconsiderate people stand outside rather than fill them up with smoke.

When you patronized pubs before the smoking ban, were you really worried about your health?

Not especially. I hated that I couldn’t wear the same coat to work the next day. But then, I spent a few hours there a few nights a week. (I was a student.) That’s not the same thing as working there and having the repeated exposure that comes with working there.

Sorry, I`ll get to the point now. I oppose smoking bans for one simple reason ; they prevent consenting adults from enjoying a legal product inside privately owned buildings.
It`s that simple really… consenting adults, legal product, privately owned buildings.Are you opposed to this idea?It seems that many are these days. If you truly are, then, enjoy, it`s your world now lad.

One final question…. When you patronized pubs before the smoking ban, were you really worried about your health?

There are quite a few similar systems which are just as hateful. Whoever thought hijacking words into random links was a good idea must have been pretty much off their head.