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by Seano
on Sat Oct 17, 2009 7:54 pm |
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libertarian99 wrote: The tobacco wars remind me of the movie "Point Break." There's one scene where Patrick Swayze and Keanu Reeves both jump out of an airplane and end up locked together in free fall, each one daring the other to give in to fear and open the parachute. It's a battle of the wills that no one wants to lose.
I personally spent most of my free time this summer learning to grow my own tobacco, a very labor-intensive process. The more time and energy people invest in making me quit, the more time and energy I spend trying to prove they can't control me.
More time and energy is probably spent on this battle than people would ever gain if everyone simultaneously quit smoking and added a few years to their life. It would make more sense for both sides to go back to their respective corners and just leave each other alone, but neither side wants to lose so that's not about to happen.
With my condolences to the family and friends of Mr Swayze, who was a bit of an hero of mine as a movie star, the stalemate you refer to, where both sides are locked in a battle to the death, does hold some truth at this stage, after having watched the price of a softpack graduate from $2.50 to $3.00 to $5.00 to $8.00 to this abberation beyond the limits of common-sense...
... but I wasn't on the plane for skydiving lessons in the first place.
I followed the rules, and listened to the wisdom of my elders rather than succumb to peer-group-pressure, and waited until I'd finished school and was making my own money as a (young) adult of legal age 18, before I checked in my baggage and finding a seat on the plane in the smoking section.
Half-way through the flight of adult life, anonymous masked bandits have hijacked the cockpit at gunpoint and donned the only parachutes for themselves, and now I look out the porthole from my window seat as we plummet down towards the earth with no chance of surviving if we jump and certain death from the pending crash. Is that the Statue of Liberty I see out there? This plane was not destined for NYC was it? |
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by libertarian99
on Sat Oct 17, 2009 8:22 pm |
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Seano wrote: Half-way through the flight of adult life, anonymous masked bandits have hijacked the cockpit at gunpoint and donned the only parachutes for themselves, and now I look out the porthole from my window seat as we plummet down towards the earth with no chance of surviving if we jump and certain death from the pending crash. Is that the Statue of Liberty I see out there? This plane was not destined for NYC was it? |
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by Seano
on Sun Oct 18, 2009 12:43 am |
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libertarian99 wrote: comedy
If only these blasted holocausts weren't so tragic, we could relax and have a good laugh by the pool.
Laughter the best medicine on the dark side of the moon?
Bring back smoking lounges on lunar flights. Read Verne. 
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Suvarnabhumi International Airport, October 7th, 2006.
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by Seano
on Sun Oct 18, 2009 3:48 am |
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Please allow this one mention of a commercial establishment where good harmony with the natural environment of the fuselage and wings of the departing plane at the planet's most tropical airport can be gained by twenty or 30 minutes of devout prayer in the Garden of Harry, up the escalator and finish-line around 15m from the MacDonald's kiosk:
http://airport.singapore-e.info/e/eating/bar_harrys.html
Crossing the Equator is ALWAYS celebration time. |
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