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by smallbird
on Sat Aug 22, 2009 9:25 pm |
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| San Diego isn't too bad, if that's where your final posting will be...unless there are wildfires... |
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by jsidney
on Mon Aug 24, 2009 6:24 am |
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Smallbird wrote: "San Diego isn't too bad, if that's where your final posting will be..."
Jeeze, smallbird. When were you here last? In 1990? |
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by jsidney
on Mon Aug 24, 2009 8:13 am |
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Since 1998 the State of California has prohibited smoking in interior workplaces, including inside restaurants and bars, but you could still sit on an outdoor patio and enjoy a cigarette with your drink or after dinner coffee or smoke a pipe while you fed the pigeons in the park.
Now California has become the home of the rampant outdoor smoking ban.
In the County of San Diego there are the large City of San Diego and 18 smaller cities, some clustered around and sharing a border with the City of San Diego.
The City of San Diego prohibits outdoor smoking on all city owned beaches and in all city owned parks and recreation areas. This includes world famous Balboa Park, the San Diego Zoo and the San Diego Wild Animal Park. Most of the other tourist traps, like Seaport Village, have gotten prissy and followed suit.
All of the beach cities have banned smoking on their beaches. Most of the small cities have banned smoking in their parks and other outdoor recreation areas. At least half of them have banned smoking on outdoor restaurant and bar patios. One of the cities prohibits smoking everywhere, including while walking on a sidewalk and in the interior of your own car while driving on a city street. The County of San Diego has banned outdoor smoking in all County parks.
The park and beach bans also apply to chewing tobacco and snuff.
The local chapter of the American Lung Association is secretly persuading the owners of large apartment complexes to prohibit tenants from smoking inside their rented apartments or on the building grounds. They are also working on condominium homeowners' associations.
So, garhkal, if you are posted in San Diego, stock up on your Nicorettes chewing gum.
And if you go to the world famous San Diego Zoo, support the Smokers' Guerrilla Movement and deposit your used Nicorettes chewing gum on a hot sidewalk. |
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by garhkal
on Mon Aug 24, 2009 5:07 pm |
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| Holy sithspit... guess San Diego is out then. |
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by smallbird
on Mon Aug 24, 2009 8:52 pm |
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jsidney wrote: Smallbird wrote: "San Diego isn't too bad, if that's where your final posting will be..."
Jeeze, smallbird. When were you here last? In 1990?
LOL - js, I only went as a tourist. The 2003 Holiday Bowl (go Cougs)!
My only objection was too many freeways. Of course, we stayed at a Motel 6 that allowed smoking (at the time, I guess). |
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by jsidney
on Wed Aug 26, 2009 2:35 am |
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Sorry Smallbird:
http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/aug/25/smoking-areas-stadium-eliminated
Smoking Areas At Stadium Eliminated
San Diego Union-Tribune, August 25, 2009
Some Chargers fans are fuming over San Diego's decision to eliminate the designated smoking areas at Qualcomm Stadium.
Pat Guzik, a season-ticket holder for 24 years and a smoker for 40, is mad about the change - and even angrier that no one has formally notified the tens of thousands of spectators who will fill the stadium on game days.
Tailgaters can still smoke in the parking lot, but Guzik, who lives in Poway, said she wouldn't have spent $4,000 to renew her four season tickets if she knew she would be unable to smoke during halftime.
"I think a lot of people wouldn't have paid for the tickets," she said. "There are a lot of football fans who smoke."
Qualcomm Stadium manager Mike McSweeney said a change was needed. "People will complain at every game regardless of what the smoking policy is or isn't. You're never going to mollify everybody."
He said conversations about a ban came up during te offseason and that a decision to do away with the designated areas was made jointly by stadium management, the mayor's office, the San Diego Police Department and the team. McSweeney said it was the team's preference that the venue be made smoke-free.
Chargers spokesman Bill Johnston... e-mailed a statement (to the Union-Tribune) that read, "This year the City asked that the Chargers as a stadium tenant adhere to the ordinance and eliminate designated smoking areas inside the stadium and we agreed."
Violations of the smoking ban may result in $136 fines and game ejections.
The City Council banned smoking at Qualcomm Stadium in 2006 except -- as stated in the city's municipal code -- in designated smoking areas where patrons can temporarily leave the stadium to smoke in a secured spot.
McSweeney said the City Attorney's Office advised him that this latest change does not require a public hearing or a council vote because a ban already exists and there is no requirement to have designated smoking areas. |
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by garhkal
on Wed Aug 26, 2009 5:40 pm |
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| I wonder if they will reinstate it if they see revinue fall from lack of attendance by all their smoking fans. |
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by JohnC
on Thu Aug 27, 2009 12:34 am |
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garhkal wrote: I wonder if they will reinstate it if they see revinue fall from lack of attendance by all their smoking fans.
If I had season tickets I'd be in the refund line ---- NOW.
-J.C.- |
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by CigarBoy
on Thu Aug 27, 2009 1:03 pm |
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I went to Wright State University which was near Wright-Patt AFB. In my apartment building, there was an Air Force couple that were always complaining about our loud living, people coming in and out of our apartment at all hours of the day, that sort of stuff. I don't think they liked my new cigar hobby either.
Anyway these whinners complained at least twice a week. My attitude was........ if you don't like the noise that college kids make then don't live near a univsersity.
So after about a month of the couple's whining and complaining I decided to act. I found the master switch to the electricity for their apartment. I shut off the power about 3 am and turned it on about 4:45 am. I figured it would make them late for work and force them to reset all their electronics and clocks. I did that twice and they moved out about a month later.
No more grumpy neighbors. |
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by garhkal
on Thu Aug 27, 2009 5:36 pm |
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| While i like the story, i have seen several people get in big trouble for messing with master electronic switches... |
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