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Nixon's had an arsehole transplant.

 

Seen the Stop Press?

 

The arsehole rejected him... Boom boom.

 

You're right and you're wrong. He did represent Richmond but he also represented Cleveland and Whitby.

So mainly, you're wrong

 

It was covered up. There was a lot of covering up in those days.

 

It's OK ET, you won't be exiled to Scotchland for your failure. Not yet anyway.

 

Is smoking while driving still permitted? If so why, when you're not allowed to hold a mobile phone at the wheel. A guy swerved into me once when his fag dropped into his lap. Obviously covered by due care and attention - like eating I suppose - but there should be a blanket ban IMO.

 

Here's a 'pearl' from Winnie: "Capitalism is the worst system we have ... except for all the others."

 

Smoking while driving a private vehicle is permitted,but not a truck as it's a,"workplace"....another piece of badly drafted,impossible to police legislation thought up by the idiots that lord it over us...many drivers also live in the cab,so it's their home as well as their workplace
Imagine the scene:
Burly Irish truck Owner Driver is parked up for the weekend when he runs out of hours.Has a few sherbets,and decides to have a fag sitting in the passenger seat.Jumped up Hi-Viz-wearing person-in-authority bangs on the cab door and demands he stubs the fag out and tries to prosecute said Irish truckie full of beer...
How long before the Hi-Viz wearer finds himself horizontal seeing stars?
Apparently it's not dangerous to smoke while driving a people carrier full of infants though....
Of course there are other exceptions to the workplace smoking ban:

While the ban affects almost all indoor workplaces,[7] some exemptions were provided:[8]

• bus shelters (provided they are less than 50% covered, some councils however assume no exemptions apply),
• phone boxes (but box types K2 to K8 are included, because they are completely sealed)
• hotel rooms (if they are designated as smoking rooms)
• nursing homes
• prisons
• offshore oil rigs (only in designated rooms)
• psychiatric wards (until 1 July 2008)
• stages/television sets (if needed for the performance, except in rehearsals)
• specialist tobacconists in relation to sampling cigars and/or pipe tobacco.

An exemption was also theoretically possible within the Palace of Westminster,[9] as for other Royal Palaces, although members of the House of Commons and the House of Lords agreed to observe the spirit of the ban and restrict any smoking within the grounds of Parliament to four designated outside areas.[10]

Smoking is permitted in a private residence, although not in areas used as a shared work-space. In flats with communal entrances or shared corridors, these must be smoke-free.

Although prisons and hotel rooms are provisionally exempt, university halls of residence presented some dilemmas in practice as regards defining what is public and private. Several universities have imposed a blanket ban on smoking including halls of residence.[11]

 

I'm sure that if you scanned the brain of someone smoking and the brain of someone using a mobile phone, you'll see completely different areas of the brain being lit up.

Someone who is smoking a cigarette can concentrate on their driving much better than someone holding a conversation on their phone. Not that I am arguing in favour of allowing smoking whilst driving - I'm just saying that the two activities aren't even slightly comparable, due to the different way in which they use up a driver's powers of concentration.

 

Until you factor in the process of finding, extracting and lighting the fag while driving.

 

There's going to be a blanket ban as well?

I suppose it would stop all the covering up.........

 

Many years ago, when I was driving a Mini, I had a lit Pall Mall King Size (the white tipped ones in a gold pack) get caught in my nostril, the hot end, that is.........

 

Doesn't anyone find it odd that Leon Brittan 'died of cancer' within a few hours of that contraversial government document being found; bearing in mind when just few weeks ago he was walking and driving around?