Ten years ago I started smoking my pipe again partly just to be an ornery old codger, also because I like it, and if it takes 20 years to kill me, that's all I reasonably have left anyway. Sign me proudly LSMFT.
Hitch died an early and painful death from smoking (and fondness for hard liquor) so he might not be the best person to invoke in such an article. And as someone who has lost six family members to lung cancer, I sincerely hope Mr. Gage reconsiders his devotion to the habit.
I’m very sorry for your loss, but I believe this piece is satirical and a middle finger to those who are attempting to remove our freedom to make choices, whether good or bad, under the guise of concern for our mental and physical well-being.
u mean i get to spend the first half of my life scolded by right-wing church ladies and the second half of my life scolded by left-wing church ladies? FUN!
I can get my Johnson cut off as my choice.
I can burn alive a fetus with chemicals as my choice.
But smoke a cigarette or question vaccines?
I'm a problem.
When does the revolution begin, please?
Ten years ago I started smoking my pipe again partly just to be an ornery old codger, also because I like it, and if it takes 20 years to kill me, that's all I reasonably have left anyway. Sign me proudly LSMFT.
You can live as long as you like, as long as you don't like living!
'Codger'. A proper London dictionary entry. Bravo.
Enjoy yourself, sir. Our enlightened betters loathe the very thought.
Hitch died an early and painful death from smoking (and fondness for hard liquor) so he might not be the best person to invoke in such an article. And as someone who has lost six family members to lung cancer, I sincerely hope Mr. Gage reconsiders his devotion to the habit.
I’m very sorry for your loss, but I believe this piece is satirical and a middle finger to those who are attempting to remove our freedom to make choices, whether good or bad, under the guise of concern for our mental and physical well-being.
"Humour can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind."
— E. B. White
u mean i get to spend the first half of my life scolded by right-wing church ladies and the second half of my life scolded by left-wing church ladies? FUN!
Welcome to the Karenocracy!
The Left is now the Right. War is Peace, Clever Pseudonym!
Could you have lit one up? You know? At the first sign that you're having a hard time of it? Avoided the withdrawal? And saved the NHS a ton of money?
Just a thought.
But, nah...Dalrymple makes a ton off people like you.