waitrose bans single use...

[ZT]

Fair point, but a teenager is less likely to get away with buying a vape from a supermarket.

The way I see it they're applying burn cream to a broken leg, I mean it's not going to do any harm and they are certainly going to act like they're single handedly saving the youths of the world from the dangers of giving up smoking.
but realistically all they will do is prevent the occasional adult smoker from being able to look at a disposable while they're waiting to pay for their shopping and think to themselves "hmm maybe blueberry blast will smell better on my breath than the arse end of an ashtray"

They will also help in some small way to not having as many through-away plastic items on the street. If that adult waiting in the queue is encouraged to buy some not disposable kit - im all for it.

 

[ZT]

Gotta luv it, hows the lime?

Tangy

 

[Deleted member 54254]

Noice, don't worry about me, I'm feeling a bit peppy, been tazering myself today with the missus' TENS machine

 

[Rickster]

i don’t think they are just talking about teenagers. there are loads of youngsters round this way that puff disposables. students, and old enough to buy them legally, but i doubt they were all addicted smokers before they started.

Fkin West End vampire hippies fed up with pulling each others tadgers found a new craze

 

[zouzounaki]

Fkin West End vampire hippies fed up with pulling each others tadgers found a new craze

you have lost a decade. that mob moved out to govanhill when they couldnae afford the rent any more/ the west end is now populated with the children of upper middle class english people, who pay £1000 a month for their weans to live in a damp room with holes in the windaes and spend their time crawling about vinicombe street in a drunken stupor. them, and the liberal intelligentsia who teach the classes for the young layabouts in the university and are too lazy to live somewhere nicer and get a bus into their work.

it’s no what it used to be, unfortunately.

 

[Deleted member 54254]

There's very little as good as it used to be, my town is in decay as the shopping centre lost it's big players like Debenhams and BHS. There needs to be a planning revolution to return these spaces back to residential I think.

 

[zouzounaki]

There's very little as good as it used to be, my town is in decay as the shopping centre lost it's big players like Debenhams and BHS. There needs to be a planning revolution to return these spaces back to residential I think.

the council have big plans for regenerating byres road and other daft stuff but they ignore the biggest problem that is letting agents and the hmo student flats. it’s honestly chaos here since being a student became four years of fresher’s week and regular youngsters were priced out of living near where they study. the best time of year here is the summer when they’ve all fucked off back to the home counties for a couple of months. i have a plan to move to the middle of nowhere but it’s no going to happen for a wee while.

 

[Deleted member 54254]

No helped by the fact the hospital owns a fair chunk of the land too.

 

[zouzounaki]

No helped by the fact the hospital owns a fair chunk of the land too.

they’ve demolished the hospital over the last couple of years and the university has been building on it. no sure of the details, maybe they sold it off to them. it’s actually a good improvement though, they’ve opened up a big open square that runs from university place to the kelvin hall.