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Post by BrummiePotter on Feb 5, 2009 14:25:52 GMT
I see on the official website that the NHS Smoking Evening has been cancelled tonight. Why don't they just re-arrange it for the Boothen End toilets at half-time on a matchday, then they can talk to the hoardes of people who can't read No Smoking signs and have a complete disregard for anyone else.? Why not also invite our supposed Stewards who are too cowardly to do what they are paid for and sort this problem out?
I await the abuse that is bound to come!!
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Post by lew86 on Feb 5, 2009 14:27:16 GMT
if it bothers you that much why dont you do something about it?
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Post by BrummiePotter on Feb 5, 2009 14:31:59 GMT
It does bother me and I have done something - I've written to Tony Scholes but no success yet, though to his credit he does accept that there is a big problem here that is being looked at, and I generally speak to a Steward every match day but am met with blank looks.
I don't pay my money to have to do something - stewards are paid to steward but generally don't want to know about anything that involves doing some work (unless of course there's 10 of them approaching a single person, who's generally under the age of 12 and has left a top on their bottle of coke!)
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2009 14:36:18 GMT
How the hell you can blame the stewards is beyond me.
The whole smoking situation farce is the clubs doing. It would be so simple and easy to manage to open the bloody doors and create a small outdoor smoking area at half time.
When there’s about 30 or 40 pissed up blokes crammed into each toilet (Boothen) what does the club seriously expect from it’s stewards? How does the club expect them to deal with the situation?
Can you imagine the trouble that would break out if the stewards tried to physically remove them? All they can do is ask them or tell them to put their cigarettes out and then take all the racist shit that gets shouted at them.
They are in a no win situation.
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Post by feed the beat and he wil score on Feb 5, 2009 14:37:36 GMT
smoking is gooooood
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Post by sheikhmomo on Feb 5, 2009 14:37:40 GMT
The NHS are arranging smoking evenings?
Absolutely marvellous.
Do they supply the tobacco or shall I bring my own dutch shag?
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Post by BrummiePotter on Feb 5, 2009 14:39:51 GMT
Fair point, but if you follow that argument through why bother having stewards at all? If we don't want them to intervene when its needed, what is the Club paying them for?
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Post by Pretty Little Boother on Feb 5, 2009 14:41:30 GMT
Or just allow smoking in the stands.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2009 14:42:00 GMT
Pkh, I have no idea.
You can’t blame them for the whole smoking situation though. It’s a no-win situation for them.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2009 14:42:36 GMT
Boother – smoking in public places is now illegal in the UK.
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Post by Pretty Little Boother on Feb 5, 2009 14:43:53 GMT
Boother – smoking in public places is now illegal in the UK. Except for outdoor sporting venues, which are exempt from the rule, as they are precisely that- outdoor. |
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Post by DannyStokie on Feb 5, 2009 14:45:38 GMT
It is bullshit, they should allow smoking in the stands because it's open, it's not enclosed. Would solve problems.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2009 14:46:00 GMT
I stand corrected.
I’m glad the club has banned it from the stands though.
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Post by DannyStokie on Feb 5, 2009 14:48:54 GMT
Why does it bother you if people smoking in a open space, surely it's better than the toilet lovers? I mean i smoke, i would love nothing more than for somewhere to smoke. But i wouldn't stand in the toliet's and do it, why make others suffer?
To be honest the stewards hate stoke for not having a smoking area, they all have told me that when I have spoken to them.
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Post by monkhousestokie on Feb 5, 2009 14:48:57 GMT
I'm going for a fag. Anyone coming?
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Post by DannyStokie on Feb 5, 2009 14:51:05 GMT
Shall we all just go for a nice fag? (cigarette for any cocky bastard) ;D.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2009 14:52:06 GMT
Why? Because I don’t like smoke.
If someone is sitting in the seat next to me, it doesn’t matter if it’s outdoor, I’m still going to get their smoke in my face.
It’s purely selfish reasons, but I’m glad it’s banned from stands.
An allocated area outside the stadium is the answer for me, where smokers can go to pollute themselves.
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Post by Pretty Little Boother on Feb 5, 2009 14:54:28 GMT
Maybe we should sue the council for letting the incinerator blow smoke into our lovely clean stadium?  |
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Post by u2oxeterstokie on Feb 5, 2009 15:06:35 GMT
We must be getting bored now the transfer window has closed. Another smoking thread - WTF!
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Post by powchirper on Feb 5, 2009 15:07:23 GMT
Oh for the good old days where everbody did just what they wanted without some mard arse do gooder Blair child moaning their stinking rops out about a bit of fag smoke, get a fuckin grip you puffs.
Ex smoker me sen but dont mind the odd whiff of golden v or old h.
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Post by Stafford-Stokie on Feb 5, 2009 15:08:13 GMT
999 ;D
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Post by monkhousestokie on Feb 5, 2009 15:12:03 GMT
Ooh, I enjoyed that. Bitter out though.
Right, what's been happening?
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Post by discokaraoke on Feb 5, 2009 15:16:26 GMT
Having been a steward myself at the britt, i can honestly say the stewards do a good job. They are their to assist where possible and to help in anyway they can.
They help to keep order in the ground.
Has for the smoking issue, they are simply completely out numbered and face an impossible task of dealing with the situation they find themselves in at half time, and i repeat impossible.
Its a problem i know, but the club should do something about it.
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Post by Corporal Clegg on Feb 5, 2009 15:17:13 GMT
I see on the official website that the NHS Smoking Evening has been cancelled tonight. Why don't they just re-arrange it for the Boothen End toilets at half-time on a matchday, then they can talk to the hoardes of people who can't read No Smoking signs and have a complete disregard for anyone else.? Why not also invite our supposed Stewards who are too cowardly to do what they are paid for and sort this problem out? I await the abuse that is bound to come!! get a grip man... |
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Post by doitforever on Feb 5, 2009 15:27:55 GMT
Oh don’t you just love ‘mob rule’. I doubt any of the culprits try it on in any of their local pubs, they know what the response would be, it should be zero tolerance, as it is in the stands.  And what are you alluding to Boother if you consider Gents toilets as ‘outdoor sporting venues’.  |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2009 15:31:21 GMT
Boother is the NGHML (National Glory Hole Meat Lover) Champion 2009 |
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Post by DodgyDino on Feb 5, 2009 15:32:57 GMT
The problem is there is no deterent to stop people from smoking, If they get caught nothing happens.
If you get caught smoking on an aircraft at the end of your flight you can expect to get arrested so you wouldnt do it, In fact i bet many of the people in the toilets have all flown at some point and not smoked for the duration of thier flight.
It should be no different wether people are smoking on an aircraft or at a football match, The fact is its banned.
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Post by powchirper on Feb 5, 2009 15:35:26 GMT
When the gov put their smoking ban in place and it worked they then realised anything is possible with these English half wits, they are now thinking up the next thing to ban.
We call the irish thick and make jokes about them, then we go and elect a load of sweaty socks to ruin/run our country. Nowhere in the whole world would this happen, we are the thickest twats on the planet.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2009 15:39:07 GMT
Dino, the difference is if you smoke on a flight the chances are you will be the only one, or one of a minority and there are people there with the authority to stamp it out.
At Stoke there are approximately 30 or 40 pissed up louts rammed in each toilet who don’t give 2 shits what the stewards say or think and just racially abuse them.
It would probably be a different story if it was the actual police in the concourse but the stewards have no chance of controlling the situation.
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Post by doitforever on Feb 5, 2009 15:44:17 GMT
I'm sure if they considered they might miss the second half they would think twice about lighting up.
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