Benn, can't agree with you here.
"The action isn't the same, but the end result is. You CAN die at the hands of someone that smokes (through passive smoking) just as you CAN die at the hands of someone that drinks (driving whilst drunk.)"
The actions are different and can't be tied together. If they are, you have to take arson and people falling asleep as hazards of cigarette smoking. I don't want to change your psotion, but if you and I were in the same room at this moment having a beer together, there'd be no harm to either of us. If you were smoking a cigarette, the second hand smoke would be damaging me. Isn't that what Brian's argument is about?
BTW, Toronto is a smoke-free city in all public buildings, and restaurants are being forced to switch to entirely non-smoking in the next few years. At the Air Canada Centre where Queen + PR are playing they have separate enclosed rooms for smokers, bizarre to watch people in the haze apart from the world.
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[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Benn wrote: [/QUOTENAME]As it is, he appears as bullish and self-opinionated, which isn't the best image I'd have thought he would be after.......[/QUOTE]
Problem is, from what little (or nothing) I know of him, I think THAT is exactly what he's REALLY like, in terms of his "gut reaction" to things.
Sometimes we saw him change his mind and apologise, AFTER his brain kicked in and someone else patiently brought him back to reason, but I really believe that his true self is more or less like what we see through his soapbox rants.
I don't mean I like it at all, but in the end I do appreciate his honesty in not trying to appear different from what he is, though it drives me mad most times.
Thank you for your understanding.
Problem is, from what little (or nothing) I know of him, I think THAT is exactly what he's REALLY like, in terms of his "gut reaction" to things.
Sometimes we saw him change his mind and apologise, AFTER his brain kicked in and someone else patiently brought him back to reason, but I really believe that his true self is more or less like what we see through his soapbox rants.
I don't mean I like it at all, but in the end I do appreciate his honesty in not trying to appear different from what he is, though it drives me mad most times.
Thank you for your understanding.
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]YourValentine wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Brian has strong opinions and I do not agree all the time. Sometimes he has - in my opinion - strange topics like the orbs, for example. But one thing is sure:
Brian May is a person who is interested. He is not one of these newly rich rock and pop stars who do nothing but drugs. Brian is someone who wants to make a difference and he sure does make a difference. He is helpful and compassionate, he donates his time and his effort for worthy causes. He has multiple interests and he is intelligent and well educated. So what if he is moody sometimes and what if he has strong opinions about issues that do not matter to other people?
It makes me angry that a girl who is too lazy to spell her own language correctly and who brags on this board that she thinks reading is a waste of time thinks she knows anything about this world better than a man who has achieved as much as Brian May. Maybe it's time her dad lectures her "up the ass" to have some respect for the opinions of other people.[/QUOTE]
Keep this post in mind for January 2007 when we have the topic for nominations of "post of the year" and "topic of the year".
Brian May is a person who is interested. He is not one of these newly rich rock and pop stars who do nothing but drugs. Brian is someone who wants to make a difference and he sure does make a difference. He is helpful and compassionate, he donates his time and his effort for worthy causes. He has multiple interests and he is intelligent and well educated. So what if he is moody sometimes and what if he has strong opinions about issues that do not matter to other people?
It makes me angry that a girl who is too lazy to spell her own language correctly and who brags on this board that she thinks reading is a waste of time thinks she knows anything about this world better than a man who has achieved as much as Brian May. Maybe it's time her dad lectures her "up the ass" to have some respect for the opinions of other people.[/QUOTE]
Keep this post in mind for January 2007 when we have the topic for nominations of "post of the year" and "topic of the year".
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]JamieSureWould<br><font size=1>QOQOW wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Could someone just clear this up for me?
is Brian a hippy (meaning he wants peace- even though its impossible and id like it too but its not going to happen- no one to get hurt including the animals and what not)
actualy i want all those things so i may be a "hippy" too.
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Controversial!
is Brian a hippy (meaning he wants peace- even though its impossible and id like it too but its not going to happen- no one to get hurt including the animals and what not)
actualy i want all those things so i may be a "hippy" too.
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Controversial!
I read through the posts and I have some questions now:
- You, who don't like (agree with) Brian's "rants", how old are you? Are you young? (Or are you over 60 and you say "it all doesn't matter to me, come what may"?)
- If the answer to the first question is "yes" why do you think that the best way of living is sitting on your ass, eating McDonald's food, partying, always searching for the easy way out -but never thinking of "serious" issues (perhaps to avoid headache), escaping from responsibility?
- Why don't you/we want to save our silly little world(s)? Or why don't you/we just want to live in societies that have other (different) set of values than today's?
- Hippies are good example! They were dissatisfied with something, actually, with many things! And they "fought" against them somehow... Music was a way of expression, ya know...
Why do you/we think living today - on "Planet Mall" - is sooo convenient?
- Why do you laugh at a "renessaince man", a chap in Don Quijote's role? Are today's Don(na) Quijotes just silly assholes?
Of course, you don't have to share Brian's point of view. Just think! Are you sure we and our yet unborn children can be happy in this "modern" (globalised) world?
- You, who don't like (agree with) Brian's "rants", how old are you? Are you young? (Or are you over 60 and you say "it all doesn't matter to me, come what may"?)
- If the answer to the first question is "yes" why do you think that the best way of living is sitting on your ass, eating McDonald's food, partying, always searching for the easy way out -but never thinking of "serious" issues (perhaps to avoid headache), escaping from responsibility?
- Why don't you/we want to save our silly little world(s)? Or why don't you/we just want to live in societies that have other (different) set of values than today's?
- Hippies are good example! They were dissatisfied with something, actually, with many things! And they "fought" against them somehow... Music was a way of expression, ya know...
Why do you/we think living today - on "Planet Mall" - is sooo convenient?
- Why do you laugh at a "renessaince man", a chap in Don Quijote's role? Are today's Don(na) Quijotes just silly assholes?
Of course, you don't have to share Brian's point of view. Just think! Are you sure we and our yet unborn children can be happy in this "modern" (globalised) world?