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People who smoke on the balconies of multi-unit buildings are awful people. It’d be a beautiful day but I can’t keep my windows open because there’s always some
by nkrisc 9mo ago
People who smoke on the balconies of multi-unit buildings are awful people. It’d be a beautiful day but I can’t keep my windows open because there’s always somebody smoking to make my unit smell disgusting if I just want to enjoy a cool breeze going through.
Thank goodness smoking is becoming rarer here and is no banned pretty much everywhere indoors and near entrances.
I don’t mind if people have a vice (I’ve got mine) but keep me out of it.
- throw20251220 9mo ago[flagged]
- unsupp0rted 9mo agoYou’re both correct, 100%. Seriously.
- throw20251220 9mo agoYeah, it’s simply pissing me off that no person noticed the only abnormal behaviour here is the dude labelling the whole category of human beings as “awful” without trying to understand their motives. Selfish and entitled on a boss level. Are those who smoke on a top floor balcony also awful? Are those who smoke on a balcony of a multi-storey building they live alone in also awful people?
- its_ubuntu 9mo ago[flagged]
- nkrisc 9mo agoNo, because the noise of people just living life is not comparable to cigarette smoke. You can also use earplugs if you’re that sensitive to regular noises of people living around you. That kind of sensitivity is not normal though. I can’t stop cigarette smoke from seeping in to everything in my home if I leave the windows open. Also, smoking is not a necessary part of life. You can’t live silently. It’s not the same.
- throw20251220 9mo ago[flagged]
- dhosek 9mo agoMaybe if they spent less money on cigarettes they could afford other things.
- throw20251220 9mo agoMaybe. Go and ask them. Maybe they are truly awful people, maybe they are old or ill, or disabled. Go and talk to them, then start labelling them x and y. See? No one got the idea. All “you” want is that nobody bothers “you”. But thinking from the perspective of others? No, that’s too difficult. The best realisation I had in life was that I am pissing others off for some reasons, as they piss me off for some other reasons. Unfortunately the majority of the lovely “society” doesn’t have that realisation.
- its_ubuntu 9mo ago[flagged]
- stevage 9mo ago[flagged]
- nkrisc 9mo ago> You can shut windows. They could just not smoke, or smoke far away from the building where it won’t bother anyone. > Where else do you think they are going to do it? I don’t know, I’m not the one smoking. That’s their problem to solve. I don’t think they’d like it if I left a bucket of rotting fish on my balcony.
- its_ubuntu 9mo ago
- RobotCaleb 9mo agoDid we find the smoker?
- throw20251220 9mo agoThe correct question is “have you found a smoker who smokes on a balcony”.
- its_ubuntu 9mo ago[flagged]
- IanCal 9mo agoIf you smoke you might not realise just how absolutely awful it smells and how it sticks to material. Sounds of children don’t.
- paradox460 9mo agoI don't know man. I once heard the sound of children laughing and having fun, and now I've got kids of my own.
- throw20251220 9mo agoSo does poor hygiene, smelly dog, a strong perfume you like but maybe not everyone, a newborn poop smell. And for all of those we have washing machines.
- IanCal 9mo agoIf your neighbours have so many kids that the newborn poop smell is filling your home if you open the window for a while and making your curtains and clothes stink of it because it’s that strong you are well within your rights to complain. Do you smoke? These comparisons are quite odd unless you don’t realise just how strong the smell is.
- jmward01 9mo agoSociety needs kids and has a collective responsibility to raise them. It has no such obligation to cigarette smoke.
- throw20251220 9mo agoYou want to have children? Cool. Made a mistake? Deal with it. Don’t make it sound like you are doing others a favour by having children though. “The society” will be fine without them. There are plenty out there nobody cares about.
- appreciatorBus 9mo agoNo, it doesn’t work that way. The sound of children playing is a normal part of human life, inseparable in fact from life. The smell of cigarette smoke is neither.
- stevage 9mo agoOnly because you're defining one as normal and the other as abnormal.
- seattle_spring 9mo agoI remember when I was young and edgy, and thought dunking on parents was simply sharing hard truths. Boy am I glad I grew out of that mindset.
- appreciatorBus 9mo agoIt is possible for the human species to exist without cigarette smoke, and doubtless for at least part of our history it did not exist. It is not possible for the human species (or any form of mortal biological life) to exist without children. If you want to try to define the latter observation of reality as “abnormal”, fill your boots.
- its_ubuntu 9mo ago[dead]
- efilife 9mo agoYOUR smoke affects MY HEALTH. It should be illegal to negatively impact others when it's not a necessity
- throw20251220 9mo agoOnly when you’re next to him smoking. Don’t blow it out of proportion. Life: a sexually transmitted disease with 100% mortality rate.
- 725686 9mo agoYou must be a very congenial neighbor.
- tqi 9mo agoYes, that is the same because second degree kid noises also cause cancer.
- its_ubuntu 9mo ago[flagged]
- defrost 9mo agoA full range of scientific evidence, extending from the molecular level to whole populations, supports the conclusion that secondhand smoke causes disease. The scope of this evidence is enormous, and encompasses not only the literature on secondhand smoke but also relevant findings on active smoking and on the toxicity of individual tobacco smoke components. * The Health Consequences of Involuntary Exposure to Tobacco Smoke: A Report of the Surgeon General. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK44321/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK44321/ 356 links to supporting studies and works
- its_ubuntu 9mo ago[flagged]
- wookmaster 9mo agoNo, doesn’t work. Nice try though.
- aidenn0 9mo agoSmoking tobacco got rarer here, but smoking marijuana has gotten much more common. I don't know if it's just that I grew up with tobacco, but the skunk-like smell of marijuana bothers me a lot more.
- its_ubuntu 9mo ago[flagged]
- galangalalgol 9mo agoInhaling any particulate seems like a pretty bad idea. I knew a Jamaican guy who thought people were silly for smoking it and said tea was the best. I have no opinion, not my vice of choice.
- its_ubuntu 9mo ago[flagged]
- fao_ 9mo ago> There is no such thing as "gluten intolerance", for example [citation needed]. I have celiac disease and a wheat allergy, which presented at the age of 3 comorbidly. If I ingest gliadin, my immune cells take the gliadin, run a nice little check on it, and then raise holy hell and destroy my gut villae. If I come into contact with wheat, I get a histamine response. Even a bag of (organic, locally produced) wheat flour opened in the same room as me used to be enough to make my airways close up.
- its_ubuntu 9mo ago[flagged]
- idiotsecant 9mo ago[flagged]
- gljiva 9mo ago[flagged]
- nkrisc 9mo ago> Since they smoke on the balcony, rather than near roommates/family, many are likely more mindful and pleasant to coexist with than what you displayed. They’re more pleasant to coexist with because they let their smoke drift into my home instead of their own? What? They’re just externalizing the negatives of their own vice.
- wingworks 9mo agoYeah, it's a bit worrying that some people don't seem to understand that just because you enjoy smoking, doesn't mean the rest of the units downstream of you want to breath it in too.
- its_ubuntu 9mo ago[dead]
- nkrisc 9mo agoWhich is why inconsiderate smokers are awful people.
- gljiva 9mo agoYou haven't mentioned that they: a) are aware that their smoke isn't dispersed enough by the breeze / open space to be unnoticeable. b) know there is someone close enough who isn't like them and other smokers, and is really bothered by the smoke. They do, however, go smoke on their balconies since they were made aware smoking inside is bad for their roommates/family. So, many of them are more likely than not reasonable people. They _could be_. While you _proved_ that you aren't, by not communicating it (or at least not mentioning it as if it isn't the most important reason why they are "awful people"), just judging them and holding a grudge. In this very comment you again showed that you don't care enough to understand others who you might disagree with, because I am just rephrasing what I already wrote, since you replied like I didn't.
- sysworld 9mo agoIt makes me a little sad to see a lot of peoples comments here about how they're annoyed by xyz thing someone does that doesn't stop at there fence line or unit. So many are being downvoted.