Muta: Every person who rode on that ferry is going to die now. Every one of them.

But .... But ... where will they bury the Survivors????

/oh the humanatees !!!!

//that woman really needs to get a life

sminkypinky: Dear America,

We're all laughing at you behind your back

Love,
Rest of the World

"A mother, her friend and two children were left fuming on a Toronto ferry..."

MmmmBacon: What he did was against policy, and probably not the brightest move ever, but should it cost him his job? No.

I have no problem with complete morons losing their job. If your workplace has a "no smoking" policy, why would you smoke in front of people at work? That's weapons-grade stupidity if you ask me.

spentmiles: The man in that article made me so outraged that my head started shaking. Then my nose started bleeding. Then quarters began shooting out of the payphone beside me. Then the Delta check-in station caught on fire. Then the planes on the runway began exploding. Then the entire city went up it flames.

IT'S HAPPENING AGAIN!

Smoke a cigarette, it'll calm you down.

HiFiGuy: Expected drunken sailing or crazy poses. Leaving disappointed.

/I doubt "the middle of a run" is break time.

Depending on the boat the busy times are loading, casting off, docking, and unloading.
Middle of the run might be your only break.

Will-Mun: Alright. I understand that smoking is a completely disgusting habit... and that's coming from a smoker myself. But seriously? This is making news? Look the only story here is if there was some sort of smoking ban on the boat. Which is a pretty lame ass story. "Man smokes in no smoking area!" OoOOoooOoo!

The fact that it was a boat makes it even less interesting. If this was a restaurant worker, taking a five minute break to smoke it up at an empty table, then at least you have the problem of a confined place while people are eating. In the open air on a moving boat, the potency of the smoke would be less damaging then a farking car passing you waking down the street.

Yeah if there was a No Smoking policy on the boat, then the dudes a farkwit, but it's not exactly worth an article, you know?

Having quit smoking two weeks ago, I'll talk loudly so that you may hear me from way up on my pillar. Long story short, I had a huge sales meeting yesterday, so I had to get a haircut the night prior. I make enough money to enjoy the best services, which is why I always go to Great Clips. When the professional stylist began cutting my hair, I knew immediately from the stink of her hands and breath that she was a cigarette smoker. I don't know how long before my cut she smoked, but she stunk like a Rwandan trash fire. I can't believe that I used to subject my clients and highly paid escorts to that disgusting, deathly stench. I hope I never smoke again. I recommend that you quit, because I can guarantee you that your co-workers at Arby's hate the smell of you. Ever wonder why you've never gotten that assistant manager position? Yeah, it might be because you smell like a orphanage fire. Get yourself cleaned up.

I thought the headline was a setup for a bystander effect/15 minutes of fame combo. Why stop a crime when you can get on TV to talk about the crime? Damn you subby!

Muta: Every person who rode on that ferry is going to die now. Every one of them.

Sir Anal of Leakage: EasyWind: Clearly this man should be shot.

He's worse than Hitler.

spentmiles: The man in that article made me so outraged that my head started shaking. Then my nose started bleeding. Then quarters began shooting out of the payphone beside me. Then the Delta check-in station caught on fire. Then the planes on the runway began exploding. Then the entire city went up it flames.

IT'S HAPPENING AGAIN!

Keep this up and I just may have to favourite you.

spentmiles: Having quit smoking two weeks ago, I'll talk loudly so that you may hear me from way up on my pillar.

You haven't quit smoking two weeks ago, you only think you have.
You'll be back. We won't let you quit. We're waiting for you, you know.
Just one more. Just one more. You want it, and you know you do. Come on, you deserve it. It'll feel so good. Reward yourself.
One of us. One of us. You'll always be one of us.

thebravetoast: Every time I've taken that ferry there are a number of passengers smoking on the downwind rail, so unless this guy was puffing away in the cabin or being a dick about blowing smoke upwind of people I don't see the issue.

He was smoking upwind, because smokers are inconsiderate dicks.

Back in my day, if some crank came around trying to peddle a story like this, she would be ignored and she would have go home and sit down and think about what's wrong with herself. Nowadays, with the internet, every nut can find a cheerleading crew.

Denis Leary works on a boat now?

spentmiles: Having quit smoking two weeks ago, I'll talk loudly so that you may hear me from way up on my pillar. Long story short, I had a huge sales meeting yesterday, so I had to get a haircut the night prior. I make enough money to enjoy the best services, which is why I always go to Great Clips. When the professional stylist began cutting my hair, I knew immediately from the stink of her hands and breath that she was a cigarette smoker. I don't know how long before my cut she smoked, but she stunk like a Rwandan trash fire. I can't believe that I used to subject my clients and highly paid escorts to that disgusting, deathly stench. I hope I never smoke again. I recommend that you quit, because I can guarantee you that your co-workers at Arby's hate the smell of you. Ever wonder why you've never gotten that assistant manager position? Yeah, it might be because you smell like a orphanage fire. Get yourself cleaned up.

Do you like Phil Collins? I've been a big Genesis fan ever since the release of their 1980 album, Duke. Before that, I really didn't understand any of their work. Too artsy, too intellectual. It was on Duke where Phil Collins' presence became more apparent. I think Invisible Touch was the group's undisputed masterpiece. It's an epic meditation on intangibility. At the same time, it deepens and enriches the meaning of the preceding three albums. Christy, take off your robe. Listen to the brilliant ensemble playing of Banks, Collins and Rutherford. You can practically hear every nuance of every instrument. Sabrina, remove your dress. In terms of lyrical craftsmanship, the sheer songwriting, this album hits a new peak of professionalism. Sabrina, why don't you, uh, dance a little. Take the lyrics to Land of Confusion. In this song, Phil Collins addresses the problems of abusive political authority. In Too Deep is the most moving pop song of the 1980s, about monogamy and commitment. The song is extremely uplifting. Their lyrics are as positive and affirmative as anything I've heard in rock. Christy, get down on your knees so Sabrina can see your asshole. Phil Collins' solo career seems to be more commercial and therefore more satisfying, in a narrower way. Especially songs like In the Air Tonight and Against All Odds. Sabrina, don't just stare at it, eat it. But I also think Phil Collins works best within the confines of the group, than as a solo artist, and I stress the word artist. This is Sussudio, a great, great song, a personal favorite.

spentmiles: Will-Mun: Alright. I understand that smoking is a completely disgusting habit... and that's coming from a smoker myself. But seriously? This is making news? Look the only story here is if there was some sort of smoking ban on the boat. Which is a pretty lame ass story. "Man smokes in no smoking area!" OoOOoooOoo!

The fact that it was a boat makes it even less interesting. If this was a restaurant worker, taking a five minute break to smoke it up at an empty table, then at least you have the problem of a confined place while people are eating. In the open air on a moving boat, the potency of the smoke would be less damaging then a farking car passing you waking down the street.

Yeah if there was a No Smoking policy on the boat, then the dudes a farkwit, but it's not exactly worth an article, you know?

Having quit smoking two weeks ago, I'll talk loudly so that you may hear me from way up on my pillar. Long story short, I had a huge sales meeting yesterday, so I had to get a haircut the night prior. I make enough money to enjoy the best services, which is why I always go to Great Clips. When the professional stylist began cutting my hair, I knew immediately from the stink of her hands and breath that she was a cigarette smoker. I don't know how long before my cut she smoked, but she stunk like a Rwandan trash fire. I can't believe that I used to subject my clients and highly paid escorts to that disgusting, deathly stench. I hope I never smoke again. I recommend that you quit, because I can guarantee you that your co-workers at Arby's hate the smell of you. Ever wonder why you've never gotten that assistant manager position? Yeah, it might be because you smell like a orphanage fire. Get yourself cleaned up.

Ha! Shows what you know. I'm unemployed!


...Oh, right.

It's the sun, they make a sport out of playing gotcha with public employees. Because everybody who works for a public sector union is a lazy and incompetent criminal who does nothing but take money out of YOUR wallet. Vote Ford!

Mugato: Shoot the hostage.

I lol'd...bigtime.

Trapper439: spentmiles: Having quit smoking two weeks ago, I'll talk loudly so that you may hear me from way up on my pillar. Long story short, I had a huge sales meeting yesterday, so I had to get a haircut the night prior. I make enough money to enjoy the best services, which is why I always go to Great Clips. When the professional stylist began cutting my hair, I knew immediately from the stink of her hands and breath that she was a cigarette smoker. I don't know how long before my cut she smoked, but she stunk like a Rwandan trash fire. I can't believe that I used to subject my clients and highly paid escorts to that disgusting, deathly stench. I hope I never smoke again. I recommend that you quit, because I can guarantee you that your co-workers at Arby's hate the smell of you. Ever wonder why you've never gotten that assistant manager position? Yeah, it might be because you smell like a orphanage fire. Get yourself cleaned up.

Do you like Phil Collins? I've been a big Genesis fan ever since the release of their 1980 album, Duke. Before that, I really didn't understand any of their work. Too artsy, too intellectual. It was on Duke where Phil Collins' presence became more apparent. I think Invisible Touch was the group's undisputed masterpiece. It's an epic meditation on intangibility. At the same time, it deepens and enriches the meaning of the preceding three albums. Christy, take off your robe. Listen to the brilliant ensemble playing of Banks, Collins and Rutherford. You can practically hear every nuance of every instrument. Sabrina, remove your dress. In terms of lyrical craftsmanship, the sheer songwriting, this album hits a new peak of professionalism. Sabrina, why don't you, uh, dance a little. Take the lyrics to Land of Confusion. In this song, Phil Collins addresses the problems of abusive political authority. In Too Deep is the most moving pop song of the 1980s, about monogamy and commitment. The song is extremely uplifting. Their lyrics are as positive and affi ...

I'm familiar with all of Phil's work, though I wish I wasn't. He lived up the street from me when he was a young man. I was twenty-five, working at a cannery, wandering aimlessly, drinking pint after pint every night to put myself to sleep. Well, I'm not proud to say this, but one drunken night, a young Phil Collins seduced me in the shed behind his parent's house. When it was over, I ran down to the sea and sat in the cold water for hours, trying to wash the fingerprints from the scene of the crime, my asshole. Every time I'd see him riding his bike after that, he'd spread his index and middle fingers and then flick his tongue at the crux where they met. I wasn't sure what it meant but it was horrifying.

Then the guy has the tenacity to write "In the Air Tonight." Listening to the lyrics just about drove me mad because he'd put himself in the place of victim and me in the place of predator. I bought tickets to one of his live shows, front row, with the sole purpose of confronting him. I was carjacked on the way to the arena, so I arrived late. When Phil looked down into the crowd and saw me, he gave a wry smile and then launched into that horrific, tormenting rock ballad. HOLD ON. Christ, I can still hear him shouting that at me as he plowed me from behind and I strained to keep hold of the lawnmower's handle. I couldn't take it anymore and had a breakdown.

Phil ordered his security thugs to forcibly remove me. They beat me near half dead before tossing me unconscious in the parking lot. When I came to, I learned that he'd cooked up this story about spotting his molester in the crowd and having him arrested. More good publicity for Phil; pain and anguish for me.

I would kill that bastard if I could.

Trapper439: Do you like Phil Collins? I've been a big Genesis fan ever since the release of their 1980 album, Duke. Before that, I really didn't understand any of their work. Too artsy, too intellectual.

Tell me about Huey Lewis and the News.

according to teh wiki, the Sam McBride is in fact a Diesel powered vessel.
wiki here

They bought their tickets, they knew the risks.
I say, "Let 'em die".

wow, what a lame world we have created...

ermahgerd,smerkerz.

I'll bet he flipped the butt nonchalantly into the water when he was finished, so he's a dirty litterer, too.

/quit 4 years
//the smell of cigarette smoke is now disgusting to me
///could've cared less that this guy was smoking on the boat

D) Push the offender overboard.

spentmiles: The man in that article made me so outraged that my head started shaking. Then my nose started bleeding. Then quarters began shooting out of the payphone beside me. Then the Delta check-in station caught on fire. Then the planes on the runway began exploding. Then the entire city went up it flames.

IT'S HAPPENING AGAIN!

Jesus Christ!

What was you reaction when your daughter married Tom Green?

JustHereForThePics: spentmiles: The man in that article made me so outraged that my head started shaking. Then my nose started bleeding. Then quarters began shooting out of the payphone beside me. Then the Delta check-in station caught on fire. Then the planes on the runway began exploding. Then the entire city went up it flames.

IT'S HAPPENING AGAIN!

Jesus Christ!

What was you reaction when your daughter married Tom Green?

I told her she must be half nuts.

gravebayne2: A mother, her friend and two children were left fuming on a Toronto ferry when a crewman lit up and filled the air with cigarette smoke.

FILLED ALL THE AIR IN EXISTENCE WITH SMOKE!

seriously the dude is smoking outside just chilling. sometimes people complain just to start trouble. too bad it isn't like the olden days where you could just tell them to shut up or you'd make em walk the plank...or something.

Subby's overreaction aside, smokers might think that smoke magically and mysteriously disappears when you're outside but it doesn't. It's not "complaining just to start trouble" when it does, indeed, annoy the fark out of us who dislike being around smoke, particularly when you're trapped in a confined area which is supposed to be non-smoking.

I smell law-su-su-sudio!

Muta:

Tell me about Huey Lewis and the News.

Their early work was a little too new wave for my tastes, but when Sports came out in '83, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically.

Jamieboy:

I no longer smoke, don't like people smoking in my house or near me in a restaurant etc,

I quit in 2000, and even that doesn't bother me anymore. Being constantly surrounded by it would start my asthma up again, but an occasional smoker is fine.

Now if we could only do something about all those internal combustion engines...


but I have no problem with anyone smoking out doors.

Outdoors! Where all the smoky CARS are! I'll bet if all the smokers in Lexington were to gather at Centre Point and smoke at the same time it would produce less airway annoyance across the street than all the cars driving by on Main do during that event.


And I hate people who are always on a 24/7 anti smoking campaign.

Agreed. They're worse than missionaries.


Like this guy who regularly waits at the same bus stop as I do and he's always hollering at people about smoking at the bus stop. I can't wait for the day when someone cock punches the prick.

And then blows cigarette smoke in his face.

I wonder whether these anti-smokers walk, run, skateboard or ride bikes everywhere they go. Or do they contribute to air pollution?

sniff sniff I smell EXHAUST. Cough! Cough!

Jamieboy: I was expecting to read about someone molesting a child or throwing people overboard. This woman make a big stink about a guy catching a smoke. What a total c word biatch. "I'd like to ride the ferry again," she said. Well I'd think twice before I did if I were her.

I no longer smoke, don't like people smoking in my house or near me in a restaurant etc, but I have no problem with anyone smoking out doors. And I hate people who are always on a 24/7 anti smoking campaign. Like this guy who regularly waits at the same bus stop as I do and he's always hollering at people about smoking at the bus stop. I can't wait for the day when someone cock punches the prick.

You let me know the bus stop and I'll do it.

pkellmey: Mean Daddy: Imperiling indeed. Nothing more dangerous then second hand smoke subby.

I always thought nuclear weapons were or a kid cleaning a firearm, but maybe not.

Not trying to be the anti-smoking nazi here, but way more people do die from lung cancer each year than nuclear weapons have killed in all of eternity. Children rarely die in firearm accidents. In fact, more children died from respiratory disease in 2009 (the latest year that the CDC's chart goes up to) than from firearm homicides.

/Cleaning a firearm is actually very safe if you're not a total and complete dumbass.

JohnnyC: So she's going to try and get him fired...

because he spurned her advances.

meh

spentmiles: The man in that article made me so outraged that my head started shaking. Then my nose started bleeding. Then quarters began shooting out of the payphone beside me. Then the Delta check-in station caught on fire. Then the planes on the runway began exploding. Then the entire city went up it flames.

IT'S HAPPENING AGAIN!

Man, you used to be awesome...what happened? Stop jabbing, just throw haymakers and wait until you have the strength to throw them.

The fumes off other boats engine is probably going to kill you quicker, lady.

This lady should have tied herself to the anchor.

Seeing this would actually kill her and her kids.

Her friend said she took a smoking crewman's photo on a trip to the islands last year "and wondered why we keep going."

SO it happened last year and nothing...but THIS year!! WHOA!!! look out! Front page story for assault.

PS. your friend keeps going because she gets banged by that dude, that's a post-coital smoke. Which is also why he's not looking at you two.

I don't think "Imperiling" is the correct word, but it is kind of douchy to light up around people in public. On the other hand, if the ferry is big enough, why didn't she just move away?

funzyr: I don't think "Imperiling" is the correct word, but it is kind of douchy to light up around people in public. On the other hand, if the ferry is big enough, why didn't she just move away?

Around people? He wasn't in line on Black Friday to buy some POS Westinghouse TV. He's on the bow with nobody near him other than the person who stalked him to catch this picture.