$450 FINE FOR THE WRONG NO SMOKING SIGN. MOONBATS AT WORK

 

1. My first rule of compliance with idiotic regulations? Ignore them.

   Then let the @sshole into your pub when they try to enforce stupid regulations (is that redundant?)

   Speak loudly and clearly, and identify the idiot regulators by name, just so your clientele can hear. This is IMPORTANT!

   Do NOT, under any circumstance, grant a ‘private audience’ to these dregs of society. This lady has been in business for several years. Until some regulator decided she wasn’t regulated enough, and therefore imposed more regulations, which she was trying to conform with until the regulated notices arrived (whereupon I’m certain that they didn’t arrive via regulated routes.)

   I’m willing to bet that your ‘clientele’ will fix the problem. If I was one of her ‘clientele’, I’d gather a few ‘mates and fix the regulator forthwith. Hope the NHS has decent dental service. I daresay the ‘regulator’ would require dental service, at least.

   I don’t know about you, but it’s my pub (private property) and I should decide if my pub is smoking or non-smoking.

   Unintended consequences: Ohio passed a ‘non-smoking’ amendment a few years ago. There’s a push to repeal it, on private property grounds! Seems that the State has lost lots of revenue that was generated in the bars. Smoking, drinking, high revenue. The supposed reason for the ban was ‘to protect the employees’ from the hazards of second-hand smoke. I think the public, at least in Ohio, has realized that you are not forced to work in a bar/pub. If you fear the alleged hazards of second-hand smoke, you are free to pursue another line of work.

   Just for the record, I voted against that amendment. Bars/pubs, whatever, are private property. No one forces you to frequent them. As a customer, if you don’t like smoke, don’t go there. As an employee, if you don’t like smoke, seek other employment.

   Posted by Christopher       08/01/2011  at  09:01 AM  



2. All what Christopher wrote, and more. The pub landlady was trying to comply with regs by posting her own signs while the official ones were on order. Don’t fine her for that you idiots, give her a gold star.

   I’d say there is at least 1 utterly useless inspector in the UK government. Time for a revolution.

   Posted by Drew458       08/01/2011  at  11:34 AM  



3. PA did the same.. There is nothing like being told what to do in your own place of business. There was no vote, just the POWERS THAT BE decided this was healthier for all. A lot of places tried to make an offer to placate the POWERS THAT BE by segregating the place (making 2 separate bars/restaurants), but were slapped down like the silly billies they were. After all, who knows your business better than THE STATE?
   They asked for it to be put on the ballot, but THE STATE in it’s infinite wisdom decided that the matter was settled.
   ¡Viva la Revolución!

   Posted by Doctor DETH       08/01/2011  at  07:59 PM  



4. Yeah Christopher - but Ohioans got them back - Now you can’t smoke but you can CARRY!

   So, very, very stupid here - where you can drive across the state line so damn easy, peasy. Reminds me of a little bash one of my hubby’s classes gave last summer after the class ended - in KY - we sat all night long, drinking & smoking (for those that do) and looking at the moronic state that won’t allow such nonsense any more [former Gov Strickland actually said on our AM talk radio program, that he wanted to ban smoking in OH - and he has to wonder why he lost his re-election bid?!?]

   But what does that all matter now, if the crapweasels in the Senate follow suit - We The People won’t have the jobs and/or money to buy cigs or go to bars ever again.

   So stupid - ‘we’ll fix it when we get control’ - I told my Rep if he voted for it - I’d never vote R again. Since I vowed never to vote D (stupidly voted for Levin when I was a po’d MI resident living overseas) - I will be very limited in how I vote in the future. But since we won’t be able to afford the gas to go vote - what the heck does it matter at all.

   I think that the first cool day, I’ll go clear the garden beds and plant some food - so we can eat for a while at least.

   Posted by wardmama4       08/02/2011  at  07:40 AM  



5. wardmama, you refer to concealed carry, I assume. You need a license for that. It’s always been perfectly legal to carry openly. That is still true.

   More important, IMHO, is that Ohio passed the Castle doctrine. And a Democrat governor signed it! Granted, the Republican Assembly probably could have overridden a veto. But I have to give the former governor credit: Ted Strickland does seem to believe in the 2nd Amendment. While he didn’t support the legislation, he also didn’t oppose it.

   Posted by Christopher       08/02/2011  at  09:52 AM  

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