Cigarette Butts

Complaints Corner
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I admit it, I'm sniggering.

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I suggest you ask Salsa or Swiss Cheddar whether they have ever said to a chick, "Hey baby can I put my coin in your purse".

If they have not tried it, then I doubt it is sexual slang.

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Or perhaps: 'my, that's a big coin purse you have....'

Barbra.

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Would you open your purse for me if I showed you a big note?

Slightly prostituty.

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that would work yes, also if somebody were considered very brave.

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My then 4 year old daughter once picked up a syringe complete with blood stained needle in a Basel park, now that wasn't nice.

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OK. I never considered myself to be naive. A lesson learned today then.

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Termite, that is disgusting. I am not naive enough to think that there aren't any IV drug users, but surely a needle box could be provided. We don't go to many public parks, apart from Cham, so I don't have any experience of that.Thank goodness. When we lived in Bangkok, our daughter was fascinated by the many condoms we would see. She thought they were stranded jellyfish.

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They do provide needle boxes but very few use them. I don't know why really, fear of getting caught with a used needle?

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There are public facilities where addicts can inject drugs in a hygienic environment and properly dispose of syringes in some of the major Swiss cities. But usually they are far away from playgrounds...

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My mum has this one:

http://travel.outdoorshop.ch/?action...638&id_cat=351

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Thanks for that, but 'mine' (and half of the tourists in Andalucia) had one that you squeezed at the top and flicked into. It was about 10cm square and had metal inside the top bit so that it snapped shut.Sorry for taking this completely off topic.

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Success stories of Smoking and Chewing Gum Bans, in Singapore.

Smokers' nightmare

1. Smoking is banned from all public buildings (inside and sometimes surrounding areas)

2. You cannot smoke while in a queue (eg: taxi queue)

3. You cannot throw cig butts anywhere but a cig-bin (on top of rubbish bin)

4. You cannot spit (fine is something like 200chf)

5. You cannot smoke in airport or train stations or bus stations (even open air ones)

6. No smoking while driving (same as handphone driving)

7. No smoking while riding bicycle or motorcycle (same as driving)

8. Smoking is allowed after sex, but only between consenting adults above 16 years old

9. Gay sex are outlawed, fine or jail sentence

10. Results: Smokers numbers are becoming dinosaurs numbers (extinct)

Chewing gum ban

1. You cannot chew gum in trains (considered eating, fine 5000chf)

2. You cannot sell or resell chewing gum and cannot import chewing gum (although there is no real law against POSSESSING chewing gum, you just cannot chew it)

3. You can buy chewing gum, only from a doctor or dentist on prescription

4. Chewing gum cleanups cost the govt millions per year (plus it is digusting habit, said the Lee family)

5. First thing they announce when you touch down in Singapore is no longer "death for drugs", it is "got chewing gum?".

6. You cannot be a millionairre if you bring 1 suitcase full of Wrigleys to Singapore.

Singapore is an unique "democratic" mixed with autocratic society. It is successful because the govt uses a mix of eastern and western governance approach. They can mete out bans in 1 week and the people just follow.

Don't try this at home...

HAT

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I know this sounds like a rather weird suggestion, but have you ever considered going to a cemetery? Some are beautifully laid out with benches where you could relax and read. And of course they are kept immaculately clean. There will be no crying children and the "residents" are unlikely to bother you too much....

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Ha, the Zürcher beat you to it:

Der Friedhof Sihlfeld, als eine der größten zusammenhängenden Grünflächen der Stadt wird von vielen Anwohnern als Naherholungsgebiet genutzt.

http://www.staedte-reisen.de/zuerich...ing/friedhoefe

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Actually Friedhof Sihlfeld is the biggest park in the city!

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Complete with barbecues and topless sunbathing?

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In Baden there is a cemetery that is no longer used actively and many people use it for relaxing as well. Quiet, no dog poo, no kids and well maintained...what better place to have a picnic? Initially I thought it would be quite morbid, but funnily enough it isn't...

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I'm really disappointed in your failure to respond to the poster who suggested an on/off switch for children.

Perhaps there should be a law that requires installation of said switch at birth on all children who have the potential of crying, screeching, or wailing during the first six years of life.

Also we should mandate that all smokers do so only in specific areas within cemeterys. The residents would not mind the smoke or butts. This would have the obvious added advantage of less transport time and costs when the smokers expires from their habit. Perhaps we could put parks in a corner of the cemetery to avoid the noise of the kinder from polluting the ears of us who want a utopian world.

I'm sure there are other extremes we can go to on these subjects as well as others that everyone likes to adopt the 'holier than thou' attitude on. Even I have posted a few.

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Actually it is quite amazing that people just throw those cigarette's butts all over the platforms like no one's business and then just early in the morning someone from cleaning department has to collect them all one by one... It is called job creation on demand!