5 Apr 2015

A Koan for the weekend


What is the difference between watching sports and doing sports?

 

1 Apr 2015

And now again my favourite subject



88 reasons not to smoke / by Horst D. Lindenau
Please pick 10 of these, note the no’s and come back to me with the result and we go from there.

1. Smoking is stupid.
2. Smoking makes you stupid.
3. Smoking is expensive.
4. Smoking stinks.
5. Smoking harms the environment.
6. Smoking makes you lonely.
7. Smoking shortens the healthy life.
8. Smoking is out.
9. Smoking causes malformations.
10. Smoking makes you impotent.
11. Smoking is antisocial.
12. Smoking makes you sick.
13. Smoking is an addiction.
14. Smoking is the biggest indoor pollution.
15. Smoking is a sign of character weakness.
16. Smoking is performance-reducing.
17. Smoking blinds you.
18. Smoking reduces work performance.
19. Smoking causes accidents.
20. Smoking causes fires.
21. Smoking contaminates/pollutes the environment.
22. Smoking causes deforestation of rain forests.
23. Smoking exploits the 3rd world.
24. Smoking harms the welfare state.
25. Smoking causes high overhead costs.
26. Smoking reduces chances of healing in diseases.
27. Smoking complicates operations.
28. Smoking damages the circulation.
29. Smoking promotes heart attack risk.
30. Smoking leads to early disability.
31. Smoking causes increased incapacity to work.
32. Smoking causes unnecessary costs in businesses.
33. Smoking is just disgusting.
34. Smoking is always an entry-level drug to other drugs.
35. Smoking brings us much corruption in politics.
36. Smoking is absolutely superfluous.
37. Smoking is based on a myriad of lies.
38. Smoking creates family misery.
39. Smoking causes higher energy costs.
40. Smoking is based on a clever advertising campaign.
41. Smoking does not make you slim.
42. Smoking tips the health system.
43. Smoking damages the gastric mucous.
44. Smoking makes ugly.
45. Smoking is intolerant.
46. ​​Smoking is childish.
47. Smoking is toxic.
48. Smoking amputates the legs.
49. Smoking takes you to the cancer ward.
50. Smoking is not available in light version.
51. Smoking is difficult to get rid of.
52. Smoking has nothing to do with emancipation.
53. Smoking does not increase the quality of life.
55. Smoking restricts personal freedom.
56. Smoking is the cause of hunger in the world.
57. Smoking and kissing are bad matches.
58. Smoking causes colds.
59. Smoking makes good food taste worse.
60. Smoking causes lung cancer.
61. Smoking reduces the sense of smell.
62. Smoking is unnatural.
63. Smoking after eating makes absolutely no sense.
64. Smoking after sex is impotence.
65. Smoking does not calm the nerves.
66. Smoking does not relax.
67. Smoking costs time.
68. Smoking is cause of death No.1.
69. Smoking makes you unfit.
70. Smoking and youth role model are mutually exclusive.
71. Smoking causes stress.
72. Smoking is a minority problem.
73. Smoking is a sure-fire business.
74. Smoking is child-hostile.
75. Smoking has nothing to do with adventure and freedom.
76. Smoking makes people lonely.
77. Smoking contaminates drinking water.
78. Smoking makes curtains yellow.
79. Smoking does not create jobs.
80. Smoking is more dangerous for women than for men.
81. Smoking does not look good.
82. Smoking means indicate.
83. Smoking is 100 x more dangerous than asbestos.
84. Smoking is 1000 x more dangerous than BSE.
85. Smoking causes traffic accidents.
86. Smoking causes apartment fires.
87. Smoking is bodily harm.
88. I repeat myself: smoking is just stupid.


Footnote: Only in Germany alone more than 100.000 legs are amputated a year due to smoking * I am well aware that this is NOT a reason for a smoker to stop smoking