Cogs can think.

My heartfelt congratulations as well as my best wishes to Prince Willem-Alexander en Princess Maxima with their 5 year wedding anniversary.

What everone already knew, is now official. The warming of the climate is “unequivocal”, and is caused by greenhouse gasses brought into the atmosphere by mankind (with a >90% certainty).

Now, can a politician with a *shock gasp horror* vision please stand up? Someone who is willing to say “within twenty years our entire infrastucure will be adapted to work with hydrogen?” Someone who will fight for that vision?

Because you know, I live 15km from the coast, 1.2 metres below sealevel. And I can’t swim.

I just saw on the news that the French just banned smoking from public spaces and workplaces. We Dutch did that a few years ago, and it never made any form fo sense to me.

You know, these days, you’d almost start smoking just to piss off all the anti smoking people. I mean, really.

Anyway, where I work, we had a really good system when it came to smoking: the smokers just took their break after the non-smokers, with the rule that the outside door and the windows were open. For decades, this system worked just fine, nobodoy really complained. And it was like this in many company cantines. Banning smoking or other measures should be taken by the companies themselves. The cantine at my job is the property of the owners of the shop where I work; it is their responsibility to take care of the smoking issue, not the government’s.

A very disturbing consequence of this ban is that even old men and women in elderly homes were forced to quit smoking (it’s a workplace alright for nurses); there were numerous stories of 90 year old men and women who had to give up one of their last pleasures in life, just because some suits up in The Hague had decided so. I was outraged by this.

These people served our country for almost a century, and this is how you treat them?

The next step the government wants to take is banning smoking from restaurants, pubs, and the likes. This pisses me off even more; the smell of cigarettes is a smell which belongs in a pub, it adds to the atmosphere of the pub. Removing that, and you’d come home with fresh smelling clothes. Why on earth would you want that?

That smell reminds you of the great evening you had.

Anti-smoking people should stop their whining and just accept that there are people who enjoy a smoke in this world. Anti-smoking people should worry about the things that are really a danger to the world: fossil fuels, intolerance, hunger, war, Paris Hilton.

It’s kind of odd to see anti-smoking people having no problems breathing the highly toxic fumes of cars, yet have a problem when someone 10 metres away lights up a cigarette.

Do I smoke? No.