Yeah, I actually got suspended for starting a petition to have a pupils' smoking room.101Walterton wrote: ↑06 Sep 2018, 3:37pmI remember the school staff room was just a fog.Heston wrote: ↑06 Sep 2018, 3:34pmI tell my daughter that my Doctor used to actually smoke while he was treating me as a child and she doesn't believe me. My main memory as a child is of smoke being everywhere. I still occasionally smoke myself but I'm glad society has put the right measures in place to safeguard people.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑06 Sep 2018, 1:53pmI have a hard time conceiving of a time when smoking anywhere and everywhere—airplanes, college classrooms, movie theatres—was acceptable. One of those cultural shifts that makes past convention wholly foreign.
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We had one it was called the toilets. Used to make the prefects stand outside on guard.Heston wrote: ↑06 Sep 2018, 3:41pmYeah, I actually got suspended for starting a petition to have a pupils' smoking room.101Walterton wrote: ↑06 Sep 2018, 3:37pmI remember the school staff room was just a fog.Heston wrote: ↑06 Sep 2018, 3:34pmI tell my daughter that my Doctor used to actually smoke while he was treating me as a child and she doesn't believe me. My main memory as a child is of smoke being everywhere. I still occasionally smoke myself but I'm glad society has put the right measures in place to safeguard people.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑06 Sep 2018, 1:53pmI have a hard time conceiving of a time when smoking anywhere and everywhere—airplanes, college classrooms, movie theatres—was acceptable. One of those cultural shifts that makes past convention wholly foreign.
I remember once we got to 5th year we worked out that if we just stood in a crowd on the grounds, from a distance they could not see who was and wasn’t smoking and they couldn’t get any closer so just gave up.
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We had the toilets but I wanted a plush room with leather seats, books and a drinks decanter.101Walterton wrote: ↑06 Sep 2018, 3:48pmWe had one it was called the toilets. Used to make the prefects stand outside on guard.Heston wrote: ↑06 Sep 2018, 3:41pmYeah, I actually got suspended for starting a petition to have a pupils' smoking room.101Walterton wrote: ↑06 Sep 2018, 3:37pmI remember the school staff room was just a fog.Heston wrote: ↑06 Sep 2018, 3:34pmI tell my daughter that my Doctor used to actually smoke while he was treating me as a child and she doesn't believe me. My main memory as a child is of smoke being everywhere. I still occasionally smoke myself but I'm glad society has put the right measures in place to safeguard people.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑06 Sep 2018, 1:53pmI have a hard time conceiving of a time when smoking anywhere and everywhere—airplanes, college classrooms, movie theatres—was acceptable. One of those cultural shifts that makes past convention wholly foreign.
I remember once we got to 5th year we worked out that if we just stood in a crowd on the grounds, from a distance they could not see who was and wasn’t smoking and they couldn’t get any closer so just gave up.
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My brother-in-law went to college in the late 60s, early 70s and can remember people drinking bottles of beer during lectures. It wasn't within the rules, mind you, but common enough that most profs didn't raise any objection. Then again, I had a few profs who I know for a fact lectured while loaded because I saw them at the campus pub beforehand. They were all old guys who could hide it well, tho.
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Oh my god, memories of walking by the teacher’s room and it smelling like Denis Leary’s index finger.Heston wrote: ↑06 Sep 2018, 3:51pmWe had the toilets but I wanted a plush room with leather seats, books and a drinks decanter.101Walterton wrote: ↑06 Sep 2018, 3:48pmWe had one it was called the toilets. Used to make the prefects stand outside on guard.Heston wrote: ↑06 Sep 2018, 3:41pmYeah, I actually got suspended for starting a petition to have a pupils' smoking room.101Walterton wrote: ↑06 Sep 2018, 3:37pmI remember the school staff room was just a fog.Heston wrote: ↑06 Sep 2018, 3:34pm
I tell my daughter that my Doctor used to actually smoke while he was treating me as a child and she doesn't believe me. My main memory as a child is of smoke being everywhere. I still occasionally smoke myself but I'm glad society has put the right measures in place to safeguard people.
I remember once we got to 5th year we worked out that if we just stood in a crowd on the grounds, from a distance they could not see who was and wasn’t smoking and they couldn’t get any closer so just gave up.
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Bill Hicks' butthole?Wolter wrote: ↑06 Sep 2018, 5:49pmOh my god, memories of walking by the teacher’s room and it smelling like Denis Leary’s index finger.Heston wrote: ↑06 Sep 2018, 3:51pmWe had the toilets but I wanted a plush room with leather seats, books and a drinks decanter.101Walterton wrote: ↑06 Sep 2018, 3:48pmWe had one it was called the toilets. Used to make the prefects stand outside on guard.
I remember once we got to 5th year we worked out that if we just stood in a crowd on the grounds, from a distance they could not see who was and wasn’t smoking and they couldn’t get any closer so just gave up.
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touché.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑06 Sep 2018, 5:56pmBill Hicks' butthole?Wolter wrote: ↑06 Sep 2018, 5:49pmOh my god, memories of walking by the teacher’s room and it smelling like Denis Leary’s index finger.Heston wrote: ↑06 Sep 2018, 3:51pmWe had the toilets but I wanted a plush room with leather seats, books and a drinks decanter.101Walterton wrote: ↑06 Sep 2018, 3:48pmWe had one it was called the toilets. Used to make the prefects stand outside on guard.
I remember once we got to 5th year we worked out that if we just stood in a crowd on the grounds, from a distance they could not see who was and wasn’t smoking and they couldn’t get any closer so just gave up.
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We had a smoking "lounge" (it was a cordoned off area outside) at my high school in Denver.Wolter wrote: ↑06 Sep 2018, 5:49pmOh my god, memories of walking by the teacher’s room and it smelling like Denis Leary’s index finger.Heston wrote: ↑06 Sep 2018, 3:51pmWe had the toilets but I wanted a plush room with leather seats, books and a drinks decanter.101Walterton wrote: ↑06 Sep 2018, 3:48pmWe had one it was called the toilets. Used to make the prefects stand outside on guard.
I remember once we got to 5th year we worked out that if we just stood in a crowd on the grounds, from a distance they could not see who was and wasn’t smoking and they couldn’t get any closer so just gave up.
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They closed those a few years before I got to HS, but there was a utility shed that everyone smoked behind. It was an obvious unwritten rule that the teachers turned a blind eye because no one I knew ever got busted there.JennyB wrote: ↑07 Sep 2018, 9:25amWe had a smoking "lounge" (it was a cordoned off area outside) at my high school in Denver.Wolter wrote: ↑06 Sep 2018, 5:49pmOh my god, memories of walking by the teacher’s room and it smelling like Denis Leary’s index finger.Heston wrote: ↑06 Sep 2018, 3:51pmWe had the toilets but I wanted a plush room with leather seats, books and a drinks decanter.101Walterton wrote: ↑06 Sep 2018, 3:48pmWe had one it was called the toilets. Used to make the prefects stand outside on guard.
I remember once we got to 5th year we worked out that if we just stood in a crowd on the grounds, from a distance they could not see who was and wasn’t smoking and they couldn’t get any closer so just gave up.
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Same thing at my junior high. Just outside the block of the school and in an alley facing the track and field oval, there was a garage that the smoking kids would use. It also doubled as the place for after-school fights. No idea who lived in that house but they either didn't give a shit or feared the kids who hung out there. In high school, the smokers just hung out at one of the back doors of the school (again, teachers just left them alone, mostly because they were regarded as a lost cause overall). Even tho I didn't smoke, my punk fandom granted me status to hang out with them.Wolter wrote: ↑07 Sep 2018, 9:39amThey closed those a few years before I got to HS, but there was a utility shed that everyone smoked behind. It was an obvious unwritten rule that the teachers turned a blind eye because no one I knew ever got busted there.JennyB wrote: ↑07 Sep 2018, 9:25amWe had a smoking "lounge" (it was a cordoned off area outside) at my high school in Denver.Wolter wrote: ↑06 Sep 2018, 5:49pmOh my god, memories of walking by the teacher’s room and it smelling like Denis Leary’s index finger.Heston wrote: ↑06 Sep 2018, 3:51pmWe had the toilets but I wanted a plush room with leather seats, books and a drinks decanter.101Walterton wrote: ↑06 Sep 2018, 3:48pm
We had one it was called the toilets. Used to make the prefects stand outside on guard.
I remember once we got to 5th year we worked out that if we just stood in a crowd on the grounds, from a distance they could not see who was and wasn’t smoking and they couldn’t get any closer so just gave up.
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My high school had a run down old theater the back stage of which could be accessed through a network of tiny hallways off of the Arts wing. We had a card table, ashtrays, and some comfy desk chairs. Omar and Ballero were two metalhead guys who operated their weed business out of there. It was a positive situation all around.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑07 Sep 2018, 10:10amSame thing at my junior high. Just outside the block of the school and in an alley facing the track and field oval, there was a garage that the smoking kids would use. It also doubled as the place for after-school fights. No idea who lived in that house but they either didn't give a shit or feared the kids who hung out there. In high school, the smokers just hung out at one of the back doors of the school (again, teachers just left them alone, mostly because they were regarded as a lost cause overall). Even tho I didn't smoke, my punk fandom granted me status to hang out with them.Wolter wrote: ↑07 Sep 2018, 9:39amThey closed those a few years before I got to HS, but there was a utility shed that everyone smoked behind. It was an obvious unwritten rule that the teachers turned a blind eye because no one I knew ever got busted there.
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When I was in college - they had this large lounge on the upper floor of the union that was set aside as the "smoker's" lounge. You could sit up there and puff away for hours while you worked. I've been back several times since I graduated (which was in 2002) and the whole area has been gutted and redone and now you can't smoke anywhere near the buildings. Guess I still find it a little nuts that even in the late 90's - it was considered okay to have large scale indoor smoking at a state college campus. They even had a little convenience store in the union where you could buy a pack of smokes and whatever else you wanted.
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When I was in high school - you could smoke - just not on school grounds. There was a sidewalk where we would all congregate. Technically, I think you had to be 18 - but I never recall anyone coming out to check.
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Oh yeah. I didn’t smoke then, but the punks were always there.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑07 Sep 2018, 10:10amSame thing at my junior high. Just outside the block of the school and in an alley facing the track and field oval, there was a garage that the smoking kids would use. It also doubled as the place for after-school fights. No idea who lived in that house but they either didn't give a shit or feared the kids who hung out there. In high school, the smokers just hung out at one of the back doors of the school (again, teachers just left them alone, mostly because they were regarded as a lost cause overall). Even tho I didn't smoke, my punk fandom granted me status to hang out with them.Wolter wrote: ↑07 Sep 2018, 9:39amThey closed those a few years before I got to HS, but there was a utility shed that everyone smoked behind. It was an obvious unwritten rule that the teachers turned a blind eye because no one I knew ever got busted there.
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It was always the punks, metal heads, and art students.Wolter wrote: ↑07 Sep 2018, 11:43amOh yeah. I didn’t smoke then, but the punks were always there.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑07 Sep 2018, 10:10amSame thing at my junior high. Just outside the block of the school and in an alley facing the track and field oval, there was a garage that the smoking kids would use. It also doubled as the place for after-school fights. No idea who lived in that house but they either didn't give a shit or feared the kids who hung out there. In high school, the smokers just hung out at one of the back doors of the school (again, teachers just left them alone, mostly because they were regarded as a lost cause overall). Even tho I didn't smoke, my punk fandom granted me status to hang out with them.
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