Alex Callinicos/SWP vs Laurie Penny/New Statesman Facebook handbags

[Firky]

They're worse than I remember.

 

[Orang Utan]

My parents used to smoke unfiltered gauloises cos they are Francophile ponces

 

[weepiper]

This is my Granpa

No idea what kind of fag it is because by the time I knew him he smoked a pipe.

 

[killer b]

your gramps is so cool.

 

[el-ahrairah]

When I was at school some people would pick up discarded regal and B&H fag packs to put lambert and butler in. If you smoked L&B's you were a scummer.

Anyone remember the L&B adverts and how they tried to get rid of that PFWC image by having a bloke on a bilboard getting his L&B sparked up by a butler?

i remember them. i smoked L&Bs at school, and indeed until my early 20s (unless i was too poor, in which case it was baccy). most kids smoked B&H, but lamberts were cheaper. my mate Jim, in an effort to be classy, smoked Embassy Number Ones because he thought they were posh.

 

[Firky]

I smoked Regal until they changed the blend and started smoking B&H. I later started smoking rollies and any bootleg baccy. Then I ended up only smoking the holy toke and now I don't smoke at all (apart from the occasional blunt). Fascinating.

I wonder how Laurie got on this evening with her lecture on Radical Journalism?

 

[Orang Utan]

Never understood how people preferred rollies over fags. So stinky

 

[weepiper]

Never understood how people preferred rollies over fags. So stinky

They're cheaper and they go out if you put them down rather than burning away. This can be useful

 

[DaveCinzano]

This is my Granpa

No idea what kind of fag it is because by the time I knew him he smoked a pipe.

Bit old to be mucking around in the kiddies' playground

 

[Bakunin]

My parents used to smoke unfiltered gauloises cos they are Francophile ponces

OI!

I'll probably end up on those for the best part of two weeks this coming June. Although I will have the defence of actually being in France.

 

[Orang Utan]

They're cheaper and they go out if you put them down rather than burning away. This can be useful

But they taste and smell shite, are hard to make and don't produce that lovely plume of smoke out of one's lungs like a proper fag

 

[weepiper]

hard to make

haddaway and shite man.

 

[Firky]

I wouldn't post that pic up, weeps, it'll end up in an article. "I sat with this man on the girder".

 

[Orang Utan]

haddaway and shite man.

Well I've never made a satisfactory one

 

[FridgeMagnet]

i remember them. i smoked L&Bs at school, and indeed until my early 20s (unless i was too poor, in which case it was baccy). most kids smoked B&H, but lamberts were cheaper. my mate Jim, in an effort to be classy, smoked Embassy Number Ones because he thought they were posh.

L&B are quite pricey now iirc, which I find funny - not "premium fag" level, but above the cheap stuff. Once they've got people on to a brand, they raise the prices to exploit those who have brand loyalty, and then launch a new line of budget fags.

 

[Orang Utan]

 

[Blagsta]

Never understood how people preferred rollies over fags. So stinky

They taste better.

 

[el-ahrairah]

L&B are quite pricey now iirc, which I find funny - not "premium fag" level, but above the cheap stuff. Once they've got people on to a brand, they raise the prices to exploit those who have brand loyalty, and then launch a new line of budget fags.

i hope they taste better. i' surprised i don't have lung cancerr already. my mate smoked l&b gold until he gave up. if you turned one upside down all the baccy fell out.

 

[Orang Utan]

Nah, they taste too sweet and not smoky enough

 

[el-ahrairah]

also, OU is wrong on this.

 

[DotCommunist]

What? A ponce's fag.

now there's a proper proley fag

Commonly known as 'lambert and desperate' amongst the playground snout-snobs.

 

[DotCommunist]

Well I've never made a satisfactory one

This points to a moral failure on your part and says nothing about roll ups.

I'm an Amber Chief man myself, you get a real lungbuster for the price-per-fag of 30p

 

[imposs1904]

This is my Granpa

No idea what kind of fag it is because by the time I knew him he smoked a pipe.

whatever happened to Joboxers? They were good.

 

[Steel Icarus]

with a packet of these for Christmas

Ha! I used to get a packet of these every New Year's Eve. But every cunt wanted one, like, so I stopped.

Rest of the time it was Drum or Samson baccy off the docks.

 

[butchersapron]

Gold label next. Lady brew.

 

[Bakunin]

Ha! I used to get a packet of these every New Year's Eve. But every cunt wanted one, like, so I stopped.

That's why I started on the Camels. I didn't mind people poncing my B&H until they started taking them without even asking so I started on unfiltered Camels instead.

Then, out of the corner of my eye, I'd notice hands come near the pack and then scuttle away as if to say:

'I'll wait until TOMORROW to get lung cancer, thank you...'

 

[Steel Icarus]

I rarely smoked tailor-mades, made me feel awful in the morning. Mind you when I did, e.g. when I'd gone out and run out of baccy I'd have Marlboros and although the smoke was a lovely grey-blue colour they made my throat swell up the next day.

I'm really glad I stopped, though. Not a single fag for over 2 years, now.

 

[weepiper]

I'm really glad I stopped, though. Not a single fag for over 2 years, now.

three months for me. The Sobranies and Benny Hennies were my Nan btw, I used to smoke Lambert and Butler menthols.

 

[equationgirl]

Che Guevara says

A smoke in times of rest is a great companion to the solitary soldier.

 

[Steel Icarus]

three months for me. The Sobranies and Benny Hennies were my Nan btw, I used to smoke Lambert and Butler menthols.

Ah, gotcha. Well, well done. The gaps between me really fancying a fag are up to about every couple of months, now.

So, Penny - is the rollies thing a pose, or what?