Comments on: Smoking a cigarette is like talking to your mother-in-law because…

By: RK

RK — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:51:50 +0000

James Said: People who throw insults at others that smoke are no better than people who throw insults at people of different color or religion. I know this will be a difficult concept for most to understand or accept so let me make it simple. Discrimination is discrimination. How would you feel if, all of a sudden, people started hating people who ate pasta? Same thing folks. Think about it. Self rightenouess shoule have passed with the middle ages, yet it lingers on, promoted by people who feel themselves superior to anyone with habbits or beliefs, or color, or religion, or economic status, etc. they dislike or are afraid of. I expect that some of you will cry “this is different”, but sadly it is not. This is the same stuff that started WWII and sent millions to the gas chamber. Don’t be bigots. Please

Often the most insecure ones discriminate the most James!!!

By: Ade Shokoya

Ade Shokoya — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 15:36:39 +0000

Smoking a cigarette is like talking to your mother in law because…if you don’t show them respect, one day they just might kill you.

http://www.itsanentrepreneursworld.com/

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 15:00:42 +0000

When both are close to you, Dont stay at home.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:21:23 +0000

Smoking and MIL- its all about the experience- some have it good others not so good; also in the beginning the experience is good bt as we do more of either, it can become bad or improve the way we look at the cigarette or MIL…it can also be the case of using one to tide over the other…experience and perception..no comparability

By: Batoog

Batoog — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 10:20:24 +0000

Well..quite interesting article…
Here u go::
High oil prices are going on a diet because:Biofuels are IN.
Buying a car is like going to a circus because:Oils are going on Diet
Going for a batman movie is like going to office because: Its as complex as our assignments and Boss.
A job is like swimming pool because: now filling it with water depends on weather forecast.
How is motivating a sales team like plying with a 5 year old child because: Always have to offer lollipops.
Life is like a curry puff because: Tasty wen hot just like wonderful wen young wid a lot of healthy, unhealthy, desired and undesired stuff.
A curry puff is like a dustbin because: Is filled wid sumthing..
A dustbin is like a cow because: Does swallow whatever gets..n wont react also…
Cow is like alien because: I dont know..

By: Tapas

Tapas — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 06:42:40 +0000

It all depends on the brand of Smoking and Mother-in-Law u indulge with. Be creative how you drive the smoke and Mother-i-nlaw out of your mind

By: Narendra

Narendra — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 22:52:43 +0000

cigratte & Mother in law….both never leaves you..untill u die..

By: Shalu Wasu

Shalu Wasu — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 15:43:06 +0000

Right Abdul, advertising would perhaps not exist without metaphors!… The same metaphors that sell stuff worth billions can help in everyday life as well. being able to make connections between unrelated things is a great skill that never fails in generating new ideas

By: sports bettor

sports bettor — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 19:45:22 +0000

They are both addictive (What?!?!?)
I enjoy doing both (Huh?!?!)
I have an oral fixation (Gross?!?!)

By: Abdul Sattar Khan

Abdul Sattar Khan — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 18:52:51 +0000

I guess the creativity stuff that Shalu is alluding here using metaphors, seems to be what the folks in marketing/advertising employ to put forward their ideas and communicate effectively.

Right author? You need to throw some light on this.

By: saim

saim — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:47:15 +0000

Smoking/MOther in law ——-
Xactly Both are difficult to quit/ Staying away from both is equally difficultbut its all depends on u.

By: Khan Jahangir

Khan Jahangir — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 13:43:02 +0000

I am sorry but I was not able to figure out any resemblance from the article and your posed question?

What I understand from the story is about creativity with physical materials. Creativity of thoughts with some irrelavant statements won’t beget creativity, instead arguments and counter arguments.

This might help small kids to improve their grammar or sentence writing or vocabulary, but maybe not us.

Sorry.

By: Abdul Sattar Khan

Abdul Sattar Khan — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 09:48:29 +0000

No comments as I neither smoke (thankfully) nor have a mother-in-law (regrettably). May her soul rest in peace.

By: Spencer

Spencer — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 07:23:25 +0000

I sense this chat’s gone off line, I enjoy smoking and conversations with my wife’s mum, but I rarely admit either – does that make me a dumb-ass Dom? Like your site and thoughts Shalu, thanks.

By: James

James — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 02:58:07 +0000

People who throw insults at others that smoke are no better than people who throw insults at people of different color or religion. I know this will be a difficult concept for most to understand or accept so let me make it simple. Discrimination is discrimination. How would you feel if, all of a sudden, people started hating people who ate pasta? Same thing folks. Think about it. Self rightenouess shoule have passed with the middle ages, yet it lingers on, promoted by people who feel themselves superior to anyone with habbits or beliefs, or color, or religion, or economic status, etc. they dislike or are afraid of. I expect that some of you will cry “this is different”, but sadly it is not. This is the same stuff that started WWII and sent millions to the gas chamber. Don’t be bigots. Please

By: Dominic Connor

Dominic Connor — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:25:23 +0000

Mothers in law are a side effect of evolution.
Older women helped with childcare, human children are dependant longer than the entire life of most other mammals. (apologies to anyone educated in the USA for using the “E” word.

On the other hand, smoking is a cause of evolution.
Children of smokersare vastly more likely to die from a variety of illnesses and a number are burned to death becsuse the dumb fucks can’t be bothered to put them out.

Almost all cot-deaths occur because parents let smokers into their homes, there are almost no cot deaths without a household member who lacks the brainpower to realisethat his inability to understand complex biological terms like “Smoking Kills” on packets of cigarettes hurts others.

Almost all those who die from drug abuse started as smokers of tobacco. Typically these are younger people who have yet to breed.

There is also strong autocorrelation in addiction to stupidity.
Partly that is children copying dumb parents, and of course intelligence itself has a strong genetic component.

Killing your children (or those of people related to you) is of course an unpleasant and distasteful way of improving the gene pool.

By: Shalu Wasu

Shalu Wasu — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:34:20 +0000

Cheers for Caroline’s Mom in law

By: Solilo

Solilo — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 10:13:33 +0000

nonstop puffing/listening to bickering increases your BP/heart rate and reduces your life span.

By: Caroline

Caroline — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:15:41 +0000

It leaves you feeling relieved and rejuvenated!!!

By: Dr. Neelam Tikkha

Dr. Neelam Tikkha — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 12:42:09 +0000

Life is like a curry puff – loks attractive from outside but carries a lot of junk too

By: Mukund

Mukund — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 09:21:31 +0000

Both of them intensify your every thing in terms of all life & relations.

By: Wanda Kubat-Nerdin

Wanda Kubat-Nerdin — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:46:36 +0000

I was not sure where you were going with this when I first read the title…very clever!

By: Mel

Mel — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:24:39 +0000

… each one can leave a bad taste in your mouth.

By: Ceddars

Ceddars — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 08:38:11 +0000

The archeology tale is cheesy and unscientific, cut it off, it makes you sound like a cheap motivational consultant.

No trolling intended

By: prasen

prasen — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 07:52:57 +0000

There’s fire at the other end!

By: cosimo

cosimo — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 07:52:30 +0000

they both kill you (slowly)

By: john

john — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:08:15 +0000

you know nothing good will come out of it, but still you do it smiling!

By: Tina

Tina — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 08:17:22 +0000

…both are injurious to health!

By: sharad

sharad — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 07:04:31 +0000

Smoking/MOther in law ——-
1) Because we hate doing both , but we have to do it.
2) Both are difficult to quit/ Staying away from both is equally difficult.
3) Trashing the cig and trashing the talk are also very similar.

wow—there really is lot of similarity.