Eh, it's not exceptionally important.

It's probably a result of weak demand for the Euro. Draghi's QE will sort it out.

Be a minty cigarrete drug lord.

I'll be the next Walter White.

But it's not just "some people" it's a fuckton of people.

And how much more dangerous do you think the tobacco industry would be if driven underground, out of the remit of state regulation? Taxing cigarettes at ridiculous rates is bad enough, but flat-out banning a specific product is asking for trouble in one form or another.

I mean, come on. The plastic can holders, plastic bags, drugs, needles, bottles--a fuck tonne of things are dumped into the ocean.

If you catch somebody doing it, fine the shit out of them. Don't preclude somebody like me from my vices merely because a lot of people are idiots.

Sounds like you don't love your family. Okay then.

I don't love my family because I won't be coerced?

Yeah, fuck you. Moron.

I just think it's odd that someone smart like you does something stupid like smoke.

It's obviously because smoking makes me a cool cat.

Good.

No, fuck you.

I like my menthols.

what the fuck?

i buy 10 packs, if i have to buy 20s then im only going to smoke more cuz i have more available to me

the fuck are you buying 10s for anyway? you buy regular or long?

not to mention, anybody who doesn't want to increase their intake isn't suddenly just going to stop buying cigarettes because 10s aren't available. they'll just smoke the 20s over a longer period of time

fucking eu man, i tell ya

Well, they are worse than normal smokes so....

So what?

Why shouldn't I be able to have a minty smoke if I want one?

They're demanding reparations for World War Two to the tune of £240bn and threatening to seize German property if it isn't paid. Talk about bread and circuses.

Germany has reacted with anger and defiance to Greek government demands for multibillion-euro reparation payments over first and second world war atrocities.

Greece’s justice minister, Nikos Paraskevopoulos, said Athens was prepared to approve a court ruling to seize German property in the country – including the Goethe Institute, the German Archaeological Institute, German schools and holiday homes if Berlin refused to pay €341bn (£240bn) in compensation.

The demands, which also included the return of 8,500 archaeological treasures and artefacts in Germany, were met with incredulity in Berlin.

Seizures of property that could extend to holiday homes of private German citizens would be used to compensate victims of a second world war Nazi massacre of 218 Greek civilians in the village of Distomo, the government said.

Bela Anda, who was a spokesman for Gerhard Schröder when he was German chancellor, now an editor at tabloid Bild, branded the threats “bizarre, presumptuous and impertinent”.

“The government of [Alexis] Tsipras positions the lever where Germany is most vulnerable – the crimes committed by Germany in the first and second world wars. It’s moral blackmail,” he said.

The demands stem from a Greek finance ministry report published in December 2014 which calculated on the basis of expert assessment that Germany “owed” Greece €9.2bn for the first world war, €322bn for the second world war and €10bn for money Greece was forced to lend the Nazi regime in 1942.

Resentment in Greece over Nazi atrocities remains high, and has been greatly exacerbated by frustrations over its bailout and the widespread feeling that Germany is largely to blame for Greece’s woes.

The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, and her finance minister, Wolfgang Schäuble, have been repeatedly depicted in the Greek media in Nazi uniform.

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If Republicans knew what was good for them we'd see Jon Huntsman again. I strongly considered voting for him in the last run.

That's the second time I've seen you mention Huntsman, what do you like about him? What makes him better than Bush or Rubio or Walker?

Over here, the sales tax is included in the displayed prices.

I love it when English slang graduates to the Internet.

"Arrrrg I'm so mad about other opinions people have"

Since beliefs motivate actions, then yeah, I should hope so.

(I would later learn that that conscious was my weakness).

It's conscience, edgelord.

But why are people lazy?

Everybody wants the most benefit for the least cost.

The cost of turning the ads off is obviously higher to some people than simply putting up with the ads.