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Feb. 19th, 2011 02:22 pmI've had a sudden wave of anonymous spam comments on LJ over the last week; rather than ban anonymous commenters I've set LJ to screen them so at least they don't show. If it keeps up I may turn on the CAPTCHA thing for anonymous comments to save me deleting them all. It's not as if I'm a big-name blogger with lots of unregistered readers wanting to weigh in :o) Seriously, I have had as many spam comments on my LJ in the last few days as I had in the previous five years. One more thing to like about Dreamwidth...
A thought I had while standing in a long queue today: I don't know if supermarkets are trying to make it inconvenient for smokers to buy cigarettes or if they're just trying to prevent theft by having all the tobacco products locked up and needing a supervisor to get them out, but it certainly makes shopping inconvenient for the rest of us. Wouldn't the whole problem be solved by not selling cigarettes at all? Absolutely no risk of people trying to steal them or underage people trying to buy them, greatly reduced hassle for staff and for customers, and addicts would certainly be prepared to go out of their way to visit a special smokers' shop for their supplies. The only argument against it is that supermarkets probably make a good bit of money out of cigarettes, even after paying for all that wasted staff time on every sale.
A thought I had while standing in a long queue today: I don't know if supermarkets are trying to make it inconvenient for smokers to buy cigarettes or if they're just trying to prevent theft by having all the tobacco products locked up and needing a supervisor to get them out, but it certainly makes shopping inconvenient for the rest of us. Wouldn't the whole problem be solved by not selling cigarettes at all? Absolutely no risk of people trying to steal them or underage people trying to buy them, greatly reduced hassle for staff and for customers, and addicts would certainly be prepared to go out of their way to visit a special smokers' shop for their supplies. The only argument against it is that supermarkets probably make a good bit of money out of cigarettes, even after paying for all that wasted staff time on every sale.
