Forbidden items in my home...

[sheeplady]

I don't want anything that could get me arrested in my home. I've got several (extended) family members I don't want here either.

 

[HoosierDaddy]

It seems for some...any animal is or can be endearing...so no arguement can convince otherwise. 'Pets are people too'...even though many breeds are specifically bred to retrieve...point...pull...guard...rescue..attack,etc. Some training may be required...but the traits have become instinctively part of certain breeds. They are bred for a purpose...that can be enhanced by training. Other dog types can be adapted and trained for the same purposes...but usually a certain breed will be used..for a reason. Perhaps a Pitbull can be quite loving if not handled roughly..trained..or abused...but 'what they are bred for' is still inherently within the breed. Just as a Lab loves to retrieve...a Dobe protects...the Pitbull breed was developed for the attack. It's in the makeup.
Just as many roosters will flog you..if you turn your back..especially if hens are around. Proving they are the king of the roost. Comes natural as well.
...but this debate could have it's own thread. Many are so attached to their pets no matter what they have been meticulously produced for. So much so that physical and especially personality traits are dismissed..until the dog reacts as it's breed was bred to do.
HD

 

[Mister Cairo]

^^^^^
Relatives! Well, certain ones, at least...

 

[rue]

^ Amen to that!

 

[The Lonely Navigator]

There's an awful lot of smoker hate........ I guess I can't visit anyone

I get sick from cigarette smoke so any smoker - cigar or cigarette would have to go outside. The only type of smoke I can handle in an enclosed space is sweet smelling pipe tobacco smoke. It doesn't irritate my nasal passages nor make me feel nauseated at all for some odd reason.

 

[Justin B]

I'm a smoker...but oddly I don't like smoking indoors. I only smoke out of doors, and never in a car.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Let's see, So far we've got...

one package of delicious, nutritious Bacon
one Ouija board
one Evil Clown Doll (Germany's WWII-era leadership version)
one Tupac Sings Sinatra CD
one set of Franklin Mint Ted Bundy napkin rings
Granddad's mounted moose head trophy (Hey, I didn't kill it!)

and last but not least...

one genuine, de rigeur, New York Yankees ball cap

As Slim Pickens would have said, a fellow can have a heck of a weekend with this stuff.

 

[Subvet642]

(SNIP)...one genuine, de rigeur, New York Yankees ball cap

No, no, God no! No Yankees anything... unless it's to be ritually defiled before a game. :madgrin:

 

[scottyrocks]

Well, youre from Boston, thats to be expected . . .

 

[shazzabanazza]

one tupac sings sinatra cd

sacrilege!

 

[MikeBravo]

There's an awful lot of smoker hate........ I guess I can't visit anyone

Just to clairfy, I don't hate smokers, I hate smoking. Some of my best friends are smokers.

I just wish they would realise it's not about them, but about the habit and my not wanting to be exposed unwillingly to the poison spewed out from the tobacco and associated chemicals (most of which are there to keep the cigarette from going out, I believe).

draws breath (coz I can as I don't have emphysema from smoking)

For many years I had to endure it in the workplace and any complaints were met with near abuse. Civil Rights my ****!

 

[Tatum]

lol I'm an ashtray-Germany's WWII-era leadership too.
Nope, not yet. The army takes its time unless they're in a hurry

Oh darn, I guess you're coming to Florida then

 

[Lily Powers]

Just to clairfy, I don't hate smokers, I hate smoking. Some of my best friends are smokers.

For many years I had to endure it in the workplace and any complaints were met with near abuse. Civil Rights my ****!

California bans smoking in the workplace, restaurants and bars (although I'm not sure if the restaurant/bar ban is county or statewide) and state parks. I live in a town that bans smoking anywhere downtown. In 2006, Belmont, CA was the first town in the USA to ban smoking in vehicles, condominiums and apartments (but not stand-alone homes), parks, streets... needless to say, it was quite a controversial move.

My parents died less than a year apart of each other from smoking-related illnesses when I was just a teenager, so I've been very hard-nosed about keeping that habit away from my house. I didn't have that choice growing up, but now I do.

 

[MikeBravo]

That is one of the good things we took from California. Smoking indoors is banned in public buildings, public transport althouhg hyou can still be met with a wall of poison uponleaving these buildings.

They are looking at banning it from inside motor vehicles as well. I feel sorry for poor kids stuck in a car with adults smoking, it's child abuse in my book

 

[scotrace]

Let's please avoid another smoking debate. This is not the place for it.

 

[Gregg Axley]

I agree Scotrace.
We all have a vice. Some of them affect just us, some of them affect others.
Either way, we all have to get along since there isn't another planet to go to.
Another item that is banned in my home...garage/carport sale items.
Why? I banned myself from bringing other people's "treasures" into my home, because it got out of hand.
I'm not one you'd see on Hoarders, but with a small house I can easily pick up "deals", but where would I put them? My wife has subscribed to this as well. What we don't need anymore goes to charity, such as a local Church where it's given away, not sold.

 

[shazzabanazza]

Blue Cheese uke:

 

[vitanola]

There's a rule in your house: SHOES OFF!

Forbidden items indoors: shoes. Dirty, muddy, "I just took a walk, and I'm now on your clean carpet" shoes.
When guest come.. shoes can not come inside with them.

Goodness!

In our home we always allow shoes, but of course since I wear the old style high laced kid boots most of the time, removing shoes at the door is a bit of a chore.

We have paved walks, and broad porches at each door, and so there is really no danger of tracking mud, cinders, or dirt on to our rugs and carpets. Since we use mostly century-old Axminster
and Ingrain carpets with rather dark colors and florid patterns, they don't show dirt anyway.

Had we white or other light-colored plush carpeting, as is so fashionable these days I would quite probably feel otherwise.

 

[Maj.Nick Danger]

Blue Cheese uke:

Oh c'mon. Have you tried it lately??

 

[LizzieMaine]

Blue cheese is just a high-hat term for "mouldy cheese." Ick.

As far as shoes go, I insist on people wearing them at all times. I don't have carpets, and there's lots of bare wood beween rugs where it's very very easy to pick up a splinter. Barefootedness is undertaken at one's own risk.

I discourage the wearing of stiletto heels though -- the wooden floors are mostly pine, and stilettos leave deep indentations in the boards. Baseball spikes and hobnailed army boots are likewise verboten.