do i get a gas mask or wot?

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i cycle to work from Letchworth to Baldock and back every day. Baldock is a one-time village now turned junction-cum-traffic jam for vehicles going from Cambridge to London and back.
It's not exactly London style traffic but in the mornings there is an abundance of big lorries and stinky little cars all buggering up the atmosphere. As a cyclist who is invariably tardy I ten to cycle quite fast and this means taking in huge gulps of what should be H2O.
I am conscious that this is not all I am breathing. As a smoker, I am also conscious that I may be being hypocritical about this issue, but I believe that carbon monoxide and diesel gas is a little more toxic than fags.
Anyone think I'm being over the top if I get myself one of them little masks that people wear in the inner cities? Anyone already wear one? Do they do anything to protect? Will I get weird looks looking like a bomb-disposal person on a mountain bike?

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 26 July 2004 12:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Are you Japanese DL?

― PinXor (Pinkpanther), Monday, 26 July 2004 12:37 (twenty-one years ago)

no, why? do i look japanese now?

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 26 July 2004 12:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha, it's just that only Japanese ppl wear those masks in Cambridge, but obviously not in London...blah blah blah. Delete me now!

― PinXor (Pinkpanther), Monday, 26 July 2004 12:38 (twenty-one years ago)

H20 is water innit? I meant air. Not water. I R a dumb.

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 26 July 2004 12:39 (twenty-one years ago)

no filter mask commercially available will filter out Carbon monoxide or any other gaseous nasties produced by cars/lorries etc. What they will filter out is particulates, ie trace metals, but only down to certain sizes. If you do get a mask, get one rated to P3 and try and get one with an exhale valve.

― Porkpie (porkpie), Monday, 26 July 2004 12:39 (twenty-one years ago)

You are being hypocritical!! Fags = Carbon Monoxide.

If you want the mask, get the mask!

― ___ (___), Monday, 26 July 2004 12:40 (twenty-one years ago)

that's a little paranoid, but i commute to work too on my bike everyday, and i know what it's like to be behind a bus and have to hold your breath to avoid huge wafts of carbon monoxide.

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 26 July 2004 12:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I remember going on a customer site visit once and there was a bloke there who used his exhale valve to push a crafty gasper through (rendering the mask completely useless, natch)

― Porkpie (porkpie), Monday, 26 July 2004 12:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeh, I guess since I smoke I may as well just start seeing what happens when I jump off of bridges seeing as I have no reason to take care of myself any more.

I had a friend (who posts here occasionally but shall remain nameless) who chopped off one of his own moles with a knife. When I called him a mentalist he turned around to me and said "yeh, but - YOU SMOKE!!!"

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 26 July 2004 12:44 (twenty-one years ago)

It is worth just filtering out the particulates though dude, there's more heavy metals etc in the pollution than if you smoke, and a hella lot more carbon dust

― Porkpie (porkpie), Monday, 26 July 2004 12:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I am not a member on the anti-smoking brigade, dl! I just feel that you could have picked a bad-thing-in-car-exhausts that isn't in cigarettes!

― ___ (___), Monday, 26 July 2004 12:59 (twenty-one years ago)

they should put nicotine in petrol and then DL would be fine.

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 26 July 2004 13:00 (twenty-one years ago)

You just like wearing masks and stuff. admit it. P.S. cheers for mentioning me earlier ;)

― manga_kid, Monday, 26 July 2004 21:01 (twenty-one years ago)

i like heavy metals - manowar rules!

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 26 July 2004 21:15 (twenty-one years ago)

ten months pass...

i bought a sleep mask, on ebay. it is black, i think i'd have liked a brown one with cream trim. or a cream one with brown trim

― charltonlido (gareth), Friday, 3 June 2005 10:50 (twenty years ago)

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