Smoke 'em if you got 'em
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There's nothing good about cigarettes. No upside at all.
Fucking things, I still think about them. From time to time I dream that I've started again, and I wake up with such a massive sense of relief.
wrote on 10 Dec 2021, 16:16 last edited by@doctor-phibes said in Smoke 'em if you got 'em:
There's nothing good about cigarettes. No upside at all.
Helping to keep Social Security solvent.
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@doctor-phibes said in Smoke 'em if you got 'em:
There's nothing good about cigarettes. No upside at all.
Helping to keep Social Security solvent.
wrote on 10 Dec 2021, 20:08 last edited by@improviso said in Smoke 'em if you got 'em:
@doctor-phibes said in Smoke 'em if you got 'em:
There's nothing good about cigarettes. No upside at all.
Helping to keep Social Security solvent.
We could solve that problem by hunting retirees for sport. You can even have free cigarettes - it would help us find you in the dark.
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wrote on 10 Dec 2021, 20:19 last edited by
I doubt you would enjoy it. i have lit up a few since I quit in 1976. They tasted just as godawful as the first ones in 8th grade.
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I doubt you would enjoy it. i have lit up a few since I quit in 1976. They tasted just as godawful as the first ones in 8th grade.
wrote on 10 Dec 2021, 20:23 last edited by Doctor Phibes 12 Oct 2021, 20:23@mik said in Smoke 'em if you got 'em:
They tasted just as godawful as the first ones in 8th grade.
They never tasted awful to me. I think that might have been my problem. The smell of fresh tobacco smoke still drives me nuts.
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.NOT. THAT. I'M. FREAKING. BITTER. OR. ANYTHING.
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wrote on 10 Dec 2021, 20:42 last edited by
I enjoy the buzz when I have my once-every-few-years cigarette.
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wrote on 10 Dec 2021, 20:53 last edited by Doctor Phibes 12 Oct 2021, 20:57
@horace said in Smoke 'em if you got 'em:
I enjoy the buzz when I have my once-every-few-years cigarette.
Don't rub it in.
It wasn't the buzz they gave me that was the problem, since there really wasn't one. It was the other kind buzz that kicked in if I didn't smoke one for a few hours.
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wrote on 10 Dec 2021, 20:57 last edited by
Once or twice a year I'll sit outside with a nice adult beverage and a decent cigar. I thoroughly enjoy the taste and the slight nicotine buzz. Then I realize I smell like shit and shower and brush my teeth with lysol and a brillo pad.
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Once or twice a year I'll sit outside with a nice adult beverage and a decent cigar. I thoroughly enjoy the taste and the slight nicotine buzz. Then I realize I smell like shit and shower and brush my teeth with lysol and a brillo pad.
wrote on 10 Dec 2021, 21:01 last edited by@lufins-dad said in Smoke 'em if you got 'em:
Once or twice a year I'll sit outside with a nice adult beverage and a decent cigar. I thoroughly enjoy the taste and the slight nicotine buzz. Then I realize I smell like shit and shower and brush my teeth with lysol and a brillo pad.
I tried to smoke cigars countless times. After about half the cigar, my tongue felt like a backhoe drove over it.
And yeah, they're smelly.
I did enjoy a pipe, however, despite all the fussiness of it.
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I doubt you would enjoy it. i have lit up a few since I quit in 1976. They tasted just as godawful as the first ones in 8th grade.
wrote on 10 Dec 2021, 22:30 last edited by Copper 12 Oct 2021, 22:30@mik said in Smoke 'em if you got 'em:
the first ones in 8th grade.
2nd grade for me.
In secret with 2 other guys, nobody ever knew, I remember it well.
Isn't that insane?
That was a different world.
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@lufins-dad said in Smoke 'em if you got 'em:
Once or twice a year I'll sit outside with a nice adult beverage and a decent cigar. I thoroughly enjoy the taste and the slight nicotine buzz. Then I realize I smell like shit and shower and brush my teeth with lysol and a brillo pad.
I tried to smoke cigars countless times. After about half the cigar, my tongue felt like a backhoe drove over it.
And yeah, they're smelly.
I did enjoy a pipe, however, despite all the fussiness of it.
wrote on 11 Dec 2021, 01:32 last edited by@george-k said in Smoke 'em if you got 'em:
@lufins-dad said in Smoke 'em if you got 'em:
Once or twice a year I'll sit outside with a nice adult beverage and a decent cigar. I thoroughly enjoy the taste and the slight nicotine buzz. Then I realize I smell like shit and shower and brush my teeth with lysol and a brillo pad.
I tried to smoke cigars countless times. After about half the cigar, my tongue felt like a backhoe drove over it.
And yeah, they're smelly.
I did enjoy a pipe, however, despite all the fussiness of it.
One of my favorite pathologists smoked a pipe. He was lousy in a production oriented pathology section, but I would rather have him read my stuff than any other path I worked with. He was the quintessential educated, Old Money Southerner, down to the fact that he owned a plantation. Med school at Tulane, residency at Vanderbilt, which is where he taught until he took over the reigns of the farm.
You could tell when he had a tough set of slides to read, as out came an old briar pipe from his lab coat pocket and he'd reach in his desk for his tobacco pouch and lighter. Most of the time, he'd fire it up, take a puff or two, then lay it aside while he stuck his head back in his microscope. If it was particularly tough, he might have to repack and relight that old pipe two or three times. When you smelled the pipe - which always smelled like Borkum Riff - or saw the smoke wafting out of his office, you knew he was deep in thought.
He could be maddenly slow, but he was very rarely ever wrong...
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@george-k said in Smoke 'em if you got 'em:
@lufins-dad said in Smoke 'em if you got 'em:
Once or twice a year I'll sit outside with a nice adult beverage and a decent cigar. I thoroughly enjoy the taste and the slight nicotine buzz. Then I realize I smell like shit and shower and brush my teeth with lysol and a brillo pad.
I tried to smoke cigars countless times. After about half the cigar, my tongue felt like a backhoe drove over it.
And yeah, they're smelly.
I did enjoy a pipe, however, despite all the fussiness of it.
One of my favorite pathologists smoked a pipe. He was lousy in a production oriented pathology section, but I would rather have him read my stuff than any other path I worked with. He was the quintessential educated, Old Money Southerner, down to the fact that he owned a plantation. Med school at Tulane, residency at Vanderbilt, which is where he taught until he took over the reigns of the farm.
You could tell when he had a tough set of slides to read, as out came an old briar pipe from his lab coat pocket and he'd reach in his desk for his tobacco pouch and lighter. Most of the time, he'd fire it up, take a puff or two, then lay it aside while he stuck his head back in his microscope. If it was particularly tough, he might have to repack and relight that old pipe two or three times. When you smelled the pipe - which always smelled like Borkum Riff - or saw the smoke wafting out of his office, you knew he was deep in thought.
He could be maddenly slow, but he was very rarely ever wrong...
wrote on 11 Dec 2021, 01:53 last edited by@jolly said in Smoke 'em if you got 'em:
@george-k said in Smoke 'em if you got 'em:
@lufins-dad said in Smoke 'em if you got 'em:
Once or twice a year I'll sit outside with a nice adult beverage and a decent cigar. I thoroughly enjoy the taste and the slight nicotine buzz. Then I realize I smell like shit and shower and brush my teeth with lysol and a brillo pad.
I tried to smoke cigars countless times. After about half the cigar, my tongue felt like a backhoe drove over it.
And yeah, they're smelly.
I did enjoy a pipe, however, despite all the fussiness of it.
One of my favorite pathologists smoked a pipe. He was lousy in a production oriented pathology section, but I would rather have him read my stuff than any other path I worked with. He was the quintessential educated, Old Money Southerner, down to the fact that he owned a plantation. Med school at Tulane, residency at Vanderbilt, which is where he taught until he took over the reigns of the farm.
You could tell when he had a tough set of slides to read, as out came an old briar pipe from his lab coat pocket and he'd reach in his desk for his tobacco pouch and lighter. Most of the time, he'd fire it up, take a puff or two, then lay it aside while he stuck his head back in his microscope. If it was particularly tough, he might have to repack and relight that old pipe two or three times. When you smelled the pipe - which always smelled like Borkum Riff - or saw the smoke wafting out of his office, you knew he was deep in thought.
He could be maddenly slow, but he was very rarely ever wrong...
My dad smoked a pipe. At first glance, he was the quintessential mad scientist. Went to Cambridge, spoke with a stammer, wore a tweed sports jacket to work, and could easily get lost on the way to the shops.
He often took a long time to come to a decision, and he was rarely ever wrong, but in another way. He was possibly the most honest man I've ever known. Would always, always, always do what he believed to be right. I miss him a lot.
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Considering how well prohibition has worked out in the past, I'm really surprised the Kiwis are doing this.
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Considering how well prohibition has worked out in the past, I'm really surprised the Kiwis are doing this.
wrote on 17 Dec 2021, 20:39 last edited by@george-k said in Smoke 'em if you got 'em:
Considering how well prohibition has worked out in the past, I'm really surprised the Kiwis are doing this.
It’s not really the same tactic. They’re not banning it for older people, just people who’ve never had the opportunity.
Still, it could easily backfire
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@george-k said in Smoke 'em if you got 'em:
Considering how well prohibition has worked out in the past, I'm really surprised the Kiwis are doing this.
It’s not really the same tactic. They’re not banning it for older people, just people who’ve never had the opportunity.
Still, it could easily backfire
wrote on 17 Dec 2021, 20:41 last edited by@doctor-phibes said in Smoke 'em if you got 'em:
It’s not really the same tactic. They’re not banning it for older people, just people who’ve never had the opportunity.
I totally understand the difference. But, in 20 years, when the "older" people are no longer around to smoke them, it will be precisely prohibition.
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@doctor-phibes said in Smoke 'em if you got 'em:
It’s not really the same tactic. They’re not banning it for older people, just people who’ve never had the opportunity.
I totally understand the difference. But, in 20 years, when the "older" people are no longer around to smoke them, it will be precisely prohibition.
wrote on 17 Dec 2021, 20:47 last edited by Doctor Phibes@george-k said in Smoke 'em if you got 'em:
@doctor-phibes said in Smoke 'em if you got 'em:
It’s not really the same tactic. They’re not banning it for older people, just people who’ve never had the opportunity.
I totally understand the difference. But, in 20 years, when the "older" people are no longer around to smoke them, it will be precisely prohibition.
It’s interesting. I asked my kids about it and they said hardly anybody smokes tobacco that they know. Quite a few smoke weed, but not cigarettes. Now we’re talking nice middle class neighborhood, so maybe not representative.
When they banned smoking in British pubs a lot of us couldn’t imagine going in any more, but it’s a distant memory, and way, way nicer now. I went to an “Irish”pub in the US a few years back where everybody smoked, and it was really quite horrible.
I was only joking
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wrote on 17 Dec 2021, 20:50 last edited by
It is hard to imagine how great it was
In college, we smoked in class, nobody complained
At work we smoked in crowded meetings, nobody complained
At restaurants, airplanes and hospitals, go ahead, have a smoke
Our children will never know that freedom
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It is hard to imagine how great it was
In college, we smoked in class, nobody complained
At work we smoked in crowded meetings, nobody complained
At restaurants, airplanes and hospitals, go ahead, have a smoke
Our children will never know that freedom
wrote on 17 Dec 2021, 21:41 last edited by Doctor Phibes@copper said in Smoke 'em if you got 'em:
It is hard to imagine how great it was
In college, we smoked in class, nobody complained
At work we smoked in crowded meetings, nobody complained
At restaurants, airplanes and hospitals, go ahead, have a smoke
Our children will never know that freedom
Lung cancer is a horrible way to die. I had a friend who died a couple of years ago after smoking his whole life. He was younger than I am and left behind two teenage kids.
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wrote on 17 Dec 2021, 22:10 last edited by
The cigarettes got my father at age 73 with COPD
My 92 year old mother is still smoking, she is fine, her father smoked until age 98, no problem
Like most things, smoking cigarettes doesn't guarantee anything
Neither does whisky, let's hope the wokes never get ahold of alcohol again, wishful thinking I know.
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wrote on 17 Dec 2021, 22:25 last edited by
It's coming. Get ready.
