Do you smoke?

[Jackmypie]

If so what brand do you smoke?

I used to, now I only smoke on social occasions normally Marlboro's.

[Paul ™]

Stopped again, 5 weeks on Monday... that was after stopping last Feb-July too until I started again

[rexclark]

Marlboro Gold, caus it makes me look cool.

[123ginge]

I can't stand smoking. I just generally don't get it, it doesn't make you look cool, it just makes you smell.

-safety wink (although I still mean it)

Edited February 13, 2011 by 123ginge

[grumpyhack]

Yep. I'm a leper. I normally start training courses by doing the usual "The fire exits are this way, the toilets are down there" etc and then I ask "Hands up the smokers." I put my hand up, look for the other lepers and explain reassuringly "We'll have a fag break about 11.30. Everyone else can have a coffee break but we'll cheat and have a fag and then a coffee."

The last course I ran we had about 40 participants. I put my hand up and found I was staring at a sea of people not one of whom had put a hand up. So I said "When you all have a coffee at 11.30 I'm going out for a fag."

Fagbreak time arrived. I went outside and I found three of the participants also came out and lit up.

"You didn't put your hands up," I said.

"Well," they explained, "We were too ashamed to admit we smoked."

We sad lepers have got to stick together. You still meet all the interesting people in smokers corner.

Oh, and the answer to the question is I smoke Royals.

Edited February 13, 2011 by grumpyhack

[123ginge]

It seems to me that people start when they're young and then spend the rest of their lives trying to give up. Am I right in saying that there's not actually anything enjoyable in it, it's just that once you're addicted you feel like you need them? Just not really worth it.

And that wasn't meant to sound like a school teacher's PSHE preach.

Edited February 13, 2011 by 123ginge

[bunique]

Am I right in saying that there's not actually anything enjoyable in it

[123ginge]

Nope, you're not right. I haven't had one since the end of march last year but still can't wait to have one again sometime in the future. I miss it more than getting pissed and I only ever smoked at weekends!

[bunique]

Now I just look like I'm talking to myself!

[123ginge]

Now I just look like I'm talking to myself!

[eFestivals]

yeah - I seem to have disapeared from a couple of threads, not sure why

my apologies - by accident I marked you as a spammer, which hides all of that 'spammers' posts. I realised my error straightaway, and believe I've put everything back as it was before, but if not please let me know of any outstanding issues and I'll get them put right.

[Alcatraz]

I usually only smoke when I drink which is good, because I scab them from people

[sifi]

I smoke about twenty a week. Unless I'm on a binge. Then it's twenty in a night.

[grumpyhack]

Q. Do you smoke after sex?

A. I've never really looked.

[saratink]

Nope i don't smoke. Saves my money, saves my lungs, i'm not constantly looking for the next fag, i don't get aggitated because the we're not having a fag break and i don't stink afterwards.

Smokers don't understand how disgusting they smell. I'll have been in my brothers car and he will be smoking, i leave and all i can do is smell the smoke on my clothes..

Edited February 13, 2011 by saratink

[123ginge]

my apologies - by accident I marked you as a spammer, which hides all of that 'spammers' posts. I realised my error straightaway, and believe I've put everything back as it was before, but if not please let me know of any outstanding issues and I'll get them put right.

[eFestivals]

Smokers don't understand how disgusting they smell. I'll have been in my brothers car and he will be smoking, i leave and all i can do is smell the smoke on my clothes..

yeah, but that's true of many things that a person doesn't do themselves.

It's a traditional idea for the British that the French stink of garlic (probably more from the days when British cooking was so bland that we didn't use garlic), and there's somewhere - I think it's Japan but might be wrong - that finds 'westerners' stink of sour milk because they don't consume milk themselves.

[eFestivals]

oh no, it's all fine now

I posted a website link without much explanation so that's my fault (would've looked like spamming)

Well, it's not 'your fault' cos (as I should do) I checked the thread and saw it wasn't spam ... but I'd already opened your profile page before reading what you'd posted as I would with a spammer, and then after checking the post and seeing it waasn't spam I went into auto-mode and stupidly clicked on the (viewable only to moderators) 'flag as spammer' link in your profile anyway.

Bloody spammers are pissing me right off at the moment - there's loads that needs dealing with every day.

[Uncle Liam]

Well, it's not 'your fault' cos (as I should do) I checked the thread and saw it wasn't spam ... but I'd already opened your profile page before reading what you'd posted as I would with a spammer, and then after checking the post and seeing it waasn't spam I went into auto-mode and stupidly clicked on the (viewable only to moderators) 'flag as spammer' link in your profile anyway.

Bloody spammers are pissing me right off at the moment - there's loads that needs dealing with every day.

[eFestivals]

Is it a new topic problem or posting in threads?

Can you not just have a system where you must have x number of posts before you can start a thread? (Which you may or may not have, I have no idea).

the forums software does have a feature - which is switched off - which can stop a newly registered user from starting a new topic until they've made X amount of posts.

I've always felt that it would be wrong to use it, because lots of people register because they have a specific thing they want to ask about, and for which starting a new thread is the most appropriate way to do it.

As for the spammers, they'd simply change to posting their spam in existing threads - which is actually a bigger hassle for dealing with than if their spam is in a thread they've started.

[123ginge]

the forums software does have a feature - which is switched off - which can stop a newly registered user from starting a new topic until they've made X amount of posts.

I've always felt that it would be wrong to use it, because lots of people register because they have a specific thing they want to ask about, and for which starting a new thread is the most appropriate way to do it.

As for the spammers, they'd simply change to posting their spam in existing threads - which is actually a bigger hassle for dealing with than if their spam is in a thread they've started.

[bunique]

Smokers don't understand how disgusting they smell. I'll have been in my brothers car and he will be smoking, i leave and all i can do is smell the smoke on my clothes..

[eFestivals]

Are the spammers actual people then or automatic software things (I'm not so clued up on the terminology)? If it's the latter then do those write the word things (that you have to do to show that you're a human when you sign up to stuff) actually work or can they get through them?

Most of the spams are from 'bots' (automatic software things). Those 'write the word' things stop some but not others.

[jump]

I usually only smoke when I drink which is good, because I scab them from people

[t8yman]

Smokers don't understand how disgusting they smell.