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Re giving up, the covid method worked well for me. It got to the stage where every time I tried to inhale cigarette smoke, I'd end up rolling on the floor gasping to breathe. That was a good enough motivation to make me consider quitting. I used a nicorette spray to get over the short term nicotine cravings, and I can't recommend them enough. They burn, taste horrible and make you want to throw up, so it's almost impossible to transfer a habit onto them. 637 days later, and I'm still cigarette free. In semi nicotine stain related news: https://twitter.com/SkewSmug/status/1477750794417946624 fuctifino fucked around with this message at 12:00 on Jan 8, 2022 |
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Dabir posted:Just for you, NJANNN: I think Tesla's are great. I do not want to drive one along an underground death tube though.
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fuctifino posted:I used a nicorette spray to get over the short term nicotine cravings, and I can't recommend them enough. They burn, taste horrible and make you want to throw up, so it's almost impossible to transfer a habit onto them. I vape an absolutely horrendous amount (but I haven’t smoked in 3 years!) and I reckon it’s costing me upwards of £220 a month. Do those sprays do anything for twitchy “I must do something with my mouth/hands” cravings?
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Aidan_702 posted:I vape an absolutely horrendous amount (but I haven’t smoked in 3 years!) and I reckon it’s costing me upwards of £220 a month. Do those sprays do anything for twitchy “I must do something with my mouth/hands” cravings? Just have a wank any time you get that feeling?
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Gonna  this tweet not because of the usual reason people call things not mind safe but because it represents a level of Rowling derangement so severe it actually caused a mental disturbance akin to a giant hit of salvia:https://twitter.com/JacobKishnevi/status/1479552058399367177
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forkboy84 posted:Just have a wank any time you get that feeling?
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Aidan_702 posted:I vape an absolutely horrendous amount (but I haven’t smoked in 3 years!) and I reckon it’s costing me upwards of £220 a month. Do those sprays do anything for twitchy “I must do something with my mouth/hands” cravings? No, it's purely for the nicotine cravings. I use(d) a dynavap cannabis vaporiser for the mouth and hand cravings.
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Aidan_702 posted:I vape an absolutely horrendous amount (but I haven’t smoked in 3 years!) and I reckon it’s costing me upwards of £220 a month. Do those sprays do anything for twitchy “I must do something with my mouth/hands” cravings? When you say ‘vape’ do you mean using an ecig or vaping weed? Because I’m seriously into my vaping, do it a /lot/ and I don’t spend more than about 40-50 a month on juice. Either you’re some sort of VG powered monster, or you need to find a cheaper supplier lol
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Working remotely has shown me just how much taking the odd 5-10 minutes to absent-mindedly stare out a window improves both the bearability of work and actual productivity Can we get an obnoxious guy with a powerpoint and some hideous diagrams to put this into buzzwordy management-speak so the bosses understand it
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Camrath posted:When you say ‘vape’ do you mean using an ecig or vaping weed? Because I’m seriously into my vaping, do it a /lot/ and I don’t spend more than about 40-50 a month on juice. It’s £6 or more on lovely 2% 50/50 pods rather than juice. Whenever I get juice the most minor tiny inconvenience will happen (ran out of coils, forgot to charge it before I went outside) and I’ll revert back to the pods meaning the money on a mod/juice went completely to waste so I stopped buying them. I just wanna quit man but I can’t even go a day without getting truly anxious. I also hate/am extremely anxious about my job which is a key factor.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Gonna It really is a work of art.
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Aidan_702 posted:It’s £6 or more on lovely 2% 50/50 pods rather than juice. Whenever I get juice the most minor tiny inconvenience will happen (ran out of coils, forgot to charge it before I went outside) and I’ll revert back to the pods meaning the money on a mod/juice went completely to waste so I stopped buying them. I just wanna quit man but I can’t even go a day without getting truly anxious. I've found the best compromise is the mini refillable vapes - I use the Caliburn A2 (mainly because it comes in a colour that sort of looks claret and blue if you screw your eyes up) which lasts me *almost* all day (annoyingly not quite an entire day so I just bought a second one). Two of them and a couple of pods fit comfortably in my pocket (most mods are *ridiculously* too big and bulky to do so) meaning I've always got a spare. Even with the equivalent of a 40-a-day smoking habit I'm still only paying out about £30 on juice and a tenner on replacement pods a month.
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OwlFancier posted:It really is a work of art. I love the bit where people give him examples and he immediately moves the goalposts to children's fantasy, then people give him children's fantasy examples and the posts move again to contemporary fantasy, then people give him examples of that and he apparently goes quiet
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the pattern i've noticed over the last 10 odd years - that's exemplified by that national anthem man - is that things that are satirised/lampooned seem to very quickly become reality and then reality overshoots and you're in a world that's beyond what would have been satire a short time ago
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.nm it's there now must have been a glitch in my twitter. oo err missus. Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 13:49 on Jan 8, 2022 |
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Angepain posted:I love the bit where people give him examples and he immediately moves the goalposts to children's fantasy, then people give him children's fantasy examples and the posts move again to contemporary fantasy, then people give him examples of that and he apparently goes quiet A Christmas Carol was written as a Christian allegory for Victorian newspaper readers and therefore can never be anything else, even if anyone who was a child in the 90s likely remembers it more from the Muppets, because that's how literature works. e: Jaeluni Asjil posted:What was it? It's gone! The literature understander logged on.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Gonna The best part is that the books don't even come close to doing what he describes. The books look down on the upper classes but patronise the gently caress out of the working class (no really they wouldn't want the middle class' help, as long as they have each other).
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Gonna That's one of the most brutal ratios I've ever seen
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Where's the setting to show tweets? I think it might be my google chrome to blame - I updated it yesterday and a few things have gone quirky eg add to Reading List doesn't show up as an option when I click bookmark anymore. (Laptop not phone app) But yeah, that tweet - I don't think he had a clue about other works, probably just a JKR groupie. I was thinking Water Babies - that's pretty fantastical - for a start. Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 13:59 on Jan 8, 2022 |
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Tweets don't get shown if there's a  or tag in the post, to preserve the sensibilities of casual readers, I'm not sure if there's a setting to override that.
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stev posted:The best part is that the books don't even come close to doing what he describes. The books look down on the upper classes but patronise the gently caress out of the working class (no really they wouldn't want the middle class' help, as long as they have each other). She really is just New Labour: the author.
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Guavanaut posted:Tweets don't get shown if there's a I see. I did not know that! What do nws and nms stand for?
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I see. I did not know that! What do nws and nms stand for? Not Work Safe and Not Mind Safe.
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Thanks to whoever recommended "Attack of the 50 foot blockchain" the other day. I'm halfway through and now I understand what some guy was telling me about his day job (involving "web 3" and "smart contracts"). And conveniently also understand why those things are nonsense. Very efficient!
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Bobstar posted:Thanks to whoever recommended "Attack of the 50 foot blockchain" the other day. I'm halfway through and now I understand what some guy was telling me about his day job (involving "web 3" and "smart contracts"). And conveniently also understand why those things are nonsense. Very efficient! No prob. It's an excellent primer on crypto bullshit.
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That’s interesting about the NMS tags! Awful app doesn’t hide the content (which is fine with me) but it’s a cool idea.
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For some reason I always thought NMS meant Not Mother Safe
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ThomasPaine posted:Not Mother Safe 
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ThomasPaine posted:For some reason I always thought NMS meant Not Mother Safe << Psycho II Shovel Scene here >>
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Dabir posted:Just for you, NJANNN: Is that what his loop has become? What a loving waste of time. goddamnedtwisto posted:Gonna How I envy someone that can have an opinion as poo poo as this and yet have the confidence to post it. I tried to take up smoking over three months when I was seventeen. Never really took, I kept forgetting to buy fags and not enough of my friends smoked for me to bum a ciggy off them.
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bessantj posted:Is that what his loop has become? What a loving waste of time. Always was
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Failed Imagineer posted:Always was Yeah but I wanted him to build the loop, find that people would die then blame the government for over regulation. When the news presenter said it was more like "a highway underground" all I could think was isn't that what Musk was trying to get away from?!
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crispix posted:maybe the jokes are just a way to flood the idea into the minds of most of the population at once everything is an op
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bessantj posted:Yeah but I wanted him to build the loop, find that people would die then blame the government for over regulation. When the news presenter said it was more like "a highway underground" all I could think was isn't that what Musk was trying to get away from?! He's lazy and stupid, even with other people's labour and brains. Digging one tunnel took a long time and he got bored so he said "good enough" and put Teslas in it cause he already had those.
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Gonzo McFee posted:She really is just New Labour: the author. I can't remember who it was on the pod, but their phrasing was "Got rich off Blairism" which I loved.
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Dabir posted:He's lazy and stupid, even with other people's labour and brains. Digging one tunnel took a long time and he got bored so he said "good enough" and put Teslas in it cause he already had those. I'm not sure if he's stupid but I do agree with him being lazy or at least quick to lose interest in things that don't align with his vision immediately. I don't think he's actually built anything from the ground up himself.
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