Nice People 12: Nice in Nice

Masomnia

vivatifosi wrote: »

Do you smoke Mas? Wondered if you'd tried it as an alternative to cigs. Good luck with the weening. On the positive side, it's relative rarity means it won't be in your face the whole time you're trying to get off it.

Nope, that's why it's so silly. No intention of smoking at all. I just like nicotine

zagubov

PasturesNew wrote: »

I finally decided to treat myself.... to an indian takeaway. Clutching my little coins I hot-footed it down the road .... veg biryani .... hot-footed it home.... it didn't look much/great (curry part 200grams, rice part 650grams) .... and then I ate it .... it was awful. It was just a dark brown mass of spiced goo with some indistinguishable vegetables in the curry sauce ... and in the rice. Rice 'felt' cheap, not like I'm used to.

Horrid thing it was.... horrid. Worst one I've ever had. If that'd been my first I'd have declared I hate indian food and never touched it again!

Definitely won't go to that one again.

Don't give up! I've found that getting advice on which restaurants /takeaways are best isn't that much help as lots of people get stuck in a rut with where they're comfortable with, or with places that are just convenient to get to. You have to either use trial-and-error or ask as many people as possible until you find what's popular.

A mate once reckoned only the best Chinese takeaways did beef in oyster sauce and and would avoid places that didn't offer it.

Masomnia wrote: »

Confession time. I've picked up a rather disgusting habit from my Norwegian friends: snus. They're really moreish and I've run out. I ordered some more a few days ago, but it's coming from Israel and I think with New Year they're running behind. Really bad cravings. I think I'm going to use this pack to ween myself off, it's not a good situation :eek:

Er, isn't Scandinavia the only part of the word with more cancer than the USA? I'd be very wary of this habit. Wearing warm clothes and eating more fish may be smart ideas , this ......not so much.:(

LydiaJ

Masomnia wrote: »

Confession time. I've picked up a rather disgusting habit from my Norwegian friends: snus. They're really moreish and I've run out. I ordered some more a few days ago, but it's coming from Israel and I think with New Year they're running behind. Really bad cravings. I think I'm going to use this pack to ween myself off, it's not a good situation :eek:

If you want to give up, then why waste the progress you'll have been making while waiting for the new pack to arrive? If you use the new pack, you'll just set yourself back to the beginning and have to go through the first few days without all over again.

Good luck anyway.

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

Masomnia wrote: »

I just like nicotine

That's interesting.

I just like smoking.....

Have no desire to quit, but Mrs McT is nagging me senseless since she quit two years ago.

I've tried the usual NRT things.... gum, patches, etc. No luck.

Also tried all the e-cigs... Better, but still not anything like as satisfying, even thought the nicotine dose was there.

Have now got one of those large heavy duty devices that you just pour the various vaping juices into. Much better. Cigarette consumption down by 50%. As I continue to experiment with different flavours and nicotine strengths, it seems to be getting more satisfying.

Can actually see this being an acceptable day-to-day alternative with a bit of work, and will just smoke cigars on special occasions.

Generali

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

I just like smoking.....

I used to think that I liked smoking but it turned out that I liked the relief from craving nicotine. The stuff like mouth feel and the smoke going into my lungs was nice by association not nice in itself.

I probably tried 100 times to give up smoking before I succeeded. If you smoke you have an even money chance of it killing you, i.e. it's likely that either you or PN will die from smoking. Most of the ways that smoking kills you are deeply unpleasant. My grandmother died of lung cancer as a result of smoking. She had to have a hole drilled through her ribs so they could drain the liquid from her lungs. I doubt that the enjoyment she gained from relief from nicotine cravings was enough to compensate her for that.

They ended up giving her a fatal overdose of heroin to end her suffering.

If you want any help or support giving up I'd be very happy to provide it. I like and respect you hugely and I'd hate for you to suffer like my Grandmother did.

GDB2222

Gen is spot on. Mortality rates at each age for smokers are double those for non-smokers.

Generali

GDB2222 wrote: »

Gen is spot on. Mortality rates at each age for smokers are double those for non-smokers.

Yup.

The only way to quit smoking is to quit smoking. Patches, gum, vaping etc just maintain the addiction. You end up lapsing back to smoking as smoking is the 'best' way to consume nicotine.

GDB2222

Unless Mewbie is truly exceptional, that stuff took a day or two to write. How much traffic does it generate?

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

Unless Mewbie is truly exceptional, that stuff took a day or two to write. How much traffic does it generate?

He can bang them out quite quickly ... no traffic, it's still new. He's experimenting with things, having fun, rather than taking it seriously - and if, by accident, he gets rich .... then great. But most of his stuff is just tongue in cheek tales of becoming a proper writer. He's got stuff all over the internet. Loads of sites he writes for etc. We run across each other in two of them I frequent.... he's quite prolific really.

He's probably secretly earning £2k/month from all his writing, but pretending he's getting nowhere.... that'd fit. He mocks all the sites he writes for, and those he doesn't. He pokes fun at Google, Matt Cutts ... and anything that's relevant to several writing sites etc.

He also scraps, occasionally, in one online forum .... which is quite amusing as he reappears elsewhere online to talk about that scrap and the loony who he shouted at and how they're poor writers/disillusioned/spammers. Should have seen his little rant at the woman who writes about Barbie.

Content wise, he's in a place where he has the confidence to poke fun at it all, without fearing a backlash/loss of earnings. So he's either earning nothing and doesn't need to, or earning a LOT.

GDB2222

Suppose that I decided to write a bit. Where would you suggest that I publish stuff these days in order to maximise earnings? How should I go about it?