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midnightcaller
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I went to a pub last week. I wanted to smoke one cigarette only. Didn't want to buy a whole box, because then I would start smoking again.
One cigarette cost R3.00
One cigarette cost R3.00
Arthur
Honorary Master
Thank-you, FNfal, for your encouragement and support. A veritable scholar and gentleman you are, sir. I shall smoke another R6.80 Camel Plain in your honour.As a fellow smoker i commiserate with you having been ripped of on foreign soil as well .
Stay strong and fight the good fight .
I have long contended that Smoking - a uniquely human activity - is a hallmark of a humane and tolerant society. The concerted anti-smoking campaigns by Big Government, accomplished chiefly through iniquitously high taxations on the one hand, and a fusillade of legal impositions, restrictions and proscriptions on the commerce and practice of smoking on the other, have resulted in a decline in civility and tolerance. The harsh treatment of smokers by modern society would make a fascist blanche.
GreGorGy
BULLSFAN
Are those crazy americans still on an embargo?
I cannot take normal smokes - they taste terrible. Currently, my habit is divided between rolling my own from a mixture of cherry and rum tobaccos and buying those that have been rolled on the thighs of cuban virgins*. I can only imagine how much cigars much cost there. Currently, a Romeo y Julieta #1 shouldn't set you back more than R120 here, with a #3 around R100. For comparison then, a #1 costs less here than a pack of 20 there.
The rolled ones set me back about R100 per 10 days. Not bad going at all. And the taste is superb and superior in every way. Do they sell common shag there?
*Urban Legend
I cannot take normal smokes - they taste terrible. Currently, my habit is divided between rolling my own from a mixture of cherry and rum tobaccos and buying those that have been rolled on the thighs of cuban virgins*. I can only imagine how much cigars much cost there. Currently, a Romeo y Julieta #1 shouldn't set you back more than R120 here, with a #3 around R100. For comparison then, a #1 costs less here than a pack of 20 there.
The rolled ones set me back about R100 per 10 days. Not bad going at all. And the taste is superb and superior in every way. Do they sell common shag there?
*Urban Legend
Hamish McPanji
Honorary Master
Not urban legend. She confirmed it.
She rolls cigars that are to thigh for apparently. And she ain't no common shag either....this one hasnt been had since before WW1
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I dont buy this born again virgin crap.
GreGorGy
BULLSFAN
Obviously hasn't met Pitbull yet. He'd shag her...
GreGorGy
BULLSFAN
You saying she has met The Pits? Or you rejecting the notion that somehow abstinence revirgins them hos?
Hamish McPanji
Honorary Master
Ftfy
Arthur
Honorary Master
Your correspondent likewise is grateful that he is not in the United Kingdom, though for a somewhat different reason.
They do say everything is bigger in Texas.
midnightcaller
Expert Member
GreGorGy
BULLSFAN
You get some?
Arthur
Honorary Master
Gentle reader, I am back to draw your attention to a brief but vigorous defence here of our third-favourite pastime and the subject of this thread.
The Voice
Honorary Master
Damnit. I've been "clean" for a few months. Been sucking on a vape instead. Swore I didn't need the tobacco ever again. That after 24 years I was done with it for good. But, I've started missing inhaling the devil's breath. That first one in the morning with a cup of coffee. That one after a good meal. That one with a pint.
I've noticed absolutely no benefit to quitting, apart from my clothes not stinking like stale smoke. No spring in my step, etc. And the novelty of being smoke free for the first week, month, 2nd month, etc, has worn off I think. Sure, I may now live 2.5 years longer than if I still smoked. But man do I miss it all of a sudden...
I've noticed absolutely no benefit to quitting, apart from my clothes not stinking like stale smoke. No spring in my step, etc. And the novelty of being smoke free for the first week, month, 2nd month, etc, has worn off I think. Sure, I may now live 2.5 years longer than if I still smoked. But man do I miss it all of a sudden...
Arthur
Honorary Master
Dear Voice.
I am sorry to learn of your travail. Also, I am saddened by your report that the benefits of quitting have not yet materialised for you.
Still, since you once were a smoker, I can safely assume that you are (or once were
) a rational and sane person, so your decision to stop was for Good Reason.
Those same Good Reasons still apply.
So, stand by your recent decision to quit.
Do not let a momentary temptation overturn your considered resolve.
As you know, people have different responses to the various ingestions we perform. Some unfortunate souls are more susceptible to deleterious responses to wines and malts, others to animal products, and yet others to vegetable products. Some, perhaps most even, respond less than optimally to Smoking.
So, let this momentary temptation pass. Go for a swim. Breathe extra deeply for two minutes and oxygenate your brain.
PS. This coming week I go for my annual full medical check-up, including chest X-ray.
I am sorry to learn of your travail. Also, I am saddened by your report that the benefits of quitting have not yet materialised for you.
Still, since you once were a smoker, I can safely assume that you are (or once were
) a rational and sane person, so your decision to stop was for Good Reason.Those same Good Reasons still apply.
So, stand by your recent decision to quit.
Do not let a momentary temptation overturn your considered resolve.
As you know, people have different responses to the various ingestions we perform. Some unfortunate souls are more susceptible to deleterious responses to wines and malts, others to animal products, and yet others to vegetable products. Some, perhaps most even, respond less than optimally to Smoking.
So, let this momentary temptation pass. Go for a swim. Breathe extra deeply for two minutes and oxygenate your brain.
PS. This coming week I go for my annual full medical check-up, including chest X-ray.
Arthur
Honorary Master
Alert forumites will have noticed that a quartet of summers has come and gone since this thread was last graced with a post. My goodness, 时光飞逝, as a Wuhan biolab bot would say!
I am checking in here mainly to offer commiserations and encouragement to fellow Smokers who are labouring under the strictures and privations of this pestilential lockdown, and most especially to offer solace to those who suffer the insufferable pontifications of the puritanical who define themselves primarily by what they are against, of which Smoking along with Travelling Freely are a prime target.
Now, as both Initiates and Longtime Lurkers here will know, it is almost a truism that We Smokers possess an exceptionally refined grasp of just how the Deep Indeterminabilities uncovered by Professors Schroedinger and Heisenberg undeniably apply to the alleged deleterious effects of Our Vaporous Occupation. We are assailed night and day by shrill voices, judgments, and condemnations, to which Caesar twenty-one days ago added his universal proscription on the sale of tobaccy.
It is dismaying that those who presume to pontificate on the imprudence of Smoking have yet to evince even a fermion's width of appreciation of the import and implication of what our fellow smokers (Erwin S and Werner H, vide supra) have pretty much established regarding the unbridgeable quantum gap between the epistemological status and ontic state at the heart of physical reality.
Much like the Wuhan virus Case Fatality Rate (as of this writing), We Just Don't Know, for Sure.
Neither do we know at this juncture when Caesar's harsh decree will be undone. I am convinced that not even Caesar in all his self-proclaimed wisdom and ostensible omnipotence knows, which is not just a philosophical conundrum but a political abomination.
So, Courage! Fortitude! Perseverance!
In the end, Liberty wins. Even if only for the few.
I am checking in here mainly to offer commiserations and encouragement to fellow Smokers who are labouring under the strictures and privations of this pestilential lockdown, and most especially to offer solace to those who suffer the insufferable pontifications of the puritanical who define themselves primarily by what they are against, of which Smoking along with Travelling Freely are a prime target.
Now, as both Initiates and Longtime Lurkers here will know, it is almost a truism that We Smokers possess an exceptionally refined grasp of just how the Deep Indeterminabilities uncovered by Professors Schroedinger and Heisenberg undeniably apply to the alleged deleterious effects of Our Vaporous Occupation. We are assailed night and day by shrill voices, judgments, and condemnations, to which Caesar twenty-one days ago added his universal proscription on the sale of tobaccy.
It is dismaying that those who presume to pontificate on the imprudence of Smoking have yet to evince even a fermion's width of appreciation of the import and implication of what our fellow smokers (Erwin S and Werner H, vide supra) have pretty much established regarding the unbridgeable quantum gap between the epistemological status and ontic state at the heart of physical reality.
Much like the Wuhan virus Case Fatality Rate (as of this writing), We Just Don't Know, for Sure.
Neither do we know at this juncture when Caesar's harsh decree will be undone. I am convinced that not even Caesar in all his self-proclaimed wisdom and ostensible omnipotence knows, which is not just a philosophical conundrum but a political abomination.
So, Courage! Fortitude! Perseverance!
In the end, Liberty wins. Even if only for the few.
GreGorGy
BULLSFAN
Just before the lockdown, I could only find 2 packs of Black Bob Rum but I found 4 Cherries. On the day, I got another Cherry. At home, I found some older Rum, half a pack. I had 2.5 to 5 Rum to Cherry. PRefer an even ratio but hell was upon us. At current consumption, I should make the last week but I am running out of long rizlas (this may be a blessing though for completely different non-smoking reasons). For the last week, I have normal virginia and colts cherry. And then 3 cigars. And then, I am out.
Step-son has 4.5 packs left. He's screwed. Unless we find something or the levy breaks. And my weed situation is even worse.
Step-son has 4.5 packs left. He's screwed. Unless we find something or the levy breaks. And my weed situation is even worse.