[Closed] Vaping WTF?

It's not smoke.

showing off, no need for it.

It's a less harmful substitute to produce the endorphin surge some smokers get from annoying other people.

I'm more impressed with the drivers who go along in a pea-souper of a fog bank

It's not smoke

What is it then, vapour I guess but there was so much of it, like following Thomas the Tank 😆

"Cloud chasing" is a thing, apparently.

I'm more impressed with the drivers who go along in a pea-souper of a fog bank

It's good practice for driving in the fog though. 🙂

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I find it irritating, and I vape to quit smoking.
Normal ones dont give of that much vapour and it dispurses in a second or two, but you can get beefed up modified hardware, and juices that give of huge plooms, there's a whole scene around it...pretty sad really.

It's a less harmful substitute

You sure?

I saw some guy on the motorway last week. He had a e cig that was about a foot long. I think he fancied himself as the Pink Panther.

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Someone on here coined the term "Douche flute".

Which is excellent.

Walking in the wake of a vaper is like being in a Bonnie Tyler video

Do Bonnie Tyler videos smell of Strawberry too?

Theres a vape shop just up from the office.
Always smells like strawberries and its a permanent fug in there. People take their kids in there. Can you get passive vaping or is it harmless like cigarettes? 😆

It's not harmLESS, but compared to smoking tobacco, reletivley it is far far far safer.

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yeah but if we don't do it and other people do its well stupid innit

It's not harmLESS, but compared to smoking tobacco, reletivley it is far far far safer.

... probably. It's almost certainly less bad than smoking, but it'll be years before any long-term effects can be studied.

True, but I'd sooner worry about all the diesel fumes floating around the average high street.

short term effects are night and day though compared to smoking. that I can confirm. Agree long term is unknown, wouldn't surprise me if they contributed to respiratory problems.

There are two types of liquid. VG produces a lot of smoke, PG doesn't produce a lot. I found PG hurt my throat and swapped to VG, I do feel like a complete cock at times using it. You get used to being a cock tho, just like everyone else on this forum. 😆

My first reaction was: "Jeeeez, its like a ****in steam train!"

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Thomas is a small locomotive, not a glorified tracked mobile cannon.

Used to do my nut in as a kid.

"Is that Thomas the Tank?"

"No he's a ****ing steam locomotive you silly cow."

Look, I can get narked by mundane inconsequential crap too!

I avoid vape smog every bit as much as I do cigarette smoke - equally antisocial and I don't like the idea of breathing that crap in - as has been said, we don't know about what the long term health risks may be.

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Thomas is a small locomotive,

He's a small tank locomotive, with tanks either side of the boiler rather than pulled in a separate tender. Tank is a common term for this sort of thing that was around long before the weapons of war.

As for vaping and producing plumes of smoke being "cool", well, it's weird.

don't know what the long term health effect may be from actually vaping. Second hand damage is highly unlikely, imo. Otherwise they wouldn't be using the same stuff and pumping it into crowds at gigs and the like... the core chemicals are stuff that's been getting used for over 100 years, so it's not a complete unknown.

there's a whole scene around it...pretty sad really.

You've just tarnished every STW user with a giant scenic brush.

As for vaping and producing plumes of smoke being "cool", well, it's weird.

Interesting. I too don't like to be forced to passively vape, but I don't have issue with others trying to get off the cigs - and the clouds remind me of good old pipe smokers in the good old smokey local pubs before the immigrants came and made them all into Wetherspoons.

Sigh, here comes the analogies.. Is enjoying a vape cloud any weirder than necking serveral fermented grape or potato juices in a bar?
Arent we all looking for some kind of hit?

Otherwise they wouldn't be using the same stuff and pumping it into crowds at gigs and the like...

Your confidence in governments' willingness and appetite to regulate harmful chemicals is perhaps misplaced...

You've just tarnished every STW user with a giant scenic brush.

In strict accordance with STW scripture. 😆

I'm just waiting on the screams of anguish when I crack open my dry herb vaporiser in public! 😆

I do it, as (hopefully!) its miles better than smoking with regard to the whole life expectancy thing.

*crosses fingers*

But you've got to look at it like this. Some people can buy a standard family hatchback, and other than putting petrol in it and having it serviced, they'll leave it alone. But some people feel the need to do this...

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So most normal people will just buy one and use it instead of constantly buying 20 Bensons.

But some blokes (and it is always blokes) will buy a constant upgrade to coils, atomisers, and tanks, until with one 'vape' they can replicate Manchester City Centre at the height of the industrial revolution.

I think the motivation for both the car and the e-cig thing is the same feelings of inadequacy in certain departments

seosamh77 - Member

I'm just waiting on the screams of anguish when I crack open my [u]dry herb[/u] vaporiser in public!

OMG..... is that.......niche?!?!?

Back in the day, before we were educated smoking at least looked cool...has anyone ever looked at a 'vaperer' and thought "man do they look cool, I'm going to get me one of them things"

Is enjoying a vape cloud any weirder than necking serveral fermented grape or potato juices in a bar?

legend - Member

OMG..... is that.......niche?!?!?

Back in the day, before we were educated smoking at least looked cool...has anyone ever looked at a 'vaperer' and thought "man do they look cool, I'm going to get me one of them things"

Yeah, but when we all started smoking we were 15 and thought, however delusionaly, we were in with a fighting chance of looking cool.

Now were all fat old bald bastards, and gave up any pretence of 'cool' about 3 decades ago, but we're addicts.

Does that answer your question?

johndoh - Member

Well vaping is more anti-social

Not necessarily so, I'm willing to bet you'd not even notice me vaping in the same room as you.

boo! 😆

Just as well, he's been doing this behind his back for the last half hour...

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😆

seosamh77

Not necessarily so, I'm willing to bet you'd not even notice me vaping in the same room as you.

People who vape obviously assume this. Much like people who fart on the train etc. No, we can smell you. And we see you surreptitiously sucking on your little robot wang oh so sneakily.

people that don't vape obvious don't know that there are other flavours beyond revolting fruity ones that stink a room out. But you crack on.

No, we can smell you.

Why do you care?

If you think inhaling water vapour with some "stuff" in tiny quantities is harmful then I suggest you sleep in a plastic bubble and avoid going out or get back in diesel Audi and mutilate a baby robins face.

gobuchul

No, we can smell you.

Why do you care?

seosamh77

I'm willing to bet you'd not even notice me vaping in the same room as you.

jimjam

seosamh77

Not necessarily so, I'm willing to bet you'd not even notice me vaping in the same room as you.

People who vape obviously assume this. Much like people who fart on the train etc. No, we can smell you. And we see you surreptitiously sucking on your little robot wang oh so sneakily.

Come on now. Don't be too harsh on them. Now that we've all packed in smoking there's a section of society that secretly feels agrieved they've been deprived of a main outlet for their endless, tedious, boo hoo, poor me, it's all just sooooooo not fair, sanctimonious, whiney, middle class bleating

slimjim78 - Member
there's a whole scene around it...pretty sad really.
You've just tarnished every STW user with a giant scenic brush.

Not necessarily so, I'm willing to bet you'd not even notice me vaping in the same room as you

. . . there's a section of society that secretly feels agrieved they've been deprived of a main outlet for their endless, tedious, boo hoo, poor me, it's all just sooooooo not fair, sanctimonious, whiney, middle class bleating

Is Binners always this sanctimonious, or just having an off day?

It's just the combination of me being in possession of a sense of proportion, and my low tolerance for bed-wetters

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CountZero - Member
I'm pretty sure most establishments ban vaping inside their premises in the same way that they ban smoking, and a good thing too.

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Is this the bit in the thread where the people who go to the pub twice a year, once for the Christmas do, and once on their birthday, start whining and bleating about what should, and shouldn't be acceptable in pubs? 😆

I'm pretty sure most establishments ban vaping inside their premises in the same way that they ban smoking, and a good thing too.

FFS the 2 things are not even comparable.

Ban it! Ban it! I don't like it! There is no evidence that passive vaping is harmful but ban it anyway! Ban it! It's a bit like that smoking thing so just ****ing BAN IT! The smell of strawberries is putting me off my Artisan Tempeh!

IANAV.

Ah, overtly opinionated and vocally pious. Just wondered. 😉

Pretty well summarised, yes 😀

Whilst we are not sure the extent to which poisonous gases are emitted as a result of vaping, we do know that farting involves the emission of poisonous gases, It is clear where our priorities should lie.

The assumption being that every STW member smokes or vapes? Really, how was that arrived at then?

Abssolutely not.
The assumption being that most STW members either; drink alcohol in establishments/play with Radio Controlled cars/construct model ariplane kits/spend hours creating GIfs/spend thousands supporting football teams/spend years arguing on internet forums/purchase bike after bike after bike etc

All of the above being scenes of one sort of another - that all of us STWers fit into at least one camp.
I was taking issue with calling one mans daft thing 'pretty sad' over another mans daft thing.

we do know that farting involves the emission of poisonous gases

and gasses contain minute particles of matter. so in eccence, a cheeky train fart is essentially putting poo up someone elses nose.

Ban it.

I'd rather have pubs full of vapers than the current odour of arse and cheap aftershave. And if it keeps the bedwetters and their children away that's a double bonus.

Latest wheeze to part low-income people from their hard-earned cash

It's cheaper and more healthy than smoking.. It's great for quitting.. I would think non smokers taking up vaping would be very much a minority..

You know how much twenty Benson are nowadays THM?*

Have a quick Google, and you'll have your answer as to why more people are vaping

* presuming you're not getting them from the bloke down the pub who just knocked off an off licence 😀

teamhurtmore - Member
Latest wheeze to part low-income people from their hard-earned cash

I know this is something you'll struggle to comprehend, but it's only money! 😆

I should have realised that the joke was too subtle

Subtle? Have you forgotten where you are?

OUT!

teamhurtmore - Member
I should have realised that the joke was too subtle

Vaping is so 2016. Here's where it's at for 2017

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I don't under how the anti-vapers can sleep at night, they are effectively murdering people.

I used e-cigs for a couple of months to help with packing in smoking. No one called it vaping then. It was crap but made me stop and I have not touched either for years.

If I was to return it would be to proper tabs. The fancy vape things look stupid and make a stupid noise. Lad at work is always on his and the noise drives me mad. At least with a smoke, every now and then you have one that absolutely hits the spot.

So, is vaping in the same category as e bikes then?

^^ or woodburners?

My uncle introduced me to the concept of 'coil porn'... a highly complicated way of making fancy coils to heat the vape liquid.

Youtube it.
I'm odd.
You're odd.
But that's VERY odd....

DrP

My uncle introduced me to the concept of 'coil porn'... a highly complicated way of making fancy coils to heat the vape liquid.

It's worse than that, you can get titanium, steel and other exotic materials too. Just like bikes!

Haven't had the guts to try a carbon one yet though...