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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2023 10:47:14 GMT -5
If you ban smoking completely, all you do is incentivize criminals to supply tobacco products. Americans learned the hard way how well Prohibition works. Cei-U! Put that in your pipe and... oops, I summon the poor choice of metaphor! I wasn’t being serious, but I think a smokatorium is a good idea.
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Post by impulse on May 9, 2023 12:30:14 GMT -5
If you ban smoking completely, all you do is incentivize criminals to supply tobacco products. Americans learned the hard way how well Prohibition works. Cei-U! Put that in your pipe and... oops, I summon the poor choice of metaphor! I have some rather detailed thoughts I could express on how well I think America has actually learned the lesson of prohibition, but I could surely not do so without getting too political, so instead, I will say my wife and I had lunch at one of our favorite local Cuban places, and Ropa Vieja is delicious.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 9, 2023 13:25:48 GMT -5
If you ban smoking completely, all you do is incentivize criminals to supply tobacco products. Americans learned the hard way how well Prohibition works. Cei-U! Put that in your pipe and... oops, I summon the poor choice of metaphor! I have some rather detailed thoughts I could express on how well I think America has actually learned the lesson of prohibition, but I could surely not do so without getting too political, so instead, I will say my wife and I had lunch at one of our favorite local Cuban places, and Ropa Vieja is delicious. Yep. I would say that the last 40 years' War On _____, has put paid to the idea that we learned anything from Prohibition.
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Post by impulse on May 9, 2023 14:08:54 GMT -5
At risk of being political, I think every Tuesday should be nationally recognized as Taco Tuesday as tacos are delicious. There, I said it. Wait, wrong thread.
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Post by Icctrombone on May 9, 2023 20:23:55 GMT -5
Well, I just finished a three hour job of cleaning and covering the items in my attic. Tomorrow, a new roof is going to be installed soon to be followed by solar panels. I made sure to bring all my prized comics down from there just in case an accident happens
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Post by Batflunkie on May 10, 2023 9:28:57 GMT -5
We need to ban smoking in the home, in vehicles, outdoors, etc. Have a Smokatorium like in Judge Dredd, I say: Still waiting on Boing palaces tbh
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Post by Cei-U! on May 10, 2023 19:18:15 GMT -5
My new mattress is being delivered tomorrow!!!!!!
Cei-U! Gee, can you tell I'm excited?
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Post by Icctrombone on May 10, 2023 19:40:04 GMT -5
My new mattress is being delivered tomorrow!!!!!!
Cei-U! Gee, can you tell I'm excited?
At our age , it's the simple things that are wonderful.
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Post by codystarbuck on May 10, 2023 21:29:23 GMT -5
Reminds me of sleeping at the hospital, near the end of things. I spent a couple of nights trying to sleep upright, in this little couch thing, with a wooden table in the middle of it, between two cushioned seating parts. Tried to lay down; but the table was too hard and I couldn't scrunch down enough to just rest my legs on it. Got to where I could sort of sleep, a bit, sitting semi upright. On the last night, a nurse tells me that the back folded down to create a bed. It was pretty cushiony, too. Wish I had found that out two nights before.
Mind you, after the military, I can doze off juts about anywhere, for an hour or two. You learn to catch sleep where you can get it.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on May 10, 2023 23:39:06 GMT -5
I don’t know how illegal this is and if I should admit to it but over my wife’s gastric bypass, two premature pregnancies, ankle surgery and various other inpatient procedures the only way I could sleep in those hospital chairs was some oj and snuck in vodka. And really bad cable movies. One night I couldn’t sleep I watched Deep Blue Sea like four times in a row. On better times, her gastric bypass, while she was under, I went to a lcs and scored about 80% of Sensational She-Hulk and got back just in time for her to be in recovery and then her morphine addled brain to let her sleep the rest of the day while I read but to wake me up at like 1am in a total mania. Talk talk talk lol
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Post by Icctrombone on May 11, 2023 3:54:04 GMT -5
Happy belated birthday to Crimebuster! Turns out our kickstarter star turned the big 50 last Saturday . Welcome to the club. old man.
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Post by Cei-U! on May 11, 2023 5:36:14 GMT -5
My new mattress is being delivered tomorrow!!!!!!
Cei-U! Gee, can you tell I'm excited?
At our age , it's the simple things that are wonderful. Simple does not apply here. It took over five years of wading waist-high through bureaucratic bullshit to make this happen. But I'm not bitter (well, not very). I'm freakin' ecstatic.
Cei-U! I summon a whole buncha good nights' sleep!
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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2023 6:16:06 GMT -5
Damn, five years? Bureaucracy is truly one of many enemies to contend with - and 99% of the time, bureaucracy is unnecessary. Glad it’s coming, anyway.
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Post by Cei-U! on May 13, 2023 17:04:10 GMT -5
I must of necessity be vague for now but please keep your fingers crossed for me, pals 'n' gals. My whole world got upended a few minutes ago and my stress level is just this side of naked panic. I'm sure it'll all work out in the end (IhopeIhope(hope) but in the interim, well...
Cei-U! I summon the cure for this anxiety attack!
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Post by commond on May 13, 2023 17:16:39 GMT -5
I must of necessity be vague for now but please keep your fingers crossed for me, pals 'n' gals. My whole world got upended a few minutes ago and my stress level is just this side of naked panic. I'm sure it'll all work out in the end (IhopeIhope(hope) but in the interim, well...
Cei-U! I summon the cure for this anxiety attack!
Fingers crossed here. I hope everything will be okay.
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