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Title: Language in main arena
Post by: 1Cane on February 15, 2024, 11:13:10 AM
AT Bish A9 the language was as foul as anything I heard in barracks! Please get control of this! My grandson plays game and should not have to hear such GARBAGE!! Or put an R rating on game
Title: Re: Language in main arena
Post by: TryHard on February 15, 2024, 12:01:28 PM
Worried about language in a game where we use heavy caliber weapons to shoot people is ironic.
Title: Re: Language in main arena
Post by: Banshee7 on February 15, 2024, 12:03:16 PM
While it's not an excuse, your grandson probably hears much worse at school :rofl
Title: Re: Language in main arena
Post by: xanax on February 15, 2024, 01:05:20 PM
Only issue I've had is there's a nice, amicable fella using the moniker "LATINLUV" which, in itself is innocuous enough. However, raising my voice a bit to say "check six, LATINLUV" or watch your rear, LATINLUV" sounds weird when the wife is across the room at her desk laughing like a hyena. I'll shorten it to "LATIN" if the situation ever comes up again. Problem solved.
Title: Re: Language in main arena
Post by: 1Cane on February 15, 2024, 01:19:07 PM
Only issue I've had is there's a nice, amicable fella using the moniker "LATINLUV" which, in itself is innocuous enough. However, raising my voice a bit to say "check six, LATINLUV" or watch your rear, LATINLUV" sounds weird when the wife is across the room at her desk laughing like a hyena. I'll shorten it to "LATIN" if the situation ever comes up again. Problem solved.
:rofl :rofl :rofl
Title: Re: Language in main arena
Post by: Shane on February 15, 2024, 02:24:39 PM
Wouldn't surprise me to find these are the same hypocrites mashing and abusing the .rpt button when I called them "gunbunny."
Maybe a mod will step up - lolololololololoololol I know, really.
Title: Re: Language in main arena
Post by: hazmatt on February 15, 2024, 05:44:20 PM
Yes I'm sure they are targeting some random guy in a ww2 flight sim just for fun...
If you read the boards sir you will see that I'm not the only one. For sure there are a small number of us but the only thing I can wish is that you are that "random guy" someday and get to experience an excrement sandwich without the bread :)
Title: Re: Language in main arena
Post by: 1Cane on February 15, 2024, 11:05:23 PM
Would like to add to many discussions in game about dope. I don't care if it's weed or coke . No place to discuss here! :old:
Title: Re: Language in main arena
Post by: hazmatt on February 16, 2024, 12:23:32 AM
I have little dope books but I keep the with my rifles.
Title: Re: Language in main arena
Post by: fudgums on February 16, 2024, 06:03:53 AM
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Title: Re: Language in main arena
Post by: GasTeddy on February 16, 2024, 08:01:23 AM
In certain age brats think using dirty language makes them cool. Some never pass that period.
Title: Re: Language in main arena
Post by: turt21 on February 16, 2024, 08:03:15 AM
Its not permitted in my house. At school I have no control. And I cant figger what purpose it serves in the game for the life of me. Does it help your aim?
Title: Re: Language in main arena
Post by: Dadtallica on February 16, 2024, 08:19:20 AM
Would like to add to many discussions in game about dope. I don't care if it's weed or coke . No place to discuss here! :old:
lol what? You just get worse with each passing quote. I bet you’re hella fun at parties! :banana:
But alcohol is ok to talk about? I have been growing cannabis for almost 30 years. I do not drink or smoke cigarettes. The only time I ever took over the counter medicine is when I had cancer. I’ve have posts in this forum of my grows even.
How about you go play with your rubber duckies and let the rest of us adults worry about what should discussed.
Title: Re: Language in main arena
Post by: Oldman731 on February 16, 2024, 08:39:55 AM
lol what? You just get worse with each passing quote. I bet you’re hella fun at parties! :banana:
But alcohol is ok to talk about? I have been growing cannabis for almost 30 years. I do not drink or smoke cigarettes. The only time I ever took over the counter medicine is when I had cancer. I’ve have posts in this forum of my grows even.
How about you go play with your rubber duckies and let the rest of us adults worry about what should discussed.
Ok ignore the fact you chose to break the law and brag on it.
Marijuana is a Schedule 1 drug, Controlled Substance Act Lot adults in prison think the same way you do, GOOD LUCK So, your growing pot justifies it's use along with coke. I am approaching 80 and all my friends who used are gone. If I were to break the law I wouldn't post it on the forum!
Title: Re: Language in main arena
Post by: Vraciu on February 16, 2024, 09:58:16 AM
Ok ignore the fact you chose to break the law and brag on it.
Marijuana is a Schedule 1 drug, Controlled Substance Act Lot adults in prison think the same way you do, GOOD LUCK So, your growing pot justifies it's use along with coke. I am approaching 80 and all my friends who used are gone. If I were to break the law I wouldn't post it on the forum!
It’s legal here and weed didn’t kill your friends lol.
Title: Re: Language in main arena
Post by: xanax on February 16, 2024, 10:40:12 AM
I get that it's kinda lame to hear all the cursing and whatnot on VOX. It does make folks sound kinda like Visigoths but that's how it goes, read the room. Bringing a kid into an adult-orientated MMP game where voice communication takes place is akin to bringing a little kid to a Bruins/Flyers playoff game at the Garden or Spectrum and expecting everyone in your section not to curse or act like a drunk baboon because you brought a tyke with you. Not gonna happen and the mouth sewage will probably flow even faster. It's kind of a shame folks act like that at times but they do and you know they do. Read the room.
Title: Re: Language in main arena
Post by: Eagler on February 16, 2024, 11:08:10 AM
I don't hear the majority of vox as led zeppelin or 38 special or any classic rock band is drowning it out
Give it a try sometimes
Eagler
Title: Re: Language in main arena
Post by: JimmyD3 on February 16, 2024, 11:20:03 AM
No matter what your "opinion" of AKCaine is, he brings up a valid issue. I wager the majority of you wouldn't use that kind of language around your kids, grandkids, or your mother. I agree with his position on the "dope" issue as well, albeit a lot of states have legalized. :(
Title: Re: Language in main arena
Post by: AKIron on February 16, 2024, 11:25:23 AM
It’s legal here and weed didn’t kill your friends lol.
Not if you live in the US. Federal law supersedes state law, Supremacy Clause. I don't agree with the federal law, pot should be legal. But it ain't.
Title: Re: Language in main arena
Post by: Dadtallica on February 16, 2024, 11:29:53 AM
I would like to not hear so much about Jesus and latent homo eroticism. Some of you really need to chill on that last one.
But I also don’t care what others do with their lives… I also don’t tune to 200. It’s pretty easy not to. Rook country chat when I play is usually pretty fun, take and respectful. Lots of WTG’s and goofball chat. Don’t know about the other two sides. Since day one of chat rooms the same complaints have been levied and the internet stays the same.
Anyone in here complaining about 200 is of course just as guilty.
Title: Re: Language in main arena
Post by: Dadtallica on February 16, 2024, 11:33:49 AM
Not if you live in the US. Federal law supersedes state law, Supremacy Clause. I don't agree with the federal law, pot should be legal. But it ain't.
That only means I can’t take it across state lines for commerce. While technically true federal law preempts state laws to some degree, the USA is not going to infringe on NY laws unless I break them… which I’m not.
States rights baby! lol :rock
Title: Re: Language in main arena
Post by: Spikes on February 16, 2024, 11:36:11 AM
Not if you live in the US. Federal law supersedes state law, Supremacy Clause. I don't agree with the federal law, pot should be legal. But it ain't.
If you try to board an airplane or go to a state where it is illegal, sure. But otherwise, no.
Title: Re: Language in main arena
Post by: AKIron on February 16, 2024, 11:44:20 AM
The feds have decided not to enforce the law. That doesn't change the illegality. Filled out one of these lately?
"Are you an unlawful user of, or addicted to, marijuana or any depressant, stimulant, narcotic drug, or any other controlled substance? Warning: The use or possession of marijuana remains unlawful under Federal law regardless of whether it has been legalized or decriminalized for medicinal or recreational purposes in the state where you reside."
Title: Re: Language in main arena
Post by: Meatwad on February 16, 2024, 12:22:06 PM
All the ones I see dropping 4 letter bombs in public constantly in normal conversation all appear to be greatly lacking in the IQ department. Imagine its the same here.
Title: Re: Language in main arena
Post by: Animl-AW on February 16, 2024, 01:28:08 PM
Its kinda hard to blame a bank robber for taking the cash when he was willfully left alone in the bank with the vault door left open.
That said, Some stuff is going to make it through. However, the screams are piercing when the human mods handle issues. I.E. when 5-6 broken out in political hives and with spewings the other night. Cry me a river.
Not enough mods? Protect the free work of others by not allowing infections in our numbers. Make it worth while, instead of for nawt. Sometimes thats the only reward sought. Attention is required in a few areas.
Unfortunately, my walls don’t reply.
Title: Re: Language in main arena
Post by: Eagler on February 16, 2024, 01:28:30 PM
All the ones I see dropping 4 letter bombs in public constantly in normal conversation all appear to be greatly lacking in the IQ department. Imagine its the same here.
Ding ding ding
It's a lack of education resulting in a lack of vocabulary ...not to mention the lack of class, manners and respect
Eagler
Title: Re: Language in main arena
Post by: xanax on February 16, 2024, 02:50:11 PM
It's a lack of education resulting in a lack of vocabulary ...not to mention the lack of class, manners and respect
Eagler
Last night I saw quite a bit of dropping the vowel of an expletive in order to convey the expletive without it being flagged or whatever. That to me is even more insulting and moronic as now the person thinks they are being crafty and cunning. Nope, just making themselves look stupid while insulting the intelligence of those around them. Actually burning the calories to mask that stuff is a whole other level of lameness. Type it out and take the mute or wise up and find an actual crafty, intelligent way to get your point across.
Again, the OP see's and hears this stuff all the time while playing and should take that into account before showing the grand kid.
Title: Re: Language in main arena
Post by: 1Cane on February 16, 2024, 03:02:57 PM
I would like to not hear so much about Jesus and latent homo eroticism. Some of you really need to chill on that last one.
But I also don’t care what others do with their lives… I also don’t tune to 200. It’s pretty easy not to. Rook country chat when I play is usually pretty fun, take and respectful. Lots of WTG’s and goofball chat. Don’t know about the other two sides. Since day one of chat rooms the same complaints have been levied and the internet stays the same.
Anyone in here complaining about 200 is of course just as guilty.
It's what you said on country that started this conversation not channel 200
Title: Re: Language in main arena
Post by: Dadtallica on February 16, 2024, 03:14:53 PM
It's a lack of education resulting in a lack of vocabulary ...not to mention the lack of class, manners and respect
Eagler
Fully agreed. Growing up plays a big role. My 13 years old son has bee praised because of his civilized and polite way of expressing himself. In 3 languages.
Title: Re: Language in main arena
Post by: Animl-AW on February 16, 2024, 06:48:26 PM
Don’t get me started on manners and responsibilities.
Some smash it in one place, cheer it on in another. Low class exist in a few areas, not limited to just 200., nor language. We have some passive aggressive outsiders who cause more damage than that. Yet, thats ok.
For some, spare me the fake concern.
Fight for the game or lose it, no one else is.
Title: Re: Language in main arena
Post by: potsNpans on February 16, 2024, 08:00:44 PM
This community is not the back alley of an abandoned building. I think it's reasonable for mature adults to consider curbing low character verbiage. Yes your excuses for not are legion, but I'll still keep expectations positive. :police:
Title: Re: Language in main arena
Post by: TryHard on February 17, 2024, 01:48:14 AM
Ok ignore the fact you chose to break the law and brag on it.
Marijuana is a Schedule 1 drug, Controlled Substance Act Lot adults in prison think the same way you do, GOOD LUCK So, your growing pot justifies it's use along with coke. I am approaching 80 and all my friends who used are gone. If I were to break the law I wouldn't post it on the forum!
Man what the HELL? are you on about?
And what does any of this have to do with World War 2 Airplanes??? :airplane:
Title: Re: Language in main arena
Post by: 1Cane on February 17, 2024, 11:40:50 AM
I heard someone speaking French.... blasphemy I tell you... :D
Dit was een of ander bobbejaan wat nie tale kon praat nie.
Title: Re: Language in main arena
Post by: hazmatt on February 17, 2024, 04:39:24 PM
I heard that French WWII rifles were always the best collector rifles.
Most were never fired and had been only dropped once.
Title: Re: Language in main arena
Post by: scott66 on February 17, 2024, 06:50:45 PM
I've takin the liberty of washing my mouth out with soap for I am guilty of occasionally using a word or two to convey my excitement on vox if I've offended any of my rook brothers (or sisters I don't judge) then pls accept my humble apologies I will try harder in the future to be better :salute
Title: Re: Language in main arena
Post by: hazmatt on February 17, 2024, 07:47:15 PM
I've takin the liberty of washing my mouth or with soap for I am guilty of occasionally using a word or two to convey my excitement on vox if I've offended any of my rook brothers (or sisters I don't judge) then pls accept my humble apologies I will try harder in the future to be better :salute
WTF! (Wow! That's Fantastic)
Title: Re: Language in main arena
Post by: Animl-AW on February 18, 2024, 01:25:14 AM
Ok ignore the fact you chose to break the law and brag on it.
Marijuana is a Schedule 1 drug, Controlled Substance Act Lot adults in prison think the same way you do, GOOD LUCK So, your growing pot justifies it's use along with coke. I am approaching 80 and all my friends who used are gone. If I were to break the law I wouldn't post it on the forum!
1) It's not illegal in every state anymore, smoking nor growing, its 2024. 2) If you're approaching 80 then it's natural for a lot of your friends to be gone. I'm 64 and 90% of my friends are gone.
Speaking about it on 200 is probably bad taste. It kills me about this country The habit that kills the most (Alcohol) is legal, the habit that kills the least (Weed) is illegal S1. A lot of weed smoking went on during the prohibition, it wasn't invented in the 60s. Just sayin
There's a lot of garbage on 200, like spewing of political conspiracies.
Title: Re: Language in main arena
Post by: diaster on February 18, 2024, 07:48:11 AM
AT Bish A9 the language was as foul as anything I heard in barracks! Please get control of this! My grandson plays game and should not have to hear such GARBAGE!! Or put an R rating on game
Perhaps this is not the game for a grand “child” then. You are asking the many to adapt for the one. Pretty much the standard these days with men competing in women’s sports n all. It is under your direction whether or not you allow your grandchild to be “sheltered” from the horrors of this game, that depicts killing people using simulated weapons of war and played mostly by adults. Mostly as in over 90% i would guess. I agree the language can get fouled at times, I too have said f something or toejame something in frustration. Short answer, that’s life, nothing is you would have it to be.
Title: Re: Language in main arena
Post by: JimmyD3 on February 18, 2024, 09:37:32 AM
And the excuses or self justifications just keep coming. If you have to swear, do it in your head. Never a justification for it. That being said, I have my episodes as well, but its still wrong. :cheers:
Title: Re: Language in main arena
Post by: popeye on February 18, 2024, 09:42:49 AM
And the excuses or self justifications just keep coming. If you have to swear, do it in your head. Never a justification for it. That being said, I have my episodes as well, but its still wrong. :cheers:
I never heard you swear, but you sure do yell a lot when you need help defending a port! :D
Title: Re: Language in main arena
Post by: Animl-AW on February 18, 2024, 11:14:17 AM
Slip of the tongue is one thing, typing it out is intensional. You should hear me talk, but it never comes out in txt.
If I go to a cookout of mixed crowd I mind my manners. If not I dwarf sailors. There are used car salesmen here selling other games, what I really want to say to these grown punks never comes out. They think I’m harsh when they get my soft side.
Someone talking about their drugs on 200 is vacation worthy.
Title: Re: Language in main arena
Post by: JimmyD3 on February 18, 2024, 11:37:37 AM
I never heard you swear, but you sure do yell a lot when you need help defending a port! :D
Oh I can get foul mouthed too, not proud of it, but it does get out every now and then. :devil Worked to many years in the Oil Industry, along with my military service.
Title: Re: Language in main arena
Post by: Animl-AW on February 18, 2024, 12:27:22 PM
Oh I can get foul mouthed too, not proud of it, but it does get out every now and then. :devil Worked to many years in the Oil Industry, along with my military service.
None of us are saints. Cussing is one thing, promoting drugs is vacation worthy.
Title: Re: Language in main arena
Post by: Oldman731 on February 18, 2024, 06:27:11 PM
While it's not an excuse, your grandson probably hears much worse at school :rofl
Facts
Title: Re: Language in main arena
Post by: fuzeman on February 19, 2024, 10:11:45 AM
HiTech’s house. His rules. If a word filter he set up would flag it I’d think he would be against saying that same word. I didn’t like Foul language in my event.
Title: Re: Language in main arena
Post by: Eagler on February 19, 2024, 10:46:48 AM
HiTech’s house. His rules. If a word filter he set up would flag it I’d think he would be against saying that same word. I didn’t like Foul language in my event.
I remember those events and miss them greatly :joystick:
4 pages of a thread for swearing/inappropriate language in an online game with some actually trying to justify such childish and immature behavior is just baffling...
Eagler
Title: Re: Language in main arena
Post by: Shuffler on February 19, 2024, 11:26:08 AM
1) It's not illegal in every state anymore, smoking nor growing, its 2024. 2) If you're approaching 80 then it's natural for a lot of your friends to be gone. I'm 64 and 90% of my friends are gone.
Speaking about it on 200 is probably bad taste. It kills me about this country The habit that kills the most (Alcohol) is legal, the habit that kills the least (Weed) is illegal S1. A lot of weed smoking went on during the prohibition, it wasn't invented in the 60s. Just sayin
There's a lot of garbage on 200, like spewing of political conspiracies.
Cancer kills far more and the habit is smoking. They are finding that pot and even electric ciggs are not much of any better.
Title: Re: Language in main arena
Post by: Dadtallica on February 19, 2024, 11:52:07 AM
4 pages of a thread for swearing/inappropriate language in an online game with some actually trying to justify such childish and immature behavior is just baffling...
Eagler
Agreed 101%. I agree with you in many aspects of life. Should one of us or both get worried..?
Cancer kills far more and the habit is smoking. They are finding that pot and even electric ciggs are not much of any better.
Ha! All true. That said, my mom smoked 2 packs per day until 87, my dad smoked a pipe non-stop until 87.
Mom died prematurely from a bed sore that got way out of hand. Dad died of dementia. Both gruesome to watch their passing.
I smoked for 45 yrs, smoked a ship full of weed in the 70s-80s.
I went to a doctor for the first visit for a physical. He says: “your breathing is excellent, your blood flow sounds great, I think your lungs were just made for smoking” <blank stare> Never went back to that quack, he was banking on profiting from being wrong. Worst advice I ever got.
A lot of things will kill you, language is not one of them. Its just not prudent. Lol
Others smoke a short while and get cancer. Its in the genes.
I’m very far from being an angle. My nickname prolly suits me. But I was just raised like Opie Taylor in Mayberry to mind my manners in public. In private I go off the book of Animl. Ha! Do as I say, not as I do, its not for weak stomachs. I just sin differently than others. :)
Title: Re: Language in main arena
Post by: captain1ma on February 19, 2024, 06:14:57 PM
if we just put a stop to people talking to each other, then no one would have to worry about language or offending anyone. that would be a good start i think!
yes, thats some serious sarcasm!
Title: Re: Language in main arena
Post by: Tumor on February 19, 2024, 07:39:43 PM
Not true, Not false. It's an unanswered question... at least now. 20yrs ago it was thought that Weed (smoke) was worse than tobacco because it contains significantly more of some of the same chemicals found in tobacco smoke that are(were) thought to be carcinogenic. Who knows, maybe it will make you live forever. Regardless, somehow, the "Scientific" Community has managed to ignore a quickly approaching issue. I can't imagine why when so many are focused on finding something to legally dumb themselves down.
Title: Re: Language in main arena
Post by: CptTrips on February 19, 2024, 08:11:42 PM
Not true, Not false. It's an unanswered question... at least now. 20yrs ago it was thought that Weed (smoke) was worse than tobacco because it contains significantly more of some of the same chemicals found in tobacco smoke that are(were) thought to be carcinogenic.
It does. And yet after massive studies to find it, there is no evidence of higher incidents of cancer from cannabis exposure.
That is what started pharma looking at what was going on as far as it having anti-cancer properties. It should have easily been showing higher cancer risk.
That only applies to the burning of the vegetable matter. Vaping the oil or tinctures or edibles produce none of those carcinogic compounds.
Only old geezer still burn it. Kids nowadays vape or tincture or edible.
Title: Re: Language in main arena
Post by: Animl-AW on February 19, 2024, 09:46:30 PM
My mom was an LP, My wife was an RN (RIP), my last GF was an RN. I've sat in on 100s of medical/oncology and pharma convention meetings to record them. Boring as sin, but ya pick up on a lot.
There are 426 chemical entities in weed. If you have just the wrong genes, and high intake, I'm sure it can cause cancer to that one special person. Burning the vegetation THC Trichomes sits on is not much different than cigs. However cigs have chemicals added to them to keep them burning.
Smoking weed may expose you to the same type of toxic chemicals found in tobacco smoke. People who only smoked marijuana had higher blood and urine levels of several smoke-related toxins such as naphthalene, acrylamide and acrylonitrile than nonsmokers
There are approximately 600 ingredients in cigarettes. When burned, cigarettes create more than 7,000 chemicals. At least 69 of these chemicals are known to cause cancer, and many are toxic.
That said, Tumor is correct, there is no definitive answer, Yet.
People spend a lot on things that dumb them down, it's a stress relief and endorphin release. if it makes you happy, you'll prolly do it. Everyone sins differently. I'd rather have a weed smoker around me than an alcoholic, I'd rather have a weed smoker around me at work than someone who hasn't slept in 24 hours while working.
That said, weed has some mental issues it can cause. Regular cannabis use can be linked to an increased risk of anxiety and depression. But most research seems to have a focus on the link between psychosis and weed. Using weed can increase the risk of developing psychotic illness, including schizophrenia.
YA know what it boils down to? Life is just too short. Pick your poison wisely. Live your life. Unless someone is willing to volunteer for your place in your coffin, do as you please. What you do is none of my business. I expect the same in return. I'm very busy messing up my own life to keep track of you.
Title: Re: Language in main arena
Post by: Animl-AW on February 19, 2024, 09:52:32 PM
if we just put a stop to people talking to each other, then no one would have to worry about language or offending anyone. that would be a good start i think!
yes, thats some serious sarcasm!
I was deeply offended by that comment
Title: Re: Language in main arena
Post by: Dadtallica on February 19, 2024, 11:06:59 PM
Desktop scientists are my favorite kind.
Title: Re: Language in main arena
Post by: RotBaron on February 20, 2024, 01:30:23 AM
None of us are saints. Cussing is one thing, promoting drugs is vacation worthy.
I’ve witnessed the latter unless we’re talking about weed and now that’s a slippery topic there because so many states have legalized it. Most of the promotion of it is from players with ranging disabilities. While I find it an annoying subject to continue to keep seeing interjected into the conversation, I can also choose to ignore it…
If you’re talking about Schedule 1, that’s entirely different and I agree. A joke from time to time is nothing, but a squad named Hookers n Blow… :confused:
Title: Re: Language in main arena
Post by: hazmatt on February 20, 2024, 08:44:25 AM
Lawyers guns and money?
Title: Re: Language in main arena
Post by: Animl-AW on February 20, 2024, 09:18:40 AM
Just to be clear, smoking 'pure' tobacco from the plant will kill you just as quick.
Smoked cigarettes for 20 years but haven’t touched one in almost 10! Best thing I’ve ever done for me. Now I’m a cigarette snob lol, better not light up those cancer sticks around me hahaha
Title: Re: Language in main arena
Post by: Lazerr on February 20, 2024, 11:24:41 AM
Quit smoking in October. Feel a lot better and saving $10 a day.
Title: Re: Language in main arena
Post by: Dadtallica on February 20, 2024, 11:27:58 AM
Saw someone buy two packs of the kind I used to smoke the other day. Marlboro light 100s and His total was $32!!! I was up to a pack a day or more too. I would have gone broke.
Title: Re: Language in main arena
Post by: Animl-AW on February 20, 2024, 11:41:20 AM
Good for you! unfortunately, I still smoke 1-2 packs of Marlboro per day in our work down-time, esoecialy sitting home on the computer.
Work saves me, I only smoke .5-1 pack per day. Stuck in public venues.
I don’t know how a person can’t feel better after quitting. Its a horrible habit, much baded on muscle memory as an anchor.
Yeah the hardest part was just telling myself no at trigger times.. after meals, on the way to and from work, etc. Honestly what got me to quit was when I got what I assume was covid. Was in bed for three days and I'm a pretty resilient fella, only 36 years old.
I thought to myself if I got this sick in my 50's after smoking another 15 years, I'd probably be dead.
And having a 2 and 4 year old kid, and thinking about them without a father that early in life just to trash my own health and spend a car payment a month on it.. just seemed stupid.
No patches, nothin.. just said F it. Purely mental.
Title: Re: Language in main arena
Post by: Lazerr on February 20, 2024, 11:57:40 AM
Yeah the hardest part was just telling myself no at trigger times.. after meals, on the way to and from work, etc. Honestly what got me to quit was when I got what I assume was covid. Was in bed for three days and I'm a pretty resilient fella, only 36 years old.
I thought to myself if I got this sick in my 50's after smoking another 15 years, I'd probably be dead.
And having a 2 and 4 year old kid, and thinking about them without a father that early in life just to trash my own health and spend a car payment a month on it.. just seemed stupid.
No patches, nothin.. just said F it. Purely mental.
I had to take chantix and it took two tries but it stuck for sure. I walk by smokers all the time and the smell annoys me now when in the past I would have joined in.
Title: Re: Language in main arena
Post by: Eagler on February 20, 2024, 12:53:08 PM
Do they have the equivalent of a tobacco gummy?
Just wondering...it is all about the nicotine right?
Never smoked tobacco products myself...nor chewed except as kids trying Redman :aok
Eagler
Title: Re: Language in main arena
Post by: Dadtallica on February 20, 2024, 01:29:42 PM
Just wondering...it is all about the nicotine right?
Never smoked tobacco products myself...nor chewed except as kids trying Redman :aok
Eagler
Think nicotine gum has been around for quite some time.
My dad was a two packs a day Newport smoker for almost ever. He tried all the gums and things available in the early 90’s. I can remember him crushing those packs of gum like mad lol.
It was hypnotism that finally did it for him. He fell off the wagon almost 20 years later after he had prostrate cancer but went back and the hypno worked again. Hasn’t smoked in almost 15 years since.
Title: Re: Language in main arena
Post by: JimmyD3 on February 20, 2024, 02:01:26 PM
I quit in 91, cold Turkey. Of course that was after trying off and on for 10 years. :D
Title: Re: Language in main arena
Post by: Dadtallica on February 20, 2024, 02:09:24 PM
Just wondering...it is all about the nicotine right?
Never smoked tobacco products myself...nor chewed except as kids trying Redman :aok
Eagler
Its nicotine, but muscle memory coaches it on. 50% of the time I light ine without even knowing it. Especially at the computer. But half of them just burn away.
I live throwing good money out the window,…evidently.
Title: Re: Language in main arena
Post by: xanax on February 20, 2024, 04:01:12 PM
I chewed tobacco from 1979 until 2002. I started at age 12 when my baseball coach gave me a pouch of Redman. After getting perilously sick off that a couple times, I was hooked and transitioned to Copenhagen. Chewed it all day, every day throughout high school, college and the workplace. Very few people knew as I never spit it out and I’d transfer it to a little ziplock bag to avoid the “ring” in the back pocket. I quit cold turkey when I miraculously woke up in the ICU of the hospital I worked at after suffering a bilateral pulmonary embolism via a clot thrown from my lower leg a week after knee surgery. A guy out walking his dog found me just outside the parking garage at the hospital and started CPR. People took notice and a code blue was called. I spent a month there and decided since I got a 2nd lease on life, I might is well pare back the risky behaviors and Tobacco was at the top of the list. I quit near-dead turkey. Nicotine is a cruel, sweet mistress. Even 22 years later when I see someone chewing or worse yet, smell Copenhagen, my mouth starts watering like one of Pavlov’s dogs and I get a shiver down my spine. I walk away. I certainly congratulate anyone who has knocked the nicotine habit and those in the midst of quitting too….keep at it!
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Post by: hazmatt on February 20, 2024, 04:51:50 PM
I chewed tobacco from 1979 until 2002. I started at age 12 when my baseball coach gave me a pouch of Redman. After getting perilously sick off that a couple times, I was hooked and transitioned to Copenhagen. Chewed it all day, every day throughout high school, college and the workplace. Very few people knew as I never spit it out and I’d transfer it to a little ziplock bag to avoid the “ring” in the back pocket. I quit cold turkey when I miraculously woke up in the ICU of the hospital I worked at after suffering a bilateral pulmonary embolism via a clot thrown from my lower leg a week after knee surgery. A guy out walking his dog found me just outside the parking garage at the hospital and started CPR. People took notice and a code blue was called. I spent a month there and decided since I got a 2nd lease on life, I might is well pare back the risky behaviors and Tobacco was at the top of the list. I quit near-dead turkey. Nicotine is a cruel, sweet mistress. Even 22 years later when I see someone chewing or worse yet, smell Copenhagen, my mouth starts watering like one of Pavlov’s dogs and I get a shiver down my spine. I walk away. I certainly congratulate anyone who has knocked the nicotine habit and those in the midst of quitting too….keep at it!
Thanks for sharing that. Second chances are good and I agree about the kicking nicotine. It has been one of my demons.
Now if you'd just lay off the Alprazolam!
Title: Re: Language in main arena
Post by: xanax on February 20, 2024, 05:47:34 PM
Thanks for sharing that. Second chances are good and I agree about the kicking nicotine. It has been one of my demons.
Now if you'd just lay off the Alprazolam!
Before I flew from Seattle to Milan, Italy, I asked an ER doc to write me a script for a couple mg's of a benzo as I'm an anxious flyer. He obliged and with a half mg of Xanax and a glass or 2 of wine on board, I was actually not against the pilot perhaps trying a barrel roll over Illinois or Indiana otw to Kennedy. It's the only way to fly.
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Post by: hazmatt on February 20, 2024, 06:46:24 PM
I suspected!
That's a long flight! Did you air refuel or have a layover?
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Post by: xanax on February 20, 2024, 07:06:06 PM
Before I flew from Seattle to Milan, Italy, I asked an ER doc to write me a script for a couple mg's of a benzo as I'm an anxious flyer. He obliged and with a half mg of Xanax and a glass or 2 of wine on board, I was actually not against the pilot perhaps trying a barrel roll over Illinois or Indiana otw to Kennedy. It's the only way to fly.
Brief layover at the armpit, JFK.
Title: Re: Language in main arena
Post by: GasTeddy on February 21, 2024, 02:18:43 AM
I quit in 91, cold Turkey. Of course that was after trying off and on for 10 years. :D
I gave it up around same time. Did it by leaving the first cigarette of the day later and later. Then, when it was afternoon, I knew I'd win. Finished the job with nicotine chewing gum which I gradually changed to a xylitol one.
Title: Re: Language in main arena
Post by: Chris79 on February 21, 2024, 12:26:15 PM
Man, I'll say. My curiosity was piqued after reading the back-end of this thread so I went to see what Copenhagen snuff costs these days. I found some at a convenience store in Vancouver, Wa. going for $8.75 a can, holy smokeless! I remember paying 33 cents a can and being mad when it hopped up to 50 cents back when ol' Walt Garrison and Cale Yarborough were telling me it was "a safe alternative to smoking."
Title: Re: Language in main arena
Post by: AKIron on February 21, 2024, 03:28:16 PM
I smoked for a year or two in highschool. A pack of Marlboro was 35 cents. Woodrow Wilson HS in Dallas had an area in the center of the school with no roof called the smoking corner. Students were allowed to smoke there. I graduated in '72.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNjunlWUJJI
Title: Re: Language in main arena
Post by: Eagler on February 21, 2024, 03:48:35 PM
The thread has advanced from cussing to smoking..... wtg!
:cheers:
Eagler
Title: Re: Language in main arena
Post by: hazmatt on February 21, 2024, 04:15:07 PM
Next will be drinkin?
Title: Re: Language in main arena
Post by: AKIron on February 21, 2024, 04:28:58 PM
Drinking is probably the root of the cussin'.
Title: Re: Language in main arena
Post by: CptTrips on February 21, 2024, 05:03:09 PM
The thread has advanced from cussing to smoking..... wtg!
:cheers:
Eagler
What "antics".
Title: Re: Language in main arena
Post by: GasTeddy on February 22, 2024, 02:00:03 AM
This is The Topic of Judgement. We go through all the sins you pagans may have committed, one by one. Then Ukko and Odin will decide, who is good and who's not. Thor will hit sinners with Mjölnir and they go to Niflheim or Tuonela. Only brave and innocent ones like me end up in Valhalla.
Title: Re: Language in main arena
Post by: Shane on February 22, 2024, 05:21:09 AM
This is The Topic of Judgement. We go through all the sins you pagans may have committed, one by one. Then Ukko and Odin will decide, who is good and who's not. Thor will hit sinners with Mjölnir and they go to Niflheim or Tuonela. Only brave and innocent ones like me end up in Valhalla.
Title: Re: Language in main arena
Post by: GasTeddy on February 22, 2024, 07:33:54 AM