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My granny, who smoked more cigs than anyone I've ever known in my life, more or less went blind and sundry relations and friends have died of sundry cancers. I can't really pin my dad's death on smoking as he also drank too much, had a terrible diet and worked in nuclear power stations - early on, before they knew the dangers, or else they did know the dangers but didn't tell the workers, which seems more likely. The family is inclined to blame the nuclear industry btw.

Yeah my grandad’s emphysema likely had as much to do with his job in a paint factory as with smoking

I guess not since people continue to smoke. My dad's death was enough to make my brother quit cold turkey, thank god.

― Gladys McFlatus (Old Lunch)

my mom's been trying to quit smoking for basically as long as i've been alive. i was never particularly tempted to smoke cigarettes.

amazing how many pundits think the manager doesn't matter LEAVE IT JIM THEY'RE NOT WORTH IT

wrong thread loooool

Haha what are the odds? This guy on crutches just came and sat down at the next table to me in the beer garden and he asked the two ladies on the other side, who are drinking tea and have a bowl of sweet potato fries, “will it bother you if I smoke?” & they said “frankly yes, but this is your area so it wouldn’t be fair for us to complain so go ahead” - I offered to switch tables with him so there would be a buffer zone between them & him, it was a very positive interaction all round although I think it was slightly guilt trippy for the women to say that. Funny that it happened minutes after the exchange itt tho!

Honestly anyone in crutches should get some slack.

mad controversial

Well they acknowledged that they were in no position to be cutting slack, as he’s smoking in the only place he’s allowed to whereas they chose to sit out here because it’s sunny! Which is why I found it just slightly dickish to register their displeasure

My uncle died very rapidly from lung cancer 2 years ago at 53 and my grandad had part of his lung removed due to lung cancer in his 60s, he was a very heavy smoker though, 60+ a day.

I've mostly quit apart from when drinking for years now, and even managed to quit that for a bit and just vaped or used a nicotine spray, but since my wife got cancer (not smoking related) I've stopped trying not to smoke when I drink. I dunno if it's just a very slow version of suicide or just because it's been brought very clear that we are all going to die anyway so fuck it, whichever way you die it's probably going to suck. This might be temporary as I come to terms with it, I might try to go back to vaping I dunno. Do worry about secondary smoke, I might not give a shit about my health but I don't really need to be hurting other people.

As a parent of 12 and 14 y/o im so hyper pissed off about the likely end results of the current juul vape o rama its playing out like some cartoon level evil capitalism shit.

Downtown Vancouver has gas stations eg. corner of davie & burrard st. Sorry to be so local but this stuff is overstated perhaps by people with no car who don't recall where gas stations are because they don't use them?

― everything, Thursday, June 14, 2018 11:57 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ya i must've blocked that from my memory

i remember passing by it a lot when we would go to la bodega

i don't drive in vancouver, but having a car in la has kinda got me thinking of buying one in vancouver now

these grammarly ads are driving me crazy

I smoke a cig a day after my dinner wine and for the moment have no intention of giving up this pleasure. I can imagine a time when I will, though.

― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, June 15, 2018 8:29 AM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^ moderation expert. My friend also does this, tho she rolls up the equivalent of 4 cigs into one. I admire your self regulation

― sunburst N snowblind (Ross), Friday, June 15, 2018 8:34 AM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

FYI, the cardiovascular risk imparted by smoking one cigarette a day is thought to be about 40-50% of that incurred by smoking a pack per day, not 1/20th as you might expect. (it is about 1/20th for lung cancer.) and you’re a lot more likely to die of cardiovascular disease than cancer

i'm sure that has been rebutted many times, but WHAT IF autocorrect was reinforcing incorrect spelling by young children?

anecdotal PROOF:

my niece texts me pretty often. she's still learning how to spell. this happened twice within 5 minutes of conversation:

Water are you doing
Wate

ime, after you fuck up spelling on an iphone a few times in a row, it adapts to the new spelling. and in fact, sometimes it even starts "correcting" your words to the misspelled version. i know this well with "fuck", which is permanently autocorrected to "duck" on my phone. there was also a particularly period of YEARS with my old iphone where it kept autocorrecting I'm to I'd.

anyway, i think she knows that she's looking for "what", or at least that something is off, so i'm not too worried about that. but how many other words has this happened to, and how many weird autocorrections slipped through the crack that she didn't notice?

duck this, i'd out of here

"fuck" is permanently autocorrected to "duck" on everyone's iphone! nanny state

but how will my niece ever learn how to spell it correctly!?

>:-o

Ducking tankers

iPhone autocorrect and predictive text is way shittier than android ones

No worries, I expect writing to fade as a common skill within the next generation or so, at which point the concomitant ability to spell correctly will have little real utility. You damn well better learn your emoji between now and then, though.

button (common) white mushrooms are pretty much as good as most of the fancy mushroom varieties

That’s kinda true, except grilled portobellos are fucking amazing

hmmmmm idk

Don't get me wrong, I love button mushrooms but some of the fancier kinds just have so much flavor. Porcinis!

No worries, I expect writing to fade as a common skill within the next generation or so, at which point the concomitant ability to spell correctly will have little real utility. You damn well better learn your emoji between now and then, though.

― A Frankenstein + A Dracula + A Mummy That's Been Werewolfed (Old Lunch), Friday, June 22, 2018 12:23 PM (thirteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i dislike this view for a lot of reasons. writing has already “faded” a lot thanks to like spellcheck, and this will seem just as banal 20 years from now. more people write now than ever due to messaging apps. my sister was virtually illiterate throughout her schooling yet now she texts and uses social media effectively largely thanks to things like autocorrect and predictive text.

chanterelles <3

Nick Kroll is too distractingly ugly to find funny

Kinda antisemitic tbh

flopson, I think your sister's example, heartening though it may be, is an outlier from the general trend of literacy in this country. The number of work emails I regularly receive from adult professionals who can't seem to construct a coherent sentence never fails to astonish.

Jimmy Fallon is funny.

He's obnoxiously cutesy and obsequious, but fundamentally a funny guy.

cant get cool with the idea of finding an individual distractingly ugly being in itself sufficient evidence of the etc

everyones got ugly ppl most ppl are lets be fair ugly

Especially the dead ones.

I don't know who Nick Kroll is but, having googled him, he has a distractingly large forehead but otherwise doesn't look too ugly.

mostly joking dmac but also y'know I want to defend the allure of my people's foreheads

It's true, Jewish foreheads are among the most gorgeous I've encountered. Sorry if that's controversial, but I guess this is the place for it.

yr ppl?!

i mean, we've met.

I like his stand up fine but hate all the characters he does (which they are all distractingly ugly, ha!) But it's probably because in general I hate Krump/Medea/Armison shit like that.

this isn't a helmet i just forgot to take off yknow

solidarity

✊😶

this is probably not controversial but here's the ranking of Nick Kroll + Fred Armisen personas by tolerability:

1. More or less own gender and ethnicity
2. Woman
3. Latinx person
4. Middle eastern person

Where does Geico caveman fit into your list

flopson, I think your sister's example, heartening though it may be, is an outlier from the general trend of literacy in this country. The number of work emails I regularly receive from adult professionals who can't seem to construct a coherent sentence never fails to astonish.

― A Frankenstein + A Dracula + A Mummy That's Been Werewolfed (Old Lunch), Friday, June 22, 2018 12:57 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ya but the ppl sending these emails are old and not significantly influenced by new tech. or do you think it’s worse among youth? at my old job our director in her mid forties was privately ridiculed for spelling mistakes in emails to hundreds of ppl; i never noticed any of the other young people working there with anywhere near as bad writing

Aw I don't think Nick is ugly at all except for when he plays women lol. He makes for a very . . . handsome and striking lady.

like john cleese

Controp: it is a shame that “Latinx” took over from “Latin@“

it also scans weirdly to an old as something about latyrx

Latinx sounds and looks badass

As it is to some extent a self-selected designation with a loose concomitant ideology, I'm starting to feel like self-identifying as 'white' is basically a hate crime of sorts.

Look, it's more of a half-formed notion atm than an opinion per se, but you have to admit it's controversial.

I don't 100% agree, but I definitely regret any time I've typed any variation on "as a white man..." or any other attempted caveat before an opinion that ultimately, if it requires such a nail-clipping, should stay put and remain unexpressed

the category of whiteness was created to allow the enforcement of racism against people who aren't white, and the category persists, so it's not unreasonable to accurately describe yourself as being in that category. But yeah if you feel any kind of dare I say "pride" or even "affinity" about being white you are probably a Nazi