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Munchies_Matt wrote: And 99% of smokers, while panicking at the thought, actually would feel grateful in their heart of hearts.
Very much so. We'd save a bloody fortune.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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It is staggering how much some people spend on cigarettes. I have a friend who has little income, yet smokes 40 a day. That is a staggering 15 euros a day, 100 a week. As much as food!
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That's kind of crazy - I spend about £20 a week on 'baccy.
I've never really understood people who smoke ready-rolled cigs. They're stupidly expensive, taste lousy and are way worse for you than the real thing. If you're going to do something, at least do it properly!
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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Yeah, when I smoked it was golf virginia, not a bad smoke in fact, and much nicer than pre rolled, and much cheaper.
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Munchies_Matt wrote: ...yet smokes 40 a day. That is a staggering 15 euros a day...
You lucky bastards. AUD$40.00 for a packet of 40 over here. Missus does easily 3.5 packs a week. Stupid bastard.
Michael Martin
Australia
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- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: I would love to see them forced to make their product LESS addictive and thereby destroy the industry over a short period of time.
Even if it is illegal to own tabacco, I will not stop smoking, at least not until I stop breathing completely.
With air-pollution levels currently being so bad that it equals to smoking 6 sigarettes per day in 1980, and the obesity-epedimic in the US starting at the time that they banned the smokes.
Yes, it is unhealthy. Living usually is, and I do not want to die healthy.
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If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: With air-pollution levels currently being so bad that it equals to smoking 6 sigarettes per day in 1980
Really? In Holland? Surprises me. You are near the coast, should be fairly clean air.
Mexico City in the 80s. Now that WAS polluted. It actually hurt to breathe. 
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Munchies_Matt wrote:
Really? In Holland? Surprises me. You are near the coast, should be fairly clean air.
New York and Hong Kong are closer to the coast. Real clean air there, right?
May surprise you that it is that polluted, I'm not, since I'm not near a coast and am near Chemelot. It has also been in the local news, that's where I got those numbers from.
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Is their wind on shore most of the year?
Thats the difference, the wind in Holland os off the Channel/North Sea most of the time, it should keep it fairly clear. (Down here in South West England, the bit that sticks out into the Atlantic, we have about 4000 miles of sea between us and the next land, so we get the purest and freshest air you can imagine. )
Chemalot! I thought you were joking, King Arthur, Camelot and all that, but no:
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Yeah, and a long way from the coast.
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This part of the Netherlands is littered with hills, and we have more of a land-climate than a sea-climate.
Munchies_Matt wrote: Chemalot! I thought you were joking, King Arthur, Camelot and all that, but no
I'll admit that it is a cool name for an industrial area 
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: This part of the Netherlands is littered with hills
Yeah, had a friend lived in Eijsden, spent a lot of time there. Nice area. And Maastricht.
I lived in Luxembourg for a while too, a very continental climate, bloody cold in winter!
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they put a checkout divider after their items. Bonus points when they do it without anyone waiting behind them in line.
Checkout divider picture[^]
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That's how people are raised in the UK... It's almost inconceivable to be in a supermarket checkout line and someone does not put the divider down! You'd know they were foreign. Or European which is much worse.
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I will not forget that, should I ever feel the need to spend time on an island with bad weather.
Edit: Ooops, you fooled me into thinking you come from some foggy island with bad weather.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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[edit]In the US, this a checkout divider. 
Hmmm. Self-edited. It occurred to me a pic of a weapon isn't particularly appropriate for the lounge / KSS.
And even this is probably SB material. 
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Frack that. You can put it in front of yours if you want it there.
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In Aus I do that (most other people too) without even thinking about it.
In Singapore few places have them (many don't even have the moving belt), regardless [in typical local custom] divider or no the person behind will start loading their items on the checkout even before you've finished anyway. (Let's not start about jamming themselves in between other people even if disabled/injured to try to get on the bus first, and the same later when they want to get off the bus.)
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Lopatir wrote: In Singapore few places have them
That's because they so many specials and extra bits stacked into the area there is no room for more than one SMALL shopping load.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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I do - partly to stop the belt once my goods are through, and partly to make it easier for the next guy / gal (otherwise (s)he has to reach round me to get it placed).
But it's getting a lot harder to use those checkouts at all - all the UK supermarkets are getting heavily into the self-checkout option and not manning many of the "proper" tills. 
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OriginalGriff wrote: getting heavily into the self-checkout
The one here just introduced scanners you carry around the store with you -- select an item, scan it, put it in a bag in your cart, repeat. Then at the exit, everything is already scanned and bagged. I have no intention of trying it, but my wife has.
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