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Master of the UniverseJoin Date:Posts: 34825
You know what lads and lassies, sometimes it's not easy being a nurse
Just throwing it out there.
Hard day today.
I don't know how you do it dude, seriously has to be one of the toughest jobs out there. Fair play to you. At least you're actually doing some good and not just a wage slave drone.
Go chill out with a Bulmers and some Super Mario World.
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I don't know how you do it dude, seriously has to be one of the toughest jobs out there. Fair play to you. At least you're actually doing some good and not just a wage slave drone.
Go chill out with a Bulmers and some Super Mario World.
Just had the Bulmers.
In again tomorrow for more!
Plenty of paperwork to sort out now.
Sad stuff.
Do me a favour people.
Don't smoke.
Just don't.
What I've been nursing over the past 8 months.
Just trust me on this
Normal retro gaming services will resume tomorrow.
Streets of Rage and Golden Axe still suck.0 -
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Master of the UniverseJoin Date:Posts: 34825
I started smoking again this year after quitting years ago (I did have the odd sneaky one now and again). Some very stressful **** going on and unfortunately I picked up a packet at a particularly low point.
I've since switched over to a 0 nicotine vaporizer so hopefully that'll have me back off them again soon enough.
Although it's cola flavoured and I've a feeling I may be developing a new addition :eek:
Edit - Ciderdude almost had me convinced about Golden Axe. However after that recent playthrough I'm back to the 'it's great, I don't care what anyone says
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Worth it for the music alone.0 -
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I started smoking again this year after quitting years ago (I did have the odd sneaky one now and again). Some very stressful **** going on and unfortunately I picked up a packet at a particularly low point.
I've since switched over to a 0 nicotine vaporizer so hopefully that'll have me back off them again soon enough.
Although it's cola flavoured and I've a feeling I may be developing a new addition :eek:
Edit - Ciderdude almost had me convinced about Golden Axe. However after that recent playthrough I'm back to the 'it's great, I don't care what anyone says' camp.
Worth it for the music alone.
Hope you do kick it dude. One of my friends smokes the whenever he calls over hes coughing up his lungs and its super frustrating to see!0 -
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Master of the UniverseJoin Date:Posts: 34825
CathalDublin wrote: »Haven't played golden axe in years, off the smokes about 19months now, never felt better, I had a chest x-ray about 6months after I quit and was so scary, after that I decided I was never smoking again, everyone in works on them vaporisers, they all prefer them to real cigarettes.
The 'e-cigarette' yolks are absolute balls, but the proper vaporizers are fantastic. It's really really enjoyable too. You don't stink, doesn't give you a chest infection, you can actually exercise again without passing out... and you can use them in pubs 0 -
Jeez folks, I'd have to agree with Uno about the smoking here, some of ye have a very simplified viewpoint on it. Yes it's a disgusting habit, & one that's becoming less socially acceptable as time goes on. But you can't downplay the powerfully addictive nature of nicotine. Just because one person might have the discipline to break the habit, doesn't mean everyone can. I don't harp on about the fact I lost nearly 4 stone in 4 months, & just because I done it, then there's no excuse for others to do the same. Different people have very different variables in their lives, & different ways of doing things.
Most smokers today became smokers when smoking was very much socially acceptable, and actively advertised and promoted all through society and the media. Cigarette smoking was promoted as a 'hip' & cool thing to do, & when the medical effects were much lesser known. To expect these people to just quit because societal attitudes have changed is incredibly naive, and short sighted. Yes we're more aware of the health effects these days, & yes there are better supports in place for people to quit, but to make out that people are either weak or strong is a flawed viewpoint on it. We've all led different lives, & we're all unique...people shouldn't hold everyone to their own standards.
Passive smoke should be all but eliminated now, unless you're unfortunate enough to be walking behind someone in the street who is smoking. But why stop there? Why not berate alcoholics, or obese people? They impact on society too don't they, they cost the state money & drive up the costs of medical care don't they? Or is it just the 'in' thing to do, & forget about those & focus on smokers? For the record, I don't smoke, I hate the stuff. I know one or two smokers though, & I understand that they became smokers in a different era, when it was acceptable, & promoted. I also understand the effects of nicotine addiction, & don't down play them. And I also don't hold those people to different standards, people are people, & they're all different. Just because one person has the strength to break certain habits, doesn't mean others do.
/rant. Sorry
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Rather than quote both Uno & Myrddin's posts, which reference mine - my view isn't simplistic at all, but we can agree to disagree.
I'm no expert on the history of the cigarette industry but surely the dangers of smoking have been known for a long time now? Surely before we were kids anyway (say the 80s as an example, the 40s in Cidey's case :P). I can't imagine adults taking up smoking these days are not aware of the dangers - and if pressure from society or the media gets them started - more fool them as that's just an excuse.
Of course giving up anything addictive is a difficult thing to do - but nobody was forced to take it up in the first place and nobody (apart from folks a long time ago) would have been unaware of the dangers.
Obesity and alcoholism would definitely take the discussion far far away from retro games. 0 -
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Nonsense. It's a brainwash. A headmelt. The tobacco industry sweeps it aside but is in league with big pharma to put across the message that it is difficult to give up.
So people fail to quit because they've been brainwashed to think it's difficult to do? Dude, seriously?I'm no expert on the history of the cigarette industry but surely the dangers of smoking have been known for a long time now? Surely before we were kids anyway (say the 80s as an example, the 40s in Cidey's case :P). I can't imagine adults taking up smoking these days are not aware of the dangers - and if pressure from society or the media gets them started - more fool them as that's just an excuse.
I guess I had the long term smokers in mind, not the fools who start today. So yeah, I'd agree with your take on it there. But to be fair to the long termers, I do maintain the point that in bygone eras (the 80's and prior), the message about smoking was very different to today. Yes there were some health risks known, but it wasn't a message that was drilled home and instead, was left to here say. Today we've ads on the tv, messages on the smoking boxes, the internet, radio....the message is everywhere today, don't smoke. Societal attitudes have swayed today too, in the 80's there were Snooker players playing live on tv while drinking & smoking, along with tobacco sponsorship of the event itself for example. I've no sympathy for those who took up smoking recently, there literally is no excuse to do so.Of course giving up anything addictive is a difficult thing to do - but nobody was forced to take it up in the first place and nobody (apart from folks a long time ago) would have been unaware of the dangers.
Obesity and alcoholism would definitely take the discussion far far away from retro games.
I guess I just feel it's sort of hippocratic (not you by any means, but society as a whole)...there are people berating smokers, while these same people drink their guts full, or eat their guts full. Also bad for you, & affects others
But anyway, cidey, you're so wrong I have to question your merits here. Are you a charlatan posing as a retro game enthusiast? How could a mod of a retro gaming forum not like SoR 0 -
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But eating and consuming alcohol in moderation isn't bad for you though.I guess I just feel it's sort of hippocratic (not you by any means, but society as a whole)...there are people berating smokers, while these same people drink their guts full, or eat their guts full. Also bad for you, & affects others
But anyway, cidey, you're so wrong I have to question your merits here. Are you a charlatan posing as a retro game enthusiast? How could a mod of a retro gaming forum not like SoR
I do agree with you though giving up smoking is more difficult for some than others, I smoked for 20years and managed to give them up pretty easily.
My grandad smoked very heavily from the age of 12 until he got bowel cancer at 80, went in for an op and never touched a cigarette again, he passed away about 10years later(nothing to do with smoking miraculously)0 -
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But anyway, cidey, you're so wrong I have to question your merits here. Are you a charlatan posing as a retro game enthusiast? How could a mod of a retro gaming forum not like SoR
Well, its worked so far!
No one has noticed that I'm hopeless at games and only turn them on for the pretty lights on the telly box.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have lie down, I forgot to take my tablets this morning...
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I like purple and sunshine.
Raspberries are good for happiness.
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To a degree yes. As an example, how many ad's do you see for cessation products where it's claimed giving up smoking is easy? How many WHO reports, news articles, blogs, tweets and so on and so forth are published that claim giving up smoking is easy?
Few to none.
It is in part because we've always been told it's difficult to give up smoking. That message is reinforced by the media and by big pharma. Sure, big pharma gives the impression that cessation will work wonders. Gum, spray, hypnotherapy, patches, Zyban and so on. It's a massive market driven by big pharma to make big money. If it works, great for the consumer. If it doesn't, it's more money to line the pockets of the pharmaceutical giants. And if folks fall off the wagon, it's money poured back in to tobacco companies coffers, or to the vaping traders (who appear to be being bought up or muscled out by tobacco companies at a rapid rate).
I'm not saying the entire deal is down to brainwashing, apologies if I came across as doing so. But in my opinion it is a massive contributing factor. For me, once that realisation became mental clarity, and that I realised the only good thing about smoking is nothing, I just switched off.
I put that down to the fact that it's not easy to give up, unless certain conditions are met. I hear what you're saying, & it's an interesting point, I don't think I could quite stretch that far though. I'd be a believer in big pharma agendas, and a believer in the tobacco industry having strong marketing influence....but they'd be competing against each other if there was a darker side to all this, not playing off one another. Surely if big pharma were out to make money from smokers, there'd be a sure fire product on the market now that could do the trick & make people quit...& it'd cost a lot too. But there isn't. Nicotine, along with other muck that gets put into cigarettes, is highly addictive.Addictions are different for everyone. Some people find it easy, some find it hard. The more motivation there is to quit, along with a genuine desire to do so, the easier it is.
Agreed, & my own story holds true with this. I needed to lose weight, badly. I was 5'11 & as near as makes no difference to 16 stone this time last year. I'd go as far as to say I had an addiction, and it was sugar/food. Around August last year, I began the weight loss process. By mid December just gone, I was 12 stone on the button. The guts of four stone gone in a very short space of time, & not as a result of some fad crash diet.
Was it easy? Honestly, yes, it was. I still wake up every day & hope it wasn't all a dream! The weight fell off me, & I had previously been set for the long haul. But it'd be incredibly wrong of me to assume just because I found it easy, that everyone would find it so. I'm not everyone, & everyone isn't me. I put my success down simply to having a eureka moment, a few months before I started my weight loss. I realised the damage I was doing, I realised where I was heading (diabetes land no doubt), and realised that I needed to accept that changes had to be made. I then set about educating myself about weight loss, & eventually the penny dropped about calorific intake & daily calorific requirements. Calculating my daily requirements, Very, very simple. Before that I was confuddled from all the jargon, the plans, the diets, the marketing & business that is weight loss.
So basically I was ready to sort myself out. Smokers, or any addicts, need also to be in that place, where they are ready to make changes & have accepted so. You can't just decide to quit, & that's I'd imagine those of you who did quit were similarly 'ready' and had that eureka moment at some stage too.
Anyway, what the hell are we talking about at this stage I thought the Spiderman stuff was bad! 0 -
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I guess I just feel it's sort of hippocratic (not you by any means, but society as a whole)...there are people berating smokers, while these same people drink their guts full, or eat their guts full. Also bad for you, & affects others
Hmmm, I think I'll keep my non-drinker views on alcohol to myself. :pac:Agreed, & my own story holds true with this. I needed to lose weight, badly. I was 5'11 & as near as makes no difference to 16 stone this time last year. I'd go as far as to say I had an addiction, and it was sugar/food. Around August last year, I began the weight loss process. By mid December just gone, I was 12 stone on the button. The guts of four stone gone in a very short space of time, & not as a result of some fad crash diet.
That's great news man, fair play to you. The young lad needs his dad around for a long while yet.
Same to you Tomo.Murphy, congrats on the weight loss.
I've been on a healthier lifestyle for the last year or so too (after a 15 yr break! :pac:), it's an awful lot harder to do now than back in my 20s, especially to keep the motivation going. But to be honest, if the only hard decisions to make are deciding not to order a takeaway and eat something healthier or deciding not to sit on my ass and go do some exercise, then it's really not that hard of a thing to do in the grand scheme of things. Plenty of folks out there with much harder lives to live.
Anyway, I have the house to myself for a change, thinking I'll fire up the cab. Can't even remember what game I have in it atm. :cool:0 -
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