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choderfett

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Lol..
so random ranting about VU.. not about but stuff I notice
1. So many people don’t know how to google to look for answer..
2. A lot of spam thread I notice about this time of night.. I try to flag em as spam
 

Draconigena

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True.. but just the same.. you know what I mean..
Yup, I do. Seems there are way too many lazy asses out there who want someone else to do everything for them. I tend to tell them to get off their freakin' butts and figure it out for themselves. So they just ask someone else. You can always find a gullible sucker who is willing to do it. Or so it seems.
 
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Draconigena

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Man, you ain't lying! So sick of having to deal with brain dead zombies regurgitating crap they see on the idiot box. It astonishes me how more people don't see how they are remotely controlled through the media.
I call them brainwashed bozos. The sick part is, all the children are being programmed to believe an alternate reality.
 

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St.Roostifer

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I call them brainwashed bozos. The sick part is, all the children are being programmed to believe an alternate reality.
Disturbing isn't it? I have nothing against watching TV, per se. It's the amount of time people spend and the shit programming they watch that irritates the almighty Fuck out of me. Then they look at me like I'm nuts because I watch very little TV. In fact, and I'm not exaggerating, the only thing I watch on TV is baseball. That's it and more than enough TV time for me. Otherwise I use the TV for watching dvd/blue ray movies with my lady or turn on the Xbox, go to YouTube and watch vape reviews and build tutorials. You know, something constructive.
 

St.Roostifer

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That is your choice. All I am saying is you don't have to. Give 'em a clue on how to search and send 'em on their way.
This is the best thing to do in all honesty. Though I didn't do it last weekend when someone asked about the ijoy capo. They had just ordered it and asked about it and I told them to use the VU search. But, because I knew the mod was a piece of shit I looked it up myself and posted four links from VU for the person. Ha ha, they thanked me and cancelled their order. I think KingPin helped with that as well.
 

Draconigena

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I’ll try to help when I can. I believe in Karma and this place has given me a place to return knowledge.
We call that PIF (pay it forward). Seriously, you will find tons of us who are willing to share our knowledge with others, and I am not at all against that. But I am also of the teacher mentality in that one of the first things others need to learn is to seek/find/discover/learn/gain experience on their own. What is that old saying? Give a man a fish and you feed him for one day. Teach him to fish and he can feed himself for a lifetime. Show them the path, grasshopper, and they will become better than if you routinely hand them the solution.
 

Draconigena

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Disturbing isn't it? I have nothing against watching TV, per se. It's the amount of time people spend and the shit programming they watch that irritates the almighty Fuck out of me. Then they look at me like I'm nuts because I watch very little TV. In fact, and I'm not exaggerating, the only thing I watch on TV is baseball. That's it and more than enough TV time for me. Otherwise I use the TV for watching dvd/blue ray movies with my lady or turn on the Xbox, go to YouTube and watch vape reviews and build tutorials. You know, something constructive.
I try to watch the boob tube as little as possible. There really is nothing on it that is worth watching, but I am an old phart who would watch re-runs of Happy Days but want nothing to do with fake reality shows or stupid sitcoms where everyone is a big city idiot. I also do not believe the answer to all of life's problems is to shoot, stab, blow up everyone else, which is what most Hollywood bullshit promotes these days (while, at the same time, claiming we should all give up our guns - go figure). I have a few hundred VHS tapes and DVDs that I call "entertainment" and entertaining me is not something commercial TV can do. And don't ya just find all these lying commercials to be extremely annoying? (Omission of even one fact about the product, to me, is also a lie -- like it is NOT heart healthy because even if it is made from oats, all the other ingredients overwhelm that and are actually killers). Yeah, I could rant on this subject for hours......
 

St.Roostifer

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I try to watch the boob tube as little as possible. There really is nothing on it that is worth watching, but I am an old phart who would watch re-runs of Happy Days but want nothing to do with fake reality shows or stupid sitcoms where everyone is a big city idiot. I also do not believe the answer to all of life's problems is to shoot, stab, blow up everyone else, which is what most Hollywood bullshit promotes these days (while, at the same time, claiming we should all give up our guns - go figure). I have a few hundred VHS tapes and DVDs that I call "entertainment" and entertaining me is not something commercial TV can do. And don't ya just find all these lying commercials to be extremely annoying? (Omission of even one fact about the product, to me, is also a lie -- like it is NOT heart healthy because even if it is made from oats, all the other ingredients overwhelm that and are actually killers). Yeah, I could rant on this subject for hours......
Oh I hear ya! I laugh at the pharma commercials when I watch baseball. The first ten seconds of the commercial is saying what the drug treats and the last twenty seconds lists the side effects, some of which are worse than the problem the drug is supposed to treat. Fuck me, really?

I'm with you on the content. Scripted reality TV, degrading talk shows like Springer, various law enforcement based shows etc. Despise it all. Oh and the fricken news too. Sensationalism at its worst. Got really tired of the constant war drum being beaten. Uhg.

I miss quality shows like Happy Days, Brady Bunch and the Partridge Family. Today's TV shows just suck with no quality or positive meaning. I think the last series I was into was That 70's Show.

Here's how sad it gets and how pathetic people have become. I've lost contact with many friends because all they want to do is talk about the TV. I started to distance myself from them years ago because it didn't matter who I'd go to visit, we ended up sitting in front of their idiot box. All they wanted to talk about was content from the idiot box. WTF happened to hanging out listening to music and playing cards?

Not a fan of Hollywood these days. I can't stand Acton movies anymore and utterly hate apocalypse movies. I stick with horror and comedy, that's it. But even then, if a movie looks like it sucks I won't bother and I'm a huge fan of horror.

I'll stop there. Your turn! :D
 

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You guys stay up late for old farts...! My bedtime is 9 PM!
My daughter and I race to see who can get in bed first!

Today, my guard is up. Smelling a ripoff in the works, won't know until my package gets here. Incomplete tracking number sent with a "by the way I noticed the glass was cracked, so I put $10 in the box" ... Waiting on the box, now. No spare glass for this tank to be found, by the way.
 

JuicyLucy

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You guys stay up late for old farts...! My bedtime is 9 PM!
My daughter and I race to see who can get in bed first!

Today, my guard is up. Smelling a ripoff in the works, won't know until my package gets here. Incomplete tracking number sent with a "by the way I noticed the glass was cracked, so I put $10 in the box" ... Waiting on the box, now. No spare glass for this tank to be found, by the way.

Uh - 100% uncool
 

The Cromwell

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You guys stay up late for old farts...! My bedtime is 9 PM!
My daughter and I race to see who can get in bed first!

Today, my guard is up. Smelling a ripoff in the works, won't know until my package gets here. Incomplete tracking number sent with a "by the way I noticed the glass was cracked, so I put $10 in the box" ... Waiting on the box, now. No spare glass for this tank to be found, by the way.
What tank.
And yep sucks...
 

choderfett

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You guys stay up late for old farts...! My bedtime is 9 PM!
My daughter and I race to see who can get in bed first!

Today, my guard is up. Smelling a ripoff in the works, won't know until my package gets here. Incomplete tracking number sent with a "by the way I noticed the glass was cracked, so I put $10 in the box" ... Waiting on the box, now. No spare glass for this tank to be found, by the way.
Very shady seller..
 

JuicyLucy

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Very shady seller..

What kind of an asshole thinks it's okay to go ahead and send you something that is not in as advertised condition?

Even if the replacement glass was readily for $10, the buyer absolutely should have been given the option to back out of the deal :bs:
 

choderfett

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What kind of an asshole thinks it's okay to go ahead and send you something that is not in as advertised condition?

Even if the replacement glass was readily for $10, the buyer absolutely should have been given the option to back out of the deal :bs:
Agreed! I did notice one guy re-selling a few similiar items for more than he previously advertised a year ago (after price drops) that no one bought.. thought that was a bit odd.. maybe the value of some of those items increased or he thought he could attract more buyers with an increased list of items.. *shrug*
 

AndriaD

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yeah sucks but getting better. At least the house was just singed on one end because I was hosing it down when the FD arrived.
But had they not got here I would be moving in with Andria.

Apparently lost 1 cat the others survived fine.
A bit less traumatized than I and the wife.

I dunno, remember our spawn came back home to live last summer so he can get his degree, so we don't have any spare beds. But I've mostly stopped camping out on the couch, since I'm on the mend from this fucking flu.... but might need to fumigate that thing after hosting a flu-ridden body for a couple weeks. :D

Andria
 

Vapin4Joy

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Welcome Zoe.
This is actually a retreat from another board.
We kinda got in trouble over there for implying that our govt had corruption in it without mentioning any names or politics.
Hopefully a few from over there will show up later, but anyone willing to chat in a civilized manner is welcome here.
hopefully we can keep it decent and sometimes just agree to disagree.

this is NOT a political thread however.
We tend to avoid the nitty gritty of that and religion and such sensitive subjects.
At least that is the goal.
Robert, set the record strait, there was no trouble, you left on your own accord, because your a hot head, in sheep clothing. I'll quote you!

No hard feelings at all but I am just not nice enough for this place.
And too darned old to change.
Will miss yall.
come visit in the other place if you want.
many already do.

The Cromwell, Yesterday at 3:50 PM


Talk to them the same way you would as if they were in front of you

And therein is the problem I have here.
I tend to speak my mind in a respectable manner.
Thanks and I wish all here well.

The Cromwell, Yesterday at 4:27 PM
 

AndriaD

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Ohh all the old OPC members. DR called today and said my bloodwork looks normal.
I was so insulted.

My son told me the other day that if I ever claimed to feel normal, he was calling the men with the butterfly nets. :D

Andria
 

AndriaD

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IME doctors know squat about nutrition and ignore the first line of defense against disease and healing: what you eat

Totally agree, but it's because of their BP servitude -- BP can't make a profit from people who eat right, so they want people to eat all the unhealthiest food they can find, so that they'll need all the BP snake-oil (poison). Which of course will give them NEW problems, so they'll need MORE BP snake-oil. :facepalm:

BP is the guy with 666 on its head, I'm absolutely convinced of that.

Andria
 

AndriaD

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Disturbing isn't it? I have nothing against watching TV, per se. It's the amount of time people spend and the shit programming they watch that irritates the almighty Fuck out of me. Then they look at me like I'm nuts because I watch very little TV. In fact, and I'm not exaggerating, the only thing I watch on TV is baseball. That's it and more than enough TV time for me. Otherwise I use the TV for watching dvd/blue ray movies with my lady or turn on the Xbox, go to YouTube and watch vape reviews and build tutorials. You know, something constructive.

I watch a good bit of TV, but I've figured out how to retain sanity: MUTE THE FUCKING COMMERCIALS!!!!!!!!!!!! I also don't watch any of that totally asinine "reality" shit, but actual STORIES that have been written.... mostly cop/detective stuff, but there are a couple of new medical shows I'm enjoying, The Good Doctor (made by the same guy who made House!), and The Resident, which is actually showing how corrupt the medical/hospital system really is.

Andria
 

lucifah

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Another thing that irritates me when buying used stuff is that the seller doesn’t bother to clean the item. I bought once a tank that still had juice in it..

Yuck. Same here. Bought a box of used gear: squonkers, drippers, mods. Was a gamble as it was cheap, but I was hoping to get the Drone and the Drag in acceptable condition. I did. But only after thorough cleaning and airing the whole lot in the garage for a couple of days. Juice in squonk bottles, juice residue in drippers, one even had a soaked wick in it. And what's worse: the seller was obviously dual user. The whole package not only had juice literally everywhere, but smelled of smoke! (Come to think of it, quite gross what kind of smell most of us caused in the past!)

I'm not OCD or overly clean and tidy. But if I sell something, I at least give it a good clean. Anyway, maybe it's an age thing. Getting all worked up about an hour worth of work... :crazy: (was still a good value deal)
 

AndriaD

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I think maybe it depends on the reason for the PIFing... a lady here was moving, which of course is a HUUUUUUUUUGE pain in the ass at anytime, and she wanted to get rid of a TON of different atties that she no longer uses.... originally she was just going to sell the whole box of stuff for $50, but after I expressed an interest, and my sorrow that I didn't have $50 available at that time, she PIFed me the entire box of stuff -- which easily was $500-$1000 worth of atomizers, when originally bought. Some of it was clean, a lot of it wasn't, and when I opened the box, I got a faceful of stale cigarette smoke from smokers who apparently live in her house. But I didn't look that gifthorse in the mouth, for that quantity of stuff -- I left the box in the garage so it could air out, and cleaned a few items at a time. It was worth it!

Andria
 

Draconigena

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Oh I hear ya! I laugh at the pharma commercials when I watch baseball. The first ten seconds of the commercial is saying what the drug treats and the last twenty seconds lists the side effects, some of which are worse than the problem the drug is supposed to treat. Fuck me, really?

I'm with you on the content. Scripted reality TV, degrading talk shows like Springer, various law enforcement based shows etc. Despise it all. Oh and the fricken news too. Sensationalism at its worst. Got really tired of the constant war drum being beaten. Uhg.

I miss quality shows like Happy Days, Brady Bunch and the Partridge Family. Today's TV shows just suck with no quality or positive meaning. I think the last series I was into was That 70's Show.

Here's how sad it gets and how pathetic people have become. I've lost contact with many friends because all they want to do is talk about the TV. I started to distance myself from them years ago because it didn't matter who I'd go to visit, we ended up sitting in front of their idiot box. All they wanted to talk about was content from the idiot box. WTF happened to hanging out listening to music and playing cards?

Not a fan of Hollywood these days. I can't stand Acton movies anymore and utterly hate apocalypse movies. I stick with horror and comedy, that's it. But even then, if a movie looks like it sucks I won't bother and I'm a huge fan of horror.

I'll stop there. Your turn! :D
Don't know what I can add to this. I think I am looking in the mirror.
 
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