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seklarwia
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I'll tell you what went missing from every convenience store in my locale and that of my two schools recently: Superking Malboro Menthol Lights (they still had the regular size ones) and a large selection of other ciggy brands. For about a week the convenience stores' tabacco racks were almost bare.
Luckily I'm not a heavy smoker so I've still yet to finish the two packs that I bought just before the shortage. But now that I think about it, I'm going to head out now to buy a few more packs to set aside just incase they disappear again 
Oh! And I also found a store selling cans of Dr Pepper and Cherry Coke in one of the department stores nearby... shame I don't like either.
I've noticed that Mountain Dew has evaporated in my city. It used to be found quite widely; if you visited any line of machines, it was almost guaranteed that at least one of them would sell the stuff with some selling both sizes. They even had the large size in one of the machines at one school. Then one day the sold out light came up for it on all the machines and it never went off. A few weeks on and where MD used to be, there is now a range of other fizzy drinks in 500ml cans.
How am I ever going to be able to maintain my hardcore gamer status if I'm not at least fitting the MD guzzling stereotype (well I certain can't do pizza-face/overweight, antisocial, pasty complexion, unwashed, male or many of the other stereotypes... MD quaffing was all I had!) |
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rxk22
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| seklarwia wrote: |
I'll tell you what went missing from every convenience store in my locale and that of my two schools recently: Superking Malboro Menthol Lights (they still had the regular size ones) and a large selection of other ciggy brands. For about a week the convenience stores' tabacco racks were almost bare.
Luckily I'm not a heavy smoker so I've still yet to finish the two packs that I bought just before the shortage. But now that I think about it, I'm going to head out now to buy a few more packs to set aside just incase they disappear again
Oh! And I also found a store selling cans of Dr Pepper and Cherry Coke in one of the department stores nearby... shame I don't like either.
I've noticed that Mountain Dew has evaporated in my city. It used to be found quite widely; if you visited any line of machines, it was almost guaranteed that at least one of them would sell the stuff with some selling both sizes. They even had the large size in one of the machines at one school. Then one day the sold out light came up for it on all the machines and it never went off. A few weeks on and where MD used to be, there is now a range of other fizzy drinks in 500ml cans.
How am I ever going to be able to maintain my hardcore gamer status if I'm not at least fitting the MD guzzling stereotype (well I certain can't do pizza-face/overweight, antisocial, pasty complexion, unwashed, male or many of the other stereotypes... MD quaffing was all I had!) |
I don't smoke, so I really didn't pay any attention to cigs to be honest. you should wean yourself odd of em, it's gross. Euos always bust on Americans for being crass, but your Euros and smoking is bleh 
MD and Dr. p are pretty weird. I live in Chiba city, and they aren't all that common. Well not as common as you would think. But when i lived in the middle of no where, they were pretty common, oddly enough. |
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seklarwia
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| Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2011 8:29 am Post subject: |
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| I don't smoke, so I really didn't pay any attention to cigs to be honest. you should wean yourself odd of em, it's gross. Euos always bust on Americans for being crass, but your Euros and smoking is bleh |
Oh no you didn't?! I'm not European... I'm British! Believe it or not it's not just nationalities and language that make up our differences. And everyone knows that the UK is only part of the EU on paper... well everyone apart from one of my JTEs who was convinced that we used Euros and can't understand why we don't and don't want to. 
I really don't smoke that much and never indoors, close to non-smokers, around kids, in restaurants, etc. I don't even smoke in my own apartment. My doctor told me that if I had to choose between quitting smoking and my getting off the obscene amounts of caffeine I used to consume then I should continue to smoke because I don't seem to display the addictive/obsessive tendencies towards it that I do towards caffeine - How many people can blame their smoking on a doctors recommendation? (Ignore the fact I'm delibrately misinterpreting what she meant) 
Besides, Japanese guys get kicks out of watching me smoke. I long since went off US guys... and Afro-caribbean guys... and Turkish guys... and Italian guys... and a huge list of guys from different national or religious mentalities, so why should I care what they think of my habits?  |
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rxk22
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| I don't smoke, so I really didn't pay any attention to cigs to be honest. you should wean yourself odd of em, it's gross. Euos always bust on Americans for being crass, but your Euros and smoking is bleh |
Oh no you didn't?! I'm not European... I'm British! Believe it or not it's not just nationalities and language that make up our differences. And everyone knows that the UK is only part of the EU on paper... well everyone apart from one of my JTEs who was convinced that we used Euros and can't understand why we don't and don't want to.
I really don't smoke that much and never indoors, close to non-smokers, around kids, in restaurants, etc. I don't even smoke in my own apartment. My doctor told me that if I had to choose between quitting smoking and my getting off the obscene amounts of caffeine I used to consume then I should continue to smoke because I don't seem to display the addictive/obsessive tendencies towards it that I do towards caffeine - How many people can blame their smoking on a doctors recommendation? (Ignore the fact I'm delibrately misinterpreting what she meant)
Besides, Japanese guys get kicks out of watching me smoke. I long since went off US guys... and Afro-caribbean guys... and Turkish guys... and Italian guys... and a huge list of guys from different national or religious mentalities, so why should I care what they think of my habits? |
I sure did 
Well, you Brits seems to have a similar smoking culture to Europe's. As an American, I can name maybe 2 people out of 50 or so that smoke who live in the US. And they get crap for it all the time.
Not saying it as a guy, just saying it as a person, it's yuck city.
How much coffee were you drinking at your max? |
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seklarwia
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double post!
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seklarwia
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I sure did
Well, you Brits seems to have a similar smoking culture to Europe's. As an American, I can name maybe 2 people out of 50 or so that smoke who live in the US. And they get crap for it all the time. |
You clearly know very little about smoking habits across the EU then since that would be like me saying that Americans and Mexicans are basically culturally the same; let's ignore the fact they have different lifestyles, different diets, different beliefs, different languages... oh and are from different countries (almost forgot that one).
In general the price of cigs in the UK is enough to make many think twice (especially since they are twice the price of many countries on the continent due to our heavy tax laws). Whilst in France women tend to be chain smoking little factories (helps to keep them slim, you know) and in Spain there is a tendency towards black tabacco which is stronger than a lot of the mainstream stuff sold in the UK. And whilst the smoking ban is strictly enforced in the UK (which even forced Shisha bars across London out of business), in France they always have exceptions to the rule and in Spain they just plain ignore it and where I lived all the restaurants put up, "We allow smoking in this establishment" signs.
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| How much coffee were you drinking at your max? |
Not addicted to coffee (although that is how it started) but caffeine. Started drinking obscene amounts of coffee (the good stuff, not instant) when I was 14 thanks to an art gallery job I had back then. I would have to drink with customers and was consuming at least 2 coffee based drinks per hour across a single 7 hour shift.
Eventually the coffee became less important than the buzz I was getting and at my worst I was pill popping at least a couple of large boxes of Pro Plus, drinking up to 8 litres of Lucozade and other caffeine-high energy drinks and eating the best part of one of those family-sized tubs of Nescaffe instant coffee every week - yes, you read that right; I ate the instant coffee sometimes as a thick paste but often dry normally before going to bed... it tasted foul but I didn't care. |
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rxk22
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I sure did
Well, you Brits seems to have a similar smoking culture to Europe's. As an American, I can name maybe 2 people out of 50 or so that smoke who live in the US. And they get crap for it all the time. |
You clearly know very little about smoking habits across the EU then since that would be like me saying that Americans and Mexicans are basically culturally the same; let's ignore the fact they have different lifestyles, different diets, different beliefs, different languages... oh and are from different countries (almost forgot that one).
In general the price of cigs in the UK is enough to make many think twice (especially since they are twice the price of many countries on the continent due to our heavy tax laws). Whilst in France women tend to be chain smoking little factories (helps to keep them slim, you know) and in Spain there is a tendency towards black tabacco which is stronger than a lot of the mainstream stuff sold in the UK. And whilst the smoking ban is strictly enforced in the UK (which even forced Shisha bars across London out of business), in France they always have exceptions to the rule and in Spain they just plain ignore it and where I lived all the restaurants put up, "We allow smoking in this establishment" signs.
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| How much coffee were you drinking at your max? |
Not addicted to coffee (although that is how it started) but caffeine. Started drinking obscene amounts of coffee (the good stuff, not instant) when I was 14 thanks to an art gallery job I had back then. I would have to drink with customers and was consuming at least 2 coffee based drinks per hour across a single 7 hour shift.
Eventually the coffee became less important than the buzz I was getting and at my worst I was pill popping at least a couple of large boxes of Pro Plus, drinking up to 8 litres of Lucozade and other caffeine-high energy drinks and eating the best part of one of those family-sized tubs of Nescaffe instant coffee every week - yes, you read that right; I ate the instant coffee sometimes as a thick paste but often dry normally before going to bed... it tasted foul but I didn't care. |
I didn't know that about the UK. It seems like most people of the Euro persuasion are smokers. While most Americans aren't. Back when the Pound was 200yen or so, knew a guy at Gaidai who said that smokes were 1/4th price. He got up to 2 paks a day, on account of cheapness.
Wow! That is a significant amount of caffine. I guess it shows that your peers/people around you influence you.
My fiance is doing her masters, and she had to stop drinkin coffee. She actually at night would have had spasms and other side effects. She was drinking like 8 cups a day. Which is way less than you. So wow.
Sometimes I will drink a cup worth of her coffee and I am flying around ALL day. So I guess her's are string cups, prolly like espresso.
Good thing you got weaned off. Any addiction is rough stuff. |
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