Commiserating with Ripple

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Reddhott

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so sry to hear{{{hugs}}}}:(
I have no idea where else to post this but here, I know there are many of us VFers throughout the forum (a lot of the notcigs crew :)) but I am shocked and saddened by this development -- although the trolls had taken over and he seemed so very tired lately.....:(
 

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I get the feeling that this is not going to be an isolated incident though....vapers are taking the world by storm. Just with anything else new, there are the starters of a movement (I feel like I was there toward the begining, but not the start), but eventually it will go mainstream. That means that uninformed people, haters, the ignorant and all other flavor of vaper/anti-vaper will pour in.
Similar to when a medium sized town opens a factory. What was once decent and laid back becomes another "mos eisley". There will always be a few good ones around but they are generally plagued by the overwhelming sewage from the population boom. I used to really have alot of love for a vendor, who was still fairly small when I found them, that now is so huge they really just don't give a crap for the most part.
It always sucks when change seems for the worse....hopefully your "friend" will still be around to chat with the oldschools. I mostly just "lurk" the other places and do the contests to increase my odds of prizes (I mean, really, who doesn't?), but lately I haven't really gotten the same feel from the ECF crowd as I used to.

Maybe it dates my lurking a little, but I remember reading threads when I first looked at vaping and someone thought testing with cotton ball replacement in a cart on a M1 was a good idea...although it wasn't an M1 yet. The charts of atty/battery compatibility, pre blue foam cart mods and the "eGo-T" was still a rumor. I am sure quite a few in here were vaping long before I was, I can only imagine what your journey was like.
 
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I get the feeling that this is not going to be an isolated incident though....vapers are taking the world by storm. Just with anything else new, there are the starters of a movement (I feel like I was there toward the begining, but not the start), but eventually it will go mainstream. That means that uninformed people, haters, the ignorant and all other flavor of vaper/anti-vaper will pour in.
Similar to when a medium sized town opens a factory. What was once decent and laid back becomes another "mos eisley". There will always be a few good ones around but they are generally plagued by the overwhelming sewage from the population boom. I used to really have alot of love for a vendor, who was still fairly small when I found them, that now is so huge they really just don't give a crap for the most part.
It always sucks when change seems for the worse....hopefully your "friend" will still be around to chat with the oldschools. I mostly just "lurk" the other places and do the contests to increase my odds of prizes (I mean, really, who doesn't?), but lately I haven't really gotten the same feel from the ECF crowd as I used to.

Maybe it dates my lurking a little, but I remember reading threads when I first looked at vaping and someone thought testing with cotton ball replacement in a cart on a M1 was a good idea...although it wasn't an M1 yet. The charts of atty/battery compatibility, pre blue foam cart mods and the "eGo-T" was still a rumor. I am sure quite a few in here were vaping long before I was, I can only imagine what your journey was like.

When I went to the St. Louis Vapefest in 2010 it was filled with middle-aged hippies like me, it was a bunch of people that had gotten desperate and werem't afraid of doing something a tad bit risky it seemed at the time. Heck, I have always believed a lot of the modders are former stoners, who else could come up with new designs for improving a hit? Now........well, its gotten commercial (look at some of these juice vendors) and norms and the youth have filtered in and probably outnumber us old-timers and they are like most americans - over-privileged and impatient, expecting results immediately and whining to high heaven (I am familiar with that process!!! :laugh:) when things don't go right and its a refrain that has gotten repeated so often that I have beome immune. Jeez, every day there is a post about someone .....ing either about the minimum post rule or the classys requirements, they don't bother to read the 500+ threads with the same damned subject -- the mod-makers spend half their day responding to stupid stuff from people now. That's why I stopped helping in the GG subforum tbh, I got tired of people not doing a danged thread search and stop asking the same questions. Also, ECF was looser then (and in a very entertaining war with VF) , now it is tightly controlled and their lack of fun is evident to a lot of us..........sigh..........I sound like an old man..........:(
 

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Or is that just too "ex site able" as you think I was ;)

Dude, that's exactly what I'm talking about -- I felt your pain in your letter and posted about it right away, all you were doing is having a little fun and that's too much for a lot of norms.......:(
 

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Red, if you can make those images do the 360* matrix thing....
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no....

Well then...

Thanks! I check here daily for the "redHot" post! does that make me a sicco?

Simply put - YES ! ! !

The again so am I and a few others in this thread - namely a MAN called "RIP" :D
 

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When I went to the St. Louis Vapefest in 2010 it was filled with middle-aged hippies like me, it was a bunch of people that had gotten desperate and werem't afraid of doing something a tad bit risky it seemed at the time. Heck, I have always believed a lot of the modders are former stoners, who else could come up with new designs for improving a hit? Now........well, its gotten commercial (look at some of these juice vendors) and norms and the youth have filtered in and probably outnumber us old-timers and they are like most americans - over-privileged and impatient, expecting results immediately and whining to high heaven (I am familiar with that process!!! :laugh:) when things don't go right and its a refrain that has gotten repeated so often that I have beome immune. Jeez, every day there is a post about someone .....ing either about the minimum post rule or the classys requirements, they don't bother to read the 500+ threads with the same damned subject -- t

he mod-makers spend half their day responding to stupid stuff from people now. That's why I stopped helping in the GG subforum tbh, I got tired of people not doing a danged thread search and stop asking the same questions. Also, ECF was looser then (and in a very entertaining war with VF) , now it is tightly controlled and their lack of fun is evident to a lot of us..........sigh..........I sound like an old man..........:(

YEA - but such a smart old wise man . . . aka a "SMART- - -" ;)
 

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Simply put - YES ! ! !

The again so am I and a few others in this thread - namely a MAN called "RIP" :D

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Dude, that's exactly what I'm talking about -- I felt your pain in your letter and posted about it right away, all you were doing is having a little fun and that's too much for a lot of norms.......:(

Thanks - I was able to see that you did and appreciate your words . . . :)

What bothers me the most was learning once again how people rush to judge . . . . Or they choose to promote their own agenda of bias & hatred . . . Which - at times - is still so unbelievable (I know - I know - My Bad :facepalm: ), especially when it is from someone who thinks that are so different from the norm and believe that they are so 'liberal' minded, non-judgemental, unbiased, and/or open minded . . .

The real kick comes though, when the same person, turns around and to deflex other from finding out the truth about who they really are - start being the sweetest most trusting nicest person to everyone, even the person they just stab in the back . . . And even though I know better (one of the things I do is present "Cultural Diversity & Competency" seminars) and have been around the block a few times - it disappoints me to still have to deal with people like this when you don't expect you have to particularly in this day and age or here . . .

Just SAD - VERY SAD . . . :(
 

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Hey everyone....life has been crazy lately and I just wanted to do a quick drive by and tell you all how much I have been missing ya. Love ya Uncle hope all is well and glad you are back.....congrats red on the win......hangedude hope you like it...if not let me know anyway OK?.....Rip welllllll hopeyour mellow LOL and anyone I forgot sorry but HUGS....
 

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Hey everyone....life has been crazy lately and I just wanted to do a quick drive by and tell you all how much I have been missing ya. Love ya Uncle hope all is well and glad you are back.....congrats red on the win......hangedude hope you like it...if not let me know anyway OK?.....Rip welllllll hopeyour mellow LOL and anyone I forgot sorry but HUGS....

The Gotvapes commiserating gets pretty addictive, we all understand........:thumb:
 

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Hey everyone....life has been crazy lately and I just wanted to do a quick drive by and tell you all how much I have been missing ya. Love ya Uncle hope all is well and glad you are back.....congrats red on the win......hangedude hope you like it...if not let me know anyway OK?.....Rip welllllll hopeyour mellow LOL and anyone I forgot sorry but HUGS....

I do not use the word loosely or would say it to many - but for You . . .

LOV YA' TOO :D
 
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