How do you define "advanced vaping"?

[Letitia]

Can I at least start to biodegrade when I get where I'm being taken and not in the parking lot?

Up to who's got your ashes, you're totally at someone else's mercy without a detailed pre-need. One FD got threatened with being sued when someone's dad's ashes backed up the toliet. Wanted the plumber paid and a refund for the cremation.

 

[Zazie]

We have one FH that has 3 walkin closets full of cremains temp boxes. FD is allowed to dispose of them but just doesn’t. Many FH have basements lined with unclaimed cremains.

Not surprised. It would feel weird just to toss them out. That's why that cabinet remains full.

 

[vimagreg]

Funny to see how this thread became so morbid in a fraction of second. I, personally, love this kind of topics.

 

[Zazie]

Yeah, I like it when threads evolve the way conversations do.

 

[Letitia]

Personally if they weren't claimed within 2 years I would be scattering them off a cliff at Fern Cliff or Garden of the Gods.

 

[Letitia]

Funny to see how this thread became so morbid in a fraction of second. I, personally, love this kind of topics.

I don’t find it morbid at all, guess I have the right job.

 

[ChelsB]

I don’t find it morbid at all, guess I have the right job.

And bless you for doing it. That is something I definitely could not do, but admire those who can work in the funeral industry. I’m terrible accepting death. But it is a very necessary service as we are all sure to wind up where you work!

 

[B2L]

I want to be cremated, mixed with concrete and formed into an artificial reef segment to be sunk on the Great Barrier Reef. Is that binding now that I've posted it

 

[stols001]

Has anyone ever told you two that you're, uhm, eccentric?

A fair number. I think they are just glad we "found" each other. My favorite guy ever told my husband, "So, you are marrying another Saab, eh?" My husband was like, "Whut?" And he was like, "Oh you know, the pretty awesome car where like, nothing is as or where it should be, but it performs excellently?"

LOL I LOVED Saabs. When mine got totaled (long story but not my fault) I BEGGED my parents to not let the insurance company total it, but no go. I was wiling to fix it, bit by bit. That Saab took me to the grand canyon and back."

My dad got a turbo Saab briefly. I drove it a few times it was AWESOME. He decided to sell it as he was moving back to Aus. I BEGGED and BEGGED him to give me that car, but like, he was like "It's worth a lot of money," and sold it.

Since he had just sold all the shares in his company for millions of dollars. He gave me his old beater Volvo and I TOOK it but I was not happy.

Decades later, I mentioned it and he was like, "Dear, that was too much car for you. I was worried you would die."

It's funny how the mind plays tricks on you, he was all about the DOUGH. Total tightwad. Heh. In any case, l would not have died in the Saab. Saabs increase my driving abilities by like 1000%. I would have been FINE. With a Saab, everything is intuitively where you know it SHOULD be as far as I was concerned.

Also, they made airplane engines!!!!!!!!!!!

Anyway, so short answer, "Yes."

I don't believe my lack of fear of death makes me eccentric actually. It makes me AWESOME. If you've lived some of my life, fear of death seems irrational and unusual. Me and the Husband both had the near death experience of sorts. If nothing else, you figure out stuff is gonna be interesting.

I haven't even gone INTO my other eccentricities but oh well. There's time.

LOL

Anna

 

[Eskie]

Up to who's got your ashes, you're totally at someone else's mercy without a detailed pre-need. One FD got threatened with being sued when someone's dad's ashes backed up the toliet. Wanted the plumber paid and a refund for the cremation.

That's what's so great about this country. You can sue over anything.

Any idea why it backed the toilet up?

I want to be cremated, mixed with concrete and formed into an artificial reef segment to be sunk on the Great Barrier Reef. Is that binding now that I've posted it

Probably banned by some international treaty for protecting the reef. There's probably some rare glow in the dark eel that gets a rash when exposed to human ashes.

Think of the eels.

 

[stols001]

I'm not winding up at Letitia's establishment.

No offense, but I think I have already mentioned that the husband will bury me in the yard, like. serial killer style.

I could do this by ensuring we have no money but he has credit and damned "official" one year of work life insurance.

It's so unfair they get all that dough and I was only allowed to like, get enough non expensive life insurance to bury the husband properly.

Maybe I will be the one burying HIM serial killer style and just collect his SSDI check.

LOL I did not just say that.

He owns a couple burial plots near his family. If my eternal resting place is next to my MIL, I am fleeing the scene----------------FAST.

Anna

 

[Rossum]

No offense, but I think I have already mentioned that the husband will bury me in the yard, like. serial killer style.

Does he have a backhoe or compact excavator? It makes the job much easier.

 

[Zazie]

Any idea why it backed the toilet up?

I'm fairly certain a bunch of ashes introduced all at once into water would form something cementlike. Sort of the way cocoa does.

Think of the eels.

I would, if those eels existed.

The Great Barrier Reef has enough human-caused problems without adding more of our leftovers into the mix.

 

[stols001]

No he does not. He has hobbit super strength though. Okay, maybe dwarf or whatever. He dug (by hand) a drainage ditch for the labyrinth and like, it was about 50 feet long. About 5 feet deep. Then he lined parts of it in concrete with his very own cement mixer. Our dirt is Tucson dirt-- it's like concrete.

As far as I'm concerned he could bury me in under an hour. Sometimes this worries me. Because some of his bad moods like, last longer than an hour. He could bury me alive in like, short order.

I don't think he will though. I asked him if he even HAD the desire to talk mano a mano to "Evil Doc" at work. He said, "No I do not. For one, I could go to jail. Also, if things are gonna suck that bad, we don't need to like, ruin our court case."

He's gone soft, I tell you. All that rationality. LOL.

Anna

 

[Letitia]

That's what's so great about this country. You can sue over anything.

Any idea why it backed the toilet up?



Probably banned by some international treaty for protecting the reef. There's probably some rare glow in the dark eel that gets a rash when exposed to human ashes.

Think of the eels.

Probably dumped the whole bag at once. Ashes are pretty dense when finely ground. Or the grinder used had worn blades and the cremains were full of pebble sized bone debris. Likely bit of both, you'd be amazed how heavy the ashes can be. Some have bones so heavy and dense/hard we have to bust them up before grinding.

 

[englishmick]

I want to be cremated, mixed with concrete and formed into an artificial reef segment to be sunk on the Great Barrier Reef. Is that binding now that I've posted it

I discovered a few years ago that there are endless rules about where ashes can't be scattered. Kind of meaningless since there's no way you could be caught unless you notify the authorities the day before and hold up a sign saying I'm Scattering Ashes.

The ashes in question went into the river behind my house on a day when it was running low and slow. He used to like hanging out by the river. I waded in and held the canoe stationary while the widow of the deceased sprinkled them in the water. They formed a long stream on the surface of the water which made some great memorial photos.

Back in England most people are cremated. They have entire cemeteries with tiny plots and tiny headstones for ashes. My father's ashes were scattered at a cemetery park. You could choose a rose garden, woods, a meadow area, and one other section that I forget.

There's a pottery school locally that has a free session once a month when you can go in and make your own vase or whatever with the ashes mixed into the clay. Or they will make it for you if you don't do pottery.

 

[AngeNZ]

A truly advanced vaper has a 3 foot section of their home clean to take beautiful pictures of their mods to post online.

Don't forget we've seen your mod pics Your turtle and terrapin photos are stunning, but your mod pics are

I don’t find it morbid at all, guess I have the right job.

I don't find it morbid either, but I'm certainly not a people person, so I'll stick to working with frickin chickens

 

[Letitia]

Don't forget we've seen your mod pics Your turtle and terrapin photos are stunning, but your mod pics are



I don't find it morbid either, but I'm certainly not a people person, so I'll stick to working with frickin chickens

The dead are surprisingly compliant to work with, they never fuss or cause a ruckus unless no one takes out their pacemaker battery. Pretty destructive little things.

 

[jandrew]

The dead are surprisingly compliant to work with, they never fuss or cause a ruckus unless no one takes out their pacemaker battery. Pretty destructive little things.

Yup. The dead never gave me any problems ... though the ones I worked with were (usually) dead a very very long time before pacemakers.

 

[Katdarling]

From the dead to the screwers. And pastably back again.

Can’t say I’ve ever received a red one! Am I missing out?

I know I am.

Yes, yes you are. My personal favorites are the clear ones though.

CLEAR ones? Oh, sal sal salivate.

Clear yellow ones are the best, but very hard to find.

CLEAR YELLOW? Where have I been all these vape years!


@DPLongo22 - please, let's find these. No kollection is komplete without.

Since I'm the one you asked you something to the effect of, "Why do you consider switching from low-power MTL to high-power DL an advance?" I guess I should chime in:

Whether one is an "advanced vaper" has nothing to do with the vaping style. There are plenty of MTL tootle puffers who are, IMO, advanced vapers.

To me an "advanced vaper" is someone who can make and wick their own coils, and can make their own juice. That doesn't mean they necessarily choose to do this all the time. I understand that some people who can build just fine don't wish to be bothered with it, or were never able to re-create their favorite vendor juice, but they have the skills to do so should those skills ever be needed.

An "advanced vaper" is one who is at practically no risk from whatever the FDA might do, provided they have (or can get) some nicotine.

And you GOT it, Sir Rossumz. We've been "advanced" since April of 2014 at which point we made it a goal (achieved) to FDA proof.