Not gonna call 'em "Analogs"

[Belletrist]

of course! but see, and here's we're getting out of linguistics and my generally very jaded take on humanity, most of the really smart kids don't want to drive the bus. however, i am all for raising a little hell in the back of the bus. i'm not real eager to drive either.

 

[Adrenalynn]

Yeah, we're all smart enough to KNOW that it's more fun to shoot spitballs than actually have to naviguess.

 

[callofthevapor]

Only question I have is did I get on the long bus or one of the short ones

 

[Adrenalynn]

You know what they say about "having to ask", right?

 

[freerangehuman]

Heh-heh....... logs! like poops!
It could be worse. We could be called 'vapists'!

 

[prof beard]

Heh-heh....... logs! like poops!
It could be worse. We could be called 'vapists'!

Rusty (a fellow vaper from the UK who posts on here are a number of UK forums) has coined the expression "turds" for cigarettes, and it seems to be catching on...

 

[Adrenalynn]

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coined the expression "turds" for cigarettes, and it seems to be catching on...

How about "Table" or "Chair" or "Fence" or "Keyboard" or some other word also in common use that means something else entirely?

I think we should randomly reassign the names of everything at, say, a 120hz rate.

Just think! You get to relearn the entire language 120x/sec. If anyone is out of sync, communication is impossible! Woot! What fun that will be!

 

[callofthevapor]

If you axe me its wacked when the meaning of word changes. All fun aside words have always changed meanings the only difference not its done on a global scale at the speed o texting. Now I have to go grab my faggots and get ready to go out. Hey no dirty thoughts I'm not referring to a gay male, An older british slang for a cigarette. Not a bundle of sticks, that'd be a ....... I'm talking faggots a kind of meatballs, going to pot luck dinner.

 

[Adrenalynn]

Isn't the expression "fags" not "faggots"? I only heard them called "fags" in the six years I was there.

 

[Taryn]

Crazy monkeys.

 

[callofthevapor]

Isn't the expression "fags" not "faggots"? I only heard them called "fags" in the six years I was there.

Dunno I'm all for streamlining language not changing words or adding now ones. I'm routing for grunts for most conversations to come back into fashion

 

[Darrigaaz]

I'm just glad people aren't calling them "real cigarettes", giving the impression that our PVs are "fake" in any way.

Although, my friends/family say I'm "fogging" instead of "vaping".

We should all get together in person so that everybody can ... Meet the Foggers!

ok yeah that was bad.

 

[Randyrtx]

<grunts>

<grunts again since one is too short>

 

[Taryn]

I thought that's how all men talk anyways, at least Tim Allen says so!

 

[callofthevapor]

Looks up at Taryn, grunts and wishes dragging chicks by the hair into the cave comes back in vogue too

 

[Taryn]

Ooooh lala, so romantic!





LOL

 

[CritterBuddy]

The problem we have with society in general including the FDA is the fact these look and act too much like cigarettes. Yes, I refuse to refer to cigarettes as analogs also. Nobody understands the term "analog" as we use it so they have no idea what we are talking about. I refer to my equipment as a "device" or "vaporizer" and I don't smoke I "exhale vapor" (haven't came up with a better description for this). When the person looks at me funny after I've said this I then refer them to medical vaporizers which they are familiar with. From this point on now their questions are "medical" related not "smoking" related because I've referred them to something they are familiar with and can relate to.

I believe, other than the fact we are still utilizing nicotine, that we need to stop "looking" like we are smoking. Fact is, I don't even try to hold my device as a cigarette but rather cup it in my hand. I have not seen where the different colors have made a difference in regard to inquires and people's first impressions when they see me. If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it is a duck!

I am having a problem with battery life getting me through the day and even started a thread about this. However, the more I think about it and the way society relates to me vaping, I'm seriously considereing a box mod now to help me look less like I'm smoking.

Okay, flame on...

 

[callofthevapor]

I don't think people are going to their corner store and asking for analogs. Asking people not to smoke an analog in their house. Here I think partly its used because people was finally able to break their addictions to them. A lot of people here are at least a bit techie. By calling them analogs its a way of calling them old fashioned and obsolete. By doing that it makes themselves feel better. I do it cause its kewl.

 

[Joe Camel]

Paris Hilton would call them analogs, for the trendy factor.

 

[Adrenalynn]

I doubt she could utter such a complex three syllable word without the top of her head popping off and air rushing in.