So a lurker not so new, with some criticisms
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Embrace your inner Queue, prepare for weird eyebrow mustache assimilation.
Just to keep this on topic - Hi Jason, quite an introduction to our weird and wonderful corner of the internet. As you can see, most people here are uptight and full of themselves and never ever have any fun.
So welcome to you, pull up a chair and we'll all keep it deadly serious.
Just to keep this on topic - Hi Jason, quite an introduction to our weird and wonderful corner of the internet. As you can see, most people here are uptight and full of themselves and never ever have any fun.
So welcome to you, pull up a chair and we'll all keep it deadly serious.
This person does not appear on my visitors list but that thread you linked is definitely bizarre and um...colorful.
I'm responding before reading the entire thread, so I apologize if this has been said already.
Some people make up words because they think they're cool, the people, not the words. Sometimes, words are made up/adopted because there is a need to express something specific, and there isn't already a good enough word to use. If we went around calling our mods/vaporizers/apvs flashlight tubes, there would still be some very confused people out there. When computers became popular, the average john doe(or Jason Smith) didn't know what RAM was, or a gigabyte, but they do now. If you've been reading this forum I applaud you, it means you want to know. E-cigs are more complicated than smoking ever was, it's a product of technology, luckily there are places like this filled with people who are more than happy to help you along the way.
Its been my experience that average people still dont know what a gigabyte or RAM IS
Okay, here is just one woman's viewpoint on some of what you're complaining about. I am a 72 year old grandmother to 18 wonderful grandkids, married for 49 years to the same man. I would say I live a pretty conventional life, with a few detours in my younger days.
I also smoked 2 packs of cigarettes a day for over 45 years, and really wanted to quit. I knew absolutely nothing about e cigarettes, other than I had seen some Blu commercials on TV which intrigued me.
I am not at all technologically inclined, hate math, and wouldn't know what an "ohm" was if it smacked me in the face.
That said, I have had no trouble whatsoever with the terminology and linguistics that I found on this wonderful forum. From the day I joined here a little over 3 months ago, I have been treated with the greatest kindness and patience. I've asked dumb questions, and then more dumb questions, but I have never been made to feel "dumb" here. Someone always was patient enough to try to understand what I was trying to say, since I certainly didn't know the terminology to ask.
I totally disagree with your notion that the general content of the ECF forum makes people hesitant to pursue vaping. On the contrary, there is something for everyone here. If you want to blow big clouds, someone will help you. If you want to just quietly and discretely vape, someone will help you with that. I don't want to rebuild anything, or wind any coils, but if I did, this would sure be the place to find out how to do it.
What I wanted was to find an alternative to killing myself with cigarettes, and I certainly found that here.
I love you Buggainok!
Carry on!
Ok... true enough, they may not KNOW, but they're at least familiar with the term and have a general understanding that it's computer related. Let's use another example, mouse, though the kiddies may not know what a mouse is since everything has touchpads now... dagnabbit, why do people keep coming up with all this newfangled language!?!
I think that it's the jargon that will save vaping from the law makers. It gives it the whiff of anti-establishment, of being just a little 'other' while holding firm to the moral high ground. There's no doubt there'll be some battles ahead as 'they' really just how much tax 'they're' losing. In the UK smokers pay £12 bn. But, with luck, all the various bits necessary to vape will always be available on the internet. So the guys who know how to stick a bit of wire on the end of a battery case and make it work will be my heroes.
U mad bro? I might add too that someone from Chicago has little room to criticize whom anyone chooses to represent them. Rip makes silly YouTube videos. Chicago is about to be bankrupt.
*holds wires connected to battery to have a vape*
*holds wires connected to battery to have a vape*
I invite you to make your simple connection as you described. I would like to see what you come up with and I will purchase your first working result. I only ask that you promise to post pictures of the vicinity after the explosion.
In all seriousness Jason, these things got me off of smoking and its very likely I would not be here typing this today if it weren't for these devices. For what they have done for me and for others I would pay twice what I did. Not only has it helped my health but it has brought people together, made new friends, created role models and started a new industry that I thoroughly support.
I think you want to ruffle feathers just for the sake of ruffling feathers. You could choose to talk about your experiences instead and you would be very welcome and make new friends and be part of this wonderful communtiy, if you choose.
In all seriousness Jason, these things got me off of smoking and its very likely I would not be here typing this today if it weren't for these devices. For what they have done for me and for others I would pay twice what I did. Not only has it helped my health but it has brought people together, made new friends, created role models and started a new industry that I thoroughly support.
I think you want to ruffle feathers just for the sake of ruffling feathers. You could choose to talk about your experiences instead and you would be very welcome and make new friends and be part of this wonderful communtiy, if you choose.
Some people just want to quit smoking; some go a few steps farther and turn it in to a full-blown hobby (like me). There's no pressure to do anything, you can even go back to smoking if you so choose - most of us would rather you didn't, but it's still your choice.
I just don't get the "I don't want to yank your chain, but I will anyway"?
I just don't get the "I don't want to yank your chain, but I will anyway"?
Wow, you sure stirred up a hornets nest right off the bat. A slight change in attitude might help.
... Err, girlfriend, can we talk about how Nikkita ended up in this thread? 
This is your Karma Marilyn 
*whispers* she did it!
1) If you want the function of a device, you'd be well served to learn how to use the device. Paying someone else to make those coils for you will negate your #4. Trust me, pre-made coils are a racket. But, you can pay someone to do anything for you -- there's always someone willing to accept money for every menial task.
2) A battery case is this:
As with all things that don't have a well established history, the names attributed to them, or even the nicknames, are going to be what it's called. I mean, do you call Coca-Cola and other sodas "carbonated water with the inclusion of high fructose corn syrup and other flavors"? That would be a rather tedious and boring way to speak.
Even the term "cigarette" is supposedly a term created to mean a mini cigar, as in cigar-ette. Is a cigarette a little cigar? No. It's a name that stuck, likely by someone that thought it was a clever, catchy way to describe that new combustible tobacco product. It's tobacco in a paper tube. But I'll call them cigarettes -- never really liked "analogs," but it's cool too if you want.
3) No one represents me but me. Rip Trippers represents me about as much as you do -- not at all. But I watch RT because he knows his stuff. I'll refrain from casting aspersion on someone because of how I *think* they look. Plus, this is a faceless forum -- it takes balls to put your face out there for every keyboard critic to take shots at you.
4) Mechanical Mods are not flashlights without a bulb, for if they were, that would mean any pipe was a flashlight without a switch, battery and bulb. Or, better yet, that would mean you could take a bulb out of your flashlight and commence to vaping -- don't try it. It is okay for products to share commonalities while having completely different functions and price points.
The vape world that it seems you take issue with lives mostly in your computer, but specifically the internet. Just don't "go there."
As new to vape, the learning curve is steep and the terminology is intimidating. I can read and read, but if I don't know all the terminology well, the full benefit of reading is not there. I can see it being off putting for noobs.
I don't mind paying for quality gear with analog savings. I would even pay for custom mods, like sneakerpimps mini ego-t, with halfling set up. It is just what I was looking for, and thanks for sharing it sneakerpimp, but it took me a long time to put it all together myself.
I might get into vaping deeper, but the ease of use vs intimidation gap, would ideally not be so large. When I came, I just wanted to quit smoking and was looking for the straightest and easiest path to that goal.
I don't mind paying for quality gear with analog savings. I would even pay for custom mods, like sneakerpimps mini ego-t, with halfling set up. It is just what I was looking for, and thanks for sharing it sneakerpimp, but it took me a long time to put it all together myself.
I might get into vaping deeper, but the ease of use vs intimidation gap, would ideally not be so large. When I came, I just wanted to quit smoking and was looking for the straightest and easiest path to that goal.
A noob doesn't jump in and tell everyone what they are doing wrong. Not if they are a half-way smart noob.
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