I'm thinking that this coming Friday would be a nice day for such an event.
...took me half a second !
Yep that would be a great day !
...took me half a second !
Yep that would be a great day !
I forget mine too.
Five-year old ("Five and a HALF!" - lol) granddaughter was here this weekend and asked me how old I was. I replied, "60. 61. 62. 63. I don't know - one of those." She yelled to her mother, STUNNED that I didn't know...
In fairness, I WAS trying to watch a football game at the time.
Early
, and I'll see you at the bar!
I forget mine too.
Five-year old ("Five and a HALF!" - lol) granddaughter was here this weekend and asked me how old I was. I replied, "60. 61. 62. 63. I don't know - one of those." She yelled to her mother, STUNNED that I didn't know...
In fairness, I WAS trying to watch a football game at the time.
Early
I need to stop having them...I am on the short side of running out another decade
I need to stop having them...I am on the short side of running out another decade
If I may be so bold as to make a personal request/recommendation. Feel free to stop celebrating them, but please do continue to have them.
For several years now, every time somebody wishes me a Happy Birthday, I reply:
"When my age you reach, you will not wish to be reminded that you're another year older,"
Back in June, I sang an old Beetles song.. "Will you still need me, will you still feed me..."
"When my age you reach, you will not wish to be reminded that you're another year older,"
Back in June, I sang an old Beetles song.. "Will you still need me, will you still feed me..."
I saw this today and I was wondering if I had just entered a time-warp back to 2015 or so:
But no, look at the date, and the screen-shot above links to the actual post.
But no, look at the date, and the screen-shot above links to the actual post.
I saw this today and I was wondering if I had just entered a time-warp back to 2015 or so:
But no, look at the date, and the screen-shot above links to the actual post.
Oh, c'mon. SERIOUSLY??? This? AGAIN???
Mamma-freakin'-MIA!
You’d think after 14.5 years vaping that if I was going to get popcorn lung then it would have happened by now.
I think that the folks at Harvard Health have popcorn BRAIN.
FWIW, the tweet from Harvard Health got a Community Note that "added context" (in other words disputed it) and not long after, Harvard Health deleted it. Clowns.
When all that garbage was going down, I was rolling my eyes. People started ragging on juicemakers and whatnot. Some even closed up shop! BONKERS!
I'd pop into threads and say, "Diacetyl!", ala Marty Feldman in Young Frankenstein.
I'm a day late on this. 10 years ago, on New Years Eve day, I ordered my first liter of 100mg nic.
I'd had my last cigarette exactly two weeks earlier, and if someone had told me at the beginning of December that I'd be smoke-free by the end of the month, I would have told them they're crazy. I had given up on the idea of quitting smoking years earlier and figured that someday I'd die with one still burning.
I had no clue about DIY at that point, and wasn't all that interested in making my own yet, but I sure as heck wasn't going to let anyone ever take this miracle away from me, and if push came to shove, I'd figure it out.
Now I can't really remember when I last bought any pre-made juice.
I'd had my last cigarette exactly two weeks earlier, and if someone had told me at the beginning of December that I'd be smoke-free by the end of the month, I would have told them they're crazy. I had given up on the idea of quitting smoking years earlier and figured that someday I'd die with one still burning.
I had no clue about DIY at that point, and wasn't all that interested in making my own yet, but I sure as heck wasn't going to let anyone ever take this miracle away from me, and if push came to shove, I'd figure it out.
Now I can't really remember when I last bought any pre-made juice.
Congrats. I don't know the exact year, let alone month or day, when I switched to vaping, but 2013-2014 always sticks in my mind. I don't keep track of dates or timepsans. I literally forget how old I am when someone asks lol.
I started on crappy cigalikes in 2009-2010 (not all are crappy but they were back in 2009-2010 due to resistance being way too high). That's when I found ECF. But I could never really get into vaping with that junk. So I gave up. I lurked ECF but never really wanted to get into box mods. I wanted soemthing small and slim, like a cig!
It wasn't until vape shops started opening up in my area and VV egos came to the market, and clearomizers with resistances under 2 ohms, that I finally was able to enjoy vaping. So I guess that's somewhere in 2013-2014 or so.
The night I discovered the VV egos, I was astounded at how satisfying it was to me. I went all day without smoking and couldn't believe it. That night I went outside and lit up a cig just to see what would happen, like if I would just ditch the vape and realize it's just all the novelty of it all.
Nope. I took a couple drags on the cig, hated it, snuffed it out and that was the last cig that ever touched my lips. I still kept a pack of cigs around for probably 2 or 3 months becuase I figured at some point I'd fall away from vaping, but it never happened.
It wasn't all easy-going, it took time to figure out how to iron some kinks out after the novelty that was there faded, but I stuck with it. I also had to ditch the hatred for having to use a device that was much larger than a cig that I couldn't "V" in my fingers and couldn't hold in my lips. That was tough to fight, but I won.
I still use cigalikes every now and then and small 18350 tube device to simulate a cigar (and i hated cigars, go figure). But it's rare anymore and I never get an urge to hold a cig let alone smoke one.
I don't miss cigs - AT ALL. Just the smell of cig smoke triggers me and puts me in a bad mood because it's sooooo suffocating to me, even from far away. I'm forced to smell it frequently becuase my across-the-street neighbor smokes outside. I also live near a busy street & it seems someone's always chucking a .... out the window. I can't often smell it in my house. 
I started on crappy cigalikes in 2009-2010 (not all are crappy but they were back in 2009-2010 due to resistance being way too high). That's when I found ECF. But I could never really get into vaping with that junk. So I gave up. I lurked ECF but never really wanted to get into box mods. I wanted soemthing small and slim, like a cig!
It wasn't until vape shops started opening up in my area and VV egos came to the market, and clearomizers with resistances under 2 ohms, that I finally was able to enjoy vaping. So I guess that's somewhere in 2013-2014 or so.
The night I discovered the VV egos, I was astounded at how satisfying it was to me. I went all day without smoking and couldn't believe it. That night I went outside and lit up a cig just to see what would happen, like if I would just ditch the vape and realize it's just all the novelty of it all.
Nope. I took a couple drags on the cig, hated it, snuffed it out and that was the last cig that ever touched my lips. I still kept a pack of cigs around for probably 2 or 3 months becuase I figured at some point I'd fall away from vaping, but it never happened.
It wasn't all easy-going, it took time to figure out how to iron some kinks out after the novelty that was there faded, but I stuck with it. I also had to ditch the hatred for having to use a device that was much larger than a cig that I couldn't "V" in my fingers and couldn't hold in my lips. That was tough to fight, but I won.
I still use cigalikes every now and then and small 18350 tube device to simulate a cigar (and i hated cigars, go figure). But it's rare anymore and I never get an urge to hold a cig let alone smoke one.
I don't miss cigs - AT ALL. Just the smell of cig smoke triggers me and puts me in a bad mood because it's sooooo suffocating to me, even from far away. I'm forced to smell it frequently becuase my across-the-street neighbor smokes outside
. I also live near a busy street & it seems someone's always chucking a .... out the window. I can't often smell it in my house.
I think at least some of that is due to the fact that a significant percentage of devices are now basically variations of the same thing. Back then, ECF was THE knowledge hub, as there were so many options that we all came here to figure out what was what.
We shared knowledge, argued about stupid stuff, stood for whatever silly thing it was that we felt & believed at the time, and in many cases, laughed our rear-ends off.
It was a combination of community center, university, and boxing ring; all rolled up into one awesome and amazing thing. There were things to discuss intelligently, and things to fight about (sometimes/often even UN-intelligently).
- Mechs vs. Regulated
- Watts vs. Volts ("Volts taste better!")
- Blister-pack Coils vs. Rebuildables
- Temp Control vs. Non
- Provari vs. Darwin vs. Reo vs. ...
Now, it feels like it's basically about which color & flavor combo to choose. I know I'm oversimplifying, but y'all know what I mean.
All that said, I do also realize that, in the time it took me to write this, seven new SbS mods and nine new Boro mods hit the market. Again though (and sadly), they're still all just new twists in old drink recipes.
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I don't like the matured vape market, but it was inevitable - it happens to every market. It's really boring, though, and it kills vaping forums lol. Well that and social media 2.0, of course.
For all it's faults, that's where the Fasttech forum shined even up to the end in 2022, when the market was as mature as it is today. Most of the regulars that were still around from the old days were very much still into measuring stuff and figuring out what screws/orings/glass/parts fit what so you could keep what you have or make it better...if that was your goal. No offense to ECF (or any other vaping forum) but it is what it is: if you ask part sourcing questions on any vape forum today (save for high-/higher-end gear) it's either crickets or "just get a new one". I just wasn't brought up that way I guess. My parents made efforts to try to fix (or get fixed) what they had...because they had to. That spirit lives-on in my blood, I guess. For some reason, fixing what I have in order to make it operational again gives me a high of sorts. Makes me feel like less of a hyper-consumer machine and more like a human, and that makes me feel good.
Absolutely and I'm in total agreement.
I'm just glad to have been around for the really fun times. SO exciting, in SO many ways...
If not for Fastech, I wouldn't have NEARLY as many drip tips as I do. I guess, now that I think about it, that I'm not sure whether that's a good or bad thing.
Nah, nevermind. It's a good thing. A very good thing.
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