Vapers win in epic hashtag hijack

[Poeia]

This should be a money-maker for San Francisco. If you place one foot off the curb and into the gutter while waiting for a light, you get a ticket for jaywalking. So, if they strategically place officers where smokers and vapers congregate, they can issue tickets whenever anyone places a foot wrong.

I don't Facebook but I do Tweet. (If I get an email telling me that a friend has posted something on FB, I'll click on the link, read it and possibly reply. Other than that, I ignore it.) My core twitter group was a dozen or so friends from the House fandom then I added some friends of friends. Other than that, it's witty celebrities (although I haven't culled all the ones who only post to sell something) and some general twitters like @DrScienceCat @FacesPics @SciencePorn and @@ZooBorns

You can always just follow @ecigaretteforum and some of your favorite vendors. You can see the latest sales and won't have to chat.

 

[WendyM]

Okay I have to defend my people, I've lived in California almost my whole life and I'm very liberal just like many of the city dwellers who live in our state. I don't want to take away ANYTHING from you! This whole vaping scene is new and people are often scared of what's new. vaping is here to stay. The science is on our side and as more research is done the people (Who you may call Liberals) will find it harder and harder to deny the facts. Vapers can be liberal, conservative, or somewhere in between but we all share a passion, a hobby, and a common goal. We are a fragmented group and the opponents are not, we should stick together.

Agreed. Let's not allow fanatics to make this us vs. them along the same old political lines. We are *all* vapers.

 

[AndriaD]

This should be a money-maker for San Francisco. If you place one foot off the curb and into the gutter while waiting for a light, you get a ticket for jaywalking. So, if they strategically place officers where smokers and vapers congregate, they can issue tickets whenever anyone places a foot wrong.

I don't Facebook but I do Tweet. (If I get an email telling me that a friend has posted something on FB, I'll click on the link, read it and possibly reply. Other than that, I ignore it.) My core twitter group was a dozen or so friends from the House fandom then I added some friends of friends. Other than that, it's witty celebrities (although I haven't culled all the ones who only post to sell something) and some general twitters like @DrScienceCat @FacesPics @SciencePorn and @@ZooBorns

You can always just follow @ecigaretteforum and some of your favorite vendors. You can see the latest sales and won't have to chat.

I miss House so much. *sniff* That was by far my favorite show for probably the last 2 decades. We watched a rerun recently; my husband was cackling his hiney off. He says "I'd forgotten how funny this show is!" I'm like, well DUH.

Andria

 

[Mtek]

Political views may be developed at a personal level, but their exercise by their nature is a public endeavor. One needs to ask themselves whether their own political position fosters this type of behavior or whether it seeks to curb it. This type of nanny-State intrusion didn't come from any libertarian mind I can assure you.

You're right, I'm wrong, no need to go further.

Good to see everyone on twitter got this trending.

 

[OldBatty]

I didnt want to live forever but now that Im vaping, looks like Im going to

Looks like signature file material to me! Just need to get off my hind end and finish my custom signature with rotating quotes...

 

[Shade42]

Yep, SF is a melting pot of the world where people do their own thing mostly, will stand their ground even if it's against the grain of society, yet as a whole still get along with each other pretty well. I lived there most of the time from 1967-1971, married a local gal, will always like it and consider it the second best place I lived when in CA (Carmel in the 70's was the best).

Spydro, I love what you're describing about SF and I'm sure there still is an element of that...but the last few years young snotty techies own the place. (And unabashedly complain about how much they think it sucks.) Things are changing, lightning fast.

I'm actually ashamed of my hometown sometimes. *sigh* Never thought that would happen.

 

[MESHisBetter]

Political views may be developed at a personal level, but their exercise by their nature is a public endeavor. One needs to ask themselves whether their own political position fosters this type of behavior or whether it seeks to curb it. This type of nanny-State intrusion didn't come from any libertarian mind I can assure you.

Yea because libertarians only have good ideas. Dems have good and bad ideas, Republicans have good and bad ideas, and so on. If your looking for a political party that is always right you won't find it.

 

[witch1]

Yea because libertarians only have good ideas. Dems have good and bad ideas, Republicans have good and bad ideas, and so on. If your looking for a political party that is always right you won't find it.

EVERY political party has its downside. The best we can hope for is to vote for someone who seems to have the public interest at heart-and by public interest, I don't mean the overly pc, nanny state, outlaw everything because it may hurt someone eventually possibly, tax everyone to death to support those to lazy to work. The real public interest-don't tax businesses to death so they can afford to hire workers, help those who need it but let the lazies sink or swim, support higher education for everyone, and stop outlawing everything. I frankly don't care if someone vapes, smokes, does drugs, or drinks themselves into oblivion as long as they don't hurt others.

 

[Cotay]

Yea because libertarians only have good ideas. Dems have good and bad ideas, Republicans have good and bad ideas, and so on. If your looking for a political party that is always right you won't find it.

Who was talking about political parties? Not me. I'm talking about philosophies of political engagement. Notice I used a small "l" in libertarian. I have no political party affiliation and wasn't advocating one.

 

[AndriaD]

Who was talking about political parties? Not me. I'm talking about philosophies of political engagement. Notice I used a small "l" in libertarian. I have no political party affiliation and wasn't advocating one.

Good for you, but I wholly fail to understand this need to put a label on oneself. I'm me, a party of one. Sometimes I vote donkey, sometimes I vote elephant; they're really all the same, I just try to figure out a) who's being the most honest while lying thru their teeth, and b) whose interests lie closer to my own, or at least won't take mine hostage to some political BS that means NOTHING to the working people of America. That's the best any of us can do, unless we win a triple-digit-millions lottery and can buy our own politicians as all the other rich people do.

Andria

 

[Twisty]

I'm 27 and I don't even know what putting a hashtag in front of something does. I still don't understand it xD

Well I'm 60+. When I was a boy a hashtag was something you left on your underwear if you were careless when using toilet paper.

From what I can tell, most everything with a hashtag today fits that description.

 

[Strings]

Twisty wins one internet

And owes me a new keyboard!

 

[Withdrewandi]

Coming from the UK I have no real knowledge about the American country as a whole i know a lot of Americans most of which vape rather than smoke but this curbit thing really confuses me... You see over here right now e-cigs are being advertised on tv with one of the biggest selling points being YOU CAN USE IT INDOORS[\B] now my American friends always tell me that they live in the free world where you can do as you please and that I live in a country that wants to rule everything i do seems in some ways they are wrong lol The uk govt just wants to tax the hell out of vaping so they make money

 

[philoshop]

Withdrewandi, we don't have politicians who would be that honest about it.

 

[Withdrewandi]

Withdrewandi, we don't have politicians who would be that honest about it.

Neither do we lol we just know cos they tax every other part of our life

 

[wacdenney]

Coming from the UK I have no real knowledge about the American country as a whole i know a lot of Americans most of which vape rather than smoke but this curbit thing really confuses me... You see over here right now e-cigs are being advertised on tv with one of the biggest selling points being YOU CAN USE IT INDOORS[\B] now my American friends always tell me that they live in the free world where you can do as you please and that I live in a country that wants to rule everything i do seems in some ways they are wrong lol The uk govt just wants to tax the hell out of vaping so they make money

Your American friends have been sold on an outdated dream. The ideal of America being the "home of the free" is relative at best. There are certainly a lot of freedoms compared to dictatorships around the world and there are plenty of countries that are comparable to the US also. More free in some areas and less so in others. The concept of being "free" is also somewhat abstract at its root and the idea that the US has the most freedom doesn't always hold up under scrutiny.

All in all the US is a great place to live and restrictions of freedoms are usually grounded in money. Think about who makes money and who has money... To be honest, I'm surprised the whole industry hasn't been sold out to BT yet. I predicted it would have happened by now and I am being proven wrong every day. Thank goodness!

 

[Moonlit knight]

The uk govt just wants to tax the hell out of vaping so they make money

I doubt that since the UK is a sovereign issuer of their own currency, the gov't is the source of it's own fiat money. Unless it's a county or municipal tax then a different story, but you said UK gov't. Federal taxes are a tool to regulate the economy, keep it from over heating in a boom or stimulate in down times. Euroland is a different story also the individual countries ceded issuance to a central banking authority. More likely it's a sin tax.

 

[Str8vision]

Coming from the UK I have no real knowledge about the American country as a whole i know a lot of Americans most of which vape rather than smoke but this curbit thing really confuses me... You see over here right now e-cigs are being advertised on tv with one of the biggest selling points being YOU CAN USE IT INDOORS[\B] now my American friends always tell me that they live in the free world where you can do as you please and that I live in a country that wants to rule everything i do seems in some ways they are wrong lol The uk govt just wants to tax the hell out of vaping so they make money

Our governments actually have the same agenda/mindset when it comes to vaping, both want draconian taxes imposed on it. The difference is, in the U.S., our government will first "demonize" vaping in order to gain the general public's support before imposing heavy handed regulations and massive taxes on the industry. That's why we currently see so much negative propaganda being spread in the guise of news stories/articles, the "push" is on and it's working.

 

[zoiDman]

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All in all the US is a great place to live and restrictions of freedoms are usually grounded in money. Think about who makes money and who has money... To be honest, I'm surprised the whole industry hasn't been sold out to BT yet. I predicted it would have happened by now and I am being proven wrong every day. Thank goodness!

I don't think you got it Wrong wac.

I just think Your Timeline was a bit off.

 

[AndriaD]

Coming from the UK I have no real knowledge about the American country as a whole i know a lot of Americans most of which vape rather than smoke but this curbit thing really confuses me... You see over here right now e-cigs are being advertised on tv with one of the biggest selling points being YOU CAN USE IT INDOORS[\B] now my American friends always tell me that they live in the free world where you can do as you please and that I live in a country that wants to rule everything i do seems in some ways they are wrong lol The uk govt just wants to tax the hell out of vaping so they make money

It's because the control-freak Smoke Nazis have gotten control of EVERYTHING... including our media and politicians. When Obama was first elected and someone snapped a pic of him with a cigarette, the press carried on like he was Hitler, Stalin, Idi Amin, and Bin Laden rolled into one.

And of course, to the Smoke Nazis, anything that LOOKS like smoke, actually IS smoke, and catching one whiff, one MOLECULE of it, would mean The End of the World As They Know It. Hell with science, they care NOTHING for science; to them, "ANTZ" is their religion, philosophy, lifestyle, and hammer with which to beat the brains out of anyone who dares to exhale anything visible. They don't care that smoking was killing us and vaping won't, because to them, killing us would be a good thing, and the more painfully we died, the better they liked it.

Andria