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On topic stuff first:
If I haven't listed that as a pet peeve yet, I should have…it's becoming my biggest.
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I hear you about the range thing, but for the type of shooting I like, there's only one range in the Southeast that's actually right; it's on Ft. Benning. The range that hosted the '96 olympics is just outside the perimeter and like 15 minutes from where I used to live, but the evil, corrupt Fulton County Commissioners decided to make it a concert venue or something stupid like that. We had a lot of competitors, coaches, athletes, families, life-long NRA members–basically everyone involved in international shooting sports in GA pledging to vote Democrat because the incumbent Governor promised to use something like eminent domain to stop them from doing it and keep running it as a shooting range………and it was the first time since the Civil War that a Republican won the Governorship of GA……and the ..... who won apparently decided not to tow the party line on the one issue we cared about at the time. I don't care what your politics are, that
just isn't fair.
I just wish there was a range less than 2 hours away. Then again, my life would be very different if I'd been able to go to college and shoot at the same time, but traveling 4 hours a day, shooting 20-30 hours a week, and being a full time student just wasn't in the cards and I (probably stupidly) chose academics over athletics.
That sucks, but unless you live in Compton or a bad part of Detroit, I'll take petty crimes over ridiculously higher rates of unplanned teenage pregnancy, hard drug production and abuse (and associated crimes), domestic violence, hate groups, and Christian Fundamentalism any day.
(note: I'm not anti-Christian by any stretch of the imagination…I just think Fundamentalists get it blatantly and explicitly wrong because they can't read well enough)
Maybe I'm biased because I lived through Rockdale County circa 1996-1999, but…………
I knew 4 people in middle school that committed suicide in 3 years.
A lot of the people I knew were affected by a syphilis outbreak in the middle and high schools (yes, I said middle schools) that got so bad they forced nearly everyone to get tested and gave everyone either treatments or placebo so the ridiculous extent of it wouldn't immediately be known.
I was 11 the first time I was offered hard drugs……at a middle school dance.
There was a shooting in one of the High Schools that hurt a lot of people and ruined one girl's capability of ever having children.
There was almost another one in one of the middle schools a year before that that got stopped because someone thankfully ratted them out based on nothing but hearsay and happened to be right.
When we finally fled for the hills (skyscrapers), the school changed my grades and those of a few friends to make us fail 8th grade in an attempt to keep us from transferring to a private school. Apparently the 3 or 4 of us that planned to leave were responsible for increasing the school's ITBS scores enough that it got a budget increase.
Fortunately, the private schools–3 different schools all within Metro Atlanta–didn't care.
And because some of you are wondering……yes, those ridiculous, out of control private school parties you've probably heard about or imagined did happen………40 miles south of the city.
All of that happened in a suburb of Atlanta. My family moved there because it had a great reputation for good schools and the small community atmosphere.
Oh…also, riding a bike in the city is perfectly doable if you're not stupid. An ex-girlfriend's dad routinely came home from rides (in one of the other "really nice" suburbs) bleeding because people in cars would throw cigarette butts, trash, and batteries at him while he was riding.
In this same upscale suburb, a local church reacted to the opening of an Inserection ("adult toy" store and smoke shop) by camping the parking lot and publishing the license plate numbers, descriptions, and in some cases names of people who shopped there in the Sunday paper………in a county that has repeatedly been reported to have the highest per capita .... production in the state. It seems like they should have better things to do with their time……like raising their own kids to not be a complete waste of food. But, no, they had to publish the names of people who bought clove cigarettes, condoms, and occasionally vibrators.
And, I don't know about you, but I personally prefer paying a homeless person a couple bucks to go away and spare me the sob story every now and then to being offered hard drugs in parking lots for no reason except that I went to wal mart at 10pm and decided I wanted to have a cigarette in the parking lot instead of smoking in my car (back when I smoked).
Maybe the entirety of Georgia is just a cesspool and Atlanta is one bright, shining light of average while the rest of the world actually lives the myth I grew up believing……but I really just don't believe it when anyone says that living in a small town or a suburb has any advantages at all. If I ever end up raising a family, there is no way in that they're growing up in a suburb or a small town; they're just too dangerous.
Never happened to me, really. When my Smoktech cartos fail, they just start flooding without warning. It's scared me from using them because I never like wasting that much juice, and it always seems to happen pretty close to re-filling a tank.
If I haven't listed that as a pet peeve yet, I should have…it's becoming my biggest.
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Within the city limits itself, yes. Metro Atlanta is more like 5 million with most of that living in "urban" areas. I'm not sure where Wikipedia draws the border (probably along county lines for some antiquated reason) You kinda just have to drive around to figure it out. Basically, if you're not a local, you're out of the city when the roads start making sense and everything starts looking cleaner. If you're a local, you're out of the city when everything starts looking the same and you're surprised that the street name hasn't changed for a few miles."Atlanta" is a small town.Not even half a million people in it.
Atlanta Yacht club is like an hour away. There are 2 or 3 big lakes about the same distance (Alatoona and Lanier at least), and the "benefit" of having to go somewhere is that your trips end up being a small vacation instead of just something else you do during a normal day. At least that's how I feel.
I hear you about the range thing, but for the type of shooting I like, there's only one range in the Southeast that's actually right; it's on Ft. Benning. The range that hosted the '96 olympics is just outside the perimeter and like 15 minutes from where I used to live, but the evil, corrupt Fulton County Commissioners decided to make it a concert venue or something stupid like that. We had a lot of competitors, coaches, athletes, families, life-long NRA members–basically everyone involved in international shooting sports in GA pledging to vote Democrat because the incumbent Governor promised to use something like eminent domain to stop them from doing it and keep running it as a shooting range………and it was the first time since the Civil War that a Republican won the Governorship of GA……and the ..... who won apparently decided not to tow the party line on the one issue we cared about at the time. I don't care what your politics are, that
just isn't fair. I just wish there was a range less than 2 hours away. Then again, my life would be very different if I'd been able to go to college and shoot at the same time, but traveling 4 hours a day, shooting 20-30 hours a week, and being a full time student just wasn't in the cards and I (probably stupidly) chose academics over athletics.
That sucks, but unless you live in Compton or a bad part of Detroit, I'll take petty crimes over ridiculously higher rates of unplanned teenage pregnancy, hard drug production and abuse (and associated crimes), domestic violence, hate groups, and Christian Fundamentalism any day.
(note: I'm not anti-Christian by any stretch of the imagination…I just think Fundamentalists get it blatantly and explicitly wrong because they can't read well enough)
Maybe I'm biased because I lived through Rockdale County circa 1996-1999, but…………
I knew 4 people in middle school that committed suicide in 3 years.
A lot of the people I knew were affected by a syphilis outbreak in the middle and high schools (yes, I said middle schools) that got so bad they forced nearly everyone to get tested and gave everyone either treatments or placebo so the ridiculous extent of it wouldn't immediately be known.
I was 11 the first time I was offered hard drugs……at a middle school dance.
There was a shooting in one of the High Schools that hurt a lot of people and ruined one girl's capability of ever having children.
There was almost another one in one of the middle schools a year before that that got stopped because someone thankfully ratted them out based on nothing but hearsay and happened to be right.
When we finally fled for the hills (skyscrapers), the school changed my grades and those of a few friends to make us fail 8th grade in an attempt to keep us from transferring to a private school. Apparently the 3 or 4 of us that planned to leave were responsible for increasing the school's ITBS scores enough that it got a budget increase.
Fortunately, the private schools–3 different schools all within Metro Atlanta–didn't care.
And because some of you are wondering……yes, those ridiculous, out of control private school parties you've probably heard about or imagined did happen………40 miles south of the city.
All of that happened in a suburb of Atlanta. My family moved there because it had a great reputation for good schools and the small community atmosphere.
Oh…also, riding a bike in the city is perfectly doable if you're not stupid. An ex-girlfriend's dad routinely came home from rides (in one of the other "really nice" suburbs) bleeding because people in cars would throw cigarette butts, trash, and batteries at him while he was riding.
In this same upscale suburb, a local church reacted to the opening of an Inserection ("adult toy" store and smoke shop) by camping the parking lot and publishing the license plate numbers, descriptions, and in some cases names of people who shopped there in the Sunday paper………in a county that has repeatedly been reported to have the highest per capita .... production in the state. It seems like they should have better things to do with their time……like raising their own kids to not be a complete waste of food. But, no, they had to publish the names of people who bought clove cigarettes, condoms, and occasionally vibrators.
And, I don't know about you, but I personally prefer paying a homeless person a couple bucks to go away and spare me the sob story every now and then to being offered hard drugs in parking lots for no reason except that I went to wal mart at 10pm and decided I wanted to have a cigarette in the parking lot instead of smoking in my car (back when I smoked).
Maybe the entirety of Georgia is just a cesspool and Atlanta is one bright, shining light of average while the rest of the world actually lives the myth I grew up believing……but I really just don't believe it when anyone says that living in a small town or a suburb has any advantages at all. If I ever end up raising a family, there is no way in
that they're growing up in a suburb or a small town; they're just too dangerous.
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Vaping pet hate:
Having about 10 or 12 devices going on at one time, each with a different juice and knowing EXACTLY what is in each device. But change out one carto or flavor, and I'm confused and start making mistakes. Then I invariably end up with something like Banana pie Gandalf!!!
Having about 10 or 12 devices going on at one time, each with a different juice and knowing EXACTLY what is in each device. But change out one carto or flavor, and I'm confused and start making mistakes. Then I invariably end up with something like Banana pie Gandalf!!!
Also…USPS, again, because a shipment is in an Atlanta sort facility (technically outside what I would consider the actual city) but got there about 15 minutes after the truck normally leaves……and it won't be delivered until tomorrow.
Probably opening a can of worms here, but her it goes.....
"Experts" and "veterans" who are convinced that a VV, LR atomizer and large tank are just perfect to start with, afterall that's where they're at and it'll save the newbie a lot of money. I guess that just wanting something that looks and acts like a cigarette isn't important to someone trying to get off of tobacco and that they probably started with something far more modest but still serviceable and easy to use. Yeah, I've wasted some money on what I call a micro, but after finding a good mini, Volt, I don't consider what I'm spending to be wasted anymore. The objective for a newbie, at least in my mind, is to get off tobacco and onto vaping, not start with the latest and greatest that needs constant fooling to keep it running. The KISS principle is the most important thing to keep in mind, a battery, probably an automatic, and a liquid delivery system with moderate capacity is all that's required.
"Experts" and "veterans" who are convinced that a VV, LR atomizer and large tank are just perfect to start with, afterall that's where they're at and it'll save the newbie a lot of money. I guess that just wanting something that looks and acts like a cigarette isn't important to someone trying to get off of tobacco and that they probably started with something far more modest but still serviceable and easy to use. Yeah, I've wasted some money on what I call a micro, but after finding a good mini, Volt, I don't consider what I'm spending to be wasted anymore. The objective for a newbie, at least in my mind, is to get off tobacco and onto vaping, not start with the latest and greatest that needs constant fooling to keep it running. The KISS principle is the most important thing to keep in mind, a battery, probably an automatic, and a liquid delivery system with moderate capacity is all that's required.
As much as I like a southern drawl, incoherent mumbling + agonizingly slow southern drawl + crappy music on cheap speakers + constant yapping from some rat/dog thing = failed product review. Yes, your review could have been quite sensible, eye opening, informative, and/or useful, but I wouldn't know. It's like you went out of your way to obfuscate your presentation. Why did you even bother?
Oh and to the other youtube reviewers, if your crappy intro lasts takes up over 1/3 of your video... fail. No one, and I mean NO ONE cares about your crappy logo, cheaply made computer graphics, and horrible music. No review needs a title sequence. The best reviewers are have a minimal short intro, if at all.
ok I feel better now...whew.
Oh and to the other youtube reviewers, if your crappy intro lasts takes up over 1/3 of your video... fail. No one, and I mean NO ONE cares about your crappy logo, cheaply made computer graphics, and horrible music. No review needs a title sequence. The best reviewers are have a minimal short intro, if at all.
ok I feel better now...whew.
My biggest pet peeve and the one that keeps me from posting here much any more is e cig users who, after a day or week or month of not smoking cigarettes, suddenly aligns himself with the anti-smokers. He refers to smokers and cigs as stinkies, is now unable to "bear the stench of secondhand smoke" is terrified of being around smokers, and throws himself at the mercy of the anti-smokers. Ironically, he has bought into the very language that will bring his new vaping habit to a halt. I think, don't you get it? They really are out to get you too because no matter how much your e cig looks like a giant lead pipe, you are still blowing a substance that "looks like smoke" and is the target of anti-smokers. You may fool yourself by distancing yourself from cigarette smokers, but it is an illusion where anti-smokers are concerned. Oh, and I detest the term analog to refer to a cigarette. Call it what it is.
People's banners that say "SAVED $XXXXXXXX" after quitting smoking while their profile picture is of 18 mods stacked beside one another...
+1
I wish the counter apps had a spot to deduct purchase costs. Would be a nice feature to have built in.
I cannot balance 10-12 flavors at one time, so I tried to figure out a way to make it work. I solved it!(Actually, I wasn't the one with the idea. I read it on another thread and really dug the idea, but can't recall where I read it.) I got one of those sweet plastic tackle boxes with dividers. You can change the dividers to fit bottle sizes/cartos/tanks/clearos/etc. I keep the bottle with the carto/tank/etc in the designated area. Plus (my idea because I love whiteboards and dry erase markers and also in effort to save the trees) I have a small whiteboard I make notes on when I take out stuff to be certain I put them back with the correct flavor.
Pet Peeve: I am traveling right now and leave all but two of my juices at home, but I bring a few filled carts of other flavors with me. The one flavor I am craving right now tastes like plastic and it makes me sad. I think it may be clogged so I'm gonna go home tomorrow and clean it to see if that will take care of it. I hate throwing away carts.
Back when I was using a lot of flavors I bought a label maker and just labelled all my filled cartos. I kept them stored in a 2 dollar plastic ammo box which will hold them upright.
Another peeve...guess it's just one of those days. I am still waiting for the day when I can simply pull out an e cig, vape on it all day, and not carry "equipment" to make that happen. My vision is a day when e cigs become as simple to use as a pack of cigs and a lighter. Some of us are not into the technicality of vaping. We do it simply because we enjoy the experience. The hassle of e smoking is a turn off. Hope someone simplifies it soon.
Similarly...I haven't used anything but a tank in weeks. I am still finding cartos all over. My laptop bag, cup holder in the car, desk drawers, etc
I'm using the banner to remind me how much I smoked. At this point, I'm about two months away from breaking even though.
Knocking Stuff Over
Standing on my desk are three PV's. Three flavors. I reach for one and knock over the other two. Noisy. I've seen PV stands but haven't bought one because ... No Reason Whatsoever.
Since reaching the ripe old age of "should have known better" you'd think I'd have a better handle on cause and effect. Naaaaaaah.
Fudd's First Law of Opposition: “If you push something hard enough ... it will fall over.”
Standing on my desk are three PV's. Three flavors. I reach for one and knock over the other two. Noisy. I've seen PV stands but haven't bought one because ... No Reason Whatsoever.
Since reaching the ripe old age of "should have known better" you'd think I'd have a better handle on cause and effect. Naaaaaaah.
Fudd's First Law of Opposition: “If you push something hard enough ... it will fall over.”
I *think* Provape has a banner that can calculate break even stuff. I seem to recall seeing one on here at some point.
Doh! New Pet Peeve: Ordering 3 packages of juice and goodies to be delivered in my home and seeing on their tracking form that all three of my packages are being processed through the same town that I am currently in for work.....but I can't go halt their processing and grab my stuff to save them the trouble and me the wait of another day!
Carto condoms. I wish I could just toss all of them, but you never know when I might need one to fill a carto. It seems like they're multiplying and taking over my house, car, work desk etc.
Personally I don't think I want to know how much I've spent on this stuff -- I prefer to remain blissfully ignorant!
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