What are your Vaping Pet Hates ;)

[Jacoji]

Math story problems:

Julie vapes 24mg/ml and Cody vapes 12mg/ml. They split a 30ml bottle of juice. Julie wants to up the nicotine in her 15ml from 12 to 24 with 45mg/ml nicotine on hand. How much does she add?

I know there are juice-making formulation models online but I still wanted to try this the old fashioned way. I asked a PHD math professor friend to solve it for me (side-bar for him during a Scrabble game - living fast and hard). He wrote out the equation and then said "now just solve for X". "How do I do that?" "It's a basic quadratic equation". I haven't solved a quadratic equation since 1987. Yay for the internet and Excel.

 

[John D in CT]

Math story problems:

Julie vapes 24mg/ml and Cody vapes 12mg/ml. They split a 30ml bottle of juice. Julie wants to up the nicotine in her 15ml from 12 to 24 with 45mg/ml nicotine on hand. How much does she add?

I know there are juice-making formulation models online but I still wanted to try this the old fashioned way. I asked a PHD math professor friend to solve it for me (side-bar for him during a Scrabble game - living fast and hard). He wrote out the equation and then said "now just solve for X". "How do I do that?" "It's a basic quadratic equation". I haven't solved a quadratic equation since 1987. Yay for the internet and Excel.

I feel your pain. They don't call them math "problems" for nothing. You do have a problem.

Here's a solution; tell Julie to vape 12 mg. Have her order some, and give the 45mg to a soup kitchen. You're welcome.

 

[Butters78]

Having two devices at my side both running dangerously low on fluids and all my juice is upstairs........

Padawan powered Galaxy Note

You need one of these..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vPVSD7DUVs&feature=youtube_gdata_player

 

[Jacoji]

Here's a solution; tell Julie to vape 12 mg. Have her order some, and give the 45mg to a soup kitchen.

Or alternatively, Julie tells Cody to order his own damn juice.

 

[bzmotoninja83]

Lmao. I'm not old. Only 30. Just lazy sometimes. Working g at the warehouse I work at, I walk "superfast " mostly all of the time. I do t want to do jack when I get home.lol.....

Another pet hate? People that inquire about my device, "that's one of tbise fake ciggs right? They don't work do they?" they then proceed to tell me they would never use anything like that because of the "cost"....... ...?

Padawan powered Galaxy Note

 

[Worzel]

Being ripped on for using a cig alike. I am FEMALE! I want pretty! Twinkle light and all! Tells everybody "this is NOT a cigarette!" I keep Optimus Prime at home. I cannot stand cig alikes that light red or orange with the white matte paint, paper rings, and brown carts. Those say "I wish I had a stinky right now, but I am stuck with this thing!"

 

[cags]

Being ripped on for using a cig alike. I am FEMALE! I want pretty! Twinkle light and all! Tells everybody "this is NOT a cigarette!" I keep Optimus Prime at home. I cannot stand cig alikes that light red or orange with the white matte paint, paper rings, and brown carts. Those say "I wish I had a stinky right now, but I am stuck with this thing!"

when I started I wanted black, I didn't want to be noticed. it wasn't long before I was buying pink, purple, anything purty. I'm a girl too
my cags say hi to your cag

 

[Worzel]

when I started I wanted black, I didn't want to be noticed. it wasn't long before I was buying pink, purple, anything purty. I'm a girl too
my cags say hi to your cag

I started with a black Blu, has a nice, mysterious look to it. Switched to Volcano and their tube tanks because the vape party don't stop for me just got the ERoll for out the door cuteness. Worzel says Hello, followed by a loud belch and a whistle to your CAG's!

 

[bzmotoninja83]

Lmao..... Optimus prime...... I gotta start naming my devices now..... That's going to be good at work...... "hey what's that?" oh this? This is optimus prime.....
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[kingblunt204]

"too much hassle" get me everytime

 

[Orobas]

math story problems:

Julie vapes 24mg/ml and cody vapes 12mg/ml. They split a 30ml bottle of juice. Julie wants to up the nicotine in her 15ml from 12 to 24 with 45mg/ml nicotine on hand. How much does she add?

I know there are juice-making formulation models online but i still wanted to try this the old fashioned way. I asked a phd math professor friend to solve it for me (side-bar for him during a scrabble game - living fast and hard). He wrote out the equation and then said "now just solve for x". "how do i do that?" "it's a basic quadratic equation". I haven't solved a quadratic equation since 1987. Yay for the internet and excel.

then who was phone

 

[John D in CT]

Math story problems:

Julie vapes 24mg/ml and Cody vapes 12mg/ml. They split a 30ml bottle of juice. Julie wants to up the nicotine in her 15ml from 12 to 24 with 45mg/ml nicotine on hand. How much does she add?

I know there are juice-making formulation models online but I still wanted to try this the old fashioned way. I asked a PHD math professor friend to solve it for me (side-bar for him during a Scrabble game - living fast and hard). He wrote out the equation and then said "now just solve for X". "How do I do that?" "It's a basic quadratic equation". I haven't solved a quadratic equation since 1987. Yay for the internet and Excel.

In one way, I'm sorry that no one actually answered the math problem with any real degree of "precision". In another way, I'm not. In the grand scheme of things, it might well be argued that it doesn't really matter how "precise" the formulation is, and that the "best" course of action might be to just "fly by the seat of your pants". Sometimes the thing you end up with is even "better" than the thing you were shooting for in the first place.

While I think a very strong argument can be make for planning things out as best one can, sometimes it's a fine course of action to just "wing it", like I just did when I finally ran out of the schwagg "NPort" crap I've been vaping for the last couple of weeks or so. As I've said, it's about as "optimum" for a daily vape as Spam (tm) is for eating three times a day, but somehow, I've been enjoying the hell out of it, just as one might enjoy listening to a vinyl LP full of scratches, pops, and maybe even a skip or two that might necessitate giving the turntable a gentle nudge from time to time. It just has a certain charm, is all I can say.

With that in mind, I just mixed up a small batch of the most pathetic, weak watermelon flavor you could imagine using some 100% PG, 100% VG, 48% unflavored, and the remnants of a 1 dram bottle of LorAnn. Not bad actually ... it's getting the job done, which is all yer really looking for, as I see it. YMMV, of course.

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Pet Peeves: None at the moment.

 

[bzmotoninja83]

i need to get into diy. i tried with only vg and flavor, KILLER VAPOR and i think i got sick about that time too.

 

[John D in CT]

i need to get into diy. i tried with only vg and flavor, KILLER VAPOR and i think i got sick about that time too.

That snake reminds me of a lot of people I know.

 

[CASEACE79]

When a reviewer is doing a review of juice but feels the need to preface it with "taste is subjective", one of the most common misconceptions is that taste is completely subjective. It's not! Otherwise we wouldn't have culinary institutes across the country. Besides, we all understand we like different flavors. Stop it!

 

[John D in CT]

When a reviewer is doing a review of juice but feels the need to preface it with "taste is subjective", one of the most common misconceptions is that taste is completely subjective. It's not! Otherwise we wouldn't have culinary institutes across the country. Besides, we all understand we like different flavors. Stop it!

"Subjectivity" strikes me as an interesting thing. In one way, everything is, almost by definition, completely subjective, in the strictest sense of the word. With around three trillion synapses, no two brains, it seems to me, can be completely identical, hence the inherent (it seems to me) subjectivity ... at least to some degree. It seems to me that no two brains are going to experience the exact same thing the exact same way.

That said, it can be argued, it seems to me, that there are going to be similarities between how identical things are experienced by all of those arguably different brains; hence the apparent preference for vanilla ice cream over, say, Belly Button Lint flavor.

I do agree with your (almost paradoxically) implicit position that the notion that things can be quite subjective indeed is arguably overstated by reviewers.

 

[CASEACE79]

"Subjectivity" strikes me as an interesting thing. In one way, everything is, almost by definition, completely subjective, in the strictest sense of the word. With around three trillion synapses, no two brains, it seems to me, can be completely identical, hence the inherent (it seems to me) subjectivity ... at least to some degree. It seems to me that no two brains are going to experience the exact same thing the exact same way.

That said, it can be argued, it seems to me, that there are going to be similarities between how identical things are experienced by all of those arguably different brains; hence the apparent preference for vanilla ice cream over, say, Belly Button Lint flavor.

I do agree with your (almost paradoxically) implicit position that the notion that things can be quite subjective indeed is arguably overstated by reviewers.

I love debates like this. My take is this. Taste has to have some level of objectivity (granted very small). Take a strawberry for example. If 100 people tasted a strawberry and 99 said it tasted good would it be safe to say that someone who has never tried a strawberry would almost certainly say it also tasted good. Conversely, wouldn't it also be true that if 100 people tried a burned cheeseburger (and I mean charcoal briquette burned) and 99 out of the 100 tested found it disgusting that someone who had never tried said cheeseburger would also dislike the taste? Hence taste can not be entirely subjective.

 

[John D in CT]

I love debates like this. My take is this. Taste has to have some level of objectivity (granted very small). Take a strawberry for example. If 100 people tasted a strawberry and 99 said it tasted good would it be safe to say that someone who has never tried a strawberry would almost certainly say it also tasted good. Conversely, wouldn't it also be true that if 100 people tried a burned cheeseburger (and I mean charcoal briquette burned) and 99 out of the 100 tested found it disgusting that someone who had never tried said cheeseburger would also dislike the taste? Hence taste can not be entirely subjective.

I too - probably obviously - like debates .. on all topics imaginable. I completely ... well, constructively anyway ..... agree with everything you said. It would seem to me a relatively rare bird who would "enjoy" the cinderburger you describe, and I think that it can be safely said that the majority of homo sapiens do not mind ingesting strawberries, chocolate, ice cream, filet mignon, apple pie, hot dogs, cooked-to-order hamburgers with the two or three or four most common fixin's, and a host of other things of the generally-viewed-as-"delicious" sort.

This reminds me of a phenomenon that occurs when I tell someone that I find vaping - with good gear and a yummy juice or five - to be "more enjoyable" than smoking cigarettes ... even though I just smoked a relatively rare one (it tasted kinda crappy, yet somehow satisfied me on a level sufficient to warrant in my mind its consumption). The recipient of the aforementioned view on the relatively enjoyability of vaping vs. smoking will often say something like "well yeah, but that's just your opinion" (/subjective view), to which I will often respond (something to the effect of) "well yes, that is obviously and inherently a subjective view, but so would be my preference to be hit on the skull with a tackhammer as opposed to a sledgehammer, velocities being equal; and that is a subjective view that I also have reason to believe that you would share".

So yes; I agree with you that taste virtually cannot be entirely subjective, nor can (or at least probably is not) anything else be ... but again ... that said .... neither can it possibly be entirely objective. Like everything else, it is neither 100% one way, or 100% the other. And like virtually everything else, the "trick" is to figure out - as can best be determined by science, logic, and reason - just where on the "continuum of duality" (if you will) the thing in question does in "fact" reside.

Pet peeve: wondering if that made as much sense as I fervently hope (and think) it does.

 

[Felonyruckus]

i'm sure it's been said but, can't you just call it a cigarette instead of analog?

 

[John D in CT]

i'm sure it's been said but, can't you just call it a cigarette instead of analog?

I certainly see no reason why not .... or .... .... or ciggie .... or cancer stick ... hell, the British call them "fags" (f - a - g - s, just in case the bot doesn't like that) .....

Saying "analogs" has a certain je ne sais quoi, but surprise, surprise, I'm not sure just what it is. I like saying it from time to time, but like anything, a steady diet of that thing can lead to indigestion, malnutrition (in this case, of the mind, or the sensibilities of others, or worse) ..... so people .... if you have a reasonable feeling that someone would rather you not use the term "analog" (or "anologue", for those fortunate enough to have brave British blood coursing through their veins [don't screw with the RAF, or the British Army, or the British Navy, or anyone else from that intrepid island, for that matter, because when forced to defend themselves, they will go out of their way to gently yet firmly screw up your day]) ..... then by all means, please do what you can to accommodate them. There's really no use in going around intentionally trying to piss anyone off, is there?

That said, of course .... if one were to allow him or herself to become "rattled" by the mere utterance of this word or that, then that might be reasonably seen as an opportunity to learn (or re-learn) to take things in stride, and to "not sweat the small stuff", given the apparent fact that the Earth is just one of possibly millions of planets that host sentient beings much like ourselves, who themselves at this very moment might be "sweating" something equally "consequential".

My advice ... as always ... is to "chillax" ... as the kids say so well from time to time ..... have a nice vape .... enjoy the ride ..... let go ... live and let live as best you see fit ... and all in all ... just have "fun".

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Hehe ... the rest of this was epic ... but you snooze, you lose