OT: Thread About Nothing (TaN #...lost count)

[njdevils1982]

I'm going on 7 years without a single cigarette. I would have never been able to do it without snus.

I love it. General original portions mostly. It's very discreet people usually never know that I have one in my mouth.

ill be 3 years at christmas....although i was a pack a month guy

 

[JimEIV]

ill be 3 years at christmas....although i was a pack a month guy

A pack a month is hardly smoking at all

I was usually a half a pack+ a day. But if I was drinking I could easily go through 2 packs in a night.

 

[njdevils1982]

A pack a month is hardly smoking at all

I was usually a half a pack+ a day. But if I was drinking I could easily go through 2 packs in a night.

thing with me was if hanging with people i might have drinks and smoke a few but wouldnt have any for days afterwards.... i never smoked during the day at work or wherever it was usually with booze or a single in the evening before bed



in a way i never got hooked on it i guess.


i stopped for no reason really ...it just happened..... got a terrible cold/flu in dec '19 and only got out of bed to bathroom for four days.... when i was better i just never bought another pack

 

[Bleedred]

I smoked a couple drags of a cigarette when I was somewhere between 4 and 6 years old. Can't remember exactly. It might have even only been one drag? It was probably two or three though. An older cousin handed me one, maybe so I wouldn't tell on him, I don't know. It was something like ''Take this'' and told me what to do with it. I coughed so much and just will never forget how awful I felt afterwards. I never smoked a cigarette again and never will. Not that I even smoked an entire cigarette.

I smoked weed a bunch of times when I was 14 and just didn't enjoy it. Definitely didn't enjoy the smoking part of it. I'm the kind of person that can't stop coughing once I start. If I get a cold/cough, I'm still coughing off an on 4-6 weeks later, even if all the other symptoms have gone away. I don't have any sort of respiratory ailments, but I just cough for a long time once I start. If I start coughing from my drink going down the wrong pipe I sometimes will be coughing for an hour or more after that. Not non-stop, but off and on. Sometimes it's still lingering for 2 hours. If I really enjoyed getting high, I think I would eat an edible or something, but I don't enjoy it. Ate some pot brownies a few times between 14-16, since I wouldn't smoke it. It was whatever.

I actually don't discuss this often, but I was just thinking about it recently. I've never liked being drunk. I didn't like being drunk as a kid. I actually liked the pot brownies/weed (not the smoking part) more than the buzz from being drunk. Couldn't stand it.

I didn't drink much as a kid/young adult. Hardly ever at all after 16. Maybe not at all after 16? Until I was about 26-27. I had a bad breakup with my first love after 5+ years when I was 26. I had a couple of deaths around the same time, family members and a close friend of the family that I had known all my life. I started drinking A LOT because it just made me forget about everything. I didn't have to think about it anymore. I didn't like being buzzed, but I LOVED just not feeling anything after being really drunk and f***ed up. I was still functioning, I went to work every day. I never drove drunk. I didn't drink in the daytime, except on weekends/non work days.

I don't think it even went on 6 months, maybe only like 4 months before I realized this was getting really bad and I had drank EVERY day for at least 4 months, sometimes hard booze. I was already a big guy at that time, but I gained probably 30 or more pounds just from consuming 2000-3000 calories more a day in alcohol and I was still eating a whole lot too.

I somehow came to the realization that it was better to just stop drinking altogether. Not even once in a while, not even occasionally, no glass of wine with dinner or New Years, no beer out with friends. None of that. I never had to ever worry about getting stuck somewhere and not being able to drive back. It was right around the time the 2003 playoffs started that I stopped, so I got to experience that run sober, just as I had every other cup/playoff run before that.

Sometimes I'm not honest and will tell people I haven't drank in 30 years since I was a kid, because I don't want to even remember that brief but serious drunk phase. But it's not been quite 20. I do remember going through some type of withdrawals. You can't drink as much as I did for those few months without having them.

I did have a bit of an IDGAF stage in 2020-2021, which I've been pretty open about on here. It lasted even longer, but I didn't resort to alcohol once. Just ATE a whole lot. That's kind of what I do, but I also have that in control. I don't binge eat when I'm stressed or anything (I do have a cheat day or two every week) or feeling bad, but if I go through some kind of longer term depression I know I'll start eating a whole lot again and have to lose all my weight back again.

I have my days where I don't feel so good, but I'm very happy both those periods are behind me.

 

[njdevils1982]

I smoked a couple drags of a cigarette when I was somewhere between 4 and 6 years old. Can't remember exactly. It might have even only been one drag? It was probably two or three though. An older cousin handed me one, maybe so I wouldn't tell on him, I don't know. It was something like ''Take this'' and told me what to do with it. I coughed so much and just will never forget how awful I felt afterwards. I never smoked a cigarette again and never will. Not that I even smoked an entire cigarette.

I smoked weed a bunch of times when I was 14 and just didn't enjoy it. Definitely didn't enjoy the smoking part of it. I'm the kind of person that can't stop coughing once I start. If I get a cold/cough, I'm still coughing off an on 4-6 weeks later, even if all the other symptoms have gone away. I don't have any sort of respiratory ailments, but I just cough for a long time once I start. If I start coughing from my drink going down the wrong pipe I sometimes will be coughing for an hour or more after that. Not non-stop, but off and on. Sometimes it's still lingering for 2 hours. If I really enjoyed getting high, I think I would eat an edible or something, but I don't enjoy it. Ate some pot brownies a few times between 14-16, since I wouldn't smoke it. It was whatever.

I actually don't discuss this often, but I was just thinking about it recently. I've never liked being drunk. I didn't like being drunk as a kid. I actually liked the pot brownies/weed (not the smoking part) more than the buzz from being drunk. Couldn't stand it.

I didn't drink much as a kid/young adult. Hardly ever at all after 16. Maybe not at all after 16? Until I was about 26-27. I had a bad breakup with my first love after 5+ years when I was 26. I had a couple of deaths around the same time, family members and a close friend of the family that I had known all my life. I started drinking A LOT because it just made me forget about everything. I didn't have to think about it anymore. I didn't like being buzzed, but I LOVED just not feeling anything after being really drunk and f***ed up. I was still functioning, I went to work every day. I never drove drunk. I didn't drink in the daytime, except on weekends/non work days.

I don't think it even went on 6 months, maybe only like 4 months before I realized this was getting really bad and I had drank EVERY day for at least 4 months, sometimes hard booze. I was already a big guy at that time, but I gained probably 30 or more pounds just from consuming 2000-3000 calories more a day in alcohol and I was still eating a whole lot too.

I somehow came to the realization that it was better to just stop drinking altogether. Not even once in a while, not even occasionally, no glass of wine with dinner or New Years, no beer out with friends. None of that. I never had to ever worry about getting stuck somewhere and not being able to drive back. It was right around the time the 2003 playoffs started that I stopped, so I got to experience that run sober, just as I had every other cup/playoff run before that.

Sometimes I'm not honest and will tell people I haven't drank in 30 years since I was a kid, because I don't want to even remember that brief but serious drunk phase. But it's not been quite 20. I do remember going through some type of withdrawals. You can't drink as much as I did for those few months without having them.

I did have a bit of an IDGAF stage in 2020-2021, which I've been pretty open about on here. It lasted even longer, but I didn't resort to alcohol once. Just ATE a whole lot. That's kind of what I do, but I also have that in control. I don't binge eat when I'm stressed or anything (I do have a cheat day or two every week) or feeling bad, but if I go through some kind of longer term depression I know I'll start eating a whole lot again and have to lose all my weight back again.

I have my days where I don't feel so good, but I'm very happy both those periods are behind me.

back when i was playing lives shows here and there i never smoked weed before shows...just couldnt do it....but man, give me 3 or so pints before and im revved up to go!

 

[Bleedred]

back when i was playing lives shows here and there i never smoked weed before shows...just couldnt do it....but man, give me 3 or so pints before and im revved up to go!

I'm just getting a ton of brain fog at this point in my middle age. I can't get do anything that would really get me high.

In fact, I've long since gotten my highs and rushes through eating hot foods. I love the rush I get from that 4 or 5 second burn from horseradish/wasabi or that hot mustard they give you at Chinese restaurants. Not the ''Hot'' mustard in the packets, those aren't really that hot.

That's enough of a buzz for me. I love that burn after a dose of that hot mustard through the sinuses. It's one of those burns that is gone after 4-5 seconds, but is intense for those 4-5 seconds. And yes, sometimes it makes me cough when I eat too much of it or take too many ''Hits'' of it in a short period of time. It does have me coughing.

I also enjoy hot foods that are just hot period and not for 4-5 seconds.

That's like a nice way of getting high for sober/teetotal people. I know @Cage Helmet agrees.

 

[Capt Nico Poo]

I smoked a couple drags of a cigarette when I was somewhere between 4 and 6 years old. Can't remember exactly. It might have even only been one drag? It was probably two or three though. An older cousin handed me one, maybe so I wouldn't tell on him, I don't know. It was something like ''Take this'' and told me what to do with it. I coughed so much and just will never forget how awful I felt afterwards. I never smoked a cigarette again and never will. Not that I even smoked an entire cigarette.

I smoked weed a bunch of times when I was 14 and just didn't enjoy it. Definitely didn't enjoy the smoking part of it. I'm the kind of person that can't stop coughing once I start. If I get a cold/cough, I'm still coughing off an on 4-6 weeks later, even if all the other symptoms have gone away. I don't have any sort of respiratory ailments, but I just cough for a long time once I start. If I start coughing from my drink going down the wrong pipe I sometimes will be coughing for an hour or more after that. Not non-stop, but off and on. Sometimes it's still lingering for 2 hours. If I really enjoyed getting high, I think I would eat an edible or something, but I don't enjoy it. Ate some pot brownies a few times between 14-16, since I wouldn't smoke it. It was whatever.

I actually don't discuss this often, but I was just thinking about it recently. I've never liked being drunk. I didn't like being drunk as a kid. I actually liked the pot brownies/weed (not the smoking part) more than the buzz from being drunk. Couldn't stand it.

I didn't drink much as a kid/young adult. Hardly ever at all after 16. Maybe not at all after 16? Until I was about 26-27. I had a bad breakup with my first love after 5+ years when I was 26. I had a couple of deaths around the same time, family members and a close friend of the family that I had known all my life. I started drinking A LOT because it just made me forget about everything. I didn't have to think about it anymore. I didn't like being buzzed, but I LOVED just not feeling anything after being really drunk and f***ed up. I was still functioning, I went to work every day. I never drove drunk. I didn't drink in the daytime, except on weekends/non work days.

I don't think it even went on 6 months, maybe only like 4 months before I realized this was getting really bad and I had drank EVERY day for at least 4 months, sometimes hard booze. I was already a big guy at that time, but I gained probably 30 or more pounds just from consuming 2000-3000 calories more a day in alcohol and I was still eating a whole lot too.

I somehow came to the realization that it was better to just stop drinking altogether. Not even once in a while, not even occasionally, no glass of wine with dinner or New Years, no beer out with friends. None of that. I never had to ever worry about getting stuck somewhere and not being able to drive back. It was right around the time the 2003 playoffs started that I stopped, so I got to experience that run sober, just as I had every other cup/playoff run before that.

Sometimes I'm not honest and will tell people I haven't drank in 30 years since I was a kid, because I don't want to even remember that brief but serious drunk phase. But it's not been quite 20. I do remember going through some type of withdrawals. You can't drink as much as I did for those few months without having them.

I did have a bit of an IDGAF stage in 2020-2021, which I've been pretty open about on here. It lasted even longer, but I didn't resort to alcohol once. Just ATE a whole lot. That's kind of what I do, but I also have that in control. I don't binge eat when I'm stressed or anything (I do have a cheat day or two every week) or feeling bad, but if I go through some kind of longer term depression I know I'll start eating a whole lot again and have to lose all my weight back again.

I have my days where I don't feel so good, but I'm very happy both those periods are behind me.

I think one great way of reducing alcohol consumption is to do your regular fun stuff (like going to watch live sports, music, stand-up w/e) sober. Once you do it a few times youll realize that the alcohol doesnt actually make the average experience any better.

Alcohol can, however, make a special night better. Say, a Saturday night game at the Rock and you go out to a club/bar with your friends. That's great, dont mind drinking at the Rock.

But i dont buy beer at the Rock if im alone at the game on a weekday. Ill refrain from buying beer even if im with a hockey nerd friend that also goes to many games.

Did drink 2 at the Oilers game cause i took an European coworker with me and it was her first ice hockey experience.

 

[Bleedred]

I think one great way of reducing alcohol consumption is to do your regular fun stuff (like going to watch live sports, music, stand-up w/e) sober. Once you do it a few times youll realize that the alcohol doesnt actually make the average experience any better.

Alcohol can, however, make a special night better. Say, a Saturday night game at the Rock and you go out to a club/bar with your friends. That's great, dont mind drinking at the Rock.

But i dont buy beer at the Rock if im alone at the game on a weekday. Ill refrain from buying beer even if im with a hockey nerd friend that also goes to many games.

Did drink 2 at the Oilers game cause i took an European coworker with me and it was her first ice hockey experience.

I never really liked the taste of beer, but I enjoyed the smell of it. It’s one of those things that’s to me smells better than it tastes. I feel the same about popcorn. I always thought popcorn was one of the best smelling foods, but I really don’t enjoy the taste of it.

I kind of feel the same way about weed. I don’t love the smell of it, but it’s not bad either. Cigarettes? f*** no. Can’t stand the smell of them or any other tobacco.

Like I said, I wasn’t a partier as a kid. A couple of my close friends as a kid were straight edge and still are. We were all into hardcore music and would go to shows on weekends. A couple of them were drunks though. One has since sobered up and has been sober for decades now. I was never straight edge because I thought maybe I’d want to drink sometimes or eat pot brownies. But I wound up really not doing any of that stuff at all after age 16….. except for that brief 4 month period when I was in my late 20’s.

I actually can’t stand drinking culture or alcohol at all. I don’t really like to preach about it though, as I love a lot of people who do drink. But I feel like we’re taught from a young age that alcohol is okay, as long as you’re 21 and not driving. And you’re almost made to feel a fool if you do not drink. It’s almost like “What the f*** kind of person are you?” If you don’t drink. We were taught pot is bad and evil, because it was illegal, but alcohol is fine, just be 21 and don’t drive.

My best friend has seemed to develop a real drinking problem the last few years. He was one of the drunks I spoke of as a kid that I hung out with, but he kind of stopped drinking regularly in his early 20’s when our other friend got sober because he was a wreck. He drank sometimes, but not heavily. In the last 4 years he’s been drinking a lot more and I don’t think his wife even knows how drunk he gets. When we go to games I’ve had to pretend I’m buying a beer and give it to him cause they won’t let you buy two at a time. I’ve had to drive his truck home several times, while he’s had to get an Uber for me to take me home. It’s been a real problem with him for a few years now.

It’s been close to 20 years since I’ve had a sip of alcohol and 30 years since I’ve eaten a pot brownie and probably 32 years since I smoked it.

 

[Capt Nico Poo]

@JimEIV speaking of snus, where should i go if i wanted to buy some? 7/11 or some other shop?

I dont do it but i have friends from back home coming to visit me and they use snus on daily basis and might want to test some american brands.

 

[britdevil]

A pack a month is hardly smoking at all

I was usually a half a pack+ a day. But if I was drinking I could easily go through 2 packs in a night.

6 years, 2 months and 4 days since I gave up. Pack a day (they used to sell 10 packs when I quit, they were banned a few years ago).

Not that I'm counting...I miss it at times, but when I smell a smoker, I remember why I gave up.

 

[JimEIV]

@JimEIV speaking of snus, where should i go if i wanted to buy some? 7/11 or some other shop?

I dont do it but i have friends from back home coming to visit me and they use snus on daily basis and might want to test some american brands.

American snus is garbage and ridiculously priced due to tax. I only use Swedish snus and order it from Sweden every 3 months.

There are places here that sell General and some specialty tobacco shops that carry good snus. But I have never had any good American portioned tobacco products. I think fine cut tobacco like Skoal is nasty. Taste horrible and gets all over your mouth. When I was younger I use to occasionally chew leaf tobacco and Levi Garrett was my favorite. But now, for me Swedish snus is the only thing I have found that I like.

My go to's

General original
General Onyx
General mint
Göteborgs Rapé original
Odens Cold

But if you really want to buy the American stuff most convenient stores sell Skoal and Copenhagen or Camel snus which is really gross.

 

[JimEIV]

6 years, 2 months and 4 days since I gave up. Pack a day (they used to sell 10 packs when I quit, they were banned a few years ago).

Not that I'm counting...I miss it at times, but when I smell a smoker, I remember why I gave up.

Congratulations.

That's interesting...old smoke imbedded in a person's clothes smells terrible but when I smell someone actually smoking, it still smells good to me.

 

[britdevil]

Congratulations.

That's interesting...old smoke imbedded in a person's clothes smells terrible but when I smell someone actually smoking, it still smells good to me.

Agreed. The actual smoke is still enticing to me.

But when I smell a smoker at work, fresh indoors from their smoke break. Yuck, nothing worse.

I think to myself that I must have smelled like that, nasty.

 

[Ripshot 43]

So rate how American I am right now on a scale of 0-5:
- Stomach full of turkey, stuffing and pecan pie
- Wearing my "Come and Take it" belt buckle (see quoted msg for pic), Levis jeans and Uncle Sam tie
- Drinking beer (Yuengling) and watching Vikings vs Patriots on TV

You sound like a tourist Capt Nico Poo! You’re supposed to blend in and fake an accent!! Couple mistakes… beer, you should’ve drank Bud or just went for straight shots of whiskey (not the your the Devils kind ) and football should’ve been the Cowboys (duh).

 

[Capt Nico Poo]

American snus is garbage and ridiculously priced due to tax. I only use Swedish snus and order it from Sweden every 3 months.

There are places here that sell General and some specialty tobacco shops that carry good snus. But I have never had any good American portioned tobacco products. I think fine cut tobacco like Skoal is nasty. Taste horrible and gets all over your mouth. When I was younger I use to occasionally chew leaf tobacco and Levi Garrett was my favorite. But now, for me Swedish snus is the only thing I have found that I like.

My go to's

General original
General Onyx
General mint
Göteborgs Rapé original
Odens Cold

But if you really want to buy the American stuff most convenient stores sell Skoal and Copenhagen or Camel snus which is really gross.

Alright, thanks! Ill pass the analysis to my friends

 

[OmNomNom]

anyone deal w covid? i caught it last monday and 2 days ago (day 5) i suddenly lost my sense of taste + brain fog

how long does this bullshit last

 

[My3Sons]

anyone deal w covid? i caught it last monday and 2 days ago (day 5) i suddenly lost my sense of taste + brain fog

how long does this bullshit last

Hang in there. It’s different for everyone. I had it end of August- early September. It was three or four days of primary symptoms and then ten days or so of secondary symptoms. Have you seen a doctor yet? They can at least recommend supplants and the like to support your system while this is going on.

 

[MasterofGrond]

GAMERS, behold my teaching assignment for Friday. YOU CANT FOOL ME

Substituting For: KOWALCHUK, ILLYA

 

[Darkauron]

anyone deal w covid? i caught it last monday and 2 days ago (day 5) i suddenly lost my sense of taste + brain fog

how long does this bullshit last

I didn't lost my taste, but a few days after I didn't feel "sick" I got severe vertigo and my head was spinning constantly for a week and severe brain fog. Brain fog got better after that week after that but vertigo lasted for another week. It sucked really bad.

 

[Bleedred]

anyone deal w covid? i caught it last monday and 2 days ago (day 5) i suddenly lost my sense of taste + brain fog

how long does this bullshit last

Probably about 5-7 days of symptoms for me, other than coughing off and on which lasted maybe 4-6 weeks. Which is per usual when I get sick and a cough of any kind. It always lingers on me. Fortunately I don’t get sick a whole lot, not down here.

I never did get tested, because I figured what was the point? Everyone was safer from me inside my house. I didn’t go to work for a week and I think I had to go get dog food around day 6, but I was feeling much better by then. I think I went to work 8 days after symptoms started and everything but the lingering cough was gone by then.

I didn’t lose taste or smell though. I also had chills maybe 2 of the first 3 nights. It was mostly just coughing and fatigue for me.

I had friends here the day before and they never got it. At least not anytime close to when I did.

I’m still pretty sure it was covid because I had a close contact with someone that wound up having it and actually testing for it. I didn’t know she had it (she obviously had no serious symptoms) but I guess had already been tested before that. I got the call the next day that she was positive and I was already feeling symptoms by then.

That was all the way back in January of 2021 though.

 

[Saugus]

I'm lucky, in that no one in my immediate household has gotten Covid yet, as far as we know. We've tested whenever we have flu symptoms, but it always came up negative.

It'll probably happen eventually because we're not really taking unusual precautions anymore, but I'm glad we avoided the worst of it.

 

[JimEIV]

I got COVID last year. It was pretty bad for the first 3 days then another week of body aches and headaches.

The first 3+ days though was nausea, dizziness, diarrhea and vomiting with a 103 fever. Brutal.

 

[AfroThunder396]

I got COVID over the summer while I was in France. Didn't want to get stuck in France so I decided to wait until I got home to test so they wouldn't detain me. The first ~2 days I have a pretty horrible fever, fatigue, aches, and cough/runny nose. Then I got home (after a 2 hour train ride from Montpellier to Marseille, a 12 hour overnight layover at Heathrow, and almost missing my connection in Philly).

I was bedridden for about 10 days, I'd say about 5-6 of them I was breathing so shallow that I felt like I was suffocating. Completely lost my sense of taste for three weeks. Still had symptoms for about 5 days after I stopped testing positive with at-home kits.

 

[njdevils1982]

9:07 - 11:58

 

[The Devil In I]

anyone deal w covid? i caught it last monday and 2 days ago (day 5) i suddenly lost my sense of taste + brain fog

how long does this bullshit last

Got it twice. Once a while back...like Thanksgiving '21. That kicked the shit out of me. Was in bed for 3 days straight and the worst part was from then through like 10-14 days total I couldn't lie down without going into a coughing fit. So being extremely tired and not being able to lie down to sleep was the f***ing worst.

Then I got it again like 3-4 months ago and it was barely anything. Lasted about 5-6 days but it was a minor cough and a runny nose along with a minor headache.