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I made another post in the ‼ IMPORTANT REWARD & BANNING CHANGES section as a follow-up for listing site faults.
It is just a basic badge system to boost rank, points, and fills. Maybe you guys can take a look and add suggestions or something.
Hopefully, it's not something seen as too much work.I dont have a cause or a clue but its never stopped me before. Probably why I am where I am ATM.
This might also explain why pirating is attractive for some -
"The forbidden fruit effect describes the phenomenon whereby something becomes exponentially more desirable when we know we 'can't' have it."
BTW I just paid $60 ($US40) for a pack of fags where I live, 65% of it in tax. And now they're wondering why contraband cigs are flourishing... derrr.Same here, pouch of tobacco is 25 euro's, across the border it is 10. So I do a little trip every now and again. It's to prevent people from smoking and thus better for our health they say....bollocks!, if that were the case they should abolish sales al together... It;s all to please the treasure box of the gouvernement
I live on an island at the arse end of the world so a "little trip" means a 10 hour flight. When I as living in Japan 4 years ago a pack cost 4.5 bucks from a vending machine and a bottle of Black Douglas $23 at the local konbini. These fuc'n fun police trying to own me could be half the reason why Trump won.
we are all getting squeezed, no matter where we live.
Life is made more and more expensive to the point it goes to far, then lower the prize a bit so the plebs are happy. all results in max income for government and producers who keep there shareholders happy. Slowly but surely all the money seeps into the ever growing pockets, leaving the rest off the world hanging on by a thread. There has not been must change since the dark ages, where peasants were only there to enrich the nobility.
What they good at though, was deflecting the blame to anybody but them, be it immigrants, communists/capitalists, woman, anything but them.
And 90% of the people believe in these deceptions.Good time to quit. I was up to 2 packs a day. Been quit for little over 30 years now. Glad I did. $10 a pack here.
Interesting what a few $$ will do in Vietnam when talking to custom agents. Gotta love communism.
My plan from today is to cut down on the cigs but I can't see myself going cold turkey ATM. To that end I'm buying packs of 20 (instead of thirty) and not smoking at the pc. I notice if I smoke while at the pc I'll smoke a full one (I know that's bad for the pc) but if I smoke outside I'll only smoke half and smoke the rest later.
Anyway from next year packs of 20 will be all they'll sell, so I better get used to it. Hopefully I'll be clean at some point next year. If you have any tips let me know.I mostly quit because i didn't want to smoke around my pregnant wife and the baby once it was born.
I'd buy a pack, smoke 1-2 then toss the pack so I wouldn't be tempted. It helped because I got tired of buying packs. However they were $2 a pack then.
Stay away from bars. For awhile the times I wanted one the most was while drinking alcohol or after I ate. Find something to snack on like carrots. Some people moved to vaping but ive never tried it so cant recommend it.
Motivation helps. Perhaps look up people that lost a lung or have a hole drilled in their neck.
Tried vaping and it made me choke. "most was while drinking alcohol" 100%. I might have to work on two vices at the same time.
I'm reaching the age where I'm likely to die of natural causes so maybe I should just enjoy myself while I can 🙂 .Doctor told my uncle to stop everything. He said if I can't do what I enjoy then whats the point of living.
However I enjoy not smoking and I drink occasionally and moderately.
$10 a day is a habit I can't afford
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