Nick
Was there a time, just after vapes came out and also after the smoking ban, when people thought it was fine to vape indoors, like in the office? Or did I just know some right weirdos?
Feb 24 at 10:03pmWeb
Show threadNickFeb 24

I’m asking because in this Patricia Lockwood book I’m reading, the character’s father is vaping in church, and it reminded me.

Surely you can’t really vape in church, even in America?

Show threadNickFeb 24
AI informs me that vaping in church is not explicitly prohibited in the Bible. Thanks again AI, you’re a star!
Show threadNickFeb 24
Big news folks! Jesus is fine with eat hot chip and pray.
Show threadPaul MartinFeb 24
@[email protected] Blessed are the cheese wotsits.
Show threadAnalog AIFeb 25

@Nickiquote you might laugh, but a pastor I used to know complained about parishioners leaving their Kentucky Fried Chicken (TM) trash in the pews after the service.

My intuition is that Jesus was fine with it if they shared, and the pastor would have been if they cleaned up

Show threadNickFeb 25
@Retreival9096 You would not get away with that in a church of any denomination in the north of Ireland.
Show threadTattieFeb 25
@Retreival9096 Pastor: "I hope you brought enough for the entire congregation, Josh"
Josh begins dishing it out, and somehow, there is enough in his small bucket for everyone in the room to have a piece of both regular and spicy chicken
@Nickiquote
Show threadAnalog AIFeb 25

@Nickiquote @Tattie ... And as I recall, they left the scraps behind that time too

Oh well, I should have told the pastor that picking up the scraps was supposed to be his job

Show threadpaulFeb 25

@Nickiquote

“Any MAGA born after 1943 can’t cook, all they know is McDonalds, charge their phone, pray, be bigoted, eat hot chip in church and lie.”

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Show threadmichael fulgenziFeb 24

@Nickiquote

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Show threadSteve WilliamsFeb 24
@Nickiquote
You can’t bullshit the font of all bullshit. Hallelujah.
Show threadBo MorganFeb 24
@Nickiquote My addiction recovery program preferred if people went outside to vape also.
Show threadJohn OverholtFeb 24
@Nickiquote I just happened to hear a cover of “Take Me To Church” while reading this and now I am hearing “Vaping in Church” to the same melody.
Show threadGuillotine Jones, FlâneurFeb 27
@Nickiquote
But, Nick, is Ai really unfamiliar with the old joke about a priest being asked if it's okay to smoke while praying and responding that it was not, but it WAS okay to pray while smoking?
Show threadƧƿѦςɛ♏ѦਹѤʞFeb 27
@Nickiquote
Hey kids, here's a fun fact: There is NOTHING in the Bible to suggest that you may not light your own farts in church.
#religion
#causality #logic
#FunFact
#JustSaying
Show threadChrisFeb 27
@spacemagick @Nickiquote it's encouraged: God lit his own farts on the first day
Show threadNickFeb 27
@ASprinkleofSage @spacemagick “Let there be light. Oh, I’ve singed Me holy arsehairs.”
Show threadChrisFeb 27
@Nickiquote @spacemagick a whole new meaning to 'separating light and dark'
Show threadChrisFeb 27
@Nickiquote @spacemagick "so, what you in hell for?"
"oh, you know, the usual, shitposting about god lighting his farts"
Show threadAndriy UtkinFeb 25
@Nickiquote reminded :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cz60lWVpyWI #UkrainianMusic @uamusic
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Show threadelverkongeFeb 27
@Nickiquote lol @ "even in America" - fair mindset
Show threadBen CurthoysFeb 24
@Nickiquote yeah it was a grey area
Show threadDavid CohenFeb 24
@bencurthoys @Nickiquote They do grey flavour vapes now?
Show threadBen CurthoysFeb 25
@davidbcohen @Nickiquote back when "eCigarettes" were new, grey was the ONLY flavour.
Show threadsodslawyerFeb 24
@Nickiquote Yes, there was. I remember spending an afternoon in a pub with a friend who was on an e-cig - so it looked like an actual cigarette, and therefore the vapour appeared to be smoke - in maybe 2012, and there were many raised eyebrows.
Show threadsodslawyerFeb 24
@Nickiquote Or I-brows, as they're probably termed these days.
Show threadsodslawyerFeb 24
@Nickiquote For context, my friend is a decent bloke (obv from my frame of reference), but this is from that inbetween point when e-cigs and vapes had become a thing but before there was some sort of legislative framework around them, so I think there was a lot of trying things out and seeing how it went.
Show threadGiflianFeb 24
@Nickiquote I’ve worked remotely, so can’t say from my experience. But I do remember a lot of people thinking vaping was healthy or at least not harmful (hilarious in retrospect) which would make them think it was fine to vape around other people.
Show threadDavid CohenFeb 24
@Nickiquote There was. The weirdos thought they were being terribly clever by ‘smoking’ where it wasn’t allowed. Smug tossers - no surprise that these intellectual giants think that inhaling butterscotch bubblegum candy floss flavouring from a device made in a Chinese gulag is somehow ‘healthier’ than tobacco.
Show threadNic DafisFeb 24
@Nickiquote I remember having to tell a student that he was very much not going to vape in my Welsh class. He was quite pissy about it.
Show threadpfriedmaFeb 24
@Nickiquote
I think this was always kind of frowned on, but there was a brief period where vapes weren't explicitly part of clean air policies, ordinances and regulations so people did vape indoors openly because it wasn't expressly forbidden.
Show thread@shezza_tFeb 26
@Nickiquote There was a time, and it was a bad time.
Show threadʙᴇɴ ᴄᴏᴛᴛᴇяɪʟʟFeb 26
@Nickiquote I worked in a pub when the ban came in. Everyone went into the bogs thinking that was fine.
Show threadJenica Lake เหล็ถเลถFeb 26
@Nickiquote it's a very fun thing to smoke/vape where one isn't supposed to
Show threadRob Vincent 🎙️Feb 27

@Nickiquote I had a friend who was the first person I ever knew to vape, he brought it out one evening while we were hanging out somewhere and explained this weird new thing to me. Later that evening he started it up in a restaurant where we were having dinner and, when the staff told him he couldn't smoke, he argued back that he wasn't smoking and it was only water vapor.

As I recall the staff won the argument by threatening to chuck him out anyway.

Show threadthefathippyFeb 28

@Rob_T_Firefly

When we hired a lot of people from outside (curiously, many were former colleagues of our consultants), one absolutely insisted it was his right to vape in his office, because it wasn't smoke.

The rules changed quickly.

I don't know how he fared, as I was early "voluntary" retired out around the same time.

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