At great personal cost, this week I’ve looked into the world of celebrity vapers. People love celebrities don’t they, there are shelves of magazines all about celebrities doing things like standing about or moving – I’ve seen them in shops when I’ve been buying my meths. Yeh, people love celebrities.
Author Archives: Rob Ellard
Do you sometimes make lists? As a frequenter of forums and groups since the introduction of the 1200-baud dial-up I’ve contributed to one or two in my time. People may moan about how unkind the Internet can be these days but I remember when Flame Wars were the kind of thing to reduce butch men to tears.
Admittedly, the most butch you could be in those days was to have 20/20 vision what with it being a haven for geeks. It was a time when phreakers found a whole new outlet for their talents, their blue boxes and H/P culture was born. I still remember my excitement when I bought my first 28K modem – “How could computers get better than this, especially the floppy disk?” I asked myself.
I’m beginning to wonder if 2014 was designated as the International Year Of Corruption by the same anonymous group of people who decide when National Left-handedness Day, Month of the Moth and other such events should fall.
Following on from my ‘accident’ with my Macbook I faced the prospect of transferring over a wedge of data. Fortunately I kept all of my important stuff on one hard drive tucked away for just such a crisis, my music sat on a second.
Deck the halls with wicks and kanthal, now that’s what I call a Stealthvapemass Vol.1…
With less than a month to go it’s time to start preparing for the biggest vapers event in the UK. Being the kind-hearted souls we are we thought we’d turn our thoughts to what prep work you need to focus on, especially if this is your first time. With the growth in vaping over the last year this is obviously going to be more popular than ever – bigger venue, a whole weekend – it’s like Xmas without the family arguments, poor films and having to suffer your relations.
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With the holidays approaching, please be aware of Royal Mails official suggested cut off times to ensure delivery by the Christmas Holidays.</p>
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Wednesday 3 – December<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Asia, Far East (including Japan), New Zealand</div>
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Thursday 4 – December<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Australia</div>
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Friday 5 – December<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Africa, Caribbean, Central & South America, Middle East</div>
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Monday 8 – December<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Cyprus, Eastern Europe, Greece</div>
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Tuesday 9 – December<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Canada, Poland</div>
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Friday 12 – December<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>USA</div>
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Saturday 13 – December<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Western Europe (excluding Greece, Poland) International Standard HM Forces Mail -British Forces Post Office® (BFPO)</div>
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Friday 28 November<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Operational BFPOs</div>
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Friday 12 December<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Static BFPOs</div>
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Thursday 18 December<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>2nd Class and Royal Mail Signed For®</div>
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Saturday 20 December<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>1st Class and Royal Mail Signed For®</div>
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Tuesday 23 December<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Royal Mail Special Delivery Guaranteed®</div>
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<u><strong>Our Opening Hours Over the Holidays</strong></u></div>
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Monday 22 December – Normal service</div>
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Tuesday 23 December<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Normal service</div>
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Christmas Eve Wednesday 24 December – CLOSED</div>
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Christmas Day Thursday 25 December – CLOSED</div>
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Boxing Day Friday 26 December – CLOSED</div>
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Saturday 27 December<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- CLOSED</div>
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Sunday 28 December<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- CLOSED</div>
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Monday 29 December<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Normal service</div>
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Tuesday 30 December<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Normal service</div>
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New Year’s Eve Wednesday 31 – CLOSED</div>
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New Year’s Day Thursday 1 January – CLOSED</div>
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Friday 2 January – Normal service</div>
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We’re very excited to be expecting our fourth child some time around the 4th of January, but as we all know, well everyone that knows knows, that date can vary quite considerably. So we’re unable to give an exact date, but at some point orders will be delayed by approx 48-72 hours while we welcome our new baby boy into the world and get him settled. We’ve taken steps to make sure that someone will post an announcement on the site, forums and social media to let all customers know that there are delays with orders and hope that we will have your understanding during this special time.</div>
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We hope everyone had a great Christmas and New Year. We can all go easy on the New Year resolutions I guess with smoking a thing of the past for the majority of us.</p>
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Go easy on the mince Pies though</p>
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Lots of love</p>
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Rob and Emma xx</p>
Professor Michael Siegel announced this week that his plans to carry out research into an aspect of electronic cigarettes have been cancelled. The Behavioral Study of Cigarette and Tobacco Substitution (BSCiTS) study was due to compare the effectiveness of e-cigs with NRT on smoking behavior. In itself, the announcement was pretty much predicted – it was the manner of its delivery that is interesting.
With all of the hoo-ha built up around vaping safety issues over the past couple of weeks it seems timely to take a look at things that are more damaging to personal wellbeing.
Everywhere vape-related on the Internet became consumed with the World Health Organisation last week. If it wasn’t commentary regarding their announced stance on vaping it was pouring scorn the keen nature of their bored legal department to crack down on those who sought to adapt their logo.
Words cannot fully encapsulate the love I have for the character Dr. Zachary Smith in the television series Lost In Space. Well, for the camp and barbed interplay between him and The Robot. At the time I figured I really liked the robot because:
- He was a robot
- He was a good guy
- Robots are cool
