The Off Topic Topic

[Syt]

http://mentalfloss.com/article/54048/heres-how-crazy-long-german-words-are-made

A favorite at my old job, because we had a colleague called Barbara.

[Malthus]

I'm dying to go back to smoking, though.  But I can't, because the bullshit I'd put up with here would simply be unconscionable.

I get far too violent with my nicotine fits, and the nicotine lozenges only take the edge off for a while.

Cold turkey = 1-2 weeks of sheer hell. After than, in my experience, nothing. You still want smokes of course, but no physical symptoms.

The problem with replacement therapy is that, while it takes the edge off the nic-fits, making them more bearable, it essentially extends the period of physical symptoms indefinitely. Rather than 1-2 weeks of hell, followed by nothing, you get many weeks of heck, followed by more heck.

Problem is that most people's willpower has limits. For me, I can put up with almost any torture for a couple of weeks, but being put through a milder torture for months I could not take. Hence, gradually reducing nicotine intake strikes me as a lot harder to do successfully than just quitting.

Of course different folks are different, and what works for one doesn't for another, and all that.

[mongers]

Who knew optical mouse got that dirty inside. 

[CountDeMoney]

Problem is that most people's willpower has limits. For me, I can put up with almost any torture for a couple of weeks, but being put through a milder torture for months I could not take. Hence, gradually reducing nicotine intake strikes me as a lot harder to do successfully than just quitting.

I simply do not possess the tolerance or temperament to go through cold turkey.  I've tried it before, and all it results in is broken stuff.

[The Brain]

Cold turkey is like frozen tuna.

[Ideologue]

Can anyone explain why the prices quoted on amazon.co.uk are different from the ones when they're in my cart?  Is it that UK law requires that VAT be added to the list price, then when they realize I'm not a subject of David Cameron's Sliding Albion, they take it out?

[Josquius]

Another day working 8am to 9pm.
The Japanese really are onto something with their high suicide rates.

[Eddie Teach]

I say you should give Brittania another shot.

[Tonitrus]

I think women's college volleyball might be the only sport where the players are invariably hotter than the cheerleaders.

[PDH]

I think women's college volleyball might be the only sport where the players are invariably hotter than the cheerleaders.

Volleyball has the best shorts...

[Admiral Yi]

I've been saying since forever that womens' volleyball is the one, true, supersex sport.

[Eddie Teach]

Thing about volleyball players, the shape is nice but just on too large a scale.

[Ideologue]

I've been saying since forever that womens' volleyball is the one, true, supersex sport.

What about competitive sex?

[Admiral Yi]

I agree with Biscuit's definition that it's a sport only if there is defense.

[11B4V]

I think women's college volleyball might be the only sport where the players are invariably hotter than the cheerleaders.

Volleyball has the best shorts...

+1

http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/mVzcsOBZTjh/Olympics+Day+13+Beach+Volleyball/a8sw2ULpvj-/Misty+May-Treanor