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When trying to sell equipment it can be hard if you are a smoker. So just give the equipment away. When there are health problems that arise, it is good to know these guys and their friends are around to help you with that too.
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...nicotine addiction is harder to kick than a heroin addiction.
By the time the habit is kicked it would be time to kick the bucket.
Bill
..it's the other way around - you kick the bucket and are finally free of the habit.
I used to own a home oxygen company - pretty much all of our patients had COPD from smoking cigarettes. Some could not quit and continued smoking on the oxygen.
With COPD you slowly suffocate and die.
Even though I quit in 1977, the 17 years of smoking prior to that has now forced me to inhale twice a day and take broncho dialaters and avoid cold weather. My Pulmonologist has banished me to the tropics for most of the year. He won't even allow me to roam around in the NYC subway to visit audio shops. Suffocation is the scariest thing, a constant water boarding.
I give speeches at Rotary meetings on how to stop smoking. I quit thru a program called Smokenders, a group therapy thing, very effective. Do not even care being with smokers, no temptation to smoke. More effective than the Black Lung program of ACS.
Cheers
Bill
I'm in NYC. Sinners tax.
I'd rather not get into the black market, done that been there IMHO.
Pretty soon, you'll be able buy Cuban cigars legally.
:)
yay! we catch up to Canada :)
Nt
Sometimes, when I buy used equipment, I forget to ask if was owned by a smoker. Big mistake!
I once purchased a used Macintosh desktop computer that had been owned by a heavy smoker. This machine had so much smoking residue in it that 15-20 minutes after it was turned on, the room was so full of smoking residue, pumped into the air by the fan, that my eyes and nasal passages would start to sting. I couldn't work with it as it was. I ended up taking the entire machine apart and washing out all the internals with Windex and paper towels. The fan was literally covered with a thick, yellow-brown layer of crud. It absolutely reeked.
After cleaning, I noticed a little of the tobacco odor the first couple of times I ran the computer, but after that, it was fine. The previous owner must've been a real pig. There were potato chip crumbs all over the insides of the machine and keyboard and a huge rat's nest of hair and fibers the size of a dead mouse, which is what I initially thought it was, in the floor level air intake.
Of course, when confronted with such an unpleasant and unhealthy mess, one cannot help but consider what the insides of a human body must look like after years of smoking.
If you are sensitive to smoke, be SURE to ask if the component you're buying was ever in a house with a smoker!
I sold a squeezebox here on AA trader for around $200, everything else I gave away and will give away.
I hope my family knows this place when I die, because honestly it will be all thrown out FWIW.
I bought a vintage Heathkit tuner on E-bay. It was from a smoker. The white bakelite plastic trim was yellowed by nicotine.As a house painter, a washing with TSP or an oil based paint primer are a couple ways I get rid of the nicotine. I have found nothing to get the nicotine out of bakelite plastic.I don't know how but the bakelite becomes impregnated with it remaining a yellowish tint......Mark Korda...might sound alright, but visually reminds me of my father who died prematurely from cigarettes.
Nt
sorry for your loss, hopefully your dad enjoyed himself at least, that's all we can ask for in our time here.
you like coughing when you first start. go for it. smokers=coughers=masochists.
roger wang
The idea of being a slave to a rolled up piece of paper hanging out of your mouth is just idiotic. Add in the expense, filth, and the near certainty of a slow, painful, and disfiguring death and I'm forced to conclude that anyone who smokes cigarettes is lacking even average intellect.
I still haven't come down from my LSD and DOB and DXM trips, who cares about a little bit of tobacco at this point?
i'm talking coughing. you don't have to know about health to know coughing feels bad.
a 5-year-old will turn away from coughing-by-cigarettes. wait-i over-estimated matters-a 3-year-old will turn away from what makes it cough.
where's the attraction to coughing? i suppose if some sadist made you inhale smoke and forced coughing occured. chimney smoke: like it? go for it.
roger wang
I said, "I don't know, I never looked."
Millions of American men suffer from "Dicckydoo disease". That's when your belly sticks out farther than your dicky do.
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try being well hung with nothing to stick it in :)
Like a lion in a cage, eh? Tried Craigslist?
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can't find anyone to deliver that, supposed to be something called the law preventing that :)no nonsense needed, just let's say a 30 year old woman, also would like her to deliver the pizza at the same time. a meal and a f*? is that too much to ask for?
this is supposed to be America.
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I would pay $20k USD for that BTW IMHO!
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You clearly need to start thinking in terms of bitcoins. I'm surprised a NYC man like you is behind the curl on this.
I read something recently about bitcoins having major financial/legal problems.
:)
That's the rumor anyway. Reports of bitcoins death have been greatly exaggerated, time and time again.
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I only consider gear from a smoke-free environment.
...you can remove the toxic smoke odor with an ozonator.You can but the component in a closet with the ozonator overnight or longer to remove the odor.
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In large quantities for long exposure ozone damages just about everything.
As an alternative you can by an electrostatic loudspeaker and increase the the line voltage so that the electrostatic panel starts to produce corona. This will generate the required ozone!!!
Ozonator might remove the odor but it can't remove resinous coatings accumulated over many years. People who burn incense indoors are perhaps the worst and most resinous offenders."But..." you say. "If I remove the odor, how's anyone to know that a smoker once owned it?"
Well, "anyone" might pop the lid on your amp and see layers of brown gunk and dust coating the electronics, that's how. Personally though, I wouldn't turn down nice stuff coated in resin. The resin adds a sense of history. Resin adds soul.
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I couldn't listen to it, overdriven and badly distorted
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Nt
they are relatively new, their energy is really refreshing to see after what I saw was a lost past decade in metal.
they certainly give my Anthony Gallo Ref 3.5's a workout :)
I'm too old to see them live, or I would.
> I'm too old to see them live, or I would.
What?
I go out all the time to see bands whose members aren't old enough to drink. And in the crowd there are often folks in their 60s and 70s. Just don't be that creepy 50 year old guy who thinks he's taking some sweet young thing home and you'll be OK. Also, don't be alarmed when some kid spits up on your shoes and says "Sorry, Sir".
Not going anywhere, I don't care for crowds, I turn 38 soon and am becoming a bitter grey eyed old man, down with having fun. That was for when I was young.
Seriously?
I laugh in your general direction......
Oz
Don't worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older, it will avoid you.
- Winston Churchill
indeed, it is a mid life crisis time for me.
unfortunately for the Porsche dealer, I have to do it on a budget and I'll settle for a $10 kindle book instead :)
I'm with you on this, but it didn't come at 38 for me.
As I get older, I hate crowds. I seek out live music in smaller venues when possible. I also tend to generally dislike people, although I make exceptions....
Oz
Don't worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older, it will avoid you.
- Winston Churchill
In my final 15-20 years smoking I would never have dreamed of smoking inside.
when I sell my used equipment, I usually explain that I am a smoker so it doesn't come from a "smoke free home (tm)", and I usually price it at 1/2 the going rate.
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