Brilliant....!!

I still have the Provari I bought 21/2 years ago.....have often thought about buying something else just in case the Provari ceases to work, and there are a few vape shops popping up nearby which means I can easily get something quite quickly if I need to, instead of having to wait for an order to be delivered.

In South Australia, our Government has set up a Parliamentary Enquiry Committee to investigate Vaping (and yes, they also use the word eCigs too).....and it will come as no surprise if they recommend introducing similar laws to those of the UK.

I was a little slower than Oli and Pete and a few others....I gradually cut down my smoking over a 6 month period after I started vaping until I felt comfortable with giving up the stinkies.

If I hadn't seen this topic created by Oli, I might still be smoking (or dead...!!)

March 10 will be mark my 2 year anniversary of being smoke free....2 days to go...might have a little celebration....!!

I have been listening to the arguments being presented against vaping for a while in Australia, and there are a few things I find particularly disturbing and they are related to the languaging and imagery being used.

Let me explain.

Firstly, I think the word 'eCig' is a bad word....it conjures the image of vaping being just like smoking a cigarette when in fact it needs to be seen as something completely different.

Secondly, I frequently see interviews on TV with people who vape who are inarticulate, heavily tattooed, scruffy and who are not advancing the provaping cause. Make no mistake, I don't care who vapes, but when the anti-vaping establishment are influencing decision makers about the future of vaping, they play the image card very well by narrowly presenting vaping as something done by people who resemble someone who has been dragged out of a drug cave !!

The provaping campaign is generally disorganised and poorly coordinated. Maybe it should get crowd funding to finance a properly constructed campaign.

People have been jailed for lesser crimes than that...!!

Manipulating someone's image....hmmmmmmmm.....copyright issue ?!!

All jokes aside though, how could anyone like that image ?

Nice work though mate, at least we appreciate your work.

@rich o brien said:

@massimo said:

Sadly you missed my previous rented apartment. One of the nicest squares in the world.

i'd have moved to if there was that many people waiting for a render finish

That crowd appears daily to hear Massimo deliver his speech and wave to them from the balcony ....!!

@baz said:

@gareth said:

Quality work mate....in fact, exceptional.

You have raised the bar so high, I now can walk under it....!!

Very true, have you noticed the 'distressing' on the timber.
Insane detail...

No....and that's because I refuse to look at Massimo's work with my glasses on in case I notice details like that.

....and that leads me to my criticism, Massimo's images often seem slightly out of focus....!!

Quality work mate....in fact, exceptional.

You have raised the bar so high, I now can walk under it....!!

Hi Majid,

Congratulations for quitting mate.....I hope the pancreas problem is better as a result.

@stinkie said:

Meanwhile, the police are frantically looking for the last remaining perpetrator of the Paris attacks (and they seem to believe he's in the company of other terrorists). I dearly hope they don't botch it and kill the tw*t.

Why didn't he blow himself up like some of the others ?.....could it be that ISIS/ISIL/IS/DAESH are looking for him too....!!

@congellous said:

Yeah it was good that eh ?

Yep, it was.

aaaaaaah....the memories !!

i haven't been on PPB for several years....is it still going ?

....silly question wasn't it ?.....i should find out for myself !!

@utiler said:

You're right, Gareth. Seems Aussie coaches do best when they're coaching everywhere other than here.....

Yeh mate....we are going backwards here !!

@solo said:

Regardless of the upset, that was the best game of rugby I have seen in a long time, the balls they had to forgo the draw and chance the win, dang! those ninjas have learned rugby.

Must be the Aussie coach who is making the difference...!!

Sorry to hear that your experience hasn't been enjoyable.

Yep, we have all probably had an incident or two with flooding. I use an Aspire Nautilus and it works a treat.

It took me a while to settle into vaping (finding nice liquids, and something reliable to fit onto my Provari). But eventually it replaced smoking completely, and I don't regret it for a moment.

Geeeeeeez.....I'm sounding like a preacher...!!

I have an Architect mate in South Yarra....he has done a bit of work on the Mornington Peninsula.....I hear it's a lovely spot

Hey Baz.....took a peep at your profile and just realised you are in Melbourne.

Will have to catch up next time I'm over there !

@baz said:

Cheers Oli, thanks Gareth, presumably the Adelaide stuff is nic free?

Yeh mate, the Adelaide stuff is nic free. I buy them as doublers and add my own nic. I bought 1.25 litres 24mg nicotine with 50/50 PG/VG about 18 months ago.

The 24mg is too strong for me now so I dilute it with VG and it ends up around 6-8mg.

Occasionally I mix with no nic....must admit, sometimes it takes me several hours to notice the difference and it makes me wonder how easy it would be to vape totally nic free. But I have the nic juice so I may as well use it until it runs out !!

Hey Baz, well done getting to 5 months. Every day and moth is a personal milestone. And, before you know it a year will clock up....and that is a great feeling...!!

I agree, Good Life make some excellent flavours, and '925' is one of my all time favourites. I also love their 'El Kamino', 'Southern Shine' (requires a week of steeping though, but worth waiting for IMO) and 'Deadly Sin' is awesome. I wish someone in Australia could duplicate those flavours !

The Plume Room make a brilliant 'Banana Pudding' and I thought their 'Candied Cavendish' was pretty good too.

I haven't purchased from Good Life or the Plume Room for a few months now because a Vape Shop (the Vape Boutique) has opened and it's only 10 minutes away from my office which means I can get some excellent liquids and coils whenever I want rather than wait for a week or 10 ten days for stuff to arrive from overseas....and of course I also avoid the cost of freight.

They stock a huge range of eliquids made here in Adelaide and some of them are as good as the famous Plume Room and Good Life. They also stock a massive range of flavours for mixing your own eliquids.

I haven't tried mixing my own yet, but judging by Oli's success it should encourage me to give it a try. If it is as easy as he says, we should all be doing it !!

@olishea said:

"Stealth Vaping" is your friend. I stealth vaped on a plane recently!! Joined the mile high vaping club! lol

How do you stealth vape when everyone sees a thumping great big Provari emerge for your pocket ?!!

Was at another pub last week and was vaping away and a friendly staff member asked "Excuse me sir are you vaping Nicotine."

I replied "No. Is that OK because I woudn't want to offend anybody?" (I usually ask if it's ok to vape and most venues permit it, but I sometimes forget to ask)

She said "That's fine as long as you don't vape nicotine"

To which I replied "Thank you for asking. Do you serve Eggplant, Sweet Potato, Potato, Green Peppers, Cauliflower, Tomatoes or Mushrooms with meals in the Dining Room ?"

"Yes we do, I have a feeling you are going to make a fool out of me !"

I said "My intention isn't to make a fool out of you, but as you have probably guessed, they all contain small amounts of nicotine"

I lied....my vape did contain nicotine, it was 6mg. But what the heck...I say it's trivial....and I'll wear the barrage of criticism if I am wrong...!!

Anyhow, you would need to eat huge amounts of those vegetables to give yourself nicotine poisoning.....but she didn't ask me that question..!

PS....I may be wrong about the Mushrooms !!

Bees seem to be doing ok here Down Under.

I understand that a lot of money is spent keeping the threats out of our country.....but it makes me wonder how vulnerable we are.

On Kangaroo Island off the coast of South Australia, we have what is believed to be the purest stock of Ligurian Bees on the planet.....I hope they can keep it that way !

For a brief history, here is a link > http://www.users.on.net/~hogbay/hogbay2.htm