“He was running towards us with a knife, backwards. The knife? Oh, um... it appeared to be made of ice. Melted before we could bag it as evidence. Completely routine, common backwards attack on police officers with an ice knife. Happens all the time, nothing to see here. Blue lives matter!”

This is one of the reasons I find the notion of a “cure” for autism, or even the implications of prenatal tests for it, so terrifying. Not just because I find the notion offensive that my way of looking at the world is so inherently “disordered” that it must be eliminated, but... where the hell does it leave humanity…

I have. The most abusive of my exes basically bullied me into being with him, and did not take our eventual breakup well at all. The fact I escaped without physical injury is a miracle. And personally I’m willing to believe it’s highly unlikely to be some inherent flaw with the male gender, that it’s more likely to be…

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Oh hey sorry for the late reply, but two last medical bits... well there’s a condition I have that I’m not going to go into in much detail an open thread (part of why I gave you my email address up there so I can go into more if you wish) but basically, there’s a medication I’m on that can cause DVT if combined with…

Well I’ve been trying it for a couple of days now, and I do still want the throat hit myself sometimes. I’ve been taking the occasional normal drag, and sometimes also when I “dragon” I won’t exhale the entire mouthful through my nose (so I end up breathing a little bit in afterwards). It seems enough to satisfy me,…

I think part of the problem is that there’s a lot of people who irrationally hate vaping and/or vapers. There’s the people who are super puritan and really seem to want vaping to be dangerous because they don’t like the idea of being able to enjoy nicotine without its usual consequences. There’s also the ex-smokers…

One interesting thing claimed by a study is that the nicotine from these devices is almost entirely absorbed by the oral mucosa and upper airways rather than the lungs, which would seem to make inhalation entirely unnecessary anyway. I think I’m going to experiment with not inhaling, and seeing if I get all cranky…

It is absolutely fantastic, I bought a small bottle as a test (my shop of choice allows you to mix flavours) and it’s definitely going to be a new regular flavour for me! And this may be a stupid question, but does something being an irritant necessarily mean it’s harmful in any significant way?

That is certainly a concern, especially to me! But I have to say, I feel an awful lot better (especially in terms of my breathing) than I did on cigarettes, and these devices are the only thing that managed to help me quit, so I’m at least very much hoping that I’ve backed a substantially less risky nicotine-horse…

Ah, yes, I saw you mentioning propylene glycol in another post. The liquid’s... base, I suppose? I’m wary of the stuff myself, I mean the risk seems low but I’d rather not take the chance, so I only use vegetable glycerin based liquids personally. It could of course turn out that is somehow horribly deadly, but from…

The British government and our NHS seem to think there is evidence, even to the point of declaring it 95% safer than cigarettes. I’m not saying for absolute sure that they’re right, but you might be interested in perusing the PDF of their report.

It’s actually an aerosol rather than a vapour. There doesn’t seem to be anything toxic in the second hand “vapour” from studies I’ve seen, although yes, that’s certainly not simply because it’s in an aerosolised form. Smell can certainly be an antisocial aspect of it though, as well as the appearance.

What propellants? You inhale the vapour like you would a cigarette, the devices don’t do anything to propel the vapour out of them.

It’s certainly impolite, but the studies I’ve seen on the toxicity (or more importantly lack of) of second hand vapour would seem to indicate it’s not actually unhealthy to do inside. Then again, with the right breathing techniques it’s very easy to make the vapour invisible, and with an odourless liquid used as well…

You can get various wooden ones. You can get ones that look like wooden tobacco pipes, or intricately carved wooden tube thingies. All sorts of wonderful variety is available in the design of them, since the tech can fit into most arbitrarily designed casings.

I’ll see your Bill Cosby, and raise you one Jimmy Savile and a Rolf Harris.

You might as well be talking about the BBC, as well.

So then the answer is no, you’re not capable of understanding that someone may have as much education as you, and access to the same set of facts, and yet come up with a different opinion to you because, you know, every human being possesses a different and independent mind. Or seemingly of even basic politeness. I…

If suicide was always unacceptable, there’d be no such thing as voluntary (human) euthanasia. There’d be no need to even debate the topic as much as it has been especially in the past few years, and there’d certainly be no countries where it’s legal.