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Oct 28, 2004 22:38

People were asking, so I'm checking in -- down and safe in San Francisco ( Read more... )

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archangelq October 28 2004, 14:55:58 UTC
Actually, you are lucky you just got the cowshit ones. Try to avoid pigshit and horseshit, unless you like acquiring new and interesting lesions on your lungs.

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skalja October 28 2004, 15:54:40 UTC
These are cigarettes we're talking about, here. His lungs are screwed, one way or another.

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archangelq October 28 2004, 16:45:11 UTC
It's a matter of degrees. For example: Liquor. Drink what you will, but start drinking rubbing alcohol thinking it'll do the same thing, and you are in for a world of fucked. Start smoking the shit that gets passed off as cigs in the states, and you'll see how apt the comparison is.

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skalja October 28 2004, 16:48:00 UTC
Thanks, I'll pass. However, I would point out that liquor and rubbing alchohol are actually different things that come from the same family of chemicals - cigarettes are cigarettes. It would be more apt to compare one brand of liquor and another.

Whoa, I'm putting way too much thought behind responding to an aptly hyperbolic description. Um. Your mom?

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daki October 28 2004, 15:00:53 UTC
Try the menthols for that minty cowshit flavor that crystalizes your lungs. Give those men and women performing the autopsy something pretty to see.

Or grab some puny human native who can direct you to a local import tobacco shop.

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phineus October 28 2004, 20:49:33 UTC
Nonono, it's those Indian clove oil smokes that crystalize your lungs.

If you smoke a lot of them, you get to urinate and cough up blood. Great stuff. :)

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recursive October 28 2004, 22:52:51 UTC
But, they at least taste good. (Aw, shit, now I want some Sampoerna Xtras.) Never smoked more than 5 in a day, so I can't comment on the coughing up blood part.

Mr. Ellis has a good metaphor there. "Dried cowshit" indeed.

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sobrique October 28 2004, 15:20:32 UTC
England is a beautiful place, but there's nothing much more ethnic than Scottish food.

Ya what? Walking distance from where I live there are 3 chinese restaurants, 1 iranian, about 12 indian, 1 mexican, 3 italian, one 'southern american'.

Within half an hour of driving, there's also japanese, mexican, korean (ok, not entirely to my taste) and spanish. (That I know of. Birmingham is a big place, and I'm a long way off visiting all the restaurants)

The dish known as the 'balti' was invented by the pakistani community in the Midlands a few years back.

That number goes up geometrically in proportion to the amount of time I'm prepared to spend in a car.

Now, ok, it may not be quite as impressive as real burritos near by, but please don't be under the impression that all we eat is fish and chips and 'scottish takeaways'.

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pontiuspilates October 28 2004, 16:02:45 UTC
The quality/diversity of food in England has increased exponentially between the year I lived there in the mid-80's (when I was a young'un) and the last time I was there (about two years ago).

However, I still do not think that I could be easily convinced to eat a burrito that came from England. It seems like just as bad an idea as eating sushi that comes from the Midwest.

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paintnothing October 28 2004, 17:31:51 UTC
a friend of mine found cigarettes in russia that actually DID have cowshit in them. so be grateful.
and find a smoke shop and buy some dumauriers

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puentefrustrado October 28 2004, 17:51:40 UTC
this is california! you can't light up indoors here so we have the worst cigarettes in order to discourage smoking.

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