It is something that doesn’t feature much on the “Come holiday in Wales” websites or associated literature. In fact, it’s distinctly possible that many proud Welsh people are blissfully unaware of it, but Wales lays claim to being the powerhouse of the Victorian leech farming capital of Europe.
I’m getting excited. Not like a small child at Christmas or a married man with children and on a birthday promise, no, but excited none the less. By the time this goes live on the site I’ll be on the M1 heading to the Ye Olde Salutation in Nottingham.
I’m torn. Like a xenophobe who adores our national dish of curry and imported lager, I have conflicting feelings. Part of me would like to proselytise the benefits of vaping and encourage everyone to vape in the style that suits them best – but that doesn’t sit well with my feelings over the growing number of subohm atomisers flooding the market.
Some people like to get hot and bothered about politics while others find religious matters cause moist collars and clenched knuckles. There are folks getting vexed over batteries, diketones and cloud chasers but none of them seem to considering the most important issues.
Eighty five percent of the universe is missing. It’s unknown and invisible – it’s dark matter. It’s there though, it has to be; the brilliantly named Fritz Zwicky said so. Not to be confused with the comedy of Doug Stanhope as that’s clearly visible.
A simple question is posed here: to what extent does harm reduction work; will people not simply displace a set of behaviours with something else of equal abhorrence to Public Health officials?
Harm reduction advocates argue that vaping is an essential tool in reducing harm for those who wish to use nicotine. Those lying behind the opposition to ecigs would prefer a blunter tool that, given the opportunity, would be an outright ban.
When it comes to people’s opinions of atomisers and mods I’ve found myself wondering if I’m simply odd? Now, it’s a given that such an epithet extends to describing most of my waking moments…but how come what seems to work so well for others leaves me cold?
My wife doesn’t understand me. She isn’t alone; neither do the children, the residents of the village or most people in general. I can live with that, being different isn’t a bad thing but I struggle with the notion of being told I should not be collecting things.
“There is no such thing as society,” opined Margaret Thatcher once. Some portray this to be a clarion call to selfishness, others point out she was saying that a sense of entitlement cast a shadow. A popular phrase on social media and forums is “the vape community” – banding people from all political, religious and philosophical hues into one agglomerated mass. Does such a thing exist?
For most online UK vapers, Vapefest is a focal point of the year. It’s a time for meeting up with friends and indulging ourselves in our hobby for a day. The growth in popularity of the event has seen it move location to accommodate demand – but 2015 looks like it will be something really special for us.
