bottle storage

[MattF]

That’s just splitting hairs

Must admit, I'd have to go with Ashley on this. It's not splitting hairs.

 

[MattF]

Try telling that to the patient who set himself alight when smoking - he wasn't interested in the technicalities....,

They do say smoking is a killer.

 

[brightspark]

They do say smoking is a killer.

aided by oxygen

 

[brightspark]

You'd have very limited success trying to smoke with no oxygen present...

but if u needed a fag u would be that desperate u would try ive smoked dry grass in hard bog paper before used to smoke over 60 a day for years . stupid habit so I just packed in

 

[doubleboost]

A friend of mine told me a story from his time in the shipyards
A lad had blown himself down with the cutting Oxy (warm summer day)
Later that day he lit a cigarette his clothes were saturated with oxy and he burned to death
Bystanders were unable to smother the flames

 

[brightspark]

But you needed oxygen to be present...

yes but desperation sets in and u get irrational

 

[doubleboost]

yes but desperation sets in and u get irrational

I smoked a good 40 per day 2 big packs of Drum a week
One night I had no papers
I made a "pipe" out of 1/8 BSP fittings
Talk about a Nicotine hit
You need to have/are totally addicted to understand
Never had a smoke for 8 years now and I miss them every day

 

[MattF]

Thanks, that bodes well for giving up...

Surely you didn't think it would be easy?

 

[doubleboost]

Thanks, that bodes well for giving up...

In the same breath
stopping smoking is the best thing I have ever done
Warm hands and a few quid in my pocket

 

[Windy Miller]

In the same breath
stopping smoking is the best thing I have ever done
Warm hands and a few quid in my pocket

I second that! I smoked heavily for over 40 years, and gave up the day my little boy was born. It's been 4 years now, and I feel great. Just need to stop vaping now!

 

[rtcosic]

In the same breath
stopping smoking is the best thing I have ever done
Warm hands and a few quid in my pocket

Coming up 7 years off after 46 years years on. Old Holborn not Drum.
Gradually put on nearly 2 stone, but it coincided with retiring.

Miss them every day!

 

[R-D-R]

I nearly lost my garage (and brand new disco) the other year when I lobbed a Dewalt battery I dropped and cracked in the wheelie bin just outside. Didn't think anything of it until we sat down to Sunday dinner and saw the flames shooting 10 feet in the air melting the garage guttering. This thread reminds me I told myself I need to address chemical and gas storage in the garage as accidents happen and I never did. I have Petrol, Diesel,47kg propane, argon, Co2, paraffin, paints, thinners the list goes on all stored in close proximity to each other which I'm not so sure is the cleverest thing. Not sure what the easy answer is though for a domestic garage/man cave!

 

[rtbcomp]

I keep that flammable liquids in a steel cupboard outside and away from anything that might burn.

 

[addjunkie]

If your neighbour is pressure testing bottles I assume he is hydro testing...and does he have some kind of over pressure containment area, just in case as they say!

Smoking, Im just over 4 years now off the tabs, hypnopised. Dont miss them at all, and the additional money in the pocket is nice too, Ive used it to buy larger clothes. But apparently Im more cuddly now.

Flamables storage, never easy at home. Though I do keep petrol, acetone and the likes in the old pig sty (stone built shed), rather than my shed. Diesel has its own tank. Propane bottle live outside, only come in to be used. Probably should have a steel filing cupboard or something for other stuff similar to a coshh cabinet in the work place. My other half has one for "her farm" chemicals.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

used to smoke over 60 a day for years

My Mother did that [Capstan Full Strength, before they were taken off the market] - it killed her.

Aaaaanyway, I'm glad @addjunkie has steered the thread back on topic, and to @Bobtail4x4 's original question.

 

[GW8IZR]

Never had a smoke for 8 years now and I miss them every day

My dad smoked, as did pretty much everyone of his generation. When my sister came along they were only 19 years and had no money at all, so that day he gave up.. never touched one since thank goodness.

At 64 he had a heart attack and the docs were asking him if he smoked and being an engineer and mathematician he then went into a forty minute discussion about not being able to say he didn't smoke - because he had at one time and even though it was circa 45 years ago. In the confusion the doctor put him down as 45 a day and it took ages to get that cleared up. BUT he did say to me that even 45 years on.. there had been times when the craving returned!

Bet he was told not to smoke, but not told why it was a bad idea.

Yep, the patient had probably had a lifetime of people telling him smoking was bad for him/her and ignored the advice so probably dismissed it as the same story. I'd be surprised if many members of the general public would understand that they could 'blow up' when the 'light up'