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norbert
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ar26 wrote:I buy the cheapest ( crapiest) ones you can get £4.36 in tesco for 20, ( it's great no one wants to tap a fag off you, ha ha )it is getting too expensive I agree, but the stress you get being a postie now how can you give up ? Gave up last year for 6 weeks but the tablets I was on made me feel depressed or was it my DOM, so started again.
you can try making them with a Rizla Concept Cigarette tube machine - the problem is that it's a bit ? fiddly with the tobacco falling out of the end , you have to push the tobacco down with a small matchstick -
Failing that tear the paper off the cigarette tubes - leave the filter on and use a rolling machine and use King Size papers - problem is that they then look like Jamaican Woodbines :Very Happy
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Used to have the concept machine and as you say the tobacco feel out the end and half your fag went up when you lit it. Problem was shops don't seem to stock the tobacco etc and normal Golden virg etc is too moist for the machine. Not to worry soon be holiday season again and the old duty free's !!
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k979aaa wrote:BUTT this is a serious health and safety issue and their can be no ifs or BUTT'S about it!. The BUTT stop's here :cfo & :lfo
No, smoke might be a serious health and safety issue but the odour of tobacco smoke in a van although unpleasant is not.
norbert
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ar26 wrote:Used to have the concept machine and as you say the tobacco feel out the end and half your fag went up when you lit it. Problem was shops don't seem to stock the tobacco etc and normal Golden virg etc is too moist for the machine. Not to worry soon be holiday season again and the old duty free's !!
other trick is about 30 seconds in a microwave in a pyrex bowl with a cover on - that'll soon dry it out

the other alternative is " Blue Ridge " or "Bayside " or Fosters ( try ASDA ) - it looks more like brown stringy pipe tobacco - there is a yellow Virginia tobacco - It goes ok in a concept machine as long as you put it evenly and pack it down a touch with that blue plastic thing .
If you cram it - the machine will jam up - it helps if you slide it , nice and smoothly

We have one shop that sell tobacco out of jars - a lot of hard up girls from the Uni liked it as you could have different flavours like menthol , coffee , brandy etc and it's actually better quality than some of the s~**they put in factory made fags

Used to like those liquorice papers - my fat mate kept eating them though :Very Happy
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Blue Ridge is good tobacco for the Concept machine and its cheap, about £3, which makes about 35 cigs.
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I wrote in the "comments" section of the log book of a van once that it stank of fag smoke as that section is for comments about the cleanliness of the vehicle also.

One of the other drivers wrote a sarcastic remark back completely missing the point....
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Aprilaydee wrote:I wrote in the "comments" section of the log book of a van once that it stank of fag smoke as that section is for comments about the cleanliness of the vehicle also.

One of the other drivers wrote a sarcastic remark back completely missing the point....
Nobody read the log book so why even bother
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Hey Con McCarthy don't you read the problem. His greivence is "When I complain I am completely ignored by line managers" ...
and to get back on track.. Con Mccarthy should get the push too... sound like a answer a robot would give after not understanding the question..
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norbert
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dunposting wrote:
Hey Con McCarthy don't you read the problem. His greivence is "When I complain I am completely ignored by line managers" ...
and to get back on track.. Con Mccarthy should get the push too... sound like a answer a robot would give after not understanding the question..
they are robots - or they come out of Big Al's lobotomy lab - singing from the same hymn sheet is fine but not to literal extremes :d'oh! :crazy:
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What you need to do,seriously,is to write back to the propaganda times,and point all this s**t out,if enough do it,it could be fun.
Oh and dont swear or be rude ect as the editor will just bin it.

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