I think the main reason it helps people reduce stress is they have to leave a situation to go outside or to another room in order to smoke and they’re taking a deep breath. I found the feeling of breathing in the smoke (throat hit I believe it’s called) and then breathing it out and seeing the smoke cloud very satisfying. Similar to chewing gum I suppose. Also, I rolled my own filter-less cigs so I had the added element of rolling it and picking out strands of tobacco hanging out of the end whilst smoking as a kind of fidget action. I prefer vaping now and don’t think I’d go back to smoking cigarettes regularly but I have started smoking a cigar with a beer some weekends just in the last few months. As some have stated the actual feeling from the nicotine is similar to caffeine but more short lived.

I have a Facebook account as the organisers of the park run I do only make announcements through their Facebook page. I don’t use it for anything else.

Other than that I use WhatsApp as pretty much everyone in my country uses it to communicate exclusively rather than SMS or regular phone calls due to a very savy scam by service providers. Most of them stopped WhatsApp counting towards data usage on their contracts for a few years and heavily advertised that fact. Then they stopped doing that quietly and now heavily advertise that their contracts have unlimited text messages and phone calls. People had got used to using the WhatsApp features like group chats and video calls so still use it. Most assume it still doesn’t affect their data usage or that unlimited texts and phone calls applies to WhatsApp as well which means people are burning through their mobile data faster due to always having it turned on just so they can receive messages. I gave up trying to convince my family of those facts long ago.

I mean if you and the machete love each other I think it’s fine to sleep together

Brilliant series

Certainly was. Brasseye and Nathan Barley were also works of pure genius. They summed up the cultural landscape of Britain in their time perfectly.

Saw “The Day Shall Come” a little while ago. Was sadly a bit disappointed.

Four Lions

No ice is because it’s cold as balls here most of the time anyway

🎵 If you abuse me 🎵

🎵 Honey you’ll lose me 🎵

Think the last comment might have been a sarcastic joke

Well, holey shit, but yea

Number 3 - I like 'em pale

But if 50% of people are above the average, can that truly be an average?

More of a shit hole lol really

1 - I like 'em pale

Yup, it’ll probably take a few generations after work robots become commonplace for capitalism to finally shuffle off. Life will just suck a whole lot more in the intervening time as you fight for the few unskilled jobs and spend 25+ years in education to get the few skilled jobs available