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This is a thread for people who will not be or have not been on the site for a while, whether due to real life or to resist an internet addiction, the latter of which is encouraged within reason. Also, talk about the benefits/whatever of taking a day or a weekend off, or things to do when not online. TV Tropes ruining your life is nothing to be proud of.

Generally, expect the following from this thread:

  1. People announcing their departure or return.
  2. Moderators announcing a significant forum ban — not trolls or vandals, but someone people will notice and miss.
  3. Inquiries about an absent troper.
  4. Responses to inquiries about an absent troper.

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Not that I'm going anywhere, but this is a thread for people who will not be on the forums for a while, whether due to real life or to resist an internet addiction, the latter of which is encouraged within reason. Also, talk about the benefits/whatever of taking a day or a weekend off, or things to do when not online. TV Tropes ruining your life is nothing to be proud of.

Edited by GastonRabbit on Feb 10th 2023 at 3:48:36 AM

OhnoaBear I'm back, baby. from Exiting, pursued by a... Since: Jan, 2011
I'm back, baby.
#11701: May 7th 2012 at 8:57:29 PM

[up][up] It's just a fancy name for "bathrobe". It's so you can wear something soft and comfortable while lounging in your study and, as was typical of the time, smoking.

"The marvel is not that the Bear posts well, but that the Bear posts at all."
TuefelHundenIV Night Clerk of the Apocalypse from Doomsday Facility Corner Store. Since: Aug, 2009 Relationship Status: I'd need a PowerPoint presentation
Night Clerk of the Apocalypse
#11702: May 7th 2012 at 8:58:32 PM

For style mostly. It is a thing from the victorian era. Gentlemen wore them in their smoking rooms or whatever they were called then. see here It is to look stylish and affectation.

Who watches the watchmen?
Malph (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#11703: May 7th 2012 at 9:03:15 PM

[up]The caption for the picture on that page should be "James Fitz Gerald looking like a pimp in 1868".

edited 7th May '12 9:03:55 PM by Malph

BestOf FABRICATI DIEM, PVNC! from Finland Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: Falling within your bell curve
FABRICATI DIEM, PVNC!
#11704: May 8th 2012 at 5:29:53 AM

Another reason to have a smoking jacket is that the smell of tobacco really sticks, so if you always wear the same thing, your other clothes don't smell so bad.

Sometimes I miss smoking...

Quod gratis asseritur, gratis negatur.
Malph (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#11707: May 8th 2012 at 8:35:11 AM

I've never had a problem with the smell sticking on my clothes. In fact my dad didn't even know I smoked until almost a year later when my brother bummed a cigarette off me.

edited 8th May '12 8:35:39 AM by Malph

ccoa Ravenous Sophovore from the Sleeping Giant Since: Jan, 2001
Ravenous Sophovore
#11708: May 8th 2012 at 9:44:07 AM

Isn't it a bit odd that you list a downside to smoking, and then say you miss it? ...Actually, the list of upsides to smoking wouldn't fill a post-it note, so maybe that isn't so odd.

When I lived in an apartment, my neighbors smoked. My clothes smelled like cigarettes, because the closet wall adjoined their bedroom. Yuck.

edited 8th May '12 9:45:04 AM by ccoa

Waiting on a TRS slot? Finishing off one of these cleaning efforts will usually open one up.
DarkConfidant Since: Aug, 2011
#11709: May 8th 2012 at 9:45:10 AM

It would fill a post-it note?

Maybe the small one.

DarkConfidant Since: Aug, 2011
#11711: May 8th 2012 at 9:46:26 AM

Ugh. I hate the smell of a cigarette... :(

ccoa Ravenous Sophovore from the Sleeping Giant Since: Jan, 2001
Ravenous Sophovore
#11712: May 8th 2012 at 9:47:31 AM

Can't stand it. It makes me physically gag to smell it. I can't decide what's worse: "fresh" cigarette smell from secondhand smoke, or that truly foul "stale" cigarette smell from smokers.

Waiting on a TRS slot? Finishing off one of these cleaning efforts will usually open one up.
JHM Apparition in the Woods from Niemandswasser Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: Hounds of love are hunting
Apparition in the Woods
#11713: May 8th 2012 at 9:47:52 AM

Pipe tobacco smells rather lovely; cigarette tobacco is not half so pleasant.

I'll hide your name inside a word and paint your eyes with false perception.
DarkConfidant Since: Aug, 2011
#11714: May 8th 2012 at 9:49:04 AM

[up][up] They're both horrid, and leave it at that?

[up] I wouldn't know.

deathpigeon Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: One True Dodecahedron
#11715: May 8th 2012 at 9:49:17 AM

[up][up][up] Me Too!... Honestly, I could never get into smoking because second hand smoke is bad enough.

edited 8th May '12 9:49:26 AM by deathpigeon

SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#11716: May 8th 2012 at 9:49:57 AM

Any kind of smoking just makes me choke. Absolutely horrible.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
DarkConfidant Since: Aug, 2011
#11717: May 8th 2012 at 9:50:50 AM

[up][up] You say it like that's a bad thing.

deathpigeon Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: One True Dodecahedron
#11718: May 8th 2012 at 9:53:34 AM

[up] It makes me gag. Even if the smokers have already left, but the smell still lingers. It always lingers.

TheyCallMeTomu Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#11719: May 8th 2012 at 9:57:08 AM

My dad smoked three packs a day. A lot of my clothing-particuarly the hand-me-downs-smelled of cigarette smoke.

Unless you have a chemical susceptibility to it, you get used to it.

lu127 Paper Master from 異界 Since: Sep, 2011 Relationship Status: Crazy Cat Lady
#11720: May 8th 2012 at 10:33:28 AM

My dad smokes like a chimney. And cigars, no less!

I just toss them out the window and forbid him to enter my room. EVER.

"If you aren't him, then you apparently got your brain from the same discount retailer, so..." - Fighteer
DarkConfidant Since: Aug, 2011
OhnoaBear I'm back, baby. from Exiting, pursued by a... Since: Jan, 2011
I'm back, baby.
#11722: May 8th 2012 at 10:51:02 AM

I have had a bad relationship with smoking since my dad's heart attack, but I will always associate the smell of cigarettes with him so I can't call it all bad.

"The marvel is not that the Bear posts well, but that the Bear posts at all."
TheyCallMeTomu Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#11723: May 8th 2012 at 10:51:46 AM

I'm kind of the same way-save that my father's cancer had nothing to do with his smoking habits. The doctors were absolutely astounded with how clean his lungs were, considering his fifty years of smoking o_o

kay4today Princess Ymir's knightess from Austria Since: Jan, 2011
Princess Ymir's knightess
#11724: May 8th 2012 at 11:04:06 AM

My parents neither smoked nor did they consume alcohol. cool

Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#11725: May 8th 2012 at 11:14:50 AM

My father killed himself with smoking. 2 packs a day while on oxygen for emphysema. Every time I visited his apartment I came away smelling like an ashtray. I never smoked and never will smoke with that as an example.

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"

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