Random Announcements

[Akuma no uta]

Today I made it 24 hours without a cigarette for the first time in 10 years. Here's hoping for another 24 hours. Wish me luck

[Broark]

Congrats, it's definitely not easy.
I smoked for about four/five years and quit a little over a year ago.
One day at a time.

[Filthy2123ozjunkie]

@Akuma no uta good for you dude! Please consider changing your profile pic. I've been trying to quit for 18 years.

I'm convinced I'm gonna get my cancer some other way besides smoking. I worked next to this not encapsulated asbestos all day today. I kept spraying it with water…

[4c]

^ Nasty stuff that.

[Giles]

I smoked for 40 years.  The other day I had a full medical and was told I had the lungs of a 37 year old…..BOOM.  Paula reckons it was the worst news I could have had, because now she thinks I think I am invincible.......

[Jordan23]

Aren't you?

Enjoy ya addiction!

[Megatron1505]

@Giles , everyone who knows you thinks that you think you're invincible. True story 

[rocket]

nah…..  ::)

[organisys]

@Akuma:

Today I made it 24 hours without a cigarette for the first time in 10 years. Here's hoping for another 24 hours. Wish me luck

I quit a few years back. Totally cold turkey. Buy some mints and gum, go constant on them for a week or two.
The first week is hard, the second slightly less so… Then its much easier

More money for IH gear and your new life with GF!

Good luck.

[Seul]

My mate works as head of a private security firm in a prison for, well, crazies… They caught a guy fucking a chicken yesterday… They keep 'm around for therapeutic means... Guess the chicken will indeed need some fucking therapy...

[Finkster]

^

[Graeme]

[Chris]

I've begun restoring two old sewing machines that I've had for a while out in the garage.  Yesterday, I looked up their serial numbers online to get information for parts. One was manufactured in 1904, the other in 1892.  Both still work just fine.  I love well made things.

[Giles]

Brilliant….

[Winchy]

We have @Sam/IH in the house….visiting us from North Carolina. The shopping has begun in earnest....

[Giles]

BOOM.

Proud Dad announcement.

The diving company that @Alex is now part owner of, has won the contract to provide dive 24x7 dive support to the dredging that needs to be undertaken for the arrival of our new 65,000 tonne aircraft carriers…..

Given that Portsmouth dockyards was a major target in WWII, that is likely to mean a shit load of unexploded ordinance to be identified and removed

http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/defence/fareham-firm-awarded-31m-for-portsmouth-aircraft-carrier-dredging-project-1-6823596

Now all we need is some planes to put on the feckers..... 

[Madame Buttonfly]

What a great week so far:  @ROman (was Sam/IH) from North Carolina here yesterday, @Jett129 from New York here today, both lovely guys and we're so delighted and honoured that they made time during their respective visits to come down to Gosport!  Giles is currently at the pub with @Cutlasshound and on Saturday we're joining @GingerMagician for birthday celebration drinks in London.  And then great news from @Alex today.

Big smiles all round 

[Jett129]

Truly felt like I had entered Denim Heaven today. Pictures to follow.–Jett

[rocket]

congrats @Alex

[Graeme]

Scientists might have found a ringworld orbiting a star 1500 light years away.

OK, it's only a hypothesis, but it's far more interesting than a trail of comets being bumped into orbit around the star by a passing stellar object.

So does @Giles or @Haraki-san hold the rights to sell Iron Heart to extra-terrestrials?

And congratulations to @Alex too. Try not to set off any unexploded ordnance whilst you're down there!