tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29616976.post4714053516149241523..comments2024-02-20T07:06:56.933+00:00Comments on THE SKINNER: Smoke from the Ears!Neal Asherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13933911904170752700noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29616976.post-61200380591398452392010-09-07T13:14:54.747+01:002010-09-07T13:14:54.747+01:00Very interesting. I have the same issue with getti...Very interesting. I have the same issue with getting ranty, it's not good for you... my mum says blah blah blahGrim's Realityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15141927678427787365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29616976.post-54788499583648680212010-09-06T13:47:54.673+01:002010-09-06T13:47:54.673+01:00I haven't lost my edge, Graeme, I'm just a...I haven't lost my edge, Graeme, I'm just aware that if I allow my ranty side free rein I just end up feeling crappy. It also helps to live in Crete without access to British papers unless I make and effort!<br /><br />Richard, I'll certainly give that a go. The probelm here is that things dry out so quick I end up with green tobacco.<br /><br />Clive, I know that smoking isn't good for me in the long run, but right now I enjoy it. It is the case that it may kill me, which is my choice. The state does not own my body, much as it would like to.<br />Incidentally, you'll never see me wearing sock with sandals. Um, maybe that attitude is part of the reason we keep getting mistaken for Germans or Dutch by the Greeks.Neal Asherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13933911904170752700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29616976.post-42326838282162361852010-09-03T17:52:42.844+01:002010-09-03T17:52:42.844+01:00According to French lore, one of the reasons that ...According to French lore, one of the reasons that lung cancer used to be relatively rare here was because the "brune" cigarettes (Gitanes etc.) were made from sun-dried tobacco leaves instead of leaves roasted, toasted and soaked in acetone in some huge factory. <br /><br />As for the sweet chili sauce, for that quantity I would add more garlic, but that's because I like garlic.<br /><br />Good rant on smoking bans - indeed what else do you go on holiday for if not to do things that are taboo at home? (although getting fall-down drunk and fornicating in public don't seem to be all that taboo these days in the UK).<br /><br />Finally, French Tourist Spotting 101: Look at their clothes & accessories - normally there will be Lacoste, Dior or Chanel somewhere about and never, ever will you see a Frenchman wearing socks with sandals.Clivehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13204772150630615782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29616976.post-34227571199377632672010-09-01T10:07:03.746+01:002010-09-01T10:07:03.746+01:00On the tobacco drying front, I can't say I kno...On the tobacco drying front, I can't say I know anything about it really, but some distant spanish relative of mine once showed me some tobacco drying out. It had been placed into a large ramshackle shed, lacking most, but not all of it's walls. <br /><br />I'm assuming the idea was to have a breeze dry it out rather than the sun.Richard Fletcherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07968018483113954438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29616976.post-4944323587096854012010-09-01T08:56:12.540+01:002010-09-01T08:56:12.540+01:00Thank fuck for that I thought you'd lost your ...Thank fuck for that I thought you'd lost your edge. There's nothing like a cross ranty Asher rant, with statistics, swearing and revolution. <br /><br />Power to the people Wolfie, power to the people :-)Grim's Realityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15141927678427787365noreply@blogger.com