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Considering I type how I speak an I speak Strayn (aka Strine)....ask if me jibberish makes no bloody sense an I'll learn ya real good. You will need it peeps, for when Straya takes over the world... You've bin warned...it's commin'...we already have hollywood and Asgard.

I'm doneski.... Think I need to build a special translation thread for @Cbdave's woohoo.....he'll get it...and I didn't even have a dig at his shitty northern beer...too bloody sweet....not Hoppy enough by a long shot, beer should be bitter, preferably Melbourne or Vic Now I know we are sposed to be doing our own woohoos but seriously it's our Nope-master... he deserves a spesh woohoo.

G'day mate, woohoo starts ya day today. Congratulations @Cbdave...our favourite banana bending pusser and very own King of the QT Mount NOPErama. You bloody ripper, 4 years is a sensational quit. And just think you got 4 under your belt before Tander did and just between you, me and the board I reckon Brockie's record will be topped by you in next to no time. So sit back me cobber, stick ya feet up and pull ya an icy cold pint of the gold stuff (pulled a few strings and got ya fave on tap for this shindig)... Yes, I even hooked ya up in the kitchen, all the best party food is spread out, fairy bread, party pies, little boys, chochie crackles, honey joys, party sausage rolls an cos we are a classy bunch a sh1t load of cabana and cheese cubes. So we'll bloody done and thanks for starting all our days with a g'day and all you do to keep a smile on our dials and a smoke outa our lives. You're a bonza bloke, fully sick and bloody grouse!

Congrats MQ and just wanna say I'm stoked you quit and gave back to the world with this site....just look at all the lives you have touched and saved.

Oh... @Sazerac....our sparkling newbie thunk it....I just ran with it. No stop interrupting me I am building a very important new thread

I actually, decided to answer her enquiry with.... Well do you take American dollars at your shop? NOPE.... pretty sure it would be nice to just get some Canadian money and use that. Did I answer good?

@reciprocity??? @jillar???? @Linda Thomas??? @Rozuki????

If you are travelling from the USA to just over the Canadian boarder (yes she has a Visa) do you need to change your money from US$ to Canadian $ or can you just use the US dollars. Thanks heaps. No its not me, or the kid... sorry to disappoint.... I know ya all totes devo that I'm not venturing to your shores.

Oh...thanks for the reminder....need to renew the license....tomorrow.

do you think maybe he went blind and now he can't see to post ... I'm sure that's one of the side effects.

Gettin married? We plan awesome weddings, just ask @Boo... Never would have made it down the aisle without the Girls of the QT.

If I suddenly grew a willy would I ever stop playing with it?

On me way home...once I get there and cook dinner...spag Bol if anyone's interested....my Tuesday is doneski

Fun fact: my little old grandma followed St Louis because Bing wore they top in a movie...dunno what she knew about baseball but she used to listen to games on her tranny.

@Wee fluffy me & @WeegieWoman ... Booked in for haggis... Yes you read right, 2 month wait...so either it's grouse as or Melbournians are a really curious lot in the food department...or lots of expat Scots.

@Vivianne....I made one for you, have you found it yet?

Oh jumping in... Friends.....I quit in the middle of softball season....lots of me softball mates are smokers...I couldn't avoid them...I will confess to doing the 2nd hand smoking thing but I would have 1 wiff then be off....see I knew I couldn't avoid it, so quick sniff opposite side of the dugout....my rules were simple, I'd allow myself to smell it but I was not having a puff ...it only took a few weeks and U didn't even want that smell hit. But I prooved to myself I could do it. Post workout.....expanding on Jill's healthy snack suggestion...carrot or celery sticks...you can air smoke them AND have a nice crunchy chewy snack. In my early quit I had a phone app...it had a crave buster feature...this was that card flip memory game....ran for 3mins on repeat...only once did I need to go back to back to beat a crave ..see your brain can't focus on a crave when you are making it do something else. Minesweeper worked too.

Sadly there ya no hard and fast rule...as the others have said accepting you are a nicotine addict and learning how this addiction works are the keys. I very much just took it as 1 day at a time. I only ever worried about not smoking for the single day. So the way my addiction works is that the habit and the emotional addiction was stronger than the physical addiction. I needed to break those to feel comfortable in my quit. So this time I used NRT gum and it helped get me passed the hurdle...do I wish I had quit cold turkey, sure, but it wasn't my reality. What I can tell you is cold turkey, hypnosis, Champix, NRT there are no short cuts...you have to go through the hairy days to get up those hay days. Biggest tips.... 1. Only quit for one day at a time, don't worry about tomorrow, just focus on today. 24 little hours. 2. Keep you fluids and blood sugars up...drink juice, it Kilda two birds with one stone. 3. Learn, learn, learn....how the addiction works, what it has done to your brain. 4. Have some placebos, hard lollies (sweets/candies) to suck on, normal gum to chew, mints to suck, a pen to "fake" smoke. Anyone can quit, including you, it doesn't take a miracle, or a super power Nd definately not luck....all it takes is promising yourself never to put anything in your mouth and set it on fire and smoke it and fighting to keep that promise. That's it.

So 3 injections of lidocaine latter and it held just long enough to pull the earring through the back. Guess those studies that said locals don't work on red heads were on the money. She did get a Slurpee and a golden gaytime Krispy Kreme donut out of it.....omg the donuts taste just like the icecreams.

OMG @Sazerac....stunning, and so precious. Including your grandmother's rosaries is the thing that will make this a true treasure. I absolutely love this. Me...sitting at the quacks waiting to have the kid seen in the treatment room...new piercing so swollen the head of earring has disappeared into the piercing...so it's inside her ear. Here's the back of the earring... But where's the front of the earring...

Well seeing as I seem to be pulling my head back outta me own arse

Young orangutans don't eat lizards. Purse

But I think my man Kutcha says it best.... It's better to have tried and failed than never try at all....but you gotta get back up again peeps..

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