Marquis
I'm a bad boy
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This thread is a response to a thread I saw earlier today on offtopic.
People say that making friends is difficult and that it becomes more difficult the more older you get. This is true for those who never developed their social skills past the kindergarten / high school, and don't know what social networking means. It's time for you to grow up, and ascend by improving your social networking skills!
1. SMOKE
One thing every traveling smoker knows is that asking someone to light-up your cigarette is an universal conversion starter.
Every school and workplace is divided in two major groups: smokers and non-smokers. Many non-smokers will spend their breaks alone in the cafeteria or the break room, but smokers are forced to meet each other at the designated smoking area several times a day (hundreds times a month).
These people standing in the designated smoking area are all equal regardless of race, gender, looks, height, social status, and age.
This, my non-smoking friends, makes the smokers recognize the smokers. Smokers know the smokers who live or work near the building and will run into each other outside the workplace.
With forced exposure comes the curiosity -- people want to get to know what they know they don't know -- a theory that is heavily utilized in marketing.
The Wundt curve
It's also true that we like or hate the brands or the people we see often more than the brands or the people we see only once:
en.wikipedia.org
Smoking gives you so many new opportunities to meet people and excuses to talk to strangers -- every day, everwhere. Because the smokers get so many chances to meet one another, it comes as no surprise that literally every smoker has at least one friend who smokes.
B-but smoking causes lung cancer!
Of course it does, but you can smoke WITHOUT inhaling. For example, you're not supposed to inhale the smoke coming out of a cigar. This supposedly (don't take my word for it) lowers the chances of getting lung cancer.
It's 100 % okay to VAPE in the designated smoking areas!
That's all. What time is it?
It's time to go out and smoke!
People say that making friends is difficult and that it becomes more difficult the more older you get. This is true for those who never developed their social skills past the kindergarten / high school, and don't know what social networking means. It's time for you to grow up, and ascend by improving your social networking skills!
1. SMOKE
One thing every traveling smoker knows is that asking someone to light-up your cigarette is an universal conversion starter.
Every school and workplace is divided in two major groups: smokers and non-smokers. Many non-smokers will spend their breaks alone in the cafeteria or the break room, but smokers are forced to meet each other at the designated smoking area several times a day (hundreds times a month).
These people standing in the designated smoking area are all equal regardless of race, gender, looks, height, social status, and age.
This, my non-smoking friends, makes the smokers recognize the smokers. Smokers know the smokers who live or work near the building and will run into each other outside the workplace.
With forced exposure comes the curiosity -- people want to get to know what they know they don't know -- a theory that is heavily utilized in marketing.
The Wundt curve
It's also true that we like or hate the brands or the people we see often more than the brands or the people we see only once:
Mere-exposure effect - Wikipedia
Smoking gives you so many new opportunities to meet people and excuses to talk to strangers -- every day, everwhere. Because the smokers get so many chances to meet one another, it comes as no surprise that literally every smoker has at least one friend who smokes.
B-but smoking causes lung cancer!
Of course it does, but you can smoke WITHOUT inhaling. For example, you're not supposed to inhale the smoke coming out of a cigar. This supposedly (don't take my word for it) lowers the chances of getting lung cancer.
It's 100 % okay to VAPE in the designated smoking areas!
That's all. What time is it?
It's time to go out and smoke!
