June 23, 2010

  • Rolling Cigarettes Again!


    TALES FROM THE BRAT FARM

    The Beast was low on cigarettes today and just couldn't bring himself to go out and buy four cartons of cigarettes for us (although, truth be told, I still had plenty).    It's because 4 cartons of cigarettes, with taxes, are costing us $186. each time.  Now, four cartons a month is more than enough for me but the Beast is smoking like there's no tomorrow and that means an extra four cartons each month.  That means it's costing us almost $600. a month for cigarettes. 

    He figured he'd better go check out the prices on loose tobacco and the tubes for cigarettes.  He was afraid that they might have gone up a lot since we last were rolling our own.  However, he bought enough tubes and tobacco for four cartons and the cost was just a little over $54.  The first thing he did was sit down at the table with our cigarette making machine (we have a really good one he bought last year) and start making cigarettes.

    He put them in one of my tupperware containers and I have about 3 packs worth sitting on my desk as I type this.  He didn't want to wait until I was completely out (which would have been in about a week or so ) but.....the fantastic part about this is that the cigarettes he is rolling do NOT have those damnable fire stopper rings built into them.  I had to smoke one just to remember how great it was.  I kid you not.  Personally, I think the new cigarettes are damned dangerous! 

    The chemical they use is bad enough (it's causing all kinds of problem for people's respiratory systems) but it also seems to bond the burning tobacco and will fall out in clumps and cause burns on clothing, rugs, whatever you might be wearing or sitting on.  I really and truly hate them.  I think it's some kind of a government conspiracy to require that to try to disgust people and make them quit smoking.

    Probably as a long-term health *fix* and another way to force the loss of personal liberties in the name of *concern*.  I am so tired of the do-gooders and all their *concerns* and forcing people to do without things (like fats in our meats at the loss of taste) because it's *not healthy*. 

    It's for the same reason that they are re-writing history.  Do you think I am kidding?  They are getting rid of references to any portions of history that even mentions *slavery* because it's *demeaning*.  Shit, it's what went on world-wide AT THE TIME.  And isn't it wonderful that such things don't exist here any more?  That, as a nation, it was abolished.  No society has ever been perfect.  There are lessons that had to be learned.  Issues that had to be addressed and fought over at times. 

    We learned.  Why the need to whitewash history?  Do you know that the history books right now no longer address the establishment of our nation and the whole revolutionary war?  The next target is to skip the Civil War because it had to do with slavery issues.  OMFG!  Censorship in this day and age.  But our children and grandchildren will grow up and never know that all those things happened.  Heck, by the time our grandchildren are in high school, the World Wars will probably no longer be taught.  Think I'm kidding?

    Time to put this to bed.  Love you all.  Have a great day.  Here's a little chuckle for you so you can think about it and smile. 

                   Every time I hear the dirty word 'exercise', I wash my mouth out with chocolate.