True or False.

[Raffles]

False, I don't like wine... probably from all the very bad wine I've drunk as a student!

Next person doesn't like it when waiters pour beer for you at restaurants.

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shisha is flavoured tobacco smoked in a water hookah and damn nice it is too.

[Datura]

True -- hate it

Next person goes to a pub on a regular basis

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That water hookah sounds interesting. I have actually never seen one personally. When you smoke this, does the smell linger in the air as it does with regular smoking? Is the tobacco flavored with fruit like figs or dates or prunes?

[Raffles]

True, about twice a week (mostly the students' union).

Next person gets seasick.

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At the moment we have three! Two of them are souvenirs from a trip my flatmate just did to Syria and Jordan and they're not to be used. But we smoke the other and he just brought back several flavours: apple, strawberry, mint, melon, lemon and a few others (can't remember). And yeah, the smell does linger in the air, but it's a nice smell unlike the one from cigarettes. Also it doesn't seem to cling to clothes as much as cigarette smoke does.

One of the nicest things is to smoke mint shisha with some ice in the glass bulb. It's like the feeling you get just after brushing your teeth with mint toothpaste, but in your chest and throat.

[php_daemon]

False

The next person works 24/7, like me

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Are you two discussing weed smoking techniques here?

[Datura]

True

Next person does not ever leave their computer for longer than 3 hours.

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R. that sounds lovely. I would try it, but it is addictive just like all tobacco is.
php -- no, not weed, we talked about the flavored shisha, see R's exlpanation.

[Raffles]

False.

Next person cuts their own hair.

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I don't find it addictive, despite some people telling me a half hour shisha session is the equivalent of like 10 cigarettes in terms of all the negative stuff about fags (tar, nicotine, carbon monoxide...). It also doesn't cause me to choke like cigarette smoke does (I've only ever tried smoking cigarettes about three times). Maybe it's because the smoke goes through water first. The acridity of the smoke depends a lot on the distance between the coal and the shisha (i.e. the temperature of the tobacco), so I would imagine the health effects follow a similar pattern.

One thing about shisha is that it doesn't contain the chemicals (petrochemicals) that cigarettes contain to keep the tobacco burning. Still, even though I know it's unhealthy (like smoking any tobacco is) I don't worry about the health issues because I don't do it very often.

[Datura]

False -- I have long hair, do not cut it.

Next person has pruned a large tree in their life.

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R. good that you do not get addicted. Tobacco does that to me. In my younger years I smoked, but I quit some 35 years ago. The urge is still there, I guess it never leaves you. I would not try shisha for fear of a relapse.

[Raffles]

False... just bushes and palm trees really.

Next person likes Mike's Hard Lemonade.

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Yeah, I can understand that. I think I made the idiotic decision to first try smoking when I was 9. I stole one of my dad's cigarettes and went to the toilet. I started puffing away and noticed it was quite pleasant and cool, which scared the crap out of me (because I knew it was "bad"). So I flushed it and never tried it again until I was 19. Clearly I didn't inhale back then, but when I did ten years later just to see how horrible it was, it was disgusting. I choked and felt a horrible burning sensation in my throat and just felt generally filthy, like I was really doing something my body didn't want.

Funnily enough, with shisha it isn't like that at all, though after a good hour or so I get headaches. Generally I think it's because I tend to drink when I smoke it, so the combined effect is probably not brilliant.

[mhulse]

True.

Next person has a grumpy girlfriend.

[Raffles]

False, they're both very sweet-tempered.

Next person has attended at least one Star Trek convention.

[mhulse]

Lol! True.

(Doctor Beverly Crusher) -- I swear I was the only cool kid there!

Next person loves Mexican food!

[winger]

False - I love Italian food

Next person sleeps 10 hours a day.

[B-loved]

false.

[B-loved]

false.

[Guy Savage]

I'll keep it going

Next person's future ex-wife is Pamela Anderson

[kigoobe]

false ... i don't find her attractive ... assets are too big below an equally ugly face

Next person knows about Nostradamus's prophecies

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Thanks for clarifying shisha ... is it an english word? I have tried smoking that staff once, I was 8 / 9 years then ... too violent !!! Never dared to try again.

[Datura]

True -- what a bunch …

Next person has seen northern lights.

[timjpriebe]

False, though that would be cool.

Next person has used the restroom (or loo, or whatever) without washing their hands. Today.

[php_daemon]

False

The next person can spin a basketball on his/her finger

[kigoobe]

False

The next person can spin a cricket ball

[Shaun(OfTheDead)]

True, but I still can't keep it on target (or anywhwere remotely close to target).

The next person played cricket in school.

[Datura]

False -- Basket ball

Next person loves to do tricks with a yo yo.

[php_daemon]

False, I recall playing it as a little kid

The next person enjoys a little moment of madness now and then

[Datura]

True -- actually big moments of it, or let's say: it is what other people see as such.

Next person loves the sounds of an early morning.

[php_daemon]

True, even though they send me off to bed most of the times

The next person loves sounds of a crowded street