India launches rocket……

As an ex-very heavy smoker, I disagree, in one way. If you actually determine, come what may, to give up you will. It’s the subliminal residual desire to continue smoking that makes the process “difficult”. I tried and failed three times and then one day decided enough was enough and stopped, never to even want to smoke again.

I am an ex smoker
I am not a “born again” ex smoker so its let and let live but not in my house please. I wish for any smoker who wants to break the habit the best of luck but it is an awful addiction to conquer.

Well done Paul. It’s a recognised fact, that smoking is harder to pack up, even more than a Heroin addiction.
Jim.
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I’m a smoker, cigars rather than cigs, but I don’t smoke in the house I go outside. I will not subject anyone to passive smoke. Some smokers should learn from that.

BTW what was the topic:applause:

Obviously an Havana CEEEEEGAR smoker,best of them all.
Jim.
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Jim, don’t got there please.

P.M. me then!!
Jim.
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Haha!! India launches rocket to
Mars!!;)

I’m a smoker, cigars rather than cigs, but I don’t smoke in the house I go outside. I will not subject anyone to passive smoke. Some smokers should learn from that.

BTW what was the topic:applause:

I am an ex smoker since I was given my first cigarette at the age of 7 I gave up in Feb 2012 with the help of E-Cigarettes.
I don’t cough any more,my clothes don’t stink and my house and car does not have a yellow film on them. That said it took my until I was 67 to do that and god knows how many thousands of pounds to get this far.
I am not a “born again” ex smoker so its let and let live but not in my house please. I wish for any smoker who wants to break the habit the best of luck but it is an awful addiction to conquer.

Jim, don’t got there please.

Oh, go on Dave, what about the smoking ban?.

Jim.
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Jim, it wouldn’t work. Smoking in corner shops have been banned for years.
But don’t get me going with the smoking ban.

I recon Dave, its a “cunning plan,” send a rocket to Mars, if it succeeds, they intend to colonise it, and move India, lock stock, and two smoking corner shops to Mars.
Jim.
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I would have thought the average Indian who is living in abject poverty would prefer a tractor rather than their govenment sending a rocket to Mars. That could be a good start, tractors for all.

You say it stays in the economy, yes it will, but it will be in the major cities and with the growing number of millionaires.

Because our fracking stupid Governments say so. I just give up wiv em, just like my wife spending my money, very easily done when it’s someone elses money.

Jim.
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Just because it might take years, is that a reason not to do it ? As with HS2, what happens to the money? It stays in the economy and goes round and round. No, it might not filter down to the poor farmer right away but they have to start somewhere.
It’s nice to hear of a nation with ambition and the drive to do something like this. I wish we could….

The question that has to be asked is why 2014-’15? Just turn the tap off, simples.

I think it’s 2014 or 15, but we are tied in until then.
Jim.
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You could say the same about every country in the world though. Why shouldn’t India try and better itself? Doesn’t wealth and innovation and technology work its way down? Countries need to be more progressive to generate wealth. Standing still isn’t going to work.

I would take donkeys years to work it’s way down, the vast majority of India is rural and in abject poverty. Just because the cities are generating wealth doesn’t mean the average farmer now has a tractor, he’s still got his donkey.

BTW I think I read India asked for aid payments to be stopped, would have been in 2012? Or have we agreed and it takes this long to turn off the tap?

Its ok spending trillions on Carriers, Rockets to Mars and a powerful military, but as the majority of the country is living in the middle ages, it would have been better spent improving the lot of the rest of the country first.

Exactly what I was getting at Tony…:o
Jim.
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To educate is to better the Country. all you are doing is widening the divide between those that are and those that are not, our aid was paying for schooling for the poorer part of the populace, something that could have been done with the cost of their space shot… True wealth, innovation and technology do work there way down, but the majority of the Country is Third World, both in education and infrastructure, by bringing those into the modern World you would unlease the Countries potential to a far greater extent.

I wonder what the payload is?….. the first Corner shop on Mars?.

I wondered who’d be first……

Its ok spending trillions on Carriers, Rockets to Mars and a powerful military, but as the majority of the country is living in the middle ages, it would have been better spent improving the lot of the rest of the country first.

You could say the same about every country in the world though. Why shouldn’t India try and better itself? Doesn’t wealth and innovation and technology work its way down? Countries need to be more progressive to generate wealth. Standing still isn’t going to work.