UK users - Would you travel to a Vaping Lounge?

[TonyF]

There have been several threads about having a Vapours Lounge in the UK and I thought it would be interesting to see just how popular one would be, and where would be the best UK location to have one?

My apologies for not putting North and South Scotland, but I didn't realise until I was at the bottom of the selection list, and I didn't want to type the whole lot out again (sorry  )

It is only a bit of fun, but if you're reading this thread, then you must be as interested as me  

[jayjt29]

Im interested in a vapers lounge in the UK, think its a great idea. Done right could be a great little business
Not to mention great for customers 
Jay

[andy1661]

Hope it would be possible, just think a TW lounge in every major city,
ok maybe every town  a bit like burgerking etc how cool would that be.

Well i put 10 to 50 mile as a round trip on scotrail would cost an arm and a leg

[TonyF]

 also appears that I have entered NE <10 miles twice  ! Is there any way to alter a poll once it is started?

[Nick OTeen]

South Wales - no limit (but I'd rather they opened it in Swansea of course )

[VapinMazo]

Also, if it would be possible to add, "See Results" so that those of us not living in the UK can see the results without having to skew the tally.

[TonyF]

Gawd - I'm clueless here! 

Can you expand on the term skew the tally please VapinMazo?

I don't see any way of changing the poll once it's started, but maybe someone more experienced can help me out?

[TonyF]

South Wales - no limit (but I'd rather they opened it in Swansea of course )

I'd quite happily travel to Swansea from Chester Nick - I love it down there!
I used to cover South Wales in my surveying days and Swansea was a favoured port of call (excuse the pun).
I'm guessing that you're nearer to the Mumbles side of the city than the Bon-y-maen side (is that the correct spelling?)

[VapinMazo]

Skew, distorted or biased.
Tally, a reckoning or score.

If people who are unlikely to make use of a Lounge in the UK, i.e. those who don't live in the UK, vote just to see the results, the results would have less meaning.

I've never set up a poll here either so I'm not sure how it is done but I have seen polls here where there was a link available that when clicked on, would show the results without having had to vote.

I think a Mod, Darth Vaper or Caz might be able to modify the poll although I'm not sure.

[TonyF]

I ave an idea!

If you want to see the results, then click on the check box next to ==== England ==== and that would give you access to view and not count as a location in the poll 

[Darth Vaper]

I went ahead and enabled

Show the poll's results to anyone.

Made this a sticky as well. 

[eLiquidMatt]

All in favour of Nick converting his garage into the UK Vapors Lounge?

[VapinMazo]

I went ahead and enabled

Thanks Vaper on Darth! 

All in favour of Nick converting his garage into the UK Vapors Lounge?

This is me raising my hand! 

[TonyF]

I went ahead and enabled

Show the poll's results to anyone.

Made this a sticky as well.  

Thank you Darth! Can you delete the extra entry for NE < 10 miles too by any chance please?  

All in favour of Nick converting his garage into the UK Vapors Lounge?

It depends on whether he's on the Mumbles side or the Bon-y-maen side lol  

Edited cos I put the quote brackets in the wrong place 

[prof beard]

I'd go as far as Manchester or, preferably, Birmingham

No sure where the West Midlands fit on that poll though!

[Jo]

I was just gonna say that Prof...
Midlands?
Unfortunately i'm not driving at the moment so the travelling thing would probably be limited to 0 -10miles.

[TonyF]

I was just gonna say that Prof...
Midlands?

OOPS! maybe the extra NE < 10 miles could be changed to Midlands . . . . . Darth . . . . . . Daaaaarth!
I was getting ever so concious about the length of the options list when I was doing it, and I (embarrassingly) had the Midlands written down, but overlooked it - sorry again  

Unfortunately i'm not driving at the moment so the travelling thing would probably be limited to 0 -10miles.

Maybe I should offer to run a free shuttle service to compensate for missing out Midlands  

I'd go as far as Manchester or, preferably, Birmingham
No sure where the West Midlands fit on that poll though!

Maybe you could work out how far you are from the compass point that you wouldn't mind travelling to in the list, add a few miles to counter magnetic North , deduct a few for magnetic deviation and go for that one  

If I ever do a poll again, I will sit and think about it for more than a nano second!

[Nick OTeen]

I went ahead and enabled

Show the poll's results to anyone.

Made this a sticky as well.  

Thank you Darth! Can you delete the extra entry for NE < 10 miles too by any chance please?  

All in favour of Nick converting his garage into the UK Vapors Lounge?

It depends on whether he's on the Mumbles side or the Bon-y-maen side lol  

Home's on the Mumbles side (well, Killay,) - work's actually not that far from Bon y maen, though Llansamlet's not got the same reputation fortunately (lock the car doors when passing through, and don't stop long enough for the buggers to get the wheels off, or you'll find yourself up on bricks by the time the lights change )

[TonyF]

Home's on the Mumbles side (well, Killay,) - work's actually not that far from Bon y maen, though Llansamlet's not got the same reputation fortunately (lock the car doors when passing through, and don't stop long enough for the buggers to get the wheels off, or you'll find yourself up on bricks by the time the lights change )

I cleverly left that for you to say lol! Your side is very much the desireable side as we both know 
I remember surveying the Bon y maen Inn back in the 90's, the pub was standing on a piece of waste land and there was a council/ police CCTV camera an a huge pole outside pointing at it! I had to park outside on the waste land until the owner arrived to meet me. Whilst I was sitting there, all kinds of faces appeared at the perspex windows of the pub (yes, plastic windows tell a story!), and some chaps came to the door and beckoned for me to come and have a drink inside. I duly declined and did feel very uncomfortable with all the goings on and couldn't wait to leave.
The owner eventually arrived and took me inside to be greeted with the wall of deadly silence from the punters. In not too polite words, he shouted to this large bunch of silent destroyers that I was OK and that I was there to do him a favour. Before I knew it, the whole pub wanted to buy me a drink and be my best friend! Apparently, they were all working around the corner on a building site, and they thought I was the DSS checking them out lol! They said that the only people that usually go to Bon y maen wearing a suit are the CID and benefit office spys!

Needless to say that I haven't had a great desire to go back there, although it has all probably changed now, so I may be unjust in fondly slating the place 

So, your garage it is then Mr Nick O Teen 

[Nick OTeen]

Home's on the Mumbles side (well, Killay,) - work's actually not that far from Bon y maen, though Llansamlet's not got the same reputation fortunately (lock the car doors when passing through, and don't stop long enough for the buggers to get the wheels off, or you'll find yourself up on bricks by the time the lights change )

I cleverly left that for you to say lol! Your side is very much the desireable side as we both know  
I remember surveying the Bon y maen Inn back in the 90's, the pub was standing on a piece of waste land and there was a council/ police CCTV camera an a huge pole outside pointing at it! I had to park outside on the waste land until the owner arrived to meet me. Whilst I was sitting there, all kinds of faces appeared at the perspex windows of the pub (yes, plastic windows tell a story!), and some chaps came to the door and beckoned for me to come and have a drink inside. I duly declined and did feel very uncomfortable with all the goings on and couldn't wait to leave.
The owner eventually arrived and took me inside to be greeted with the wall of deadly silence from the punters. In not too polite words, he shouted to this large bunch of silent destroyers that I was OK and that I was there to do him a favour. Before I knew it, the whole pub wanted to buy me a drink and be my best friend! Apparently, they were all working around the corner on a building site, and they thought I was the DSS checking them out lol! They said that the only people that usually go to Bon y maen wearing a suit are the CID and benefit office spys!

LOL - yeah, it's a real fun place, full of real fun people - if you want to blend in, you need at least a shell suit, 5 days stubble, and an advanced state of dental decay. Turn up in a suit, and you're going to need police protection (even the police travel in groups.)
Don't know if the pub's still standing (like I say, if I can't avoid passing through, I don't slow down enough to enjoy the scenery,) but given the popularity of arson as a traditional cultural pursuit (they burnt the community centre down earlier this year,) they'll have steel shutters and razor wire up by now if they have any sense.

Lately Swansea's rather cast off the reputation as the car crime capital of Britain it cherished back in the 90s, but in Bonymaen they like to keep the old customs alive, and I've still never been up Kilvey Hill without seeing at least a few burnt-out motors, despite the recent attempts to smarten it up with a nature trail and sculpture park.

I'd rather be posted to Helmand frankly - more chance of a good night's sleep at least, and you are actually allowed to shoot back.

Needless to say that I haven't had a great desire to go back there, although it has all probably changed now, so I may be unjust in fondly slating the place  

It hasn't changed for the better I'm afraid - most of the ordinary folk (any who can afford to anyway, since you won't get much for a house you're moving out of there,) have been forced to move out now, so it's mostly just the ferals left now

So, your garage it is then Mr Nick O Teen  

Think I'd be lucky to fit more than 2 or 3 people in there at once, given the amount of crap I'm storing in my garage

[TonyF]

Ahh, but I bet it's good quality crap Nick? I have visions of huge bottles (glass) of absinthe flavourings, a vintage motor (with its wheels) and maybe a vat or two of a decent Shiraz? 

I'd settle for a shot of single malt, a bag of nuts and decent conversation though 

It sounds like the punters that I met in that Bon y maen pub have gone on to have lots of sprogs then lol!

One alarming thought though Nick - if this thread comes up on Google, and someone had the morbid curiosity to actually search the words "Bon y maen", will they come and burn down my avatar? 

[VapinMazo]

I wish you guys would speak English. 

<-- Ducks and covers. 

[Nick OTeen]

Ahh, but I bet it's good quality crap Nick? I have visions of huge bottles (glass) of absinthe flavourings, a vintage motor (with its wheels) and maybe a vat or two of a decent Shiraz?  

LOL - I wish. A lot of rusty tools and implements, a couple of broken cyclemotors, and an assortment of homebrew batches that didn't turn out quite right, and are just mellowing for a decade or 2 in the hope they improve with age.

I'd settle for a shot of single malt, a bag of nuts and decent conversation though  

It sounds like the punters that I met in that Bon y maen pub have gone on to have lots of sprogs then lol!

I assume the local economy is entirely based on child benefits (well, apart from the drugs and burglary of course.) Any female over 13 who isn't pregnant or pushing a pram is something of a novelty.

One alarming thought though Nick - if this thread comes up on Google, and someone had the morbid curiosity to actually search the words "Bon y maen", will they come and burn down my avatar?  

Don't worry, they probably can't read anyway

In fairness, some will claim that it's not all bad, but it has to be said that the rest of Swansea doesn't have a very positive view of the place at all (and even the author has to admit in the comments that "your right,Bonymaen aint as good as I made it out!")
It may have a proud past, and for all I know it might even have a promising future one day. But the present Bonymaen is, alas, neither proud nor promising.

[TonyF]

That was an intersting link Mr O Teen.

You could try vaping the mellowing home brew   

So child benefits are paid out to children and their mothers at the same time then 

It's a scary. scary planet that we live on . . . . . .

[Nick OTeen]

That was an intersting link Mr O Teen.

You could try vaping the mellowing home brew   

Too much in the way of dissolved solids I think - not very atomizer friendly at all I wouldn't think

So child benefits are paid out to children and their mothers at the same time then 

It's a scary. scary planet that we live on . . . . . .

Indeed it is

[Dollbubba]

I live in the North West & would be happy to travel up to 10-15 miles for a Vaping Lounge.......oh please please please!.... 

[mixit]

Well seen as though I quite happily drive a 80 mile round trip to Darwen at least twice a month Ive clicked on unlimited in NW.
BTW Tony does the coffee machine actually work or is it just for show? 

[Edny]

South Wales - no limit (but I'd rather they opened it in Swansea of course )

Swansea- Yes
Cardiff- NO

[TonyF]

South Wales - no limit (but I'd rather they opened it in Swansea of course )

Swansea- Yes
Cardiff- NO

I wouldn't let caz see you writing this 

Those valley girls can leave terrible scars when they get annoyed 

[Fad]

I thought Caz lived in Lancashire....but you know what thought did.