I thought it was, "You're only as old as the women you feel?"   

Haha, my favorite Marx quote. I didn't want to say it in the beginning coz the ladies would be insulted.

Funny - if I was asked to pick someone round here who I was convinced to be a non-smoker, it would have been you. No idea why! Interesting how we put a picture of someone together on not much of a ground at all...

Since I have my pic up at the DT profile, I had already 2 people ask me why I smoke. I told them I don't smoke, it's the cigarette.

all my income is from microstock. But - for perculiar ad complicated reasons - my cost of living is really low.

Yes Berlin has some nice bridges to sleep under and it can be very cozy there, in the proper carton box.  

Just looked at your profile picture on DT - that's you? Oh, I recognize the lion! I imagined you to be a completely different "type"! Nice sneakers. 

Nah, cheap chinese copies from the "market". 2 euro max. The same famous market (it's on a blog I'm preparing) where Windows 7, CS4 and all movies by the dozen are 90cents. I think I'm the only one islands around that has a legal Windows.
But we're getting off-topic.  
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Yeah, well I often like cheap stuff - I have to! 

Quote from: Pheby on August 12, 2010, 18:22

Germany isn't really that expensive

I wasn't probing into your private things.   But yes, you can live cheaply everywhere if you watch out. I only need 6m² for my PC and me when I'm alone in Europe. Over there, we need a little bit more space.  

No, I didn't take it that way at all. No worries. 
6sqm would kill me within two days though, I must say.

Pheby,
I've been smoking for over 20 years. I can't even imagine my life without cigarettes. And speaking about smoking and expensive countries, have a look at Irish prices :  

1 pack 20 'Silk Cut' (the brand I smoke) = 8.50 euro in Dublin, Ireland.
A FORTUNE!
How many 0.25 cent downloads would that be?
No point in counting, I can't give them up anyways

Yeah, I know, I'm in London quite often where the prices are similar. Needless to say I never fail to take as much supply I'm allowed (they are about half that in Germany). Since the prices have been rising that high, people have stopped offering other smokers a cigarette, and if you smoke in the street you're asked for a "spare fag" all the time. Whatever a spare fag is...

OMG, is "fag" an American slang word I'm not aware of?

ooooops! 

a few of us older folks remember when "fag" was a cigarette and Gay was "queer."

A "fag" still is a cigarette in the UK.  Didn't realise it ever was used that way across the pond.  You'd never know it from the responses us Brits generally get when we use it over there (or in forums)  

Jolly good old chap. I dig it.  

When you meet an Australian he says "hi mite" and and American always asks "what's up?". I always found that a very indiscreet question, especially when wearing loose pants.
Mixing up slangs by non-native speakers (like me) can sometimes be embarrassing. I remember during part of my PhD working in a Silicon Valley joint and at a (rather informal) meeting I exclaimed "bullsh@t!". Everybody turned pale. I just assumed that it was a normal expression to express doubt since the word is commonly used in American movies.

In the Philippines, American B action movies are wildly popular and also rapper music clips. They assume that expressions like "f@ck, (piece of) sh@t, give it to me man, what's your problem man" are common and accepted in American daily life.   Funny are also accents. Filipinos can't pronounce K, they pronounce it like G. Most people (on markets etc...) use often the phrase "It's OK" but it sounds like "it's so gay".  

Anyways, God really hates smokers:

Mixing up slangs by non-native speakers (like me) can sometimes be embarrassing. I remember during part of my PhD working in a Silicon Valley joint and at a (rather informal) meeting I exclaimed "bullsh@t!". Everybody turned pale. I just assumed that it was a normal expression to express doubt since the word is commonly used in American movies.

BullSh@t is used quite often in the states. It does sorta mean doubt, but more so as a challenge. Some people use it to express disbelief. Some people use it as calling someone on a lie. It has various uses...

@rubyroo: ok, we can't look into God's mind, but I'm still sure that he's a non-smoker.   Only joking. It is actually a painful picture to look at.