Knowledge

[nzkiwi]

Everyone else in the world have their priorities in order. The U.S is work obsessed. I think U.S citizens spend the least amount of time pursuing leisure activities than of any other industrialized country. And what do we have to show for it? No health care, high crime, job insecurity and a bunch of wealthy companies and their shareholders getting richer. yippee!!!!!

Opps, sorry, didn't mean to get distracted. I guess these statements are more appropriate elsewhere on a different forum.

I would have the icetool courier shipped , that would at least eliminate the worry of lost mail. I must say though, swedish post is very good, never had a package go missing.

[Craig de Tering]

Just to illustrate the holidays issue outside the US: the US has no laws concerning time-off-the-job and a few national holidays like july 4th. Other than that employers and employees are free to work out any time off (if any).
Most other western countries do however have mandatory holidays.
I think in the Netherlands you have a mandatory 3~4 weeks off every year regardless of employment and 10~12 national holidays.
Hell, before the stupid laws got reformed a few years back, people on welfare got 3 months paid vacation(!). Dunno how that worked but I read a news article saying exactly that.

[nzkiwi]

Interesting. Payed vacation while unemployed, WOW.

[standfast]

It's also just been easter weekend with time off abound, so it's likely that everything has been moving a bit slowly these past few days...

Thanks zero,did not even think about easter!As you can see I'm still trying to standfast and working really hard on patience. :roll:

[Zero]

Tell me about it, I forgot it was easter too. Went in to work on monday and thought that London was really quiet for a monday morning. Got a seat on the tube and the streets were refreshingly quiet...felt like a lofty sunday. Then I got to work and realised that the place was empty because it was a damned holiday :lol:

[standfast]

:lol: Never did that one.I have got up and almost went out the door then realized it's the weekend,but have seen one better then that.There were people at work and that was her downfall so I guess this is on the other end of the spectrum or (spectacle). Girlfriend got up on a monday went to work and so it went.Normal everyday week.Then the next monday she came home from work and came up to me with this :shock: look on her face and said I just worked my vacation week! :lol: :lol: :lol: 8)

[anweis]

Sad.

[standfast]

No....not sad.She got her vacation week back and earned new found respect from people on her job including the big dogs(bosses).Another words....shows she is not lazy and going to lay out of work! 8)

[kvaughan]

Icetool still out of stock at Northerner. I'm losing my patience. They have 4 days left to at least get them in stock, I don't even care if it's not shipped by Friday.

[carotevi]

thats bad about northerner taking so long. i ordered mine well after you did and have had mine for a few days now. maybe they should read these forums sometimes. it might help their business or keep from hurting it. i know i will think twice before spending money there again.

[standfast]

Same here,4 days will make a month.Also believe that I should hear something before then.Like...........We are sorry for the delay and we ask you to PLEASE understand that the icetools and snusboxes are only made in the Shire and Hobbit time is not the same as ours. :roll:

[Zero]

What colours/types did you all order?

[kvaughan]

I ordered the 3ml Steel, I assume standfast ordered the same. This is getting rediculous. It seems like Northerner doesn't even give a damn. Everytime I contact them I get the same "We'll ship it to you as soon as they come in but we don't know when they're coming".

[standfast]

Yea,I ordered the 3ml and the box,both in the cold steel.Why zero...Hey you are on the other side of the pond.You dont happen to know Frodo?Do you? :lol:I know what I wish you would do.Take that 3ml icetool you have and weigh it.Believe it's 54 grams,course know you would check.Then pack it full all the way to the fifth mark and back level at the opening.You know really packed.Like you learned to do with that adapted,modified,syringe,whatchamacallit.With the juice really going full without loosing any.Then of course,after reweigh,let us know the weight(grams) 8)

[Zero]

I haven't got any scales here and those in my lab are in a class-1000 cleanroom (ieutting snus on the scales would be...er, poor form :lol: )

Nevertheless, I suspect a quick calculation will suffice. The tin of scruf stark in my hand is about 6.8cm in diameter and 2cm deep. That's a volume of about 72.6 cubic-cm (=ml) and, for a nominal 50g of snus we can get the density of as-packed snus as about 0.688g/ml. The snus doesn't seem to be packable much more than about 10-20% by volume from its as-packaged state, so let's say after packing you got the density up to 0.8±0.04 g/ml. For a full 3ml pris let's say around 2.4±0.12 grams