Recent content by Old Goat

I just watched another reel about South Africa’s proposed tobacco and vaping laws, and like so many of these videos, it got one part right and then wrapped it in panic. The part it got right? This Bill is a problem. A big one. The part it got wrong? The way it gets presented like it is already...

Right. An article is doing the rounds with the headline that vaping is likely to cause cancer. That is the kind of headline that makes the anti-vape crowd jump up like they have just found the Holy Grail, and makes the vape crowd roll their eyes so hard they can see yesterday. But The Vape...

Aaaarrrgghhh. I did a Google search. All I typed was “vaping kills,” and the AI immediately dropped a steaming pile of half-truth, panic language, and context-free chemical name-dropping onto the screen. Apparently vaping can be deadly because heated aerosols coat your lungs with harmful...

Well, would you look at that. Australia, already the self-appointed headmaster of anti-vape hysteria, has now been handed another stick to beat the entire vaping world with. Etomidate in illegal vapes. Not nicotine. Not a badly labelled custard. Not some scary-sounding flavour chemical...

The latest “big news” in vaping, according to the internet, is that India banned vaping and you can get into real trouble for it. Very dramatic. Also, not new. India banned e-cigarettes back in 2019. That is not breaking news. That is not fresh off the press. That is old news pulled out of...

I am officially sick of popcorn lung. Not the condition itself. Bronchiolitis obliterans is real. It is serious. Nobody with two brain cells and a half-charged mod should pretend otherwise. I am sick of the way the phrase gets dragged out every time someone wants to scare people about vaping...

Brothers. Sisters. Foglords. Dripmonks. Heretics. And those among us who still insist that blue raspberry ice is a personality trait. It has been many months since the Old Goat last ascended the Pulpit of Fog. Some among the congregation began to wonder: Others whispered: And a few...

I like pairing my vape flavour with a beer. Usually a good craft beer. Stouts and dark ale goes well with desert profiles. IPA and sharp fruits go well together.

That happened to me in a hotel in Uganda, but to be honest, I'm not sure if it was my vape or the the after effects from the curry I had the night before.

Small update on the Recoil side of things. I did review the Recoil R3, and as most of you already know, that one became my favourite RDA. Proper old-school soul, modern machining, and the kind of airflow that makes me annoyingly happy. But I never reviewed the Recoil R3 Single Coil RDA. Not...

Let me start this one with a confession. I have tried to get into proper MTL RTAs before. More than once. And every time, I ended up drifting back to my usual habits like a goat finding the hole in the fence. I understand MTL. I get why people love it. I vape pod systems like the Vaporesso...

Let me start this one with a problem. The Blaze SOLO2 RTA by ThunderCloud Creations and Mike Vapes walked into my rotation with a serious handicap. Not because it is badly made. Not because it looks rubbish. Not because the deck is stupid, the airflow is noisy, or the thing leaks like an old...

Alright, herd, let’s talk about the Bonza Pro RTA. I already reviewed this one over on ThunderCloud, but somehow it never got the proper forum treatment. That needs fixing, because this tank has quietly done something a lot of “better on paper” gear fails to do. It stayed on my mod. That...

Alright, this one means a bit more than just another recipe drop. Iron Smile started as an idea from my son, Riku. We wanted to build something cold, sharp, tart and memorable. Not a candy bomb. Not another generic “blue something ice”. Something cleaner and more grown up. Something with...

Alright herd, pull up a chair and listen to an old goat bleat for a moment. Coils, cotton, watts, airflow — that’s all fun. But none of it means a damn thing if the lifeblood of your device — the battery — decides today is the day it turns into a miniature pipe bomb. Let’s talk about the thing...