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Having just read the new terms of service I am stumped by a word that I am unfamiliar with.  Just looked it up in a decent English dictionary and cannot find an explanation.  I am wondering if it is an American word.

Can anyone one explain what  a       resistant     is?   It is found in the first paragraph of the new terms.

H

Sorry, that was a typo. It has been corrected. It was supposed to read “registrants”. Thanks for catching that, @ArtChoo

A

Hello @Hitsuzen   I was thinking of investing in an American Dictionary,  you have just saved me a couple of pounds.   You can tell how bored a chap is when he starts reading the terms of service and the small print.

Cheers.

H

@ArtChoo It does seem odd you couldn’t find the word “resistant”, though. It is a word. It was just the wrong word.

N

re?sist?ant [r??zist?nt] ADJECTIVE offering resistance to something or someone: “some of the old churches are resistant to change” ? [more] synonyms: impervious to ? unsusceptible to ? immune ? [more] denoting starch that is not easily broken down by enzymes within the body and is therefore minimally absorbed during digestion. “cooked rice, like bread, contains a useful amount of resistant starch, which acts like fiber in the digestive system”

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@Hitsuzen    @Nicmizer

This is not a pop at the author.

“Snuffhouse membership is limited to resistants aged 18 or over.”  

  This was the first line of the new terms and conditions, before being amended. 

When I typed it in just now    resistants    becomes underlined in red  as a faulty spelling does.

Resistant is in my dictionary but not resistants.          

In either case,  singular or plural,  it didn’t make sense to me.   

I thought it may have been an American word.  

Of late, when I watch modern American News programs I am amazed at the way new words are being created by running two words into one.  It is a shame that I cannot recall any at the moment, but they jar when you hear them.

As for my own English, I know it is atrocious.    I had plenty of red ink comments in my exercise books at school.

The education system was appalling when I went to school.  Lots of the teachers we had were just coasting along, treading water, building up a pension and some running a business on the side. Totally uncommitted to the job in hand.  If you asked them a half decent question, even in the junior school, they often said they would get back to you, but never did.

They thought that they had achieved something if on leaving school, we would be able to read, and add up the figures on a payslip.

I sometimes wonder if WW2 had given us a shortage of skilled teachers. 

Good teachers lost in the violence, or not wanting to go back to their old humdrum routine, seeking more exiting careers on their return home.  

So you see, I never maliciously knock a persons spelling ,grammar etc…  As I think it would be very hypocritical  of me to do so.  

Anyone who has had a decent grounding in English  can very easily knock holes in my writing abilities.

To get that off my chest would probably have cost me a couple of hundred dollars with shrink  in America.

:-@

N

Resistant is a word, resistants is not.

A

@n9inchnails     Exactly.  The original misspelling had the  s at the end and I missed it out on the original post.  I should have typed in resistants   just like the original in The Terms of Service.

I told you my English is rubbish.

It is a good job that we are not in one of the better, internationally renowned universities like Oxford,  Cambridge or Widnes.  Those chaps could debate a simple error like this for days on end.

M

Resistants is futile…

H

Anyways, my apologies. Typo corrected. “Resistants” now says “registrants”.

B

miamimark your borg ing me to death  =))

M

LOL! At least someone got the reference!

C

Nouning* an adjective is totally an American habit though. And if it makes sense, it will in time become a new word. Maybe we are all resistants. After all we are resisting all the anti-tobacco propaganda, the World Health Organization, and all those gov’t agencies seeking to regulate tobacco products out of existence.

*And verbing nouns too!

J

Viva la resistants!

S

If you are 18 or over, then you are welcome to join the snuff guerrilla fighters…

E

I have to resist constantly shoveling snuff up my nose, so I am most certainly a resistant.  

A

@snuffvillain   not sure about being a guerrilla fighter as I have a fur allergy.

P

@ArtChoo besides the guerrilla would probably win the fight 

M

you guys are too punny

A

I would have thought that one of you would have spotted my error on 4th April.

Oxford is a complete dump.

Borrowed from Black Adder goes Forth.

E

You should speak with people here - I lived in Oxford before moving here and no one can understand why.  I’ll send them your way from now on

J

I rather enjoyed my four years at University there. Much better than that dingy place out in the Fens…

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@Justin The original Blackadder sketch used Oxford, Cambridge and Hull as three centres of excellence.

I substituted Widnes for Hull.     Anyone that knows Widnes would understand why.

I hope you are familiar with the original sketch because it does not make any sense otherwise.

By the way  Granada Television in Manchester were going to make  a detective series similar to New York CSI ,    Crime Scene Investigators , or the other American one NCIS . The show was to be filmed and written about crime and forensic investigation in Widnes.

They had to pack the idea in when they found out that everyone in Widnes had the same DNA and no dental records could be found.

:)) =))