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[Fniff]

It's so common in Ireland that it has it's own theme song!

[Owlbread]

It was very popular in the early 70s in Scotland when Jim Murphy was growing up. It's less common nowadays but I think some young kids do it still.

But this is a perfect example of a Scottish politician trying and failing to appeal to the working class vote - basically, he and Nicola Sturgeon and a few other party leaders were asked if they ever smoked cannabis when they were younger. Nicola Sturgeon said yes, but Jim Murphy, trying to portray her as a rich kid or something, said something along the lines of "oh well drugs were hard to get in the scheme where I was growing up, but the dreadful, harmful thing we had was sniffing glue out of crisp packets" etc. Sturgeon and the interviewer both asked Murphy if he ever did it and he laughed and said "I can't remember".

Lo and behold, the flurry of headlines this morning in the Scottish press about Jim Murphy sniffing glue out of crisp packets (for American readers, empty potato chip packets).

[nenjin]

It's so common in Ireland that it has it's own theme song!

Classiest song ever.

[notquitethere]

I remember kids huffing glue in bags in one school I went to in London in the 90s; at the time I had no idea what they were doing but now looking back...

Storm. Teacup.

[SirQuiamus]

It was very popular in the early 70s in Scotland when Jim Murphy was growing up. It's less common nowadays but I think some young kids do it still.

But this is a perfect example of a Scottish politician trying and failing to appeal to the working class vote - basically, he and Nicola Sturgeon and a few other party leaders were asked if they ever smoked cannabis when they were younger. Nicola Sturgeon said yes, but Jim Murphy, trying to portray her as a rich kid or something, said something along the lines of "oh well drugs were hard to get in the scheme where I was growing up, but the dreadful, harmful thing we had was sniffing glue out of crisp packets" etc. Sturgeon and the interviewer both asked Murphy if he ever did it and he laughed and said "I can't remember".

Lo and behold, the flurry of headlines this morning in the Scottish press about Jim Murphy sniffing glue out of crisp packets (for American readers, empty potato chip packets).

Of course he can't remember -- that's what inhalant abuse does to you.
Also, "packet" = "bag?"

[wierd]

Now I am curious just what kind of glue they used for this..

Rubber cement?
Superglue?
...Mucilage?
Perhaps silicone?

I cant shake this mental image of kids squirting a bunch of glue into a paper bag, then doing the "Hyperventilation thing", then passing out with googly eyes.

[smjjames]

Isn't mucilage a body fluid and not a glue?

I was kind of thinking just regular glue that you use in school, Elmers glue for example.

[Teneb]

Isn't mucilage a body fluid and not a glue?

I was kind of thinking just regular glue that you use in school, Elmers glue for example.

Usually it's the kind of glue used to mend shoes. No idea on the official nome of that stuff, though.

[wierd]

Mucilage is used to bind leather, (as in shoes), and also to bind paper products together-- such as old fashioned envelopes and stamps.

It has a few other uses as well.  You can still buy it. Elmers makes a mucilage based glue.

[Owlbread]

Of course he can't remember -- that's what inhalant abuse does to you.
Also, "packet" = "bag?"

Yes indeed, I should have said. A crisp packet is like an empty bag of potato chips.

I remember kids huffing glue in bags in one school I went to in London in the 90s; at the time I had no idea what they were doing but now looking back...

Storm. Teacup.

It's a lot of fuss over nothing, but I did find something about it hilarious.

[scrdest]

Storm. Teacup.

Storm Teacup sounds like an upcoming indie act.

[Graknorke]

It's so common in Ireland that it has it's own theme song!

I prefer the video where they open up with that not gay nightclub thing.

[notquitethere]

Storm. Teacup.

Storm Teacup sounds like an upcoming indie act.

They're headling alongside Mountain. Molehill.

[scrdest]

Storm. Teacup.

Storm Teacup sounds like an upcoming indie act.

Or progressive metal band.

Storm Corrosion already is one (Steven Wilson + Mikael Akerfeldt), so accusations of ripoffery ahoy!

[Owlbread]

I know Russia is mostly off limits these days, but I have to hear from my good friends in Russia - how's Putin doing? The UK tabloids are putting out stories about Putin disappearing and the possibility of a coup. Apparently the Israeli ambassador to Russia said there were "signs of a coup". What's going on?

There's all kinds of crazy stories going around about the security services and oligarchs...