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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #72750 on: April 08, 2014, 05:10:41 pm »

It bums me out that some thread-posters seem to occasionally lock a thread in order to control the conversation. They say it's to let the thread cool off so Toady doesn't have to moderate. But how frequently do they lock it immediately after getting one more post in, so theirs is the last word? It makes me wonder if people who want to control the conversation will jump in and post a new thread, letting it grow and flourish, simply because they want to be the one in control later.

I think I just won't participate in any conversations started by someone on my short list of powerhungry passive-aggressive forumites.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #72751 on: April 08, 2014, 05:13:00 pm »

If I'm not on that shortlist, I'll be disappointed.  :P
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #72752 on: April 08, 2014, 05:14:28 pm »

I know this is not the rage thread, but I'm not sure if posting sads caused by your fellow forumites is a very good idea.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #72753 on: April 08, 2014, 05:23:50 pm »

Indeed. It is almost aas bad an idea as countering depression with marijuana.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #72754 on: April 08, 2014, 05:30:07 pm »

Weed makes you kill your brother too.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #72755 on: April 08, 2014, 05:32:38 pm »

If they're caused in the brain, they're deemed by natural selection to be necessary for survival. Anger is drug related. It also causes problems, and shortens life. And I admit, there was perhaps a slight mis-wording in my first sentence, quickly rectified in later lines, however.
So where do you draw the line between 'necessary for survival' and not? Opiate painkillers are helpful for making people not go into shock and also for being able to act as though they're not in crippling pain, but most certainly reduce cognitive capacity.
And then there's anti-depression drugs where the effect is somewhere even less measurable, and don't at all directly increase survivability. Indeed, the only thing they really affect is state of mind to be more beneficial.
Plus there's chemicals in various food products that could be done without but bring on pleasant effects but have negative effects physcial or mental such as high sugar and fat foods, caffeine, and capsaicin.
And yes, all of these things are as addictive as alcohol or marijuana (actually caffeine more so since it's chemically addictive as well) because people can be psychologically addicted to anything enjoyable.

So yeah. That definition of drugs excludes a lot of things.

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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #72756 on: April 08, 2014, 05:40:13 pm »

Caffeine is chemically addictive? That's interesting, I just gone cold turkey on caffeine for the last week due to it being a sub-optimal treatment for a sick stomach after drinking it once or twice daily for the last four years, and aside from mild headaches in the afternoons for the two following days, I'm completely fine. I'm not saying it isn't, just that I hadn't noticed.

And damn, now I'm hoping to find one of those anti-marijuana ads with a warning that a dealer might put some in your heroin.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #72757 on: April 08, 2014, 05:42:29 pm »

mild headaches in the afternoons for the two following days, I'm completely fine.
That was the chemical addiction, and you're pretty lucky.

I get a far more severe version of this whenever I go without coffee for too long. Including waking up with a headache if I sleep in longer than I usually do
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #72758 on: April 08, 2014, 05:55:51 pm »

mild headaches in the afternoons for the two following days, I'm completely fine.
That was the chemical addiction, and you're pretty lucky.

I get a far more severe version of this whenever I go without coffee for too long. Including waking up with a headache if I sleep in longer than I usually do

...I've had that even before I started drinking coffee...
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #72759 on: April 08, 2014, 06:08:11 pm »

You should see italians if you want to talk about coffee addiction. Poor bastards literally cannot function without it.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #72760 on: April 08, 2014, 06:13:18 pm »

You should see italians if you want to talk about coffee addiction. Poor bastards literally cannot function without it.

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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #72761 on: April 08, 2014, 06:27:12 pm »

One needs to remember that Italian coffee is different from all the rest due to being concentrated as hell. I want to see that list with grams of caffeine instead of cups of liquid, then we'll talk.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #72762 on: April 08, 2014, 06:37:20 pm »

It's there. Consumption of kilo of beans.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #72763 on: April 08, 2014, 06:41:00 pm »

Damn I'm stupid.

Well that only means that everything above Italy has it worse.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #72764 on: April 08, 2014, 07:01:25 pm »

It's those long winter nights, you know...
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