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Author Topic: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O  (Read 14925689 times)

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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #41430 on: December 16, 2013, 11:03:49 am »

Antibiotics help get rid of the infection faster, anyways.

As to everything else, some people I know are convinced I just don't talk about the "drugs" I've done, because I told them "Never touched em, never will. Barely even drink too".

Got a case of booze from my wedding a few months ago, that is STILL on the porch, just covered in snow now.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #41431 on: December 16, 2013, 12:23:58 pm »

Would your boss allow you to go to work drunk?  No.  What about high?  No.
Should you drive while drunk?  No.  What about while you are high?  No.
Should you be handling heavy equipment or dangerous tools while drunk?  No.  What about while you are high?  No.

I dunno man... seems party hard to figure out the appropriate time to light it up... a little help please?
Probably when you're at home and you don't have work or other obligations to keep up with for the rest of the evening.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #41432 on: December 16, 2013, 12:54:09 pm »

It's the same thing as video games and watching TV.

You don't do it on the job, you do it when you have no obligations and want to unwind.

And those don't even affect your brain in a prolonged sense (I.E. you smoke a joint and you're still high an hour or so later. You turn off the TV and your attention can be almost immediately returned to your tasks. ... Well, if you don't have ADHD anyway *grumble grumble*)
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #41433 on: December 16, 2013, 01:31:42 pm »

Discovered a new wave of spam/scam emails in my spam folder this morning. Wedding invitations asking you to click on them to RSVP.

Now, I know none of them are real because no one I know is getting married in December this year. I mean...I guess it's as effective as anything else, since you're bound to get some people who will get all excited and click on the link. But it was still kind of odd to see.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #41434 on: December 16, 2013, 02:38:50 pm »

I dunno man... seems party hard to figure out the appropriate time to light it up... a little help please?
I tried quitting caffeine, couldn't program for shit anymore. And did you just say "party hard"? Maybe shouldn't post when drunk :D

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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #41435 on: December 16, 2013, 02:53:07 pm »

Pro-drug-use: I think everyone in the whole world should try mushrooms at least once.

I woke up today listening to a RadioLab episode ("Bliss") that had a section about that.

It was interesting. I don't like the thought of something changing my brain around fundamentally, though. That's basically the same thing as death.

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« Reply #41436 on: December 16, 2013, 03:18:47 pm »

I prefer not having my mental capabilities messed with by substances that I am not familiar with and don't know how they work.  Strongest stuff I'll take is caffeine, I won't even take aspirin unless it is absolutely necessary.


In my case, I studied the effects and actions of drugs on human biochemistry before I ever did them. Extensively. Sure, it wasn't in a classroom, but I don't think I've learned hardly anything of use in a classroom, except for how to interact with other people, and a plethora of random facts that will probably never be useful, such as, "Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492."

It was interesting. I don't like the thought of something changing my brain around fundamentally, though. That's basically the same thing as death.


... No, pretty sure death is when your brain stops working entirely. Mind-altering =/= death. Your entire existence is made entirely of the signals of chemicals flashing through your brain all hours of the day. If a different signal comes through, it doesn't mean everything just stops and dies on the spot. It means something different happened. Different =/= death either. It's also not like shrooms entirely change everything about everything in your brain. You are still you, if you choose to be. This isn't some Fineas Gage shit we're talking about here. Nothing shuts down forever, completely altering your personality permanently. People who have used mushrooms usually report that it changed their outlook for the better, and that they are happier on the whole with their lives. I've done mushrooms, and I can tell you that... It's not really any different than it was before. I have a highly enjoyable experience that I can look back on, but that's about it.

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I will agree that some drugs can lead to highly destructive behavior on the part of their users. Most especially methamphetamines, heroin, and cocaine. The vast majority of the time, drugs boil down to sitting around and feeling funny. That's really it. Seriously. I've done pretty much every drug under the sun. I've never gone out and destroyed something just because I was high. I've never hurt someone because I was high. Why? Because that is not who I am, fundamentally, and I am smart enough to not let the excuse of 'I'm high' dictate my behavior. Why do people go out and do shitty things while they're on drugs? Because they wanted to while they were sober, but they were too inhibited to do so. Not because 'drugs made them a bad person'. Drugs gave them a sufficient excuse to go out and do what they might do. Frankly, there is pretty much zero difference between the actions of someone who is drunk and someone who is high, except that being drunk is more culturally accepted.
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« Reply #41437 on: December 16, 2013, 04:14:09 pm »

I'm not particularly learned of drug lore, but I've always been aware that Marijuana has no extra-personal negative effects. It's not even addicting enough to cause someone to run a family bank account dry buying shittons of it, IIRC.

Though on a personal level, the negative effects are exactly what you'd expect from breathing in smoke. It really ought to be legalized in the U.S, or Tobbacco outlawed, since on a societal level they're the same effect; People die of lung cancer. Also, once people start putting rat poison in joints on a mass scale people might start having a more definite reason to not do that shit outside of jailtime, which has surprisingly little effect, it seems.

But I'm going to defer to Hanslanda, who is to drugs what Dumbledore is to magic... And knowing Dumbles, probably some drugs too. (Dumbledore's Ipod is full of this)
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #41438 on: December 16, 2013, 04:45:23 pm »

On a site note, various types of drugs are known to worsen various psychological problems. Mostly, it's merely triggering an underlying genetic condition, but it can trigger entirely new things.

Not that stress and various medicinal drugs can trigger that either, but anyway.

Though on a personal level, the negative effects are exactly what you'd expect from breathing in smoke. It really ought to be legalized in the U.S, or Tobbacco outlawed, since on a societal level they're the same effect; People die of lung cancer.
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« Reply #41439 on: December 16, 2013, 04:47:21 pm »

The lobbyists are every bit as active in the EU as they are in the US, as the defeat of multiple anti-smoking initiatives recently proves.
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« Reply #41440 on: December 16, 2013, 04:58:15 pm »

They do generally have significantly less success in the EU though. Sure, it won't be something that's going to happen tomorrow, but we'll get there, eventually.

Edit: Also sources. Only banned anti smoking thing I could find was the banning of snus, which is more collateral damage than anything. ((The original ban in 1992 was based on scientific facts, which were later proved inconclusive.))
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« Reply #41441 on: December 16, 2013, 05:15:27 pm »

They do generally have significantly less success in the EU though. Sure, it won't be something that's going to happen tomorrow, but we'll get there, eventually.

Edit: Also sources. Only banned anti smoking thing I could find was the banning of snus, which is more collateral damage than anything. ((The original ban in 1992 was based on scientific facts, which were later proved inconclusive.))

The anti-smoking legislation was an enlargement of the disease picture on cigarette packs and heavy restrictions on E-cigarettes. This was in early October.
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« Reply #41442 on: December 16, 2013, 05:16:32 pm »

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« Reply #41443 on: December 16, 2013, 06:37:03 pm »

Today I found out a couple people were shipping me and an acquaintance/friend. Now, I like that guy, and apparently he likes me too (as I was later told by one of those people), but shipping? Seriously? What happened to the good old guy-guy friendship?
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« Reply #41444 on: December 16, 2013, 06:38:31 pm »

Oh god please not this shipping thing again or else-

There. Now you have it. I'm menstruating again.
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