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This thread is for the discussion of "Drugs".
No, this thread is not for coming online and telling everybody about that ounce of Ganja you just bought, but is more of a place for everybody to discuss thier views on drugs. And i use the term drug lightly, and only because it is a term everybody will understand; Personally, i believe some natural remedies and plants should not have been blacklisted as a evil substance, just because it can change your perception and give you another way to understand somthing. Yes, if used wrongly, or too often, these plants and remedies become drugs. However, with proper control and legalisation, the amount of these plants and remedies avaliable to the public would be limited. If you are buying slightly illegal substances from a "Dealer" then the amounts of the "Drug" you purchase are restricted only by your self restraint and the content of your wallet.
This topic is open to everybody, regardless of if you have experimented with drugs or not. This thread is simply a place to voice your opinions on this rather Taboo subject.
drugs produced legally are usually automated and on a large scale so it's harder to spot a mistake (granted it's harder to make a mistake as well) whereas illegal production has to be a lot more discrete which usually means smaller operations where it's not as easy to automate but it's easier to spot a mistake and at the end of the day you want to make a profit, you don't want customers ending up dead.
I'm trying to say that illegal drugs are in any way safer than legal/medical drugs, I'm merely saying that with drugs in general they're never going to be 100% safe no matter where you get it from
*I'm NOT trying to say
>>153
It's probably better that way.
We've moved on from smoking, now it's illegal drugs and their safety vs prescription drugs and their safety, plus the funding of drug lords and crime. Headache.
But what about production costs? Marketing? What about people who decide to make a bit more cash by selling it to minors? What about the drug dependant culture you could create? Would people become addicted? With addicted people in the country how would it be possible for us to move forward. If parents take it at home and is the norm kids will try it because they can easily reach it too. If people decide to speand more money on drugs rather than there wage then there would be an increase in crime because you need to up the doses to get the same hit you did to start with eventually you'd reach a point were you couldn't afford it so you would steal. With parents out of it kids would go hungry. There would be an increase in crime really. It wouldn't be happy at all it would be worse.
yeah I might just go now, catch up on this thread later
night night guize =D
You've just described the problem with alcohol.
You don't get alcohol on the NHS like you were saying drugs should be.
Which is even worse, because it doesn't have to have the same tight regulations.
I'm sorry, but I do not truely believe that drugs should be completely legalised, but you yourself, have pointed out all of the problems with alcohol, and and LASER has shown that prescriptive drugs are not as safe as they would seem. I do not deny that some people do awful things on drugs, but more people do awful things when drunk.
Everything in this life will damage you in some way or another, from eating unhealthy to snorting coke. It's a fact of life now; why not just enjoy yourself and let others do the same? Even if it's not in the same way.
Plus.
On the cannabis front.
Have you ever seen a bunch of men with spliffs beating the shit out of some poor bloke whos lieing on the floor bleeding?
Now reverse that image, and replace spliffs with bottles of beer.
You know, I look through the list of threads and there are a few which ask questions like what's your nationality, what are your problems or what do you think of X? Originally for this thread I was going to ask Who Believes in God? But then I thought: that's going to exclude a whole lot of people, which I don't want because I'd like everyone to have a word in this, so, whether Christian or not, here we can talk about God :)
I know, He's a big deal (pun intended :p) to talk about and loads of people might get very hot-headed about this kind of subject, as it is very deep to say the least. But I'm hoping there'll be polite and reasonable comments here anyway, please.
I'm not intending for there to be any rants here (you know, like those extremists - no offense to them - who like to shout at people about God), because it's not pleasant for everybody else and it's not a great way to have a conversation. And that's what I really want: a conversation, that's easy-going, thought-provoking and inclusive. Everyone's welcome to say their thoughts, and, well, even start an argument (provided that it doesn't involve insults and swearing!). shrugs How can there not be arguments? (Provided again that they're respectful to others) And it's interesting to hear people's opinions.
I'm a Christian myself (no duh) and I'm just curious about the amount of other Christians on ff.net too, as I rarely find any outside of church. But it feels really great when I discover one on ff.net and it comes as a surprise to me heh.
I know my opinion is going to be controversial and a lot of you will be against it and wonder how I can be such a monster but it has too be said I don't see what's wrong with that Utah bill.
I don't belive abortion should be used as a method of birth control. I think if someone has been raped or it will harm the mother and if the baby will be born to a live in pain they should be allowed. Special cases basically but if a woman has gotten pregnant without taking precautions and can support the baby then I think it's wrong. The babies feel pain during abortion. I don't think anyone should feel pain for someone elses mistakes.You can have an abortion at 24 weeks. Baby have been born and survived healthly at 22 weeks. At the very least the time you can have an abortion at should be put back to a date where the baby can't feel pain.
god does not exist. it is just a story that people tell us
Sorry. I'm stupid. I don't agree with the death penalty and serious jai aspect of it.
I can see your point, your a lot smarter than me, and your probably right but I still think abortion at a stage where the babies feel pain is wrong. It's not a method of birth control. Abortion also messes up the body.
I guess what I'm trying to say is I think woman who have multiple abortions as a form of birth control is wrong.
I'm not saying that it is. I appreciate that every case is diffrent.However you have to admit that some women do you it as a form of birth control when they could in fact look after the baby or take precautions. I never said or think that it's killing babies for giggles. I know that it can be quite a moral dilema involved. I'm not against contraception or anything like that. I think it should become more widely available and of course I think it should be an option but I do object to woman where it isn't there first abortion and they haven't taken precautions to keep save and that the age of when the fetus can be terminated should be cut back from 24 months to around about 18 where the baby won't feel pain.
Everything is worth discussing.I know they are rare but they still exist. I think abortion should have a later date and at least a restriction on the number you have not just because of the culture but because of the harm it does to the body. Many woman who have had an abortion have trouble convieing because of the damage done to there cervix.
People should just be more open about it. How many late abortions happen because people are scared and ashamed if there was more information on contraception other than the obvious.
I'm going to say it again though I'm not against abortion but belive that the maximum age to terminate the fetus should be reduced.
@swiftswallow
I totally understand what are you saying.
but I have just a question. what if a woman has a hook up gets pregnant because she was stupid enough not to take protections, then because of the law that makes abortion illegal, she gives birth to the kids, but she ends up hating it because it destroyed her perfect career, her social life, her image. how this child will grow up? it's own mother hates it to death. probably abuse it. what kind of person that child will grow up to be? maybe another society monster.
humanity goes forward, banning abortion makes go backward, Countries and states should try to EDUCATE their kids first before banning things, because what ppl lack is the knowledge of things.
Answer the question, then ask your own.
Would you rather go without chocolate for a month, or have every Christmas song on the radio replaced with Miley Cyrus, Jonas Brothers and HSM?
hhmmm animal's lung. I think fish would be smelly after a while.
would you rather have an ice cream at the coldest day[like -25C or a heavy alcoholic drink[lets say vodka] at the hottest day[like 45C under shadow[a typical July day in Greece]]
Heavy alcoholic drink on the hot day - then I can just pass out in the heat =]
Would you rather have a million pounds or a million friends?
Ice cream - it would probably taste warm compared to how cold you would be.
Would you rather sit through a day of physics or chemistry lectures?
I don't do art - but with regards to writing I would rather love what I do and never publish, than hate what I write just because it conforms to what readers want.
Would you rather give up your favourite food forever, or have to eat it every day for the rest of your life.
Give up my favourite food forever. I would get sick of eating macaroni cheese everyday.
Would you rather be a recognised crimefighter with no powers, or a superhero who works in the shadows/unfamous but with powers?
Would you rather get a detention for swearing in class or a detention for skipping a lesson???
>>357 Superhero who works in the shadows. Yes, I want to be Batman.
Imagine you stole the Mona Lisa. Would you rather keep it in your house or sell it?
That's a toughie. I would keep it for a little while, but probably sell it in the end - I'm sure somebody else would appreciate it a million times more than I would.
(And I'm not suprised that you would prefer to work in the shadows Lupa. Who DOESN'T want to be Batman?)
Would you rather be pulled up on stage at your favourite bands concert or crowd-surf at the same event?
Or is it just me?
I think that people are going overboard with Twilight in England
It's all anyone talks about! It's starting to get annoying
>>177
Well, Meyers wolves were nothing to do with moonlight, because in the last book she stopped calling them Werewolves and made them Shapeshifters instead.
bangs head on wall And she is PAID to write that... I want to be paid for all the stuff I've written too! flails
Hum. Yeah, Elkkun, I know that... It would be cracky though... you know like: after the werewolves and the vampires... Mermaids Meyer Style.
Hum, sorry, my mind and its random ideas.
Ghosts would be... material.
Headless Nick slams into the wall What the...?!
Bloody Baron: We are material now. And Muggles can see us.
Headless Nick: In short, we are humans again?
Bloody Baron: Apparently. But there's worse: Peeves is actually NICE!
Though Shapeshifters do exist. But how can you publish something before changing everything at some point? Don't the fans see it?
They did, some fans were turned off by the last book. Many, however, use the old "its her story she can do what she wants!" OR "Its only a book, what does it matter?!" >:(
It's a very lazily written book, which, after the anti-feminism, is the thing that angers me. There are so many brilliant authors out there who research their books, work really hard, struggle with a lack of funds, maybe working two or three part time jobs all while writing this novel, spend years writing, when Meyer bangs out a peice of crap in 6 months, and yet she and her fans can't stand any criticism.
>>180 material eh? Sounds painful for the nearly-headless Nick ^^' haha yeah I'd love for her to warp Mermaids, Harry Potter did a fine job of that (:. Then again, in a possibly AU and it being set in a magical place and in a challenge I suppose it makes sense for the Merpeople to be vicious.
>>181 If it's only a book then why do you get so worked up over it? That is my question to the people who say that ¬_¬.
I know ;-; I bet the Twilight fanfics are better -doesn't really wanna read any incase of major eye-bleeding.-
Meyerpyres
Meyerwolf
Meyergeist
and a Mermeyer...-laughs- what about fairies then?
NO, she can't have the fairies! NOT THE FAIRIES!
Eoin Colfer already got his hands on them...but unlike that (stream of bad words) Meyer he actually made them badass and likeable.
Besides, she made the vampires sparkle, she'd probably make the fairies bloodthirsty cannibals that eat children's teeth or something like that ¬_¬
lol, and she'd give dragons rainbow breath instead of fire, and carebear hearts, flying around the skies saying 'hello' to all the beautiful banshee's dancing on clouds...
...clouds made of candy floss and children's laughter...
nooooooooooo trolls are from the first harry potter actually loser.
@anon- nd dose trllz nt cleva. If u were tryin irony, it wasnt funny enuff.
Hm, luks lyk sumbdy needs trollin lssns. Wel den...
Lssn 1: troll ppl who care.
No pt callin me a loser, cuz i dnt care, so dnt wayst ur tym sayin it. Go on a pro-choice site an say ur sis was possessed by her aborted kid's ghost an 1 of da ghostbusters died in da exorcism.
Use insults dat really hit a nerve. 'Losers' iz 2 general. Dont maek ppl sad, but maek em mad. Wierder insults r betta. Sayin 'fat' or 'ugly' is jsut borin; troll in a way u can show 2 otha ppl 4 lulz. Say u fink sum1 types lyk ur ingrown toenayl. den sit bak an watch da replies. Remember, trollin iz 4 lulz. If u ain't bein funny, u fail at trollin. Read ova ur posts hear. If u fink uve been funny, ur 2 easily amused. Up ur game.
i wanna call u by your real name..............................
which is loser. i am so sorry i haven't called u that enough and i dont want to go out with u any more
>>42 Honestly i dont think that troll could ever bother anybody here. I kind of find it amusing to be honest :P
omg...Anonymous is so lame the other trolls are bitching at him or her...low...
>>43,agreed. As the polah bears thread proves, people tend to either ignore or play along.
If by 'go out' you mean 'go outside and hang out' then OK
If by 'go out' you mean 'date' then No. XD
I find it funny that two Trolls are arguing with each other...Rare sight to see.
Ok, Anonymous, here's the thing. You haven't explained yourself properly on here, which is why everyone's being like this. And you didn't even mention a rough, round about area where you'd be willing to go, considering the name of the thread, no location is just retarded. Not that anyone here would be likely to go anyway, but that's beside the point.
Also, if you look on the left hand side of the screen, there's a button which says 'Offline Meetings'. That's where you should really put a thread like this.
I wish you luck in your search for friends, or whatever, but to be honest, it's not looking good for you.
>>47 Don't advise that! We need to contain the spread of the Anonymouses (anonymice?), not spread it to the other sections! Besides, the Anonymice are fighting. It's funny.
Besides, this is a nameless, genderless troll. Are they really going to have checked the road signs on the way down from loonyland?
Do you have a problem and want to talk about it?
-tell me in confidence, i will try my best to answer
x
Thanks Tristana. I was just wondering if anybody with experience in the subject (people like yourself) had any tips they could give me, so what you said was helpful. I'm going to go and see a career's adviser next monday anyways, but I appreciate your feedback ^^
Oh, that was me just now. I'm on my brother's PC and I forgot to type my name in.
Heh, no prob. I don't know about actual experience.
Again, I just went by what my mother once said: Study what you want and if it goes wrong, you still can apply for an apprenticeship.^^
You're most welcome though. (Which other studies would you take if not medicine?)
Well, experience is experiance, no matter how you look at it!
Um, well, I'm not entirely sure. I can only really work with whatever subjects I've taken this year, so anywhere in science is my best bet. But, even then, I still haven't found anything that really appeals to me/stands out from the other study choices. I still have another year at college before I head off to uni though, so it's not like I'm pressed for time... yet.
You know, I knew in which Uni I would apply quite early but I chose my second subject when I applied. (I had no idea that I could have taken Japanese, learned it when I applied.^^)
And a lot of things can happen in one-two year/s.
Even if it can't be called advice, it's at least an honest opinion and useful so thank you anyway.
But yes, I've got a while yet to think long and hard about it before I go making any decisions, seeing as I will most probably change my mind at some point. In fact, for the last few weeks, I've had the idea of being an Army medic running through my head (now that you mention the Navy) and I thought I could do that for a few years before settling down a bit more and becoming a regular doctor/nurse/pen-pusher.
RayRay, you said that your considering joining the Navy, correct? Well, I'm not entirely sure what it takes to get an engineering-based career within the Navy, but you'll probably have fighting chance... (based on my limited knowledge of what engineering comprises of.) They could probably use people like you ^^
hello people, i am back again my fine ugly enemies, i dont really understand why you lot actually exist u r freaks
hello people, i am back again my fine ugly enemies, i dont really understand why you lot actually exist u r freaks
Just somewhere to put them all
Like the site, it looks a little boring without the professional website look to it and washed out colours, but it's still good. :D
OMG people are talking about me!
Lol. Hi anonymous(es)(and everyone)
I want to sing, but I cant and I h8 singing, but I've got a song in my head, so I wanna sing.
Lol, I'm just being random. I like being random. I'm a random person. I don't really like Teusdays (in case anyone was wondering)
i am an anomous
Nice spelling you got there, 'anomous'.
i am an anomous and i can spell it how i like cos i am not a normail anonymous u toad faced fish brained loser
Thanks for the compliment.
>>32 toad faced fish brained loser...How about I call youuu~
Fish-faced toad-brained trollish loser? :D FFTBTL for short.
@36 Elkkun, don't you think you are being a bit mean to the poor anonymous? I know him, he is in my class at school and we are going out at the weekend. He goes on fanbbs loads at school.
I think you people are being mean to him.
Apparently in the UK alone there are over 500'000 autistics.
Well, I have Aspergers and so far haven't met anyone else who has autism.
Anyone else who writes fanfics and is autistic, or knows someone who is?
My little brother has aspergers and he gets bullied quite a bit because of it. It's a bit better now though because he's moved up to my school so I'm constantly looking after him. He has trouble understanding jokes so if he's watching something that I laugh at he'll laugh constantly because he thinks he should find it funny.
>>12 'I have Asperger's Syndromes. I find it very hard to tell when someone is joking with me or been sarcastic. I've been told that I sometimes look rather emotionless and have repetitive, sometimes obsessive behaviour.'
I'm a little like that; I mean, nothing's been diagnosed, and so I don't want to sound like an emo, self-diagnosing freak, but I miss so much sarcasm, and I've always had very awkward social skills... I do suspect I have Asperger's.
My 2nd son has Aspergers...so I know exactly what your saying :)
He is currently studying computer sciences and game design/programming at college. He was lucky to be diagnosed at 11, and so has had help with communicating all through high school. I know about the sence of humour, etc. Mock the week and Lee Evans is his fav comedy as well. Anything 'arty' (such as "The Office") has no chance.
Does anyone here have travel problems? My son tends to forget where to get off when travelling on the bus, hates any strangers sitting next to him. I travel everywhere with him, which can be a strain at times but I wouldnt have him any other way, I love him to bits :):):)
Wow, a mother. I sometimes forget that Fanfiction encompasses all ages. I can forgive myself though, what with the large presence of fanboys and girls at Expos.
It's good to know that there are families out there that have the love and support available to them. I know families who have members on the spectrum, and they're shunned at times. It's quite sad to see, considering their behaviour is staring me right in the face.
Being autistic, you tend to meet other similarly disabled people. You also tend to notice the symptoms easier, because those symptoms are very familiar.
Indeed, the subtle humour that stems from comedies like The Office, which is more situational comedy than satire, flies over my head and that of some friends. However, bizarrely, I understand The Royle Family easily.
I don't have travel problems, but I do tend to forget what I'm doing a lot. This can be a problem if I'm on the London Underground. I sometimes take the wrong direction because I'm used to going left at the other station. Oh, the irony.
Yes,my son tends to forget what hes doing as well. Before he was diagnosed we just use to call him "Our Craigy with his head in the clouds." The diag did nothing to change this, it just gave a name to something the rest of our family already knew :)
I have autism, and have an account on FF dot Net
if you find my stories and think their crap, don't blame me, if you luike them then please review
Has anyone in this thread come across the site Wrong Planet (www.wrongplanet.net)? It's a hangout for those with autism or Asperger's, created by a guy with Asperger's, although NTs (Neuro-Typicals, or 'normal' people with typical brains) are also welcome there. It's a fun site and I hang out there on occasion :3
I'm not autistic and I don't have any friends in the UK who are, but I have an internet friend from New Zealand who is, as well as her brother and sister. On the internet, that is on forums and over MSN, she seems pretty normal apart from sometimes being a bit pedantic and over-literal. When I first met her she said she didn't do well in group conversations online, but I think she gradually got used to those, and if she hadn't actually said she was autistic I doubt I would have known.
In various articles that I've read, people are calling the internet the equivalent, for autistics, of sign language for the deaf: a form of communication which opens up endless possibilities and puts them on an equal footing with 'normal' people with regards to conversation. What do y'all think of that idea?
>>19 I haven't been there yet, but I might check it out :)
Equal footing with 'normal' people? Why do I not like the way they say that? It males it seem like autism is form form of disease, though I've never though of it like that...more of something that people should easily accept and adapt to. I met an autistic on a school trip, and I can say with anger that his school mates teased him rather badly for it. Luckily he got support from one of the teachers, but like all bullying it made my blood boil.
I did a little research, and apparently Aspergers is the reason for my poor handwriting, abnormally loud voice and low intonation, my habit of talking endlessly about the same topic for ages and why I have such a big interest for secondary characters on TV shows. Kind of strange, but hey :P
I know a girl with Aspergers. She was in my class up until recently, where she was always teased and ganged up on. Me and my best friend always defended her and we were (and still are) her only friends. We made her feel more accepted, and I learnt how to make her laugh.
Now, though, she's moved to spain with her mum, because her mum wanted to get away from her dad. She really misses it here with me and my friend, but she says it's ok because she has a cute, male, spanish-to-englsih translator to be her friend! :)
wot is aspergus
Music festival season is fast approaching us.
So I was wondering, what festivals are people going to this year? Or which ones do they wish they were going to?
I should be at Download and Sonisphere this year, and maybe Isle of Wight and Lovebox if I can get the time off and the money together.
NASS, I'm going if I can find another job
I'd go to Sonisphere, but the mates I was going with pulled out. Damn.
I wish to Hell, or something similar that I could go to Download, however, I'm far too poor.
The closest thing happening to me this summer will be the MCM Expo, but that doesn't really count, does it?
I might be going to download if I can muster enough cash. So, until then, I must work my bum off.
>>5 You can't really count the MCM expo and a 'music festival'... But, if it makes you feel better, I'm going too.
...Geez, I'm going to be so poor by the time summer ends.
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I COWER BEFORE NO MAN!
Do you think Sparkly is '...' in diguise???
>>10 eh, they don't have the same IP....could be though...
SHOW YOURSELF >:|
Don't you mean ID? Anyway, ID is different in each thread isn't it? So unless '...' shows up here now today we'll see if Sparkly's ID matches with '...''s I just think it's her because she seems to like being random this way, looking at another random thread. And its title's nature.
Also the fact that they both somehow..........Troll expertly. In a funny manner XD
Elipsis is a funny Troll and we love him/her XD
A mystery surely. Doesn't anyone know '...''s real penname? I'm very curious. At least there are some trolls out there who can spell and express themselves clearly.. I think I just complimented a troll, woo.
Eh, Elipsis is a very good Troll and deserves the compliments for it. Honestly. They put all the other Trolls o nthis webbie to shame.
Nope, their name is unknown. As is their gender. However I know that they love Iaculus. XD
Maybe it's because Iaculus is male and they're both female ;p That's my guess. Oooh, a love triangle on fanbbs . net! How exciting! ~said in a kidding way~