h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

My opinion on this is, you can't get physically addicted to pot, but some people can get psychologically addicted (and if it wasn't pot it would be whatever psychostimulant was at hand).

No, the most dangerous part of pot smoking is the acquisition phase. Also, the parents of today mostly recognise the smell...

One ultrasound shot is posted in my journal entry for yesterday at Larkfarm. More will show up on Dana's site, http://www.2frogs.net .

Getting high on pot takes more practice than getting high on more serious drugs. At least, that was my experience. Pot allows you to enter a state of mind that's different than normal. LSD *forces* you into that state of mind.

Speaking hypothetically, of course.

All this talk makes me long for my experiMENTAL days. Hypothetically, of course.

I kind of miss those days, but I also see where a lot of time got wasted, especially time spent under the illusion that I was thinking Great Thoughts. Hypothetically speaking.

Topic, er, Drift -- have non-Yanks heard about the forest fire that was deliberately started as a controlled burn and is now eating Los Alamos, New Mexico?

Greetings all. This looks like a nice group of people to hang out with. Hope you don't mind.

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Topic Drift: Damn! Another peice of American news I'm missing out on! Thank god for the internet...
I heard about that Cuban kid fiasco from the Slayer mailing list, as some of you may already know, and they're still discussing it now (sort of). They're passing on ideas with how to stop immagrents coming to the US...

"The only way to deter illegals from coming to the US is shoot a whole bunch of them when they come from wherever."
...
"Exactly why we should bomb their asses when they get here! Hopefully after a while they will just stay in their sick little countries:
"Hey Juan you gonna take that boatload of worthless s**t eating people to the US?"
"F**k no, Felipe, they will bomb my ass as soon as we hit the 10 mile mark! Them Americans are crazy, huh Carlos?"
"Yeah man (wheels up; leggless)""
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"These are the kind of decisions that REAL asylum seekers have to face."
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"I understand wanting to leave a s****y country, but for f**ks sake, do something good with yourself once you get here!! All these god damned Cuban rafters and Hatians come over here and are either homeless, sell drugs, or rob people."

And I've STILL got 60-odd messages to read!

Pot: A bit of chewing gum sorted out the problem of smelling breath

Yes. The city of Los Alamos is being swept by fire as I write. And apparently there's another fire out of control in the Grand Canyon. At Los Alamos, though, there are assorted US laboratories whose toxic and radioactive substances have had to be stored in underground vaults while the fire rages overhead. The public is being assured that the dangerous stuff is safe. Me, I wonder whether anybody unlocked the doors of the mice and rat cages before the humans were evacuated.

You be optimistic if you think smoke only attaches to your breath, luv. Smoke gets in your hair, the fabric of your clothes (especially wool) and the hand that held the wacky tobacky. On one's first attempt, just about everywhere but the lungs, really.

My fleece was stink-free, and I got Urchin to sniff it! Generally I was surprised, nobody noticed any smells or anything.

Heh, brings me back to the time I last smoked something. Two years back. Cotton wool rolled in paper! I went round to a friends house and had smoke all on my breath

I do hope nothing bad happens to the USA with that fire...or at least the rodents.

Another thing with the Los Alamos fire is that apparently there are a large quantity of "bombs", they haven't stated which kind. That they assure are locked in concrete bunkers with steel door, and will have no problem with the fire.

I tend to get antsy when the government assures me that something will not happen

Yes, that's like when the airline pilot comes on the itnercom and tells everybody that there is no cause for alarm.

The firestorm will spread ash with whatever toxins were lying on the ground. I mean, this is where the first ever A bomb was detonated...

I smoked a pretzel once.

I smoked chamomile tea once.

I smoked coffee grounds once, I also ate them to get the quick buzz

As for things lying around Los Alamos, I wonder what the two headed lizards and other creatures that have grown used to the radiation feel about this.

On a completely different note, I just saw Fat Man and Little Boy again, a great HBO picture about the first atomic bomb testing, Oppenheimer, and the other scientists. I highly recommend it.

I once met a man who smoked chickens. Actually I met him twice, the first time was when I arranged to come back in a week and paint his house. The second time, when I arrived with newly hired help, he looked at me blankly and said "I've never seen you before in my life."

Mike A be warned, you don't know what you're getting yourself into. Stick with the furry experimentation.

On a different tack (literally) I've just received the full account of the trip from NZ to Tonga I was talking about a while back. No sanskrit from the heavens, but not far off.

I posted it at http://pws.prserv.net/planetchris/DalangDU.html and you have to scroll through all the "happy to be travelling" stuff to the last entry - the one with today's date (ish, depending on where you are!)

No s**t!

Warning understood, stragb.

And chamomile doesn't work.

Nor do pretzels... I was desperate.

I don't get how you'd do that though...I mean smoke a pretzel.

The worse thing about experimentation is that it distracts you from what is really important, and that is the accumulation of knowledge.

Ah, but it is experimentation that leads to knowledge. You can't believe anything anyone tells you in this world, so you just have to go out and try it for yourself. (unless the source is the oracle h2g2, of course!)

Then again, I've known more than a few people who spent all their time giggling inanely because they did a bit too much experimentation in one direction. At least it's better than getting shitfaced and aggressive though.

Personally I a) don't see what all the fuss is about, and b) don't see what all the fuss is about.

ie I'd rather not do it, because I can think of far nicer ways of having a good time, but don't see why the law should prevent me if I change my mind

They didn't stop people voting for Thatcher, did they? And look where that got us.

Accepting personal responsibility is the foundation of democracy. Once the state starts dictating that x is acceptable and y isn't, on the rather shaky grounds of the individual's welfare, then the whole basis for givernment by consent is undermined. What you are left with is a bunch of laws, put in place to safeguard the interests of a minority, and enforced without regard for the views of the majority.

Where does that leave "government of the people, for the people, by the people"?

I'm sure I've heard that before. Am I repeating myself?

I'll shut up.

Finished work at 14:45 and got paid for a full day. I love my new boss!

OK, shower time. Bring on the nubiles! (More fun than drugs anyday!)