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Originally Posted by Spun Lepton
I don't know whether to be more or less creeped out by the revelation of what it really was.
He was probably changing the lightbulb in his basement torture chamber.
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Originally Posted by Spun Lepton
I don't know whether to be more or less creeped out by the revelation of what it really was.
He was probably changing the lightbulb in his basement torture chamber.
Come on, guys. Our general conception of a "smoker" is not someone who irregularly smokes weed. Let's not kill common sense in favor of technical definitions, OK?
My conception of a smoker is someone who points into the air and says with a sly grin: "smooookin'!"
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Originally Posted by monolith94
This. Gimmie a break. I know it's not healthy to smoke pot, but it's not loaded with a smorgasbord of harmful chemicals, and has only a hazy link to the development of lung cancer. There is a world of difference between someone who smokes a pack a day, and someone who irregularly smokes pot.Quote:
Originally Posted by DavidSeven
I, too, have gotten A's on papers that I pulled out of my ass or pieced together from things I read on RT (and D's on papers that I worked really hard at).Quote:
Originally Posted by monolith94
yu na was amazing indeed. there're moments you forgot there's an ice sheet under her feet, and the girl seemed to float over some dreamlike, misty, white object. although i have to say my favorite was mao asada. she's disappointed by her fourth placement, i assumed, but her music interpretation was good as ever.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ashley
I'd say that writing papers for school is one of the most worthless and pointless things I've ever done in my life. In fact I can hardly remember any of the ones I've actually created during my college career, and I doubt any of them have any value whatsoever.Quote:
Originally Posted by monolith94
With the amount of effort it sounds like you put into them, I doubt that's the case.Quote:
Originally Posted by MadMan
As someone who works in a mental health facility, I counsel patients with comorbid mental illness and substance abuse disorders, so unfortunately, I've had to do some tedious reading on the subject. I've read reports it can contain anywhere from tens to a couple hundred different chemicals depending on the plant and preparation process, as well as containing more carcinogenic hydrocarbons than tobacco smoke.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kurosawa Fan
But hey, what do researchers know. Bunch of jerks.*
*(Note: I agree with your closing sentiment.)
When I was in Chefchaouen, Morocco I took a hike up into the mountains to see their pot fields. They treat it like any other crop, except there are no health regulations on it. They have fields and fields of the stuff, I mean literally marijuana plants as far as the eye can see, and they grow it with pesticides. I highly doubt they're conscientiously washing that shit before they send it off to Europe to be consumed, and I also highly doubt that inhaling burning pesticides is good for you. Plus, you never know what the dealer is putting in there before you smoke it, or whose filthy, perverted hands it passed through. So, I guess what I'm saying is that it's a totally unknown commodity. Inhaling carbon based matter in any form is inevitably bad for you though.
I'm trying to think of the number of people who have died due to smoking this particular totally unknown commodity or to diseases caused by smoking this particular totally unknown commodity, and so I can't actually compare it to the hundreds of thousands of people who have died due to smoking otherwise Known Commodities or diseases related to those Known (and Culturally-Accepted) Commodities, but if I could call those facts to mind I totally would do that right about now.
It would be awesome if smoking didn't cause cancer and all that, 'cos then I could go back to doing it.
I like to eat my marijuana.
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Originally Posted by MadMan
Are you bragging about this?
Yeah--with all the technological advancements, why is it that no one has created a healthy cigarette? I know herbal cigarettes exist, but, damn, where's my healthy smoke? I suppose the sheer fact that smoke is being inhaled through your mouth and into your lungs cannot, inherently, ever be healthy. What a shame.Quote:
It would be awesome if smoking didn't cause cancer and all that, 'cos then I could go back to doing it.
I was going to say that this was also my impression: that it can contain a wide variety and number of chemicals/carcinogens/whatnot.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kurosawa Fan
EDIT: I just now realized that I quoted the wrong post. Meant to quote birds's.
Causes cancer too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Duncan
Speaking of illness, let's go to another category, Alex.
How often should one be sick in a given year?
Parameters and vagaries notwithstanding, how often do you think the average person "should" get sick in a given year's span? How often do you get sick in an average year? Is there a threshold for "too sick" or "just sick enough" or would it simply vary too dramatically person to person? I think it would be awfully strange if one person's number of ill days would be "normal" for them but "dangerously high" for another person.
Is it weird that I've been sick for exactly half of one day during the past year that I've lived in Charleston since starting this job? Granted, my allergies make up for flat-out sickness, but my actual ill days seem few and far between.
EDIT: For the sake of obvious clarity, "sick" and "ill" refer to a condition that you didn't cause and that makes you, say, unable to function/work for the day.
I have a superlative immunity system, but I treat my body so poorly with drugs, alcohol and cigarettes. Therefore, I never feel 100%. Surprisingly, I continue, as I'm rather masochistic in my woes about my health.
Sick twice a year where I usually go home early from work, maybe not go in once. Otherwise, just allergies here and there.
And why haven't herbal cigarettes caught on? Do they have a horrible taste?
I only smoke cigars on special occasions, and that's enough for me.
As for writing papers, there's a few I remember. A huge one on Robinson Crusoe and Technology, and the other about a Shot-By-Shot Breakdown of a scene from Unbreakable that came out to 100 pages.
My college papers kicked butt. I had one published, and I have several that I remember proudly.
In fact, I miss writing college papers so much that I'll do little vanity projects like writing ridiculously long scholarly papers about television shows.
This is why some of us...er, I mean some folks...grow their own.Quote:
Originally Posted by Duncan
Yes, and apparently they smell like dung.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ezee E
I often smoke non-additive cigarettes, which have less chemicals but are still not healthy. I'll generally be holding a pack of American Spirit Lights most often--and then, depending on availability, I spread the coughing love around to Nat Sherman Lights, Camels Lights (dangerously filled with smooth, yummy nickel taste! I try to avoid these, although they're in my bag right now), and--if I'm feeling particularly poor--Bugler tobacco (self-rolled).Quote:
Originally Posted by In reference to the Filming of Bridget Jones' Diary
I recently helped a friend edit a paper he was writing on women's suffrage and its relationship to polygamy in Utah. As I was going over it I was like, "Aw, shit, I should've stayed in college." Didn't have much patience for them when I was 19, but I wish I either had the experience or had a reason to write them now.