On the rise and fall of empires (or, "What goes up must come down")

[East Coast Hustle]

Once there was a forum called PD.com, and in this forum there was a thread about drugs. Everybody screamed and yelled and there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth, but nobody ever changed anybody else's mind and the continued drawn-out fiasco slowly degraded the general atmosphere of the forum until everybody was beaten, broke, and weary and walked around with slumped shoulders and furrowed brows and even though everybody KNEW that all hope was lost and everything was fucked forever, they still couldn't tear themselves away form the spectacle long enough to turn their flagging energies towards something constructive. Eventually the forum regressed into lawlessness and anarchy, social disorder on a massive scale became the norm, and disease and famine became familiar friends to the denizens of the formerly great PD.com. A thousand years later, a forum that considered itself far more advanced and enlightened unearthed the remains of PD.com and refused to learn any of the painfully obvious lessons presented to them, and they too eventually fell victim to the same cycle.

Sound like a fucking familiar story, Romans Americans?

[Juana]

Maybe.

[Freeky]

 

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Until I am killed by a pyroclastic cloud when Mount Lemmon unexpectedly - and against all known science - turns out to actually be a volcano, I will curse the name of everyone who restarts that Goddamn conversation.

I can't fucking stand it.  It's like watching lemmings go berserk from shit-tick infestations, charging into the BOTTOM of the cliff, over and over again.  It's like watching the Titanic back up for another run at the iceberg.  It's like watching Einstien chew on paint chips.

The ONLY person I don't hate because of that thread - and I include myself - is PGIII, who somehow wrestled WIN out of the jaws of the foaming, drooling, lobotomized beast that PD.com has become.

So just SHUT UP.  All of you.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

FUCK.

102 pages.

If someone finally decides to talk about something else, someone give me a call.

[Kai]

I hope I am not the only person who has been ignoring that thread.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I hope I am not the only person who has been ignoring that thread.

I have bad news for you.  It's the crack cocaine of PD.   

Everyone fucking hates it, but nobody can leave it the fuck alone.  Myself included.

OOOOOOOK!

[East Coast Hustle]

I hope I am not the only person who has been ignoring that thread.

Actually, yes.

JOIN US.

JOIN US.

[East Coast Hustle]

I hope I am not the only person who has been ignoring that thread.

I have bad news for you.  It's the crack cocaine of PD.   

Everyone fucking hates it, but nobody can leave it the fuck alone.  Myself included.

OOOOOOOK!

this also fits in perfectly with my "PD drug threads as Roman or American end-game politics" metaphor.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Best part is, SCIENCE changes every page, depending on whom the facts agree with.

YOU'LL LOVE IT!  YOU'LL LOVE IT FOREVER!

[The Good Reverend Roger]

ECH, word filter "drugs" to "Roger's Gonads" or I will commit a terrorist act.

[Kai]

I hope I am not the only person who has been ignoring that thread.

Actually, yes.

JOIN US.

JOIN US.

For serious? I have better things to do with my time than rehash old arguments. So do you guys.

[East Coast Hustle]

I hope I am not the only person who has been ignoring that thread.

Actually, yes.

JOIN US.

JOIN US.

For serious? I have better things to do with my time than rehash old arguments. So do you guys.

Speak for yourself. I'm 300+ miles offshore running on 4 days of no sleep. It's either this or take an impromptu swim call.

And what do YOU have to do that's so important?

Join us.




JOIN US.

[Forsooth]

I hope I am not the only person who has been ignoring that thread.

I stopped reading it after 5 pages.

[Freeky]

I'm just in there waiting for the newest installation of horrible porn.