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Started by Norman, July 02, 2019, 05:33:31 AM

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The Johnny

<<My image in some places, is of a monster of some kind who wants to pull a string and manipulate people. Nothing could be further from the truth. People are manipulated; I just want them to be manipulated more effectively.>>

-B.F. Skinner

Juana

"I dispose of obsolete meat machines.  Not because I hate them (I do) and not because they deserve it (they do), but because they are in the way and those older ones don't meet emissions codes.  They emit too much.  You don't like them and I don't like them, so spare me the hysteria."

Nephew Twiddleton

Strange and Terrible Organ Laminator of Yesterday's Heavy Scene
Sentence or sentence fragment pending

Soy El Vaquero Peludo de Oro

TIM AM I, PRIMARY OF THE EXTRA-ATMOSPHERIC SIMIANS

Doktor Howl

I would be amused by what RWHN things about the vaping "epidemic" screeching that is now in vogue.
Molon Lube

Norman

I bet you would.

chaotic neutral observer

Quote from: Team player on August 31, 2019, 01:33:15 PM
I bet you would.
...and it reappears.  Which means it must have notifications turned on for its own threads, but otherwise isn't interested in this forum.  How... narcissistic.

Narcissism...I wonder if I can work with that.  This might be an interesting experiment.
Desine fata deum flecti sperare precando.

P3nT4gR4m

It's not narcisism, it's fanaticism. His whole life is devoted to convincing the world of a bullshit position. Humans are dumb so his day to day meat and potatoes is probably pretty effortless. He just screeches "The children assets" and the person across the desk freaks out on cue and writes a cheque. However, the law of averages dictates that occasionally, he'll encounter someone who isn't so easily swayed by logical fallacies and hysterical posturing and this makes his life difficult.

So he goes back to his Nancy Reagan shrine and clears his mind by chanting "Just say no" a couple of hundred times then waits for inspiration. Most of the time Nancy is disappointingly silent and so he frets and frets that the assets are under threat but, every now and again, Nancy will speak to him. "How about you say this..."

And suddenly the scripture will be revealed to him as an epiphany - these magic words will sway the doubters. But how to test these words? "Aha," he thinks, "I know just the place!" So he comes back here and we send him back to Nancy with his tail between his legs to weep and wail and ask why she hath forsaken him all over again.

I'm up to my arse in Brexit Numpties, but I want more.  Target-rich environments are the new sexy.
Not actually a meat product.
Ass-Kicking & Foot-Stomping Ancient Master of SHIT FUCK FUCK FUCK
Awful and Bent Behemothic Results of Last Night's Painful Squat.
High Altitude Haggis-Filled Sex Bucket From Beyond Time and Space.
Internet Monkey Person of Filthy and Immoral Pygmy-Porn Wart Contagion
Octomom Auxillary Heat Exchanger Repairman
walking the fine line line between genius and batshit fucking crazy

"computation is a pattern in the spacetime arrangement of particles, and it's not the particles but the pattern that really matters! Matter doesn't matter." -- Max Tegmark

Norman

Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on August 31, 2019, 02:07:09 PM
Quote from: Team player on August 31, 2019, 01:33:15 PM
I bet you would.
...and it reappears.  Which means it must have notifications turned on for its own threads, but otherwise isn't interested in this forum.  How... narcissistic.

Narcissism...I wonder if I can work with that.  This might be an interesting experiment.

No, I don't know how to do that and don't have the patience to figure it out. I've been lurking the whole time, been mostly reading threads in Aneristic whatever it's called, but just didn't come up with anything smart to say so I just read. 

Norman

Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on August 31, 2019, 02:35:52 PM
So he comes back here and we send him back to Nancy with his tail between his legs to weep and wail and ask why she hath forsaken him all over again.

Dude, I've been threatened with death in the middle of a state legislature, people have called my office (despite my office line not actually being published) and threatened.

With respect, I'm a big boy and can handle this forum. 

Norman

Quote from: Doktor Howl on August 30, 2019, 06:28:30 PM
I would be amused by what RWHN things about the vaping "epidemic" screeching that is now in vogue.

But anyway here is my answer:  the screeching is because of a cluster of hospitalizations related to vaping. The CDC is investigating them all to see if there are common links. The only thing for sure that is common is vaping was involved in all cases, but initial reports are there wasn't a common product or chemical being vaped in these cases. So I'm waiting for more information.

But at a minimum, vaping isn't safe guys. Don't let Altria try to fool you into thinking otherwise.  They know things they aren't telling you.  If you vape, yeah, it's probably some degree safer than a traditional cigarette.  But it's probably safer like jumping off the third floor is safer than jumping off the fifth.   

The Johnny


So concerned about the uneducated and vulnerable masses that need guidance, what a hero, risking his life legislating
<<My image in some places, is of a monster of some kind who wants to pull a string and manipulate people. Nothing could be further from the truth. People are manipulated; I just want them to be manipulated more effectively.>>

-B.F. Skinner

Norman

I'm not a legislator. Until just recently I've been barred from partisan office because of the Hatch Act. I am contemplating a run in 2020 or 2022, but who knows.

I am a pretty active public health advocate, but the incident I referred to above was after a press conference at the state house where I spoke about the need for strict regulations after legalization passed in my state.  Someone wasn't happy with me I guess. 

Doktor Howl

I do this because I care.
Molon Lube

P3nT4gR4m

Verbot macht frei :lulz:

I'm up to my arse in Brexit Numpties, but I want more.  Target-rich environments are the new sexy.
Not actually a meat product.
Ass-Kicking & Foot-Stomping Ancient Master of SHIT FUCK FUCK FUCK
Awful and Bent Behemothic Results of Last Night's Painful Squat.
High Altitude Haggis-Filled Sex Bucket From Beyond Time and Space.
Internet Monkey Person of Filthy and Immoral Pygmy-Porn Wart Contagion
Octomom Auxillary Heat Exchanger Repairman
walking the fine line line between genius and batshit fucking crazy

"computation is a pattern in the spacetime arrangement of particles, and it's not the particles but the pattern that really matters! Matter doesn't matter." -- Max Tegmark

Norman

Quote from: Doktor Howl on August 31, 2019, 05:07:14 PM
I do this because I care.

I do this because I'm bored.