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[Q. G. Pennyworth]

Hello, my name is Gogira Pennyworth, and I'm addicted to drug threads.

[East Coast Hustle]

Not me. I can stop any time I want to.

[Eater of Clowns]

I think drug threads are bad and the admins should enact a policy to save us all from their harmful influence.

[Q. G. Pennyworth]

I don't really know when it started. I mean, I'd look at drug threads, sure, but I always thought "that'll never be me, I'm too smart for that." I mean, I understand why some people have problems with it - history of drug use, policy wonks, fuck you my mom died from smoking cracks - but I didn't have any of those problems, I was clean. Sometimes, I'd just go in there and laugh at them for wasting so much time on drug threads. You know, kinda meta-commentary. That's how it starts. Then, well, then I saw this thing, I don't know how to describe it, but it was like I could see their words, not the actual words on the screen but the trajectory of them, and I could see how both sides were missing one another with their volleys, and I thought "hey, I don't care who wins or anything, maybe I could just try to redirect their cannons a little bit so they start hitting each other, that'll be entertaining." And I posted. Not like, substantive posts, not at first anyway. I never talked about actual drug use, I never went that far, but you don't have to. It's insidious like that. Once I realized what I was doing I tried to get out of it but every time I saw a drug thread with unread posts I just couldn't help myself: I HAD to go see what was happening there. Sometimes it looked like maybe it was going to stop being a drug thread, but I guess that's what everyone tells themselves. Everyone who hasn't given up, at least. In the end, I found myself banging out paragraphs of text and hitting f5 like a fucking monkey, hoping that someone would see what I wrote and how very clever I am. That's when I knew I needed help.

[Salty]

I've successfully quit drug threads, and if you follow my 8-week program you can too!

Ever since I quit drug threads I found I don't want to hang out with the same kind of people. Some of the things I used to think of as fun just aren't any more. People who do drug threads just don't know how badly they're fucking up their lives.

Think of all the things you could be doing with your time:
-Skydiving
-Making love
-Avoiding intellectual cowardice

There's a whole WORLD out there beyond the quick high of a snide pot shot.

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

Drug threads are bad for your health. That's what I always heard. But I was curious so I read one. The effects were immediate. Shortness of breath. High blood pressure. Inability to SHUT UP. I thought I could handle it. But I was wrong. Read the threads leads to commenting. Commenting leads to arguing. And it goes down hill from there. I was sucked in and spit out in short order. Now I'm just a shell of my former self.

I urge you, for your health and well-being, just say NO FUCKING WAY! to drug threads.

[Q. G. Pennyworth]

I think, for me, drug threads were a way to avoid shit I didn't want to get into. Like, I'd start thinking about how part of the way we socialize children by gender is the idea of how much you can fuck up before you're "on a bad path" forever and doomed - traditionally we tell girls they have almost no leeway for fuckups and boys have a lot more expectations to be idiots early on and learn from those mistakes, leading to women who are paralyzed by decisions and men who are better at taking risks but don't appreciate the consequences of failure - but it's just SO HARD to get that all out in a way that makes sense and maybe it'll turn into another feminist thread and we all know how well the last one of those went and I don't want to cause any trouble so why don't I just go read the drug thread again, you know, to calm me down a little. It's like contributing. That's what I told myself. Now, now I don't know if I can ever explain how the last few generations of less-gendered childrearing have possibly led to men with the same kinds of problems managing risks as women used to be raised into, and maybe that's partially to blame for all this "manchild" bitching people are doing, because instead of teaching all of our kids it's okay to fuck up now and again as long as you learn from it everyone's stuck on this super crazy narrow path and if you sneeze wrong it's on the no fly list for you and

I'm sorry, I got off topic.

It's so hard to keep my thoughts organized when I keep interrupting them with drug threads.

[The Johnny]

 

Im sure drug threads arent for everyone, but they help me relax after a long day at work.

*f5 f5 f5 f5 f5 f5 f5 f5 f5 f5*

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

                                                          Am I an Drug Threads Addict?

Only you can answer this question.

This may not be an easy thing to do. All through our viewing, we told ourselves, "I can handle it." Even if this was true in the beginning, it is not so now. The drug threads handled us. We lived to view and viewed to live. Very simply, an addict is a person whose life is controlled by drug threads.

Perhaps you admit you have a problem with drug threads, but you don't consider yourself an addict. All of us have preconceived ideas about what an addict is. There is nothing shameful about being an addict once you begin to take positive action. If you can identify with our problems, you may be able to identify with our solution. The following questions were written by two guys in a basement. If you have doubts about whether or not you're an addict, take a few moments to read the questions below and answer them as honestly as you can.

  1.  Do you ever view drug threads alone?    [Yes] [ No]

  2.  Have you ever substituted one drug thread for another, thinking that one particular drug thread was the problem?  [Yes] [ No]

  3.  Have you ever manipulated or lied to a boss, colleage or family member in order to view drug threads?  [Yes] [ No] 

  4.  Have you ever stolen drug threads or stolen to obtain drug threads?  [Yes] [ No]

  5.  Do you regularly view a drug thread when you wake up or when you go to bed? [Yes] [ No]

  6.  Have you ever viewed one drug thread to overcome the effects of another?       [Yes] [ No]

  7.  Do you avoid people or places that do not approve of your participation in drug threads?   [Yes] [ No]

  8.  Have you ever clicked on a drug thread without knowing what it was or what it would do to you?    [Yes] [ No]

  9.  Has your job or school performance ever suffered from the effects of your drug thread use?  [Yes] [ No]

10.  Have you ever been arrested as a result of drug threads?    [Yes] [ No]

11.  Have you ever lied about what or how much you view or post?      [Yes] [ No]

12.  Do you put the viewing of drug threads ahead of your financial responsibilities?   [Yes] [ No]

13.  Have you ever tried to stop or control your viewing or posting?    [Yes] [ No]

14.  Have you ever been in a jail, hospital or drug rehabilitation centre because of drug threads?    [Yes] [ No]

15.  Do drug threads interfere with your sleeping or eating?   [Yes] [ No]

16.  Does the thought of running out of drug threads terrify you?  [Yes] [ No]

17.  Do you feel it is impossible for you to live without drug threads?  [Yes] [ No]

18.  Do you ever question your own sanity?   [Yes] [ No]

19.  Is your drug thread use making life at home unhappy?  [Yes] [ No]

20.  Have you ever thought you couldn't fit in or have a good time without drug threads?     [Yes] [ No]

21.  Have you ever felt defensive, guilty or ashamed about your drug thread use?    [Yes] [ No]

22.  Do you think a lot about drug threads?   [Yes] [ No]

23.  Have you had irrational or indefinable fears?  [Yes] [ No]

24.  Have drug threads affected your sexual relationship?  [Yes] [ No]

25.  Have you ever read drug thread posts you didn't prefer?   [Yes] [ No]

26.  Have you ever viewed drug threads because of emotional pain or stress?   [Yes] [ No]

27.  Have you ever overdosed on any drug threads?        [Yes] [ No]

28.  Do you continue to post in drug threads despite negative consequences?  [Yes] [ No]

29.  Do you think that you have a drug thread problem?   [Yes] [ No]

"Am I an addict?" This is a question only you can answer. We found that we all answered different numbers of these questions "yes." The actual number of "yes" responses wasn't as important as how we felt inside and how addiction had affected our lives.

Some of these questions don't even mention drug threads. This is because addiction is an insidious disease that affects all areas of our lives – even those areas which seem at first to have little to do with drug threads. The different drug threads we used were not as important as why we used them and what they did to us.

When we first read these questions, it was frightening for us to think we might be drug thread addicts. Some of us tried to dismiss these thoughts by saying:

"Oh, those questions don't make sense,"

Or:

"I'm different. I know I visit drug threads, but I'm not an addict. I have real emotional/
family/job problems."

Or:

"I'm just having a tough time getting it together right now".

Or:

"I'll be able to stop when I find the right person/get the right job, etc."

If you are a drug thread addict you must first admit that you have a problem with drug threads before any progress can be made toward recovery. These questions, when honestly approached, may help to show you how drug threads have made your life unmanageable. Addiction is a disease which, without recovery, ends in jails, institutions and death. Many of us came here because drug threads had stopped doing what we needed them to do. Addiction takes our pride, self‑esteem, family, loved ones, and even our desire to live. If you have not reached this point in your addiction, you don't have to. We have found that our own private hell was within us.

"We were searching for an answer when we reached out. We came to our first meeting in defeat and didn't know what to expect. After sitting in a meeting, or several meetings, we began to feel that people cared and were willing to help. Although our minds told us we would never make it, the people in the Fellowship gave us hope by insisting that we could recover. Surrounded by fellow addicts, we realised that we were not alone anymore. Recovery is what happens in our meetings. Our lives are at stake. We found that by putting recovery first, the programme works. We faced three disturbing realisations:

  1.  We are powerless over drug threads and our lives are unmanageable;

  2.  Although we are not responsible for our disease, we are responsible for our recovery;

  3.  We can no longer blame people, places and things for our addiction. We must face our problems and our feelings.

The ultimate weapon for recovery is the recovering addict."

 

[Telarus]

 

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

This thread is the best drug thread thread yet!

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

14.  Have you ever been in a jail, hospital or drug rehabilitation centre because of drug threads?    [Yes] [ No]

[Left]

...I've only been on a few drug threads on other sites...I can QUIT ANYTIME I WANT!

[Junkenstein]

They take you by surprise.

I'd posted in a couple of drug threads in my youth, back when being high made internet access tolerable and you needed something to do while waiting for the modem to connect. I'd line up all my perfect arguments so that no-one could help but sit and be amazed by the wisdom they have encountered by chance.

You start slow. You win one drug thread, so you have to try another to gloat. Before you know it you're homeless and sucking dick for access to wi-fi just to try and get that last word.

I've largely recovered from the ravages of drug threads. I now only use them socially or on weekends. Take my advice though kids, it's better not to start.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Pussies. I can quit anytime I want.  I've only ever been addicted to cigarettes.