[OT] Is it just me?
Yowie
of different bubble wrap, and it was all *mine*. It nearly broke my heart to
have to throw nearly all of it away (I can't use up half the volume of my
shared office with bubblewrap) but I did take *great* delight in stashing as
much as I could away, and take a strangely sensuous pleasure in squeezing
and then climatically popping them, one by one.
A woman at work caught me popping and said scornfully "even my 12 year old
thinks thats childish".
And then, there's the puddles. Cary reminded me of how much fun they are to
splash in. There are two alsmot permanat puddles on the way to work, one I
drive through, one I get to walk through. I drive through the drivable
puddle with the aim of splashing it the highest. I get a thrill just going
"Swooooooosh" through it, bet get an extra bit of satisfaction if I get the
spashes higher thant he last time. And with the walking puddle, it snto so
deep its worth spalshing, but I always check to see how many footprints I
can leave behind.
Another co-worker said I was being weird.
I had cat-posters (and polar bear posters and other posters again) all over
my old office. "It looks like a teenagers bedroom" my old boss observed,
"its not exactly professional" but I couldn't take them down - the walls
were so *boring* otherwise.
My manager wondered why on earth I was colouring in a picture yesterday.
"oh, just for fun" I said."So, you didn't draw it yourself?" "no, just
adding colour" "isn't that just colouring in?" he said, in a disparaging
way. "Well, I guess you could call it that" I had to reply. "You shouldn't
be doing that here" was all he had to say, despite it was my lunch hour and
I wasn't disturbing anyone, with the intonation suggesting that he thought
it was very "beneath" a grown up.
And then, worst thing of all, I got "busted" sucking up the remains of my
milkshake with a good solid "slurp" in the canteen today. They just shake
their heads at me.
There are other examples, many many other examples (like yelling 'moo' at
cows, or sitting on the floor crosslegged rahter than standing up), but they
all fit the same basic pattern. And people look at me strangely every time
they catch me doing one.
Doesn't anyone understand the concept of good clean simple fun anymore? Its
not like popping bubble wrap means I have the mental capacity of a 5 year
old, spalshing pauddles does't mean I am goign to throw a great tantrum in a
team meeting, and slurping the last of a milkshake means - well - I like
milkshakes? have I missed the boat somehow or do people chose to be boring
old farts voluntarily?
I may have to get older, but no-one can make me grow up! (so ner!)
Yowie
I think I need my purple hat now
jXwXeXr...@sonic.net
> Doesn't anyone understand the concept of good clean simple fun anymore? Its
> not like popping bubble wrap means I have the mental capacity of a 5 year
> old, spalshing pauddles does't mean I am goign to throw a great tantrum in a
> team meeting, and slurping the last of a milkshake means - well - I like
> milkshakes? have I missed the boat somehow or do people chose to be boring
> old farts voluntarily?
Wow, if you were working for a software company in the US, your
behavior would be completely typical. Animal posters not professional??
I think your co-workers need surgery to remove the sticks embedded
deep inside their butts. I feel sorry for them!
<bronx cheer>
Joyce
Adrian
Joel and Cary do to. I think your co -workers are jealous because they've
forgotten how to have fun.
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Fi
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years old and no one can convince her she isn't a hoolikitten.
Keep popping, splashing and slurping - I think I'll join you!
Fi
CatNipped
Like you, I hope to remain child-like (as opposed to childish) until the day
I die. I just feel sorry for others who think being grown up means having
grown beyond the simple pleasures of childhood!
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kilikini
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> years old and no one can convince her she isn't a hoolikitten.
>
> Keep popping, splashing and slurping - I think I'll join you!
>
> Fi
>
>
I'm joining, too! Who can resist popping bubble wrap??????
kili
Wayne Mitchell
>Doesn't anyone understand the concept of good clean simple fun anymore? Its
>not like popping bubble wrap means I have the mental capacity of a 5 year
>old, spalshing pauddles does't mean I am goign to throw a great tantrum in a
>team meeting, and slurping the last of a milkshake means - well - I like
>milkshakes? have I missed the boat somehow or do people chose to be boring
>old farts voluntarily?
>
>I may have to get older, but no-one can make me grow up! (so ner!)
You just need a change in work environment. It's much too
stuffy in that building.
--
Wayne M
(indulged by Will and Heidi)
Caroline S.
Don't ever change.
DD and I had a wonderful morning last fall picking up acorns off the
ground, collecting them in a cup and then putting them out for the
squirrels. It was lovely, so simple. And last month, we had a blast
making footprints through the crusty snow that was left after a
snowfall. Kids keep us young, and the simple joys and pleasures do
too.
-Caroline S.
jmcquown
Anyone else here who is considered "middle aged" but, with the exception of
a few creaky bones, doesn't feel much different than when they were 20? I'm
that way. I look in the mirror and think hmmm, you are older so why don't
you feel older? But then again, my LLL asked me what the name "Jill" means.
It means light-hearted or young at heart. And that I am. Of course, he had
to morph it into "light-headed" but at least we can laugh at ourselves :)
Jill
Kreisleriana
<yowie9644....@yahoo.com.au> yodeled:
Aww, screw them! I actually give bubble wrap as gifts! :P
Theresa
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jXwXeXr...@sonic.net
> I have a stash of bubble wrap in my office too. :)
When I worked at Apple, a bubble wrap windfall was the cause of
much excitement. Engineers would almost fight over the stuff.
We'd sit and pop it during meetings. It was considered a stress
management tool. :)
Joyce
jXwXeXr...@sonic.net
> Anyone else here who is considered "middle aged" but, with the exception of
> a few creaky bones, doesn't feel much different than when they were 20?
Well, you know that expression, "Inside every old person is a young
person wondering what the hell happened." :)
Joyce, 51 going on 20
jmcquown
It's definitely a stress management tool. You don't think about thwacking
your boss' head when you can pop bubbles instead!
Honest to god, attend a two hour meeting to discuss plans for having a
bigger meeting; it's enough to make you crazy. Oh and how about those "team
building" things? Yes, let's lock you in a room together and make you play
games. That will help everything. Ahem, I could have been at my desk doing
*work* but no, I'm busy team building. How this will benefit the company is
beyond me, but there you have it. Someone has been making big bucks from
this concept since the 1970's.
I have to tell you, but I won't get along with you any better after the team
building excersize than I did before. Team building doesn't take into
account, "I don't like you, you are ignorant and strike me as false or under
false impressions" vs. "You're stupid".
There's a definite difference between ignorance and stupidity. Ignorance
you can overcome if you wish to.
Jill
Kreisleriana
See, they had the right idea! I worked in a university computer
center, and more exciting than new computers was the different sizes
of bubble wrap that would accompany them. Little teeny bubbles. BIG
BUBBLES! Once we spread the big bubble wrap down on the floor and
jumped up and down on it. ;)
Nan
I'm a little more (ok, a lot more) than middle aged, but, as you said,
other than a few creaky bones, I don't really feel any different than
I did at 20. Although, I do look in the mirror and wonder who that
old lady is looking back at me. Now if I could just remember why I
was looking in the mirror.
Purrs and Hugs,
Nan and the furkids
A wise man talks because he has something to say;
a fool talks because he has to say something.
sandra
driving through huge puddles! We all love popping bubble wrap, and as for
slurping milkshake, well it's just got to be done hasn't it?
We should all allow that inner joy to surface. Too often children are forced
into growing up too soon. With all the misery in the world i think your co
workers are the stupid ones. Enjoy yourself, to hell with the twits whose
only concern is how they look to others.
Sandra
"Yowie" <yowie9644....@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
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>
jXwXeXr...@sonic.net
> more exciting than new computers was the different sizes
> of bubble wrap that would accompany them. Little teeny bubbles. BIG
> BUBBLES!
OOOOHH, the BIG BUBBLES!! Yes!!! :)
There must be some connection between our response to the bubbles in
bubble wrap and the *Bubbels* we can't stop playing.
Joyce
Chakolate
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> A woman at work caught me popping and said scornfully "even my 12 year
> old thinks thats childish".
>
Tell her she's probably dead, and should consider lying down.
Did you know that you can also pop bubble wrap by stomping on it?
Chak
--
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in
private and wash your hands afterwards.
--Robert A. Heinlein
Yowie
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> "Yowie" <yowie9644....@yahoo.com.au> wrote in
> news:43pb82F...@individual.net:
>
>> A woman at work caught me popping and said scornfully "even my 12 year
>> old thinks thats childish".
>>
>
> Tell her she's probably dead, and should consider lying down.
>
> Did you know that you can also pop bubble wrap by stomping on it?
Oh yes indeedy. The really big fat bubbles are *wonderful* under a solid
steel cap boot :-)
Yowie
polonca12000
> The haul was *incredible* Masses and masses, tens of *metres* of all sorts
> of different bubble wrap, and it was all *mine*. <snip>
> Doesn't anyone understand the concept of good clean simple fun anymore? Its
> not like popping bubble wrap means I have the mental capacity of a 5 year
> old, spalshing pauddles does't mean I am goign to throw a great tantrum in a
> team meeting, and slurping the last of a milkshake means - well - I like
> milkshakes? have I missed the boat somehow or do people chose to be boring
> old farts voluntarily?
>
> I may have to get older, but no-one can make me grow up! (so ner!)
>
> Yowie
>
> I think I need my purple hat now
>
>
There are not enough people like you, Vicky!
Purring and hoping there will be much more people like you really soon,
Polonca and Soncek
Jeanette
> I may have to get older, but no-one can make me grow up! (so ner!)
>
> Yowie
>
> I think I need my purple hat now
>
>
Hon, don't ever change. Ade and I still have huge fun seeing who can make
the loudest bedfarts.
Love
Jeanette
SuzQ
Suz&Spicey
Irulan
with Cary.
Lily & her mama
--
Irulan
from the stars we come
to the stars we return
from now until the end of time
"Yowie" <yowie9644....@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
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dnr
>
> Oh yes indeedy. The really big fat bubbles are *wonderful* under a solid
> steel cap boot :-)
>
> Yowie
in radiology departments of hospitals for such a long time, unseen (but not
unheard) mayhem often went on....did anyone being xrayed ever notice that
behind every xray room is usually a corridor or hall where workers, docs,
and films being processed (large, smelly, noisy machinery to develop them)
go by on their way from one end of dept. to the other? Xray parts
(especially
the newer computer ones) are very expensive and usually packaged in
multiple layers of the BIG plastic bubblewrap; people going in this corridor
would happily stomp again and again on this bubblewrap, which was
spread out on floor by unknown parties for our enjoyment (of course, the
Big Bosses were not around). Even the docs, when no one else was
looking, would partake in "bubble-stomp". It usually ended, temporarily,
when a patient in a nearby room (who couldn't see anything in this hall)
would ask if guns were being fired, or what was exploding out there......
the people where you work are pills, Yowie. Enjoy the bubbles.
-L.
jmcquown wrote:
> Anyone else here who is considered "middle aged" but, with the exception of
> a few creaky bones, doesn't feel much different than when they were 20? I'm
> that way. I look in the mirror and think hmmm, you are older so why don't
> you feel older? But then again, my LLL asked me what the name "Jill" means.
> It means light-hearted or young at heart. And that I am. Of course, he had
> to morph it into "light-headed" but at least we can laugh at ourselves :)
>
> Jill
Oh, I totally feel the same - except I don't smoke dope any more. ;)
-L.
jmcquown
I still imbibe on rare occasions ;) Don't see anything wrong with it. It's
not manufactured. It's (I can attest to) not addicting nor will it lead to
other more addicting forms of drug use.
Funny story. At my last place of employment, "D" and I were riding down in
the elevator to go to the smoking porch (yes, I smoke cigarettes). He
looked at me and said, "You smoke?" Well of course I do, "D", that's why
we're going to the smoking porch. He said, "NO... do you *smoke*?" Oh!
Not since an ounce cost $15. He laughed and said, "Costs about $125 now. I
can get you some if you want." Uh... I'm looking around for cameras in the
elevator. I'm wondering, is this a trap? Is this guy a high tech expert in
wide area networks and firewalls and also a narcotics officer? LOL
Jill
glsu...@neptunelink.com
Ah, Yowie, just keep on doing what you're doing. Don't let the
fuddy-duddies spoil it for you. We all need to remember the child
inside that wonders and delights at the world. We have enough
tragedy. Keep mooing and coloring and sitting cross-legged, and I'll
join you!
Ginger-lyn
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http://www.movieanimals.bravehost.com/ (The Violence Against
Animals in Movies Website)
Richard Miller
the time.
I have now plugged various USB lights into my PC and am gazing in awe at
all the pretty colours. Later on, I might make up some bubble mixture
and fill the kitchen with rainbows, in the absence of any bubble wrap to
pop.
--
Cathi
jXwXeXr...@sonic.net
> Later on, I might make up some bubble mixture and fill the kitchen
> with rainbows, in the absence of any bubble wrap to pop.
I think your kitties would much prefer the soap bubbles over bubble
wrap anyway! :)
Joyce
Victor Martinez
> Not since an ounce cost $15. He laughed and said, "Costs about $125 now. I
Is that a little or a lot? The oz thing, I mean. How much does one smoke
in one sitting?
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> of different bubble wrap, and it was all *mine*. It nearly broke my heart
> to have to throw nearly all of it away (I can't use up half the volume of
> my shared office with bubblewrap) but I did take *great* delight in
> stashing as much as I could away, and take a strangely sensuous pleasure
> in squeezing and then climatically popping them, one by one.
>
> A woman at work caught me popping and said scornfully "even my 12 year old
> thinks thats childish".
I prefer squishing with my toes, but popping is acceptable. :)
Jo Firey
"Kreisleriana" <kreisl...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 00:03:09 +1100, "Yowie"
> <yowie9644....@yahoo.com.au> yodeled:
>
>>The haul was *incredible* Masses and masses, tens of *metres* of all sorts
>>of different bubble wrap, and it was all *mine*. It nearly broke my heart
>>to
>>have to throw nearly all of it away (I can't use up half the volume of my
>>shared office with bubblewrap) but I did take *great* delight in stashing
>>as
>>much as I could away, and take a strangely sensuous pleasure in squeezing
>>and then climatically popping them, one by one.
>>
>>A woman at work caught me popping and said scornfully "even my 12 year old
>>thinks thats childish".
My dad could have taught that 12 year old a thing or two about being
childish. So could I. I wait for just the right weather to teach all the
kids in the neighborhood the joy of blowing bubbles. Everyone learns to fly
a kite. All the old stories get told and all the old superstitions.
We go to the county fair and always try to steal a child from the
neighborhood who has never been. One time took an eight year who had never
before touched a horse.
We do this because my dad did the same thing (and my mom) I take pictures
of sunsets and of the ocean. And I ride carousels. And Ferris wheels. I
like balloons almost as much as I like flowers.
When my grandmother was growing up, there was no time for the luxury of
being a child. The nicest thing anyone gave her was a really nice baby doll
to look after when she was old. I did the same for my best friend. And for
Charlie's grandmother.
But I've got to give that old girl extra credit. There were horses in a
field behind the "home" where she lived. And she would sneak out to go down
to catch one a ride it bare back. Don't think she ever did catch one, but
I'll bet she would have ridden it if she had.
I turned sixty in December. I plan to get every pleasure I can out of my
second childhood. After the things my kids have put me through, they can
suck it up and get used to the idea.
Jo
Chakolate
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You can't do this one with a boot, but it's remarkably satisfying,
anyway:
http://www.urban75.com/Mag/bubble.html
CatNipped
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> My dad could have taught that 12 year old a thing or two about being
> childish. So could I. I wait for just the right weather to teach all the
> kids in the neighborhood the joy of blowing bubbles. Everyone learns to
> fly a kite. All the old stories get told and all the old superstitions.
>
> We go to the county fair and always try to steal a child from the
> neighborhood who has never been. One time took an eight year who had
> never before touched a horse.
>
> We do this because my dad did the same thing (and my mom) I take pictures
> of sunsets and of the ocean. And I ride carousels. And Ferris wheels. I
> like balloons almost as much as I like flowers.
My flabby old ass, at age 54, going down a kid's water slide (35 feet
tall!!!!) at my granddaughter's birthday party....
http://www.possibleplaces.com/Alexis_Birthday/Untitled-120.jpg
[My daughter took this picture to use as evidence in my competency hearing!]
<snip>
> I turned sixty in December. I plan to get every pleasure I can out of my
> second childhood. After the things my kids have put me through, they can
> suck it up and get used to the idea.
>
> Jo
Go, granny, go!!! ;>
--
Hugs,
CatNipped
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Kreisleriana
yodeled:
>> There are other examples, many many other examples (like yelling 'moo' at
>> cows
Aren't we REQUIRED, if not by law, then surely then by tradition, to
yell "MOO!" at cows??? ;)
Adrian
What about yelling "Mint Sauce" to sheep? ;-)
--
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Richard Miller
<an...@bigfoot.com> writes
>What about yelling "Mint Sauce" to sheep? ;-)
(Puts up hand, shyly)
Guilty as charged, m'lud.
--
Cathi
mlbriggs
Only the four legged kind. MLB
dopekitty
went out for a smoke. I had a wee fart and excused myself, she then
farted and said, don't worry dear, we all do it (she's this teeeny
little irish lady) and so we proceeded to have a fart party. Later in
the week, we were outside smoking with another of the older ladies and
she let one go and excused herself and we let her in on the sisterhood
of the farty party :)
Kristy
dopekitty
for their various aches and pains :)
Kristy
dopekitty
> jmcquown wrote:
>
>> Not since an ounce cost $15. He laughed and said, "Costs about $125
>> now. I
>
>
> Is that a little or a lot? The oz thing, I mean. How much does one smoke
> in one sitting?
>
a very long time. In my house, it would last about a week (both hubby
and i smoke throughout the day and evening) if we weren't both working.
When working we go through about a half oz a week.
Kristy
CatNipped
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I would except that it's illegal. Being illegal, in order to obtain it you
would have to go and see some very unsavory characters in very unsavory
parts of the city and you'd be putting your life in danger. I'm not willing
to do something illegal, and I'm certainly not going to put my life in
danger in order to do so - I'll stick to Bayers.
dopekitty
older lady dealer i've had either. One I used to see back in Miramichi
was in her sixties and a devoted catslave who sold to help keep expenses
down and because she believed it's helpful and not harmful. Plus,
living in Canada does help. Our police don't tend to jail little old
ladies for pot.
Kristy
Kreisleriana
yodeled:
You were smoking? Watch that stuff around lighted matches. ;)
CatNipped
Unfortunately they do here - which is why it's mostly criminals who sell it
(well yeah, they're criminals by default, but I meant criminals who commit
other, more violent, crimes than just selling pot).
-L.
CatNipped wrote:
>
> I would except that it's illegal. Being illegal, in order to obtain it you
> would have to go and see some very unsavory characters in very unsavory
> parts of the city and you'd be putting your life in danger. I'm not willing
> to do something illegal, and I'm certainly not going to put my life in
> danger in order to do so - I'll stick to Bayers.
>
LOL..you don't know the right people. The people who I know that smoke
are professionals - a couple attorneys, a scientist, a couple computer
guys. Oregon's #1 cash crop is pot. if the government was smart, they
would make it legal and start taking their piece of the pie.
-L.
idon...@gmail.com
>
> I still imbibe on rare occasions ;) Don't see anything wrong with it. It's
> not manufactured. It's (I can attest to) not addicting nor will it lead to
> other more addicting forms of drug use.
I would, but I am asthmatic now. And DAMN that stuff has gone up in
price! When I used to buy it it was $20/oz and $65 for Sensimilla or
thai stick.
>
> Funny story. At my last place of employment, "D" and I were riding down in
> the elevator to go to the smoking porch (yes, I smoke cigarettes). He
> looked at me and said, "You smoke?" Well of course I do, "D", that's why
> we're going to the smoking porch. He said, "NO... do you *smoke*?" Oh!
> Not since an ounce cost $15. He laughed and said, "Costs about $125 now. I
> can get you some if you want." Uh... I'm looking around for cameras in the
> elevator. I'm wondering, is this a trap? Is this guy a high tech expert in
> wide area networks and firewalls and also a narcotics officer? LOL
It's amazing how many people do. IMO, it's MUCH better than alcohol,
on so many fronts. They should legalize it and ban alcohol. I have
always said I would much rather DS smoke dope than drink.
-L.
(posting from my other account - dang Google!)
CatNipped
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True, DH and I are pretty much insular and not social people so we don't
know enough people to know people who smoke.
I totally agree that it should be *at least* decriminalized but preferably
legalized. [However, if it were legalized it would most likely be
"regulated" into inefficacy.]
I know I would much prefer it over some of the manufactured drugs they try
to give me for fibromyalgia (they disagree with me so badly I just "tough it
out" rather than taking the prescribed meds).
Yowie
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Its not so much 'decriminalised' here in Australia, but rather that police
have better things to do than to worry about a few small plants in the
cupboard or a small baggy somehwere in the house. Thats not to say they
won't charge you for possession if they're charging you with other offences,
but mostly they work on a 'don't ask, don't tell' basis for the 'hobbyists'.
Not that i could tell you how much an ounce costs these days, I tried it a
few times back in 1990 when my BF of the time was a smoker, and decided I
didn't like it much, and never continued (mostly because I *hate*hate*hate*
smoking and the aweful things it does to my asthmatic lungs).
I also watched my then BF go from an intelligent, happy, ambitious person,
to an intelligent but paranoid person with no ambition whatsoever when he
was heavily into pot. That paranoia was aweful, he trusted *no-one* not even
me (well, he trusted me, but he didn't trust other people who could 'get' to
me, if you see what I mean) and therefor I can't with all honesty say that
pot is 'less harmful than alchol' in all cases. I think it ought tobe
decriminalised, yes, but I also reckon that whilst for many people, pot in
moderation is OK, that there will always be a few people who just can't deal
with it well, and will have adverse reactions to even a relatively small
amount - just like alcoholics have to amount sof alcohol others have 'no
problem' with.
Yowie
jmcquown
> jmcquown wrote:
>> Not since an ounce cost $15. He laughed and said, "Costs about $125
>> now. I
>
> Is that a little or a lot? The oz thing, I mean. How much does one
> smoke
> in one sitting?
It's not a large amount of dried crushed leaves. Look at some of your bags
of dried herbs. An ounce isn't very much. And unlike dried cooking herbs,
they don't usually extract stems and seeds so you wind up cleaning those out
and have 3/4 of an ounce left to smoke. I don't even pay $125 for saffron
threads.
Jill
jmcquown
I agree, the government is missing out on a major cash crop. They could tax
it like they do cigarettes or booze and cut out the criminal element.
27 years ago I worked with a physician. (No, not *my* physician, although I
certainly smoked my share of pot with him before he went to medical school!)
Dr. S hosted a pool party at his house. It was a good mix of professional
folks from their mid-20's to their mid-60's. Some swam, some didn't. Some
were dressed up, some weren't. Dr. S came over to me at one point and said,
"The smoking room is the front spare bedroom down the hall from the front
door." I didn't need a decoder ring to know what he was talking about. His
brother had a farm someplace where he grew the stuff in a barn under grow
lights. No criminal middle-men involved; no "dealers". And the folks who
were in the "smoking room" were of all ages.
There were no (at least none I could see) real 'drugs' at this or subsequent
parties. No one was laying out lines of cocaine or anything like that.
Just the occasional joint being passed around in that front bedroom for
those who cared to imbibe. No one freaked out, got paranoid or thought they
could fly. No fights broke out. But I guarantee if the cops had raided the
joint, back then the good Dr. would have gone to jail along with a number of
other people.
To what purpose? How about concentrating on the people who are busy doing
home invasions, shooting, raping, killing people rather than someone with an
ounce or less of pot for personal consumption?
Jill
jmcquown
Sorry, but I've never bought pot from unsavory characters in unsavory parts
of the city. First it was high school students maybe a grade or two ahead
of me who definitely didn't know any "unsavory characters". They weren't
lurking around dark street corners like someone looking for hookers or
hard-core drugs. No one ever came to our school-yard trying to sell
anything to the "kiddies". It was just sort of a common part of the culture
in the early 1970's. I never really knew anyone who got into anything
harder than smoking pot or taking a drink.
I believe the culture is different now. Those of us over 40 who run across
the occasional joint aren't going to freak out about it. We usually know
where it came from. But those who are teens now, according to the media are
doing ecstacy and crystal meth and stuff I'd never have thought of doing.
Oh, and I never smoked pot when I was AT school. I went to my classes, got
A's in most of my subjects. It didn't fry my brain or lead me to harder
drugs. And when I got busy with other stuff and other social contacts in
later years, I wasn't in "da hood" looking for a pot fix.
Jill
Jill
jmcquown
> jmcquown <jmcq...@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> <snip>
>
>> To what purpose? How about concentrating on the people who are busy
>> doing home invasions, shooting, raping, killing people rather than
>> someone with an ounce or less of pot for personal consumption?
>
> than simply breaking it.
>
If you read my original thoughts on this, I said I "occasionally" imbibe.
It's a rare occasion these days when someone asks if I'd like to smoke a
joint and I *don't* go out and buy it. But as a matter of fact I have
written to my state representatives about this. It's not a high (pardon the
pun) priority.
> And if 'To what purpose?' isn't merely a rhetorical question - the
> usual reasons for enforcing even unpopular or apparently victimless
> laws (drug (including alcohol) infractions, prostitution, some
> driving or smuggling offenses) include the necessity to treat every
> citizen the same way under
> the law, the necessity to maintain respect for the law (if you let
> someone speeding just a little get away with it, the next person will
> think it's OK to drag race on city streets) and the duty of the
> police to enforce whatever the people's elected representatives vote
> into law, no matter how silly it is. I'm sure there're other reasons
> too.
I'm not disagreeing with you. I am an otherwise very law abiding citizen.
If I find a wallet on the street I will not steal the money and credit cards
and use them. I know drinking impairs driving so I don't drink then drive.
But you bring up prostitution; it's another thing I see as a victimless
crime. It's legal in many places and if a guy wants to get his jollies off
with a stranger at least she's not some crack-ho standing on the corner with
who knows what diseases. Okay, his wife might be a "victim" but that's a
personal matter, don't you think?
The speeding turning into drag racing on city streets is a bit of a stretch,
IMHO. Drag racing is something teens do. There's enough road rage out
there these days without that. Everone is in such a hurry! Got to get to
work! Got to get to that meeting! Hey, smoke a joint, you'll get over
being in a hurry! You might want some Doritos, though ;)
Jill
jmcquown
> Richard Miller <ric...@seasalter0.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > Later on, I might make up some bubble mixture and fill the kitchen
> > with rainbows, in the absence of any bubble wrap to pop.
>
> I think your kitties would much prefer the soap bubbles over bubble
> wrap anyway! :)
>
> Joyce
I briefly considered buying one of those bubble-guns so I could shoot
catnip-scented bubbles around. But Persia would probably ignore them.
Jill