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I love that tetris pic. Seen it before but it's lol worthy.

Food is for the most part a good thing. You know..we would die without it. We wouldn't die without cigarettes.

Nicotine is baaad and addictive. Fun when you start sure but then it just goes downhill when your lungs get all congested and then you realise cigarettes are just not worth it. Also they are dirty.

Oh wait we're talking about just nicotine. Missed that part. Still addictive though and doesn't do much once you build up a tolerance.

Unless you're a purple genie can't help poofing like a chimney. Which than I won't mind putting that old piece of hardware you come with into my coat pocket.

"Two more wishes." "Nope."

"Two more." "Put me down!"

Quote from Turmobil

If there's one thing I really dislike is the smiley "xD." I mean, most people don't even know what it represents or what it even looks like. To make things short, it's a weaboo smiley used by weaboos and casuals. You don't want to be a weaboo casual, do you? No, no you don't.
Stop using "xD."

Never liked it myself and I somehow pride myself in never having used it once. Sometimes I thought the smiley would be appropriate, but then I realised that it just looks pretty stupid and discarded that thought.

And what's the relation between punctuation and teh ladiez?

Hey, you didn't say anything about getting quality time. Though it's probably true that having proper spelling makes more girls take you seriously. On the other hand, being a stickler isn't really all that attractive to some.

I do prefer a girl with proper language skills. It's pretty funny yet awesome when you get a text message correcting a typo.

I don't think it makes a difference. Sure, it's more a reflection of "I don't give a fuck about how people perceive me due to my lack of punctuation and grammatical systems," but I really don't think I'd care one way or the other.

Of course, I'm the type of dude that thinks that intelligence is sexy, but I highly doubt that how often you choose to use correct grammar and spelling has anything to do with your actual intelligence. If she can write a good essay with everything correct as far as grammar goes, then I don't have any quarrel with the way she uses grammar outside of her professional life.

The only reason why I try, as hard as I can, to use correct grammar on the internet is because I don't want people to perceive me different than I want to be perceived. I most often dismiss someone's ideas because they don't take the time to space out their paragraphs, their ideas, and their sentences with periods and line breaks. In my opinion, it definitely knocks down credibility.

And, as far as I can tell, Don_G has good grammar. He's foreign, he can afford to make a few mistakes.

And hey, Turmo.



Edit: NEWS FLASH!

In America, in New Orleans, Louisiana, a man was just sentenced to life in prison at 35.

The offense? It was his fourth time being convicted of marijuana possession. It was his fourth time being put down by the law for doing something that, arguably, didn't harm anyone but himself. His choice got him landed in prison for the rest of his life.

Original Story

"For the land of the free and the home of the brave..."

I'm liberal because, y'know, I actually want people to live happy lives. If someone wants to smoke marijuana, than that's their thing and I don't ever want to infringe on that? Since when did Nixon think it was his personal duty to declare a "War on Drugs" and put marijuana in Class A, which is the same league as heroin and methamphetamines? So we can prescribe derivatives of meth to our children to help them "concentrate," but if I just want to light a joint and sit in the seclusion of my own home, I'm a fucking felon?

Where is the logic? Where is the justice? Where can I find more rhetorical questions to illustrate my disgust?

And, of course, not only liberals hate the "War on Drugs." I'm sure that there are plenty of people, on both sides of the aisle, who approve and disapprove of the "War on Drugs."

Marijuana, in itself, does not put anyone in any more danger than cigarettes or alcohol; I could totally argue that marijuana is, in fact, a safer alternative to either of those drugs.

And the "War on Drugs" is a lost cause; you will never be able to stop people from doing drugs, especially when you let people smoke cigarettes and get drunk under your approval. The people won't buy this hypocrisy.

But they do anyway with a smile on their face. The ones who want change are labeled as "potheads" and their arguments are cast aside in favor of fallacies and rigged studies.

It's the rule of a misguided majority. It's a bunch of shit that all people who enjoy personal freedom are forced to eat on a daily basis. If prison wasn't a dangerous place, then people would be lighting up all over the place. The reason why there are more tobacco smokers than marijuana smokers is because they are allowed the freedom to smoke their tobacco without fearing life behind bars.

And I saw a HighTimes magazine at my local 7-11. I almost bought it, it's $8.

I can't see myself being a moderator. Like you, I would definitely not really give a crap and not take the job seriously enough.

What are you going to tell her?

"I saw a sign in the shop window: FOR SALE: 50-inch LCD TV, volume stuck on full, but it's only $10. I thought, "well, I can't turn that down."

And, a quote:

"Money is like manure. Gather a bunch of it and set it all in one place and all it does is stink. Spread that money around, and you see stuff start to bloom"

- Malcolm Forbes (revered Capitalist)

Yes yes...Being a moderator is quite the burden of POOOWWEEEEERRRRR*HeMan voice*

I'd like to think that my name was shiny.

I'd liken it to brass whereas the names are moderators are silver. Admins are gold. Some fucker's gonna get titanium.

Do you guys mind if I rant some more? I'd dedicate it to a blog post, but seeing as the blogs are inaccessible...

Quote from Azriel

Do you guys mind if I rant some more? I'd dedicate it to a blog post, but seeing as the blogs are inaccessible...

Feel free to rant. I like reading whats on people's minds and stuff like that. How come the blogs are inaccessible??? who's responsible for this?? lol

Okay, my two part rant (all regarding the current legal status of marijuana):

The Hypocrisy:
[spoil] The hypocrisy to which I'm referring is the idea that marijuana, in some way, is much more "stupid" and "asinine" than alcohol and tobacco. I know a great deal of people in my family who are addicted to tobacco but don't have addictive personalities; my father, for instance, smokes about 5 packs a week and brings home a bottle of Bacardi every other week. He is very systematic (if that makes any sense) with the way he consumes alcohol, but tobacco is something he's tried to quit for almost as long as he's been smoking it. Of course, you all probably know that tobacco contains nicotine, which is highly addictive, so it makes it extremely hard to quit once you start getting into the initial habit of smoking.

Alcohol is addictive to an extent, almost the same extent that marijuana is; I'm not going to outright say that marijuana isn't addictive because anything can be addictive given the right circumstances; if you do gain pleasure from something often enough, you will gain a psychological and physical dependence on that because your body expect to receive that pleasure with the frequency with which you deliver. If you stop delivering, your body has to adapt without that continual dose of "pleasure," which often leads the addict to return to the drug to keep their body up to par.

I have never been addicted to marijuana, mostly because I haven't used it enough to fully get accustomed to using it, so I have a low tolerance to THC. I go in a lightweight and that's how I prefer to be. Everybody goes into any drug as a lightweight, as a newbie, but there are drugs that can and, most likely, will hook you on impact like tobacco, heroin, and meth; it's love at first dose with them. I've only used marijuana four times, all last year, and I've grown to call that my "favorite drug" even though I've never tried heroin, meth, alcohol, and all sorts of pills that the FDA has approved for human consumption, which most people would call their "favorite drug." I just like the feeling, I love the feeling of serenity and carelessness associated with a marijuana high. Is that enough to get me in jail? In America, the land of the free and the home of the brave, it actually is. [/spoil]

The Crime:
[spoil] The crime, of course, is the con act that the government has pulled on the American people when it comes to marijuana. And this same policy is experienced in several other countries, but, being an American, I feel it here and I will narrate it from an American perspective.

Why must I, an American citizen, an American teenager, an American who will be of voting age in December, have to sit by and watch innocent people get their lives ruined by the machine? Why am I even allowed to watch this and why are they able to get away with this? In a land where "Tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of death," [1] why is the government looking away from the mess they have created by allowing tobacco to be legal? Tobacco can be legal, but the government also has to recognize that marijuana is not as bad, not as addictive, and not as deserving of full oppression via. the legal system of the United States of America. And, in a land where alcohol is the "third leading cause of mortality," [2] why is marijuana, which can't easily cause an overdose, subjugated to draconian laws of "prohibition"?

Why are ordinary people, like you and me, who just want to get high on a little weed, threatened by the legal system. If you don't use marijuana, that's your deal and I respect your choices. I don't respect the choices of those who wish to keep marijuana users in prison to profit the prisons and leech money away from taxpayers to keep these ordinary people in jail because of their choices, which don't:

1) Infringe on the rights of others
2) Cause any harm to anyone but themselves

But, the government, for some odd reason, wants to enforce these laws to "protect the children." They don't care. If they cared, we wouldn't have so much of our federal funds going to war and more of it going into buffing our educational system. And the policies don't even work because kids find it easier to find marijuana in schools than alcohol or tobacco.

True story: This weekend, I gave my friend $5 so he can go buy a pack of smokes (he had about $2 on his person and could get a little more), but that entire weekend, beginning on Friday, he wasn't able to find anyone to buy him a pack. He did, however, know about three people who could score him some marijuana.

Do you know why this is? It's illegal to buy tobacco if you're under the age of 18 in the U.S. In the U.S, there are plenty of people doing grow operations who can distribute it to many, many people through a network of dealers. The government has established it's role as "Death Dealers" and aren't afraid to call marijuana growers and distributors "felons." Do you not see the hypocrisy there? The policy is backwards. [/spoil]

I hope you enjoyed reading that as much as I did writing it.

I agree with everything in Azriel's last post, however:

Marijuana, in itself, does not put anyone in any more danger than cigarettes or alcohol; I could totally argue that marijuana is, in fact, a safer alternative to either of those drugs.

I'll probably get flamed but it's important to add that weed can turn the workforce into a slow, unproductive and unmotivated bunch. Weed stays in your system far longer than alcohol, and tobacco doesn't do much apart from kill you. Yes they're all bad drugs but weed specifically can have a stronger mental effect over people if they don't control their intake. Any more than once a month is probably too much and it does slow you down in the days following consumption, not just while you're high.

Also smoking weed in moderation is worse for you than taking alcohol in moderation. Smoking anything is just plain bad for you. Of course, eating it isn't so bad but there's still the mental effects and the fact that it turns people into sloths for a while.

Of course they're all bad in their own way, the one that should definitely be illegal is tobacco just based on death statistics.

So I had this dream...

(This all takes place in North Wildwood, NJ--I haven't been there in two years.)

Somehow, I made friends with sharks that had decided they wanted to be people. So we hung out at the boardwalk and drove around in an expensive car that I've never seen. Then it was suddenly late afternoon and they decided that being human wasn't so great after all, and so they walked off, and I assumed they turned back into sharks or something.

Then me and a bunch of other random people I've never seen (and whose faces I can't remember) were trapped in a hotel like four hundred stories high. The hotel was built right on the beach and there was a huge ass storm. A wave of ocean blew past the hotel and submerged the first floor. We all started panicking. The waves outside were whitecapped and a couple stories high. I could see the eye of the storm a few miles off the coast. And then another wave came. And another. Soon the ocean was around two hundred stories. One of the people, some crazy lady, ran for the elevator (which was made of glass) and tried to make a break for it. She got in the elevator and then it went down and I don't know what happened to her.

Then these huge reinforced steel and glass "shields" came up and closed about the hotel with a steam hiss. For a few minutes we all felt safe, but then the hotel fucking fell one story. And then another. It was collapsing or something, maybe sinking into the sand (who the fuck builds a huge hotel right on the sand, on the ocean? stupid). We all started going crazy (except me--when I'm scared I just get really resigned and quiet). The lights flickered and went out. The water was getting higher, bursting through the shielding. Water was everywhere.

Soon it was up to the ceiling. Everyone else drowned somehow, but I was still gasping for air. Then the windows shattered and I was sucked out into the ocean. It was freezing and really dark. It was the most terrifying thing I've ever seen, ever felt. I was being thrown everywhere at once, but there was nothing to see, and I knew that below (and possibly above me by now) were hundreds of stories of darkness and ocean. And I was like, oh fuck, what if I get sucked out to sea? What if sharks get me? I can't see shit!

And then there were these two, huge ass sharks. Their mouths were bigger than the hotel windows. They just kinda floated in place and glared me down. Their eyes were just these tiny black marbles set in tons of muscle. And then--I don't know how I knew to do this--I just climbed on one, scared as I was, and he swam me to shore.

And somehow I opened my eyes and I was on the beach of North Wildwood, with the ferris wheel all lit up and everyone having a good time in the background on the piers, as if nothing had ever happened. I somehow deduced that the two sharks were the guys from earlier, but I didn't see them anywhere. Then my mom picked me up and we were driving in a shiny black van. It was one of those night drives that are really peaceful, with the highway lights flashing over the van ceiling and stuff. Some really, really fucked up things happened in there that I'm not going to repeat.

Moral of the story: make friends with sharks.