"*sigh* The desperation they turn to in the hope of keeping the thread alive. *sigh*" *points his finger and fires lightning bolt* "ZAAP"Who's with me?!
Now, this probably isn't a problem in the UK, but for us Yanks, I say we ban it.
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"Here is another word that rhymes with shame" - Kurt Cobain
Blew, Nirvana
Heck, I have all the ingredients necessary to manufacture home-brew in my kitchen! I use it to make bread.
So what's the problem with Guinness? Try serving it at a warmer temperature than just-out-of-the-fridge ice cold. And eat something before you indulge.
Sheesh!
--Baloo
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"Politicians and diapers should be changed regularly, for the same reason."
--(Unknown)
Come Hither and Yawn...[/B]
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"SHOES!"
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"Here is another word that rhymes with shame" - Kurt Cobain
Blew, Nirvana
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"SHOES!"
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Calvin: "No efficiency, no accountability... I tell you, Hobbes, it's a lousy way to run a Universe." -- Bill Watterson
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You are wise, witty, and wonderful, but you spend far too much time reading this sort of trash.
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Calvin: "No efficiency, no accountability... I tell you, Hobbes, it's a lousy way to run a Universe." -- Bill Watterson
We've been down this road before, guys. I don't drink very often, even though I'm old enough to purchase the strongest stuff there is, and I for one don't feel comfortable with going to a bar everyday after work. And many people do that.
I also have parents that HAVE had problems with alcohol because they felt miserable.
But I still feel the good outweighs the bad, if you have control of it. And my country have had very big problems with alcohol in our history, believe you me. In the 1920's a farmhand was entitled to one snaps in the morning to get up, one before lunch, one during, one on the afternoon, one to dinner, and one before bed. About two litres every day.
I share your hopes DT, there are many accidents and tragedies that would dissapear if alcohol was cancelled, but it is a part of our history. Every culture that existed have found ways to produce it.
The best solution, as always, is to know when to stop.
It all comes down to responsibility, discipline and common sense.
The biggest problem as I see it is stopping kids from drinking. When I was in seventh grade there were kids having parties and drinking and smoking themselves silly. That's one of the roots of the problem.
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Besides, without Guinness there can be no black and tans! I say bah! Leave my Guinness alone!!
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Smithers, do you realize if I had died, there would be no one to carry on my legacy. Due to my hectic schedule and lethargic sperm, I never fathered an heir. Now I have no one to leave my enormous fortune to. No one.
~C. Montgomery Burns
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I must let the world know!!
*rushes out*
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"I suppose you thought I was dead? No such thing. Don't flatter yourselves that I haven't got my eye upon you. I am wide awake, and you give plenty to look at."
Household Words, Aug. 24, 1850
From the Raven in the Happy Family
(CC glancing down on the thread from his little fluffy cloud "*sigh* The desperation they turn to in the hope of keeping the thread alive. *sigh*" *points his finger and fires lightning bolt* "ZAAP"
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-You are crazy.
-I thought I was pisces.
Don't worry. I'm not sure I get it myself.
My paternal great-grandmother was German, actually, but she came here in the early twentieth century. Not that Jay knew that, mind you. I just thought it was an odd coincidence.
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You are wise, witty, and wonderful, but you spend far too much time reading this sort of trash.
And for those of you who didn't get the subtle irony, I'm using this to say that "Hey, we can get tanked but we can't get high?" and point out that contradiction in the law.
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"Here is another word that rhymes with shame" - Kurt Cobain
Blew, Nirvana
When I went to basic training, I had been "indulging" in the nasty illegal herb for over a year. Not continuously, but frequently.
[Side note:] I told the folks at the induction center, not to get out of enlisting, but because if you tell them about it first, it won't be an issue if it comes out later (like being investigated for a security clearance). They sent me to the psychiatrist, who asked me, alternately:
Me: "No."
Me: "Yes."
He asked those two questions several times, rephrasing them each time. I'm not sure what the point of the exercise was, unless it was to see if I'd get confused and answer differently than before. He wrote something very illegible onto a form and told me to take it to the next station. They let me enlist. (I have since seen that very document and examined it carefully. It is completely illegible. For all I know he may have written down "This guy is a nut-case! Don't even THINK about letting him enlist!"
[Back to the subject:] I had been in basic training for over two weeks when something amazing happened. I was standing guard duty, studying my little "How to Be an Airman" manual (not the real title) when I suddenly realized: My memory had come back!
This was doubly amazing since, up till then, I hadn't noticed it's absence!
My guess is that, if marijuana were legalized, anyone who uses the stuff should be restricted from certain jobs (care to drive or operate heavy machinery?) until they have been off the stuff for some period of time? How long? I don't know if my case is typical. I look back and figure I was a heavy user, but I also realize that I knew some folks who, while not burned out as I was, seemed to recover their faculties much more quickly than I.
With Alcohol, there is a large body of knowledge regarding how much is too much, and how long one must wait for your body to metabolize the alcohol, prior to doing anything requiring all your wits and coordination. Pilots have a saying: "12 hours between the bottle and the throttle." While inaccurate, it is not completely so. With Marijuana, I would suspect that the amount of time between indulgence and full unimpairment would be significantly longer. I do not plan to resume using the leafy stuff when I am fully retired from the AF, mainly because I missed so much during my burnout days. I had fun, but I can't clearly remember what it was that was so much fun.
Legalize? If you must, but carefully!
--Baloo
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"Politicians and diapers should be changed regularly, for the same reason."
--(Unknown)[B]
Come Hither and Yawn...
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Smithers, do you realize if I had died, there would be no one to carry on my legacy. Due to my hectic schedule and lethargic sperm, I never fathered an heir. Now I have no one to leave my enormous fortune to. No one.
~C. Montgomery Burns
'Nuff Said!!!
You have my opinion on this.
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I feel more like I do now, then when I first got here!!
- Alshrim Dax
The Other Dax
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"Obesity. Adiposity. Corpulence. Whatever word you use, it represents one thing: being a big fatass."
Geraldo Rivera
A Frenchman who loves Guinness???!!
A .. umm.... Guinn-enchman !!
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I feel more like I do now, then when I first got here!! :)
- Alshrim Dax
The Other Dax;
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Death before Dishonor!
However Dishonor has
quite a disputed defintion.
And if we got rid of Guinness, the Gallagher Brothers would never come to America.
Baloo: Yes, I agree, we need more research into the effects of marijuanika (damn, I can't get that Sandler song out of my head!) so we can proceed with legalizing it.
Many of my friends do pot. I've been around guys while they're blazed, and they're probably more lucid than I am. I wouldn't want them driving, but that's about it.
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"Here is another word that rhymes with shame" - Kurt Cobain
Blew, Nirvana
1/ No student can afford to run a car.
2/ No-one owns a gun.
See? Easy.
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"Obesity. Adiposity. Corpulence. Whatever word you use, it represents one thing: being a big fatass."
Geraldo Rivera
Drink and drive
smoke pot and do drugs
speed on residential streets
running over pedestrians
selling drugs
smoke
sex in cars
sex in public places
sex in the clubs
The last three only applies to the West Hollywood area
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Sometimes I run
Sometimes I hide
Sometimes I'm scared of you
But all I really want is to hold you tight
Treat you right, be with you day and night
Baby all I need is time
-Britney Spears
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Like a criminal would choose that over, say robbing a 7-11?
"Look, Pa, there's them daggone street walkers, 'gain. Step on it!"
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"That is the metaphorical equivalent of flopping your wedding tackle into a lions mouth and then flicking his love spuds with a wet towel".
- Rimmer
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"I'm still amazed at how unintuitive the Windows world is and how it tries to mimic the Mac." - John de Lancie
The truck was described as a late 1980s or early 1990s white Nissan pickup. Anyone with information should call traffic investigators at 385-7749.
See, in LA, we'll run over just about anyone. And it's a real shame too.
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Smithers, do you realize if I had died, there would be no one to carry on my legacy. Due to my hectic schedule and lethargic sperm, I never fathered an heir. Now I have no one to leave my enormous fortune to. No one.
~C. Montgomery Burns
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I'm not sure how the death's relate to previous years, but the drink driving offenses were far down on last year. Which were down on the year before.
How does that relate to other countries anyone?
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"Obesity. Adiposity. Corpulence. Whatever word you use, it represents one thing: being a big fatass."
Geraldo Rivera
The police are still complaining though. They think it isn't enough. That is what is needed elsewhere - this urgent need to do more to save lives this way, and not just accept the deaths as unfortunate.
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Worf: He is an overgrown child and she is...confused.
O'Brien: It could still work.
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"Sorry Wendy, I jsu can't trust something that bleeds for five days and doesn't die."
Mr Garrison