OT How to live forever

[polygonum]

And Dawn Page is a classic example of brain damage from excess water.

I was actually joking about which type of water rather than seriously asking.

[Andy Champ]

Funny that, I always think of Leah Betts.

Andy

[ARW]

And will anyone on this newsgroup other than me admit that they have used illegal drugs?

[Huge]

FX: Waves.

I even inhaled. Didn't like it much, though.

[Dave Liquorice]

No just pointing out that un-laquered brass light switches would be cheaper and longer lasting than silver plated ones. The plating would wear off pretty quickly probably down to the underlying brass... B-)

[meow2222]

but that would be illegal. ISTR about 50% of teenagers saying they'd tried some. Maybe it explains some of the dodgy diy out there.

NT

[harry]

012 1:03:37 PM UTC, Dave Liquorice wrote:

One would think she'd give up when she started to feel ill.

[polygonum]

1:03:37 PM UTC, Dave Liquorice wrote:

Unfortunately there is widespread belief that feeling bad is a part of the cure. If you detox,the "tox" comes out and can make you feel bad. If you are managing to kill off bad bugs, they die, and the dead bugs make you feel bad. If you get raging diarrhoea, you are getting rid of bad things so it is good. If you "take the waters" and they make your eyes water and you vomit, well that's good as well.

There may be a grain of truth in some of these, in some circumstances. And there are certainly some conventional treatments that have the same worse-before-better trajectory - chemo?

Whatever the level of truth, some people will go too far.

And in the Dawn Page story, IIRC, she contacted the "therapist" who told her to carry on.

[Tim Lamb]

I haven't!

Just lucky perhaps or just pig headed enough not to join.

I cycled to school so avoided the school bus crowd. At 15 I was spending my pocket money on shotgun cartridges.

In further education, engineering did not attract many drug users although one reject from an HND course had some impressive chicken tracks.

Now I am just a boring old fart:-)

Happy Christmas

[Andy Champ]

The amusing one was the missive we had around at work referring to "controlled substances". That includes prescription-only medicines.

Andy

[Andy Burns]

Nothing more than two or three drags on a jazz rollie as it's been passed around ...

[ARW]

Only 50%?

[tony sayer]

I remember as a lad going the Roundhouse in Camden of a Sunday afternoon .. why you'd get to see 8 odd bands, get Newcastle brown for less than a quid .. a decent lunch and change from half a crown and all the dope smoke and more you could inhale later in the auditorium free of charge;!..

So by that token I suppose yes;!...

[John Rumm]

[John Rumm]

Never even had a puff on a normal ciggie - growing up with a parent smoking was enough to put me off that one for life!

I think we had once girl who quit due to getting knocked up, but that was about the extent of the scandal!

Perhaps we should start a club ;-)

[John Rumm]

Makes me think of:

[polygonum]

[Tim Lamb]

In message , John Rumm writes

You joke! My family claim newsgroups are the ideal outlet for my limited social attributes.

[John Rumm]

You would never guess he was a scientist would you ;-)

(he is the brother of the film director Stephen Poliakoff BTW)