Choom Ba Ya Open Thread

Posted by Emperor Misha I on June 1, 2012

With a tip of the Oppressive Imperialist Crown to Comrade Red Square who created this:

Don’t let a single whiff of the goodness of Choom go to waste, comrades!

Thatisall.

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  1. 1
    BigDogg growls and barks:
    June 1, 2012 at 20:44

    Foist … nuthin’ else, just foist. Suck it.

  2. 2
    LC Cheapshot911, Dept. of Redneck Tech growls and barks:
    June 1, 2012 at 21:11

    China b bitchin’.
    We just don’t seem to be embracing communism fast enough.

  3. 3
    Sir Fresh Sign growls and barks:
    June 1, 2012 at 21:19

    Couldn’t we just station Ostupid’s ears on the polish border to help warn of incoming missile attacks? He can probably hear shit like a gnat taking a shit..

  4. 4
    Secondmouse growls and barks:
    June 1, 2012 at 21:48

    Obama. If you get high enough, he actually looks like he’s doing a passable job.

  5. 5
    Igor, Imperial Booby growls and barks:
    June 1, 2012 at 21:51

    Breathe deep, the gathering gloom,
    Watch lights fade from every room…

    Oh, wait, wrong generation.

    Nuttin’ like a little Ganja Weed, eh Barry? :em05:

  6. 6
    LC Robohobo growls and barks:
    June 1, 2012 at 22:26

    LC Cheapshot911, Dept. of Redneck Tech says:

    China b bitchin’.
    We just don’t seem to be embracing communism fast enough.

    From the China report:

    The United States prioritizes the right to keep and bear arms over the protection of citizens’ lives and personal security and exercises lax firearm possession control, causing rampant gun ownership. The U.S. people hold between 35 percent and 50 percent of the world’ s civilian-owned guns, with every 100 people having 90 guns (Online edition of the Foreign Policy, January 9, 2011). According to a Gallup poll in October 2011, 47 percent of American adults reported that they had a gun. That was an increase of six percentage points from a year ago and the highest Gallup had recorded since 1993. Fifty-two percent of middle-aged adults, aged between 35 and 54, reported to own guns, and the adults’ gun ownership in the south region was 54 percent (The China Press, October 28, 2011). The New York Times reported on November 14, 2011, that since 1995, more than 3,300 felons and people convicted of domestic violence misdemeanors had regained their gun rights in the state of Washington and of that number, more than 400 had subsequently committed new crimes, including shooting and other felonies (The New York Times, November 14, 2011).

    Translation:


    Holy F-ckin’ Sh-t! We won’t ever invade those dangerous bast-rds! They scare the sh-t out of us!

  7. 7
    Lady H growls and barks:
    June 1, 2012 at 22:37

    :em05:

    Will someone please explain to this dummy what is “choom”? :em03:

  8. 8
    Lady H growls and barks:
    June 1, 2012 at 22:39

    Sir Fresh Sign @ #:

    :em05:
    :em05: :em05:

    Good one, Bro’!

  9. 9
    Lady H growls and barks:
    June 1, 2012 at 22:40

    Is there a “choom” in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?

  10. 10
    Emperor Misha I growls and barks:
    June 1, 2012 at 23:50

    Lady H says:

    Will someone please explain to this dummy what is “choom”?

    At your service, Milady.
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  11. 11
    DJ Allyn growls and barks:
    June 2, 2012 at 00:12

    Oh wow. It’s like we’re in 2007 again and y’all discovering this stuff for the first time.

  12. 12
    Emperor Misha I growls and barks:
    June 2, 2012 at 01:54

    DJ Allyn says:

    Oh wow. It’s like we’re in 2007 again and y’all discovering this stuff for the first time.

    Oh, but we knew it in 2007 (and 2008, which is rather more important), but the Obama Steno Pool seemed to have a blind spot back then.
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  13. 13
    Cannon Fodder growls and barks:
    June 2, 2012 at 05:48

    @Secondmouse ……

    The sheer amount of drugs necessary for that particular event to occur would kill even the most hardened of users! :em01:

  14. 14
    Muzzy - Imperial Ignorant Slut growls and barks:
    June 2, 2012 at 07:02

    Nothing wrong with smoking a little ‘erb.

  15. 15
    LC Cheapshot911, Dept. of Redneck Tech growls and barks:
    June 2, 2012 at 08:14

    Muzzy – Imperial Ignorant Slut says:

    Nothing wrong with smoking a little ‘erb.

    “Sir, the surgeon will be here for your hysterectomy. There was a delay,, ‘seems someone had misplaced the department bong, give him just a few more minutes.. M’kay?”

  16. 16
    DJ Allyn growls and barks:
    June 2, 2012 at 08:24

    Emperor Misha I says:

    Oh, but we knew it in 2007 (and 2008, which is rather more important), but the Obama Steno Pool seemed to have a blind spot back then.

    Coulda fooled me and 300 million other people. Heck, he was being so secretive about it that he even wrote about it in his book. Of course it could be that people were distracted by those fluff pieces on him like the Jeremy Wright stories and his birth certificate.

    Besides, weren’t we all told during the previous administration that past cocaine was no big deal any more? Of course the previous guy was using it in his thirties, while Obama seems to have given up his youthful indiscretions at a much earlier age.

    :em02:

  17. 17
    LC HJ Caveman82952 growls and barks:
    June 2, 2012 at 08:45

    Nothing wrong with smoking a little ‘erb.

    Yes indeedy…those were the days……..times a good joint was just what the doctor ordered, relieves stress, empties your refrigerator…………and where did that beer go? You guys drank all my beer…..
    It was good stuff too…real good. Got lost in my own house, forgot why I walked in the bathroom, possessed of an imperative, grunt out and crash, grunt out and crash…..

  18. 18
    DJ Allyn growls and barks:
    June 2, 2012 at 09:12

    LC HJ Caveman82952 @ #17:

    Most of us grow out of that phase.

  19. 19
    LC HJ Caveman82952 growls and barks:
    June 2, 2012 at 09:23

    True, we do. If nothing else to reclaim our memories………

  20. 20
    DJ Allyn growls and barks:
    June 2, 2012 at 11:09

    Oh, and raise your hands if you’ve never smoked pot. I’m guessing that some of you STILL do. Many of you have probably tried harder stuff. Maybe a couple of you still are.

    Hey, welcome to the American demographics.

    What has changed in the past few decades is that we’ve gone from no presidential candidate admitting to smoking pot, to one who did but didn’t inhale, to another one who admitted to using cocaine in his thirties, to another who admits to being a pothead in high school and college.

    LC HJ Caveman82952 @ #19:

    Strange, but I have vivid memories from back then. That’s why I love music so much — it triggers a lot of those memories.

  21. 21
    LC TerribleTroy growls and barks:
    June 2, 2012 at 12:07

    Funny that we know more about his drug use (which I really dont care about) during his school years than anything else… :em03:

  22. 22
    Jaybear, Colonel of Imperial Ancient Artillery growls and barks:
    June 2, 2012 at 12:26

    DJ Allyn says:

    Oh, and raise your hands if you’ve never smoked pot. I’m guessing that some of you STILL do. Many of you have probably tried harder stuff. Maybe a couple of you still are.

    my hand stays down….but I haven’t touched any of that stuff for 30 years, no alcohol for 25. I really don’t care about his previous drug use, I don’t care….I am more concerned with his systematic destruction of our economy and this country

    DJ Allyn says:

    What has changed in the past few decades is that we’ve gone from no presidential candidate admitting to smoking pot, to one who did but didn’t inhale, to another one who admitted to using cocaine in his thirties, to another who admits to being a pothead in high school and college.

    and you’ll remember the furor over W’s past boozing and drugging….the media wouldn’t let it go. I say fair is fair, the liberals and their steno pool (aka the media) set the rules for this game, and we’re just enjoying our turn at serving the ball. We’ll slow it down if you’re having trouble returning it…

  23. 23
    Darth Venomous growls and barks:
    June 2, 2012 at 12:31

    Oh, and raise your hands if you’ve never smoked pot.

    (raises hands)

  24. 24
    Jaybear, Colonel of Imperial Ancient Artillery growls and barks:
    June 2, 2012 at 13:05

    Darth Venomous says:

    (raises hands)

    Good on ya’ Darth, anyone who thinks pot is a harmless drug is probably smoking it. I have friends who were and are chronic users and they have a multitude of issues ranging from memory loss to mental issues to chronic bronchial problems….

    harmless my ass.

  25. 25
    LC Gladiator growls and barks:
    June 2, 2012 at 13:47

    DJ Allyn says:

    Oh, and raise your hands if you’ve never smoked pot.

    RAISES HAND

    NEVER smoked Pot. Never even tried a regular cigarette. IMHO its a filthy habit.

  26. 26
    DJ Allyn growls and barks:
    June 2, 2012 at 14:56

    Jaybear, Colonel of Imperial Ancient Artillery says:

    my hand stays down….but I haven’t touched any of that stuff for 30 years, no alcohol for 25. I really don’t care about his previous drug use, I don’t care….I am more concerned with his systematic destruction of our economy and this country

    Exactly and fair.

    Jaybear, Colonel of Imperial Ancient Artillery says:

    and you’ll remember the furor over W’s past boozing and drugging….the media wouldn’t let it go.

    My point was that presidential candidates are more out front with their past drug and alcohol use now than they were before. Remember Gary Hart’s little indiscretion and how that ruined his political career? Hell, now you can almost see John Edwards running in 2016.

    Attitudes have changed over time. You become more suspicious of people who claim they HAVEN’T smoked pot at some point in their lives — if only to try it out. I know that roughly 40 percent of the American population will admit to it, but I suspect you can add at least another ten or fifteen percent who won’t admit to it.

    Jay, I know people who use pot for recreation and you are right — they are “vegged”. But that is their goal. Sober them up and they are alright. I also know a few people who have used pot for actual medicinal purposes — myself included. I wasn’t smoking it to get blotto, I was smoking it to get through chemotherapy and radiation treatments. If you had been on some of the regimens that I was on a couple of years ago, you would consider pot a friggin’ godsend. It helped me eat and keep food down. It helped me remain awake and relaxed without having to take more serious narcotics which would have kept me asleep.

    Would I recommend it as a recreational drug? Probably not. At least not unless you intend to be in a mind fog all the time. But for cancer patients and HIV/AIDS patients who are on some sort of chemical and/or radiation treatment or suffer from certain types of glaucoma, then yes, I would recommend its usage.

    Darth Venomous @ #23 and LC Gladiator @ #25:

    That’s good. Kinda nerdy, I suppose, but good. :em01:

  27. 27
    LC HJ Caveman82952 growls and barks:
    June 2, 2012 at 15:29

    Amen to that, Dave. One tends to wax a whole lot less judgmental when it is someone you love going through that hell….you will do anything to help…..I’ve been there. I still have some in my safe, Mary’s prescription, along with oral morphine sulfate, easing her passage Home….., both legally mine in the eyes of the law, I checked…..Not much prescription weed left…..and I don’t smoke it, haven’t for close to twenty-five years now………. I was told it is quite potent…….. :em03:
    But if TSHTF it may come in handy, both of them.

  28. 28
    Jaybear, Colonel of Imperial Ancient Artillery growls and barks:
    June 2, 2012 at 16:26

    DJ Allyn says:

    Would I recommend it as a recreational drug? Probably not. At least not unless you intend to be in a mind fog all the time. But for cancer patients and HIV/AIDS patients who are on some sort of chemical and/or radiation treatment or suffer from certain types of glaucoma, then yes, I would recommend its usage.

    well, I’d be a liar if I said that I hadn’t used addictive mind altering drugs over the last 25 years. Specifically Oxycontin or Hydrocodone for cracked ribs in 2007 and also during my recovery from cancer surgery a couple of years ago. While the buzz made the music sound great, I didn’t like it. I take my sobriety very seriously and those drugs scared the crap out of me….I actually stopped taking the oxy a couple of days after my surgery and was very forcefully and painfully reminded of why I SHOULD take them….as prescribed….

    There are a lot of drugs that are used for pain and recovery and general coping with things like chemo and I support that heartily…..however, my take on medical marijuana growing operations is that many times they are legal sanctuaries for big and small time dealers. There was an incident about a half mile from me a few years ago, a guy had a pot growing operation on his property for supply to medical facilities, he fired one of his workers and the kid came back with a few friends early one morning and broke in. The pot grower was armed to the teeth and a gun battle ensued where two of the home invaders were shot and killed. the grower was very reluctant to let the cops on his property, but when they did go in, they found that this guy was growing a shitload of pot, much more than he was legally permitted to do. Grow it for medical purposes? great, grow the amount you are allowed to do and no more. If this is going to be a legal thing it has to be regulated.

  29. 29
    Mark12A growls and barks:
    June 2, 2012 at 16:36

    I doubt that anyone really cares that Odumbshit smoked a little weed back in the day. That’s not why we hate the bastard. Neither that, or the radicalism, or the homosexuality, or his embracing of islam. Nope, he’s given us reason over the past three years to hate him with a passion that transcends belief.

    Nope, the real tragedy here is the comparison of the media’s handling of W’s drinking, for example, and the media’s handling of Il Douche’s varied vices. Of course, he admits to bogarting joints and taking hits out of turn, which, in my day, would earn you a serious ass kicking.

  30. 30
    LC HJ Caveman82952 growls and barks:
    June 2, 2012 at 16:45

    I use Tramadol quite often for arthritis pain…….had no problems with it. And yes, massive tooth infection requiring industrial strength stuff……use as directed.

  31. 31
    Secondmouse growls and barks:
    June 2, 2012 at 17:10

    Cannon Fodder @ #13:

    You would think so, but this guy still polls in the mid-forties, so there must be a strong hallucinogenic making the rounds in the SSDI and SNAP lines.

  32. 32
    Jaybear, Colonel of Imperial Ancient Artillery growls and barks:
    June 2, 2012 at 17:11

    LC HJ Caveman82952 says:

    use as directed.

    Roger that Cave….my problem is that I get a little too nervy around that stuff and rather than take it as prescribed, I usually stop taking it altogether. Stupid thing to do for sure, and it hurts like hell when I do that, and my doctor has clobbered me a couple of times for not taking prescribed medication but he also says he’d rather have a problem patient like me who DOESN’T take the prescribed happy pills than the alternative.

    Tramadol eh? I’ll have to look into that, my knees are getting arthritic and ibuprofen doesn’t do much about that anymore.

  33. 33
    BigDogg growls and barks:
    June 2, 2012 at 17:39

    DJ Allyn says:

    Oh, and raise your hands if you’ve never smoked pot.

    *raises hand*
    I don’t really care if others do/have … not the most important issue to me, as others have already pointed out.

    Besides, a fifth of Jack has always done its job when I needed to escape.

  34. 34
    LC Gladiator growls and barks:
    June 2, 2012 at 19:07

    The Marxist 0bama regime will always have things upside down and backwards. While we need more jobs and less government they want to enact regulations that destroy jobs for no reason and make a bigger and more oppressive government.

    It really pains me that more people are unable to make the association from Obama’s speech on Tuesday promising that American industry will be able to compete with foreign competitors in five years and his speech on Friday wherein he says that the coal industry will be shut down through legislation and regulation.

    Can someone explain to me how American industries can compete with ANYONE if their electrical power costs are three times the costs of their foreign competitors ?

    The man is an economic illiterate.

    Reply 3 – Posted by: nhchemist, 6/2/2012 4:06:42 PM (No. 8616382)

    Our local coal fired power plant just spent $422 million on a mercury scrubber. It removes 98% of the 120 pounds normally released in a year. The scrubber has now made power so expensive, the power plant will only run in the summer and winter when demand is high. Spring and fall the plant will sit idle and PSNH will buy cheaper power from out of state.

    In 2006, the project was started, and the cost was estimated to be $250 million. While 0bama’s EPA has been a disaster, Bush’s EPA wasn’t much better.

    Reply 4 – Posted by: Melin1, 6/2/2012 4:09:46 PM (No. 8616386)

    Coal trains, up to a mile long, and fully loaded, go through Nebraska towns every 15 to 20 minutes. The coal is from open pit mines in Wyoming, going east to provide electricity to hundreds of consumers in big cities to the east. Shut down the mines, shut off the lights, air conditioners, manufacturing plants, all industry using electricity and see how many more unemployed he will ‘create’. Maybe the plan is to kill off the old people as happened in Europe. Maybe the plan is to create 2/3 of the country on food stamps and welfare. Whatever, the taxpayers are on the decline. SOMEONE has to pay for the welfare and they are a fast disappearing minority.

  35. 35
    DJ Allyn growls and barks:
    June 2, 2012 at 19:23

    Jaybear, Colonel of Imperial Ancient Artillery says:

    .however, my take on medical marijuana growing operations is that many times they are legal sanctuaries for big and small time dealers.

    To me, that is really unimportant. While I don’t use marijuana, I don’t have a problem with others smoking it. Unless of course they are driving a vehicle or they are in a position where they could cause injury to others because they are high.

    I look at it just like drinking. Drink. Get drunk. Get completely shit-faced if you want. But IF you are going to drink, take responsibility for you, yourself, and your actions. Cause a problem while you are drunk — expect some serious consequences. If you drink and drive — I support you going to jail for a minimum of thirty days for your first offense, and double your stay each time you get caught. Kill or injure someone while you are drunk or high — hang it up, because I would lock you up for the duration.

    Take ANY drugs or alcohol and cause a problem because you are drunk, high, or “out of it” I would treat it all the same way.

    Legalize marijuana. I don’t see it as much of a problem as alcohol. It would take the criminal element completely out of the equation. It could also be a great tax revenue.

    Another thing — if your drug and alcohol use causes you serious health problems, then that is on YOU. If you are able to pay out of your pocket for whatever damage drugs and alcohol did to you, then fine. Just don’t expect our insurance pool to pay for your treatment. The same goes for smoking and the need to stuff that box of twinkies into your face every day.

  36. 36
    LC 0311 Sir Crunchie I.M.H., K.o.E. growls and barks:
    June 2, 2012 at 19:37

    DJ Allyn says:

    Oh, and raise your hands if you’ve never smoked pot.

    Give me a hand raising smiley then cuz I never did.
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  37. 37
    LC 0311 Sir Crunchie I.M.H., K.o.E. growls and barks:
    June 2, 2012 at 19:39

    Jaybear, Colonel of Imperial Ancient Artillery says:

    Good on ya’ Darth, anyone who thinks pot is a harmless drug is probably smoking it. I have friends who were and are chronic users and they have a multitude of issues ranging from memory loss to mental issues to chronic bronchial problems….

    harmless my ass.

    Same here, and more than one who didn’t survive high school cause of where pot led them.
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  38. 38
    LC TerribleTroy growls and barks:
    June 2, 2012 at 21:01

    I believe the key to usage of any substance is moberation. I know a guy that smokes, he doesn’t smoke socially or to get high (but admits to that not being a negative) but smokes to alleviate anxiety and assist with sleep. His intake is about a gram a week. He told me a months supply cost him 50 % less than the script for more traditional medication. He also said that the weed is the most effective medication he’s used to date. Do I think there is true medicinal value from weed. Yes. Do I think that like everyother substance out there , that there is a potential for abuse? Certainly.

    So Obama sat around high school and college high buying into utopian pipedreams about how things should be…….kinda makes sense when ya think about it. Arrested development..

  39. 39
    DJ Allyn growls and barks:
    June 2, 2012 at 21:28

    LC TerribleTroy says:

    I believe the key to usage of any substance is moberation

    Is that kinda like a flash moberation?

    LC TerribleTroy says:

    So Obama sat around high school and college high buying into utopian pipedreams about how things should be…….kinda makes sense when ya think about it. Arrested development..

    That and consumed a lot of cheetos.

  40. 40
    LC Cheapshot911, Dept. of Redneck Tech growls and barks:
    June 2, 2012 at 21:32

    Canucks,, goood on ‘em.
    ‘Gotta’ make a beer run for some Tuborg,, after readin’ this.
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  41. 41
    Jaybear, Colonel of Imperial Ancient Artillery growls and barks:
    June 2, 2012 at 21:50

    DJ Allyn says:

    I look at it just like drinking.

    I don’t, a normal person (not me) can drink one beer or one glass of wine and put it away….I have never seen
    a pot smoker take one hit and call it a night, ever. That is the difference……

  42. 42
    DJ Allyn growls and barks:
    June 2, 2012 at 22:03

    Jaybear, Colonel of Imperial Ancient Artillery says:

    I don’t, a normal person (not me) can drink one beer or one glass of wine and put it away….I have never seen
    a pot smoker take one hit and call it a night, ever. That is the difference……

    I have, and I know many that do.

    Not everyone is out of control, Jay. Some people can use “moberation”, as Troy said.

    I know people who will have a hit or two and not touch the stuff again for weeks, if not months. It is just how high a person wants to get.

    At the same time, I know people who will drink until they pass out. Then get up in the morning and start again.

    That’s why I don’t see too much difference.

  43. 43
    Jaybear, Colonel of Imperial Ancient Artillery growls and barks:
    June 2, 2012 at 23:04

    DJ Allyn says:

    I have, and I know many that do.

    then I guess my friends are a bit more chronic than yours.

    DJ Allyn says:

    Not everyone is out of control, Jay. Some people can use “moberation”, as Troy said.

    I’m not sure where you saw me inferring that, I stated that in my drug and pot using career I never saw anyone take one hit and stop right there….I have seen many many people drink one glass of wine or alcohol and not touch another drop. The difference is that alcohol….as intoxicating as it is…..can be a harmless form of relaxation, one drink seldom changes your personality or your ability to function. Not so with marijuana

    DJ Allyn says:

    I know people who will have a hit or two and not touch the stuff again for weeks, if not months. It is just how high a person wants to get.

    At the same time, I know people who will drink until they pass out. Then get up in the morning and start again.

    That’s why I don’t see too much difference.

    I was a fifth or more a day drinker, started the moment I woke up until I passed out at night…..every day. I know recovering alcoholics who only drank at social occasions or only drank once a month. The defining factor is that their lives and their thoughts centered on those drinking occasions. I’ve also seen chronic pot smokers almost go berserk because they are out of pot and they can’t find any to buy, and don’t ask me how pleasant it is to be around a coke freak when HE runs out.

    I see a huge difference, not in the addictive properties of each one….but in the social use of them.

  44. 44
    DJ Allyn growls and barks:
    June 2, 2012 at 23:22

    Jaybear, Colonel of Imperial Ancient Artillery says:

    then I guess my friends are a bit more chronic than yours.

    Maybe. It probably just boils down to their motivation. Perhaps they WANT to get wasted.

    Jaybear, Colonel of Imperial Ancient Artillery says:

    I’m not sure where you saw me inferring that, I stated that in my drug and pot using career I never saw anyone take one hit and stop right there….I have seen many many people drink one glass of wine or alcohol and not touch another drop. The difference is that alcohol….as intoxicating as it is…..can be a harmless form of relaxation, one drink seldom changes your personality or your ability to function. Not so with marijuana

    I was just referring to the fact that some people are able to take things in moderation. It isn’t an indictment on anyone.

    I, myself am an addict. My drug of choice was NOT pot. I make it a point not to hang with people who have drug “problems”, but I do have friends who have been known to smoke a joint or two once in a while. I don’t feel the need to leave the room or get up and walk out if they take a hit.

    The industry I work in is rife with drugs. Always has been. The band I worked for for many years were all heroin addicts. Famously so. Two of the original members are dead because of it. The rest of the band — along with the two new members — are now clean and sober. I STILL will not go back to work with them on tour because I know what MY triggers are.

    I recently worked on the set of a movie production where one of the stars routinely shot dope. (you might be surprised to find out WHO, but I ain’t telling) While I disapproved of her actions, I was able to work with her and not have any problems.

    You see, I don’t let other people’s habits get in front of me — unless they are out of hand to the point where it effects me or what I am doing. I feel sorry that this VERY talented woman is in a position that she is, where eventually she will fall HARD, but she is making her OWN choices.

    I know that when I shot an eight ball a day, I would never have listened to someone telling me that I was likely to KILL myself if I didn’t stop. It took a death of someone close to me before I was able to see that it could have easily been me.

    Just that one day though. I was susceptible to the thought and was able to connect the dots. There but for the grace and yadda yadda yadda….

  45. 45
    DJ Allyn growls and barks:
    June 2, 2012 at 23:23

    Should I tell more? I mean, I could SCARE you silly with MY drug stories.

  46. 46
    Jaybear, Colonel of Imperial Ancient Artillery growls and barks:
    June 2, 2012 at 23:26

    DJ Allyn says:

    Should I tell more? I mean, I could SCARE you silly with MY drug stories.

    got a few of my own brudda…..I never shot up but hung with a lot of people that did. perhaps our stories are better shared over a cup of coffee sometime

  47. 47
    DJ Allyn growls and barks:
    June 2, 2012 at 23:51

    “Hi, I’m DJ, and I am an addict.”

    Jaybear, Colonel of Imperial Ancient Artillery says:

    got a few of my own brudda…..I never shot up but hung with a lot of people that did. perhaps our stories are better shared over a cup of coffee sometime

    I could see the coffee, but frankly, I would much rather NOT relive any of that stuff.

    I used to be big on NA and “sharing”. But as time went on, I figured out that you could literally go on forever dwelling on the past that way. I have a Masters in psychology and know that the root of most additions is co-dependency, and if you deal with THOSE issues you deal with the addiction issues.

    I have been clean since March 1st 1992. By “clean” I mean that I haven’t USED a drug for the purpose of getting high or maintaining a high. I say it that way only because I have had to be on narcotics for MEDICAL reasons only — pot being one of those drugs.

    I have drank alcohol. It was NEVER a problem drug for me. Chocolate, which is another narcotic was never a problem either. Pot — a drug that I used to smoke all of the time when I was a kid and young adult probably was an issue, but once I went into methamphetamine, I was cured of whatever addiction I had with pot.

    Why meth? Try being the first at a venue and the last to leave. Try having 160 locations in a tour. For every show you see, just know that the money you spend on a ticket is helping to pay for the habit of the road crew who supports the band. I cannot say it any simpler than that. I don’t care WHAT concert you pay to see. The sound crew is most likely high on meth. Without exception. I know sound crews that travel with Christian bands who are shooting meth. It is impossible NOT to. (I know a few Christian rock groups who use Heroin, — try to figure THAT out…)

    We take for granted a lot of our entertainers. Groups and people that we look up to . The same goes with the crews that put together just about ANY stage tours — including political ones.

    I know that I am speaking out of school on a lot of this stuff but I really don’t care any more. Drugs are prevalent in almost every venue you can think of. It is why I can no longer do those things.

    Coffee Jay? Sure. But I would much rather we talk about something else….

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    LC Fei Long growls and barks:
    June 3, 2012 at 05:32

    I was gonna kill unemployment, until I got high.
    I would propose a bill for your enjoyment, but then I got high.
    The economy’s a mess, and I know why: (why, man?)
    Because I got high, because I got high, because I got high….

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    LC TerribleTroy growls and barks:
    June 3, 2012 at 09:41

    DJ drugs are prevalent at every facet and level of society, it is the human condition. Jay, I think your perpective is a bit skewed by your history with other recovering addicts and hearing the endless tales of hitting bottom. One of the big reasons I stopped doing AA was this aspect. I have to disagree with your statement re personalities and change. I think both drugs can produce immediate changes in mood, especially in addicts. Could it be that you don’t know anyone who takes a hit and puts it down because the user isn’t smoking socially? The guy I know has maintained the same consumption level for yrs. I think both alcohol and weed are drugs, each with it own set of positives and negatives, and that they are equal after everything is said and done.

    I have to be careful when taking prescription narcotics as at one time I also used medicinal performance enhancement frequently for the job. For a awhile my motto was “Better living through Chemistry”. It is one thing to enjoy the fringe beneifits of a prescribed medication propely administered, quite the other to use without medical need. I had to forgive myself for enjoying the meds also. I’m a addict, your a addict, DJs a addict its the way our bodies work. But its OK to take the meds. So please don’t deny yourself

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    LC TerribleTroy growls and barks:
    June 3, 2012 at 09:45

    Sould have read “ok to take the meds when prescribed as prescribed, so please don’t deny yourself the meds.” (Gawddamnsmall ass cellphone)

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    Jaybear, Colonel of Imperial Ancient Artillery growls and barks:
    June 3, 2012 at 12:51

    DJ Allyn says:

    Coffee Jay? Sure. But I would much rather we talk about something else…

    I’m good with that…..guitars and rock ‘n’ roll as a topic maybe?

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    LC Xystus growls and barks:
    June 4, 2012 at 00:33

    The Wiz:

    Oh, and raise your hands if you’ve never smoked pot.

    Perhaps the Great Eye sees me raising mine. Difficult to prove, but I’m lousy at lying.

    Chocolate, which is another narcotic…

    Although there are different definitions of “narcotic,” I don’t believe chocolate fits them, being neither illicit nor an opioid. Its main active ingredient, theobromine, is a methylxanthine alkaloid & stimulant, like its cousin caffeine.

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    LC Xystus growls and barks:
    June 4, 2012 at 04:17

    Maybe Berserk Insane Bologna’s favorite comics are Cheech & Choom–or would that be Choom & Chong?

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    Cactus Jack growls and barks:
    June 4, 2012 at 15:22

    Can’t lie…I aint raising my hand. I’m in a bit of a predicament pretty soon, too, as far as the medicinal marijuana thing goes. I have been on prescription painkillers for years now, which thankfully my insurance has covered. I am in the process of trying to buy my own business though, and if it goes through, the insurance goes bye bye with my current employment. I’m not real hip on limping my ass around all the time. Looks like I’ll be joining the local choom gang.

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    DJ Allyn growls and barks:
    June 4, 2012 at 16:18

    Cactus Jack says:

    Looks like I’ll be joining the local choom gang.

    Well, it isn’t for every ache or pain, and if you use it you shouldn’t be driving or operating heavy equipment. You know, the standard routine.

    While the RECREATIONAL purpose is to get high, those who use it for medicinal purposes usually use it sparingly. Most of us really don’t want to go through life in a stupor.

    Now I am betting my comment here will end up in the Dog Pound because of this edit plugin that I so foolishly passed on without testing further.

    Just know that I have spent the past couple of hours — in pain, mind you — working on an alternative. It isn’t as nifty as being able to edit your comments, but it WILL be the next best thing.

    I will be offering up an old plugin I worked on a few years ago with a new rewrite to fit this theme. You will soon have a Comment Preview option.

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    DJ Allyn growls and barks:
    June 4, 2012 at 20:56

    Out of the dog pound again, but I do have to see if I can make a comment here today..