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Off Topic / Re: Aph's list of everything mainstream

« on: February 13, 2012, 07:16:55 PM »

Having pants at your ankles is mainstream and it makes you really cool.

This is true.
It is so mainstream that I'm too cool to do it.

Instead I just stuff straight into my trousers.

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Off Topic / Re: I made my first bong today

« on: February 13, 2012, 07:14:45 PM »

im not worried a pharmacist is going to sell me the wrong drug. i doubt you would be able to buy THC pills at a pharmacy though. the only other alternative is buying them from individuals, which is much more risky

Are we discussing THC pills for medicinal or recreational use?
They wouldn't be available over the counter from a pharmacy as cannabis is illegal.
It would instead be something you recieve a prescription for from your doctor.

But you wouldn't be able to buy a THC pill from a dealer either.
Because a THC pill is expensive. It takes chemical procedures to process the drug into a tablet.
It's nowhere near as easy as making other tablet drugs, such as Ecstacy, which is also dangerous because of the amount of "home-made" ones that are sold which contain hardly an Ecstacy and mostly contain poisonous materials used to make up mass for the tablet.
And a dealer wouldn't make money with a THC pill, because compared to simply growing some cannabis, harvesting it and drying/cutting it, it would be soo much more expensive.

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Off Topic / Re: BBC: "Tracking the troll"

« on: February 13, 2012, 07:06:02 PM »

He posted tribal comments, not tribalic comments.

And yes, searching for him doesn't mean much to him, but that doesn't mean he shouldn't be made an example of.
Perhaps he is proud of himself, but that's his own stupid affair. He's hardly intelligent to go around making tribal comments as such. Whether he was just trying to be funny or not, he's just making a bad image for himself.

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Off Topic / Re: I made my first bong today NOW A DEBATE ON POT

« on: February 13, 2012, 07:00:34 PM »

Just quoting this over because I want a response from those who say it kills brain cells.

I don't think there is considerable proof that it does that, but just because if it does and you aren't dumb doesn't make your argument right.

Smoking Tobbaco is well-known to lead to cancers of the mouth, lungs and throat as well as stimulate many other diseases including simple asthma.
Decades of research have proved this and led to further discoveries into the toxic side of smoking.
Now, it is often said that smoking 20 a day will dramatically decrease the length of your life.
But, hey, there's a 90 year old lady who has been smoking tobacco since she was 20 years old.
How could she possibly live so long if she smokes her 20 a day and has done for 70 odd years?

Well, clearly we have to throw out all our research because one case doesn't match our findings.

Or you know, perhaps her specific environment or genetic structure has made her less susceptible to the illnesses that are often caused by smoking, or perhaps it's just sheer luck.
Just because one person isn't effected doesn't mean that the dangers don't exist.
While I don't personally believe that cannabis use does lead to the damage of brain-cells, I can't agree with your argument for it is poorly founded.

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Off Topic / Re: I made my first bong today

« on: February 13, 2012, 06:53:16 PM »

you don't have to be a drug junkie to think that someone could just be lying to you and be selling you rat poison in a pill

If you have a fear that a pharmacist could be selling you a pill that contains dangerous substances then that is a phobia.
Possibly an unfounded one, but a phobia.
You don't know at all that any of the drugs in there are dangerous to you, although you should be aware that pharmacists don't make their drugs and as such, they arrive to the pharmacy as they are. So unless a company out there is mass-producing rat poison and sending it out, you have little reason to fear a pill from a doctor.

Whereas you should have a larger fear over cannabis that you get from a dealer.
Who knows what they have put in it?
It would be very easy for them to mix it with Tobacco, which you know is dangerous.
There could be absolutely no hygiene involved with the handling of your cannabis.

It's much more dangerous to take drugs from a dealer (Or a friend, who probably got it from a dealer) than it is to take those mass-produced and thoroughly examined and individually checked pills from a pharmacist. (Batch checked, obviously)

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Off Topic / Re: I made my first bong today

« on: February 13, 2012, 06:42:40 PM »

Are you loving handicapped? If it's so harmful, then why does it actually help people with their medical condition?

A large number of cannabis based medicinal drugs are infact taken without smoking.
Often they're taken orally as a tablet.

Most cannabis-based medicines are actually synthetic, such a Cesamet which is used in the US and the UK.
Cannabis' primary componant is THC (Tetrahydrcannibinol) and this causes the effect upon the brain which you recieve when smoking Cannabis, and it is this desired effect which is wanted in medicine, as it is an brown towngesic (painkiller).
The cannabis-based medicines use chemicals that are designed off of THC while a few use actual THC.

The drug is used for multiple disease treatments, including Cancers, Multiple Sclerosis and a few forms of Arthritis.


The difference between a Cannabis-based medicine and Cannabis is that you don't smoke your medicine.
In the case that you are given it to smoke, I've only ever seen it used with those terminally ill.
My grandmother was advised (although not legally) to try smoking some cannabis in the late stages of her cancer once she was told that she wouldn't live longer than a month or two.

If you happen to not be terminally-ill, then you wouldn't be advised to smoke Cannabis because of the byproducts of it.
The papers themselves aren't always good for you and often, particularly in street-cannabis, the cannabis is mixed with Tobacco, which is of course carcinogenic among other things.

What you're arguing here is that Cannabis is bad for you.
Which it's not, and I know that.
But smoking itself is. Inhallation of smoke can cause damage to the throat and lung-tissue, regardless of if it is from tobacco or cannabis.
In quit-smoking tools you can recieve fake-cigarettes to simulat actual smoking, my mother owns one. With it you smoke what is essentially steam with traces of Nicotine and is as such unharmful to you.
You can use Cannabis-based medicine, but it's not likely in the majority to be an actual spliff.
It will be a drug containing THC or a THC-based chemical, like Nabilone.

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Off Topic / Re: I made my first bong today

« on: February 13, 2012, 04:20:08 PM »

Another satisfied customer

I uh... I kinda... heard that you're selling... you know?... Tokthree?
Do you think... uh, you could... uh hit me up with a couple?

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Off Topic / Re: Post Your Steam Game List!

« on: February 13, 2012, 04:14:40 PM »

APB Reloaded - (Doesn't work for me)
Dead Island
Fallout New Vegas
Garry's Mod
Half-Life 2
Half-Life 2: Episode One
Half-Life 2: Episode Two
Half-Life 2: Lost Coast
Lego Loco - (Non Steam-Game)
Magicka
Medieval II: Total War - (I am rubbish at it and don't play it)
Portal
Portal 2
Red Faction: Armageddon
Saints Row 2
Star Trek Online - (Is a Steam-Game, but I downloaded it outside of Steam)
Team Fortress 2
Team Fortress 2 Beta
Terraria

So, yeah, 7/19 are actually from the Orange Box.

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Off Topic / Re: I made my first bong today

« on: February 13, 2012, 04:08:51 PM »

he's a father..?

You get under-age parents.

so you're going to involve plastic with fire, and inhale it

ok

This is the best of plans.

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Off Topic / Re: I found a blocklander in the roblox forum

« on: February 13, 2012, 04:03:59 PM »

You'll never guess my name on roblox.

BrickStone

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Off Topic / Re: New ISP get

« on: February 13, 2012, 04:03:25 PM »

like 400

I think we've actually had about 3 speedtest topics and then about 397 topics where someone posts their speedtest and everyone else posts theirs afterwards.

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Games / Re: Star Trek Online: Now F2P!

« on: February 13, 2012, 12:44:29 PM »

Updated the list on the Original post. We have more than enough to form a Blockland Fleet.

Everything can be voted on and we can even create a facebook group to better organize should maintaining something over Blockland become too time consuming. Recruiting is always a plus.

In any case, is it a thing we want to make happen?

I don't know much about how fleets or whatnot work, but I'd be interested in joining.
Sir Dooble@sirdooble

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Off Topic / Re: My birthday is in two days

« on: February 13, 2012, 12:34:54 PM »

So, I see we're now allerting about our birthdays early so that we can give gifts then?
If that's the case, August 10^th, just giving you time to have a lookout. 

Have a happy birthday in two days.

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Off Topic / Re: Auto Updates in Steam?

« on: February 13, 2012, 12:29:30 PM »

Hard to believe it's 2012 and there's people living in a developed nation that still can't get access to a reliable internet connection.

The connections to where I live are ancient.
The entire country is supposed to be going onto fibre-optics but they've managed to skip the area where I live.
Admittedly, there's a low population density where I am, but it is higher than in some places which already have it.

I live a couple hours away from the two cities in the same county as me, Exeter and Plymouth, and I live probably a similar time away from Bristol.
That's 3 cities within a short distance.

Yet FibreOptics has skipped past most of Devon (I believe the cities in the south have it) and has moved onto Cornwall to the west, one of the least-populated areas of the country and has no cities whatsoever.
THey have it out far-west towards Lands End where there are but a few cornish bumpkins living on farms.
Buut, apparently putting FibreOptics down there will boost the economy for Cornwall and give it more industry, so we just jump right over the more populated areas.

No you don't understand. When I slow down the internet it will be slow until the next bill is issued.What good would that do? It would just slow it down even worse....wouldn't it?

Not a dongle.
They use mobile-phone (cellphone) networks, if I'm right.
It's not through your supplier so your bill wouldn't increase and it wouldn't drop in speed.

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Off Topic / Re: Who wears Glasses?

« on: February 13, 2012, 12:22:32 PM »

I only recently got glasses. I was horrified when I was told I needed them. Really it's not as bad as I thought. I only have to wear them in school when I sit at the back of the classroom and can't read the board.

I take it you've gotten over the part where ALL of your classmates pinch your glasses off of you, put them on and then ask "How can you see with these?"?