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Pocket Ninja		2009-06-20 10:47:16 AM

Our war on drugs worries me. We spend so many of our resources, our human capital and government funds and our relationships with our families and youth and Cheetohs, and the end result is so at odds with the enormous and salty investment we all make. Salt, cheesy salt. We want to bite down on what the DEA tells us is a societal problem, chomp through what would appear to be harming us with that onion dipping sauce. String cheese melted in a bowl. Melted in a bowl with bacon bits and crumbled potato chips. And sea salt. We can't stand against this tide of pizza. Oh, cold pizza. Just fold that baby up. Cold pizza with cucumbers. Crunchy. Crunchy cucumbers. Crunchy munchy cucumbers, watch me crunch. Munch. Munch rhymes with bunch. Bunch hunch lunch crunch punch. PUNCH BUGGY. It's not fair that normal punch buggies only get you one punch but Punch Buses get you five. Who decided that. Ooh, oranges. Ooh, tart. Lunch, crunch, munch, bunch. Buggy Punch. Ooh, pretzels.

PainInTheASP		2009-06-20 11:15:22 AM

Dude, you just blew my diet.

farfigneugan		2009-06-20 11:18:52 AM

Farked 2 posts in? really?

thelordofcheese		2009-06-20 11:19:24 AM

No "Slpliffy" tag?

architectastic		2009-06-20 11:19:59 AM

thelordofcheese: No "Slpliffy" tag?

came here to say this...

thelordofcheese		2009-06-20 11:20:27 AM

thelordofcheese: No "Slpliffy" tag?

I FAIL. Damn me for starting to drink at... when's dawn?

opiumpoopy		2009-06-20 11:20:34 AM

farfigneugan: Farked 2 posts in? really?

farfigneugan: Farked 2 posts in? really?

Server got the munchies and popped out for a Chattanooga chew-chew.

Marcus Aurelius		2009-06-20 11:21:28 AM

farfigneugan

Farked 2 posts in? really?

That's just the DEA doing a DoS on any articles that might hurt their funding. In the interests of freedom and liberty, of course.

Bee Roo Ga Ho Shee		2009-06-20 11:22:31 AM

I have no idea what's going on right now, so I'm just going to go microwave a bowl of string cheese and bacon bits.

BravadoGT		2009-06-20 11:26:22 AM

farfigneugan: Farked 2 posts in? really?

It looks like the link is using some sort of Chrome-specific language ("chrome://fctoolbar18b8f08d62fe4dfcad6c9ce46515d5ec/content/tab_page.htm")

ElLoco		2009-06-20 11:27:00 AM

Can I get server software for my phone, too?

That'd be neato.

Ebenator		2009-06-20 11:32:08 AM

Link is farked. Someone please post the pic

Daniefish		2009-06-20 11:32:39 AM

BravadoGT: farfigneugan: Farked 2 posts in? really?

It looks like the link is using some sort of Chrome-specific language ("chrome://fctoolbar18b8f08d62fe4dfcad6c9ce46515d5ec/content/tab_page.htm")

Fail++? Fail#.net?

ElLoco		2009-06-20 11:32:39 AM

Oh... btw:

Google cache (new window)

vertiaset		2009-06-20 11:33:29 AM

How exactly would the "War on Drugs" be won? Would all use of illegal drugs need to be eliminated? So, if a single 19 year old video clerk in Eugene, Oregon goes behind the store on his break and smokes a joint and the war is lost?

There is no way to tell whether the war is won or lost because we can not compare the way things are now to the way things would have been had we not pledged our resources to fighting illegal drug trafficking.

Drugs are an evil which drags society down. I include alcohol in this classification as well as other harder drugs. Marijuana, is probably the least offensive drug but it too leads to lethargy, apathy and lost opportunity.

StvyRayVhn1		2009-06-20 11:34:30 AM

Google cache is farked?

signaljammer		2009-06-20 11:34:46 AM

Dope heads in prior posts recommended Modest Mouse's Everywhere and his nasty Parlour Tricks and Funkadelic's Live...1971 albums. The mailman has arrived, bearing a package from Amazon, and I must state that I heartily concur. It's been rainy here in Chi, there was a derailment in Rockford, but the poppies are now beginning to bloom. Oh yeah, DEA

signaljammer		2009-06-20 11:36:17 AM

SUX!!

AbbeySomeone		2009-06-20 11:36:48 AM

Bee Roo Ga Ho Shee: I have no idea what's going on right now, so I'm just going to go microwave a bowl of string cheese and bacon bits.

I've found this culinary delight to be best served over popcorn.

pounddawg		2009-06-20 11:37:19 AM

Pocket Ninja [TotalFark]

You misspelled cheeto.

signaljammer		2009-06-20 11:37:58 AM

vertiaset

The guy who invented DNA PCR was tripping at the time and recommends hallucinogens. How does this square with your opinion?

aagrajag		2009-06-20 11:38:06 AM

vertiaset: How exactly would the "War on Drugs" be won? Would all use of illegal drugs need to be eliminated? So, if a single 19 year old video clerk in Eugene, Oregon goes behind the store on his break and smokes a joint and the war is lost?

There is no way to tell whether the war is won or lost because we can not compare the way things are now to the way things would have been had we not pledged our resources to fighting illegal drug trafficking.

Drugs are an evil which drags society down. I include alcohol in this classification as well as other harder drugs. Marijuana, is probably the least offensive drug but it too leads to lethargy, apathy and lost opportunity.

Michael Phelps would call you a dumbass, but he's too busy being extremely successful.

Also, after watching Zamboro own you in a previous thread, I'm thinking you may want to get a new alt. Or at least trying specialising your trolling.

TheShavingofOccam123		2009-06-20 11:38:21 AM

When William F. Buckley came out in favor of de-criminalization/legalization, I rolled a great big fattie.

/handwriting on the wall back then
/Jack Tacos 2 for 99 cents

Supes		2009-06-20 11:38:36 AM

frizzle65		2009-06-20 11:39:41 AM

What was this thread about?

StvyRayVhn1		2009-06-20 11:39:45 AM

Thanks Supes

ElLoco		2009-06-20 11:39:59 AM

So yeah... the article was pretty much spot on and seemed to parrot the typical Fark debates over drug legalization, except they the writer called cocaine a narcotic. Any first year Fark student would have caught that one.

Mort_Q		2009-06-20 11:40:10 AM

StvyRayVhn1: Google cache is farked?

You can get to the text only version.

lawboy87		2009-06-20 11:40:35 AM

Marijuana, is probably the least offensive drug but it too leads to lethargy, apathy and lost opportunity.-vertiaset

Did you ever stop and think what evil shiat pot smokers might be up to if it weren't for the lethargy apathy and lost opportunity that being high brings to them?

BTW, I know some pot smokers that hold down some damned fine jobs, who managed to get some impressive degrees, etc. all while smoking a joint now and then. In my experience, the amount of lethargy and apathy has far more to do with the person than the pot. Many of the people I knew growing up who smoked pot - they would have still been just as lethargic and apathetic stone cold sober.

ElLoco		2009-06-20 11:41:35 AM

ElLoco: except ~~they~~ that the writer

ftfm

Jimmy Devil Rocket Science		2009-06-20 11:42:38 AM

StvyRayVhn1: Thanks Supes

Yeah, thanks a bunch. Now we don't have to wait for the link to come up to decide whether or not we hate the submitter for having a fondness for sharp knees.

NeoKhan		2009-06-20 11:44:53 AM

vertiaset: How exactly would the "War on Drugs" be won?

The war, violence, corruption, and loss of civil liberties caused by the War on Drugs would have to be less bad than the harm that the increase in drug use would cause. We can estimate the magnitude of this harm by comparing Salt Lake City* or Philadelphia** to Amsterdam.

*to be generous to the drug warriors.
**to be less generous.

NeoKhan		2009-06-20 11:46:36 AM

ElLoco: So yeah... the article was pretty much spot on and seemed to parrot the typical Fark debates over drug legalization, except they the writer called cocaine a narcotic. Any first year Fark student would have caught that one.
Medically, cocaine is not a narcotic.
Legally, cocaine is a narcotic and tomatoes are vegetables (as is ketchup).

signaljammer		2009-06-20 11:46:58 AM

Anybody else goin' to Rothbury?

UNC_Samurai		2009-06-20 11:48:05 AM

Pocket Ninja: Our war on drugs worries me. We spend so many of our resources, our human capital and government funds and our relationships with our families and youth and Cheetohs, and the end result is so at odds with the enormous and salty investment we all make. Salt, cheesy salt. We want to bite down on what the DEA tells us is a societal problem, chomp through what would appear to be harming us with that onion dipping sauce. String cheese melted in a bowl. Melted in a bowl with bacon bits and crumbled potato chips. And sea salt. We can't stand against this tide of pizza. Oh, cold pizza. Just fold that baby up. Cold pizza with cucumbers. Crunchy. Crunchy cucumbers. Crunchy munchy cucumbers, watch me crunch. Munch. Munch rhymes with bunch. Bunch hunch lunch crunch punch. PUNCH BUGGY. It's not fair that normal punch buggies only get you one punch but Punch Buses get you five. Who decided that. Ooh, oranges. Ooh, tart. Lunch, crunch, munch, bunch. Buggy Punch. Ooh, pretzels.

We're all indebted to Pocket Ninja for clearly stating what needed to be said. Not only was it authentic Fark gibberish, but it expresses a genuine crazy little seen in this day and age!

Mort_Q		2009-06-20 11:49:04 AM

Mort_Q: You can get to the text only version.

I hope this works (new window)

Trolly McTrollerson		2009-06-20 11:50:41 AM

I'm fairly convinced that Pocket Ninja is either batshiat insane or spends his every waking moment stoned out of his/her mind.

SherKhan		2009-06-20 11:50:49 AM

Hail to the cheef, baby.

Brown Sauce		2009-06-20 11:52:11 AM

There are so many good reasons to keep marijuana illegal. (new window)

signaljammer		2009-06-20 11:53:23 AM

NeoKhan

But only scientific entities are real. I am reading a fascinating, if rather gross, book on the (The Kindly Ones) Third Reich. The author points that the NAZIs were more afraid of being considered irrelevant than brutal. So a guy saying that race wasn't an actual scientific moiety was more troubling than an ordinary protester. I digress. What I am trying to say is that the US gov't can call cocaine a narcotic, or the sky finite. It just doesn't make it so.

aagrajag		2009-06-20 11:54:02 AM

UNC_Samurai:
We're all indebted to Pocket Ninja for clearly stating what needed to be said. Not only was it authentic Fark gibberish, but it expresses a genuine crazy little seen in this day and age!

Pocket Ninja truly is a gentleman and a scholar, but that post was too brilliantly crazy to be entirely imitation. I've had conversations with certain individuals that have gone all wibbly in much the same manner.

I would, of course, have it no other way.

steamingpile		2009-06-20 11:54:08 AM

Its obvious to anyone with half a brain that the war on drugs is lost with no hope of being won, ever.

Its great that they spend hundreds of thousands of dollars just to bust a small time dealer with a pound or so and a few thousand dollars on hand. Jesus, I know cops are bad at math but even kids on the short bus can realize that is a money loser.

Mort_Q		2009-06-20 11:56:35 AM

Brown Sauce: There are so many good reasons to keep marijuana illegal. (new window)

LOL... thanks for that.

spleef420		2009-06-20 11:57:09 AM

Trolly McTrollerson: I'm fairly convinced that Pocket Ninja is either batshiat insane or spends his every waking moment stoned out of his/her mind.

why can't it be both?

ZocketRocket		2009-06-20 11:57:50 AM

Actually, I like the way Pocket Ninja thinks.

malle-herbert		2009-06-20 11:58:38 AM

"It's NOT a war on drugs, It's a war on personal freedom... that's what it is !"

Kalashinator		2009-06-20 11:59:53 AM

TheShavingofOccam123: When William F. Buckley came out in favor of de-criminalization/legalization, I rolled a great big fattie.

/handwriting on the wall back then
/Jack Tacos 2 for 99 cents

I thought it was 99 tacos for 2 cents?

Abox		2009-06-20 12:00:07 PM

I have drugs in my house but they are non-combatants.

NakedApe		2009-06-20 12:01:24 PM

As people slowly realize that we've spent billions on the war on drugs with nothing positive to show for it the law enforcement community is making the war on terrorism their new cash cow.

No Such Agency		2009-06-20 12:07:35 PM

Drugs will destroy your life because you can be arrested for possession, and go to jail. With a criminal record, you will never hold down a decent job in your life. How can we legalize something so destructive?

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