This is why I make sure if the kids want booze, they get the same stuff I'm drinking. What I don't tell them is Black Strap Rum isn't meant to be mixed with Fruit Punch. They don't think alcohol is tasty

My friends and I used to pretend to be drug dealers back in high school. We sold "Jar", which consisted of empty jars of various sizes with the lids on. We'd open one up, huff, and fake being high. Mostly this was for our own amusement, and to freak teachers out.

Also, everyone here gets my eternal thanks for making this Easter at work less mind numbing. My sides actually hurt.

/internal organs

casual disregard: xenophon10k: "The effects on these people can be diarrhea, blindness, memory loss and internal organs. It's not reversible,"

Irreversible diarrhea admittedly seems like a terrible fate.

Would you really want to reverse it? Your colon doesn't have taste buds.

Endive Wombat: Deathfrogg: AbbeySomeone: I honestly don't understand why anyone would ingest that crap/ The smell gives me a migraine and it seems like it would make most people puke violently.


Maybe thats part of the attraction.

One kid in my school chugged about 2/3 of a fifth of rum at lunch and ended up being carried out of the school on a stretcher and spending several days in Hospital, and back at school a couple weeks later. There was a lot of stuff being said about how we were supposed to feel sorry for the guy and there was a large card in the lunchroom that everyone was supposed to sign for him, the "get well soon we miss you Mike" kinda bullshiat. He was one of the bigshot basketball jerks, he ended up wrecking his dads truck in Senior year and killing two of his friends.

But get caught with half a gram of Mexican dirt weed in the corner of a baggie and the stigma followed you around for years, on your permanent record.

There was a friend who I went to school with from kindergarten through my sr year in high school. Our jr year, his parents were divorcing and his two younger sisters were the ones getting all the attention. He stole a bottle of vodka from the local grocery store, pounded a lot of it then drove. It was raining, he hydroplaned, wrapped his car around a tree; it took the paramedics about 4 hours to get him out, they had to cut the huge eucalyptus down. He survived. He and his parents had his wrecked car dropped off in the front of the school along with huge 4'x8' pictures of the crash scene and his recovery. I lost touch after high school...he is doing well and sober now.

Now there was another guy I went to school with and in the 6th grade he was busted with a dime bag and that haunted him all the way into getting into college.

When my daughter was in school there were several of her classmates who were in treatment for getting caught with pot. A number of them were on medications as well. One kid was in treatment because he liked to wear eyeshadow..Upscale white people problems.
Scary.

Endive Wombat: AbbeySomeone: I honestly don't understand why anyone would ingest that crap/ The smell gives me a migraine and it seems like it would make most people puke violently.

Lack of education + lack of critical thinking skills + bored kids = horribly written, fear mongering articles aimed at overly concerned, helicopter PTA moms?

I believe that there an article put out a few times per year that polls high schoolers throughout the nation on pregnancy prevention. Drinking mountain dew or a cap full of bleach immediately following coitus is in the top 10. Sooooo....yeah....there you go.

Weird but when I went to school we all knew where Planned Parenthood was and only 2 girls in our school actually had babies. Damn those liberals.

AbbeySomeone: I honestly don't understand why anyone would ingest that crap/ The smell gives me a migraine and it seems like it would make most people puke violently.


Maybe thats part of the attraction.

One kid in my school chugged about 2/3 of a fifth of rum at lunch and ended up being carried out of the school on a stretcher and spending several days in Hospital, and back at school a couple weeks later. There was a lot of stuff being said about how we were supposed to feel sorry for the guy and there was a large card in the lunchroom that everyone was supposed to sign for him, the "get well soon we miss you Mike" kinda bullshiat. He was one of the bigshot basketball jerks, he ended up wrecking his dads truck in Senior year and killing two of his friends.

But get caught with half a gram of Mexican dirt weed in the corner of a baggie and the stigma followed you around for years, on your permanent record.

Deathfrogg: ambassador_ahab: Are they trying to say that getting drunk from drinking this stuff is more dangerous than getting drunk from drinking booze/beer/wine/etc.?

As a teenager before I had a fake ID, I'd drink Listerine as well as vanilla extract (that shiat is brutal straight, but you do what you gotta do.) I suppose it did cause me to have internal organs, but I didn't notice any other side effects different from any other drink.


I never could figure out what it was with alcoholics. When I was in High School I would be out in the woods at lunchtime getting baked with some guys and the drunkie kids would be out there with their bottles of vodak or whatever, and they'd be chugging the shiat like it was going out of style, mostly alone, while the stoners would be happy smoking a couple of doobs with six or seven other dudes and a couple of girls and going back in. I aced history class, chemistry class, drivers education and biology being pretty baked. I passed my drivers exam stoned and haven't had a moving violation in 27 years.

While the band geeks and the superjocks and the pretty popular people were staggering around the classroom and knocking shiat over, or in one case, mixing Acetic Acid and Acetaldehyde and then dumping it down the sink when the beaker got too hot to hold on to, I was following the instructions and getting the results the teacher was looking for.

But us pot-heads were the evil ones. The ones that couldn't be trusted. The ones that got suspended when we were caught.

It's ridiculous. Mr.S and i aren't smokers but both think it should be legal.

ambassador_ahab: Are they trying to say that getting drunk from drinking this stuff is more dangerous than getting drunk from drinking booze/beer/wine/etc.?

As a teenager before I had a fake ID, I'd drink Listerine as well as vanilla extract (that shiat is brutal straight, but you do what you gotta do.) I suppose it did cause me to have internal organs, but I didn't notice any other side effects different from any other drink.


I never could figure out what it was with alcoholics. When I was in High School I would be out in the woods at lunchtime getting baked with some guys and the drunkie kids would be out there with their bottles of vodak or whatever, and they'd be chugging the shiat like it was going out of style, mostly alone, while the stoners would be happy smoking a couple of doobs with six or seven other dudes and a couple of girls and going back in. I aced history class, chemistry class, drivers education and biology being pretty baked. I passed my drivers exam stoned and haven't had a moving violation in 27 years.

While the band geeks and the superjocks and the pretty popular people were staggering around the classroom and knocking shiat over, or in one case, mixing Acetic Acid and Acetaldehyde and then dumping it down the sink when the beaker got too hot to hold on to, I was following the instructions and getting the results the teacher was looking for.

But us pot-heads were the evil ones. The ones that couldn't be trusted. The ones that got suspended when we were caught.