Thoughts about our current existence

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  1. Redfisher

    Redfisher Doesn't celebrate National Donut Day

    A recent news article stated that scientists had given the drug ecstasy to some octopus? You couldn't dream this stuff up. Getting weirder every day...

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  2. Redfisher

    Redfisher Doesn't celebrate National Donut Day

    The monestary is looking better and better..

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  3. Paul Turner

    Paul Turner outside the quote(s) now

    BA badabababababababababa.....badababa...baBA!!!! (need some music with this, lol)
     
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  4. Redfisher

    Redfisher Doesn't celebrate National Donut Day

    Something that I forgot about... a restaurant in Massachusetts is getting lobsters stoned before cooking them? You couldn't dream this stuff up...

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  5. Bama Samurai

    Bama Samurai with Laser-like Focus

    There is actually serious research involving methyl-dimethylamphetamine (ecstasy), and the research I've read about using it to treat PTSD in veterans is quite promising. I imagine the octopus experiment was neurological in nature as well. Doesn't actually seem all that weird to me. Google "Alexander Shulgin" for the fascinating history of the club drug ecstasy.
     
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  6. John Ruschmeyer

    John Ruschmeyer Well-Known Member

    So I'm watching some streaming video and a commercial comes on for Brenau University. Apparently, the copy writer for the spot must be a Star Trek fan as it had the narrator boldly splitting infinitives left and right.
     
  7. Redfisher

    Redfisher Doesn't celebrate National Donut Day

    I'm overloaded with all the weirdness it's like a storm of strange....

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  8. Redfisher

    Redfisher Doesn't celebrate National Donut Day

    Maybe I should smoke the weed and eat the lobster

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  9. Bama Samurai

    Bama Samurai with Laser-like Focus

    That's another approach!
     
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  10. brit

    brit in a box

    libras
     
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  11. brit

    brit in a box

    no parking in the park..
     
  12. RyX

    RyX DoH!

    My ability to remember song lyrics from the '70's & '80's is often exceeded by my ability to remember why I walked into the kitchen.
     
  13. richgem

    richgem suffering from chronic clicker hand cramps

    That's just Nature's way of telling you that you don't really need another snack. ;)
     
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  14. wristwatchb

    wristwatchb wristwatch "danger" b

    I solved that problem a few years ago. I put a refrigerator in the basement next to the recliner. ;)
     
  15. wristwatchb

    wristwatchb wristwatch "danger" b

    Work places and schools now have "active shooter" drills and training. Some workplaces screen incoming delivery trucks for explosives. There's a sign posted at the entrance of my local bank branch to remove your hat and sunglasses before entering. And the list of similar activities goes on. I would have never envisioned that we'd be doing things like this just a few years ago.
     
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  16. richgem

    richgem suffering from chronic clicker hand cramps

    Of course, not too long ago and security concerns aside, people would have known to automatically remove their hats and sunglasses when entering a building as being the polite and correct thing to do.
     
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  17. wristwatchb

    wristwatchb wristwatch "danger" b

    Excellent point, Rich.
     
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  18. Bama Samurai

    Bama Samurai with Laser-like Focus

    Control masquerading as safety.
     
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  19. wristwatchb

    wristwatchb wristwatch "danger" b

    If nothing else, active shooter training was thought provoking. I was part of a work group that watched this video, and we had a very good discussion afterward. All I can say is that I never viewed my workplace (which was a fantastic place to work in a rural area where you'd never expect anything to happen) in the same way after watching it. I don't dwell on it, but I also think about it when I step into any public place.
     
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  20. RyX

    RyX DoH!

    "If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom." Dwight D. Eisenhower
     
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