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Off Topic Thread too point uh

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  • #2792
    .ak
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,308 ✭✭✭✭.ak


    Swiwi. wrote: »
    Alcohol is not dangerous in moderation, in fact probably beneficial.

    Even a little bit of cocaine can be fatal.

    I very much doubt this girl was a hardcore druggie, just terrible luck, and if it was one of my daughters I'd be devastated (plus wondering what the hell a 9, 6 or 2 1/2 year old was doing taking ecstasy...).

    I can never really muster the energy to debate whether certain drugs should or shouldn't be decriminalised (or measured in grams LOL...), I'd have to look more into it for ecstasy before forming a solid opinion.

    Cool, Swiwi is gonna do drugs this weekend!


  • #2793
    molloyjh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,767 ✭✭✭✭molloyjh


    .ak wrote: »
    Even so, it's a dangerous product, and even more so, they KNOW the damage it does. Just like smokers.

    I wonder if a loved one of the poster's died due to smoke related cancer would they still have no sympathy?

    My uncle is currently very close to that situation. He doesn't have any sympathy for himself. He knowingly put himself in that position and realises now that he's paying the price. It is sad, just like this news story is sad. We all feel for his family and for my mother and her family. At the same time, like he himself, we all acknowledge that he did it to himself. I feel bad for him without feeling sympathy per se. In much the same way I do for this girl.


  • #2794
    Swiwi.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,415 ✭✭✭Swiwi.


    .ak wrote: »
    Cool, Swiwi is gonna do drugs this weekend!

    A few joints many years ago were the limits of my illicit drug experiences, nowadays no chance I'd dabble, could lose my job even if being used recreationally in my own free time.

    Happy just to indulge my ethanol habit tbh. I also have a penchant for caffeine.


  • #2795
    .ak
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,308 ✭✭✭✭.ak


    Each to their own, I just think that it's a very sad and cold thing not to feel sympathy for someone in that situation.

    I mean, if the likelihood of dying from a pill is less than being killed in a bus crash, are we supposed to not feel sympathy for people who use buses?


  • #2796
    .ak
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,308 ✭✭✭✭.ak


    Swiwi. wrote: »
    A few joints many years ago were the limits of my illicit drug experiences, nowadays no chance I'd dabble, could lose my job even if being used recreationally in my own free time.

    Happy just to indulge my ethanol habit tbh. I also have a penchant for caffeine.

    Try ether, it's the next ethanol.


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  • #2797
    Swiwi.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,415 ✭✭✭Swiwi.


    .ak wrote: »
    Each to their own, I just think that it's a very sad and cold thing not to feel sympathy for someone in that situation.

    I mean, if the likelihood of dying from a pill is less than being killed in a bus crash, are we supposed to not feel sympathy for people who use buses?

    My sympathy would extend so far. However, if other people get blamed for the death (the parents, the drug dealer, the nightclub owner, the government etc) it goes too far. I'm with Sky Mango Tux that at some point personal responsibility and the consequences of ones actions comes into it too.


  • #2798
    Pudsy33
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,896 ✭✭✭✭Pudsy33


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Which is the argument to decriminalise and regulate...

    Totally agree


  • #2799
    Tox56
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,636 ✭✭✭✭Tox56


    molloyjh wrote: »
    My uncle is currently very close to that situation. He doesn't have any sympathy for himself. He knowingly put himself in that position and realises now that he's paying the price. It is sad, just like this news story is sad. We all feel for his family and for my mother and her family. At the same time, like he himself, we all acknowledge that he did it to himself. I feel bad for him without feeling sympathy per se. In much the same way I do for this girl.

    It depends on the situation I suppose, but if someone has been smoking 40 a day for decades fully knowing what they're doing the whole time it's hard to have a huge amount of sympathy, but I think that is different to a young person who takes ecstacy once every now and then at a club or festival or something. Yes you should know the dangers, but you have to be so seriously unlucky to die from taking a normal dose, i don't think it's directly comparable


  • #2800
    dregin
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 6,525 Mod ✭✭✭✭dregin


    awec wrote: »
    Off Topic thread is very profound today...
    It's going very seriuos FAR too often of late!


  • #2801
    Buer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,258 ✭✭✭✭Buer


    dregin wrote: »
    It's going very seriuos FAR too often of late!

    Ah, it's good to have a bit more of a topical debate away from rugby. You know the posters here and respect them. You don't have to go out into the other areas of the site where there are more trolls congregating.

    Also, I like getting another view of posters. We've a very narrow exposure to one another's views when they're solely based on rugby. I might think a certain poster is an arseh*le but seeing their comments on something else can prompt me to realise how hasty I can be.


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  • #2802
    Greta Massive Saliva
    Posts: 24,816 ✭✭✭✭ Greta Massive Saliva


    FU right back Buer. :pac:


  • #2803
    Swiwi.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,415 ✭✭✭Swiwi.


    Buer wrote: »
    Ah, it's good to have a bit more of a topical debate away from rugby. You know the posters here and respect them. You don't have to go out into the other areas of the site where there are more trolls congregating.

    Also, I like getting another view of posters. We've a very narrow exposure to one another's views when they're solely based on rugby. I might think a certain poster is an arseh*le but seeing their comments on something else can prompt me to realise how hasty I can be.

    Yip, like some guy called Buer for example. One he started posting on American Football, I thought "hey, this guy ain't so bad after all".


  • #2804
    Buer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,258 ✭✭✭✭Buer


    Deleted User wrote: »
    FU right back Buer. :pac:

    When I was typing that, I was wondering which posters would think I was talking about them.

    Well don't worry, folks, it's all of you.

    Pr*cks.


  • #2805
    Buer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,258 ✭✭✭✭Buer


    Swiwi. wrote: »
    Yip, like some guy called Buer for example. One he started posting on American Football, I thought "hey, this guy ain't so bad after all".

    Only 3.5 more months, Swiwi. Be patient.


  • #2806
    Podge_irl
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 29,864 Mod ✭✭✭✭Podge_irl


    Buer wrote: »
    Only 3.5 more months, Swiwi. Be patient.

    YOUR CROWN WILL BE MINE


  • #2807
    sydthebeat
    Subscribers Posts: 43,350 ✭✭✭✭sydthebeat


    So...

    Logged into my pc in with today using a "vodafone mobile content" connection, which was installed from an old huawei cell, by mistake.

    5 mins later start getting text messages to my meteor phone (samsung) that my daily allowance is used up, all i check balance data 75megs used.

    Suddenly realized that the pc is using my fcuking phone as a hot spot!! Check my phone and hotspot tethering is turned off!

    Phoned meteor who were as helpful as a bag of kittens.

    Got a sudden realisation as to how interconnected everything is..... big brotherish.....


  • #2808
    .ak
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,308 ✭✭✭✭.ak


    Started watching the League again... It's brilliant. I wish I knew more about American Football to get into a fantasy league.


  • #2809
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,690 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    My new car is ready hurray!


  • #2810
    Podge_irl
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 29,864 Mod ✭✭✭✭Podge_irl


    .ak wrote: »
    Started watching the League again... It's brilliant. I wish I knew more about American Football to get into a fantasy league.

    Draft a kicker in the first round and you're sorted.


  • #2811
    awec
    Administrators Posts: 55,145 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


    .ak wrote: »
    Started watching the League again... It's brilliant. I wish I knew more about American Football to get into a fantasy league.

    I've been messing about the past few weeks to see if I can build a fantasy league for the Pro 12. Would be great fun I reckon.


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  • #2812
    Podge_irl
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 29,864 Mod ✭✭✭✭Podge_irl


    awec wrote: »
    I've been messing about the past few weeks to see if I can build a fantasy league for the Pro 12. Would be great fun I reckon.

    The problem with sports like rugby (and especially soccer) is that they just don't lend themselves to fantasy anywhere near as well as the stats driven american sports.


  • #2813
    awec
    Administrators Posts: 55,145 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


    Podge_irl wrote: »
    The problem with sports like rugby (and especially soccer) is that they just don't lend themselves to fantasy anywhere near as well as the stats driven american sports.

    Yea they don't, but they can still be fun enough!


  • #2814
    Greta Massive Saliva
    Posts: 24,816 ✭✭✭✭ Greta Massive Saliva


    So, who's going to win on Saturday?


  • #2815
    Wang King
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,169 ✭✭✭Wang King


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    So, who's going to win on Saturday?

    Banned!!


  • #2816
    irishbucsfan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,978 ✭✭✭✭irishbucsfan


    Buer wrote: »
    Ah, it's good to have a bit more of a topical debate away from rugby. You know the posters here and respect them. You don't have to go out into the other areas of the site where there are more trolls congregating.

    Also, I like getting another view of posters. We've a very narrow exposure to one another's views when they're solely based on rugby. I might think a certain poster is an arseh*le but seeing their comments on something else can prompt me to realise how hasty I can be.

    I used to think this until I learned there were posters from North Dublin on this forum.


  • #2817
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,690 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    irishbucsfan wrote: »
    I used to think this until I learned there were posters from North Dublin on this forum.

    Is there something wrong with north dublob posters? :pac:


  • #2818
    awec
    Administrators Posts: 55,145 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


    Stheno wrote: »
    Is there something wrong with north dublob posters? :pac:

    There was a poll recently on here actually, contrary to popular belief it seems most of our Leinster supporting posters are actually from the northside.


  • #2819
    Podge_irl
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 29,864 Mod ✭✭✭✭Podge_irl


    Yup we're the majority. Accept the new world order.


  • #2820
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,690 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    Podge_irl wrote: »
    Yup we're the majority. Accept the new world order.

    Never knew that I thought you were all Heineken drinking collar up d4 types :D


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  • #2821
    thomond2006
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45,433 ✭✭✭✭thomond2006


    Deleted User wrote: »
    So, who's going to win on Saturday?

    Australia's part of Europe now?


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