Play Nice Random Chat Thread IV

[Del191229]

So the Jordan Peterson approach to common sense living.

Take a mountain of benzos.

It is probably a sensible approach of you live in Canada.

 

[Val Keating]

So the Jordan Peterson approach to common sense living.

Take a mountain of benzos.

It is probably a sensible approach of you live in Canada.

backstory?

 

[Del191229]

backstory?

https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5456939?__twitter_impression=true

 

[Val Keating]

https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5456939?__twitter_impression=true

Shouldn’t be taking the piss out of him for that mate.

 

[koshari]

great political opinion piece it the age this week, mirrors pretty much what i think of the current crop,

i particularly liked this line,

But as they learned anew this week, Morrison and McCormack have a problem. Just as McCormack's hypnosis is taking effect – "You're getting sleepy, sleepy" – Barnaby's troupe bursts into view, like clowns sent in to change the mood, waking everyone, saying funny things and setting off fireworks in each others pants.

Be amazed by Canberra's masters of delusion

Australia's political leaders are weaving their magic, but the joke is mainly on them.

www.theage.com.au

 

[Luke72]

I came out at what sounds like the same time as you, and I reckon we had it much easier financially. These little shits have things they expect as basics we would have viewed as unimaginable luxuries though.

NTTAWWT

 

[Val Keating]

My YouTube algorithm has sent me back to Nirvana. (I’m one of those weird units that likes any type of music if it’s good). Anything that’s genuine gets me.

 

[Snake_Baker]

Val Keating & others

Bret Weinstein, Heather Heying, and Katie Herzog on cancel culture:

 

[Snake_Baker]

Good article. Our politicians are a world class joke.

 

[Val Keating]

Val Keating & others

Bret Weinstein, Heather Heying, and Katie Herzog on cancel culture:

I’ll definitely watch it but I’m about 1/2 hour into once upon a time in hollywood right now

 

[Snake_Baker]

 

[Snake_Baker]

"Wokeness" is destroying the deomocrats

“We’re losing our damn minds”: James Carville unloads on the Democratic Party

Why the longtime Democratic strategist is “scared to death” of the 2020 election

www.vox.com

 

[Val Keating]

"Wokeness" is destroying the deomocrats

“We’re losing our damn minds”: James Carville unloads on the Democratic Party

Why the longtime Democratic strategist is “scared to death” of the 2020 election

www.vox.com

Gees they’re terrified of Bernie. Even Democrats are lobbying against him. It’ll make him more popular.

 

[Val Keating]

Dude just lies about everything

 

[Val Keating]

Terrified of him

 

[Del191229]

Shouldn’t be taking the piss out of him for that mate.

Ummm, come on, he spends years telling everyone to harden up, and that kids today are too soft - and it turns out he's been Xanaxed out of his head the whole time?

He's like one of those firebreathing Christian preachers that blames sexual freedom for everything and complains about marriage declining as an institution who is knocking off 15 year old Tallulah on the side.

 

[Val Keating]

Ummm, come on, he spends years telling everyone to harden up, and that kids today are too soft - and it turns out he's been Xanaxed out of his head the whole time?

He's like one of those firebreathing Christian preachers that blames sexual freedom for everything and complains about marriage declining as an institution who is knocking off 15 year old Tallulah on the side.

I haven’t paid too much attention to him tbh. He’s one of those people that seemed to pop up out of nowhere and then just disappear.

Was he critical of people taking medication?

 

[Val Keating]

 

[Del191229]

I haven’t paid too much attention to him tbh. He’s one of those people that seemed to pop up out of nowhere and then just disappear.

Was he critical of people taking medication?

I certainly feel for him going through benzo withdrawal. It is meant to be the worst of the worst.

 

[Val Keating]

I certainly feel for him going through benzo withdrawal. It is meant to be the worst of the worst.

Yeah I’ve been there. It sucks. It’s nowhere near as bad as the panic attacks and anxiety that lead me to take them in the first place though.

 

[koshari]

Good article. Our politicians are a world class joke.

unfortinately iam not convinced we have the monopoly on that.

 

[Kangaroos4eva]

What a piece of work.



21:00 onwards for the relevant stuff.

 

[Kangaroos4eva]

I certainly feel for him going through benzo withdrawal. It is meant to be the worst of the worst.

According to his daughter:
The last year has been extremely difficult for our family. Dad was put on a low dose of a benzodiazepine a few years ago for anxiety following an extremely severe autoimmune reaction to food. He took the medication as prescribed. Last April when my mom was diagnosed with terminal cancer, the dose of the medication was increased. It became apparent that he was suffering from both a physical dependency and a paradoxical reaction to the medication. A paradoxical reaction means the drugs do the opposite of what they’re supposed to. These reactions are rare but are not unheard of.

For the last 8 months he’s been in unbearable discomfort from this drug, made worse when trying to remove it, because of the addition of withdrawal symptoms, stemming from physical dependence. He experienced terrible akathisia, which is a condition where the person feels an incredible, endless, irresistible restlessness, bordering on panic, and an inability to sit still. The reaction made him suicidal. After several failed treatment attempts in North American hospitals, including attempts at tapering and micro-tapering, we had to seek an emergency medical benzodiazepine detox, which we were only able to find in Russia. It was incredibly gruelling, and was further complicated by severe pneumonia which we’ve been told he developed in one of the previous hospitals. He’s had to spend 4 weeks in the ICU in terrible shape, but, with the help of some extremely competent and courageous doctors, he survived.

The decision to bring him to Russia was made in extreme desperation, when we couldn’t find any better option. The uncertainty around his recovery has been one of the most difficult and scary experiences we’ve ever had.

Ummm, come on, he spends years telling everyone to harden up, and that kids today are too soft - and it turns out he's been Xanaxed out of his head the whole time?

He's like one of those firebreathing Christian preachers that blames sexual freedom for everything and complains about marriage declining as an institution who is knocking off 15 year old Tallulah on the side.

That seem a bit OTT. Simplistically citing it as "not practicing what you are preaching" reads like a simple potshot.

 

[Kangaroos4eva]

Terrified of him

The left moderates hate him nearly as much as they hate Trump, nearly.

 

[LuvtheKangas]

That's a bit OTT. Simplistically citing it as "not practicing what you are preaching" is a pure potshot of a person at their absolute lowest.

I don't know about that. It's pretty reasonable to suggest he has been guilty of "not practicing what you [he was] preaching" over the years.

Which is, of course, hypocrisy.