Such is Life: The Ben Cousins Story

[Brewster_]

Did people really expect the show or Cousins to send across a message that drugs arn't fun or that they don't make the user feel absolutely magnificent?

The description of being "high" is not an accident.

Drugs make many people feel absolutely fricken fantastic when they are on them. That's why they take them and that's one of the reasons people become addicted to them.

You can't expect Ben to not say that when he was on them he was having the time of his life. You can't just say "drugs are bad" like the South Park counsellor because that message doesn't work. Drugs are often great fun but it's the repercussions that are bad.

The first episode gave a lot of background but only touched on the repercussions and i expect that it is the second episode that puts the focus on that important element more.

IMHO the documentary should never have been split into 2 parts as that part of the message may get lost on some people.

Great post, and the bolded part nails it. Unfortunately a lot of people still don't get this.

 

[headache1]

This is basically my motto for drugs.

Drugs are great fun, but if you abuse them, they'll abuse you.

 

[FRUMPY]

The ad for 'if you have a problem with drugs call this line' was starting to s**t me. No need to put it on every couple of minutes.

I dont see channel 7 putting this ad on during packed to rafters when one of the daughters had a drinking problem, or one of the sons had a drug problem. They dont put it on when they have a movie that involves drug use etc.

I know why 7 split it into 2 nights to get ratings, but would have been much better having it on one night. And who would really watch the hr talk show after tonights episode, listening to that twat mclaughlin host it and terry wallace and drug specialists speak. No thanks,

 

[Rumblah#16]

Narcissist who has life handed to him on platter, stuffs up. Narcissist gets it all back. Narcissist is celebrated and congratulated.

Getting yourself out of a hole, you dug yourself into, isn't an achievement.

 

[Rumblah#16]

Where to start ???


To those "professionals" telling parents to watch this with their children as it will open their eyes to the downside of drugs, what a load of BS. ALL it has shown so far (hopefully it will change) is a smug, arrogant bastard who pushed the boundaries of "recreational" drug for a while then SMASHED through said boundaries, played the system to get away with it for as long as he could. He was then FORCED to go into rehab even though he never saw what he was doing as wrong (and from his attitude I doubt he does even now) and then snubbed the AFL after being allowed back into the club by shaving his head ............. It will be interesting to see what comes out regarding how he treated the drug testing at Richmond ............

People say he at least isn't pointing the fingure at anyone else or bring others down with him. Well he does point the figure at the WCE, suggesting that the club pumped him up to a level where he saw himself as invincible, and his "addictive" personality was fine when he was training but not when his drug habbit is involved ......... What was the line "they expect you to be a saint off the field and fight like a devil on it" or something like that.

And he hasn't once come across as taking responsibility for his actions. Sure he was FORCED to go into rehab after being suspended from the Eagles AFTER BEING ON A BENDER and didn't think he needed to be in LA until the end of the rehab. He again went on a bender after Mainweiging (sorry about the incorrect spelling) died, but the arrest was "a big set up" and "no charges would have stuck" despite being at what, day 3 of a bender, and having prescription drugs on him which on one hand he says he had a prescription for, yet on the other had claims they are more dangerous than his "recreational" drugs as he lost control of what he was doing when he took them, and that lead to him taking the other stuff .......... Even after he came back from rehab the first time he complained about the AFL "changing the conditions of returning", and complained about the media scrutiny. What do you expect ???

As for his version of events for the second time he "took a trip" back to LA, which lead to him being kicked out of the AFL, why would a "recovering drug addict" go to LA, go on a 5 day bender, have his father complain about the media attention "not helping his rehab" (i didn't realise 5 day benders were part of a rehab program) and then talk about it in a documentary where he is supposedly talking about the pitfals of drug use with a GIANT smirk on his face, acting like it was just a holiday that got out of control.

The whole documentary is nothing but a giant stroke on Cousin's ego and a way to make some money (god he started filming some of the crap YEARS ago, showing a calculated decision to make money out of his "addiction" he didn't think was a problem at the time).

 

[morell]

Spot the teenage girl

 

[campbell]

I wonder what tonights installment will bring.

A lot of addicts are highly performing in their fields, he is not unique.

 

[coryne]

Well thought out and constructed argument there ....................

What part of my statement is incorrect ??? Or can't you do anything outside of post crap pictures ???

 

[Rumblah#16]

Well thought out and constructed argument there ....................

What part of my statement is incorrect ??? Or can't you do anything outside of post crap pictures ???

You've made up your mind about Cousins, it wouldn't matter what he'd said in the Documentary. I respect the bloke as a person and as an Elite Sports-person. You, on the other hand, are just envious of what he's got. (in terms of looks, football ability, money, success, et al.)

You spent, what, 15 minutes writing that rant? Good on you.. as I said, haters gonna hate.

 

[Father Jack]

I fail to see how this doco is stroking Cousins' ego. He isn't exactly looking that admirable so far.

 

[jezzap]

Found it a little strange how he didn't have any regrets leaving Mainwaring before he died.

If I left a mate a few hours before he died, for the rest of my life I would have always thought he might still be here if I hadn't have left, regardless of how he actually died.

 

[TheStinger]

Loaded like a freight train
Flyin' like an aeroplane
Feelin' like a space brain
One more time tonight

(look out)
Well I'm a west coast struttin'
One bad mother
Got a rattlesnake suitcase
Under my arm
Said I'm a mean machine
Been drinkin' gasoline
An honey you can make my motor hum
I got one chance left
In a nine live cat
I got a dog eat dog sly smile
I got a Molotov cocktail with a match to go
I smoke my cigarette with style
An I can tell you honey
You can make my money tonight

Wake up late honey put on your clothes
Take your credit card to the liquor store
That's one for you and two for me by tonight
I'll be
Loaded like a freight train
Flyin' like an aeroplane
Feelin' like a space brain
One more tonight

I'm on the nightrain
Bottoms up
I'm on the nightrain
Fill my cup
I'm on the nightrain
Ready to crash and burn
I never learn
I'm on the nightrain
I love that stuff
I'm on the nightrain
and I can never get enough
I'm on the nightrain
Never to return - no

Loaded like a freight train
Flyin' like an aeroplane
Feelin' like a space brain
One more tonight

I'm on the nightrain
An I'm lookin' for some
I'm on the nightrain
So's I can leave this slum
I'm on the nightrain
And I'm ready to crash an' burn
nightrain
Bottoms up
I'm on the nightrain
Fill my cup
I'm on the nightrain

Whoa Whoa Whoa Whoa yeah
I'm on the nightrain
Love that stuff
I'm on the nightrain
An I can never get enough
Ridin' the nightrain
I guess I
I guess, I guess, I guess I never learn

On the nightrain
Float me home
Ooh I'm on the nightrain
Ridin' the nightrain
Never to return
Nightrain

 

[JimDocker]

Well thought out and constructed argument there ....................

What part of my statement is incorrect ??? Or can't you do anything outside of post crap pictures ???

A panda riding a plastic squirrel can hardly be described as crap.

 

[Flawed Genius]

Get the **** off my TV, Hamish McLachlan

 

[Daniltchenko You Beauty]

goes til 10:30 tonight, footy show is going to get annihilated in the ratings.

 

[ManWithNoName]

FFS get on with it.

 

[rhaz]

Get the **** off my TV, Hamish McLachlan

I agree. HOWEVER, he is one of my absolutely favourite radio commentators.

Interesting to hear all the radio callers... the woman who claimed he it was performancing enhancing is just silly though.

 

[wce4premiership]

Pace to freeze and kirby have summed this up nicely. Read their posts before going on a poorly constructed rant.

 

[Hawks1523]

That's not it, is it?

McLachlan's comments made it sound like that was it.

Agreed. Shut the **** up and get on with it already.

 

[VicO]

This is such bullshit. Turning into a ****ing circus.

 

[obscura]

Oh FFS Channel 7, you managed to bastardise this enough with the ads last night, now Hamish and his no-name buddies (sans Mike Sheahan) are making up stories about this being "bigger than Carey" and dragging this out like it is the final of Australian Idol.




EDIT: Now I can't watch Myles Barlow.

 

[Barnzy]

Get the **** off my TV, Hamish McLachlan

There's just something about him I hate.

That was a total waste of 15mins of my life watching them ramble on about s**t we've heard a million times over.

 

[ManWithNoName]

There. He apologised. Happy now people?

 

[TheStinger]

Thanks guys, now I know to turn over at 8:45 and miss all the crap. Cheers.

 

[reubski23]

It has turned into channel 7 trying to beat the footy show.
Not going to work- as soon as part 2 is over at 945 most people will turn over to the footy show