Mega Thread The Random Thoughts Thread Part 1

[manureid]

Have we ever seen a more Welsh news story? Chiwigi

 

[Trewth]

Cannabis needs to be heated to become psychoactive, you can't just eat a bunch and get high. Now I'm no sheep expert, but wouldn't the same apply to them?

 

[Magus]

Sheep more likely to just go to sleep.

 

[Steve Dore]

Cannabis needs to be heated to become psychoactive, you can't just eat a bunch and get high. Now I'm no sheep expert, but wouldn't the same apply to them?

So cannabis cookies eaten cold is just a placebo effect even for people who don't know they are eating cannabis?

Smoke vs. Snack: Why Edible Marijuana Is Stronger Than Smoking

 

[SgtSchulz]

For if we ever replace both the Magpies and Power song with one song...

Dadadadadadadadadada
Dadadadadadadadadadah
Dadadadadadadadadada
Dadadadadadadadadada

We've finished ahead
The others in dread
Drop down the cross-sails
We're forging ahead

Dadadadadadadadadada
Dadadadadadadadadadah
Dadadadadadadadadada
Dadadadadadadadadada

We're shipping up to Port Adelaide [Woah oh-ohh]
We're shipping up to Port Adelaide [Woah oh-OHH]
We're shipping up to Port Adelaide [Woah oh ohh]
We're shipping up, TO WIN THE PREMIER-SHIP!

 

[tribey]

Fact is we will all be forgotten within a generation or two, is the pain then worth it?

It's true. Went on that Ancestry site awhile back and using the various search engines and documentation, managed to trace my paternal side all the way back to 1790-1800ish Ireland.

From my grandfather back I have no ****ing idea who these people are. But there's a Stawell Gift winner, a Footscray reserves player, a slew of military and going back further, a family tradition of being ubercompetitive in ploughing matches, which were apparently quite a thing back in the day.

All these people would have had jobs, loves, kids, hobbies, foibles, fears, dreams, memories and preferences that meant the world to them. 2-3+ generations on, they're just some ink on a few documents.

As Sarah Connor's waitressing mate in Terminator says right after the kid puts ice cream in her pocket, "look at it this way, in 100 years who's gonna care?"

 

[Papa G]

Geez suburban shopping centres are depressing places, especially on a week day. A ghetto for the old, the fat, the stupid and the track suited.

 

[finbarr]

Geez suburban shopping centres are depressing places, especially on a week day. A ghetto for the old, the fat, the stupid and the track suited.

Aka, the "consumer".

 

[JimmyBeerCans]

This thread is just as depressing as K-mart right now

 

[CrimsonRaven]

Spoiler: GoT Hold the Door

 

[Magpiespower]

Geez suburban shopping centres are depressing places, especially on a week day. A ghetto for the old, the fat, the stupid and the track suited.

Worked in a shopping centre for a bit.

Even though I found most people to be pretty nice, ultimately, I came to the conclusion that we shouldn't fear climate change, nuclear armageddon or the zombie apocalypse.

We should embrace it. All of it. Now.

 

[Trewth]

So cannabis cookies eaten cold is just a placebo effect even for people who don't know they are eating cannabis?

Smoke vs. Snack: Why Edible Marijuana Is Stronger Than Smoking

The cannabis has to be cooked into something that can absorb the psychoactive THC (either a fat like butter or alcohol) before it can be ingested, that's how edibles are made. Eating raw cannabis by itself doesn't get you high.

 

[edgie]

You asked 'VE?' You got a VE. A VIP VE at that

Hardyha. I'll specify, was a VE Commodore the model he was saying to set on fire?

 

[finbarr]

Worked in a shopping centre for a bit.

Even though I found most people to be pretty nice, ultimately, I came to the conclusion that we shouldn't fear climate change, nuclear armageddon or the zombie apocalypse.

We should embrace it. All of it. Now.

While the opportunity to start over from scratch is appealing to say the least, it would be best to do so on an uncontaminated planet and with major infrastructure intact. But I take your point.

 

[LukeSA]

This thread is just as depressing as K-mart right now

Kmart used to be a decent shop, their Decadent choc chip cookies were bloody good and back when you could get a cup of lollies for a couple of dollars. More recently i bought a Jackaroo 6 burner BBQ for $350.

But now they have changed the layout of their stores and it's baffling who made the decision to put their checkouts dead centre of the store.

 

[manureid]

Kmart used to be a decent shop, their Decadent choc chip cookies were bloody good and back when you could get a cup of lollies for a couple of dollars. More recently i bought a Jackaroo 6 burner BBQ for $350.

But now they have changed the outlay of their stores and it's baffling who made the decision to put their checkouts dead centre of the store.

One of the more absurd setups I have seen.

 

[Portia]

Its like they decided "Hey, you know what makes fast moving consumer goods sell better? Inconvenience."

 

[Andre]

It's true. Went on that Ancestry site awhile back and using the various search engines and documentation, managed to trace my paternal side all the way back to 1790-1800ish Ireland.

From my grandfather back I have no ****ing idea who these people are. But there's a Stawell Gift winner, a Footscray reserves player, a slew of military and going back further, a family tradition of being ubercompetitive in ploughing matches, which were apparently quite a thing back in the day.

All these people would have had jobs, loves, kids, hobbies, foibles, fears, dreams, memories and preferences that meant the world to them. 2-3+ generations on, they're just some ink on a few documents.

As Sarah Connor's waitressing mate in Terminator says right after the kid puts ice cream in her pocket, "look at it this way, in 100 years who's gonna care?"

True, but for anyone Gen X or younger your great (times many) will see not just ink or photos, but videos, Facebook and other social media, what you liked day to day etc.

Assuming the world hadn't gone post apocalyptic, I saw an interesting article the other day that later this century Facebook will have more accounts of dead people then those alive. Those kids now would be even more their descendants would have all that plus down to how fit etc they were from all their connected tech etc.

Of course it's no substitute for real interactions, but those alive now are the first where, outside the famous, their descendants born after everyone who knew them are in turn dead can get an idea of who the hell their great-great-great-great grandfather/mother was. With kids now it's both kind of cool and vaguely worrying that their grandkids grandkids will be able to know a fair bit about me. Still as long as Port is still around hopefully support continues down the ages:

 

[JimmyBeerCans]

Does anything make you feel more like part of the ant farm than when you go to a westfield etc. it's quite depressing.

*I remember tripping one night up the hills and overlooking the city which to me was this big glowing battery type thing and all the moving lights (cars) going towards it were being devoured into this nightmarish "battery type thing" & we had to get further away from it into the natural "purple hills"..... the come down hours later & being friggin' miles from where we started was hilarious.

 

[Power Girl]

So those of us who don't facebook we will be forgotten ... yeah I'm ok with that. I won't be around to give a shit if anyone remembers me or not

 

[chiwigi]

So cannabis cookies eaten cold is just a placebo effect even for people who don't know they are eating cannabis?

Smoke vs. Snack: Why Edible Marijuana Is Stronger Than Smoking

No, the fat (butter) has already been infused and activated so it will be fine.

 

[Byrons Firen]

Does anything make you feel more like part of the ant farm than when you go to a westfield etc. it's quite depressing.

*I remember tripping one night up the hills and overlooking the city which to me was this big glowing battery type thing and all the moving lights (cars) going towards it were being devoured into this nightmarish "battery type thing" & we had to get further away from it into the natural "purple hills"..... the come down hours later & being friggin' miles from where we started was hilarious.

Know the feeling. One of my 'trips' had buses at night resembling electric caterpillars. Adelaide was 'mega' city 2050.
The roads arteries to the city 'heart'. The 'ellis dee' were New York tickets. Strange days indeed. Long gone now.

 

[I Dont Care]

Hardyha. I'll specify, was a VE Commodore the model he was saying to set on fire?

Just said 'new Commodore' They all look the same to me past VR/VS

 

[edgie]

Just said 'new Commodore' They all look the same to me past VR/VS

My interpretation post the VR/S series.

VT: Bubbly
VY: More square and angular
VE: Stupidly bulky, only looks good in a sports model
VF: Pretty damn fine, well balanced, nice note to go out on.

 

[Grave Danger]

Lol - Woolworths must really be struggling. They want me to spend about twice as much as I normally would a week for each of the next four weeks and then they'll give me $70.00

Time to stock up on Oak flavoured milk and Four-n-Twenty pies, or maybe a fillet steak or two!