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So you're in denial :P bargaining with the different levels of ego until you're satisfied with the answer, isn't the real answer :P it just makes you feel better, temporarily. I think it's time to find other girls and potentially a new best mate too.

Tell her how you feel if it will bring you some closure but then move on with your life because as you said, she's after you best mate. Btw if your best mate takes her while you still care for her, then he's not really your best mate anyway and now you have 2 issues, deadbeat of a best mate and a chick who doesn't care for you. One thing I noticed is you first say you have gone out twice and the second time she blew you off. Then you say should you try to move on for the 4th or 5th time, so which part are you exaggerating (because people can't help you when you fib) or what have you forgotten to mention.

An old friend of mine from rs used to smoke his weed through a home-made apple bong lol I cracked up laughing the first time I saw him pull out this apple on web cam conference, I thought he was going to eat it but then out came the lighter....

WE GOT THE HOUSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: I'm not sure if I'm allowed to do this but meh we'll soon find out. Not bad for our very first house if I may say so myself. Now Rick and his mrs can stay the night when we do poker and beer :lol: Now we actually have a reason to go to the casino, drink daiquiris and play poker all night :lol:

Ah okay then that's pretty important

^^ green, blue, orange, orange, red, yellow WAMMY!!! :thumbsup: Did you really need to make a thread you weirdo I still love ya you are so random.

Wongtong, Goddess, Racheya, Dreamton, and doomsavanger.... All 5 of you seem to have something in common but I can't quite get what it is... :-k boobies and a vagina. :lol: you beat me to it

I used to roll my nanna's smokes for her lol RIP

:lol: poor Quoi it's amazing what you can sell though with the right sales pitch and peer pressure. I used to raise money for Oxfam and like to think I've mastered it :lol: Tonight I'm going to the Brisbane casino woot. Daiquiri's and poker anyone? Yes? Pm me. Maleficus1055 - Sorry for your loss, if you feel like sharing stories I'd love to hear about them. It sounds like Shep was a loving, family companion, RIP.

So talk about something you know a lot about? Wow that was hard ;) Good luck though, speeches can be kind of a big deal to some people. 2 minutes isn't a long time either. I remember doing 20+ minute presentations without palm cards, the trick is to learn the topic thoroughly so that when you view different pictures/words/quotes on your power point presentation you remember what part you're supposed to be speaking about next. Something else I found for myself, personally, is that without palm cards the speech goes a lot smoother and hardly had nerves or embarrassing things that come with nerves such as stuttering or shaky hands.

I don't smoke and I haven't smoked in several years after successfully quitting the first time around but I used to smoke Rothmans or B&H's (Benson's). I used to also (back in the day) buy a pack of 50 Horizon cigarettes (the cheapest brand at the time) for 10 bucks, and sell cigarettes for 50 cents each to the people I liked, $1 each to the people I disliked and $2 each to the seriously needy :lol: And then go and buy myself a decent packet of smokes and cash in the profits :-# I used to profit usually between 3 and 5 times the amount it originally cost me to purchase and sometimes could sell between 2-3 packs a day. Gee, can't half tell I thought of money making opportunities well before now.

I agree that the talk on heroin is off topic and would suit it's own topic, if anyone wants to open a thread, or bump an existing drug thread, I'm more than happy to contribute. I'm probably older than you are though, so please don't call me kiddo. I hate that word in general, it's degrading when it's not considered literally. I just wanted to inform people properly after others commented on it.

I'm not sure what I think of it either but it's something I find easier to be empathic about for some strange reason. Probably because they're children.

In some countries this boy would not have even been sent to jail. Many countries practice social rehabilitation and the offenders are released back in to the community with enhanced social skills. It has a high success rate too, last time I checked. It's just that in most 1st world countries this kind of thing is viewed a lot more emotionally and the public seek revenge on the wrong-doer.

So many assumptions. There was VERY little details written and so many people are jumping to assumptions "the kid is mentally ill", "It's the parent's fault", "He would have done it anyway, lock him away!". There is NO evidence or background in the article presented by tear god that would conclude any of these scenarios. If hypothetically speaking the kid IS nuts, the kid deserves psychiatrist assessment and rehabilitation. Throwing the mentally ill in to a jail cell to rot is inhumane regardless of what happened. Thinking emotionally and dealing with law don't go hand-in-hand.

Please feel free to nit-pick, I enjoy a debate that actually requires facts rather than opinions, it gets somewhere and people learn something. I disagree, I would have to say it imposes many risks, however, more often than not the violence occurs during the chosen method of obtaining the funds to feed addiction. Edward Preble & John. J. Casey suggest in "Taking care of business - The Heroin user's Life on the street" that the "typical" or generalized addict is not driven primarily by a need for the drug but "by the need to find meaning, a need to have an occupation that has a beginning, middle and end, by a need to find rewards in life, without rewards". "Hustling" is common in the heroin user, which means that the addict is more often than not driven by the desire to maintain their life-style as well as their habit; Diamond rings, flashy cars, gorgeous women. They need to get the money somehow. You can almost pin point your local heroin user in the slums by the way they walk, with their fast and purposeful stride but don't go around making accusations. Although admittedly, "beatings", "taking care of business" (murder) that occur on the streets for "cheating the user" could be controlled with legalization. That goes without saying they (heroin users) will still take care of business for many other facets that comes with dealing, whether legalized or not. In fact, according to many researchers "taking care of business" is commonly used in the every day life of a heroin addict. For example "How are you today?", where "taking care of biz" is the common abbreviation. An even older phrase is "ripping and running". There is a myth that lower class users take heroin to escape their lives and although true for very few, what they are actually seeking are the fundamentals of a quality life. And quite rarely use for the state of mind that heroin produces for them, but rather to achieve gratifications from challenging tasks, every day of the week. Once again synchronizing with the need for theft. Those who used as teenagers quite often lack in work experience or the skills required to obtain work, thus also resort to crime. Critically thinking though, legalization could lower the street value and purity, reducing the need for theft and over dosing. This goes without saying that the assumption still exists that if widely available crime rate may actually rise for the higher demand even if met and there will still be over doses regardless of stance. A common problem for social class heroin users is gambling. Users use a method known as "sharking" which means having a huge win and then gambling that bet "black or red" 3 times in a row correctly. This makes the win 500-1. Other than gamblers who know this method, you will find the "typical" heroin user bragging about how much they won at x club or casino at x time, usually it exceeds $1000.00 AUS because of the ridiculously high bets. Although this method is flawed because some users become higher out of pocket in an extremely short amount of time and then will have to commit extra crimes to gain the money back. However, on big wins the user won't have to resort to crime that week, unless they become greedy and keep sharking with their winnings. Another common problem is loan sharking. Many users apply for loans at these places (usually pawn brokers) for ridiculously high amounts of interest because little identification and proof of income is needed. More often than not users get trapped because they can't pay the debt back in time which the interest rate then hits the roof. For a simple $200.00 aus loan installed in 4 weekly payments, the typical user will be $60.00 - $100.00 out of pocket if the loan is paid on time. However typically when it has not, they have been charged anything up to $100.00 per missed payment or have even come to the point where their assets have been ceased. This resorts to more crime. Usually no questions are asked, thus making the user embarrassment and/or guilt free, making loan sharking a "safe" place to be. The psychological effects that stem from gambling such high amounts or owing debt is devastating. Users lie to their family and friends, become depressed and may even resort to suicide. Others become blinded with rage and take it out on innocent people. Although this goes without saying some users take a few big loans and re-group quite quickly. 1961 - present. There used to be large amounts of social cohesion between users on the streets but now the demand and prices that have caused struggles usually leave addicts looking out for one person, themselves. However within saying that, it is quite common to find addicts who hang around in "pairs", after all, sometimes it's much more effective to move stolen goods with an extra pair of hands or with a "look-out". Heroin users are often heard to say "Friends? I have no friends, only associates". Another victim of heroin stated "I beat him today, he'll beat me tomorrow. That's the name of the game", another addict stated "I beat them every chance I get, which is all the time" (R. Coombs, L. Fry, P. Lewis, Socialization in drug abuse). One reason that I do support legalization of heroin is "down line cutting" which involves each of the distributors to make an extra "cut" to make pure profit. More often than not the people up the top hire "salesmen" 16-18 year old school kids who don't have a criminal record and don't use. Less likely to draw attraction to the police or bash/kill/steal from the distributor. Personally, I have a huge problem with that. Usually these kids are just after extra money to buy clothes. Here is a table which illustrates and simplifies the process [edit - trying to get the image working] (The Heroin Market - Chain of supply, Adulteration Process & Payment) And I'm just warming up - Don't get me started ;) Regardless of what true thinks, I do have answers, plenty of them. I'm just extremely busy with moving house and don't have much time to write. I also don't enjoy writing things like this unless I know the respondent is likely to read it (yourself), not disregard it all together. It's time consuming. That is why I'm against the "War on Drugs" and whole-heartedly welcome the "Harm minimization" approach that reduces the risk in drug users because it accepts that drugs will always be in the community and provide such places as needle exchanges. As a result the rate in heterosexual HIV numbers have decreased more than other countries who are still at war with drugs and refuse this method.

I refused to date anyone who wasn't smarter than me after the age of 19 needed some mental stimulation! It depends what you use your smarts for. You can be politically correct all the time, a know it all, arrogant etc or you can work on it with a dash of modesty or use it to help others.

Not enough detail in the article to make a personal opinion. It's a sad loss though.

That's a few paragraphs more than needed to say that you don't have anything new to bring to the table. I'll reply when you actually have a new argument that isn't repetitive and has a leg to stand on. Circles are great shapes, not arguments. We don't agree, next? I'm saddened to hear some of the things kids learn in school about Marijuana. There does need to be a better education system installed. I answered your other question in PM.

Freedom is nice if it does not impose the freedom of others. And that's why safety is taken because not everybody such as yourself is going to resort to peaceful measures. So you're an exception to those who don't impose on other people's freedoms? Like I stated previously, go take it out on the people who give you a bad name. Although when you completely disregard that those type of people exist, it makes you look bad. I never said that the role of physically taking heroin imposes on others, the actions under the effects do. Unless you want to count the emotional disturbance it imposes on others. I'm unsure whether crime rate would lower or not if it were to be legal though. You've already said several times that people can do whatever they want with their body if it does not impose the freedom of others. However, you keep denying those who impose on others after or during the effects of taking heroin. I don't have an answer? I'm probably one of the very few people here who actually studied substance abuse and have worked with both victims and users of substance abuse. People like yourself and other drug users undoubtedly have some exceptional experience to share themselves. It's one thing to read from text books, it's another to be in the moment so for those who don't listen to some of your points because you're a drug user, you're missing out. Most of what I have learnt hasn't come from books but rather from people like yourself. I agree with the excess power of the government, they do have too much power and the people do need some of it back. I've seen first hand just how corrupt police can be, you're forgetting I'm a part of the largest motorcycle gang in Australia. I hear about people disappearing, being framed, being paid off etc all the time. Not to mention the latest Gold Coast police sham. But in saying that, I also care about the well being of others. I actually don't psychoanalyze anything on these boards unless somebody specifically asks me to, so please don't say that. I enjoy being myself and sharing my experiences rather than having people fear that I'm psychoanalyzing everything they're saying. It's sometimes more of a burden because people try to watch what they say around me in person and I just wish they would relax and be themselves. I've just noticed that during your times on the boards, you get aggressive when people express their thoughts on what's best for other people, in particular drug use. However, this isn't about who has experience, who has no idea what they're talking about, who psychoanalyzes or who get's aggressive on what topics. This is about marijuana (although side tracked to heroin etc). If you can't produce any new points other than "the government has no right to tell me what to do" for my counter-argument "the government can tell you what to do if it affects others" then it's time to agree to disagree. Going in circles brings nothing new to the table other than who wants to be right. You could inject coca cola in to your body for all I care but if you impose on the freedoms of others when you take the coca cola, I do. My argument isn't really about the government and it's not about you (thank you for not being like other people, and I hope people do leave you alone) but it is about those people who abuse it and impose on others. And I'd hope that you disagree with their behaviours upon innocent people too, regardless of your stance.

Swearing was my main source of communication until my son was born. Now I hear people use the "f" word and give them dirty looks :lol: I'm such a hypocrite.

I got picked on for a few things. I was fat but then I lost a whole heap of weight and was almost anorexic by definition. At one stage I didn't walk with my shoulders back so I got called hunch back :lol: but I soon wizened up when honest people told me what I was doing wrong. Then when I first started high school my front teeth were crooked so I got teased a lot for that but when I got my braces that stopped too. I didn't have my shoe laces tied up once and one of the girls who didn't like me stood on it and tripped me up and so I pushed her down the stairs, that was the end of that... There were a lot of good things too though for example I hardly ever got a pimple while everyone else seemed to get them everywhere so I used to tease them back for that. And everyone else who used to tease me started packing on the weight so I got my own back there too. I used to get threatened to be bashed but I got sick of it and fought back until I was bashed by these 2 girls (new zealanders) who were built like men so I got really scared :P I got bashed by 2 grown men when my best friend got jumped at a concert. I wasn't thinking, just running on adrenalin and started laying in to the guy but it didn't do very much, they kept throwing me to the ground. Then the fight got broken up, saw my mate in the back of the ambulance with blood all over his face and I lost it, I found one of the guys (the smaller one) alone, walked up to him and punched him in the nose. Then that went around Darwin high for years that he got bashed by a girl and he wasn't popular anymore. I was a bully at one stage I remember I didn't like this girl and I have no idea why. I used to tell everyone she had fleas and walked like a man. Poor girl, I found her on facebook and said sorry :P I also spread around that her best friend was a lesbian :shame: until I met her older brother, he and I ended up really good friends. I have her on my facebook now too, she's a catwalk model!!! yeah eat my words. I spread around that one of my ex's only had one ball (we didn't get up to anything) but he annoyed me and I didn't know just how bad my rumor would spread. People in his photography class caught on to it and so they dacked him and took a photo and turns out he really did!!!!!!!!!!! :shock: I couldn't stop apologizing to the poor guy. Technically "name calling" can be found as a criteria under the definition of domestic violence. It also falls under "intimidation", "harassment" [edit1] "put downs" and [edit2] "emotional abuse". Who are you to say that calling someone fatty isn't going to scar that person for the rest of their lives? That's pretty serious.

Everybody knows your argument, trust me. "It's my body, I can do what I want" get over it sometimes people can't do what they want because it imposes other freedoms. Just because you don't impose other freedoms does not mean for even one, single second that others in your category don't and won't. Those who nit pick on the people who smoke in their backyards and earn an honest living need to get real but it's not like you're specifically being targeted, people's problems are with those bloody idiots who do impose on others after they do whatever they want to their own bodies. People aren't going to make it legal just because there is a minority like yourself who doesn't get in to trouble. You have a real problem with people telling you what to do, I hope you get over that someday but it's not all about you, it's about other people too who can't control themselves. Take your frustrations out on those who can't control themselves, not the people protecting innocent people from those who can't control themselves. I feel your frustration, but I think you're totally taking it out on the wrong people. If people didn't act like they did while they were under the influence then just maybe more studies and people in general would support legalization of harsher drugs. When you have a spare half hour - an hour go to googlescholar.com and do some homework.

Help desk/tech support - earn anything up to 100k+ per annum working from home depending on your qualifications. P.S I swear I know you... bud12 rings a bell... were we friends once? or enemies? lol

From my experience on both sides of the fence, majority of the popular people were over dramatic/gossipers/acquaintances rather than actual friends and unreliable. Come to think of it, majority of the popular people I know outside of school act the exact, same way. Chained_life seems to know what he's talking about. Unpopular people are just as bad, usually pessimistic, complainers, make a lot of excuses and cling to your friendship. People suck 8-)