When are they gonna learn???


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By Waffleboy on Friday, August 6, 1999 - 12:29 pm:

    Read this
    http://cnn.com/US/9908/05/army.drugs/

    When is the US gov't gonna get a grip on things and realize they are pouring money down the wrong drain in the name of this whole fucking "DRUG CRUSADE". When are they gonna get it that WE WILL GET HIGH REGARDLESS of their silly assed laws, their pseudo "war" on drugs in other countries aimed at preventing the flow here. Don't they realize that they can hardly police the police in these remote third world countries? Don't they understand the simple psychological phenomenon that if we are told NOT to do something, chances are the more intelligent of the species WILL? Instead of dumping money into this whole fucking program, including television ads, bases in these other countries where essentially mob rules, jail time for people who use drugs or sell them, dead police officers in attempts to stop what inevitably WON'T be stopped.....(uhhh run on).....



    ......Needle exchange, rehabilitation other than prison, community based treatement etc etc....

    I guess though it's too profitable to stop slamming people into jail and charging them court fees and fines for drugs.

    I just so sick of it.

    In my freshmen sociology class, I did a thesis on this whole topic and I was practically lynched for coming out with such "OUTRAGEOUS" ideas, yet I got an A, my professor came to my aid several times and yet these kids still didn't get it, though I am confident they were all taking bong hits at the frat house on the weekends and eating mushrooms the "hippies" scored for them and so on. I just don't get the fucking mentality.

    Now Mr. Downey is going to prison for his drug use. When weill they fucking get it that prison is NOT a rehabilitation center. That is NOT where he needs to be. Frankly I say let him shoot up and kill him self but furthermore, prison is the last palce for him to get better. Sure he may find god along the way like many inmates do but christians seem no more exempt from the temptations than anyone else, the fear of god just doesn't work anymore enven for the more devoted men of the cloth.. SO what the fuck!!!!!

    I am sick of having to talk in code to my pot man, I am pissed my wife can't bring me back some opium of the orient on her way back from Hong Kong, I am sick of being told what i can put in my body and what i can't.


    And this article just further proves what a joke the DEA/Army/ATF is when it comes to stopping drug flow from other countries....

    reminds me of this health book we had in high school, in the drug chapters, it showed a bunch of DEA agents burning confiscated pot, and everyone of them had a smile on their face. Proof positive the tea head editior at the publisher was making a subtle joke.........anyway.......

    thats my soapbox for today.......

    i need coffee


By Waffles on Friday, August 6, 1999 - 12:34 pm:

    furthermore, I realize the Robert Downey was sent to prison for violating his paraole, I was speaking in general, from the beginning of his escapades with drug arrests....



By Spider on Saturday, December 2, 2000 - 11:16 am:

    This goes under the category of people not learning.

    My momma sent me this. She's gone back to school for her PhD. She sends me messages like this about twice a month.



    -----Original Message-----
    From: XXXXXXXXX XXXXX
    [mailto:xxxxxxxxx@hotmail.com]
    Sent: Friday, December 01, 2000 4:19 PM
    To: superbia@saintly.com
    Subject: Re: Re: papers, papers, papers, oh my!


    ...

    P.S. - Also, I think I found the PERFECT (almost - since he's from a small Arabian-Muslim country, he's probably sexist???) guy for you!!! I was SOOOOO impressed with this guy's vocabulary, his intellect, his demeanor (and he even thanked me afterward, wished me a nice weekend - since I had praised his report). He gave an oral presentation on his paper - the governmental system in the Arab Gulf States. It was sooooo interesting. He made it sound like a Utopia there! (Perhaps the fact that people are rolling in oil helps the whole social atmosphere.) - But I think you would have been very impressed with his ability to articulate so many things. Oh well, thought I'd let you know I was thinking about you. (He had eyes YOUR color, too. Can you imagine your blackeyed children???) - Gotta go!!! Love, MOM


    *****




    Among all the high-larious tidbits in there is the stereotyping in the first sentence. She's getting her degree in sociology and focusing on education and racial prejudice. Heh.


By droopy on Saturday, December 2, 2000 - 02:33 pm:

    tell your mom to back off. she's not in charge of your love life...

    we are.

    can you imagine your blackeyed, shortish, richard dreyfuss-lookin' children?


By Spider on Saturday, December 2, 2000 - 05:17 pm:

    I don't look like Richard Dreyfuss!


By Gee on Sunday, December 3, 2000 - 12:38 am:

    I think that was a Rhiannon+Semillama=babies comment.



    personally, I aprove. of you and Sem. I mean I'm hoping I'll have the opportunity to aprove Someday.


    Semillama and Mavis? Where's the romance there? They're like brothers, those two. I want to see me some GoodGirl-BadLlama lovin'.


By heather on Sunday, December 3, 2000 - 04:47 pm:

    maybe he means droopy+spider babies


By semillama on Monday, December 4, 2000 - 01:30 pm:

    What the Hell?

    Rhiannon and I could not be in a situation to make babies simply because if I have to sit through another catholic wedding...


By Gee on Monday, December 4, 2000 - 03:38 pm:

    Semillama is the one who looks like Richard Dreyfess, remember? He said so himself.


    can't you two just whiz through vegas?


By Trace on Monday, December 4, 2000 - 03:49 pm:

    Please, Whiz in a restroom or at least behind a tree, not through Vegas............


By semillama on Monday, December 4, 2000 - 04:20 pm:

    Once I nearly took a whiz through Hamtramck at 3 in the morning, tripping balls...then my guardian spirit smacked me on the back of the head and reminded me that the cops don't take kindly to folks pissing on the sidewalk...


By Tom on Monday, December 4, 2000 - 05:39 pm:

    Please don't get married, Sem. You were my last hope.

    And I'm sure I give better head.

    *sobsniffle*

    oh, god. I'll be alone forever!


By Spider on Monday, December 4, 2000 - 08:21 pm:

    What is wrong with you people? Stop.



    Tennis, anyone?


By pez on Tuesday, December 5, 2000 - 02:02 am:

    fuck.

    fuck fuck.

    fuck fuck fuck.

    i have absolutely no understanding of men. at all.

    not that i understand anyone. or maybe it's the other way around. bah. don't let people bug you into getting married. you'll go insane.

    whatever happened to mavis anyway?


By Trace on Tuesday, December 5, 2000 - 07:54 am:

    What's wrong, Pez?


By semillama on Tuesday, December 5, 2000 - 09:19 am:

    I think I was a brief phase for Mavis, who I'll admit has changed quite a bit from the first time we were involved.

    It was mutual this time though, so no hard feelings or broken hearts.

    I just need to be kissed and screwed from time to time if I am with someone, you know?

    No one's bugging me to get married. Even my parents have given up on that.


By agatha on Tuesday, December 5, 2000 - 12:25 pm:

    all the more mysterious, sem. let me try to figure this out. you and mavis had a fling recently, then returned to being friends. correct?


By pez on Tuesday, December 5, 2000 - 03:47 pm:

    (1) a man wrote me a stolen check on sunday, right as i was closing. instead of getting out at eleven, i had to stay until midnight to take care of business.

    (2) harmony's boyfriend talked to someone who wanted to talk to me while i was on my break last week. brian (the boyfriend) called me back to the department when i still had ten minutes left. the person was gone. i still have no clue who it is, because the name is either tom or toady, who may or may not have hair.

    (3) i borrowed a record from the library and lent it to a guy i'm doing a project with. he STILL hasn't returned it, even with my constant reminders and it being more than two weeks overdue.


    i feel like i'm being stomped on. men have been being dickheads to me lately. grrr.


By Trace on Tuesday, December 5, 2000 - 03:53 pm:

    I am sorry to hear about your problems with men Pez. I promise you not all of us are bad


By semillama on Tuesday, December 5, 2000 - 04:15 pm:

    Agatha: correct.

    I recently took the Spark's Matchtest (nickname: semillama with a space in front of the "s")and was dismayed taht most of my matches for this area are 18 year old girls from LaCrosse who like to "party", which actually means in the LaCrosse dialect "get butt-ass wasted". Not something I am into anymore.

    I got rated as a "Boy Scout" which was not a surprise, really. It's amazing how well they pegged me, actually.


By Cat on Tuesday, December 5, 2000 - 04:34 pm:

    I took that test and scored a 19 year old lesbian. Lucky me.

    Got any Boy Scout cookies or is that only for the girlies?

    Actually Sem, I think you'd be a great person to have a pledge (where you promise to marry each other if you haven't found anyone else by the time you're 40) with. The last mean I was pledged to got married to another guy earlier this year. I think he was just getting desperate that he was going to get stuck with me.


By semillama on Tuesday, December 5, 2000 - 05:04 pm:

    Hmm, seems to me that's just asking for trouble though...

    I just re-took the purity test, and scored a 53%.

    can't be that much of a boy scout.


By patrick on Tuesday, December 5, 2000 - 05:24 pm:

    hey pez....your problems may not be able to be summed up as a gender thing.......anyone could do what those people did to you.


By pez on Tuesday, December 5, 2000 - 05:32 pm:

    troo.

    i took the matchtest and ended up being "indipendent evil sex provider" or somesuch. tres odd.

    it's just that my girlfriends aren't doing anything like that. about the worst is that one of my coworkers has an odd smell (i know it's not cigs, and it's not sickly-sweet enough to be pot) hanging about her.

    besides, i have to get a present for my 20-year-old male cousin, who likes computers and music. so i need to get something extremely banal or something completely out of the box. i still feel grr-ish.


By patrick on Tuesday, December 5, 2000 - 05:37 pm:

    i came up as the Conquistador, Independent, Evil,Love Taker.

    "Adventurous, greedy, and cocky. If women were continents, you'd be the Spaniard that crosses them. And if more women were Spaniards, you'd be living over there, believe me"


    i gotta dispute this with the people at thespark.

    it goes on....
    "On the other hand, there are some good things
    about you: you're mostly self-sufficient. You're
    confident. You're a quick thinker. Other guys like
    and respect you. You treat people well most of the
    time. And your intentions always start out good,
    it's just that somewhere down the road, your
    selfish inner self takes over. "



By pez on Tuesday, December 5, 2000 - 05:47 pm:

    at least they're trying to stay analytical and creative at the same time. you've got to give them that.

    "independent evil sex provider

    "Lusting and grasping. You hunt down and conquer your sexual prey, like Caesar once did to the Vulcans. You enjoy trapping men in the pits of their own lust--and putting them out of their misery with your strangling loins. Then you throw the corpses in the river where they rot. Afterward, you go out to dinner with a friend.

    "One-night stands are fine by you--in fact, you prefer them to an oozing, go-nowhere, quasi-emotional relationship, and that's the only kind of relationship you're capable of at the moment. The truth is, you're just not looking for love. Now if only the spent bastards would be gone before you woke up...

    "We can respect that you have your own interpretation of moral standards and romance. Just make sure other people do, too. Deep down, you're a very giving person who eventually might let herself get steam-rolled by a selfish partner. Oh, crap."


    i'd almost forgotten about it. stupid thing.


By Tom on Tuesday, December 5, 2000 - 06:20 pm:

    *laugh* I came up with the same profile as Patrick. Dear lord. Does this mean we have to respect each other?

    'course, I guess that revelation into my nature probably drops a shadow over my disputations on the abortion thread.


By Isolde on Tuesday, December 5, 2000 - 06:30 pm:

    I'm an independant evil sex provider.


By patrick on Tuesday, December 5, 2000 - 07:10 pm:

    what happens when you put two scorpions in the same cage tom?


By patrick on Tuesday, December 5, 2000 - 07:23 pm:

    actually tom, the descript is not at all like me. most of it isnt anyway. some of those questions are damn tough....kill a kitten or a puppy...i mean shit how do you decide a question like that?


By Dougie on Tuesday, December 5, 2000 - 07:25 pm:

    The age old question: You're driving down the road and there's a squirrel and an old woman in road. Which one do you hit?


By Tom on Tuesday, December 5, 2000 - 11:56 pm:

    It doesn't matter either way. Energy changes forms. So I'd pick the cat, in the first place, and the squirrel, in the second, for purely semantic and pointless reasons.

    So. I got my first message on the Sparkmatch today. Someone named Ms. Moon.

    Think I'll have to hand this one over to Nate, then.


By pez on Wednesday, December 6, 2000 - 01:58 am:

    *chuckles*


By semillama on Wednesday, December 6, 2000 - 09:14 am:

    Hey, Pez, the spark must have been thinking of you, because they have a christmas test which selects gifts for someone based on the answers you provide about them. I typed in Mavis and it recommended a lot of erotica/porn, also Electronic Whack-a-Mole, but then I typed in my brother and it suggested both "Some LIke it Hot" and "Orgazmo", plus a model of Lara Croft escaping a Yeti. I was tempted by that one.

    So far I have had no hits on my sparkmatch deal, perhaps putting a photo up was not the best idea.


By pez on Wednesday, December 6, 2000 - 01:28 pm:

    i've pretty much got my shopping done already. but, yes, i did check it out. i don't really like the idea of buying things over the internet, though...


By patrick on Wednesday, December 6, 2000 - 01:33 pm:

    shit, can we postpone xmas for a few months. im slammed with work for the upcoming gallery show in jan......i have no money for xmas gifts and no capacity to even think about it.

    i have a feeling im gonna be doing some shopping on xmas eve.


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