sean of the dead
from Madisonville, KY is reading Peckerwood, by Jed AyresMarch 28, 2013 - 1:26pm
- Not to get off topic, but fuck man, how did you do it? I can't, for the life of me, quit. I've tried patches and gum and inhalers, but nothing's worked. Please, please, tell me you have the secret.
no worries.
I honestly just decided I was done. I think that is the biggest key to success, just being ready to quit, wanting to quit.
I had tried before, and I'd realize I wasn't doing it for myself, but for other reasons that didn't mean as much to me. So I thought about it, realized I had smoked for half of my life, and how much health and money I'd save, then just stopped. Haven't had a single puff since.
And I smoked A LOT. So if I can do it, you can too.
R.Moon
from The City of Champions is reading The Last Thing He Wanted by Joan Didion; Story Structure Architect by Victoria Lynn Schimdt PH.D; Creating Characters by the editors of Writer's DigestMarch 28, 2013 - 1:27pm
Oh, and I have a really kick-ass cat.
- My cat's awesomer than yours. Just sayin...
Strange Photon
from Fort Wayne, IN is reading Laurie Anderson lyricsMarch 28, 2013 - 1:28pm
The real question is how did you start in the first place? Like, did someone peer pressure you into it, or did you just get curious?
I never understood the draw of smoking, but I understand the addiction once it starts.
Strange Photon
from Fort Wayne, IN is reading Laurie Anderson lyricsMarch 28, 2013 - 1:28pm
Moon, tell me about your cat.
(just got a Hannibal Lecter vibe there)
R.Moon
from The City of Champions is reading The Last Thing He Wanted by Joan Didion; Story Structure Architect by Victoria Lynn Schimdt PH.D; Creating Characters by the editors of Writer's DigestMarch 28, 2013 - 1:30pm
The real question is how did you start in the first place? Like, did someone peer pressure you into it, or did you just get curious?
- Curiosity killed the cat. See what I did there?
sean of the dead
from Madisonville, KY is reading Peckerwood, by Jed AyresMarch 28, 2013 - 1:31pm
But let's give it a rest for a while, can ya dig it?
Strange Photon
from Fort Wayne, IN is reading Laurie Anderson lyricsMarch 28, 2013 - 1:32pm
See, I can handle violence toward human beings since we all deserve it, but killing cats is inexcusable.
Seriously, though, is that how you started, Moon? Just thought, hey, I like the smell and look of that?
Strange Photon
from Fort Wayne, IN is reading Laurie Anderson lyricsMarch 28, 2013 - 1:33pm
LOL, we all see what ya did there and find it comical.
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedMarch 28, 2013 - 1:39pm
@Sean - I don't know why everyone is so ready to fight; but you, me, Jessica, and I think 3 or 4 other people all live in the same state, mostly with in a few hours drive of each other. I think me and Mcvaughn are both going to the Joe Hill speaking at the Lexington Joeseph Beth. At the same time none of us have ever really got into it so maybe you're right.
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Utah
from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryMarch 28, 2013 - 1:41pm
Time for a Dwayne/Sean deathmatch.
sean of the dead
from Madisonville, KY is reading Peckerwood, by Jed AyresMarch 28, 2013 - 1:43pm
I think me and Mcvaughn are both going to the Joe Hill speaking at the Lexington Joeseph Beth.
I like that. I like that people can put aside their differences and meet like that. We hung out with Dakota (jacksusername) and Mark Vanderpool one night a little while back, and it was a blast! It's nice, because really, we're all here for the same thing, and most of us have a lot more in common than we pretend to.
Have fun at that, that should be pretty cool.
Sound
from Azusa, CA is reading Greener Pastures by Michael WehuntMarch 28, 2013 - 1:43pm
Did this thread blink out of existence for a second? So that's what the flag as offensive button does...
Strange Photon
from Fort Wayne, IN is reading Laurie Anderson lyricsMarch 28, 2013 - 1:44pm
Deathmatches kick ass.
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedMarch 28, 2013 - 1:45pm
@Sean - Me and Mcvaughn have differences to put aside? Like conflict?
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Utah
from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryMarch 28, 2013 - 1:45pm
I have no idea. AD and I just emailed each other because we each thought the other had shut it down.
See guys, this is what happens when you piss off Kirk. He just shows up and turns off your shit. Doesn't even tell you about. Just turns it off as a warning and assumes you'll get the message, which is that Kirk is not fucking amused.
NOT AMUSED!
sean of the dead
from Madisonville, KY is reading Peckerwood, by Jed AyresMarch 28, 2013 - 1:46pm
@Dwayne - No, I just meant in general. Not the two of you, sorry. When I re-read my post, I thought that same thing, but you posted before I could edit.
R.Moon
from The City of Champions is reading The Last Thing He Wanted by Joan Didion; Story Structure Architect by Victoria Lynn Schimdt PH.D; Creating Characters by the editors of Writer's DigestMarch 28, 2013 - 1:46pm
Seriously, though, is that how you started, Moon? Just thought, hey, I like the smell and look of that?
- Not really. I started smoking pot first and with the excitement of starting to smoke pot comes all these great (looking back, asinine) ideas on how to get higher than you already are. One of these brilliant ideas was to smoke a Newport after getting stoned. Some stoned genius decided that Newports get you higher, so of course, me and all my friends wanted to get higher. That's pretty much how I started. But now, I smoke cigarettes because I'm addicted to them, not because I smoke pot. Haven't smoked pot in quite awhile.
Strange Photon
from Fort Wayne, IN is reading Laurie Anderson lyricsMarch 28, 2013 - 1:50pm
I'm only recently realizing that my own addiction to Oxy is no different than potheads, crackheads, or alcoholics, so it is fascinating to me how different people become addicted to different things.
And for the record... KIRK, I wouldn't be amused either... Utah can be amusing sometimes, but not this time!!! Ok, maybe a little. *tscratches Utah's chin*
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedMarch 28, 2013 - 1:50pm
I've flagged spam as offensive before btw. I didn't notice anything happen.
Strange Photon
from Fort Wayne, IN is reading Laurie Anderson lyricsMarch 28, 2013 - 1:52pm
Damnit, Dwayne, had you said that a page and a half ago, none of this would have happened!
Way to go, Dwayne. *kicks dust on Dwayne's stylish shoes*
*then brushes them off because he's only joking with Dwayne*
R.Moon
from The City of Champions is reading The Last Thing He Wanted by Joan Didion; Story Structure Architect by Victoria Lynn Schimdt PH.D; Creating Characters by the editors of Writer's DigestMarch 28, 2013 - 1:55pm
I'm only recently realizing that my own addiction to Oxy is no different than potheads, crackheads, or alcoholics, so it is fascinating to me how different people become addicted to different things.
- Addiction doesn't discriminate. I've met people who were making six figures who were crackheads. I've also seen the guy living under the bridge, scraping up change for his next bottle of Mad Dog. And, there are people such as yourself, who've gotten addicted because of a prescription. I'm assuming that's why you're taking Oxy. If I remember correctly, you said you were in a wheelchair.
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedMarch 28, 2013 - 1:56pm
Okay I'm going to take a nap before work. Best of luck with the deathmatches, but I have to sit them out.
Strange Photon
from Fort Wayne, IN is reading Laurie Anderson lyricsMarch 28, 2013 - 2:00pm
No, I'be never been in a wheelchair, but I have had some serious injuries/bizarre medical issues that have caused me to need massive doses of painkillers on and off since childhood. Thank the flying spaghetti monster, though, that I can still walk, talk, and destroy.
Yeah, you're right about the nondiscriminatory policies of addiction, and part of me always knew that, but I'm sure you know how we all like to think that we're better than others who are actually just like us. I stupidly used to think that drunks and potheads were somehow inferior to me even though I was a pill popper and occasionally a syringe sticker, but I've come to realize that every last one of us sucks equally.
R.Moon
from The City of Champions is reading The Last Thing He Wanted by Joan Didion; Story Structure Architect by Victoria Lynn Schimdt PH.D; Creating Characters by the editors of Writer's DigestMarch 28, 2013 - 2:07pm
One thing I've learned is a drug is a drug is a drug. Doesn't matter if its alcohol, pot, coke, crack, heroin, meth or oxy's. and it doesn't matter the intake either. Shooting dope is no better, or worse, than snorting it. Just don't get to Mötley Crüe level and shoot up Jack Daniels to come off the coke. That's just insane.
Strange Photon
from Fort Wayne, IN is reading Laurie Anderson lyricsMarch 28, 2013 - 2:10pm
Well, that, and the music itself.
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedMarch 28, 2013 - 2:32pm
@Moon - The intake doesn't matter in the sense of 'are you an addict'? It does matter in the sense of 'do you have hepatitis'?
R.Moon
from The City of Champions is reading The Last Thing He Wanted by Joan Didion; Story Structure Architect by Victoria Lynn Schimdt PH.D; Creating Characters by the editors of Writer's DigestMarch 28, 2013 - 2:29pm
Well, that, and the music itself.
- Is that a dig on the Crue? If so, our battle just got a lot bloodier. I was gonna eviscerate you, but now I'm going to crucify you.
R.Moon
from The City of Champions is reading The Last Thing He Wanted by Joan Didion; Story Structure Architect by Victoria Lynn Schimdt PH.D; Creating Characters by the editors of Writer's DigestMarch 28, 2013 - 2:32pm
@Moon - The intake doesn't matter in the sense of 'are you an addict'? It does matter in the sense of 'do you have habitats'?
- I really have no idea what you're trying to say here. But, I do have a home, so yes, I have a habitat.
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedMarch 28, 2013 - 2:34pm
I tried to post without my glasses on and my autocorrect doesn't know the word hepatitis.
Strange Photon
from Fort Wayne, IN is reading Laurie Anderson lyricsMarch 28, 2013 - 2:35pm
I specificly meant it as a dig on the Crue, and in the specific hopes that you'll tie me to a cross, put nails in my hands and feet and hoist me up till I die. I want a three day weekend.
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedMarch 28, 2013 - 2:38pm
I'll pray for you Strange.
R.Moon
from The City of Champions is reading The Last Thing He Wanted by Joan Didion; Story Structure Architect by Victoria Lynn Schimdt PH.D; Creating Characters by the editors of Writer's DigestMarch 28, 2013 - 2:38pm
The intake doesn't matter in the sense of 'are you an addict'? It does matter in the sense of 'do you have hepatitis'?
- Yeah, intake doesn't matter in the sense of 'are you an addict.' But, it doesn't necessarily mean it does if you have hepatitis. You can get get hepatitis from any dirty needle, like a tattoo needle.
But, that was my point, though. An addict is an addict despite how they get the drug into their body.
R.Moon
from The City of Champions is reading The Last Thing He Wanted by Joan Didion; Story Structure Architect by Victoria Lynn Schimdt PH.D; Creating Characters by the editors of Writer's DigestMarch 28, 2013 - 2:40pm
I want a three day weekend.
- This is why you're awesome, Strange. It's going to be bittersweet beating you.
Strange Photon
from Fort Wayne, IN is reading Laurie Anderson lyricsMarch 28, 2013 - 2:41pm
I'm awesome for so many reasons, that is but only one.
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedMarch 28, 2013 - 2:47pm
Yeah, intake doesn't matter in the sense of 'are you an addict.' But, it doesn't necessarily mean it does if you have hepatitis. You can get get hepatitis from any dirty needle, like a tattoo needle.
Not saying that everyone with hep. got it from being an addict, just that it creeps up on almost certainty for intravenous drug users.
Strange Photon
from Fort Wayne, IN is reading Laurie Anderson lyricsMarch 28, 2013 - 2:47pm
The key is to only use your own needle, and only use it once.
Or so I'm told...
R.Moon
from The City of Champions is reading The Last Thing He Wanted by Joan Didion; Story Structure Architect by Victoria Lynn Schimdt PH.D; Creating Characters by the editors of Writer's DigestMarch 28, 2013 - 2:51pm
just that it creeps up on almost certainty for intravenous drug users.
- Yes it does. I can relate...
Strange Photon
from Fort Wayne, IN is reading Laurie Anderson lyricsMarch 28, 2013 - 3:34pm
So, you smoke, you shoot, you wear kick-ass glasses, what else?
R.Moon
from The City of Champions is reading The Last Thing He Wanted by Joan Didion; Story Structure Architect by Victoria Lynn Schimdt PH.D; Creating Characters by the editors of Writer's DigestMarch 28, 2013 - 3:37pm
I smoke and wet glasses. I do not shoot anymore. I am clean and happy.
Strange Photon
from Fort Wayne, IN is reading Laurie Anderson lyricsMarch 28, 2013 - 3:38pm
If I had a commemorative chip to give you, I really would. I imagine that was as hard to kick as smoking will be.
R.Moon
from The City of Champions is reading The Last Thing He Wanted by Joan Didion; Story Structure Architect by Victoria Lynn Schimdt PH.D; Creating Characters by the editors of Writer's DigestMarch 28, 2013 - 3:45pm
Actually, smoking is way harder. But, thanks, man!
Strange Photon
from Fort Wayne, IN is reading Laurie Anderson lyricsMarch 28, 2013 - 4:01pm
No prob. Commemorative chips from me will be worth a lot someday.
fport
from Canada is reading The World Until Yesterday - Jared DiamondMarch 28, 2013 - 5:45pm
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedMarch 28, 2013 - 6:48pm
@fport - Please just be nice. You just equated one heterosexual man platonically encouraging/congratulating another heterosexual man to/for being clean off a serious drug addiction with forced homosexual acts between superheroes. Even as a joke that is just so odd it seems out of place, even on the internet. And this is me saying this, and I'm a jerk.
@Moon and Strange - Good job on the avoid drugs, and if one/both of you is not heterosexual and I missed it, my bad I guess; but I don't think that makes what fport said any less crazy/weird/inappropriate.
R.Moon
from The City of Champions is reading The Last Thing He Wanted by Joan Didion; Story Structure Architect by Victoria Lynn Schimdt PH.D; Creating Characters by the editors of Writer's DigestMarch 28, 2013 - 7:00pm
@Dwayne: Thank you, kind sir. I am heterosexual and what fport posted was utterly lost on me. But, 99% of what he posts is lost on me.
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedMarch 28, 2013 - 7:12pm
Me too mostly, but the link is too a picture of Batman and Superman being forced by the owners of DC to touch their genitals together.
R.Moon
from The City of Champions is reading The Last Thing He Wanted by Joan Didion; Story Structure Architect by Victoria Lynn Schimdt PH.D; Creating Characters by the editors of Writer's DigestMarch 28, 2013 - 7:24pm
Wow, weird. Even outside the context of me and Photon's posts, that is fucking creepy.
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedMarch 28, 2013 - 8:24pm
Yeah, in the context of a serious comment it was just too much.
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Utah
from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryMarch 28, 2013 - 7:59pm
That is actually what I imagined as the context of Moon's and Photon's posts. fport, Dwayne may think you're crazy, but I think you're spot on.
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedMarch 28, 2013 - 8:33pm
no worries.
I honestly just decided I was done. I think that is the biggest key to success, just being ready to quit, wanting to quit.
I had tried before, and I'd realize I wasn't doing it for myself, but for other reasons that didn't mean as much to me. So I thought about it, realized I had smoked for half of my life, and how much health and money I'd save, then just stopped. Haven't had a single puff since.
And I smoked A LOT. So if I can do it, you can too.
The real question is how did you start in the first place? Like, did someone peer pressure you into it, or did you just get curious?
I never understood the draw of smoking, but I understand the addiction once it starts.
Moon, tell me about your cat.
(just got a Hannibal Lecter vibe there)
See, I can handle violence toward human beings since we all deserve it, but killing cats is inexcusable.
Seriously, though, is that how you started, Moon? Just thought, hey, I like the smell and look of that?
LOL, we all see what ya did there and find it comical.
@Sean - I don't know why everyone is so ready to fight; but you, me, Jessica, and I think 3 or 4 other people all live in the same state, mostly with in a few hours drive of each other. I think me and Mcvaughn are both going to the Joe Hill speaking at the Lexington Joeseph Beth. At the same time none of us have ever really got into it so maybe you're right.
Time for a Dwayne/Sean deathmatch.
I like that. I like that people can put aside their differences and meet like that. We hung out with Dakota (jacksusername) and Mark Vanderpool one night a little while back, and it was a blast! It's nice, because really, we're all here for the same thing, and most of us have a lot more in common than we pretend to.
Have fun at that, that should be pretty cool.
Did this thread blink out of existence for a second? So that's what the flag as offensive button does...
Deathmatches kick ass.
@Sean - Me and Mcvaughn have differences to put aside? Like conflict?
I have no idea. AD and I just emailed each other because we each thought the other had shut it down.
See guys, this is what happens when you piss off Kirk. He just shows up and turns off your shit. Doesn't even tell you about. Just turns it off as a warning and assumes you'll get the message, which is that Kirk is not fucking amused.
NOT AMUSED!
@Dwayne - No, I just meant in general. Not the two of you, sorry. When I re-read my post, I thought that same thing, but you posted before I could edit.
I'm only recently realizing that my own addiction to Oxy is no different than potheads, crackheads, or alcoholics, so it is fascinating to me how different people become addicted to different things.
And for the record... KIRK, I wouldn't be amused either... Utah can be amusing sometimes, but not this time!!! Ok, maybe a little. *tscratches Utah's chin*
I've flagged spam as offensive before btw. I didn't notice anything happen.
Damnit, Dwayne, had you said that a page and a half ago, none of this would have happened!
Way to go, Dwayne. *kicks dust on Dwayne's stylish shoes*
*then brushes them off because he's only joking with Dwayne*
Okay I'm going to take a nap before work. Best of luck with the deathmatches, but I have to sit them out.
No, I'be never been in a wheelchair, but I have had some serious injuries/bizarre medical issues that have caused me to need massive doses of painkillers on and off since childhood. Thank the flying spaghetti monster, though, that I can still walk, talk, and destroy.
Yeah, you're right about the nondiscriminatory policies of addiction, and part of me always knew that, but I'm sure you know how we all like to think that we're better than others who are actually just like us. I stupidly used to think that drunks and potheads were somehow inferior to me even though I was a pill popper and occasionally a syringe sticker, but I've come to realize that every last one of us sucks equally.
One thing I've learned is a drug is a drug is a drug. Doesn't matter if its alcohol, pot, coke, crack, heroin, meth or oxy's. and it doesn't matter the intake either. Shooting dope is no better, or worse, than snorting it. Just don't get to Mötley Crüe level and shoot up Jack Daniels to come off the coke. That's just insane.
Well, that, and the music itself.
@Moon - The intake doesn't matter in the sense of 'are you an addict'? It does matter in the sense of 'do you have hepatitis'?
I tried to post without my glasses on and my autocorrect doesn't know the word hepatitis.
I specificly meant it as a dig on the Crue, and in the specific hopes that you'll tie me to a cross, put nails in my hands and feet and hoist me up till I die. I want a three day weekend.
I'll pray for you Strange.
I'm awesome for so many reasons, that is but only one.
Not saying that everyone with hep. got it from being an addict, just that it creeps up on almost certainty for intravenous drug users.
The key is to only use your own needle, and only use it once.
Or so I'm told...
So, you smoke, you shoot, you wear kick-ass glasses, what else?
I smoke and wet glasses. I do not shoot anymore. I am clean and happy.
If I had a commemorative chip to give you, I really would. I imagine that was as hard to kick as smoking will be.
Actually, smoking is way harder. But, thanks, man!
No prob. Commemorative chips from me will be worth a lot someday.
Ya, well, all's well that ends well.
@fport - Please just be nice. You just equated one heterosexual man platonically encouraging/congratulating another heterosexual man to/for being clean off a serious drug addiction with forced homosexual acts between superheroes. Even as a joke that is just so odd it seems out of place, even on the internet. And this is me saying this, and I'm a jerk.
@Moon and Strange - Good job on the avoid drugs, and if one/both of you is not heterosexual and I missed it, my bad I guess; but I don't think that makes what fport said any less crazy/weird/inappropriate.
@Dwayne: Thank you, kind sir. I am heterosexual and what fport posted was utterly lost on me. But, 99% of what he posts is lost on me.
Me too mostly, but the link is too a picture of Batman and Superman being forced by the owners of DC to touch their genitals together.
Wow, weird. Even outside the context of me and Photon's posts, that is fucking creepy.
Yeah, in the context of a serious comment it was just too much.
That is actually what I imagined as the context of Moon's and Photon's posts. fport, Dwayne may think you're crazy, but I think you're spot on.
Stop stirring the pot Utah.