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rob, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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So anyway, exciting as coat thread is...It seems that Professor David Nutt can talk nothing but sense. I, for one, would like to hereby self-diagnose myself with a crippling depression that can only be cured by NHS 'shrooms.
www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/jan/23/magic-mushrooms-psilocybin-depression-drug
Can anyone think of a better cure?
Alt: One for the fatties: best magic mushroom recipes.
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tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 14:19,
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why can't i access the guardian website on opera?i tried yesterday too when i was searching for something and it just freezes
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Have you tried switching it off?(
tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 14:25,
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Because opera is a bit crap on PCsVery good on phones though.
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CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Wed 25 Jan 2012, 14:25,
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oh righti like it cos it saves my passwords and i just click the key
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CHrome will do this, without even needing to click the key(
CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Wed 25 Jan 2012, 14:33,
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All of Clint Eastwood's films are shit. (
Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 14:46,
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*thinks in Russian**Google pornski*
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sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 14:46,
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Hi Roots.If I apologise will you stop ignoring me?
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CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Wed 25 Jan 2012, 14:27,
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I dunno what fuck he's on about, I haven't got him on ignore(
Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 14:28,
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I can't even see what you're saying.(
Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 14:36,
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I know you've not got me on ignore.but you do ignore me terribly /needy
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CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Wed 25 Jan 2012, 14:31,
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nah they're a piece of cake.Microsoft Access.
Don't laugh. Never used it before.
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Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 14:29,
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soz ...um, i hope you don't failand your good at the spreadsheets and data and that?
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Good luckBut who the hell uses Access these days? Apart from you, obviously.
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i fucking don'tSome bird in work just said she does. Wevs.
see you peeps, trah
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Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 14:34,
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My work still does, as the software for our card machines accepts it(
Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 14:38,
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Nah! she's too much of a prude to let a strange man near her lady garden.(
girlinthehole, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 14:31,
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Considering the last time I had shrooms I laughed like a mad fool for hours on end, I can believe this.(
girlinthehole, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 14:23,
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I prescribe a course of 'shrooms for you right away(
tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 14:47,
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I once mashed them in organic buffallo milk yoghurt at Glastonbury.Most middle class trip EVAH.
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Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 14:25,
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I can't compete with that.Although I did once put a load of resin in an Actimel. Wanted to see if they were still good bacteria once they were stoned.
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the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 15:09,
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There's some proper effeminate guys on offtopic.Yeah, I saw that... miles away from a treatment but still good idea.
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Never had 'shrooms, but expect they would go well with goat's cheese in a risotto.(
Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 14:26,
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While they do a great jobThey taste vile, so would need strong flavours to mask the taste.
Goat's cheese might work, but I don't really like it.
Also you should be aware that psilocybin turns blue when it reacts with the air, so you might want to think about presentation.
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tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 14:42,
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Really?'Cause I've found that peppermint tea (like all herbal teas), whilst smelling a bit like the herb, actually tastes like boiled water.
I always used to favour brewing them in strong coffee.
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tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 14:46,
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Dry them out , and preserve them in honey.Alternatively, eat them raw whilst picking, along with mud, grass and cow shit, then fall down a bank, pissing yourself laughing and puking.
Fucking GREAT day!
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David Nutt speaks a lot of sense a lot of the timeJust a shame that the government are fucking spacktards when it comes to how they've treated him.
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Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 14:30,
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If you get involved in politics you have to play the game.If he didn't want to he shouldn't have taken them up on their offer.
It's srs bsns can't go running away crying if people aren't nice to you.
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Bollocks.If the main issue is that the game is broken then it is absolutely your responsibility as an advisor to point this out. Anything less is intellectual cowardice.
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Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 14:36,
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he probably did, wasn't listened to so pitched for wider support(
Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 14:45,
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Because ... ?He was an expert advisor to a government that made a big deal about open government and evidence-based policy making. How dare he make public statements based upon his expertise. What a shit.
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Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 14:46,
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If I go to a meeting here and say "doing things that way will be a waste of money"then don't persuade them enough to change their course, I shouldn't go crying to the papers.
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You do come and bitch about it on here though(
tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 14:49,
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Again ... because ... ?The decisions and decision-making processes of government should be transparent. If you don't agree with the way decisions are made then you have a responsibility to involve the fourth estate.
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Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 14:51,
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I'm with Dr Shambo hereI would argue that the man knows more about drugs & effects of them than Government, yet they ignore his research.
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Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 14:41,
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because they know the public wouldn't support anything that made them look "soft on drugs"which i though was a problem after too many lines, but still.
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Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 14:42,
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I think that premise is not as true as it once was.Think of all those stoners that would vote for pretty much anyone that promises to legalize drugs. When you're talking about 25% of 18-35 year olds having smoked weed in the last year, there's plenty of votes in that.
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Yeah.Stoned teenagers are famous for voting.
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Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 14:47,
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Maybe they would be if they had that sort of incentive.I think the point that has been made for years that appearing "soft on drugs" is electoral suicide is no longer the "fact" that it used to be and that there will be both good and bad consequences from that sort of policy decision.
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We just rejected a move towards proportional representation.Under the current fptp system, the government is effectively chosen by a small and unrepresentative group of reactionary middle-englanders.
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Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 14:52,
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That's true if there isn't major swings in seats.I think a controvertial policy like full reform of drug law could change things in previously safe seats.
And lets face it, it's a issue that nearly everyone has either been affected by or has an opinion on.
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Can you give me some examples from the past fifty years where it hasn't been true?(
Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 14:59,
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how was Blair's government not elected by a small and unrepresentative group of reactionary middle-englandersagain, exactly?
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the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 15:07,
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It wasn't really, though, was it? (
the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 15:33,
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I mean, the number that voted for himwas at least a factor of two smaller than the number who didn't.
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the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 15:34,
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See, what is happening here is you are each defining your own terms for 'large group of reactionary middle-Englanders'Just thought I'd mention it...
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scarpe We Stole Bikes, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 15:37,
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+ 2million votes from 1992Torys got about 5 million less votes.
I don't think that change in voting behaviour could be called small.
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I don't think you've quite got the point of this conversation.I'm not for a second arguing there wasn't a huge swing. I'm just saying the government is still chosen by a relatively small group of middle-englanders regardless.
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the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 15:47,
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No need to be quite so patronising.In 1997, 182 seats changed hands, nearly 28% of the total. That's not dissmissable as middle england deciding the parliment, that's over a quarter of MP's being chucked out.
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It doesn't really work like that, though.it requires a frightening small number of people to swing a close seat, so a very small number of people actually made a difference. You're right that there was a large swing in voters, but becuase of the system we use, the actual large swing in seats that made a difference was caused by a very small number of voters, relatively. I mean, you could probably work it out but I'd be astonished if the swing voters that changed seats added up to much more than half a million or so.
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the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 16:00,
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yes, but our system allows a government not wanted by the majorityto be placed in power by the actions of a minority.
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the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 16:10,
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I can't imagine either of the two major parties' loyalist supporters backing that sort of change though(
Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 14:54,
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Just slip in "full independant review of UK drug policy, with binding recommendations to be put before parliment"as part of the manifesto and I don't see a big problem with the majority of supporters.
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Unless the papers get hold of it in which case it will be reported as:'Tories want to feed your children and pets heroin on the NHS'
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Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 14:58,
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You might have some objections to that word "binding" from anybody who has even the slightest clue about our constitution and parliament.Apart from that ... yeah.
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Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 14:58,
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Well the word that follows it is recommendations I was thinking more that every recommendation had to be discussed openly in the house or something.
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So you've redefined the word "binding" then?Good work, Humpty.
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Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 15:27,
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words mean different things depending on the other words around them.(, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 15:28, Reply)
Now would probably be a good point to take a deep breath and admit that you shouldn't have used the word "binding".(
Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 15:29,
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But that might distract from all your effort from changing the point. (, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 15:38, Reply)
Except the polling station is in the opposite direction from the all night garage.(
tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 14:48,
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hahahathey should make the voting slips all shiney
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Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 14:50,
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This is trueHowever, public opinion should never influence the decisions government make. Especially not about something important, like drugs policies.
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Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 14:46,
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I'm simply referring to the fact that 90% of the general public are fucking idiots who'd rather watch reality TV than pick up a book.(
Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 14:50,
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watch?Be on?
Masturbate to?
Come on man, don't make us guess like this.
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scarpe We Stole Bikes, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 14:52,
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Did we abandon representative democracy when I wasn't looking?(
Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 14:49,
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Yes.Most of us weren't paying attention though, so don't blame yourself.
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scarpe We Stole Bikes, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 14:51,
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Fucking heroin.It's all rosey while you're fucked and then BAM! you wake up to autocracy.
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Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 14:53,
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They should put pictures of this on the packaging to scare people into not taking heroin(
Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 14:54,
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the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 15:05,
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As all Dundonians knowThat is the time to take more heroin.
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tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 15:07,
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It's always time for more heroin in Dundee.(
the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 15:09,
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In Victorian timesDundee cake contained at least an ounce of opium per pound.
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Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 15:28,
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Funny, because these days the exact same ratio can be applied to Dundonians themselves.(
scarpe We Stole Bikes, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 15:31,
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It's not so much the government as the general public(
Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 14:42,
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Well doneAccess is fuckin' cuntish
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CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Wed 25 Jan 2012, 15:48,
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Innit, but there was no need for them to make me learn SO MUCH shit for it.The exam was pish compared to that book.
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Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 16:07,
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congratsNow go write a database
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The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 15:50,
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That more than one person can use at the same timeHah!
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The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 16:41,
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er no i don't!I'm totally leaving and just got some free qualifications for my CV
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Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 16:06,
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I'm bored now, someone tell me their favourite Asian recipeSo far I can make, special fried rice, nasi goreng, red/green curry, prawn teryaki, spicy thai chicken soup
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Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 15:55,
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I once was having my filthy way with a Chinese lassShe asked if there was anything I'd like to do with her, to which I suggested a 69. She told me to fuck off, as there was no way she was cooking at that time of night.
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Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 16:01,
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I have a nice poverty noodle recipeboil some noodles, drain them.
then fry a lot of garlic in a pan with chilli ground ginger salt and pepper, add honey a bit of tomato puree Soy sauce and Vingar and turn the heat up until it's bubbling, chuck the noodles stir until it's nearly burnt and eat.
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Mix a gelling agent with petroleum.Ignite.
Drop on civilian targets.
LOL most heartily.
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Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 16:00,
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like fuck he was, he'd have still been rolling around narnia licking his arse at every opportunityand liam neeson was the wrong voice him an all
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i'm not on about liam neeson.I'm on about ASLAN the fucking lion, BBC version if you have to
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Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 16:31,
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i liked the books and the one i saw when i was a kidneeson was a mistake for sure, the only good thing about them films was when they were grown up and big suze was one of the older versions of the girl
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I liked the books.Can't remember them much now.
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Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 16:37,
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Well I read the Narnia books when I was a kidI didn't read Harry Potter because I was a fucking ADULT when the came out. What a load of tosh.
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Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 16:39,
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Think of the bible with posh kids and talking mice(
Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 16:39,
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I wouldn't worryLions taste of shit, most people wouldn't bother.
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the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 16:16,
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fuck off, rice krispies, chocolate and toffeeyou can't beat a decent lion
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deliberate misunderstandinglols.(
the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 16:20,
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Sorry, none I've ever made without using packet sauces, except for really simple sweet chilli stir fry meals.However, I'm thoroughly looking forward to the summer, so I can make this (stolen from Levi Roots, not sure who he stole it off though)
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Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 16:15,
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Not even in the parking lot behind Walmart?(
Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 16:15,
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Then you have missed outI recommend that you both rectify this situation forthwith.
The car park behind Walmart would make an ideal venue.
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tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 16:26,
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They don't really tempt me, tbhThen again, I'm off to a festival in August with a few people who are rather fond of illicit substances, might end up having some there.
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Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 16:31,
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