Worst bank holiday: The day after my first taste of LSD.
Somehow I had driven home, got myself to bed, and then the lack of brain control kicked in. I seem to remember watching Waterloo in the afternoon. Didn't put me off though.

Alt: It went remarkably well, thank you. I'll save the details for some other time.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Thu 3 May 2012, 8:39, 1 reply, 13 years ago)

Best bank holidays:
That glorious, all too brief period (before I had kids) when head shops had discovered a loophole in the law which allowed them to legally sell magic mushrooms.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 3 May 2012, 8:55, Reply)

I have never understood the appeal of hallucinogens.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Thu 3 May 2012, 8:59, Reply)

Is this because you have taken them and not enjoyed it?
Or have you not taken them for this reason?
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 3 May 2012, 9:02, Reply)

I have never taken them.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Thu 3 May 2012, 9:04, Reply)

Don't seem to work on me at all

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 3 May 2012, 9:06, Reply)

If you were expecting to see giant pink kittens, as Davvo suggests below
Then no, they wouldn't work.
I am intrigued by this though. Are you saying that you never felt anything, or that the experience didn't live up to your expectations?
There must be different tolerance levels. The friend who I used to regularly take mushrooms with would always get an hour or so into the trip and then be convinced that he had come down and insist on brewing up some more.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 3 May 2012, 9:13, Reply)

Took mushrooms - nothing at all happened though two others were all over the place
Took LSD - giggled a bit
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 3 May 2012, 9:22, Reply)

This is one of the problems with prohibition laws
No guarantee of quality of supply.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 3 May 2012, 9:25, Reply)

Plus you are obviously NAILS

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 3 May 2012, 9:25, Reply)

It just is odd
Speed does nothing until I smoke (which I don't normally)
E made me just happy
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 3 May 2012, 9:29, Reply)

I am nails though

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 3 May 2012, 9:35, Reply)

You might see the appeal more if you had tried them.
Like all drugs, they make you feel great - otherwise people wouldn't take them.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 3 May 2012, 9:09, Reply)

See also:
Meat
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 3 May 2012, 9:12, Reply)

I told you, sporto
I'm not letting you put your "meat" inside me.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 3 May 2012, 9:14, Reply)

Damn veggies
How about this carrot?

*points*
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 3 May 2012, 9:21, Reply)

*points and laughs*

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 3 May 2012, 10:00, Reply)

Why are you talking to a giant, pink kitten?

( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Thu 3 May 2012, 9:05, Reply)

chortles

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 3 May 2012, 9:05, Reply)

Alright?

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Thu 3 May 2012, 9:06, Reply)

Heading into the office, knackered but happy after last night's result!

( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Thu 3 May 2012, 9:08, Reply)

Is this football related happiness? I know nothing about football, but know what you northeners are like; if it's not racing pigeons and wippets it's football and Jarrow marches.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Thu 3 May 2012, 9:11, Reply)

whippets

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 3 May 2012, 9:11, Reply)

whippets good

( Bill Clay a.k.a. Claudio, Thu 3 May 2012, 9:26, Reply)

whippets real good

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 3 May 2012, 9:28, Reply)

Salt n Pepa Devo
( Bill Clay a.k.a. Claudio, Thu 3 May 2012, 9:32, Reply)

Quite some goal last night

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 3 May 2012, 9:11, Reply)

Yup.

( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Thu 3 May 2012, 9:12, Reply)

Just seen the 1st goal on youtube
Not bad either! Going to be a good game v Man City
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 3 May 2012, 9:22, Reply)

I cannot understand your lack of understanding of their appeal.
Quite the most incredible experiences of my life, if I am honest. Sorry, 'birth of my daughter', but it's true. A heavy dose of DMT is easily the most spectacular thing - way beyond the limits of your imagination. The first time I had a proper go on it, it was like being locked in an Aztec-themed computer game - not one single thing I could see bore any relation to a 'real' object. Fucking mind-blowing.

It's so intense that it is pretty scary, but it's akin to a religious vision and psychologically has done me the world of good. Nothing like stepping outside yourself to gain insight.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 3 May 2012, 9:18, Reply)

I think the issue for me is that I am a control freak.
I don't like being completely out of my mind - even being very drunk gives me a (slight) amount of control. The particular bit that scares me is not being able to stop it or change things I wasn't enjoying. As an example - what if you didn't like being in an Aztec-themed computer game? How could you take control and stop that?
( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Thu 3 May 2012, 9:23, Reply)

Mastering your fear is part of the experience.
Learning to let go and simply accept what you are experiencing is very good for you.

DMT only lasts a few minutes, anyway - not that time has any meaning when you are in that world.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 3 May 2012, 9:26, Reply)

I am sure the phrase 'Learning to let go and simply accept what you are experiencing is very good for you' has served you well when recruiting in the playground you massive nonce.
( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Thu 3 May 2012, 9:35, Reply)

Hallucinogenic sweets ftw

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 3 May 2012, 9:37, Reply)

At the risk of sounding like a dreadful old hippy
I always get a strong sense of being "home" and that what I am experiencing is how things actually are, which I have been enabled to perceive properly.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 3 May 2012, 9:23, Reply)

I am getting a a strong sense that you are a 'homo'.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 3 May 2012, 9:26, Reply)

It doen't matter how often you try to convince me
I'm not going to sleep with you.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 3 May 2012, 9:29, Reply)