Topic: I am a ninja topic assassin

[Blair]

I am a ninja, assassin of topics.

I loom in the darkness of anonymity. I post without fear or regret.

My posts are a reflection of me.

Either they go unnoticed, bypassed by the flurry of thought from others around me.

Or, if noticed can instantly stop a topic dead in its tracks.


Fear my power to slip past and kill forum topics! 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

So I assume this thread is dead already?

[Dragonfire]

 

[Blair]

I should have locked the topic


I was looking through a bunch of my posts across a number of forums, and it amazed me over the years just how often the two events happen.

There would be a discussion going on concerning which road to take on an issue or people coming up with a bunch of random stuff for no real purpose. The topic can be going hard and heavy for several straight hours... then I post and the stops stops dead in it's tracks

On the other hand, I rarely jump right into any decisions, I usually think things through almost to a fault in the hope that my reasoning can help an issue come to a conclusion or at least concede there is more to a situation or both views that the discussion parties are giving credit to/for... and my post is completely overlooked or receives no response which usually makes me wonder if my making people actually think about the issue in a new light rather than blindly steaming down the same path unchanged annoys them. It's easier just to stick with your side of the issue, unwilling to budge, and keep going back and forth forever

[Dr. Hasslein]

Cocaine is a hell of a drug. 

[Blair]

    

[Kathy]

Young folk probably don't remember that cocaine was in lots of things, including Coca Cola, until the early 1900s. It was sold over the counter - just like aspirin is today.

Many companies touted that their products contained cocaine or opium since these products were touted as being "miracle cures" for almost any ailment.

Physicians and others wrote thousands of enforcements proclaiming the health benefits of products containing cocaine and opium.

Even the Vatican proclaimed the beneficial effects of a cocaine laced wine. Pope Leo the XIII awarded Vin Mariani it a "gold medal in recognition of benefits received by Vin Marian".

I remember an elderly friend telling me how upset people were at the time when the government stepped in and started regulating their use.

I still have some of the jars and containers she gave me that these ingredients. Laudanum, an opium based product, was something she swore by and rued the loss of her favorite cure all.

[Dr. Hasslein]

Thanks Kathy, that was educational.

I've heard about cocaine being in Coca Cola back in the early days. It's funny how some people think that it's still in coke today. 

I think my friend is becoming a coke head, I was over at his house last week and he drank 5 cans. It's enough to make you sick.

[Blair]

But of course, the cocaine in Coca Cola wasn't at any really noticeable levels (something like a gram in every few gallons). The point being an uncertainly if it was the cocaine that made the drink so "addictive" compared against other drinks at the time.

Now, marijuana is the new cocaine when it comes to proclaiming medicinal use among other things.

[Jimmy]

Except for the fact it's a good relaxing tools (at least in the beginning from my old experience) most of the other benefits are mostly placebo effects. Now cocaine is a different story and something far more enjoyable to party on (I'm one of the few who never got an addiction problem with it and I haven't touch any kind of hard drugs since at least the last five years).