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Also, complaining about leg-crossing is a great "kids these days!" whine
Kids with their disrespect and iPods and leg-crossing!
I wish I had on-hand a video of this episode of Intervention. It's this girl sitting in a really upscale neighborhood on the curb, crushing some pills in a cellophane from her cigarette pack. She says "I'm gonna snort a Xanax, 'cause I'm pissed off."
Can't remember whether her legs were crossed.
Man what
Kids these days and their recreational pharmaceutical choices
Like, Xanax and adderall? It is so weird to me.
We take what you give us, old man
"and the morning stars I have seen
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
Skip, I dislike surgeries and was a pain in the ass to the ophthalmologist, but if you do the "real" lasik (that is, entirely done with lasers), there is no pain or discomfort at all.
I kinda don't like that it makes me nervous, either
I don't typically think of myself as a person who's afraid of something like that, but the mental image of my eye being cut
Nationalism is a potent force - far more potent than unity of the working class, as World War I taught us.
It is what destroyed the USSR, after all.
Also, Stalin motivated people to fight by calling to defend Mother Russia, rather than worker's rights or similar. Patriotism was much more potent a motivator.
This is intrinsically linked with the overall problem. After Lenin's death, Marxism-Leninism and Revolutionary theory ceased to be the main component in USSR education. The Party's political heads wavered back and forth from theories from those on the Right of the Party and those on the Left. The unification and discipline of Lenin was gone. Permanent Revolution as a theory was cast aside. To make up for the change in POV Stalin rehabilitated previous enemies of "The People". White generals, Tsarists, reinstated religious power, reinstated the hierarchy in the military, etc.
Stalin's one saving grace was his staunch opposition to corruption. This was usually at the heart of his purges, including the Great Purge (though it was an opportune time for him to get rid of any powerful detractors). After Stalin's death the fear of being removed from political power immediately (another Lenin concept) was gone. Corruption ran rampant. The stereotypical nepotism that ran rampant later on began. Ethnic Russians were increasingly put in control of the various SSRs and economic activity in the various satellite states was increasingly to the benefit of only Russia. Eventually when local party members gained enough stature within the regional political apparatuses the ethnic population tended to support them in spite of their corruption simply because they were not Russian.
This, coupled with some of the worst aspects of the Brezhnev Doctrine destroyed unity on anything other than a farcical basis. Once the Party began losing power (and Gorbachev's great betrayal), regional Party leaders rode the wave of nationalism and incited the wars that occurred in the Balkans and Eastern Europe in the 90s. Largely national and ethnic wars.
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@Synthesis may or may not agree or add an additional point of view.
Xanax is not water soluble and will not be absorbed in the membranes in the nose. Snorting it will only delay any effects as it slowly creeps down the back of your throat into your stomach.
No, haha... although I guess you could ask for like, your wife to hold your hand? It's a lot easier if you watch the operation and see how simple and fast it is.
"and the morning stars I have seen
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
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surrealitychecklonely, but not unloveddreaming of faulty keys and latchesRegistered Userregular
dont get lasik
if you have the choice, talk to a good optician and see if you can get an internal lens instead
Skip, I dislike surgeries and was a pain in the ass to the ophthalmologist, but if you do the "real" lasik (that is, entirely done with lasers), there is no pain or discomfort at all.
I kinda don't like that it makes me nervous, either
I don't typically think of myself as a person who's afraid of something like that, but the mental image of my eye being cut
I'd be more worried about you know...fucking it up and going blind.
Also, complaining about leg-crossing is a great "kids these days!" whine
Kids with their disrespect and iPods and leg-crossing!
I wish I had on-hand a video of this episode of Intervention. It's this girl sitting in a really upscale neighborhood on the curb, crushing some pills in a cellophane from her cigarette pack. She says "I'm gonna snort a Xanax, 'cause I'm pissed off."
Can't remember whether her legs were crossed.
Man what
Kids these days and their recreational pharmaceutical choices
Like, Xanax and adderall? It is so weird to me.
We take what you give us, old man
diet pill-ified speed, sad housewife fixers, and pinching their parents' coke
No, haha... although I guess you could ask for like, your wife to hold your hand? It's a lot easier if you watch the operation and see how simple and fast it is.
desc teens fucked up on benzos and oxy is unfortunately a for real thing. like, the placid suburban housewife who's dead inside is just a kind of uneasy joke about how not-nasty those addictions can get. they're for real.
No, haha... although I guess you could ask for like, your wife to hold your hand? It's a lot easier if you watch the operation and see how simple and fast it is.
Sheep, did you just defend one of the world's host prolific mass-murderers by saying his purges held corruption in check?
Pointing out his motivation for doing so is not defending him.
Only The Great Purge was bloody. There were plenty of purges of the party and party leaders prior to the Great Purge that merely resulted in people being dismissed from the Party.
Corruption was endemic to the USSR of the Lenin era, never mind the Stalin era.
Considering that the Lenin era was largely the same era as the Civil War, I don't really think the two are directly comparable. There was no semblance of the Nomenklatura that eventually came to be in Lenin's time outside of priority lying with the urban areas like Moscow because that's where the armies were.
desc teens fucked up on benzos and oxy is unfortunately a for real thing. like, the placid suburban housewife who's dead inside is just a kind of uneasy joke about how not-nasty those addictions can get. they're for real.
Oh no, I believe it. It's an epidemic in some parts of the country full stop.
I think the fashions for drugs seem to swing back and forth on a pendulum and we're back in the pills, coke, tidy, on a diet mode. I find it peculiar because of my age -- I am sure the idea of people smoking hash and arguing leftist politics into the night would seem as anachronistic to kids these days as the neo80s drug use seems to me.
Straight legs, bell bottoms, straight legs, bell bottoms ..
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surrealitychecklonely, but not unloveddreaming of faulty keys and latchesRegistered Userregular
LaOs in the last 10 years you have been able to get a procedure that basically implants a corrective lens behind the cornea rather than in front of it
the lens is rolled up and inserted through a pinhole incision in the eye
it can be replaced if your prescription changes and doesnt cause problems like "halo" effects when driving at night or corneal bulging
its a bit more expensive than laser but is actually an even easier procedure (literally 20 minutes under local then you leave)
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Zen VulgarityWhat a lovely day for teaSecret British ThreadRegistered Userregular
That sounds terrifying
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Podlyyou unzipped me! it's all coming back! i don't like it!Registered Userregular
LaOs in the last 10 years you have been able to get a procedure that basically implants a corrective lens behind the cornea rather than in front of it
the lens is rolled up and inserted through a pinhole incision in the eye
it can be replaced if your prescription changes and doesnt cause problems like "halo" effects when driving at night or corneal bulging
its a bit more expensive than laser but is actually an even easier procedure (literally 20 minutes under local then you leave)
Does it have "problems" (I don't know if they're actually problems, per se) with your prescription changing/continuing to change after the procedure?
For example, my eye guy has always suggested that we not get serious about laser surgery until my eyes have been relatively stable for at least two years, because we could do the surgery but if my eyes are still getting worse, we've really just pushed back some time and will eventually be at a corrective lenses stage anyway.
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Podlyyou unzipped me! it's all coming back! i don't like it!Registered Userregular
desc teens fucked up on benzos and oxy is unfortunately a for real thing. like, the placid suburban housewife who's dead inside is just a kind of uneasy joke about how not-nasty those addictions can get. they're for real.
Oh no, I believe it. It's an epidemic in some parts of the country full stop.
I think the fashions for drugs seem to swing back and forth on a pendulum and we're back in the pills, coke, tidy, on a diet mode. I find it peculiar because of my age -- I am sure the idea of people smoking hash and arguing leftist politics into the night would seem as anachronistic to kids these days as the neo80s drug use seems to me.
Straight legs, bell bottoms, straight legs, bell bottoms ..
i guess i am a little biased, because pills are what ruined my older brother's life. over a dozen percocets a day, plenty of valium, xanax... seeing my vital, athletic brother basically semi-conscious 24 hours a day with literal tendrils of drool running from his mouth. ugh. then people steered him towards suboxone to curb his usage and he started taking way too much suboxone... same with methadone.
so i guess i'm at the point where i hear jokes about like, lucile bluth popping a few xanies to even out and be a typical suburban mom... and i resent it.
What I am saying is that I want to start a home surgery business on the cheap and you could be my first customer.
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Podlyyou unzipped me! it's all coming back! i don't like it!Registered Userregular
While you're totally right chu, there's a horrific aspect to anything one could joke about. Which you know, because we both joke about how much we hate black people.
While you're totally right chu, there's a horrific aspect to anything one could joke about. Which you know, because we both joke about how much we hate black people.
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We take what you give us, old man
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
I kinda don't like that it makes me nervous, either
I don't typically think of myself as a person who's afraid of something like that, but the mental image of my eye being cut
This is intrinsically linked with the overall problem. After Lenin's death, Marxism-Leninism and Revolutionary theory ceased to be the main component in USSR education. The Party's political heads wavered back and forth from theories from those on the Right of the Party and those on the Left. The unification and discipline of Lenin was gone. Permanent Revolution as a theory was cast aside. To make up for the change in POV Stalin rehabilitated previous enemies of "The People". White generals, Tsarists, reinstated religious power, reinstated the hierarchy in the military, etc.
Stalin's one saving grace was his staunch opposition to corruption. This was usually at the heart of his purges, including the Great Purge (though it was an opportune time for him to get rid of any powerful detractors). After Stalin's death the fear of being removed from political power immediately (another Lenin concept) was gone. Corruption ran rampant. The stereotypical nepotism that ran rampant later on began. Ethnic Russians were increasingly put in control of the various SSRs and economic activity in the various satellite states was increasingly to the benefit of only Russia. Eventually when local party members gained enough stature within the regional political apparatuses the ethnic population tended to support them in spite of their corruption simply because they were not Russian.
This, coupled with some of the worst aspects of the Brezhnev Doctrine destroyed unity on anything other than a farcical basis. Once the Party began losing power (and Gorbachev's great betrayal), regional Party leaders rode the wave of nationalism and incited the wars that occurred in the Balkans and Eastern Europe in the 90s. Largely national and ethnic wars.
EDIT
@Synthesis may or may not agree or add an additional point of view.
Xanax is not water soluble and will not be absorbed in the membranes in the nose. Snorting it will only delay any effects as it slowly creeps down the back of your throat into your stomach.
I need more ITS SO GOOD
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
if you have the choice, talk to a good optician and see if you can get an internal lens instead
much less likely to cause trouble down the line
yeeeeeeeeee im a salesman
well that is not what worries me
diet pill-ified speed, sad housewife fixers, and pinching their parents' coke
It's 1985 all over again
A crooked and wayward generation
you keep saying this
but
I ain't got that dough son
PUT ME UNDER
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
What's this?
GIVE SKIPPY ALL THE DRUGS
Pointing out his motivation for doing so is not defending him.
Only The Great Purge was bloody. There were plenty of purges of the party and party leaders prior to the Great Purge that merely resulted in people being dismissed from the Party.
No, he was just noting that he had at least one belief that could be considered admirable, like Hitler passing anti animal cruelty bills.
Considering that the Lenin era was largely the same era as the Civil War, I don't really think the two are directly comparable. There was no semblance of the Nomenklatura that eventually came to be in Lenin's time outside of priority lying with the urban areas like Moscow because that's where the armies were.
Oh no, I believe it. It's an epidemic in some parts of the country full stop.
I think the fashions for drugs seem to swing back and forth on a pendulum and we're back in the pills, coke, tidy, on a diet mode. I find it peculiar because of my age -- I am sure the idea of people smoking hash and arguing leftist politics into the night would seem as anachronistic to kids these days as the neo80s drug use seems to me.
Straight legs, bell bottoms, straight legs, bell bottoms ..
the lens is rolled up and inserted through a pinhole incision in the eye
it can be replaced if your prescription changes and doesnt cause problems like "halo" effects when driving at night or corneal bulging
its a bit more expensive than laser but is actually an even easier procedure (literally 20 minutes under local then you leave)
what the
Does it have "problems" (I don't know if they're actually problems, per se) with your prescription changing/continuing to change after the procedure?
For example, my eye guy has always suggested that we not get serious about laser surgery until my eyes have been relatively stable for at least two years, because we could do the surgery but if my eyes are still getting worse, we've really just pushed back some time and will eventually be at a corrective lenses stage anyway.
SOCIAL MEDIA YOU ARE FAILING ME
i guess i am a little biased, because pills are what ruined my older brother's life. over a dozen percocets a day, plenty of valium, xanax... seeing my vital, athletic brother basically semi-conscious 24 hours a day with literal tendrils of drool running from his mouth. ugh. then people steered him towards suboxone to curb his usage and he started taking way too much suboxone... same with methadone.
so i guess i'm at the point where i hear jokes about like, lucile bluth popping a few xanies to even out and be a typical suburban mom... and i resent it.
i'm mad my brother is a drug addict desc!
i'm real mad!
/me kicks dirt
your vas deferens are pretty easy to find while sitting in a chair
@organichu and I really, REALLY hate black people.
j-joke?