Agreed. The other day, I walked into a classroom, opened a window and sat down in my seat (next to the window). As I sat there enjoying the cool morning March breeze in my longsleeve shirt, a girl walked into the room with short-shorts on, sat down, and began to complain about the cold. If she were wearing pants, nay, even normal shorts, that window would have been closed. Instead, I made damn sure that window remained open.

In Philadelphia they're talking about taxing soda. According to them, they're concerned about obesity, which is bull. But it won't effect me much. I drink a lot of milk and not soda.

Short shorts and you let her get nipply, crafty. :goodjob:

Psychiatrists certainly understand prescriptions.

Psychiatrists certainly understand prescriptions. They go to medical school expressly to learn about medications and how they effect the brain (this is actually one of the defining features between a psychiatrist and a psychologist). Now a general practitioner giving out benzodiazepines is a little bit different - obviously stuff like Valium (diazepam) and Xanax (alprazolam) should be given out only after a little bit more digging, possibly by a psychologist instead of a general practitioner, since the addictive properties of both are pretty well known (well, usually). Plus a lot of anxiety issues can be mediated a great deal by something like cognitive behavioral therapy.

:sadvaultboy: That was harsh man.

Anyway another few example the news makes damn sure everone one knows is

The amount of people binge drinking increasing.
The amount of people losing respect for their elders and eachother.
The amount of people who just dont care about the law anymore.
The numer of teens getting pregnant.

Nothing that effects me personally but its still a bad sign.

Big brother much? What's so detrimental about either of those things that warrants reporting it. It's not like anyone gets hurt by em, live and let live.

does it help that one kid has talked to our science teacher(hes 14) about his moonshine still?

I'm just going to sum this up right here:

The number of people who just don't care.

That's the real source of all these problems. They just couldn't care any less. If they cared about themselves, they wouldn't binge drink. If they cared about how they acted, they would respect others and the law. If they cared about being safe, they would use protection or not do it at all. It all boils down to a total and complete inability to care about anything.

I want to say it's not illegal unless he drinks it but... I'm not so sure on that.

Could someone clarify?

If he did it as a science experiment then I can understand it, otherwise I'm positive it's illegal.

So yes, that is a problem.

I also agree on the short shorts issue... That and people having their pants hang around their knees. If you have to hold your pants up... You need a belt. Or suspenders.

Badly-produced moonshine can be contaminated with toxins, mainly from materials used in construction of the still. Stills employing used automotive radiators as a condenser are particularly dangerous; in some cases, glycol products from antifreeze used in the radiator can appear as well. Radiators used as heaters also may contain lead at the connections to the plumbing. Both glycol and lead are poisonous and potentially deadly.

Although people should have the freedom to dress how they like. To an extent of course. But I do find it disturbing that a lot of girls think that wearing short-shorts makes them "sixy" by default.

If they got the goods then I see no problem in it

The problem is most of them don't...

Tis' a sad truth. It's also a strange how me and my friend were talking about it just a few days ago when we saw a girl with without any "goods" wearing booty shorts, she had a pretty face but almost no body to speak of. I said it's kind of pointless, he said we should smack her, he's so violent ...

A lot of the popular kids think it's cool to get bad grades, get in trouble a lot, do drugs, drink alcohol, and a bunch of other bad things. Pisses me off.

I guess I am weird, since I prefer a slender body to a "nice booty". :whistling:

I guess I am weird, since I prefer a slender body to a "nice booty". :whistling:

I guess I am weird, since I prefer a slender body to a "nice booty". :whistling:

does it help that one kid has talked to our science teacher(hes 14) about his moonshine still?

I'd say that's more of a problem with a teacher than anything. Teacher could probably get fired, depending on what he said (like if he was giving advice), but I still don't think its that bad. At least the kid won't make Methanol and go blind now.

Thalidomide.

Sorry if my post was confusing but I mean most of the doctors I've been to have been like, take antidepressants or benzos because nothing else will work, not therapy or any herbal treatments. It's taken me awhile but I've found a really good psychiatrist who augments the medication with therapy, and part herbal medication too. I just mean a lot of psychiatrists/family doctors are happy with just handing out some pills that will fix the problem short term, but in the long term won't do too much. My family doctor also perscribed Ativan, which just makes me go to sleep, lol.

I know cigarettes are addictive, but in my view if you're going to ban certain things, do it without descrimating or appearing hypocritical. Say a guy owns a bar, he smokes, most of his punters enjoy a smoke... all out ban descrimates against his choice to enjoy something legally sold in the marketplace, and also takes away his freedom to have a smoking bar. How is that fair? He can't simply erect a sign that declares his joint is smoke central, and that if non-smokers have issues they should probably go drink elsewhere.

If the government acknowledges the health risks, which they do, they'd ban it outright, and as a smoker I can say I'd be happy with that. They won't though, because it's something people choose to do, and they make far too much money taxing it than they could if people bought duty free from abroad. Illegal shipments of cigarettes would be rife. It is cheaper for me to catch a ferry to Amsterdam and buy a few packs of duty free, than it is to buy what I usually smoke a month, taxed here in the UK. lol A'absurd. Hypocritical descrimination. IMO