This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things: 4Loko + i-Dosing
Was watching the early morning thing on CBS, as I had nothing better to do, and saw something that pissed me off. I mean, besides the saccharine, obviously faked, "we're so friendly with each other we suck each other off after the show!" acts from the newscasters. I hadn't known about this before, but apparently someone took an idea from the Drew Carey Show or something and combined alcohol and caffeine. Aaaaand idiot college kids fucked everything up by being idiots and drinking too much of it because they're idiots and dieing. Oh noes. Natural selection is working! We've gotta stop that! OK, I can kinda see if someone didn't take chemistry or whatever and doesn't know that drinking a fuck-ton of alcohol and caffeine could possibly have a negative effect on one's ability to draw breath, but seriously. Regular booze kills lots of idiot college kids all the time. Do they seriously think because "it doesn't feel like you're drunk" matters? Normal people have one or two regular beers at a party. They have this wonderous thing called "counting". They don't go "drink as much beer as you can, as fast as you can, before you pass out! WOO!". I'm pretty sure the cans have some kind of warning on them too. I say let the idiots with no self-control DIE.
The second thing that pissed me off was, the media seems to just now be finding i-Dosing. That thing that uses sound frequencies to affect altered mental states. I've tried it before. It made me feel kinda lightheaded and tired. But the clip they showed was of someone laying back on a bed, giggling and glazed-eyed, kinda looking like Terry Schiavo a little bit. I didn't try any others, but the thing was like "YOUR KIDS ARE GETTING HIGH. ON MUSIC! Tru Fax! dun-dun-DUUNN" I get high on music all the fucking time. Shit, regular drums can be used to "affect altered mental states", no sine waves or whatever needed. I've done that too. They gonna try banning drumming circles now? Actually, shit, I think I remember a while back some town or other actually did try that. As I recall it was because they were dirty hippy pagans though, not because the drums were causing people to trip bawls and freak out. I'll admit, I didn't catch the special in full. They might have been even-handed with it. But from what I saw, they weren't.
Goddamnit people, getting high isn't always a bad thing! It's only when it becomes an addictive behaviour that it's bad. I get high from music. I don't partake of alcohol myself, but if I did it would be in moderation. If I could find a place to get some of those herbs and stuff that fuck you up, I would. And I'd only do it every once in a while. I get fucked up from drinking energy drinks. Normal ones. Rockstar, Monster, RedBull, etc. They fuck me UP. But I don't drink five at once, because I don't want to have an aneurysm. The problem isn't the drug, it's the way people are using it.
I kinda got preachier than I had planned, but still. Fuck the soccer moms and wet blankets. This is why we can't have nice things. >:(
The second thing that pissed me off was, the media seems to just now be finding i-Dosing. That thing that uses sound frequencies to affect altered mental states. I've tried it before. It made me feel kinda lightheaded and tired. But the clip they showed was of someone laying back on a bed, giggling and glazed-eyed, kinda looking like Terry Schiavo a little bit. I didn't try any others, but the thing was like "YOUR KIDS ARE GETTING HIGH. ON MUSIC! Tru Fax! dun-dun-DUUNN" I get high on music all the fucking time. Shit, regular drums can be used to "affect altered mental states", no sine waves or whatever needed. I've done that too. They gonna try banning drumming circles now? Actually, shit, I think I remember a while back some town or other actually did try that. As I recall it was because they were dirty hippy pagans though, not because the drums were causing people to trip bawls and freak out. I'll admit, I didn't catch the special in full. They might have been even-handed with it. But from what I saw, they weren't.
Goddamnit people, getting high isn't always a bad thing! It's only when it becomes an addictive behaviour that it's bad. I get high from music. I don't partake of alcohol myself, but if I did it would be in moderation. If I could find a place to get some of those herbs and stuff that fuck you up, I would. And I'd only do it every once in a while. I get fucked up from drinking energy drinks. Normal ones. Rockstar, Monster, RedBull, etc. They fuck me UP. But I don't drink five at once, because I don't want to have an aneurysm. The problem isn't the drug, it's the way people are using it.
I kinda got preachier than I had planned, but still. Fuck the soccer moms and wet blankets. This is why we can't have nice things. >:(