Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[gnarlygninja]

I think most of the dishwashers and cooks at a restaurant I worked at in high school smoked weed on their breaks. I don't remember any of them ever smelling skunky (or smelling noticeably enough of anything to get fired for it). Did they just have good weed, or is the skunkiness a new thing?

While there's a lot of variance with this it's more likely to mean it wasn't very good and/or they didn't have very much to smoke.

 

[Gradine]

Sometimes there are moments that make me recall the words of journalist Spencer Ackerman, whose Rolling Stone obituary of former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger went viral:

"I had a conversation with my daughter who was like, 'Why are people excited? So are you happy that this guy died?' And I was trying to talk about it in terms that I wanted her to take away from this. That it is a bad habit of the soul to celebrate anyone's death. But that emerges from our understanding of our humanity, what we owe to one another, the basic respect and dignity in viewing human lives as precious and in viewing them as valuable. And that's a contract. And there are gonna be some people, like Henry Kissinger, who break that contract at grand scale, and you don't have to be sad when someone like that dies. You can feel relieved. You don't want, in general, to be happy when people die. That is not a good way of being that will ultimately hurt you more than it will hurt them. But there are some people whose deaths come as a relief, and sometimes they come as a relief because justice was never served for the acts of such a person. And relief is the closest thing to justice that people will experience."

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

The question, as always, is what comes next. And I suspect what comes next is not better days.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Sometimes there are moments that make me recall the words of journalist Spencer Ackerman, whose Rolling Stone obituary of former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger went viral:

"I had a conversation with my daughter who was like, 'Why are people excited? So are you happy that this guy died?' And I was trying to talk about it in terms that I wanted her to take away from this. That it is a bad habit of the soul to celebrate anyone's death. But that emerges from our understanding of our humanity, what we owe to one another, the basic respect and dignity in viewing human lives as precious and in viewing them as valuable. And that's a contract. And there are gonna be some people, like Henry Kissinger, who break that contract at grand scale, and you don't have to be sad when someone like that dies. You can feel relieved. You don't want, in general, to be happy when people die. That is not a good way of being that will ultimately hurt you more than it will hurt them. But there are some people whose deaths come as a relief, and sometimes they come as a relief because justice was never served for the acts of such a person. And relief is the closest thing to justice that people will experience."

Mod Note:

I get it. I really do. But this isn’t the place for a message like this, given what we all know- or will soon- happened today.

 

[Scribe]

The question, as always, is what comes next. And I suspect what comes next is not better days.

I went through a thought experiment, as my wife has family down there. "What would it take to get me to move there."

50 x my current salary and I would only do it for a year, anything less than 'you are set for life' and there is just no way, not even for a cool million would I do it.

So yeah, thats my prediction for how things are tracking the last near decade.

 

[pukunui]

I went through a thought experiment, as my wife has family down there. "What would it take to get me to move there."

50 x my current salary and I would only do it for a year, anything less than 'you are set for life' and there is just no way, not even for a cool million would I do it.

So yeah, thats my prediction for how things are tracking the last near decade.

Given the way things are tracking both in my home country and my adopted country, I've toyed with the thought of moving to Canada. My paternal family line has a long history of hopping back-and-forth across the border. My dad's parents were both from Canada, but he was born in Colorado. He did try for Canadian citizenship back in the 70s but was denied due to the Vietnam War draft dodgers thing. Otherwise I might have been born Canadian ... so I guess that broke the family tradition.

I don't suppose I could claim Canadian citizenship on the basis that my paternal grandparents were Canadian citizens?

 

[Scribe]

Given the way things are tracking both in my home country and my adopted country, I've toyed with the thought of moving to Canada. My paternal family line has a long history of hopping back-and-forth across the border. My dad's parents were both from Canada, but he was born in Colorado. He did try for Canadian citizenship back in the 70s but was denied due to the Vietnam War draft dodgers thing. Otherwise I might have been born Canadian ... so I guess that broke the family tradition.

I don't suppose I could claim Canadian citizenship on the basis that my paternal grandparents were Canadian citizens?

Couldnt tell you. I did do some interesting reading on the draft dodgers that set up in the BC back country though a few weeks ago! lol

 

[payn]

Yeah, I've never been a fan of people just deciding to "share smoke" with you. In principal, I'd rather have people toking than drinking (largely because I've spent some significant amount of my life around people who did both and I have pretty pronounced opinions about which I'd rather be around) but I'd really rather if people were going to partake they did edibles so I didn't have to smell it.

There is a big difference between being able to smell that somebody somewhere is smoking, and somebody is blowing smoke directly in my face.

 

[Scribe]

There is a big difference between being able to smell that somebody somewhere is smoking, and somebody is blowing smoke directly in my face.

True. In the first case, I grimace, in the second case, I get a talking to from the police.

 

[payn]

True. In the first case, I grimace, in the second case, I get a talking to from the police.

As you should. If somebody microwaves fish in the office i'm gonna give them the stink eye, if they come waft it in my direction they are not going to enjoy my reaction.