Does cocaine help sports performance? or is it just naughty?
I'm pretty sure I've read a Dick Francis book where they were giving horses coke, but I don't know that it actually helped.
Don't you have an elsewhere to be?
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Jesse - Nov 02, 2007 5:59:03 am PDT #9988 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Daisy Jane - Nov 02, 2007 6:00:16 am PDT #9989 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Does cocaine help sports performance? or is it just naughty?
They asked about that during the NPR story yesterday. The guy basically said it did have some performance enhancing features, but the side effects meant that it wasn't really worth it (paranoia, dry mouth, etc).
Toddson - Nov 02, 2007 6:00:35 am PDT #9990 of 10001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I just reread that one! "Straight"! And, yes, the evil drug seller used a turkey baster to blow cocaine up a horse's nostrils ... and the vet carefully explained that it wouldn't show up in tests ('cause they don't test HORSES for cocaine) and wouldn't really do anything for a horse.
flea - Nov 02, 2007 6:00:44 am PDT #9991 of 10001
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Cocaine can increase focus, and allow you to work through pain, so I think it could be useful in sports. It's basically a super upper, no? (Cocaine is definitely the drug I'm tempermentally susceptible to being addicted to.)
Dana - Nov 02, 2007 6:01:06 am PDT #9992 of 10001
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
Dear god, I think there is CRACK in the McDonald's sausage biscuit.
I'm starving, and now I want a crack biscuit.
Jesse - Nov 02, 2007 6:02:40 am PDT #9993 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I just reread that one! "Straight"!
Love it. I love Dick Francis, even if I can never remember which I've read and which I haven't.
Now I want McDonald's for lunch, and I want it now.
tommyrot - Nov 02, 2007 6:05:45 am PDT #9994 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Cocaine is definitely the drug I'm tempermentally susceptible to being addicted to.
Huh. For me it'd be downers. Or maybe painkillers. I think. (As I haven't had much of the good stuff from either category.)
Jars - Nov 02, 2007 6:07:57 am PDT #9995 of 10001
Speaking of, gossip in the office today is that cokehead!boss got barred from the hotel bar where most of the staff is living at the moment, for 'spending too much time in the toilet'...
Oh dear.
brenda m - Nov 02, 2007 6:08:20 am PDT #9996 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Cocaine can increase focus, and allow you to work through pain, so I think it could be useful in sports. It's basically a super upper, no? (Cocaine is definitely the drug I'm tempermentally susceptible to being addicted to.)
Go with Red Bull. Cheaper, and less likely to end your tennis career.
tommyrot - Nov 02, 2007 6:08:22 am PDT #9997 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Haven't Tour de France cyclists been busted for meth use? (Many years ago.)