Reynolds, I'm a dangerous-minded man on a ship loaded with hurt. Now, why you got me chatting with your peons?

Womack ,'The Message'


Natter 76: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Foaminess  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Steph L. - Oct 22, 2018 1:37:55 pm PDT #1017 of 30019
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

IDK the difference between Percocet and Oxycodone

Oxycodone is just the opioid (with no added acetaminophen, etc.), and percocet is oxycodone with acetaminophen. #themoreyouknow


Sheryl - Oct 22, 2018 1:43:15 pm PDT #1018 of 30019
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"

Timelies all!

We are now home from the con. Tired.


Atropa - Oct 22, 2018 2:02:04 pm PDT #1019 of 30019
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

To me, opioids are like chocolate cake: I really enjoy it when I have it, but I wouldn't eat it every day.

That's it exactly. Plus I'm pretty sure I don't have an addictive personality type; Back In The Day when I smoked, quitting took about a day.

Mind you, quitting coffee isn't ever going to happen, but I've been drinking some form of coffee since I was 10.


-t - Oct 22, 2018 2:14:49 pm PDT #1020 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I probably would eat chocolate cake every day, if that was easy to do. I have been scared of opiates and opioids (is there a difference?) since I read Kubla Kahn in high school and was all, Coleridge was on something I would like way too much, so I've hardly every taken them. Pretty much only when I was in a lot of pain and I didn't notice anything besides not-in-so-much-pain, which was nice. I have been told by people for whom opiates are a prime addiction that it's not so much a high as a comfortable everything-is-ok-and-if-it-isn't-it-doesn't-matter feeling that they just want to get back to.


Connie Neil - Oct 22, 2018 2:21:01 pm PDT #1021 of 30019
brillig

Opium dens were known to be full of people just lying around smoking and dreaming.


Connie Neil - Oct 22, 2018 2:23:15 pm PDT #1022 of 30019
brillig

ION, I did a Google search for "low-carb snacks that don't suck", and it's surprising how many results came up with "that don't suck" in the title. I sense a trend with low-carb snacks. However, many of them were preaching the "joy" of celery, so my dream of low-carb popcorn seems as far away as ever.


-t - Oct 22, 2018 2:35:22 pm PDT #1023 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Pork rinds


-t - Oct 22, 2018 2:37:22 pm PDT #1024 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

My coworkers are pooling their money for the megamillions jackpot. I declined to join in, but one of them says she'll hire me as a salaried financial consultant, so that'll do.


Jesse - Oct 22, 2018 2:47:52 pm PDT #1025 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Then another doctor told me that Advil was bad and I wasn't to take it ...

WTAF? Bad for you specifically, or bad as a blanket policy? Because obviously it's just fine for a lot of people. And if I recall that one This American Life (?) correctly, you're way less likely to overdose on Advil than Tylenol.

If there were warm fuzzy floaty feelings involved I might feel different, but for me it is extreme nausea and inability to function at any level.

Ah, so my experience both times I tried ecstasy.


sarameg - Oct 22, 2018 3:23:12 pm PDT #1026 of 30019

Opioids put me to sleep in 15 minutes flat, dead to the world for 6-8 hrs. Help with the pain? Dunno, wasn't conscious.

They have no effect on my brother until they get to an insane dosage where they start suppressing respiration. (He was a paid guinea pig a lot in grad school...so when it happened in a study, he got all sorts of tests done that pointed to a weird genetic abnormality.) We think my mom likely has same, which is why she hated them-they did nothing for her post surgical pain. What made her miserable was the pain, drugs were irrelevant.