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    Many of the awesome people I know now I met through SAB, and going to meet ups through out the years has connected me with community in different states.

    Lots of planty info goodness.  

    That some plants can help you communicate with the universe.

    We’re all the weird?  Wired?  One thing *BANG* into many pieces, interesting… interacting with each other?
      

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    I bought an early bird ticket to ega too but it's gotten lost in the mail... My ticket was in Brisbane but I'm in Sydney atm so my mum express posted it to me last week, but the wrong address was written on it and I haven't been able to track it down....

    I'd love the the ticket!! Will definitely pass the ticket on if my ticket shows up!

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    Hi Seth, I went to Amsterdam in 2008... so a little while ago now, but from a quick search on the interwebz it looks like my fav places are still up and running :)

    My favourite coffee shop was Abraxas - http://amsterdam.abraxas.tv/locations.html - really nice atmosphere.

    Not really sure about the status of smart shops and the like now, I went over there in early - mid 2008 when mushies were still really easy to come by. Heard it's gotten stricter/possibly not legal anymore?

    http://www.whatsupwithamsterdam.com/2011/05/20/amsterdam-smart-shops/

    If you want a bit of a change from staying directly in the city, the Lucky Lake Hostel is a relaxing stay. The Hostel is cruisy, most of their accom is renovated caravans; think they have some cabins as well. There's a smoking room in the middle of all the cabins too. The staff run a shuttle bus to Amsterdam Holendrect station, where you can catch the train into the city.

    The red light district is an eye opener and worth a wander through. Not sure how appropriate this is for a honeymoon... but a lot of the tourists go and check out the live sex shows. Anywho.. if the two of you do decide to take a look, when you walk past the places offering the shows the door staff will try and offer you special deals etc to make you buy tickets on the spot. There's no rush though, you can usually haggle them down when you walk past again; but try and go with one of the well known bigger places as they will be more tourist and woman friendly. The sex show that I went to was pretty funny, it was quite dramatised and light hearted. There is also a sex museum somewhere around that area - for something less in your face.

    Speaking of in your face, not sure if they still have them there, but look out for the public public urinals beside the bridges. They're literally urinals on the street, without any walls surrounding the urinals!

    The Van Gogh museum is worth a visit, and the Anne Frank house/museum is surreal.

    Hope you have a good trip!

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    What is unnecessary about eating guinea pigs compared to any other meat or vegetable?

    I thought a small, non-hardhooved animals, low food requirements would be great in an australian context?

    Ive seen guinea pigs in a small cage with just grass and vege scraps for food. No hay or pellets and they did that 'popping' thing every day so im not sure how necessary all those things are for a happy pig. There was also one that raped the others a lot, kinda weird :blink:

     

    You have a different opinion to me. I guess what I see unnecessary is that they're classed as a pet in Australia. Then again so are some rabbits, chickens and ducks.

    Maybe those guinea pigs were just happy to have been getting food.

    Anyway, I was just trying to relay some info from which one of the guinea pig societies defines as being the best possible way to keep pet guinea pigs.

  17. Posted · Edited by OpticalChatpie

    Although I don't condone the eating of guinea pigs in Australia, specifically, because I think it is un necessary; people are gonna to do what they gonna do.

    So, remember to tell your friend to house and feed their guinea pigs ethically if they do decide to go through with this.

    Diet

    1. One cup a day of vegetables/ per pig, with at least one vegetable being something that is high is vitamin c - guinea pigs, like humans; cannot make vitmin c. Capsicum is particularly high in vitamin c.
    2. Hay, unlimited amounts; this is necessary to keep their back teeth filed and ground down. Lucerne hay should be avoided as this is too high in calcium, and can lead to bowel problems in guinea pigs in the long run.
    3. A good guinea pig mix, or pellet mix. Guinea pig mixes bought in chain store supermarkets are crap. Pet barn has a good mix apparently. The Oxbrow company make the best food you can buy for the guinea pigs, but it is expensive. Up to them - guess if they're going to be consuming them they might want them to be nutritionally sound.
    4. Fresh water

     

    They need a big fucking cage for their well being - I can't stress this enough. They need to at least be kept in pairs, they are very social creatures.

    Clean bedding needs to be provided that is relatively soft for them to walk on, and changed regularly.

    If guinea pigs are fed and housed correctly, the pigs will "pop-corn". Pop-corning is when a guinea pig does a little jump into the air with a little spasm occurring at the same time. It's not having a fit, it's expressing that it is happy and in high spirits.

    Here's a link regarding what type of cages are adequate to house a guinea pig happily and healthily.

    http://www.australia...carehousing.htm

    editted - cas it's your friend wanting to do this, not you

  24. Posted · Edited by OpticalChatpie

    Just heard an interview this morning on Triple J - Ben Lee's been delving into the world of ayahuasca. The interview will be up on the podcast later today. It was only a short interview, and Ben didn't go into that much detail.... it sounded like Tom and Alex didn't really know how to react when Lee started discussing ayahuasca. They did ask Ben if he had ever taken it, and Ben said yes; he had been working with Ayahuasca.

    Looks like Ben Lee also published a brief article on Ayahuasca when he was guest editing Magnet Magazine last year-

    From The Desk Of Ben Lee: Ayahuasca

    October 11, 2011

    Ben Lee had barely cracked the puberty code when he fronted renowned Aussie alt-rock combo Noise Addict, and as a well-weathered 16-year-old, he began his debut solo album, the mature yet still naive Grandpaw Would. Lee’s third album, Breathing Tornados, garnered best male artist and album of the year nominations in Australia. After 2002’s big-selling hey you. yes you., Lee started his own label and released the most upbeat album in his increasingly dark catalog, 2005’s Awake Is The New Sleep, requiring him to compose acceptance speeches for best male artist, best independent release and single of the year wins at home. Lee’s impressive string of successes continued with 2007’s Ripe, but the streak stopped with 2009’s The Rebirth Of Venus. The quasi-concept album of Lee’s ruminations on women was almost universally derided as half-baked philosophical twaddle set to a weirdly diverse pop soundtrack. Simultaneously, he was also examining the inherent power of dreams with Dr. Jan Lloyd, whose death last year inspired Lee to again brave the concept-album waters with Deeper Into Dream (Dangerbird), a loosely threaded set about the mind movies our brains script, direct and discard every single night. Lee will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our brand new Q&A with him.

    Lee: There is something truly remarkable occurring in the Western world at the moment, and that is the increasingly widespread ceremonial use of ayahuasca, a medicinal psychotropic plant from peru. It is referred to reverentially by people that use it as “the medicine” and the experience of being under its influence as “doing the work.” It’s hard to describe, but it’s important to note that this is in no way a “party drug” and seems to have little chance of being taken in a recreational direction. I have experienced it several times, and each time, it was like every cell in my body and every fibre of my being was being examined and stretched and cleansed and taught. In the amazon it is sometimes referred to both as the “death vine” and “the grandmother,” as it takes you through a death and rebirth experience with a loving touch, pushing you to reach the potential of your being.

     

    http://www.magnetmag...-lee-ayahuasca/

    There's a documentary showing on ABC1 tonight about the life of Ben Lee, at 9.30pm; I doubt there will be anything about aya in the doco... - haven't seen it yet myself... - still sounds interesting though!

    Ben Lee: Catch My Disease

    IAN CUTHBERTSON

     

     

    AN official selection at the 2011 Melbourne Film Festival, this documentary presents Lee as a minor deity, a view, you sense, that he would agree with completely.

     

     

     

    I never did catch his disease. I find him hard to like. The normally not terribly outspoken Bernard Fanning once described him as "a precocious little c. . .". It is eye-opening, though, to see beautiful women such as Winona Ryder and Claire Danes fighting over the singer-songwriter. I could well have done without the sustained footage of Lee and Danes making out with tongues, and ditto the shirtless moments in bed, in New York, in 1997.

     

     

     

    Actress Michelle Williams, it seems, was touched by Lee's power and beauty, as were Jason Schwartzman (Bored to Death), Zooey Deschanel (New Girl) and Sean Ono Lennon. Some people would have had the grace to retract the statement that their own album was the best Australian album ever, with the only competition being AC/DC's Back in Black. Not Lee. Danes insists he was playing the character of an arrogant guy at the time. Great move if your objective is to annoy people and leave an everlasting impression of smugness. I don't think this program will win Lee many new fans, but I suspect that the beautiful women who love him, the established artists who admire him, and the fans he already has will lap it up.

     

     

     

    Ben Lee: Catch My Disease, Monday, 9.30pm, ABC1

     

     

     

    http://www.theaustra...l-1226257033009

    Anyone checked out his latest album, Deeper into Dream?

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