Whispering Leaves

hard stuff. but never negotiate with terrorists. using suicide as a tool to control others is just abuse. most people i know that have done that, for real, noone saw it coming and they did it to STOP fucking people over. hope it all works out. stop answering those calls... you are not obligated for his life. sounds like he has the shits that he is barely obligated for it either, but that's hardly your problem.

I've heard milk binds up ganj. Probably nonsense. But nothing too suss about having a bottle of iced coffee in the car. This, as well as less policed factors such as many, many other drugs or medications, sleep deprivation, and being basically uncoordinated or not wearing your glasses, being on a diabetic low or just too sick to drive is why we need SOBRIETY TESTS as a first line of attack. If you need a magic stick to work our you are munted, chances are you're not. Simple stuff.

it's cute how some golfer fucks around and it's THE news for 6 months. but we can bomb the moon and send missiles to take out satellites... and everyone gets on with their life.

assuming ... eh, 150 per offence, they owe me 6 times that. or perhaps they can swear at schoolkids, but can't handle it themselves :D I like how they can tase someone and it's "non violent" but if you say "poo" near them, it's just SO traumatising they need a lie down and a week off. poor things.

ridgexmastiff we have one, he's lovely, a gentle giant until it's time to frighten the balls off someone. ome of those vicious vegetarians you hear about! he was "preloved", which is to say kicked senseless by some tradie thug until the mother of the clan put him on "Freecycle" which is where we come in. to this day he is a patient, perpetually worried protector of my partner and our daughter, but is decidely iffy on any blokes he doesn't know especially if they look or sound like bogan tradies. and has a real issue with anyone in a blue uniform eg coppers, electricity guys, sparkies. worth his weight in gold, all 68 kilos! if anyone looks sideways at us he is ready to take them down but otherwise is somewhere between a teddy bear and a blanket. oh yeah, he catches mice, cleans the cat with his tongue and has yet to actually bite anyone. only drawbacks are a tendency to making his own mind up - ie, if its worth chasing, it's worth chasing, no amount of calling will get him to drop off. but he does not chase stock or wallabies, etc. and he's a bit neurotic, a product of his upbringing, for the first year we had him if you growled at him he'd literally wet himself in fear of being about to get kicked around but he got over that. Mostly. I think many larger breeds tend to be taken from the litter too young, and are more prone to violent abuse being (in bogan-ese) "big enough to handle a flogging". wouldn't give him up for quids.

So since you have tons of these, can we send you a SSAE for a free fistful? :D Nice comp.

a clock makes sense. it can be necessary. it can be the basis for your whole year, or meaningless, according to the amount of weight you attach to it. but once in a while.... ... it goes "cuckoo! cuckoo! cuckoo!"

I go thru a lot of knives. I have tried gerbers, bucks, leathermans, sogs, you name it. Either over tempering leads to breakages or they're just overpriced for what they do. I have a spoon bladed Excalibur, all of 21 bucks to my door ex-Perth. It does the job. Pretty enough and very practical. Legality in QLD is iffy, but basically if you look like a fuckwit it's a problem and if you don't, it's not. Personality aside we live in a subtropical, at times rapidly growing area and we need sharp things to keep the climbers out of the windows of nice people. I have been pulled over by the northsides finest and had to explain why I looked hairy - had a boot full of cacti - and numerous cutting tools for the cacti. They never were real happy with my answers but eventually went away. I find it weird that you can buy a knife at all if you cannot legally transport it home. Discretion is gold for coppers but a nasty grey area for the rest of us. I use mine for cuttings, opening packets and fixing stuff around the property during the day but sometimes I forget and go out with it on my belt. Have been "dealt with". Never been an issue. I think coppers are pretty wise when it comes to telling between a tool for use, and a tool carrying a weapon to seem more useful.

I think that as the ear goes out of action, the brain makes up for it. It not only ponders what the next sound will be, but can produce it independently if it works out it is part of a stream of data that you have attached the weight of your faculties to. Listening between the lines, and then getting it out of the way in time for the genuine data to kick in. I read once of the phenoma of the ear itself making sounds that other people can hear. Strange stuff. Like a toaster making bread. Good question Thunderideal!

Some icky self loathing there Mutant. I don't hate you. I've never met you. What? Is this a forum injoke? I find any attempt to define the wordless, timeless mystery and wonder of nature and human occurence by simply use of the things we call "words" - beware anything you cannot explain without using the thing itself - tends to dumb down the potentials. I do not believe in God, yet I cannot help but observe the Divine. I do not believe in fairies, but too many moths look like angry or enigmatic minature beings to not wonder about what they have seen in the bush that I have not. I do not believe in heaven, though I have found it on earth and I do not want to leave. I do not believe in telepathy but I know how people are doing and I do not believe in magic although I often expect my whispered requests to be honoured - and they always are. Psychedelics do not come into it for me. I find dosing on almost anything in my mispent youth turned a lot of the minds natural aptitude off at the wall. Though I admit I am not one for megadoses of reality destroyers. I find Sceletium/Delosperma an ideal aid for quiet spotting of strange things in the bush. Perhaps I am easily pleased. A couple of wines, a nice day out with family, anything that frees up a little of the mind's magic seems sufficient. I know some people that abuse endlessly hoping to find wonder again. It never seems to end well.

I find maria juanita to argue incessantly with LSA occurences. One sends you up, the other takes you down to earth (YMMV) but I have heard of many a killed Turbina travel by lighting up too soon. My ancient stamp collecting Lithuanian mate insists Hawaiian is like Turbina after she's had a few drinks. Abrupt, sometimes harsh, never takes her shoes off, slightly slutty but overall a pleasing dinner companion.

In the middle of the road. A busy road at that. On Lutwyche Rd in Brisbane, heading south towards the hospital / Valley ie the eastern side of the road, there is a square section of steel piping about 4 inches square set firmy into the middle of the road out the front of the newspaper block/cafe thingy. Imagine a steel post, set in bitumen then cut off at ground level, leaving a "rampart". Inside this, grows grass. Just grass. Blue couch, I think - hard to see at 70. It's nothing special but I marvel any time I see it (sometimes years apart) that it is still there and growing happily despite the hundred thousand sets of wheels that have to run it over once a day. Also fishbone ferns growing in old brickwork on office towers around Central Station, and the perfect crop of pumpkins that grows at the end of my house waste water piping. I once worked on Mary Street, the top end, the tower I was in had a perfect patch of ferns and lichens growing on the 10 stories-up rooftop, seen by noone but me and the maintenance guy.

The community has seen many derive relief from migraines, anxiety and spiritual constipation following application of Argyrea, Turbina and Ipomoea seeds. Whilst germing some freshly acquired HBWR seeds after eating some snow pea sprouts with lunch, a certain idea emerged. Does anyone have any data relating to levels of helpfulness found in freshly sprouted LSA bearing species? Could make for one heck of a noodle salad. Where legal, of course. I have googled muchly but am able to find data only relating to seeds, and mature material. Nothing about the in between. Bioassay is the obvious solution however I suspect toxic properties would be higher earlier on in order to offer protection to newly germing plants. Or maybe not. Thanks in advance for what I know will be some very helpful replies.

Scut lat makes a passably sedative tea, but I find smoking gives me a seriously strange headache, like too much valerian. I have Scut albida, S. frutescens, S. "yucatan" and S. something or other else that I cannot remember now. Will be a while til I can sample but will get back to here when I do. The dwarf aussie SK from herb^listi<s is a fairly pleasant additive in a blend but once again, too much on it's own and my brain hurts. Plenty of free seed in that tiny bag, though.