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i know there's some wild things in the kama sutra, tantra, temple carvings, etc. but i've never seen anything like this (except in some Thai shows---but that's another story) notice the male body she's using as a pillow....

· Police fear stimulant could replace crack cocaine · Illicit labs uncovered as drug is sold to clubbers Alan Travis, home affairs editor Monday June 12, 2006 The Guardian Crystal meth, the highly addictive stimulant, is to be officially ranked as a class A drug in Britain following warnings from senior police that it could become mainstream within the next two to three years. The Guardian has learned that the government's drug experts, the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD), have recommended the listing to the home secretary, John Reid, following police evidence that a small number of "domestic" laboratories have been uncovered in Britain. Although the regular use of the drug has, until now, been confined to small sections of the gay club scene and some male saunas, a fall in prices has led to it being sold to mainstream clubbers as a drug that costs about the same as crack cocaine, but lasts much longer. Senior British police have been alarmed by reports from America and Australia about its very rapid growth in popularity. The number of illegal labs producing it exploded in the US from 3,800 in 1998 to 8,500 in 2001, peaking at 10,200 in 2003. It is now more popular than cocaine or heroin in parts of America. The class A listing means police will target meth abuse and illicit laboratories. At present, its class B status means it is not the subject of any targeted law enforcement activity. The Association of Chief Police Officers has told the council that the drug is being imported from America and south-east Asia by a Filipino criminal network. But reliable intelligence reports have already identified five meth labs within London and a number of small domestic labs on the Isle of Wight. The Metropolitan police says it knows of several significant meth dealers within the gay club scene in London who have made massive profits in recent years. Detective Inspector Jason Ashwood, author of the Acpo paper, who works in the Met's drugs directorate, said: "Meth is arguably as much a hazard as crack cocaine and heroin, and more of a hazard than ecstasy and LSD. Previous concern about reclassification and 'stoking up' media interest has been overtaken by events." He said the "undisputed difference" between meth and other drugs is that it can be relatively easily manufactured at home. "The chemicals are available within the UK and the internet gives endless guidance on making," he added. Acpo says domestic meth production quickly leads to squalor, with addicts consumed by the process and paying attention to little else. Families and neighbours are put at risk of fire, explosion and toxic fumes, with just one or two "cooking cycles" sufficient to render a building uninhabitable. The effects of meth include psychosis and paranoia, and the ability to binge for days or weeks. It has a particularly addictive effect that could be compared to crack cocaine and heroin. As it is sold in powder, tablets or crystal and can be snorted, smoked, injected or swallowed it appeals to all classes of drug users. Data from the 2005 national gay men's sex survey confirms its use but it is still a minority activity with less than 3% of respondents saying they had used the drug in the previous year. Harry Shapiro of Drugscope, the drugs information charity, said it was sensible to classify meth alongside crack and heroin given international evidence on the social and health impact of its use. "Although rates of usage in the UK remain low at present, reclassifying crystal meth could have pre-emptive value in enabling police resources to be directed towards the drug as part of the strategy to focus on class A drugs," he said. At a glance · Colourless, odourless form of d-methamphetamine. Usually smoked, but may be injected · Widely used during second world war to keep soldiers alert. In the 1960s it became popular in the US among people working long shifts, and athletes before officials moved to restrict use in 1965. Now illegal both in the US and UK · Hitler is said to have injected it daily. Produces immediate high which may last 12 hours or more. Cocaine sells for $100 to $150 a gram in the US, meth about $25 · World Health Organisation estimates 35 million people use it or its derivatives The Guardian

i know it's not really clever to laugh at other peoples stupidity, but i sure find it funny http://www.thomaselia.com/familyfeud.html i assume Louie Anderson is the programs host. my favourite response

a very silly buggy game but it made me laugh

^--i was answering the question & as you & i both point out crystal meth or ice is different from normal meth amphetamine that is the main thrust ov the question. i know that meth is different from amphet that was around in the 60's to 80's but that's confusing the issue, for the last 10 years at least if you bought "speed" it was 90% likely to be methamphetamine

& that shouldn't be a hand that's slapping her around the chops ;) ---it should be a pickle obviously

i've had loads ov jobs but never been fired either. however i came pretty close once. i was working in a small gift shop in Covent Garden, on my afternoon break i went & drank about 6 pints w/a worker from another store. when i got back to work i was left in charge so i sat behind the till & basically passed out. the boss decided to visit, & found me being woken up by a customer trying to pay for something, i was so drunk i couldn't operate the till & the customer was giving me back the extra change i was giving her. there were also amounts ov money on the desk which i guess were from previous customers who couldn't wake me. i got sent home, but because i was usually such a good worker i kept the job...which was cool because i was making really good money, plus we used to smoke joints & drink beer all day(though not usually to the passing out stage).

queen vic. Market Trading Hours Tuesday: 6am - 2pm Thursday: 6am - 2pm Friday: 6am - 6pm (General merchandise closes at 4pm) Saturday: 6am - 3pm Sunday: 9am - 4pm http://www.qvm.com.au/home.php you'll really only need 10 minutes. just walk down one aisle & you'll have seen everything---it's different stalls all selling essentially the same crap.

that girl needs therapy

i thought methamphetamine was the powder that's been around for the last 10+ years & can vary in strength depending on cut; whereas crystal meth is the same thing, but made in such a way so as to form largish crystals (rather than powder) which are smokeable & also because they are crystals they can't be cut, so the product is more pure. it's the fact that it can be smoked, & hence deliver a huge immediate rush, which is the main difference AFAIK. this has been discussed before along w/the confusion over 4-methylaminorex here

was also funny to see the head ov the indian company that supplied tons ov ephedrine to mexican cartels blaming the DEA for neglecting to tell him not to. also that spokesman for the pharma. industry who was justifying their opposition to any restrictions on the sale ov pseudo-ephedrine on the grounds ov customers rights, when it was obvious all it was about was company profits.....is it just me, or did the fact that he was horrendously morbidly obese just seem to fit??

check out Polyester book shop in Brunswick Street for some "TOTALLY WEIRD SHIT". The Sofitel hotel at 25 Collins Street has excellent views ov the city from its Atrium bar on level 35, the view from the toilets is really cool.

nothing really big. had the house searched in WA after being dobbed in on Operation Noah---which in itself is crazy, ie: that the cops can get a search warrent on an unsubstanciated "tip-off"; they found nothing. got held for 4 hours once for returning to busk in Picadilly Circus after being told not to. saw the funniest graffiti on the holding cell wall... "Katie Brown is a fucking bitch. She grassed me up & put me in here. But i still love her"

http://www.sounddogs.com/ an extensive collection.

use yours maybe it's my current state ov mind, but i was quite hypnotically drawn in.

a strangely addictive game from those playstation geezers ZWOK enjoy

New analysis of the language and gesture of South America's indigenous Aymara people indicates they have a concept of time opposite to all the world's studied cultures -- so that the past is ahead of them and the future behind. Tell an old Aymara speaker to "face the past!" and you just might get a blank stare in return – because he or she already does. New analysis of the language and gesture of South America's indigenous Aymara people indicates a reverse concept of time. Contrary to what had been thought a cognitive universal among humans – a spatial metaphor for chronology, based partly on our bodies' orientation and locomotion, that places the future ahead of oneself and the past behind – the Amerindian group locates this imaginary abstraction the other way around: with the past ahead and the future behind. Appearing in the current issue of the journal Cognitive Science, the study is coauthored, with Berkeley linguistics professor Eve Sweetser, by Rafael Nunez, associate professor of cognitive science and director of the Embodied Cognition Laboratory at the University of California, San Diego. "Until now, all the studied cultures and languages of the world – from European and Polynesian to Chinese, Japanese, Bantu and so on – have not only characterized time with properties of space, but also have all mapped the future as if it were in front of ego and the past in back. The Aymara case is the first documented to depart from the standard model," said Nunez. The language of the Aymara, who live in the Andes highlands of Bolivia, Peru and Chile, has been noticed by Westerners since the earliest days of the Spanish conquest. A Jesuit wrote in the early 1600s that Aymara was particularly useful for abstract ideas, and in the 19th century it was dubbed the "language of Adam." More recently, Umberto Eco has praised its capacity for neologisms, and there have even been contemporary attempts to harness the so-called "Andean logic" – which adds a third option to the usual binary system of true/false or yes/no – to computer applications. Yet, Nunez said, no one had previously detailed the Aymara's "radically different metaphoric mapping of time" – a super-fundamental concept, which, unlike the idea of "democracy," say, does not rely on formal schooling and isn't an obvious product of culture. Nunez had his first inkling of differences between "thinking in" Aymara and Spanish, when he went hitchhiking in the Andes as undergraduate in the early 1980s. More than a decade later, he returned to gather data. For the study, Nunez collected about 20 hours of conversations with 30 ethnic Aymara adults from Northern Chile. The volunteer subjects ranged from a monolingual speaker of Aymara to monolingual speakers of Spanish, with a majority (like the population at large) being bilinguals whose skills covered a range of proficiencies and included the Spanish/Aymara creole called Castellano Andino. The videotaped interviews were designed to include natural discussions of past and future events. These discussions, it was hoped, would elicit both the linguistic expressions for "past" and "future" and the subconscious gesturing that accompanies much of human speech and often acts out the metaphors being used. The linguistic evidence seems, on the surface, clear: The Aymara language recruits "nayra," the basic word for "eye," "front" or "sight," to mean "past" and recruits "qhipa," the basic word for "back" or "behind," to mean "future." So, for example, the expression "nayra mara" – which translates in meaning to "last year" – can be literally glossed as "front year." But, according to the researchers, linguistic analysis cannot reliably tell the whole story. Take an "exotic" language like English: You can use the word "ahead" to signify an earlier point in time, saying "We are at 20 minutes ahead of 1 p.m." to mean "It's now 12:40 p.m." Based on this evidence alone, a Martian linguist could then justifiably decide that English speakers, much like the Aymara, put the past in front. There are also in English ambiguous expressions like "Wednesday's meeting was moved forward two days." Does that mean the new meeting time falls on Friday or Monday? Roughly half of polled English speakers will pick the former and the other half the latter. And that depends, it turns out, on whether they're picturing themselves as being in motion relative to time or time itself as moving. Both of these ideas are perfectly acceptable in English and grammatical too, as illustrated by "We're coming to the end of the year" vs. "The end of the year is approaching." Analysis of the gestural data proved telling: The Aymara, especially the elderly who didn't command a grammatically correct Spanish, indicated space behind themselves when speaking of the future – by thumbing or waving over their shoulders – and indicated space in front of themselves when speaking of the past – by sweeping forward with their hands and arms, close to their bodies for now or the near past and farther out, to the full extent of the arm, for ancient times. In other words, they used gestures identical to the familiar ones – only exactly in reverse. "These findings suggest that cognition of such everyday abstractions as time is at least partly a cultural phenomenon," Nunez said. "That we construe time on a front-back axis, treating future and past as though they were locations ahead and behind, is strongly influenced by the way we move, by our dorsoventral morphology, by our frontal binocular vision, etc. Ultimately, had we been blob-ish amoeba-like creatures, we wouldn't have had the means to create and bring forth these concepts. "But the Aymara counter-example makes plain that there is room for cultural variation. With the same bodies – the same neuroanatomy, neurotransmitters and all – here we have a basic concept that is utterly different," he said. Why, however, is not entirely certain. One possibility, Nunez and Sweetser argue, is that the Aymara place a great deal of significance on whether an event or action has been seen or not seen by the speaker. A "simple" unqualified statement like "In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue" is not possible in Aymara – the sentence would necessarily also have to specify whether the speaker had personally witnessed this or was reporting hearsay. In a culture that privileges a distinction between seen/unseen – and known/unknown – to such an extent as to weave "evidential" requirements inextricably into its language, it makes sense to metaphorically place the known past in front of you, in your field of view, and the unknown and unknowable future behind your back. Though that may be an initial explanation – and in line with the observation, the researchers write, that "often elderly Aymara speakers simply refused to talk about the future on the grounds that little or nothing sensible could be said about it" – it is not sufficient, because other cultures also make use of similar evidential systems and yet still have a future ahead. The consequences, on the other hand, may have been profound. This cultural, cognitive-linguistic difference could have contributed, Nunez said, to the conquistadors' disdain of the Aymara as shiftless – uninterested in progress or going "forward." Now, while the future of the Aymara language itself is not in jeopardy – it numbers some two to three million contemporary speakers – its particular way of thinking about time seems, at least in Northern Chile, to be on the way out. The study's younger subjects, Aymara fluent in Spanish, tended to gesture in the common fashion. It appears they have reoriented their thinking. Now along with the rest of the globe, their backs are to the past, and they are facing the future. Source: University of California, San Diego http://www.physorg.com/news69338070.html

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some good points. Serapis--i graciously have to say i don't think you are disagreeing w/me, notice i said "in general"--because yeah, i'm aware that some people are not social animals & thrive best on their own---there's some that would be best on their own who think they're social animals, & they can really be a pain if they're living in your shared house---but that's another story

Why isn't research being done into these things? Probably because they can't be patented--same old, same old. --that would square w/ this ABC News

in general i don't think we were meant to live alone, being social animals & all. loneliness IMHO has to be the worst emotion ov them all

--heh heh heh....i'm not a tool fan myself, but i found the site & thought the tool fans here would appreciate it---there's more ov them around here than you could shake a stick at

comments + a link to a bit torrent downlaod ov the mix here

your in box is full geezer. if you don't get a call by the end ov the week let me know & i'll see what's going on. cheers.