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Oh me please. I've been to every EGA since the one in the Grampians. I applied to volunteer but didn't hear back I'm low income and will be very strapped for cash after returning from the Eclipse and Burning Man. There's NO WAY I'm not going to EGA but any help with the ticket would be massively appreciated. Thanks Torsten! Meg/Delldint. (ps, how can I change my name on this forum?)

ah, so that's why I couldn't send pm's

having talked to friends who worked in the hospital nearest that event, their opinion was that the medicos at that event were inexperienced in dealing with large numbers of drug affected young people. the hospital was clogged up with people who were ok and just needed a bit of time to get back to normal- not actually overdoses needing medical attention. newspapers got the 26 people were sent to hospital bit. only about 2 were anything serious from what I heard from behind the scenes.

I got one and clicked on it but realised that was a stupid thing to have done so closed it immediately

maybe; I'll come if I can and bring a coupla friends too

The first time I ate mushrooms I was changed by it. Things I hadn't understood before were suddenly clear. It was a very gentle but long-lasting "aha" that went for some weeks. I felt like I'd ben given the missing piece of my life's puzzle. And that the cobwebs were blown out of my brain by a fresh breeze. And that I now had a very healthy appreciation for the straight normal workings of my everyday mind.

thanks for the warning. I'm not handy with tools so I don't make things, and I think the people I've seen with that kind of burns weren't good at making things either but were just keen to crack into a bulb and didn't have a good cracker. I feel pretty safe with my bought one cos it's pretty new, but yeah, when you put it like that, it does make balloons seem the safest option. I just don't like the taste of rubber...

Soda siphons work as well as cream dispensers. Buying a new one is better than second hand opshop ones which may have mould spores in them!- pretty bad for lungs. Home made crackers I would be wary of. The compressed gas coming out is extremely cold and can burn... as nitrous oxide has an anaesthetic effect you might not feel it at the time but afterwards you would. It's possible to fit more than one bulb in a bulbinator, just be very careful of the pressure as you release the trigger. If you and a friend are journeying together, you might like to try rebreathing. Kind of like a kiss but you breathe the gas back to your friend. In the right circumstances it can be mind-blowingly, hilariously, special. Nangs are best enjoyed sitting or lying down as you may suddenly lie down or keel over, so be safe, have some cushions around and avoid small tables with sharp corners etc. Nangs on their own are not so special, but piggyback them off something else for a very different effect. Hint, every kind of something else, gives a different effect- it accelerates from where you're taking off from.

I'd be happy with either, but don't know if I can make it there as I may be away. I'll come if I can.

Is that the same sassafras oil my friend rubs on his legs before dancing?

Yeah I've given up caffeine a few times. Headache is a really common response to caffeine withdrawal. Another one is constipation. If you're giving up caffeine, you can taper back gradually. When you feel uncomfortable from missing it, you can still have some but not as often, or not as strong. Then when you finally quit it totally the headache is much milder. Still, expect to be a bit twitchy or angsty for about 4 days!

actually yes... this was in Brisbane, the house was very clean, but it's Brisbane, cockies are everywhere. Mice lived in the garden so they could steal chook food. I was staying there with friends. Another visitor came to stay and his hair was not clean. First a cockroach was seen on his pillow when he was asleep, the next night he was woken by a mouse gnawing his hair... after that he washed his hair pretty quick.

1 no food scraps, and rinse the washing up if you can't do it immediately after eating, and keep food locked up or in fridge 2 sprinkle salt in their favourite hang outs. they really don't like it, maybe it dries them out or something 3 make friends with harry hairy8legs 4 wash your hair every week at least... like mice they will gnaw greasy hair if their is nothing tastier around

Fowlers Vacola are still going, their shop is kind of between Royal Park and where the Western Link goes over the road. I can't remember the name of the roag arggh sorry. In Melbourne, when you drive on Flemington Road past the childrens hospital, and then turn left onto the road that comes out of Royal Park and the zoo. Um yeah. Phone book. Duh. it's late I should be in bed, brain slowdown...

Forget where I read this, could have been Erowid. Maybe from Finland? There was an old composer who heard mushrooms singing. He would walk in the forest and could find where different fungi were growing from their song. He would walk towards the song until they were at his feet. Some were tiny and hard to see but he could hear them and find them. Occasionally he would hear a new song he'd never heard before and it would be an undiscoverered species, unknown to science. He wrote down the music he heard and put it in some of his works, and is thought of as a living national treasure in his country.