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I like Harry Callahan's quote: "a man's got to know his limitations"

Too much is bad for you.... No shit. Like 10 coffees a day and it starts making you tired, like 2 litres of wine a day, after a while just puts you to sleep with your 12th glass, like 18 hrs sleep a day increases your risk of cancer, like loads of sugar stops your natural insulin production and diabetes begins, like too much sunlight on your skin causes cancer, the more morphine you're prescibed the more it fizzles out as pain relief, you drop acid one day and trip balls, do it the next day and nothing much happens. It's kinda one of the basic rules of brain chemistry: the brain is always trying to maintain homeostasis, so if you push a particular neural system too far in one direction, it bites back with downregulation e.t.c. To try and get back to "normal".... Nothing new here. Responsible choice hit the nail right on the head with granny's quote.

I've "played around" with this stuff a few years ago now. At the time i had access to bunches of the stuff. I'd break a few sprigs off and munch on them in the morning and afternoon. My opinion is it works but i don't know how much of the effect was the good old placebo effect "eat this it'll make you smarter" then i start analyzing my thoughts more closely and lo and behold i notice an increase in mathematical ability, complex problem solving, organization of thought e.t.c. The thing that got me into it ( besides a free supply ) i remember reading about an ayurvedic practice where the subject is given larger and larger doses over the course of a few months culminating in ( a bit foggy on this ) ingesting dozens of grams per day and the subject gains the ability to remember entire years of their lives in minute detail like a "life flashing before your eyes kind of deal... Sounded like a cool experience to try and recreate but never really got that much into it and moved on. Sigh. These days i've noticed it for sale in nurseries more and more in the pond/aquatic plant section. It is a very fast grower and strikes from cuttings as easily as wandering dew.

Hi thunder horse, you might want to check out Nindethana seed service. They have a heap of acacias on their seed list. They're in Western Australia but I'm sure they'd mail to the UK. You're gonna have an awesome garden.

friendly was adding sceletium with some exciting results over here... panax and sceletium thread

First, happy australia day so i'm thinking about setting up a worm farm but wondering if my efforts might be spent in better ways i.e. compost heaps. i like the idea of harvesting the worms though for "free fishy food" and the vermicasts seem to be described as some kind of super fertilizer. so i'm just running it by you good folk.. what are your opinions on compost wormies, worm hotels e.t.c. Cheers

Hibiscus heterophylla "lutea" ?

Hi folks, some very good ideas above. i wikipedia'd "earthworm" which i know is a little different to compost worm but here are a few exerpts from the page that had me all like " yeah gots to gets me some'o'these lil dudes" too. *earthworms play a major role in converting large pieces of organic matter (e.g. dead leaves) into rich humus, and thus improving soil fertility.Worm casts (see below) can contain 40% more humus than the top 9" of soil in which the worm is living. *Investigations in the US show that fresh earthworm casts are 5 times richer in available nitrogen, 7 times richer in available phosphates and 11 times richer in available potash than the surrounding upper 6 inches (150 mm) of soil. *In conditions where there is plenty of available humus, the weight of casts produced may be greater than 4.5 kg per worm per year, in itself an indicator of why it pays the gardener or farmer to keep worm populations high. The application of chemical fertilizers, sprays and dusts can have a disastrous effect on earthworm populations. Nitrogenous fertilizers tend to create acid conditions, which are fatal to the worms, and often dead specimens are to be found on the surface following the application of substances like DDT, lime sulphur and lead arsenate. In Australia, the use of superphosphate on pastures almost completely wiped out the giant Gippsland earthworm. Therefore, the most reliable way to maintain or increase the levels of worm population in the soil is to avoid the application of artificial chemicals. Adding organic matter, preferably as a surface mulch, on a regular basis will provide them with their food and nutrient requirements, and also creates the optimum conditions of heat (cooler in summer and warmer in winter) and moisture to stimulate their activity.

my migraines aren't.....but my wifes....DEFINATELY

also doesnt recognise recreational use of drugs. except alcohol and tobacco which they've deemed safe

Warrigal greens - spinach substitute Carpobrotus - edible fruits Acmena "cascade" - the berries are like lollies compared to some of the other lilli pillis, literally sweet as Native raspberry Davidsons plum The list could go on and on but shant editity bit: i mean syzigium "cascade"

But the study said the large-scale contamination takes place when the notes are whisked into currency-counting machines. plus notes constantly getting shuffled together in registers, wallets e.t.c. now i'm starting to day dream of a money counting machine with an extraction vent on it, free coke for every one, yay!...but then there's the amount of germs and other yucky contams you'd pick up too so it would involve a bit of cleaning then again i'm pretty sure cocaine is illegal

Holy mother of all thats... on the one hand its all in one simple download on the other having all that "naughty" info on my harddrive....aw fuggit

I found some interesting information regarding colour of shadecloth and how that affects plant growth here..... What Colour Shade Cloth Is Best?

Looks a bit like the after dark tree acacia sold at plant stores, cool "afterdark" is Agonis flexuosa

ever since we got a new Pope something's been niggling at the back of my mind (something not quite right there) so last night i googled "emperor palpatine pope benedict" and bingo seems the catholic church may in fact be constructing a death star Link

apparently a very frost tender plant natural distribution is from Syd. north to tropics on east coast, dont know about west/south (haven't seen it anywhere on a Syd. beach though) interesting to note in "Aust. Native Plants" by Wriggly & Fagg its listed as poisonous but after preparation was/is used as aboriginal bush tucker no more info than that here but you know how it goes "one mans poison is another mans medicine" just be careful out there guys research is key

sounds/looks a lot like canavalia maritima/rosea just a guess, mind you

coool..i'm pretty sure aunty netstreams this show too for anyone who misses it on the telly

...you have a full time gig doing it and you do it on your days off too and you spend your nights netsurfing/reading about it ...you're looking for a new house to buy and the only things that matter are soil type,aspect,block size. the building itself and whats inside it dont really come into the equation

i think we should set this thread up so anyone clicking on it has the benny hill theme music start up in their headphones/speakers Torsten? Mods? i'm off to cook some popcorn

i guess for the individual involved in the crash this is a good thing but.. i remember a few years ago a family up the central coast of nsw drove into a ravine created when a section of the old princess Hwy was washed away, at the time it was reported that the driver tested positive post mortem for alcohol and cannabis ( i think) so us educated corroborians say so what about the alc. cannabs it was a RAVINE where there was supposed to be a road but sitting around a dinner table of "less educated about drugs" type people, they just go "yeah drunk and stoned wadya expect" i can see this compulsory testing leading to some (dodgy)journo appearing on my tv in the not too distant future reporting on the "drug/crash epidemic" which is basically propaganda but very cleverly orchestrated i'm kinda resigned to the fact that eventually one wall of the room i live in will be a giant eye staring at every thing i do

with regard to testing and MJ, it all depends on the metabolite they are testing for i believe the mouth swab saliva type tests look for a different metabolite to one tested for in regular bloodscreens for employment e.t.c. the swab test can only tell if you've toked in the past 6-8 hours (these are rubbery figures off the top of my head) again, in a blood test, it will depend on which particular metabolite they're looking for, but in all honesty, if they did go for a generalized bloodscreen and the longterm thc metabolite came up on it then a lawyer would say "yes, your honour my client was at a party 2 weeks ago blah,blah" and the judge would nod and off you'd go what i find more interesting is if they are genuinely going to bloodtest everyone in car accidents with a generalized screen then i think they will be amazed at just how many regular people out there are driving with "a little bit of this or that" in their bloodsteam in fact it just might start to change the public's perception of "drugs" i.e. everybodys doing it on the other hand, the authorities will be pairing traffic accidents and drug use so we'll see, i guess

yeah im with EG sounds like you've tried the soft option with the polite "'scuse me, we have a slight problem" with no help i dont really like the fight fire with fire thing but you're basically getting crank called so why shouldnt they guess its a bit bad karma 'cause you're screwing around with their customers but if you can get the customers to start complaining to the bus co. then i think things are going to turn around in a pretty quick time frame

popcorn anyone... i personally think hate for muslims and hate for persons of middle eastern heritage are pretty much the same thing out here in middleclass whitee town anyway..mind you i find both forms of hate distasteful to say the least...