Posts by steelsurfer42

Oh, for sure, I remember one in particular. Honestly, my legs were shaking so hard I thought they were gonna give out on me. 🤣

1) Do you think drugs are a thing in your city?

I don't live in a city.

2) Do you think drugs are easy to get these days?

Never bothered to check, and who actually knows?

3) Has anyone ever offered you drugs? (Any kind, light or heavy)

Yeah, but I had zero clue what it even was. I was blue, and the guy offering it was just some long-haired weirdo selling trash.

4) Have you ever actually experienced trying drugs?

No one ever offered me anything properly, so there wasn't an "experience."

5) Have you ever tried any drugs?

Does chewing on a poppy head count?

6) Have any of your friends tried drugs?

I don't have friends.

7) Where is it easiest to find drugs?

See my answer to question two.

8) Do you think legalizing soft drugs would stop kids from using them?

The junkies would just be crowding up hospitals instead of hanging out in parks. That's a thought.

9) Why do young people start using drugs?

Who knows? Who cares?

Counter-question: Why do young people eventually get married?

10) Are you well-acquainted with the side effects of drug use and specific types?

How would I be? I haven't tried them.

11) Do you think drug use is just another trend we imported from the developed world?

And what trends are coming from the less developed parts of the world?
(Country music isn't a trend, it's just a sad reality.)

12) What are the most effective ways to reduce drug use among youth?

We should teach them how to handle alcohol from the time they're little.
Basically, communication.

13) Do you think drug use among youth will increase in the next 10 years:

Depends on how much cash is floating around.

14) Do you think kids from wealthier families are more prone to drug use?

They've got more money...

When I first heard that, I honestly can't remember if my first instinct was just to bolt or if I actually ran for it. 😲
🤣

I can't find any official data anywhere on which specific symbols are used to represent Latin letters. Can you actually point me to a source?
Anyway, I've been looking into it and it seems like the Chinese handle this kind of transliteration way more sophisticatedly. 😕

silentsailor5 said:Certain characters (depending on which one you're looking at) can be represented by two different symbols in Chinese. It's like how we have letters like F, H, L, M, N, O, R, S, U, Y, or Z... except some English letters even have multiple ways to be written in Chinese. For instance: X (艾克斯) and W (豆贝尔维)

Wait, are you actually telling me the Chinese just grabbed random symbols to stand in for Latin letters?
I had absolutely no idea. 😕

silentsailor5 said:If you happen to know anyone who actually speaks Chinese, go check ☕

It’s definitely 😛

How on earth is Google not pulling up that word?
And seriously, isn't six characters way too long just to describe one single word? 😕

silentsailor5 said:Emma E Ina E -> which means it spells out Manuel = mana, since the first two letters are M, then comes A, followed by two Ns, and finally an A

No kidding, you hit the nail right on the head here.

😂

Anonymous said:just some 🤷

A "feature"?
Like Icelandic lichen?
Is this that weird stuff Israelis supposedly scavenged for in the desert?
Or maybe that blue mana stuff you see in fantasy video games? 😬
Or is it just some acronym, since they wrote it in all caps?

Once I actually get an answer, I'll just tell them I don't speak Chinese. 🤣

What kind of mana are we even talking about?

placidjackal36 said:Do you actually have any proof or a single study showing that Coke could be teratogenic?

Oh, please! Is this really how we’re going to play it? Just aggressively trying to beat urban myths out of people who clearly don't know what they're talking about? 😬

Water. 😛

I’ve finally mastered typing faster than ever before. 😁
And getting into heated arguments online? 🙂
Even better.

Back when I was going through that phase where I thought I could draw pentagrams in thirty seconds flat. 🤣

Pulling this massive booger out of my nose. Thank God it’s repeatable. 😂

I’ve been sitting here thinking about it for a long time, and I finally reached a conclusion: nobody is ever going to be malicious enough for me to punish myself over. 🤣

What even is this?
A forum without any democracy?
I don't know about this.
Honestly, it feels like someone is clumsily playing God.
And clearly, they have absolutely no clue how the real world works.
Those ten decent threads could easily be turned into blogs or moved to other sites across the web.
The only thing is, it's a shame about the URL.
😕 😕 😕 😕 😕

I’m always stealing.
For God's sake.😁

Look, I’m not gonna sit here and say I’ve never lifted anything, because honestly? I probably can't even remember all the times I did. 🙄

hollowlynx9 said:Hey everyone,
What kind of damage are we talking about for the baby if the mother is drinking constantly during pregnancy?
Thanks in advance for any expert advice.

Look, I’m no doctor, let's get that out of the way right now.😁
But from what I picked up back in high school? You end up with a kid with tiny ears, a tiny nose, and a brain that just isn't firing on all cylinders. Basically, if you dose the alcohol just right, you can pretty much engineer a kid with whatever level of stupidity you're aiming for.

First off, let’s talk about punishment. You’ve got rehabilitation on one end and deterrence on the other—two extremes. But in the real world? We usually end up stuck somewhere in the middle, and more often than not, we fail at both.
Then there’s Saddam Hussein. Like a bunch of you have already pointed out, the death penalty for him just doesn't make sense. It’s not like it makes life better for anyone else, but it’ll definitely inspire some psycho to go out and blow something up. Plus, Saddam Hussein might just walk away with martyr status.
At the end of the day, it doesn't really matter who the US government decides to hold onto. What actually matters is what the masses think.
And finally, regarding the trial. It’s blindingly obvious that this was largely a tool for the Republican pre-election campaign. Maybe they'll back down on the death penalty now.

Has anyone ever heard of a documented case where someone actually died from overwhelming emotions? You know, something along the lines of the Hasanaginica story?