Posts by Kyle Matthews
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a hunk of functioning metal on the surface of Mars
Second time lucky ;)
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His version of a hood is quite funny in its way
What Richard said. He seems to have missed the entire point of the hoodie campaign.
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There is no such thing as a "standard joint" as far as I'm aware, similarly you cannot be sure of the exact composition of any narcotic or barbituate other than prescription.
Well that's a weak argument. If it was legalised that would be possible, at least about as well as alcohol is currently.
There's no standard 'glass of wine', nor standard alcohol percentage in any alcoholic drink. Nor are some of the drinking vessels that you drink from standard. Most jugs are a litre, but some are more or less. What some people call a pint is actually a handle, which is less in volume. And shots will vary depending on the method used to get them out of the bottle.
And the effects of alcohol will vary greatly depending on your gender, body weight, food consumption, intake of other fluids, and various other body states.
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Shep until we can ascertain where the Uni of Otago get their funding for those studies I will consider there may be a problem with their credibility.
The University of Otago Multidisciplinary Study that Shep referred to gets their funding from the Health Research Council. They're an independent research unit, and while I don't think that much of the model, I think the implication that their funder might be tainting their research is a little sad without proof. They're fully peer reviewed and regarded as world leaders in their field.
It's entirely possible that they have different results from the UK study because they use different methods/subjects etc.
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Emma, if you can't talk coherently to someone while your masturbating, you're doing it wrong - although admittedly that doesn't come up often.
This is a conversation with someone which gets above the level of dialogue in your average porn film?
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Where I draw the line is "and drugs aren't for you either", especially when it involves authoritarian violations of one's freedom.
Occasionally I argue with (otherwise) left-wingers who use libertarian arguments about personal freedom when it comes to drug use. I find it curious that people talk about collective responsibility everywhere else in their life, but when it comes to smoking a joint suddenly individual freedom is their political philosophy. You can argue about freedoms from 'the left', but typically from a different philosophical base than you would from 'the right'.
I'm not in favour of smoking marijuana being legalised, but I'd also like the smoking of cigarettes to be banned. If marijuana was proposed to be taken in a oral form, particularly for medicinal purposes however, I'd be more interested in change.
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I'm fairly anti-drugs, and am personally opposed to the legalisation of smoking of marijuana, but even I'd struggle to jump on that train Andrew.
Call me a puritan, but I find "fun" that doesn't benefit others or engage with the broader world to be downright solipsistic, and thus revolting to me. At a deeply philosophical level to me I find that kind of self indulgence quite abhorrent.
On this basis, shouldn't playstations be made illegal?
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Ooh, touche.
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Where to even start with that one?
I think the Dom Post headline should have been:
Voters of Paraparaumu-Raumati Community elect man who turns out to be a complete fucking moron
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Not difficult. Impossible.
My ex was able to find a couple of jars at a store near LA end of last year. Not sure if they had snuck them into the country, or if it was old stock however.