Should I become a stoner?

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I'm not, you see. Quite the opposite. But the other day it occurred to me that maybe I should become one. I am asthmatic, though. Maybe it's not a good idea. Maybe it isn't "me".

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 20:20 (nineteen years ago) link

no, you shouldn't.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 20:22 (nineteen years ago) link

Okay then.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 20:22 (nineteen years ago) link

i think you should become one. its the decent thing to do.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 20:23 (nineteen years ago) link

I still want to dress and smell nice, though. Is that alright?

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 20:24 (nineteen years ago) link

there's patchouli oil for that.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 20:25 (nineteen years ago) link

You see, that's the problem. I think I will stick you coffee.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 20:27 (nineteen years ago) link

I think Sarah wants to be a stoner. She's never even smoked a cigarette but she talks about pot all the time.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 20:27 (nineteen years ago) link

Would it make bad films better? because films are terrible these days, yet still I must watch.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 20:27 (nineteen years ago) link

Is David Thomson a stoner?

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 20:28 (nineteen years ago) link

i think you should become one. its the decent thing to do.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 20:29 (nineteen years ago) link

Just use a vaporizer, adam.

David Thomson, the Film Critic?

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 20:29 (nineteen years ago) link

Yes.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 20:29 (nineteen years ago) link

I've met him. He's not a stoner.

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 20:30 (nineteen years ago) link

Everybody on ILX has met him! But he lives in SF, so you have an excuse.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 20:32 (nineteen years ago) link

One of his kids went to Town school with my girlfriend's brother and the Thomsons get invited over to their house quite often. Lucy (?), his wife is quite funny actually.

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 20:34 (nineteen years ago) link

i think David Thomson should become one. its the decent thing to do.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 20:37 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah, especially if he shares the good green with ILX.

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 20:38 (nineteen years ago) link

he bought me a smoked-meat sandwich

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 20:56 (nineteen years ago) link

Worst euphemism ever.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 20:58 (nineteen years ago) link

Do you like stoner rock, adam? This may be a factor to consider. Do you like dub? Would you like to?

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 21:01 (nineteen years ago) link

I think you should KIND OF become a stoner.

― Towelette Pettatucci (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 21:03 (nineteen years ago) link

I like SOME stoner rock and SOME dub. But in moderation.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 21:05 (nineteen years ago) link

I have no idea how anyone can listen to dub all day long. Perhaps I should ask oops.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 21:05 (nineteen years ago) link

i've become bit of one this year, by learning to inhale properly - have never smoked cigarettes so, for years, would hold smoke from the odd doobie in my mouth and not feel *anything*. but this year i did, and it was nice. but i think i might stop for a while, i'm building up a 'resistance' and have gotten a yellow finger like my gramps use to have - ugh!

i still dress and smell nice, yo.

― stevie (stevie), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 21:12 (nineteen years ago) link

bake a pot brownee and lose track of the plot of every thing u watch
F.U.N.

― sexyDancer, Tuesday, 14 September 2004 21:25 (nineteen years ago) link

I know you were being silly but I don't listen to dub all day long! I don't have enough cannibajuana for that!
I know several female potheads or smell all sorts of wonderful and shower daily, so don't limit yourself!
Hope this helps...

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 21:30 (nineteen years ago) link

No, it doesn't.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 21:31 (nineteen years ago) link

ps have listened to shit-heaps of dub and funk and comets on fire/sunburnt hand of the man stuff this year - is there a connection? see also the Diplo album, and brownstudy...

― stevie (stevie), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 21:31 (nineteen years ago) link

bake a pot brownee and lose track of the plot of every thing u watch
F.U.N.

I've never understood how people can smoke pot AND watch TV all day long.

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 21:33 (nineteen years ago) link

Actually, it can be quite fun but it's true - the plot stops making so much sense and you start reading between the lines more. I love it when the adverts come on because that's when THE MAN starts talking to you properly, man.

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 21:34 (nineteen years ago) link

i get restless when i get stoned, can't just sit and watch TV (though i CAN play Vice City for hours while sucking down maltesers)

― stevie (stevie), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 21:35 (nineteen years ago) link

You'll never be a stoner with that attitude, guv.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 21:37 (nineteen years ago) link

apparently it is good for snowboarding

― gaz (gaz), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 21:37 (nineteen years ago) link

you may like Madvillian.
act accordingly.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 21:39 (nineteen years ago) link

Madvillian were good when they were called New Kingdom.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 21:40 (nineteen years ago) link

Well, better.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 21:40 (nineteen years ago) link

I still want to dress and smell nice, though. Is that alright?

You may want to consider going gay instead.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 21:41 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't think anything called New Kingdom could be good.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 21:41 (nineteen years ago) link

possibly a lesbian bar.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 21:42 (nineteen years ago) link

Dog, that is spot on!

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 21:42 (nineteen years ago) link

Wait, what *is* the opposite of a stoner?

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 21:44 (nineteen years ago) link

Is that one of those zen questions?

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 21:46 (nineteen years ago) link

i see no connection between the new kingdom and madvilliany. more weed for me perhaps.

― artdamages (artdamages), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 21:47 (nineteen years ago) link

oh, yeah, weed is the connection...

they don't sound much alike anyway.

― artdamages (artdamages), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 21:47 (nineteen years ago) link

Man, the only thing I can do WELL when I get stoned is watch TV. I'll sit for hours not saying a word and then suddenly crack up at something random and then forget what it was that was funny.

* I plan on doing this tonight

― Towelette Pettatucci (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 21:49 (nineteen years ago) link

you forgot to put a * in the body of your post, stoner.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 21:50 (nineteen years ago) link

"I like SOME stoner rock and SOME dub. But in moderation."

Moderation is the enemy of stonerdom. I'm sorry, you just don't have it in you.

― supercub, Tuesday, 14 September 2004 21:50 (nineteen years ago) link

is there a name for people who smoke weed only occasionally? (this should be good)

― artdamages (artdamages), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 21:53 (nineteen years ago) link

Man, the only thing I can do WELL when I get stoned is watch TV. I'll sit for hours not saying a word and then suddenly crack up at something random and then forget what it was that was funny

I do this, too. Doesn't even have to be at tv. I'll laugh at anything, and two seconds later will have no earthly idea why. Boots, I heart you.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 21:55 (nineteen years ago) link

Earthlings.
xpost

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 21:55 (nineteen years ago) link

pussies

xpost

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 21:56 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh that never happens to me. Never. What's wrong with you guys? Stoners.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 21:57 (nineteen years ago) link

oops, I'M NOT PERFECT YOU KNOW!!!!

― Towelette Pettatucci (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 21:57 (nineteen years ago) link

i am the shining example of a functioning pothead/addict.

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 21:57 (nineteen years ago) link

"bitch can't handle her smoke"

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 21:58 (nineteen years ago) link

patchouli makes you smell like dirt thats been fucked by a hobo.

― brock (brock), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 22:11 (nineteen years ago) link

mmmmhobodirt...

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 22:11 (nineteen years ago) link

that said, patchouli makes me sneeze.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 22:12 (nineteen years ago) link

What are those 3 dots for? It's a bit...ominous.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 22:14 (nineteen years ago) link

Becoming a stoner is something everybody should do for at least a year.

― Andrew (enneff), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 23:23 (nineteen years ago) link

There's way too much stoner hate on ILX for some reason. Some explain this to me.

― Andrew (enneff), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 23:24 (nineteen years ago) link

Man, the only thing I can do WELL when I get stoned is watch TV.

me, too. in high school/college, i could do anything - drive, go shopping, take tests, go to parties, have dinner with my parents.. now, i spend like an hour looking for the remote and then i'll see that it's in my hand and then i'll order nachos from san loco and then i'll fall asleep.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 23:36 (nineteen years ago) link

I dont get why you have to like shitty hippy music to be a stoner. I smoke loads and I'm with Mand, I love to watch crap TV and movies and laugh at something weird and forget what it was. The other night I stared at my poster of the planets on the wall for a bit then profoundly announced "Jupter looks like a hamburger".

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 23:40 (nineteen years ago) link

And this thread is reminding me I'm out, and cant get onto that guy who like, has stuff.

― Tr4yceg00gle (trayce), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 23:41 (nineteen years ago) link

dude trayce, me too. though my problem is not contact, but $$$.

adam, dude... you like ANTHEM OF THE SUN, right?

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 23:47 (nineteen years ago) link

I dont get why you have to like shitty hippy music to be a stoner.

this is a good point. most music sounds better when yr high.

― artdamages (artdamages), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 23:53 (nineteen years ago) link

There's way too much stoner hate on ILX for some reason. Some explain this to me.

The rest are too baked to care.

― m.e.a. (m.e.a.), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 23:54 (nineteen years ago) link

There's way too much stoner hate on ILX for some reason. Some explain this to me.

I know. It's very odd, esp amongst the age group that most ilxors are part of.

Trayce, you're forgetting that this is all about the stereotypical "dude bro i'm soooo wasted let's go down to the 7-11 and scope out chicks" stoner, who has little basis in reality. Or at least in any type of reality that I've encountered.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 23:54 (nineteen years ago) link

I think the stoner hate is a result of first-hand experience for many ILXors. I went through a protracted stoner phase, and I'm not sure what I have to show for it. I suppose it was an interesting episode in my life, and I do have some nostalgia for that time. However, I probably blew thousands of dollars on drugs and possibly reduced my mental capacity. I don't really have any friends from that period (who weren't friends beforehand).

All that said, it is pretty fun for a year. Smoking a big bong at 1:00pm in a college dorm room is an experience worth having.

― supercub, Tuesday, 14 September 2004 23:58 (nineteen years ago) link

At lunchtime I used to go across the road from school to the Royal Botanical Gardens and smoke spliffs in the sun. Man, those were the days.

― Andrew (enneff), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 00:00 (nineteen years ago) link

xpost Why the hate? Well, ILE likes to be intellectual and stoners are stereotyped as morons. ILE likes to buck the trends and defy expectations, and smoking weed is very popular and is expected to be something one does (amongst young people at least).

Oh shit I have to go cut get my hair cut before the place closes.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 00:00 (nineteen years ago) link

I think supercub is right, too. But hate the playa (ie the dazed and confused stoner) not the game (ie y'know, smoking pot).

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 00:02 (nineteen years ago) link

haha oops did you decide to roll another fattie instead of getting your hair cut?

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 00:10 (nineteen years ago) link

oh shit. tell people to quit calling me!

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 00:11 (nineteen years ago) link

i'm such a stoner, dude bro.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 00:12 (nineteen years ago) link

I hate getting my hair cut. Why can't they observe how it is when I walk in and cut/style accordingly? No, they have to make me look like Tom Brokaw every damn time.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 00:13 (nineteen years ago) link

plus I just sprouted a zit on my lip and there's this totally mega super hot chick who works there.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 00:16 (nineteen years ago) link

i would kill to look like tom brokaw! well, i'd maim.

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 00:31 (nineteen years ago) link

To help us accurately predict your potential effectiveness in the field of stonerdom, the following must be determined:

*any food allergies, particularly those involving nacho cheese and nacho cheese articifial flavoring
*your levels of entertainability & propensity for giggling
*what - if any - actions you take instinctively to correct television signal reception problems
*the frequency with which you say any of the following words: "dude", "man", "woah"

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 13:58 (nineteen years ago) link

SOMETIMES ME GRAN POPS A TUTOR IN HER FANNY THEN I SUCK SMOKE OUT

― GARU G, Wednesday, 15 September 2004 14:06 (nineteen years ago) link

My mild stoner, well, not hate, but distaste, can be traced back to my dumbass stoner friends in high school who got stoned and said stupid shit and thought they were saying something amazing. I associate stoners with high school, which wasn't a great time.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 14:28 (nineteen years ago) link

you're forgetting that this is all about the stereotypical "dude bro i'm soooo wasted let's go down to the 7-11 and scope out chicks" stoner, who has little basis in reality

It has little basis in fact because in reality, said stoner is saying something more like, "dude bro I'm soooo wasted, let's go down to the 7-11 and get a hot dog. And chips. Oooh, and an Icee. And nachos. And fuck, I could scarf some m&ms right now, dude, oh wait, look, they have twinkies and those little chocolate donuts that make you shit candles, too, hey man, grab me a thing of chocolate milk, will you? And a burrito..." *insert stoner laugh here*

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 14:59 (nineteen years ago) link

I know but I'm a stoner and was too lazy to type all that shit out.
But you know you go to 7-11 to scope out chicks. Admit it.
And it's a SLURPEE, bitch.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 15:10 (nineteen years ago) link

wait. shit candles? eww you're a girl, stop that.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 15:10 (nineteen years ago) link

I think AdamL would make an interesting stoner.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 15:22 (nineteen years ago) link

I am asthmatic, though.

"Crazy as it may seem, smoking made it go away." says my husband.

― jesus nathalie (nathalie), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 15:23 (nineteen years ago) link

To answer your question -- no. Get a goddamn hobby.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 15:39 (nineteen years ago) link

Build model submarines.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 15:41 (nineteen years ago) link

Become a stonemason adam. The pay ain't too bad. Though the rock dust might not be too good for your asthma :(

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 15:44 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah, building model submarines is cool and all, but have you ever tried it, you know, ON WEED!?!?!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 15:44 (nineteen years ago) link

yeah dude, shit's not easy.

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 15:45 (nineteen years ago) link

Kev and I fell into the habit of getting stoned every single night of the week, during the day at weekends too. It was costing us a fortune but neither of us questioned it, it was just what we done.

We went on holiday for two weeks and didn't smoke a thing, and when we came back we didn't bother buying more. Now I wonder why we carried on for so long, it didn't enhance anything, just gave us something to do and something to offer guests (along with tea and coffee of course)

That's been two months now without a single puff and I'm wondering if we should buy some more and get all the glorious 'first smoke in ages munchies/giggles' phenomena. I'm just worried that we'll slip straight back into it if we do though....

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 16:22 (nineteen years ago) link

it just struck me that if there's one reason marijuana should be legalised it's because everyone does it, or choose not to out of preference. people will talk openly about smoking pot. it's referenced on television with many media stars doing hash on our screens.

maybe it sounds like a dumb reason for legalisation, but smoking pot is probably next to speeding in the big book of most broken laws. isn't it time everyone stopped kidding themselves and just let it go now?

don't answer me or it'll turn into a horrible debate.

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 18:24 (nineteen years ago) link

dl, where do you live?

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 18:26 (nineteen years ago) link

I would have thought copyright is one of the most oft broken laws.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 18:27 (nineteen years ago) link

and littering

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 18:28 (nineteen years ago) link

Is a law only broken if a person is convicted? I would have thought so from an offical statistics POV.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 18:29 (nineteen years ago) link

no, it should be legal cause there's no good reason for it to be illegal.
"don't do it, cause it's illegal."
"why is it illegal?"
"cause you shouldn't do it"

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 18:29 (nineteen years ago) link

oops: that was my mom's logic the first time she caught me getting high.

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 18:31 (nineteen years ago) link

all my friends' moms, too. I never got caught. My mom was in denial about the bong that somehow got re-routed to my home address when I was in college. Hey wait, why the fuck was that bitch opening my mail?

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 18:33 (nineteen years ago) link

Maybe she was curious why your mail was big, heavy, obviously made of glass, and shaped vaguely like a ginormous cock.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 18:35 (nineteen years ago) link

dude bro, it was a wee little honey bear bong.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 18:35 (nineteen years ago) link

My mother who has always had a penchant for weed. Neither of us smoke much these days, but she always has amazing stuff. I have a distinctive memory of visiting my mom when she was in law school and smoking out that weekend and fixing the world and shit.

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 18:37 (nineteen years ago) link

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