Eh. If you take an automobile, crush it and shred it but leave it all in a pile, it’s still an automobile, just a really fucked up one.

I’ve only skied at a handful of resorts (all in Colorado, which is why I ask), and all the different chair lifts I’ve been go counter-clockwise (i.e. ride up on the right side). This chairlift looks like when it’s not trying to murder people, it goes clockwise. Is that common in European and/or other countries?

Yeah definitely, I just don’t know if cigarettes have the same appeal as a lot of other vices without major companies being able to market them agressively.

My understanding is: 1) that tobacco can only be easily grown in only a small-ish subset of the United States; 2) that growing and processing tobacco on a significant scale takes a lot of acreage; 3) cigarette consumption only rose to dramatic levels upon introduction of pre-rolled, well-manufactured cigarettes.

Assumin…

The risk with raw flour is e. coli contamination.

Excellent John Prine song, but Bonnie Raitt made it her own. Saw her perform it in Telluride last summer and I won’t forget it!

Yep, I just have spent more time accidentally getting piss where it shouldn’t be than camping in snow.

That’s true, and I’m sure you just be extra careful: the only thing worse than sleeping in a cold wilderness is sleeping in a cold wilderness in a tent that’s wet and smells like piss.

I hate getting up in the middle of the night to traipse through the cold, but pissing into a bottle in a tent sounds like a horrible, high risk idea.

Back home, the locals occasionally make a dish called “tiger meat”, which is a really redneck, unsafe version of tartare. Raw store-bought ground beef (not talking Whole Foods here), mixed with chopped onions and spices, and left to sit in the frigerator for a day or two. Served on crackers. Haven’t died yet, but I…

HAH. I grew up in a tiny town of 500-some people in rural Kansas, and back before Redbox and streaming, the owner kept rental VHS and later rental DVDs. It was okay but nothing expansive, just the biggest movies out. I found out in junior high that he also kept a single *drawer* behind the checkout counter with the…

Exactly. If he wants to not finish the books, that sucks, but it’s his choice. He shouldn’t, however, bullshit about release dates or completion if he’s not actually making progress towards it. We as humans have other shit to worry about besides whether or not he’s actually going to (even try to) finish the books.

Much more likely they’re buying it black market or an older friend is going in to get it. ID’ing is rigorous and the penalties are much higher to the employee and business if they get caught selling alcohol or cigarettes to somebody underage.

My brother (he died from depression and PTSD last month) had the opposite tendencies; he abused alcohol specifically to numb pain but didn’t have cravings, but he was really drawn to Xanax and klonopin. I’m not 100% sure about which drug was the main contributor in his intentional overdose, but I think it was klonopin.

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Currently in Denver it’s 3 degrees and shitty out. 300 Days of Sunshine! my ass.

I read this as “I am 15" and I was like, “Wow, this kid really smokes a lot of pot if he can see into the past”.

Lol. I think we should both put a deck together after talking to a SME and circle back to it.

Right. I meant that often-times a “deck” is no more than some bullshit thrown together, but it’s passed off as something more than it is. I despise tech/marketing jargon, and I work in tech.

“Hello, sir, I put together a deck for the presentation this afternoon” vs. (realistic) “I’m really hungover, but I copy/pasted some bullshit into four slides for the meeting I just remembered”

I agree with the posters that not having a parent or other adult ask questions at all is worse, but given you do ask questions, this is helpful advice and I thank you. I find myself asking “How was school?” of my nieces and nephews constantly, and since their dad passed away my role is becoming more important in their…