I really, really don't get the joke, OP.

Quote from: Numb Digger on November 05, 2014, 10:51:15 AM

Here is the story of the first time I tried weed, last night.

>friend smokes every day, addicted
>wants me to try
>I love her, can't say no
>11PM, dinner hours ago, 2 beers in me
>try a bong hit
>instantly start coughing un-controllably
>feel like my throat has been burned
>eventually gain control of myself
>ok, not doing that again
>half hour later, effects start to sink in
>we're outside, start shivering
>its not even cold
>all senses in overload, everything louder, everything brighter, emotions and feelings more intense, fucking dizzy and nauseous
>brain and consciousness still functioning, body just won't work like I tell it too, like I'm trapped inside a retard
>every time I talk, feel like vomitting
>eventually vomit in the garden
>walking around with eyes closed, everything too bright, everything too loud
>go inside to change clothes, wash mouth out
>nauseous
>keep vomitting, eventually dry wretching over the toilet when I'm not collapsed on the bathroom floor hyperventilating
>vomitting subsides
>having cycles of hyperventilation, un-controllable shivering spasms, then absolute still-ness until someone makes a noise outside and kicks off the cycle again
>just want it to end, this sucks
>eventually pass out
>come to about 2 hours later, feeling completely normal
>today, feeling better, remember every minute of last night, hated every minute
>never smoking weed again

The nausea and vomitting reminded me of the first time I got properly plastered, remembered and hated every minute of that as well. Maybe it's just me, but I don't think drugs are necessary. I'm now of the opinion that if you need alcohol, drugs to have fun, your life must be absolutely crap. There's more to life than that.

Call me a lightweight, fag, whatever. Not putting myself through that again, not worth it.

Also, I don't think your friend is actually addicted. Pot is psychologically addictive, like anything else in this world, but it's not physically addictive at all, so using the word "addicted" to refer to someone who enjoys pot just kind of trivializes the true meaning of addiction.

I suppose you are correct. Weed is kind of in a different tier than other drugs.

I might actually try it again sometime. Just not for a while.

Bronies. SJW's. People on tumblr. The standard scum everyone hates.

Here's what you do. Wait until he's passed out (when you are at a party, or something. Drugging him also works), then hide a coin in his anus. Later, ask him to let you borrow said coin of that type. When he says that he doesn't have a coin, pull the coin out of his anus. He'll think that you're a wizard, and whenever he doesn't want to have sex with you, you can threaten to turn him into a frog.

Do you folks know any good tricks?

Well, here we go. I really don't know much about any of you but I'll give some first impressions of a few users here.

Mr. Psychologist

BritishLemon

Naja

Casper

Zenmaster

Sandtrap

RC

As I said, I don't know much about many people here. I hope to become closer with some of you, because online friendships can go a long way, even more so than real friendships, from my experience.

Gives one a special appreciation of who and what we are no? A respect, for how durable and adaptable we are. But, also a care, for realizing that despite it all, sometimes we can be so very fragile.

Agreed. Our bodies work so tirelessly behind the scenes.

That's good, maybe there might be a little bit of order. I quite like plug.dj, most music played is good. A lot of the songs I play are well-received, too.

Quote from: Numb Digger on November 05, 2014, 10:47:16 AM

Quote from: Casper on November 05, 2014, 10:45:08 AM

Quote from: Numb Digger on November 05, 2014, 10:39:41 AM

I don't particularly have a strong opinion of anyone here, but I do not dislike you. Everyone here seems to be cool enough.

Why is your avatar Neptune?

I'm a fan of our planets, particularly the gas giants. I was debating between Jupiter and Neptune. I like Neptune's colour a lot, though.

But Neptune is my planet
I'm a Pisces..

I'm a Capricorn.
Not sure what planet is related to it, though.

I have no idea who you are (or anyone else here, for that matter), but don't do anything that you'll regret. Life can be rough at times, but it gets better eventually.

I'm just hoping this is a copypasta (or song lyrics like someone posted earlier).

It's cool.
Not into biology, but it's still interesting.

Indeed. It's surprising how a simple task such as moving your arm is actually an incredibly complex procedure.

Biology is so frigging complex.

Indeed it is. Organisms such as ourselves are so amazingly built.

I'm amazed at the sheer speed the internals of our body work.

Let's say you want to move your arm. Your brain sends a signal to a neuron, the signal travels the length of the neuron, which can be up to a meter long, via electro-chemical signaling process whereby ions (such as chlorine, sodium, potassium, and calcium) are moved into/out of the cell. The neuron comes to a synaptic gap where it ends and another neuron, or muscle cell, begins. Again, electro-chemical signaling processes result in the release and uptake of various ions and neurotransmitters in the synaptic gap which in turn cause the release and uptake of ions in the muscle cell.

The muscle cell reaches it's action potential and releases calcium from the sarcoplasmic reticulum, the calcium binds to troponin, which causes a conformational change in the tropomyosin, which exposes the myosin binding sites on the actin. The myosin heads can now metabolize the ATP to undergo myosin-actin cross-bridging, literally pulling themselves along the actin, which contracts the muscle cell. Repeat this thousands and thousands of times for a single muscle.

Then, when it's done contracting, the myosin releases the actin, the ADP gets recycled into ATP, the calcium is released from the troponin, the tropomyosin goes back to it's previous position, the calcium is reabsorbed by the sarcoplasmic reticulum, the sodium, potassium, chlorine, and calcium levels in the cell and interstitial space return to normal via many ion channels (regulated by voltage, other ions, neurotransmitters, hormones, etc...) and the muscle is ready to contract again.

All of this is done in a fraction of a second.

Here is a neat little animation of a myosin head interacting with an actin thread...and yes, it really does look just like that:



Red thing is the myosin head, green sphere is the ATP, the little part that jettisons off is the Phosphate, so it's ADP that's left, the pink and blue thing is the tropomyosin complex, the yellow dot is calcium, and the orange is the actin.

Quote from: Numb Digger on November 04, 2014, 06:17:19 PM

4 hours with another guy. God damn it was the most intense thing I have ever experienced in my entire life.

Details?

Well, it's the first and only time I have had sex yet. I pretty much railed him in the ass for an entire hour, and then we took turns sucking each others cocks and kissing for the rest. At the end we were dripping, hot messes and we took a shower together after.

Was a really cute guy, very feminine/emoish. It's the only kind of guy I like.

That detailed enough for you?

I agree. I'm not some looney conspiracy theorist but things like the Pyramids of Giza are just too great of a feat. Not to mention that they seem to be aligned with the constellation of Orion.

The solution is to castrate them all.