Oh, well shit. Good luck with it, if you get it under control earlier in life you shouldn't have as much of a battle later on <.<

Hmm, well for a while I thought I'd be kind of fucked with painkillers considering that propensity for addiction runs in families and my mother is an alcoholic/smoker and I can see the addictive traits in some of my brothers, I think I was fairly lucky with it though. Because of all my joint pains I had to have Solpadeine/Cocodamol pretty much every day, at the time it felt like it might be turning into an addiction (See: Opioid induced pain) where I'd end up 'needing' the painkillers to just not feel like I was in agony.

Thankfully that wasn't the case and despite using them for the best part of a year, I came off them cold turkey without any withdrawal symptoms whatsoever. The pain was from my joints and as they improved, I no longer needed the painkillers just to walk around the house without vomiting so it worked out well. I consider myself lucky as shit though, to be on them for that long and to come off them without a hitch. I know that a lot of people are not so lucky and addiction is a real bitch to say the least.

My dear mum for example, is one of those unlucky people. She went from a great, intelligent and hardworking person to a complete trainwreck over the course of a couple of years, it'd be two bottles of wine a day minimum and whatever else she felt like. She just never had the will to face up to it in the end though, despite the best efforts of doctors and shrinks she wouldn't accept it and thus they simply couldn't help her. (Pretty sure that can be attributed to the underlying mental issues though)

Really though, you have my utmost respect for fighting it rather than just giving in. Addiction is such a terrible bloody thing.

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If GOT wasn't half as gory as it is, I doubt I'd still be watching it <.<

Um... why?

Psy is allergic to lewd things, but loves gore.
Its best just to leave that particular rabbit hole alone.

No, but I mean like watching GoT JUST for gore is really dumb.

Well he probably enjoys the plot and characters and is just faffing about.
We're not in serious.

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Seriously tho he probably just watches it for the murder.

I do like the plot/characters, the gore is just what sweetens the deal <.<

Yeah thankfully she's one of the few characters spared from pandering to yanks.

If GOT wasn't half as gory as it is, I doubt I'd still be watching it <.<
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Quote from: Mr Psychologist on May 12, 2015, 11:18:31 AM

General question for the Vegans ITT, so basically Verb and Pendulate <.<

The petri dish burger that was made sometime last year, if you were offered the chance to eat one - would you?

Probably not, because I've been a vegan for such a time now, the very taste of meat is absolutely disgusting to me, now (and for the smartasses, I've had chicken sandwiches bought for me by people who did not know I was a vegan, so instead of wasting it, I ate it and said "thank you". That's still veganism).

A better question would be to ask if I have any problem with that, and...

Hmm yeah, I'd say there is something similar for me but perhaps not quite as strong. The thought of eating meat is enough provides sufficient deterrant, I eat quite a lot of quorn stuff so the taste doesn't bother me too much but it's the psychological barrier to the thought of eating flesh that would prevent me.

Thankfully the sandwich problem isn't one I run into often, if necessary I'll just not eat and give the sandwich to someone else rather than see it wasted but I couldn't actually eat the meat myself.

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The cells were taken from a living cow, which as far as I know wasn't harmed by the procedure and then it was developed in what I think was a nutrient medium (Which may have contained animal products, but for the purpose of this assume the only living creature input was those initial cells)

I mean... I guess I don't see anything wrong with that. The main issue veganism takes is the imposing of harm, and if the animal isn't harmed at all in this case, I guess I don't really see any problem. It just sounds absolutely disgusting, is all. I don't even think I'd try it back when I did eat meat.

Hmm yeah, well that's fair enough <.<

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And then for a longer view hypothetical, say that we found the food equivalent of HeLa cells (That were safe to consume, rather than literal cancer cells) where from the cellular legacy of one animal (That didn't die to give these cells, just as Henrietta wasn't harmed by the cells being taken) a source of death free 'meat' was available for the global population, would you object to that?

Pain free meat, Psy. Death isn't the problem. It's the suffering that sucks.

Would I object to a suffering-free burger?
I guess not!

I think it's pretty pathetic how meat-eaters are so desperate, that they have to come up with these weird fucking reacharounds just to eat meat, but whatever.

Ah, my mistake. I equate the two, but yeah I can see how it works.

I think that there is another way to view it though, by making synthetic meat that is damn near identical to fleshmeat it's easier to convince people to not eat fleshmeat, they get the same food/taste/nutrition without the death attached to their dinner. It's also fairly useful in terms of medical research, if we are able to grow meat/organs/flesh in petri dishes rather than requiring a living host then that makes transplants a lot simpler <.<

Typing 'Foman' into the member search bar there yields some interesting results.

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like the libdems.

Who?

I hear they made a deal with the devil back in 2010 and then when the five years was up he claimed their souls <.<

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Pretty much because if farage indeed left, the party would collapse into nothing in a matter of weeks if not days.

>3 million votes
>collapsing

Yeah, that's a lot of votes.
They have one MP though, courtesy of our wonderful electoral system, and Farage is UKIP. Without him it would go down the drain rapidly like the libdems.

It just strikes me as defeating the whole purpose of carrying a gun, letting the other guy know that you are armed/what you are carrying/where it is seems like information that is best kept hidden.

It's fine for officers mind you, because they are meant to be a show of force to keep order and all that but civilians wandering around like it's the wild west seems like it's a good way to turn it into the wild west >_>

Anime has corrupted you, Psy.

RIP

Well shit look at the timestamps <.<

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It was in march for me, I sent a card and a text iirc but that's it.

Awww well happy belated Mother's Day to those in England!  Random but I know Australia also celebrates Mother's Day the same day as America. How world wide is Mother's Day?

It's a fairly common tradition nowdays, the brit date changes because it's calculated around Lent.

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Stop watching gook movies man. They rot your brain. You'll never catch me watching one of those pieces of trash like Spirited Away.

It's any film though >_>

But as byrne said, it might actually be more to do with the internet than games <.<