Hello again, The latest crop of digital cameras are MUCH better in every way! I'm in a state of lust over Nikons' new D-3. It has a full size 35mm sensor, 16mp and will couple with all of my old manual focus lenses! It costs about $4000US alas so I'll have to stick to film for the time being!
One day maybe for both of us.
Since this is in Off Topic I wonder if an off topic photo thread would be acceptable to the powers that be?
The standard of photography in many of the threads on here is better than a lot of "professional" photo sites I have seen. I should imagine between the various members there will be pictures of lovely things from every continent. If I see an interesting user location I will often chuck it into Google Earth just to see what it looks like where they live.
If any Moderators pass by this way pop your thoughts down as to whether it would be acceptable. It could be a "My Hometown" style of thing or whatever you took today (Not in the original LSD context though!) Oooh, the Topic again.........
John
Since this is in Off Topic I wonder if an off topic photo thread would be acceptable to the powers that be?
The standard of photography in many of the threads on here is better than a lot of "professional" photo sites I have seen. I should imagine between the various members there will be pictures of lovely things from every continent. If I see an interesting user location I will often chuck it into Google Earth just to see what it looks like where they live.
If any Moderators pass by this way pop your thoughts down as to whether it would be acceptable. It could be a "My Hometown" style of thing or whatever you took today (Not in the original LSD context though!) Oooh, the Topic again.........
John
Cheers Dave! I will go hunt it down when I have done what I'm on with.
TC-60Guy have a root and dig some of your stuff out, I would love a look.
John
TC-60Guy have a root and dig some of your stuff out, I would love a look.
John
I wont claim to understand any of that but I know Toluene to be rather naughty. By trade I am a mechanic, we used to clean out brake dust with a small paintbrush over a dustbin in the olden days. Nowadays spray cleaners are used for "the good of your health and safety" These cleaners are packed with Toluene and chemicals with 30+ letters in their name,
A popular one in parts of Britain is to sniff petrol (gasoline), the real hardcore ones drink it, but not for long generally.
John
A popular one in parts of Britain is to sniff petrol (gasoline), the real hardcore ones drink it, but not for long generally.
John
Sniffing hydrocarbons is bad idea. Your body filters (liver, kidneys, ect) can't tolerate it. It doesn't do your mental health any favors either. Frankly, your better off smoking crack. 
Toluene is also toxic to your liver and kidneys, and is a bad skin/eye irritant. You want to use that stuff in a well ventilated area. But it sure works great for cleaning out the jets in a dirty carb.🙂
John, can you find a picture of a Death Cap mushroom just starting out of the ground before the gills open up so we can compare them visually to the Fly Agaric? I think they look nearly identical at that stage but I'm not certain.
Toluene is also toxic to your liver and kidneys, and is a bad skin/eye irritant. You want to use that stuff in a well ventilated area. But it sure works great for cleaning out the jets in a dirty carb.🙂
John, can you find a picture of a Death Cap mushroom just starting out of the ground before the gills open up so we can compare them visually to the Fly Agaric? I think they look nearly identical at that stage but I'm not certain.
Some years ago a group of friends and myself went on a mushroom expedition, anyway after picking quite a lot (probably about 3-4000) we brewed them up and off we went into the unknown. After some hours we went back to a friends house to mellow and my mate started getting agitated. His agitation grew over a fairly short period of time and he lost his head.
He run downstairs and straight into his mother, a devout Christian, and told her what had happened. Immediately she got out the Bible (truth) and proceeded to quote various passages. At this point we did not know what to do, most of us finding it a hilarious situation (mushrooms no doubt).
After what seemed like about four hours of listening to his mother quoting (we were all upstairs you see) an ambulance arrived and off he ent to the hospital. Off we went after some serious grief from his mother.
Any way, to this day, the boy who I was in school with and who went to hospital has never returned to us. He is not dead but neither is he the same person and communication is virtually non-existent. This happened about 17 years ago and I guarantee that this is the truth.
One time I will never forget.
Nowadays a lot of the farmers around here spray their fields to discourage picking.
Gareth
PS...I am alright now and maybe if everything goes alright I will be allowed to go home in five years time 😉
He run downstairs and straight into his mother, a devout Christian, and told her what had happened. Immediately she got out the Bible (truth) and proceeded to quote various passages. At this point we did not know what to do, most of us finding it a hilarious situation (mushrooms no doubt).
After what seemed like about four hours of listening to his mother quoting (we were all upstairs you see) an ambulance arrived and off he ent to the hospital. Off we went after some serious grief from his mother.
Any way, to this day, the boy who I was in school with and who went to hospital has never returned to us. He is not dead but neither is he the same person and communication is virtually non-existent. This happened about 17 years ago and I guarantee that this is the truth.
One time I will never forget.
Nowadays a lot of the farmers around here spray their fields to discourage picking.
Gareth
PS...I am alright now and maybe if everything goes alright I will be allowed to go home in five years time 😉
Yep, I have a friend who ate to much of the wrong type, and it made him a bit schizophrenic.......permanently. All of the LSD that he ingested didn’t help in that respect either.
CBS240 said:
We picked the right type, distinguishing death caps from the real thing is easy once you know what your looking for, it's just that they were too much for him. To this day I feel a little guilty, but what is done is done.
By the way, if you want a picture of the mushroom when it's starting off then you would have to wait a little as they only come out for a short time and that time isn't right now. There a quite a few varieties near here, Fly Agaric etc (I'm not really up on the latin genus).
Gareth
PS....sorry if I have 'lowered the tone'
john blackburn said:
It's a problem in some remote communities here. Truly tragic, even some children were doing it.
It got so bad some communities banned petrol altogether. They drove diesel vehicles instead. There were rumours of people selling petrol to sniffers for $10 per litre.
gareth said:
Absolutely. My uncle ran 7 or 8 supply stores for 'outpost' camps where they had Native Canadian reservations.
All aftershaves, canned aerosols, and gasoline, etc, had to be kept on a short leash, locked up, or never brought in. He had to always inspect his plane cargo to be sure that no-one was attempting to slip one by him.
A friends father was a docker on the Liverpool docks during the 70s. It was a drinking mans occupation with the wages to match any mans consumption so there are many tales to tell.
One that seems appropriate at the moment is the time that about 75% of the workforce were in the local hospital suffering all manner of blindness and general crazyness but nobody could work out why. There was always alcohol around the place and they were very hardened drinkers but something was doing for them.
A couple of weeks later a complaint came in from a museum or university or somesuch that they had recieved a cargo of preserved monkey specimens that were rotten to high heaven and upon analysis the fluid they were in turned out to be plain water.
Some enterprising soul had seen the chance to have all the monkey pickling juice away, bottle it and sell it out at knockdown prices as genuine Russian Moonshine Vodka smuggled in on a cargo vessel.
No wonder they were all a bit squiffy, if it's strong enough to pickle a monkey I think you should take a little water with it and maybe a slice of lemon for that cosmopolitan elegance.
John
One that seems appropriate at the moment is the time that about 75% of the workforce were in the local hospital suffering all manner of blindness and general crazyness but nobody could work out why. There was always alcohol around the place and they were very hardened drinkers but something was doing for them.
A couple of weeks later a complaint came in from a museum or university or somesuch that they had recieved a cargo of preserved monkey specimens that were rotten to high heaven and upon analysis the fluid they were in turned out to be plain water.
Some enterprising soul had seen the chance to have all the monkey pickling juice away, bottle it and sell it out at knockdown prices as genuine Russian Moonshine Vodka smuggled in on a cargo vessel.
No wonder they were all a bit squiffy, if it's strong enough to pickle a monkey I think you should take a little water with it and maybe a slice of lemon for that cosmopolitan elegance.
John
Yikes! I can't even top that one with my accidental charcoal starter drinking story! Pickled monkey juice! I'll take mine"neat".
7n7is said:
Fascinating read, especially ?Stoll's? perceptions of his own apartment and the neighbour he borrowed milk from, he percieved her as a some kind of witch.
I remember taking some back when I was a teenager and I went into my local town. I bumped into lots of people I knew and was speaking to them. Nearly everybody I spoke to, I knew the answers they were going to give me before they opened their mouths. I am not sure how freely I can talk here with regards to this, and for obvious reasons.
What about the film Jacobs Ladder? Does anybody know more about the theme of this film?
Gareth
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