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family miss when watching this video happy family - thank you downloaded it.

Looks like a *happy family to me!

This kind of attitude is depressing. It's none of your business what someone does in their spare time when no one else is affected by it. There are functioning alcoholics turning up for work pissed, flying planes, driving buses, teaching children. But no, let's go after the guy who sits in his bedroom playing music with a joint. Let's prevent him from having a life, even if he is self medicating a mental illness. It serves him right - if he's got an illness, he shouldn't be using naturally occurring medicine like our ancestors have for thousands upon thousands of years, no! He should be paying hundreds of pounds to a big pharma company for a pill that they invented a few years ago.

The premise behind drugs testing people is based on many things i disagree with:
1) the spectacular failure of the war of drugs - not only has drug use increased in the timeframe, but it has ruined probably millions of lives, needlessly turning ordinary, hard working people into criminals for no good reason other than "we like this plant, but we don't like this plant, and now neither may you"
2) the origin of the war on drugs - which iirc from a well sourced and produced video on here recently was instigated by a vindictive racist who wanted to go criminalise things that were seen as "black people" pastimes
3) the bias of the war on drugs - where drugs associated with the poor and underprivileged are relentlessly pursued to the detriment of functioning happy families across the world, but drugs associated with rich white folk such as those boardroom jockeys who snort coke in the office bathroom, nah, give them an easy time
4) the american prison business - which demands a steady supply of low cost, low maintenance, low rights workers who have no choice in the matter
5) the spreading of disinformation through formal education/popular media, and lack of actual knowledge or experience of drugs - which has led to a generation of people who now firmly believe that the moment you inhale a particle of THC (or "inject 1 marijuana" to the uninitiated), your brain turns into a fried egg, and you immediately begin stealing, cheating, and peddling dangerous items to children

Some of the brightest and best humans were influenced and inspired by drugs. If i wrote a list of people that i had the greatest respect for and who i considered to have made a positive influence on the world, half of them would almost certainly be drugs users; and i mean scientists, writers and artists. Your philosophy is a detriment to society, but thankfully as the decades pass, there are less and less with that philosophy. I loathe being blunt, but there is nothing worse than someone who feels the need to dictate to others what they should and shouldn't do on the basis of what they personally do or don't approve of.

We might get about 90 years on this planet with a bit of luck - why the hell do the minority spend so much time trying to dictate to the majority what they do with that time? And why do the majority let them? What sort of control fetish is it that inclines people to want to do that?

This guy's life has been fucking ruined by your adopted philosophy towards drugs, and you offer to help him as long as he bends to your will? How magnanimous of you to stoop to gutter level to help a mere drug-addled cretin... I think he'd tell you to stick your job, he's overqualified to work under you.

Daybreak - Chet Baker
Family - The National Bank
Cigarett - Bo Kaspers Orkester
10,000 Days (Part 2) - Tool
Green Earrings - Steely Dan

Fairly straightforward if you ask me. I get up in the morning to spend time with my family. I don't smoke, so the cigarette might be a metaphor for general morning rituals. I'll get approximately 27 years (10,000 days) of happy family life before all the kids have moved out. I will first have to establish a family, though. This can be facilitated by gifting some earrings of rare design to a certain someone. Maybe that certain someone is the one who sent the message?

>> ^Mikus_Aurelius:

If your citizens elect leaders who send troops to kill brown people, then the troops who do it are serving their country. Being the instrument of a bad policy makes them no more responsible than any other voter.
>> ^ghark:
"Happy family reunions"
or
"How to disguise the slaughter of brown people as good service to your country 101"
It's fantastic for the parents, and the son though, I'm very happy for them, it's just sad that the system has been so subverted that this has to happen.



That's irrelevant, I'm not blaming them.

If your citizens elect leaders who send troops to kill brown people, then the troops who do it are serving their country. Being the instrument of a bad policy makes them no more responsible than any other voter.

>> ^ghark:

"Happy family reunions"
or
"How to disguise the slaughter of brown people as good service to your country 101"
It's fantastic for the parents, and the son though, I'm very happy for them, it's just sad that the system has been so subverted that this has to happen.

"Happy family reunions"

or

"How to disguise the slaughter of brown people as good service to your country 101"

It's fantastic for the parents, and the son though, I'm very happy for them, it's just sad that the system has been so subverted that this has to happen.

There's a happy family.

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

You still bent out of shape from my comment? Maybe it's time for you to let go and move on.
In reply to this comment by Fletch:
How sweet. You're like a knight in shining armor!
Seriously, are you ok? Your reading comprehension seems to be suffering of late. Early-onset Alzheimers? Brain tumor? Bulging aneurysm? Depression? Let us know. You don't have to suffer in silence. We're like a big, happy family here!
Anyhoo, I didn't say you did use ghostwriters.

Unless, of course, this is Issykitty.In reply to this comment by dystopianfuturetoday:
You are pathetic. I don't use ghostwriters. Stop trolling.

Uhh....folks who inject their infants with a concoction they have no possible way of knowing the properties of and how he same affects their central nervous systems (or whatever other systems they give a fuck or know all there is to about) are morons, bottom line.

"Mix it with rat poison, and it will help you live!!!"

Go fuck yourselves and have a healthy, happy family.

^"Some people may need a religious or religious-like structure to be good, but most don't."

I don't think that is why people are drawn to religion at all. All the religious people I know -- whatever the faith, including New Age woo woo stuff -- seem to be searching for a framework to view life and to give them comfort and support.

For some, that becomes extremely rigid and fundamentalist and is the source of most of the bad stuff from religion. It comforts some people to think that they have the answer and others don't.

Just as it comforts some to bash religion so hard. You know, that is just the flip side of religion -- just as rigid and fundamentalist in their belief that THEY are right.

My brother became a Mormon after going, as a tourist, to the Temple in Salt Lake City. He told me of the huge, beautiful murals in the Temple, all with happy families. Our own family was typically dysfunctional, and my brother was drawn to those images. They were important to him. So he became a Mormon.

Later, in one of the few times he tried to prosyletize me, he said -- they tell me things I have trouble believing. But I choose to have faith.

My brother needed religion to get through this life. It worked for him, he was willing to make the trade-offs between logic and faith, because he needed faith to survive. He has been married almost forty years and he has four grown children who seem to be functioning well, when other kids in the neighborhood weren't so successful.

Just because you don't need that structure and comfort, I don't see why you want to denigrate those who choose it.

And yes, yes, for pity's sake, yes, I know bad things are done in the name of religion. What I am trying to get across is that good things are also done. And I think it is pretty dang weird that ya'll don't just say "yes, some good things are done, isn't that great" and let it lie.

You realize that you sound just as whacko as any True Believer who insists you are wrong for not believing the way they do, don't you? I mean honestly. Look in the mirror and see the shared humanity. How are you different?

This is my crusade, by the way. No different than your crusade. Somehow, we have got to find some way to let others be different than us without it being some sort of sin. Sin against God or sin against logic.

I don't believe in evil or sin. I believe in humanity, with all its warts and all its glories.

Surprised he didn't shoot it. I remember reading a story about a dog that jumped out of a family's car (i don't know why they were stopped but it transpired he'd got the wrong people and they were just a nice happy family with a nice dog) and some cunt of a cop shot it.

Before all the militants clamour up - i don't give a shit. I'm pretty sure i could judge a nutcase attack dog from any other type of dog in the 5 seconds window i had between it jumping out and crossing the ground to me before it became too late to actually defend myself. Given the choice between killing one innocent dog and taking 5 seconds of a vague risk of being bitten, i take the risk and i'd want my police force populated by same. This is an offtopic disclaimer!!! Pre-emptive reply to the gunfreak militant psychopaths that we have on the sift!!! Sorry to drift offtopic!!!

"Slush Mug - happy family: take 14..."

"Please, mister, I have a terrible ice-cream headache."

"I SAID SLUSH MUG - HAPPY FAMILY: TAKE 14!!!"

Hehe - I had one of these, too. Hope the freezy part wasn't some untested chemical substance. If so, that would explain a lot...

Thanks!

In reply to this comment by Krupo:
Congrats! HAHAHAHA, the embedded audio is hilarious (in the, it sounds so "happy family Sunday outing" rather than "we will invade you"). Nice.

As is the dog.