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    Peter Burns of 80's pop/glam band Dead or Alive dead aged 57 from a heart attack.

     

    You might remember them from their hit "You Spin Me Right Round (Like a Record)":

     

     

    He was also on Celebrity Big Brother in the UK in 2006

    Heart attack = cocaine

     

     

    some serious plastic surgery...

     

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    he/she got a tummy tuck 

     

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    ......................tummy tucks are so fucking stupid.

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    he doesn't actually but it's ok

     

    oh put a probiotic in it

    With a little trepidation, I went to go see The Faint by myself the other night. Had an awesome time even though I got a little too drunk and spent too much money.

     

    had no idea those guys were still even together, that's awesome. they're a great show!

     

    It's funny cause my probiotic pill is sitting here in front of me

  3. lol why are you both fighting me when i say that place looks fucking expensive? i think its beautiful but using fallen timber doesn't make it cheap. you dont walk up to a fallen tree with a hack saw and drag it into your rafters ffs. 

     

     

    I'm not fighting you. I was suggesting that if he used all lumber from his property and built it himself, which marf said he did, the total cost of the house would not be that high given that most of the house is made using hardwood. I didn't even know the prices of tempered windows so I priced them out just to see, and tbh I don't think he paid more than 15k for all the external windows. You can get an 8 x 3 x 1in thick dual pane thermal window glass for a couple hundred dollars. 

     

    If you look at the sheer volume of hardwood that was used for the house, the vast majority of it is free materials. Probably only spent around 30k for the rest of the materials on the house. If he did every bit of work himself then the labor is free. So not terribly expensive, and this is the most important detail to consider about it. If you buy a piece of property and have the requisite skills, you can build an amazing home for a relatively small amount of money.

     

    When you say fortune I'm thinking 500k or something. I don't think he broke 100k on this house.

     

    Anyway, marf I'd love to hear more details about it if you've got them.

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    all I think about is how she got to the point she believed she could successfully swallow a whole stick of butter

     

     

    maybe that was the first time and she just had a lot of faith?

     

     

    I'm doubtful of this. I think you would need previous experience having success fitting massive objects into your throat hole to have that amount of confidence.

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    It's quite a thing to explain to someone that weed isn't really detrimental to society. Like they view everything through the lens of alcohol which is easily one of the most destructive and dangerous drugs that exists. Not far off from meth and heroin, even though meth is arguable, because huge portions of society are now taking it in a prescription form and being more productive.

     

    I had an hours long conversation with my stepmom last week explaining how I've used cannabis and psychedelics in very productive ways throughout my life, and that I believe they would be very helpful for society if more people took part in them. It's an odd thing to explain the experience to someone that's never used any real drugs before. She also meditates daily, and a lot of people come from the point of view that drugs are "easy" and things need to require work or they will be inherently ineffective. A very puritanically based philosophy. It holds some truth though. I just find the concept that we are "pure" before we adulterate ourselves kind of naive. I think it's more like you can augment your body machine with different tools. The "purity" concept is very new agey pseudo scientific nonsense.

    1) I think the way to think about things like psychedelics is that you're going to a place, a place that you can't get to from here.

     

     

    2) I've actually warmed up to ideas of moral purity...not for other people, but for myself...I'm still a social libertarian or whatever but I think there is great insights to be found in asceticism...

     

     

     

    3) I've never seen someone get involved in meth and come out the other side unscathed.

     

     

    Oh, I'm very much an ascetic most of the time, which actually makes being indulgent that much more gratifying, but I think the idea that all drugs are pollutants is not accurate.

     

    Statistically you've seen thousands of people that have used meth and been 100% ok. That doesn't even include the people that are using prescription analogs on a daily basis.

  6. It's quite a thing to explain to someone that weed isn't really detrimental to society. Like they view everything through the lens of alcohol which is easily one of the most destructive and dangerous drugs that exists. Not far off from meth and heroin, even though meth is arguable, because huge portions of society are now taking it in a prescription form and being more productive.

     

    I had an hours long conversation with my stepmom last week explaining how I've used cannabis and psychedelics in very productive ways throughout my life, and that I believe they would be very helpful for society if more people took part in them. It's an odd thing to explain the experience to someone that's never used any real drugs before. She also meditates daily, and a lot of people come from the point of view that drugs are "easy" and things need to require work or they will be inherently ineffective. A very puritanically based philosophy. It holds some truth though. I just find the concept that we are "pure" before we adulterate ourselves kind of naive. I think it's more like you can augment your body machine with different tools. The "purity" concept is very new agey pseudo scientific nonsense.

  7. This is very interesting.

     

    http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/18/politics/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-texas-wisconsin-presidential-poll/

     

    Trump leads Clinton 41% to 38%, according to the latest University of Houston survey. Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson stands in third place with 4% support, followed by Green Party nominee Jill Stein at 1%, with 11% undecided.
    GOP presidential candidates have won Texas by no less than 11 percentage points since 2000, according to a memo accompanying the poll results. Democrats last won Texas in a presidential race in 1976.
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