If drugs were of sufficient purity..

[ageingpartyfiend]

I remember when I took too many shrooms and went into a morrisons and couldnt work out where the exit door was.

I remember not being able to find the door in the fukkin bathroom on shrooms once (well I could see it, but, unhelpfully, it was on the ceiling, then the floor etc etc)

 

[Shambles]

The workers at the local Co-Op back in Wales were so gosh darn sweet to me sometimes…

I distinctly recall being so klattered on geebee and ketamine that I forgot how money worked so just kinda proffered a handful of notes and coins at the till and the lovely lady just picked through it on my behalf

 

[Psychonauticunt]

Its only dosed at 100mics.

Which may be more than your average acid hit these days.

I dunno man, never struck me as anything more than acid.

 

[Psychonauticunt]

Theres no bodyload with DS 3.0 - with every other acid you get that shitty headache comedown.

I think if you tidy the house it makes for a cleaner trip. I always make sure I clear my shitten y-fronts from under the couch.

I have literally never got "that shitty headache comedown".

 

[Shambles]

I have literally never got "that shitty headache comedown".

Me neither. Never had any noticeable body load from acid from any source tbh.

 

[Psychonauticunt]

I remember not being able to find the door in the fukkin bathroom on shrooms once (well I could see it, but, unhelpfully, it was on the ceiling, then the floor etc etc)

Oh man :D I had that once too. Or I knew where the door was, I just couldn't operate it. I had a fucking permanent marker and shit, marking out where I was gonna bust a hole in it, until my roommate re-introduced me to the concept of a doorknob

 

[Bleaney]

EDIT: Bonus - the police helicopter was called The Openshaw Moon, and boards over the windows were called Openshaw Curtains.

When I was there, ages ago now, loads of terraces weren't just boarded up. All the doors and windows were completely bricked up!

Presumably they were all ear marked for demolition and they didnt want loads of squatters moving in, and I guess they've all gone by now. To make way for new apartments, or may have been to make way for the Etihad. Although this was well before any such ideas were even thought of, AFAIK.

It's fairly common to see 'Rusholme Curtains' nearby, which are just sheets of newspaper stuck over the inside of the windows, instead of proper curtains.. I guess some of these places could be 'smack dens', or the landlords are so stingy and disreputable they wont even install curtains for their tenants. Or the tenants are too poor to afford curtains. Could be any number of reasons, but things like that along with the all the fly tipping, make Rusholme look pretty damn rough and ready too.

 

[Ismene2]

Oh man :D I had that once too. Or I knew where the door was, I just couldn't operate it. I had a fucking permanent marker and shit, marking out where I was gonna bust a hole in it, until my roommate re-introduced me to the concept of a doorknob

I remember Philthy from Motorhead trying to leave a room by climbing through a full length mirror. Lemmy said " you'd think he wouldve noticed someone else who looked just like him coming the other way"

 

[Ismene2]

Me neither. Never had any noticeable body load from acid from any source tbh.

Never laid awake for fucking hours not being able to sleep on the comedown? I got that every time I took acid for 20 years.

 

[Perkins : Reborn]

When I was there, ages ago now, loads of terraces weren't just boarded up. All the doors and windows were completely bricked up!

Presumably they were all ear marked for demolition and they didnt want loads of squatters moving in, and I guess they've all gone by now. To make way for new apartments, or may have been to make way for the Etihad. Although this was well before any such ideas were even thought of, AFAIK.

It's fairly common to see 'Rusholme Curtains' nearby, which are just sheets of newspaper stuck over the inside of the windows, instead of proper curtains.. I guess some of these places could be 'smack dens', or the landlords are so stingy and disreputable they wont even install curtains for their tenants. Or the tenants are too poor to afford curtains. Could be any number of reasons, but things like that along with the all the fly tipping, make Rusholme look pretty damn rough and ready too.

The demolition had been planned for years, but there were still pockets of people living there. Some more recent arrivals from West Africa, some old stalwarts who wanted to stay till the end, some people who probably bought their houses for nothing and made money on the CPO. Significantly though, there was a huge hostel and a street that was notorious for some absolute hellhole 'B&B' HMOs. So by the end, the upstanding folk had mostly gone.

City had moved to Beswick in 2003, but there was little excitement about that - they were actually giving away tickets - until about 2008, when the Abu Dhabi United Group bought City and planned even more redevelopment; mostly in Beswick / Clayton rather than Openshaw, but near enough to be influential. Demolition really got going in around 2009.

The scariest part was near Wheler Street / Buckley Street, which had mostly been abandoned a few years before the demolition. You had to stand under orange sodium lights, in a minimum of two people, not knowing if some of the people around you were out to deal, out to score or out to rob you. They had a habit of taking multiple orders before coming down to serve people in numbers rather than meeting one on one. Those were the night time dealers; the daytime ones were a little more refined.

Once saw a guy score and then rip off a board that was nailed to a door before going in to smoke more rocks. Hostel guy, so they had to pretend to be clean.

Never laid awake for fucking hours not being able to sleep on the comedown? I got that every time I took acid for 20 years.

Honestly, I never minded a sleepless night on acid, but usually a steady flow of weed would get me an hour or two.

I actually enjoyed that post-acid state. We'd sleep little or not at all, and then go to old men's pubs the next day. Happy times.

 

[Shambles]

Never laid awake for fucking hours not being able to sleep on the comedown? I got that every time I took acid for 20 years.

Not really. I mean a little lingering stimulation but nothing to write home about.

I’ve benn taking acid since my mid-teens - I’ll be fifty in a few weeks - and can honestly say I’ve never experienced any significantly negative physical (or indeed mental) effects.

I’ve had acid as pure as it gets, and as “street” as it gets. I think the amounts of any impurities involved are so utterly minuscule there’s really no noticeable effect. For me, at least.

I’ve not yet sampled DS 3.0 though - never even heard of it til this thread - so maybe my mind could be changed if/when I come across it.

 

[ageingpartyfiend]

The workers at the local Co-Op back in Wales were so gosh darn sweet to me sometimes…

I distinctly recall being so klattered on geebee and ketamine that I forgot how money worked so just kinda proffered a handful of notes and coins at the till and the lovely lady just picked through it on my behalf

I can just picture that Had very similar experience at an all dayer in Finsbury Park 1987! (Acid Daze) and was, I guess unsurprisingly, tripping quite heavily on windowpane acid, oof.

Halfway through Hawkwind's truly apocalyptic set I needed liquid desperately. Staggered to drinks van thingy, managed to say 'water', got water, held out hand...she took the money n gave me a bit of change, she closed my hand round it, leaned over, got hold of my shoulders and gently turned me round before giving me the gentlest push forward. Vivid memory!

Also did similar at an all night garage in Manchester on tailk end of a mushroom trip once, but that time I just emptied a shit-ton of change into the little window-draw and managed to gasp 'chocolate' at the poor woman. She obliged. It made us feel sick, ugh

 

[GulpingBatteryLiquid]

I don' think modern cocaine has any particularly nasty cuts in it, there's levasimole but I don't think that effects the high. Most of it is like 50% pure which is decent because it's only like 70% on creation, due to it being made by south American peasants in the jungle rather than in an actual lab

If you had pure coke you'd probably just have to snort a bit less

This applies to most drugs unless they're cut with something psychoactive like caffeine or fent

 

[Ismene2]

Me neither. Never had any noticeable body load from acid from any source tbh.

You must be gobbling acid at a bigger rate than me Shammy - the thing that stopped me taking acid was that 15 hours afterwards when you can't sleep. With DS if you take it early morning you can sleep like a baby at night.

The other positive about DS 3.0 - not only was it the best acid it was the cheapest too. The official reseller Gunga Din was selling 100 for about £1.20 each. Gunga vanished with archetyp tho so now every other dealer just prices them at whatever they want. Tribe Seuss were angels - god bless em.

Gunga used to send your acid in an envelope with a pic of a gasmask and the heading "Fetish Fantasy night. Anal Bonanza!! Tickets enclosed!!"

 

[Shambles]

You must be gobbling acid at a bigger rate than me Shammy - the thing that stopped me taking acid was that 15 hours afterwards when you can't sleep. With DS if you take it early morning you can sleep like a baby at night.

The other positive about DS 3.0 - not only was it the best acid it was the cheapest too. The official reseller Gunga Din was selling 100 for about £1.20 each. Gunga vanished with archetyp tho so now every other dealer just prices them at whatever they want. Tribe Seuss were angels - god bless em.

Gunga used to send your acid in an envelope with a pic of a gasmask and the heading "Fetish Fantasy night. Anal Bonanza!! Tickets enclosed!!"

I’m definitely interested, Izzy. Will have to put my feelers out and see what I can turn up sometime

 

[Bleaney]

I remember not being able to find the door in the fukkin bathroom on shrooms once (well I could see it, but, unhelpfully, it was on the ceiling, then the floor etc etc)

I remember trying to plug pin style connector headphones into a USB socket on my computer while fucked on MXE, and it definitely short circuited the computer and powered it off. I can't remember if it completely killed the computer or not, but it was certainly far too confusing and complicated to get the computer to turn back on again at the time

I also remember discovering that typing on MXE certainly does not mix either. It's like the wiring between your brain and fingers is no longer intact, or can no longer remember how to type.

Personally I don't think leaving the house on MXE or psyches is a good idea either. Depending where you live, and on your personality I suppose. If you're somewhere remote and deserted that would be fine by me, but somewhere full of hustle and bustle, like a supermarket, God no.

I had LSD at a nightclub once and hated the sensory overwhelm of it, my friend at the time lead me to a quiet spot, which was better. Although I did take quite a strong dose of mushrooms at a gig once and quite enjoyed just wondering around with a daft grin on my face for a good part of the evening..

tl;dr computers and MXE don't mix.