• 🇬🇧󠁿 🇸🇪 🇿🇦 🇮🇪 🇬🇭 🇩🇪 🇪🇺
    European & African
    Drug Discussion

    Welcome Guest!
    Posting Rules Bluelight Rules
  • EADD Moderators: Pissed_and_messed | Shinji Ikari

Is Bluelight dying ?

Status
Not open for further replies.
Droppersneck said:
What exactly are you trying to say? No need to get catty baby girl. We are just trying to have a civil discussion about the site and its politics. You can go back an post in TL and I will give you all the attention you desire. I promise <3<3
Click to expand...
No. You are trying to annoy people by posting divisive and inflammatory content. Even the actual words don't matter much; your goal is simply to piss folk off.
Droppersneck said:
Isnt Brutish colonization blamed for the ruining of several continents and the thousands of cultures within? Just sayin ;)
Click to expand...
The whole invasion and conquering business is definitely a two-way street, though. We didn't just invade other countries; we got invaded too. These islands are merely a convenient staging post for invading all sorts of places; you can stash supplies and get together a respectable fleet of boats, then set off all at once. Indeed, it's been said there are no indigenous Britons, just the remains of the last-but-one invading party.

We abolished slavery at home at the earliest opportunity. The steam engine was invented at pretty much the right time to take over jobs that had formerly used to have been done by slaves. And we ditched the empire once it started looking more like a liability.

We certainly have blood on our hands. And the only thing anyone can say that remotely qualifies as mitigation is that we did not fully understand how wrong it all was at the time.
 
BecomingJulie said:
No. You are trying to annoy people by posting divisive and inflammatory content. Even the actual words don't matter much; your goal is simply to piss folk off.The whole invasion and conquering business is definitely a two-way street, though. We didn't just invade other countries; we got invaded too. These islands are merely a convenient staging post for invading all sorts of places; you can stash supplies and get together a respectable fleet of boats, then set off all at once. Indeed, it's been said there are no indigenous Britons, just the remains of the last-but-one invading party.

We abolished slavery at home at the earliest opportunity. The steam engine was invented at pretty much the right time to take over jobs that had formerly used to have been done by slaves. And we ditched the empire once it started looking more like a liability.

We certainly have blood on our hands. And the only thing anyone can say that remotely qualifies as mitigation is that we did not fully understand how wrong it all was at the time.
Click to expand...

Didnt you guys rule India till like the 70s and Canada till like the 80's though?

BTW I totally disagree on your assessment of me being decisive and inflammatory. That may be how you perceive it but that is not my intent.

Also like how you have your name signed in the signature line so you dont have to type it out everytime. Alasdair could really learn a lesson or two from you.
 
Ziiirp said:
Sorry, I have to correct me : Americans are basically people of British origin, that have ancestors, that were slave drivers or slaveholder's proponents. Just to clarify my impartial position in that feud.
Click to expand...

Lots of nationalities colonised America. Not just Britain.
 
BecomingJulie said:
No. You are trying to annoy people by posting divisive and inflammatory content. Even the actual words don't matter much; your goal is simply to piss folk off.The whole invasion and conquering business is definitely a two-way street, though. We didn't just invade other countries; we got invaded too. These islands are merely a convenient staging post for invading all sorts of places; you can stash supplies and get together a respectable fleet of boats, then set off all at once. Indeed, it's been said there are no indigenous Britons, just the remains of the last-but-one invading party.

We abolished slavery at home at the earliest opportunity. The steam engine was invented at pretty much the right time to take over jobs that had formerly used to have been done by slaves. And we ditched the empire once it started looking more like a liability.

We certainly have blood on our hands. And the only thing anyone can say that remotely qualifies as mitigation is that we did not fully understand how wrong it all was at the time.
Click to expand...

You are ignoring the nuclear testing in the Australian outback during 1950's.

I mean sure you still thought cigarettes were healthy but surely E=mc2 was obvious enough to realise a few thousand soldiers (and aboriginals) were going to feel bad
 
zephyr said:
Lots of nationalities colonised America. Not just Britain.
Click to expand...

I know. But the British had the majority of the slaveholders. French emperors did not glorify that afaik. This discussion was not meant to be serious. Since that American guy here demands the exclusion of Europeans of the lounge I wanted to hint him, that he likely is just a morally depraved version of a European himself. Probably I simply didn't get the joke.
 
I like nice people.
It's one of the things i've always dug about Bluelight.
There are so many people here for the right reasons - they help and support people they don't know, listen to their problems as well as their fears - and answer the questions, with compassion and empathy, of complete strangers.

There are some amazing people on bluelight - generous and kind, who give their time - and their knowledge - to do all they can to help people they most likely will never meet.

The good folks of bluelight are the vast majority, which is why i love this community.

I don't understand why some people put their time and effort into negativity and airing their petty grievances, nor do i have any interest in trying to.

Bluelight plays an important role in drug education for a lot of people - many of whom have been (mis)informed by propaganda and urban myth.
That's what happens when you make the psychoactive drug use a taboo topic - it puts people at unecessary risk.

We help demolish baseless drug myths, and challenge the global pervasiveness of anti-drug propaganda.
We're the leading online community of our kind, a harm reduction resource that has been going strong for over 15 years, run entirely by volunteers as a not-for-profit organisation funded by donation.

Bluelight assists and helps to promote recruitment for approved academic research projects, and have ourselves been the subject of scholarly studies into the services we provide, and the demographics of people who utilise and contribute to them, among other things.

We are a large collective of highly diverse individuals with wide-ranging interests, fields of knowledge, education and experience.
Like all communities, we have our "ups and downs" (perhaps more than most, if you'll excuse the bad pun) but we have consistently provided thousands of our users with potentially life-saving information - and a sense of community to those wishing to engage with it - for a very long time, by internet standards.

Is bluelight dying? No, not at all.
 
Droppersneck said:
We are just trying to have a civil discussion...
Click to expand...
laudable. maybe that droppersneck could have a word with this droppersneck:
Droppersneck said:
I think it comes down to people getting a little bit of power feel they need to use it to make up for inadequacies in their own lives.
Click to expand...

and ask him to practice what he preaches?

kthxbye.

alasdair
 
Droppersneck said:
I thought the deal was that if we went semi private like we are now that you would ease up on the super strict social justice warrior style policies you previously tried to enforce? Maybe I am wrong but that is the way I understood it.
Click to expand...

Calling everything you do not like about the site-wide rules concerning abusive language "euro" and "social justice warrior" and censorship is immature bullshit. You agreed to the BLUA when you joined. Why stay when these rules are so anathema to your sensibilities? I'm not asking that question insincerely; I'm interested in what you do like about BL. I'm interested in what you get from a community that is entirely run and supported by volunteers when it seems you have nothing but disdain and scorn for both the site itself and the volunteers that work hard to keep it going.

Many days I find it hard to log in and cover my duties here (3 forums and senior mod). What keeps me going when I feel overwhelmed is the collective energy of all the other dedicated volunteers (many of whom have put in way more years than I) and the kindness and concern of total strangers for each other.

As far as the censorship of words goes: I worked with little kids most of my life in public schools. I couldn't say fuck or goddamit or even shit even though I swear all the time elsewhere. I didn't make it my mission in life to demand that I be able to swear at will. It came with the territory and I not only agreed to it, I agreed with it. If your right to throw around racial, ethnic and homophobic slurs is the most important thing to you, you should probably find a forum that allows for it--the internet is full of them. The BLUA is pretty specific about it and that was an agreement you made when joining.
 
The internet is full of terms and condition boxes that are ticked. Doesn't mean any one actually reads them or actually wouldn't lawyer up and fight them if you felt they were wrong. I guarantee you disagree to them on an almost daily basis. I' not exactly one to accept authority or follow rules anyway. Probably why I take illicit drugs.

I work with children too and you better believe I'll drop a f bomb when it warrants it. You need to keep it in your arsenal so that when you are really furious you can unleash it for full effect. I bet a rowdy class would poop their pants and instantly straighten up if you did. Nothing better for getting an unruly child's attention than growling an obscenity
 
second time of asking droppers. can you help us understand which part of this personal attack is civil discussion: "people getting a little bit of power feel they need to use it to make up for inadequacies in their own lives"

thanks.

alasdair
 
^^Yeah, I hear you on the first sentence, One Thousand Words, but a forum is a much different beast than say your use of itunes. The forum rules are not pages of legalese--they are hammered out (you may have helped back in the day?) by the volunteers that have always run the site as an attempt to have a site that is vibrant, inclusive and not bogged down with the usual youtube comment style of written diarrhea.

Re the fbomb around kids: You get furious with your young patients?? Or are you talking soccer coach or what? I never got furious at a class--exasperated yes, furious, no.
 
Busty you post a lot on BL, your an active member (with loads of posts) and hold strong opinions that I'm sure have a positive impact on people here. So some respect that. You spent too much time here and return repeatedly.

So why are you here, why do you keep coming back?
Click to expand...

You never answered this Busty Bra? So you may not give a fuck about my question or me...ho hum; but I'd like as I'm sure many would to know - why do you keep coming back?
 
Are you trying drive members away in a thread discussing dropping membership?

I joined bluelight to score drug connects around the world. Too honest? Perhaps, but I've enjoyed some great parties from Melbourne to NYC and London as a result. LA knows how to party too if you really must know. All safely of course, so HR does still exist.

Herb, if a kid grabs a scaplel from my hand I could ask them nicely or I can whisper forcefully to let go of my fucking hand. Which one do you think has the fastest (and safest) response?
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Top