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[SKL]

SKL's fashion advice for the discerning lot rat

Google image search: trill clothing

10/10 would buy for my chick to be seen on lot with her.
maybe not the handbag. something in hemp or whatever that guatemalan looking shit that every hippie has a hoodie made up of but yeah, heady. pair with a flatbrim cap with the appropriate hippie pins.

7/10 would wear to an EDM event

6/10 would wear to an indoor EDM event

8/10 would rock on lot with some heady hippie accessories, like one of those hippie newsboy caps with my wings stuck on just to make sure I wasn't totally looking out of place. short sleeves aren't really a good fashion choice for IVDUs though.

2/10 would rock on lot if I was either (a) 17 years old and probably on the autistic spectrum, (b) choice, (a), a few years later, wanting a sign around my neck that says "garganatuan custie, indiscreet lower-middle level suburban drug dealer, probably Bridge & Tunnel (or local equivalent), recently learned you can make money on/from lot, and likely sells overpriced shit he got off the darknet or by being custied by the California paisley mafia, sells bomamines and methylone to high schoolers and may or may not have been responsible for 1-3 fatalities in the surrounding suburbs" or (c) LE with poor fashion sense. optimally pair with flat brimmed sports cap with colors other than the team's or with generic edgy designs or something vaguely psychedelic

the lot scene is haram/10, would try to avoid GITMO

1996/2015 Candy raving for the hashtag generation? I think not.

NSFW:

Before anyone headier-than-I gets bent, this is satire.

 

[coelophysis]

Satire is such a good way to cover your humor with a blanket word in this pussified PC society, huh?

It's like the ol' "JK" after a wall of text.

 

[SKL]

Yeah, satire might be the wrong word. The fashion advice is solid, though, I think. Not that lot is a fashion show except that it kind of is in some ways. But anyway making fun of certain subcultures is almost too easy.

 

[Help?!?!]

I love the ohm symbol. It brings me such peace at times when there aren't to many.

My favorite is sacarsm. The funny kind though not angry or passive aggressive.

 

[coelophysis]

I love the ohm symbol.

Sarcasm you say, Sonnie?

 

[Help?!?!]

Sarcasm you say, Sonnie?

Uh uh I done angered Lakia!

 

[SKL]

some custie noob asking for sources

The most reliable vendor of all. 99%+ purity of just about any product you can imagine.

 

[Yeetbeat]

+1 for the above vendor. They've got whatever you could possible want.



Good luck getting them to play ball with you though.

Also cheers SKL

 

[SKL]

A friend of mine in academia went through all the hoops and ordered some Schedule I drugs from them, in pretty much homeopathic quantities to study receptor affinities and stuff like that. They literally made his lab purchase a bomb proof safe to store a few grams of product. Those people do not fuck around lol. But they have a lot, a lot, a LOT of drugs.

 

[Yeetbeat]

Fuck me that's a huge list....it's still loading in the other tab hahaha

 

[Help?!?!]

Fuck me that's a huge list....it's still loading in the other tab hahaha

The DEA is a propaganda machine.

 

[Xorkoth]

I'm back. The vacation was great, good to not have to think about work for a while (though now I'm back in the thick of it). We went to visit my parents, my girl got to meet them. She was amazing the whole time, she was helping with my dad and it definitely made me love her more. She got to see a whole bunch of young me stuff/influences, meet some friends I have back there, and we also went to northern Wisconsin and checked that out (basically the other place I grew up, on the lake). We had perfect weather there, 75 and sunny each day, which is amazing for this time of year. I gained a new appreciation for the town I grew up in, it's really quite nice and beautiful but I never really saw it that way before, but I got to see it that way through her. I drove almost 2500 miles over a week and a half. It was a nice vacation but I'm glad to be back... it's great when you really want to get back to where you live, I always do when I go away, no matter how cool where I go is.

In other news, the drummer in my band got in a motorcycle accident while I was gone, riding too fast in the rain and he broke his leg (not femur thank god), a compound fracture, a serious break. So he's out of commission for at least 3 months and is going to have to do physical therapy and relearn some stuff... it's his kick drum leg too. So the band is also on hold because he's such a crucial part of the sound (we all are). So the bass player re-booked the gigs we had lined up with the band we used to play in, with a different drummer and guitar (it's just me and him and those 2). The guitar player for this band is incredibly talented, like a very rare level of talent, and the music is different, but I love it. The guitar player is pretty unstable though, but he seems like he's been in a good place mentally/emotionally for a while. We had a practice last night and it went really well, we got a lot done. And good thing too because we have a show tonight, after not playing together for many months. But I'm a lot better than I was then and things are coming together nicely. However we need one more run-through of our set for sure. Yesterday I pretended I had a doctor's appointment so I could get off early to practice, and today I need to get there an hour before I get off work to have time. So I told my boss they saw an irregular growth on my skin and want to get it tested right away, so I can get off early again. Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do...

Good thing it'll turn out benign. Hopefully he doesn't worry too much, but I gotta do a band rehearsal and they won't let me off early without a compelling reason.

There has been a disappointing lack of [North American] PD enthusiasm for the full lunar eclipse (which took place on the day that the moon was closest to the earth for the first time since 1982). As punishment, I'm assigning homework, you should identify one flower that is in season and post a picture of it. If you're too lazy to do that, you should go out on the night of the full moon sometime and watch the moonrise (it moves very quickly), and if you can't see it, then take the time to appreciate the beautiful aura it leaves in the clouds.

I saw it, slightly post-peak because my friend had to remind me via text. It was pretty amazing, we happened to get a totally clear sky too, it cleared up nicely just in time.

I can't stand hippies but heady lot trash kids are pretty amusing and were often enough of some utility when I was still operating in that world.

Labels are just loose attempts to categorize people into groups. It's a natural thing because we like to categorize and label things, but in my opinion one should beware of forming concrete opinions about members of a "group". I know some "hippies" who I love, some of my favorite people. I have some "hippie" qualities myself and I love that about me. I also know some "hippies" I don't like very much. The same is true of any "group" of people. I try not to be instantly turned off by or develop preconceptions about a person based on my first-impression categorization of them. People are complex creatures and have many facets, and what they wear and say and the things they like are just aspects of their personality they have developed due to various factors. Maybe they identified with the "hippie" culture (I always did even as a kid, thinking about the sixties), but they're still an individual with a unique personality and range of interests. My girlfriend describes herself as a "hippie", her parents were original hippies and she was raised among a culture of the same. But it's just a loose categorization that includes the way she dresses and some ideologies, she also has a million qualities that you could attribute to other groups if you cared to do so, and the result is a unique and interesting individual who only fits into one group, and that's herself. And me too; I sometimes identify as a "hippie" but I'm many things and that's just part of it. I don't really look like it except for my long-ish hair (I'm growing it longer than I ever have to see how I like it) and beard, and love of some of the same music and lifestyle elements.

I just hung out with a girl I met over okcupid, and she invited me to a desert rave in northern arizona this weekend! finally i'm gonna meet some like minded folks around here

Nice dude. I've had really good luck with OkCupid, and so has a friend of mine. The second person I met off there is now my girlfriend... and the other was very interesting and we're friends.

Whats up everyone? Haven't posted here in a while. Hope everyone's doing good!

Just dropped 2 blotters of LSD, haven't tripped since July. I'm little nervous as always when dropping. What's with the new tripping thread, can you still post tripping stuff here?

Nice man, hope you had fun. Nice to see you post.

 

[Yeetbeat]

Ahh, it's good when you can see the future and know it's merely a benign growth also really great to hear your girl got on with you parents so well it's great when that happens, makes it feel so much more 'right' so to speak. My girlfriend actually speaks to and hangs out with my mum more than I do these days She's most of the reason I go to see them lol (they live like 20 min drive away FWIW, it's funny how relationships with parents are different depending on how close/far they live)

 

[Help?!?!]

Haha my parents..were "original" hippies as well..!

 

[Yeetbeat]

Lovely day outside too! Looking to be about 25 degrees today (so 77F) and sunny. This summer's going to be fucked though; forecast 35 degrees next week...it's only the second month of SPRING....our hottest months aren't until Jan/Feb

 

[spacejunk]

Yeah, i get a really ominous feeling in spring - the onset of Australian summer makes me feel nervous.
I'm not one for the heat, or the blazing summer (hole in the ozone layer) sun.
Spring is pleasant, but just a taste of what's to come.
Winter is pretty mild here, and my scandinavian heritage means i find it much more agreeable - but lots of people i know just love australian summer.
It has changed quite a bit in my lifetime - summer has become much more subtropical here, with most hot summer days being humid; 20 years ago hot summer days were almost all dry heat.
I can handle dry heat, but humidity is so much more difficult to escape.

 

[Xorkoth]

That show last night went SO well. Feeling great about that today, but I didn't sleep til like 6:30 and then I slept til 3:30 which left me feeling pretty weird. Also my roof started leaking in 2 places, and apparently the coast is about to get slammed with a massive hurricane and we are going to get at least a week of torrential rain, pretty much non-stop. No time to even go up and patch it, because it won't dry out before then.

 

[coelophysis]

Yeah from what I hear even if the hurricane bounces away from the coast and eastwardly like it is doing, NC up to NY will be bombarded with a serious amount of rain. Best of luck to you Xorky and all my friends of the NE.. This isn't the first I've heard of your roof leaking issues.. Sounds like its kind of time for a new roof, ay?

On a lighter note, today marks two full weeks of me being off benzos. It feels like a great accomplishment. And as my friends have been telling me, it's even more wild since I do still have a prescription on hand in the medicine cabinet but was simply done with benzos and it was time to get off of them.. They are astonished at the fact that the first week and a half or so was pure torture and that I never caved knowing fully well that relief was only a few steps away.. But it was never about that for me, it was only ever about getting this whole terrible mess I had gotten into in the first place behind me once and for all.
For the past 3-4 days I've been feeling relatively "back to normal." Whatever that means at least. The insomnia ended for the most part. The terrible heart beating out of my chest feeling is finally gone as of 3 or so days ago, and honestly that was the worst to cope with, especially at work..I had moderate to severe hallucinations during the first week. Thinking dead relatives were in my driveway yelling at my mother whom I don't even live with, so it was a bizarre yet very realistic at the time event. I think that pretty soon I will stop counting the days and just go on about my life.. My short term memory is coming back in a way that makes me very excited. I've also been abstaining from drinking and other drugs because although I thought they were assisting me in the first week, I soon found out that they were in fact only making things worse. So right now, oddly enough, staying sober is the best feeling.. Something I'm not used to..
I have been loading up on supplements like Valerian Root, GABA, and Melatonin(at night) to help me along. I bought them on day 3 of WDs and took them all and had a terrible anxiety attack so it took a week and a half for me to feel confident with trying them again.. And now I do feel like they're helping me somewhat. Though I doubt they are something I will keep in permanent rotation or anything..

I'm proud of myself for getting this behind me. I honestly thought that perhaps I would be stuck on benzos for life because tapering was easy until I got to a certain point, then I would get severely discouraged and go back up in my doses and attempt to accept the fact that I may never be able to fully get off of them and just have to take a minute dose per day just to stave off seizures.
I have had some seizures, the bulk of them happening while I was still on benzos. I even went to the hospital because of them but ultimately I can't really afford to see a neurologist. I had what I believe to be one seizure during WDs but again, its behind me now and I haven't had one since that and I believe that kind of threat is over with now after being clean of Klonopin for 2 full weeks as of today.
I've been hooked on various things in the past. Opiates, plenty of times. Opiates though really don't hold a candle to benzos in the WD department. That alone is enough to convince me to never fall in that dumb routine again. It was my own fault. I'm not naturally an anxious person, but there was an abundance of benzos around and I got accustomed to popping one for bed time, because why not? It's much easier to get sedated sleep than falling asleep naturally.. And that's been an issue for me since before I even hit puberty. I know now I just have to deal with sleep issues, there is no real reason to medicate myself to sleep.

The doctor who prescribed me benzos never ever wanted to lower my dosage, which at the time I found hard not to take all of them when I had them and knew I could get another script, even though my goal was to get off of them. I eventually had to go rogue, knowing my doctor would never want to help me taper because where is the money in it for them at this point? Her downfall was that I would have remained a customer for other drugs that I wanted and could possibly twist her arm into giving me if only she had taken the time to help me get off of benzos. But she didn't and I had to do it on my own. And now at this point, the way I see it, that's all well and good..

 

[Thorns Have Roses]

^I'm impressed that you could do that with'em sittin' around your house like that. Good on ya, man. I want to be put back on benzos, honestly. The docs want to give me SSRIs or some shit for anxiety, and I'm getting sick of hiding in the apartment, drinking.

Labels are just loose attempts to categorize people into groups. It's a natural thing because we like to categorize and label things, but in my opinion one should beware of forming concrete opinions about members of a "group"....I try not to be instantly turned off by or develop preconceptions about a person based on my first-impression categorization of them. People are complex creatures and have many facets, and what they wear and say and the things they like are just aspects of their personality they have developed due to various factors.

I wholeheartedly endorse this sentiment.

I can handle dry heat, but humidity is so much more difficult to escape.

Hot & humid weather is the worst.

 

[Help?!?!]

^Same!