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Snoo V7 - ah spring, has sprung, a SNOO! (bless you).

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New snoo thread for the old one was outdated and buried deep in the past.





Snoo-A hot cup of steaming white tea, sweetened with three teaspoons of lime blossom honey, topped off with a little freshly picked and chopped lemon balm from the garden, added during brewing for a lovely hint of citrus, on a cold autumn night, standing in the kitchen munching custard donuts over an opened oven, turned up to maximum to warm myself as I eat, drink, read the paper and pack a bong before popping upstairs for a quick shot of an OC80 with just a little methiopropamine and a 100mcg dose of clonidine added to the shot.

With, methinks, a little nip or two of chilly cold vodka to stave off the cold of the night and smoothe any rough edges (if any) off the pseudo-speedball.

Shouldn't think the MPA will give me any disturbance of sleep, with the clonidine mixed in, and the oxy itself, but if it does, of course I'm just about to go have a bong of the newly reformulated 'king cobra' smoking mix, pretty potent stuff it is too by all accounts, and I have sedating antihistamines, chlormethiazole and gabapentin waiting in the wings if needed.

Just the thing to bring tonight to a close.





Another snoo:

Wearing a good set of water and weatherproof leather combat boots, wrapped up in my warm leather trench; heading out into the forests at about 8:30am, scouring the duff for mushrooms, walking, blazing bongs, with a thermos of steaming white chai, eyes peeled to the ground, up trees, round logs, any likely spots for delicious edibles popping a careless fruitbody aboveground, and if its a good day, not coming home until darkness starts making picking impossible, coming home, cleaning my prizes, slicing, chopping, tossing in a pan of butter, with some bacon grilling. Throw it all together. Munching a delicious plate of fried mushrooms that I worked for hard myself...heaven.
 
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Go on then, we'd have needed a new one in three more pages anyway and that is pretty awesome snoo ;)
 
Wearing a good set of water and weatherproof leather combat boots, wrapped up in my warm leather trench; heading out into the forests at about 8:30am, scouring the duff for mushrooms, walking, blazing bongs, with a thermos of steaming white chai, eyes peeled to the ground, up trees, round logs, any likely spots for delicious edibles popping a careless fruitbody aboveground, and if its a good day, not coming home until darkness starts making picking impossible, coming home, cleaning my prizes, slicing, chopping, tossing in a pan of butter, with some bacon grilling. Throw it all together. Munching a delicious plate of fried mushrooms that I worked for hard myself...heaven.

I'd shit myself if I was out for an early morning walk in the deserted fields and came across you in that get up:)

A good snoo indeed. I was thinking the other day how in France & Italy (and I'm sure lots of other places) mushroom picking is normal, but we don't here which I don't understand. There you can go into a pharmacy to get your mushrooms ID'd for safety. I was in Italy one year about this time and in the village I was in residents who'd been picking would leave little piles of mushrooms dotted around on neighbours doorsteps, you'd see them there in the morning.

I want to find ceps and chanterelles, I need to find someone to learn from.

My snoo is 5 lbs of sloes wrestled from the prickly hedgerows ready for sloe gin & vodka.
 
Erm... 'late autumn'?

Did I miss something here? Autumn begins at the Equinox, doesn't it?

This is akin to starting a high summer thread in March! Sorry to be point that out here, but y'know...
 
This being the snoo thread, and because I can't be arsed to change the title, I am going to assume it means that the autumn snoo thread is late :D
 
Wouldn't that be the 'overdue autumn thread' though?

Can't see how it's late when autumn's due to start in four days' time, but hey. I'm just a schmuck who cares about these things quite a bit.

Blame it on being raised by witches.
 
Excellent, witches it is then :D

I generally don't pay attention to seasons, apart from summer if it's hot and winter if it snows.

Snoo for me is the house to myself all day, drugs, and a magnum for breakfast. Live fast.
 
Got to tesco, as expected there was a special GTA V display stand at the end of an aisle; as feared completely bare. Went to main PS3 games area, GTA IV on sale for £12 but no V. Checked XBOX section just out of curiosity, barren. Moped about for a bit in case there was one lying about in the wrong place. Then did mundane shopping, crestfallen.

Trolley full, decided to ask when they were getting new stock in. "Oh we've got loads in, I've just not put it on the shelves yet." Snoo! £38 poorer, one "have to get home quick" excited feeling richer. PS3 brought back in from the cold. Game loading. Must go :D
 
Geeky Snoo!

This may well bore the living daylights out of some, but I call it a snoo because it's always nice to make something yourself that really works. I've been doing some experiments with electronics ..... building the "Pocket Particle Accelerator" (*) portable valve amplifier, designed to be powered from a 6V rechargeable battery and connect to a mobile phone, MP3 player or pretty much anything with a headphone socket.

These are some pictures of the last round of testing, before it's ready to be cased up:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/93859399@N00/sets/72157635634357865/

It works really well, pushing the best part of a watt into a 10 cm. speaker, with a nice full sound and no audible distortion. Next thing to do is to get some plywood, and build a suitable case to house the speaker, battery, the two transformers and the circuit boards that make it all work; and strategically positioning some ventilation slots to allow the all-important valve to be seen!

(*) This is, alas, a slight misnomer. The Pocket Particle Accelerator will not be strictly pocket-sized. But it contains a pentode valve, which most assuredly does accelerate particles.
 
A project like that should use galvanometers and CRT oscilloscopes, DISAPPOINTED.

The circuit boards are perfect, chocolate brown with massive tags. Bet they smell correct too.

And the speaker with the crushed dome, bonus points!
 
I would also like to see a rheostat bolted to a wooden board rather than the 80s "pot" in 90s white plastic.

2409rheostat.jpg
 
I generally don't pay attention to seasons, apart from summer if it's hot and winter if it snows..

apart from this year, for the preceeding 7 years we didnt have the proper 4 seasons. It was cold for 6 months and then it rained for 6 months. Thankgod this year has been different, although winter seemed to turn into Summer overnight, i shouldnt complain about that, but things are getting very weird waether/season wise.
 
Got to tesco, as expected there was a special GTA V display stand at the end of an aisle; as feared completely bare. Went to main PS3 games area, GTA IV on sale for £12 but no V. Checked XBOX section just out of curiosity, barren. Moped about for a bit in case there was one lying about in the wrong place. Then did mundane shopping, crestfallen.

Trolley full, decided to ask when they were getting new stock in. "Oh we've got loads in, I've just not put it on the shelves yet." Snoo! £38 poorer, one "have to get home quick" excited feeling richer. PS3 brought back in from the cold. Game loading. Must go :D

thats the last we'll see of you for a month then :\

You know with these games that look so fuckin fantastic, do you actually have much control over what goes on, i mean on some nights out that have flopped ive watched 'friends' play arcade games, and though they looked awesome it felt more like watching a film than playing a game. I havent moved on since GTA1 and Starcraft and it shows. I waste far too much of my time on the net as it is, if i was to get back into gaming i would never get anything done, probably never leave the house, except to get more food.
 
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Well, GTA V starts off in "story mode" and you don't have much control in that phase. You have to do stuff, but it's not hard, and there is no way to diverge from the set story. It sets a scene and lets you get used to the controls. That lasts about 20-30 minutes.

The main game, you are totally in control of your character, you have full freedom to dick about randomly in the virtual world. But as time goes on various missions become available and if you follow a mission, you're interacting with other characters playing essentially pre-defined roles; and you can't go "off-piste" in a mission, or at least not very far off-piste, but you're not necessarily forced down exactly the same path every time you play a mission; if you go too far "off-piste" on a mission, you fail the mission (a mission might be some sort of "pursuit", or "flight", so either you get caught or someone escapes) and you get a chance to try again, so the mission sections do restrict you, but only during the mission, and it feels completely natural and seemless.
 
You know with these games that look so fuckin fantastic, do you actually have much control over what goes on, i mean on some nights out that have flopped ive watched 'friends' play arcade games, and though they looked awesome it felt more like watching a film than playing a game. I havent moved on since GTA1 and Starcraft and it shows. I waste far too much of my time on the net as it is, if i was to get back into gaming i would never get anything done, probably never leave the house, except to get more food.

That's the way I look at it really. I find it really difficult to get absorbed by contemporary videogames, and I used to love 'em when I were a lad.

I went through a retro gaming* / emulation phase for a short while, then it became trendy so I stopped. Fuck that.


*I even associate that word, 'gaming' with my loss of enthusiasm for videogames. I mean, come on - gaming? Nobody used that word in the context of computer games back then. If they did, they would've been instantly battered.

Yes, I'm feeling curmudgeonly today.
 
I think the "gaming" moniker had to be invented when the kids who played games refused to stop playing them when they grew up, cos only kids play games. Adults game. According to marketing people. It helps those adults, who feel they should have grown up and can't be associated with childish things like "playing games", to justify it to themselves.
 
I think the "gaming" moniker had to be invented when the kids who played games refused to stop playing them when they grew up, cos only kids play games. Adults game. According to marketing people.

Yeah, that's exactly it. :D

Once it became an acceptable bourgeois pursuit and a highly profitable industry, the writing was on the wall.

Once upon a time, you knew that games were 'designed' and programmed by spotty bedroom-bound sociopaths. Nowadays they're designed by committees of accountants and marketing gurus.

Bring back Dominik Diamond's dick jokes and poorly-rendered naked women.
 
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