UK - I paraded naked in Tesco on killer legal high

edgarshade said:
Anyone for a conspiracy theory as to why there is a spate of this happening? How about this one, psychotronics technology ? 8o
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i dunno, in a prudish society such as the dominant media culture in the west, nudity is equated with sex.
sex sells newspapers, and a naked, young, out-of-control female is a newspaper editor's wet dream (so to speak).
fucking stupid, if you ask me.
hippies in the 60s liked getting naked too - maybe the psychedelic drugs they took made them realise how silly our body-taboos are, and that shedding your clothes can be a liberating, pleasurable experience. i wouldn't do it in a supermarket, but then again, i'm not a "respectable BMW driver".
 
^ The British tabloids also like to print stuff about 'killer legal highs' because it outrages their readers - tabloid readers love nothing better than to be outraged.
 
so the elements of the story are
- drugs (killer drugs!)
- nudity
- out-of-control young girl
- a 'new' easily-slandered recreational drug that must be banned immediately.

yup, perfect tabloid fodder - and it follows the old titillate -> scare -> ban pattern beautifully.
people get drawn to the story by the sex angle, much more so than a regular old 'kid [goes crazy, dies, loses arms etc] on new drug' story. sells more papers too...
 
^ Tabloids manage to pull off the amazing trick of being both prudish and lecherous at the same time. The Daily Mail is the perfect example of this calculated schizophrenia - an ultra-conservative purveyor of moral panic that has pap shots of scantily clad celebs all over its website.

"Chances are you're quite smart. And you probably love to write – or did, once, back then, before . . . before the fall. Now you're writing nothing but NYAHH NYAHH NYAHH ad nauseum. You use the only brain you'll ever have to puke out endless gutfuls of cheap gossip or crude propaganda. Half the time you're wrecking lives and the other half you're filling your readers' heads with nakedly misleading straw- man fairytales. Every now and then something might come along to temporarily justify your existence: a political scoop; a genuine outrage . . . but do you build on it? No. You retreat to the warm cave of your celebrity chef shag-shocks and your tragic tot death- porn double-pagers: wasting your life actively making the world worse."

-Charlie Brooker on tabloid hacks.

Sorry for the long ass quote and for being off-topic but I couldn't resist.
 
lastest said:
I'd put money on her having had a few too many drinks in her alongside the 6-apb. She was probably pissed and someone said "hey take this!" and gave a pellet.
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…combined with this:

Termino said:
Stupid people do stupid things.
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Stupid people just need an excuse (eg: drugs) to do stupid things. It wasn't them… it was the drugs!


I know someone who said, "I lose control and don't knwo what I'm doing when I drink white wine."
Yet she still drank it… and, of course, behaved like a twat, but, of course, it was the wine.
 
highhooked said:
There is no way that was 6 apb...right??
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I can't imagine 6-APB on its own ever doing that to someone, no? In combination with something else, possibly, but not by itself even at massive doses. Now if they'd said she was parading about nekkid and carrying on on aMT I'd have found it more believable. Been there, done that? 8o 8) Truth is I reckon they've no clue what she was on, and perhaps neither has she. Nowhere in any of the articles linked to does she say it was 6-APB she was on, and nowhere does it mention a source. 6-APB is just the flavour of the month as far as the something must be done, will noone think of the children brigade goes. It's obviously on the tabloids' ban list ( probably cos it's the only one they know much about ) so anything even remotely related to incidents with RCs is gonna get pegged on 6-APB, just as we saw with Mephedrone in cases where Meph wasn't involved.
 
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^ Utterly loathsome. Now she's exploiting her bereavements as well as a 'legal but lethal' drug as excuses for her behaviour.
 
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