HYDRO_CHRONIC
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i was wathchin "fear-and loathing in las-vegas"..he said the had a whole gallaxy of multy colored UPPERS -DOWNERD -SCREAMERS- "LAUGHERS" <----what are they????
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whats laughers??
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I'm not positive what they are exactly, but uppers and downers are frequently used for pills (amphetamine for uppers, benzos/opiates for downers) so it would seem that screamers and laughers were some kind of pill also. But I don't know of any pharmaceutical pills that would cause screaming or laughing. Going from just the term laughers not taking into account that it's probably a pill I'd have to say mescaline or nitrous oxide. Nitrous oxide makes people laugh, and is known as laughing gas. I ended up smiling and laughing my ass off the first and only time I've done real mescaline.
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PhreeX
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I call for a moritorium on all "Fear and Loathing" posts... anyone back me on this?
Here here, I vote "Aye". Who the hell knows what he ment by laughers? Its just a god damn movie. If you need to live your life based on fear and loathing and do everything they do in the movie, including adrenachrom, well, you got some problems then.
HYDRO_CHRONIC
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fuck it never MIND THEN,if ya just want to say "its just a movie" ...then lets saY "smack" is "noting"...cuas they mention it in FEAR AND LOATHING.....it was just a question,...DAMN.
i have necver heard of laughers so i posted and ask ...!!!!!?
i have necver heard of laughers so i posted and ask ...!!!!!?
PhreeX
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Aight, this will be the last "Fear and Loathing" post allowed... so yeah, this thread will remain open until it's answered or is burried... but we have a new policy on the books now....
HYDRO_CHRONIC
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damn ,WHY??...i searched anhd did not get a result for laughers!!,,,so i asked an people posted like ass holes!
i i was just wondering!!
i i was just wondering!!
PhreeX
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You need to chill the fuck out my friend! You asked, and I could have said "no more fear and loathing" then closed your post - but instead I created a new policy and left your thread open, so that someone MIGHT give you an answer to your question... no one has been an asshole, but all of us regulars are getting sick of these "Fear and Loathing" posts...
HYDRO_CHRONIC
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chill out ??,OK !!
i didnt get out of hand in the first PLACE!!
if ya dont know say so!!
if ya dont care ...SAY SO
if ya want To close cause you think you dont think it is worth while GO AHEAD!!
what if YOU were in my shoes HUH ,i used the search and got nothin,so i posted!!
AND YOU!! said yourself " if ya cant find it in the search POST A QUESTION!!)
i didnt want caus trouble i just wanted a answer!!
instead of its "A FUCKING MOVIE"
...simple as that....
i didnt get out of hand in the first PLACE!!
if ya dont know say so!!
if ya dont care ...SAY SO
if ya want To close cause you think you dont think it is worth while GO AHEAD!!
what if YOU were in my shoes HUH ,i used the search and got nothin,so i posted!!
AND YOU!! said yourself " if ya cant find it in the search POST A QUESTION!!)
i didnt want caus trouble i just wanted a answer!!
instead of its "A FUCKING MOVIE"
...simple as that....
HYDRO_CHRONIC
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never mind ,i asked caus i didnt know!!
..close it i dont care
..close it i dont care
Ketamike
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I'm baffled at the hatred you Mods have for questions pertaining to that movie? It's been a long time since i saw someone ask about Adrenocrome (maybe it does make you trip if it's from a living/human body... I doubt the shit you can buy online comes from that source). This isn't an everyday thing,(like what's the best way to cook K). I thought it was a fine question. Maybe you should extend your new stupid policy to banning all Fear and Loathing quotes in signitures. Go ahead... Flex those muscles
To the original poster:
Hunter Thompson was a literary genius. His words are ingrained in your brain because he has a style that truly captivates the audience (especially us dopefiends). Like the bible... this book/movie is open to interpretation. I've heard of people Screaming "WHOO!! WHOO!!" after smoking some dust. Maybe the "PeaCe Pills" from the 60s were in his kit bag. I'd rule out the laughers as mescaline,since he mentions it about three lines above. Could be anything. Back in the day, people were making all sorts of designer drugs that could have all sorts or effects, and since he was 'the common street-freak, eating anything handed to him', he might have had some goodies that will never be mentioned on Erowid.
BTW... what's he smoking out of the lightbulb, that gives the user a sense of floating? That bulb was fucking dirty... many a shard of glass? Crack maybe? DMT? Nobody knows. Shit, Gilliam probably just added that to the screen play cuz it looks hard-ass to smoke something out of a lightbulb.
"What's with all these bars of soap"
"I just want to stay clean."
To the original poster:
Hunter Thompson was a literary genius. His words are ingrained in your brain because he has a style that truly captivates the audience (especially us dopefiends). Like the bible... this book/movie is open to interpretation. I've heard of people Screaming "WHOO!! WHOO!!" after smoking some dust. Maybe the "PeaCe Pills" from the 60s were in his kit bag. I'd rule out the laughers as mescaline,since he mentions it about three lines above. Could be anything. Back in the day, people were making all sorts of designer drugs that could have all sorts or effects, and since he was 'the common street-freak, eating anything handed to him', he might have had some goodies that will never be mentioned on Erowid.
BTW... what's he smoking out of the lightbulb, that gives the user a sense of floating? That bulb was fucking dirty... many a shard of glass? Crack maybe? DMT? Nobody knows. Shit, Gilliam probably just added that to the screen play cuz it looks hard-ass to smoke something out of a lightbulb.
"What's with all these bars of soap"
"I just want to stay clean."
justsomeguy
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recently, i ingested a fair amount of a psychoactive substance.....i waited 50 minutes, and no bats appeared. I am quite concerned that my drugs are bunk, because i am not seeing bats. What should i do?
PhreeX
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Hydro, you have issues man, you need to relax... I have been most polite with you and you continue to freak out - as I said, I have no intent of closing this post because you have a legit question and someone may provide you with an answer - I think Ketamike did a good job in speculating as to what "laughers" are ..
But it's a movie, and there are a number of things in that movie that are NOT CORRECT when it comes to drugs .. same thing with Requiem - the producers first priority is making something with entertainment value, not being 100% accurate with their information...
Now, how about you post a NICE reply to Ketamike as he took the time to answer your question...
But it's a movie, and there are a number of things in that movie that are NOT CORRECT when it comes to drugs .. same thing with Requiem - the producers first priority is making something with entertainment value, not being 100% accurate with their information...
Now, how about you post a NICE reply to Ketamike as he took the time to answer your question...
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understood,thanks for not clsing the post and a big thanks to K-mike
theLoneRadikal
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Ok, in defense of Fear and Loathing:
Hunter Thompson never claimed to be a drug expert...there was no BL in the late 1960s...back then they were sure that LSD caused massive chromosome damage and medical evidence tended towards the absolute safety of cocaine and the massive brain damage caused by marijuana. Thompson was, further, just a drug user...everything he knows comes from hearsay. We all know how dealers will fuck with a buyer..."adrenochrome" means only as much as thompson thought it meant.
A lot of people bitch about the fact that mescaline is so prevalent...the "mescaline pellets" are just crushed up and boiled down peyote buttons. Read about it in the electric kool-aid acid test.
Uppers downers screamers laughers...this is a literary device...do any of you frequently read books, or perhaps speak with oher human beings? not everything said is indtended to be factual. Most linguists would say that only about 5-15% of communication is mant to confer information literally. "Screamers and laughers" is not meant to be actual drug names, he's just going off on a wild verbal tangent.
K-mike is right...Thompson is a genius...a LITERARY genius.
Secondly...Thompson wrote the book. Terry Gilliam made the movie. The book and the movie, though markedly similar, are very different. The book, however is NOT a drug book, any more than Naked Lunch is a drug book. While drugs center in the action, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a book about the death of the "American Dream"...the death of the hopes of the hippie generation, and the success of darker elements in society and how people really caught up in the flower power revolution come to deal with it. Gilliam's movie is, quite apparently, just a movie for stoners to giggle at.
The stuff in the book, by and large, did happen, but it is fictionalized, exaggerated and distorted because it's not a testimonial, it's a novel. In the book, you read about massive credit card fraud...in fact Thompson got in an awful lot of shit for doing this, and shortly afterwards attempted to go clean...you read all about it "fear and loathing: on the campaign trail '72", which is by far the best, most intensive best bit of journalism you will ever read. Gonzo journalism is a beautiful thing.
This is what you get when people who've not graduated from high school or been sober enough to absorb any of what they have been taught. DON'T TAKE FICTION LITERALLY. If you want facts look in history books and medical journals and boards like this designed to disseminate facts.
If you read or watch fear and loathing and only wonder about drugs, then look at your own life and start thinking about why it is that you ony read into drug references.
I'm disappointed at the mods' unreasoning hatred, but this is NOT the board for talking about Fear and Loathing, isn't there an arts and media board out there or something?
Hunter Thompson never claimed to be a drug expert...there was no BL in the late 1960s...back then they were sure that LSD caused massive chromosome damage and medical evidence tended towards the absolute safety of cocaine and the massive brain damage caused by marijuana. Thompson was, further, just a drug user...everything he knows comes from hearsay. We all know how dealers will fuck with a buyer..."adrenochrome" means only as much as thompson thought it meant.
A lot of people bitch about the fact that mescaline is so prevalent...the "mescaline pellets" are just crushed up and boiled down peyote buttons. Read about it in the electric kool-aid acid test.
Uppers downers screamers laughers...this is a literary device...do any of you frequently read books, or perhaps speak with oher human beings? not everything said is indtended to be factual. Most linguists would say that only about 5-15% of communication is mant to confer information literally. "Screamers and laughers" is not meant to be actual drug names, he's just going off on a wild verbal tangent.
K-mike is right...Thompson is a genius...a LITERARY genius.
Secondly...Thompson wrote the book. Terry Gilliam made the movie. The book and the movie, though markedly similar, are very different. The book, however is NOT a drug book, any more than Naked Lunch is a drug book. While drugs center in the action, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a book about the death of the "American Dream"...the death of the hopes of the hippie generation, and the success of darker elements in society and how people really caught up in the flower power revolution come to deal with it. Gilliam's movie is, quite apparently, just a movie for stoners to giggle at.
The stuff in the book, by and large, did happen, but it is fictionalized, exaggerated and distorted because it's not a testimonial, it's a novel. In the book, you read about massive credit card fraud...in fact Thompson got in an awful lot of shit for doing this, and shortly afterwards attempted to go clean...you read all about it "fear and loathing: on the campaign trail '72", which is by far the best, most intensive best bit of journalism you will ever read. Gonzo journalism is a beautiful thing.
This is what you get when people who've not graduated from high school or been sober enough to absorb any of what they have been taught. DON'T TAKE FICTION LITERALLY. If you want facts look in history books and medical journals and boards like this designed to disseminate facts.
If you read or watch fear and loathing and only wonder about drugs, then look at your own life and start thinking about why it is that you ony read into drug references.
I'm disappointed at the mods' unreasoning hatred, but this is NOT the board for talking about Fear and Loathing, isn't there an arts and media board out there or something?