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When younger I owned a 50 acre bush block that was an actual mountain with incredible oceans view on the east coast in New Zealand, my best moments was when I had absolute nothing but a can of baked beans for Christmas dinner which I shared with my dog Flash that was cooked on a open fire under the stars with lots of Mary Jane for company, I washed in the crystal clear stream including winter that had deep swimming holes and never owned knifes and forks or plates and ate of a news paper or out of the can which was also the pot and used my bowie knife for cutlery.
Eventually I did build a tin shack and purchased a generator to power my huge stereo system and would dance and shadow box to the music on full blast as the tin shack was made into martial arts studio with mirrors, stretch racks, punching bags and my dog to spare with along side a video machine that played Super Foot bill Wallace and Benny Urquidez martial art instruction videos.

 

All that mary jane shriveled your brains.

 

https://www.drugabuse.gov/about-nid...ctor/2012/09/marijuanas-lasting-effects-brain

"The message inherent in these and in multiple supporting studies is clear. Regular marijuana use in adolescence is part of a cluster of behaviors that can produce enduring detrimental effects and alter the trajectory of a young person’s life—thwarting his or her potential. Beyond potentially lowering IQ, teen marijuana use is linked to school dropout, other drug use, mental health problems, etc."

 

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The Grossest Thing on the Beach
Ever heard of a Jersey beach whistle?

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/02/plastic-tampon-applicator-beach-pollution


There's one kind of trash that Zipf, executive director of the New Jersey-based marine protection coalition Clean Ocean Action, really can't stand: plastic tampon applicators. During a 2014 cleanup of some 70 beaches, Zipf's team found about 3,000 of them. Plastic applicators are so common, in fact, that kids on the beach often pick them up, thinking they're toy whistles. "We call them Jersey beach whistles," says Zipf. "How disgusting is that?"

But applicators are even worse for the ocean once they break down. According to Susan Shaw, the founder and executive director of the Marine and Environmental Research Institute and a leading expert on the plastics in our oceans, sea animals often mistake applicator-sized pieces of plastic for food. When the plastic blocks their digestive tracts, they can starve to death. What's more, the type of plastic in applicators can break down into tiny pieces easily eaten by shellfish and other small marine creatures. Shaw's team found an average of 177 pieces of microplastic in each oyster they tested. And that plastic can work its way up the food chain. "That's pretty scary if you're a person who's eating oysters," says Shaw.

It's especially scary when you consider that plastic applicators dominate the market. Walk down the feminine-hygiene aisle of any drugstore, and you'll be hard-pressed to find a tampon with a cardboard applicator or no applicator at all. According to research provided by manufacturer Kotex, sales of cardboard applicator tampons have declined nearly 40 percent since 2013. More than 88 percent of the estimated $1.1 billion worth of tampons sold in 2015 had plastic applicators.

So why are tampon companies hell-bent on making applicators out of ocean-polluting plastic? "Our research has indicated that consumers find these types of tampon applicators to be preferred versus cardboard applicator tampons, especially in the areas of ease of use and comfort to insert," a Kotex spokesman wrote to me in an email. Other manufacturers' packaging hits some of the same notes. Tampax, for example, promises that the plastic applicator on its Pearl model "is smooth and rounded, making it super easy to insert." What's more, it adds, "contoured Anti-Slip Grip™ makes the applicator easier to hold and position, which is great for girls just learning how to insert a tampon."

 

Why are you shaking your finger at the USA, when YOUR Asia is the BIGGEST plastics in the ocean polluter there is!
Clean up your own house first.
Stay out of mine.
Good fences make good neighbors.
Keeps busy-body noses and fingers where they belong, in their own yards.

 

In Vietnam some "heads" wanted to "turn me on".
Hard sell. MJ would "broaden" my consciousness.
Kind of a "smart pill" elixir drug.
I was tempted, until they decided to go outside to watch the fire works.

"That stuff will make you STUPID!" and "I'd like to survive the year I'm over here!" were the two thoughts immediately crossed my mind.
I've never smoked or used MJ and never will.
Those 'heads" returned home sacked. Bagged and tagged.
A war zone is NOT a good place to be a DOPE (doped up)! Or anywhere else, IMHO.

 

Gentlemen I am of the strong opinion that unless we get our world populations under control there is not a dam thing we can do about Mother & Father Nature fighting back. Like many other over prolific species we are consuming ourselves out of house and home. All the man made rules and regulations, gods and religions will not stop the pay back of poisoning the climate regulator and breadbasket of earth, OUR OCEANS. Personally I don't think we have a chance in hell of preventing going thru natures re-boot and hopefully thru that process we evolve into something deserving of this beautiful planet. As a wise old friend once replied, appreciate and look after the here and now because the there and gone is not guaranteed and even if so them pearly gates could be locked to us blue earth people based on how we have treated each other and our HOME. It's a code I try to live by.

 

Would you have us emulate the Chinese and drown our newborn daughters in buckets of water? No one has been chosen from amongst our ranks to control our population nor should any one be. Every life is precious to God or there would not be so many of us.

 

The USA and Canada aren't over populated or over populating.
All the population growth in USA since 1967 is due to immigration.
Birth rate hasn't equaled population sustaining levels since 1967.
In other words, without immigration, USA population would have declined.
Over population is a third world problem we couldn't cure if we wanted to.
Short of declaring war on them.

 

Cool down Hoyt, I'm not proposing that we should drown anybody or that life is not precious. I'm just expressing my logical view of the reality of the situation in terms of our world overpopulation and how it relates to the stress it is placing on our Oceans, the result of which we will pay the price come hell, heaven and/or high water.

P.S. With that I feel it best to vacate the thread

 

Okay, I'm all cooled down. No need to vacate the thread.

If we had lobbed a few nukes when we were attacked the alleged overpopulation would not be much of a problem now.

 

If you weren't such a nice guy I'd take my ball and bat and go home

 

'Adam of Monhegan' - Jon Soderman 1981

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2eykkg_soderman-adam-of-monhegan-1981-canada-psych-folk_music

 

Friends can disagree and still be friends.

 

I appreciate nobody said "pull up my pants and go home."!