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TAKE THAT SHIT TO THE-BRITS.COM
I bet PSG weren’t invited because that cabron Perez had Mbappe & Neymar as first items on his shopping list.
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TAKE THAT SHIT TO THE-BRITS.COM
Jimster said:I am a bit meh on it. I mean, on one hand - there is always been, and going to be some rewarding red-hot European action for the top Prem finishers. This is just more of it.
C’mon, in the present system it’s at least possible for teams like Leicester, West Ham, Wolves or Arsenal to get in the champions league as a reward for playing well. And it’s not just about the rewards of winning. In US sports the penalty for finishing last is first pick of the young talent, so teams purposefully playing shit once they realise they’re not winning anything that season - literally a race to the bottom.
A nation’s best players not representing at the World Cup????
I know it’s all about greed and money but in the present system there’s hope and possibility and chance, and that’s better than shrugging, swallowing the outrage and then telling yourself that the new elite, more expensive product isn’t so bad.
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Barry White vs Al Green
Apparently Barry survived gang life and prison. I’ll assume he’d never have been such an enthusiastic singer of love songs if he’d ever had to toss salad.
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Barry White vs Al Green
billbradley said:Early to mid-70's Al was pretty fit and looked like a boxer. But getting knocked by a heavyweight like Barry has it's merits also. I'm going to go with Al though. I think he'd be able to move out of the way when Barry came after him and would put up a good fight.Young Barry White wasn’t fat though. He was slim, broooad shouldered and the megawatt smile. At Al Green’s fighting weight I go with Barry.
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Hello to the Strut
I’ll second shrooms as the psychedelic I would revisit. Compared to acid, they’re a more mellow trip and (maybe placebo effect here) feels more natural than the straight chemical hit from a tab.
I took my first hit of LSD when I was 12 or 13. Things started off good: patterns on surfaces, movement trails and enhanced colours, after a while the visuals got so strong I was no longer aware of my surroundings. A friend asked how I was doing and told me a favourite Guns’n’Roses song of mine was playing. He looked like donkey Kong to me and when I tried to focus on the music - which I hadn’t even noticed was playing - it sounded like bagpipes through a flanger. I thought he was joking. Then my friends and the room I was in were eclipsed by colours and light, and I spent a few very intense hours going through the 2001: Space Odyssey worm-hole. Falling through space, and smashing through Mariokart Rainbow Road colour tiles. After a looong time doing this, my head cleared enough for me to see the room I was in, and my brother and friend were playing Super Nintendo, laughing away and having a good trip. I looked at the screen and asked them why they had street fighter 2 paused. They looked at me and said they were playing Mariokart!
Surprisingly, I continued taking acid throughout my teens. At 16 yrs me and some school friends tripped Friday nights for almost an entire season of Ren & Stimpy - the space madness episode was a memorable one, but I handled these trips much better. We always went out once we came up. Being on the move, giving yourself new stimuli is a good way to avoid focussing on any internal thoughts for too long that, if you’re not in the right frame of mind, could lead to a bad trip. Being around nature was also much more fun than being stuck inside the restrictive right angles of a room. Another lesson we learnt: avoid socialising with sober people. Going to a bar on acid only makes you suspicious that somehow everyone around you can see/knows you’re tripping and innocent comments from them can seem to have strange subtexts... because the best part of tripping for me was doing it with friends and the philosophical discussions you’d have together, the empathy forged from sharing the same crazy experience.
The last time I took acid I was around 20, and felt completely in control throughout. We hung out with other friends who were sober, broke into a shut-down school and played basketball in a dark gymnasium, and mellowed back into sobriety with a few spliffs. Since then I’ve not really felt the need or temptation to do it again. For one, you have to be prepared to strap yourself in for 8 hours or so. There’s no stopping the ride if you’re not enjoying where it’s taking you. But I feel like I’ve run the gamut of what trips can be like from insanely psychedelic to just a pleasant diversion, I’ve had all those conversations about interconnectedness and how things seem to hold so much significance you burst out laughing until you cry. Think I’d do shrooms again given the right conditions, or a nice hit of MDMA.
