Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@Morpheel But... but... it's the legal versions...

All kidding aside though, never had the desire or need to use any of that stuff. I just use common sense, which works best for me. Healthy diet, bit of regular exercise, and a good night's sleep is all that anyone will ever need.

@Anti-Matter - Yessir, I remember that cartoon well. It’s based off the Tromaville movie, which is a super low budget comedy horror. I believe it was one of George Clooney’s first movie roles. Did you ever watch the Toxic Crusaders cartoon? It’s based off the Troma Toxic Avenger film series.

@ThanosReXXX - Yeah, early CGI was really obvious, but these days it’s pretty amazing. Haven’t seen any of the live action Disney movies, but the trailers are remarkable.

CBD oils come from the hemp plant, which do not contain any psychoactive qualities. It’s legal in most states here. My wife occasionally recommends it to her patients. We usually have a bottle on hand. I occasionally use it for pain relief, but it makes me incredibly sleepy. It’s a great option for people with sleep disorders. It can be vaporized, but I don’t mess with that anymore and just ingest a few drops when I want it. The parking lot deals I mentioned were for oils containing THC (and other, more hardcore psychoactive substances). I’m sure you’re aware of all this living in one of the world’s most well known recreational cities, though I know you do not dabble.

Funny you mention the frankincense, I used it a lot because I didn’t grow up going to catholic mass, but my use has tapered off significantly since the funerals of my veeery catholic grandparents. It’s weird to sit in my living room and smell their funerals! It’s a smell that sticks with you.

@ThanosReXXX @bimmy-lee Thanks, for some reason I always blanked on the name when I would smell it. I said the word Mass and three people looked at me like I was an alien there.

As for the funeral smell, that’s just lemon masking the formaldehyde 😛. Oh, and speaking of death smells... you know how some folks say that old people have a strange natural odor? That’s the smell caused by the breakdown of lipids in the skin. It is quite literally the scent of (cellular) death.

I like Troma films too. Nuke ‘Em High cracks me up. I had a Toxic Avenger action figure as a kid when the cartoon came out, too. The fact that it had a cartoon boggles the mind.

@HobbitGamer - I had some of those figures too. Mind boggling that a B horror series focused on gore and titillation was transitioned into a Saturday morning cartoon. I’m really creeped out now about the breakdown of lipids because my entire house was soaked in “old man smell” before I got the ducts cleaned. Pretty sure I was just breathing essence of old guy then. He’s in my lungs! I was traumatized by the sudden death of a young family member over a decade ago, and my mind now associates the smell of any and all flowers with his funeral. So weird. I don’t think I’m ever going to shake it.

@bimmy-lee Haha, no, I don't dabble. Or at least not anymore. My coffee shop visiting days are a thing of the past, several decades ago...

But yeah, I do know the difference. This, however, was the only legal info I could show here, but there are all kinds of shops, as you will probably know, which use parts of the original product, or all of the original product, to make all kinds of things, even clothes, made from hemp. Go figure...

Haven't seen much of the Disney movies either. Only Dumbo, which was okayish, I guess. The Lion King looks a heck of a lot better. Probably also because the animals are actually real, and not flying elephants.

@HobbitGamer Erm... thanks for the creepy details, I guess?
Over here, a lot of old people either just smell like tobacco, booze, pee, or like they've bathed in a tub of cheap cologne.

Don't get me started on formaldehyde, though. I used to date a girl who was studying to become a surgeon, and obviously, the practical courses, among other things, consisted of cutting into corpses and so on. Suffice to say, that I didn't really want her hands anywhere near my face, when she just came home from class. She really ran with that, though. Her favorite prank was creeping up behind me, holding her hands over my eyes and saying "guess who". Still grosses me out thinking about it...

I grew up with two doctors, the "hospital smell" is quite nostalgic.

@Morpheel I don't equate a hospital smell to formaldehyde or, as @HobbitGamer put it so eloquently, "death smells", though.

My dad is (or was?) a surgeon, and mom used to be permanently stationed in the ER room. They came home with all kinds of hospital smells, trust me.

On the subject of death smells, there was once this time my mom had to check an old farmer lady with severe pain. According to her, just pushing down on her belly, with her clothes still on, was enough spread the noxious aroma of fermented sweat and abandonment.

Also as a piece of unnecessary trivia, on her birthday last year, one of her regular patients sent her a detailed -unsolicited- picture of their poop. During dinner. Needless to say she doesn't share her phone number anymore.

Oof, do you know what was in her stomach? Rot? My wife’s patients sometimes want to text or email her pictures of their BMs. As if in depth descriptions of them at their visits aren’t enough. People are crazy.

@ThanksReXXX - I had a pair of hemp Adidas shell toe shoes in high school. They were indestructible. Wore them for years and eventually moved on solely because they just got too funky after an abnormal amount of use for gym shoes.

The first one, I'm not sure it was a few years ago.

The second one, it just was just slimy unhealthy-eating poop.

Uh, safe to assume “eating” is a typo? Probably (hopefully) meant “looking”?

@ThanosReXXX Wait, you just put "essential oils" in quotes when talking about local stores that sell them...so.......

“Essential” means hard and “oils” means liquor.

@Morpheel Anyone trying to "vape" booze is in for some other fun...

"vape" means shots.

@Morpheel
Oh, gosh.... 🙄
We got an user NikBoToon keep continuing his insanity about mini console obsession and his posts on mini console thread became more..... Absurd.

He didn't even listen to other user nor even directly respond to other user. He keep spamming his ridiculous posts about mini console possibilities and same questions again and again. Did he even read the Rules of this community to not post unnecessary posts ?

I'm afraid he is a spammer that completely ignore the rules on this website. Could you talk with him and remind him to not post excessive posts with unnecessary things ?

No! That thread is solid gold. We should just stay out of the way and observe.

“Observe” is “Hobbit, go play”...

Hey leave our mini consoles thread alone. It has great ideas

You would love it Hobbit! I just looked, it’s incredible.

@1UP_MARIO - Sorry if this has been addressed, but since this console is spherical, can I use the console itself to play Wii bowling, and will it be sturdy enough to use in actual bowling?