Archive for the 'Rants' Category

Thinking your way to Retardation

Posted by Ask A Pothead on June 6th, 2006

Okay, you “deep thinkers” out there, pay attention. You’re fucking retarded.

I don’t need to hear some shit like, “In the face of adversity, I persevere because I must. It’s inner strength, a born trait, and only the strong –” blah, blah, motherfucking blah. Melodramatic presentation of bullshit philosphy — which is, by the way, rehashed seven ways from Sunday (a saying that NEVER made sense) — makes my anus bleed.

Understand something: I’m not attacking people who truly are deep thinkers, only those melodramatic, quote’s-a-plenty, balls-in-a-basket fucktards who are know-it-alls with a bit of knowledge, and a slightly enhanced vocabulary. And might I add, these types tend to use the words they know incorrectly, leading me to all kinds of giggles.

The reason I’m bitching about it is because of late, I’ve had to endure this shit on a consistent basis. I don’t think that I’m a beacon of pholosophical musings, but God damn it, I’m no slouch in the brains department, and I know wise when I hear it. However, I’ve been on the listening end of a wiseASS who’s wind is longer than an elephants dick.

All of you know the type, too. I know you do. They’re the ones who give the unsolicited (and ultimately useless) advice, in that condescending tone with that shit-eating grin, while you’re sitting there with your mouth slightly open, drooling. You’re not wowed into silence by their insight; rather, you’re a few points lower on the ol’ intelligence quotient for having listened to their nonsensical droning. Not only that, but your self-esteem is in the shitter because THESE are your peers. Guilt by association, after all.

Here’s a little pep-talk for the rest of us: Let the shit roll, and don’t listen. Or listen, for a laugh.

It’s those who revel in silence who tend to have the most to say.

Written by Fuzzball

Everyone is Special

Posted by Ask A Pothead on May 31st, 2006

What happens you decide to go one Sabbatical not the religious type just a break from the pot. First of all you become more lazy and apathetic than usual. I’m a lazy and apathetical person to begin with, I sit here all day long trying to pick fights on the internet, it’s similar to the Special Olympics. It’s kind of retarded and everyone’s a winner, with the major difference of nobody gets a medal.

They should hand out medals to everyone for everything, they give you chips in A.A. You’ve been sober now for a week here’s a chip. What if A.A. chips were a publicly traded form of currency. I think we would have a lot less alcoholics, or more recovering ones at that. Every time someone says something profound we should give them a medal, and they should get two if they never graduated high school. Here’s a medal for being you, everyone should feel special for at least one day. So today you are special here’s your medal.

What happens when we throw cookies into the mix? Complete and total anarchy that’s what, so we would have to give out cookies no one likes, like those one’s that are similar to fruit cake but not quite. I don’t really understand everyone’s beef with fruit cake. It’s not that bad, I think people give fruit cake a bad reputation because it doesn’t ever go bad, if it could retain it’s moisture like Twinkies I believe it would be a nationally traded commodity. If we could develop a fruit cake that would retain it’s moisture, we could send one to every country that’s pissed off at us right now with a letter that says, “Sorry that was our bad, here have a fruit cake and a medal. Today China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Most of the continent of Africa, Korea, Russia, and even you France, you are special today.”

See this is what happens when I go on Sabbatical I believe all our nations problems can be solved with nice letters, a fruit cake, and a medal. The other option is to rise up as a nation over throw King George II and send all of those countries a letter saying, “Yeah we know, that guy was kind of a dick, sorry our bad, here have a fruit cake and a medal, today we are all special.”

So no more Sabbatical and stop following me you damn government agents. Because Today We are All Special.

Written by Handsome Rob, AKA Tokey The Bear

Price Gouging! Don’t be a victim of stupidity!

Posted by Ask A Pothead on May 10th, 2006

This one is pretty good, I am also working on one about what your drink says about you. It should be good.

Convenience over intelligence

Okay people, time to come out of your advertising driven mindless consumerism for a second.

Some of you are buying water at convenience stores, and pop machines at pop prices. $1 for 12 oz of water, you have to be kidding. You complain about $3 a gallon for gas, and then pay what would be $11 a gallon for water?

3/4 of the earth is covered in water. 98% of all American household have running water, and practically every public building has a water fountain between the Men’s and Women’s restrooms.

With all of this water readily available, why would anyone have to purchase water out of a vending machine??

“But Jay Kay what other easy solution is there when I need to drink water?”

Well they make literally thousands of items able to carry water, from the camelback to the canteen. Used bottles, for example don’t even have to be purchased. You can fill any one of these items straight out of the tap, and place them in your refrigerator, then when you pack for work, the gym, or school you can grab one, and enjoy fresh water at the bare basic utility company prices.

“But Jay Kay, I don’t want to have to work that hard, there has got to be an easier way?”

If a container sounds like to much work, grab this cool refillable container recently invented, it is call a CUP. Fill it anywhere water flows, such as water fountains, water coolers, break room sinks, utility closet sinks, or if all else fails, the bathroom sink. Most people are within 100 feet of a bathroom most of the day!!

“But Jay Kay it is so convenient to buy water out of a vending machine”

I tell you what, I am going to set up shop in your break room, and bottle water straight out of the tap, and sell it for 50 cents. That sounds stupid, but if you would pay a machine a buck, why not pay me 50 cent to fill it up??

Look we all get stuck, and have to buy lunch from a vending machine once and a while, but to throw money at something as abundant and cheap as water is a crime!!

By the way if all other ways of getting water fail, you can drink from my garden hose anytime!!

Oh, now I am tired, does anyone want to go to an Oxygen Bar?

Written by Jay Kay

Is anything NOT Cool?

Posted by Ask A Pothead on May 7th, 2006

Trends and scenes are two things that are cracking me up anymore.

I mean seriously. I could go on “myspace” and pull up a ton of profiles that would make you laugh till you pissed your pants, then you would change them and piss those. By the time it would all be said and done you would hate me for having to make you do laundry.

I read the profiles and they consist of shit like “I have a vast soul. I love with everything that I am almost to a fault. I am intrigued by dark things but am moved by the light. I find vampires to be BEYOND sexy and I love to be bitten. There is often beauty in dark things, do you dare to see????” or “I am so industrial I stomp to elevator music” or instead of saying “thanks” it is “fangs”.

Then you got what some of us in our militia group call the “scholars” a “scholar” is someone who has to talk with big words at all times in sentences in a structure to either compensate for something or to just impress chicks. Here are some examples: Taken from one profile:

“HRmMmMmM.
Why did I make a my space account?
Pure boredom.
Perhaps so I can ramble on to myself. hehe….
color
Well you know Lindsay, maybe you should get offline and go be more productive than ramble to yourself in a BLOG. what the hell is a BLOG anyhow???
coding
Go to Target. Head to the hair isle. Then memorize the ingredients off of the sauve shampoo bottle and see if they are really the same as biologe shampoo. Then if comparible….shampoo half of your head with the sauve then the other half with biologe and see if theres a difference. If there is a difference…like one side feels like hay(sauve) and the other feels like silk (biologe)..TAKE ACTION upon that. Maybe you can form a lawsuit. That will cure your boredom and be productive..FIGHT AGAISNT THE SYSTEM.
is
Self-entertainment…doesn’t cost anything. And as the good ole’ seneca states self-isolation is healthier than being in the masses. Can one being corrupt themselves if never exposed to the “masses”? . Take a child for instance…He grows up in the woods…in a cabin with his mom and father whom were grown up the same way. Could the child grow up to be unethical if never exposed to society? I think he’d become a serial killer.
Fun.
hRm, GUESS I am sleep deprived.
OH when I stated self-entertainment doesn’t cost anything…I wasn’t refferring to the actual sauve-biologe ordeal…But the act of actually writing this :D.”

By the way…this was taken from a “goth-industrial-”dark” person’s profile” not stereo typing just giving an idea. Since I will not link it.

And can someone please tell me the EXACT difference between Goth people and Emo people. The fine line is clothing. Both their music is depressing, emo is almost repetitive, they love to cut, and they are pasty white.

If you go on to myspace yet again you will find almost everyones pictures are EXACTLY THE SAME.
-Oversized old womens glasses that are shaded (colors may vary)
-A picture of their butt
-Pictures of abs
-Them in a “risqué” picture
-The cliché “look I am taking a picture of me in the mirror”
-I am holding a beer and I am under 21
-Look…I am holding a sign that says (for example) “I <3 coheed” or “I hate you”
-I am so emo I am sitting in a cemetery having a pic of me taken and I am looking away
-Look…my cleavage
Now what really cracks me up are the “middle agers”. Still trying to hold on to their youths. Of course I am speaking in “Scene” terms. You got your vampires all dolled up in their late 30’s, guys wearing hot topic clothing resembling 46, 35 year old women trying to look 18 wearing what most “emo” girls wear, and all of this on a huge online community.

Now I have been to these places of where they are….and the fun thing from the beginning of this post to right now everyone is well over 32. Sadness yes.

If you are not in a band that is making it, a model, or whatever….it is time to grow out of that shit, get a career or a decent paying job, make some money, and move on.

Nothing like being in a bar and talking to someone and they say man…I owe this bar well over 600 dollars on my bar tab thus I work here after work to pay it off. However I am so goth.

Apparently there is a large mass scene of Emos and Goths in Kansas City….I ask…where…I imagine a small emo crowd but I HAVE NEVER SEEN AN A-C-T-U-A-L gothic scene in Kansas City. I hear of an “industrial night” at a hole in the wall bar in Down Town but I heard it is about to crumble. Why…because it is GOTH.

Then the thugs. Yes I am going to attack the thugs now. If I walk into a bar that is thugged out. I get “the stare” as in “white boy”. Ok for one I am not your typical white boy. Two I like all atmospheres, and three I smoke more weed then probably all the fucking thugs up in the “club” or whatever. So please be able to tell if it is a “white boy” or “someone like me”. However about the only thing that bothers me is the whole white guy trying to be black “wigga” whatever and the brotha that is consistently rapping at all times in other words doesn’t talk he raps.

I should go to these places take pictures and bring them here. It is funny.

Now what really cracks me up is the kids are into this shit. I am looking at all these pages and just laughing. Oh yeah…I joined the damn cult myspace. I am somewhere in Chronics list. It is you guessed it “Steve Mids”

Written by Steven Mids

Music: The Most Unspoken of Addictions.

Posted by Ask A Pothead on April 26th, 2006

Music: The Most Unspoken of Addictions. Yeah, that’s right. Have you ever thought about it? How many CD’s do you own?

Before that, how many tapes did you own? And for you kiddies, how many old school vinyl records do your parents have?

And this one goes out to our fearless founder. How many gigs of music do you have on your hard drive… Chronic?

A fuck-ton, right? Sure, there are a few people who may not be so hip as to have a 24 hour no-repeat playlist on their I-Tunes. And some people may not be big into music, but for the most part (especially amongst us potheads) it is beyond addiction.

I first realized this as I was listening to the local alternative radio station in my car. (Now I don’t exactly have a “bangin’ stereo” in my “ride”, but I did drop a grand into car audio a couple years back, so the shit can get loud, if you know what I mean.) So I am driving along and on comes Tool: Stinkfist; one of my favorite songs, so I cranked that shit up. LOUD. I was cruising and jamming out, and then it dawned on me..

My ears hurt. I never really noticed it before, but the were getting sore. So I turned down the volume just a tad. No more soreness. But then something strange happened. I had this urge to turn it back up and hurt anyway. Why was this? Well, I have done a LOT of drugs in my short life thus far, and I know withdrawal when I feel it.

And then it hit me. I am fucking addicted to music. If it is good music, and I dig it, not only do I have to have the CD, but when I do, or I when I hear the song on the radio, I have to play that shit as loud as fucking possible. So do most people (and potheads) I know.

Not only that, but buying music can be addicting. I have bought every Pearl Jam and Red Hot Chili Peppers album ever pressed. Why? Because I started buying them in high school, and now, when the fuckers put out an album, I have to buy it, or else I will no longer have “every album” of theirs. Shit, I don’t even know that I like most of their new shit

I had a roommate I had to kick out of the house because he would spend $150 per week on CD’s, even when he was two months behind on rent. ADDICTION. (And you know at $15 a pop, $150 isn’t hard to hit on a good day of CD shopping.)

And of course everyone knows this, but never talks about it. That is why so many artists have freaked the fuck out about the onset of the “music download age”. The whole music industry is based upon the human music addiction, just as the alcohol industry is reliant upon alcoholism.

Now that doesn’t mean that the old Hashmander is going to kick his music habit soon, but I may try and keep the volume down a tad. No point in being a music addict if you’ve made yourself deaf, ya know? But it is good to be aware of the other “drugs” out there. Especially when your “drug” of choice gets you thrown in jail..

So. Go out tonight, pack a bowl, roll a joint, and pick you favorite CD / Record / MP3, and turn that shit up my stoner brethren. Just make sure you don’t blow out your eardrums. ‘Cause if you do that, you’ll miss the most important sound of all.

Your buddy on your right hand side saying, “‘ear..”

Written by Hashmander

When a snickers bar just won’t cut it…

Posted by Ask A Pothead on April 23rd, 2006

Hungry:

Look have you ever been hungry? Really hungry? Ever been so hungry you ate pizza that has been sitting out on the couch for 4 days?

You know the crust is all hard, and crunchy.

Ever gotten up late for work, and skipped lunch, and your stomach growled for the afternoon?

Ever been like my friend Chronic and smoked up for 24 hours straight, with an empty fridge?

That hunger can not be expressed as hungry. It can only be described as fucking hungry, or Fungry. We have all heard of fugly, or fucking ugly. Fungry is uber hungry.

The best part about Fungry, is that it is PC. It is G rated… Because it doesn’t exists. What is FUBAR? Not in the dictionary, must be nice.

Next time someone says “are you hungry?” and “hungry” doesn’t begin to describe your feelings, say “No, I’m Fungry”.

Written by Jay Kay

Sexism, Servitude and Cereal (an expose of satirical proportions)

Posted by Ask A Pothead on April 17th, 2006

Sexism and oppression based on gender. It’s been an ongoing battle that crazy feminazis everywhere pick up as a hobby because they’ve run out of knitting ideas. Some out there think that women should hold the right to vote…others are smarter and know better. But is there validity to the idea of a female wanting to be treated as an equal to a man? Albeit laughable on initial contemplation, I did decide to do some deeper digging into this passing fancy of ‘women’s rights’.

Now, I’ll set things straight right off by telling you I am a firm believer in the well placed Christian ideals of my four fathers. Primarily, because if mom believed the same…I’d likely not have four fathers and one instead like all non-heathen little boys. It’s because of this past that I have seen the light. The concept that all morally sound, intelligent individuals are awakened to. Simply that females were meant to breed, bake and blow. Cleaning occasionally wouldn’t hurt either. I mean…seriously. All they do is stay home all day and watch soaps anyhow. It’s not like there’s a whole lot on their agenda that needs to be taken care of between meal times. Lately I’ve noticed that all these little ladies with far too much spare time have started developing ‘ideas’. Some crazy scheme to make the same pay as a man. To be treated the same as a strong, hardworking male. There are enough that I decided to break the manly flow and delve into it.

Is it possible this whole time I’ve been wrong? Could I have not seen the level of equality that truly does exist between male and female? Have I been thinking wrong to suspect that those with boobs and a vagina were given such cool toys for just that purpose? Nah. But I’ll entertain the thought regardless.

For the sake of argument, we’ll make believe that women have the same mental capacity as men. We’d have to in order to figure out why they’d get such cock-a-maimee notions. So, with that in mind. Say the female folk are ‘right’. Say they really are ‘equal’. If this is true, then how could so much history be falsified or misconstrued to state otherwise? I mean, c’mon people. Are we REALLY gonna blame it on the catholic church? Haven’t those poor folk been the target of enough accusations? Really now.

What about the governments? Did they have something to do with this heinous scheme to ‘hold the woman down’? I’d say that’s completely doubtful. They’re far too busy worrying about our well being and desperately trying to keep us safe to bother with such a trivial matter as females.

So who then do we go to in order to place such blame? Remember, we ARE attempting to think like females. That means we’ve got to point fingers for everything. And since we’ve eliminated religion and politics from being fowl players in this fantastical conspiracy, there’s really only one logical choice left.

That’s right. Breakfast cereals. I stand firm in my discovery that IF in fact women are somehow bizarrely equal to men, then it’s the most definitely the breakfast cereals we have to blame for this humoring fact being lost over the CENTURIES of documented history. Some would ask how such a deduction would arise. I say to them ‘mind your own damn business. This is MY word processor. I’ll write whatever the hell I goddamn feel like writing….’ Then I’d grumble the words ‘whiney ass little bitches’. Then probably smoke a cigarette and read some good old pornography.

Anyhow, back to the issue at hand. Kellogg, General Mills…hell, even Little Debbie. All of these delicious, sugary, snacky breakfast like goodness sources have managed to influence the minds and mental well being of humanity over decades of gender biased advertising.

Let’s take a look at what I’m referring to, shall we?

Who do we have for ‘mascots’ as far as that crucial part of our daily balanced breakfast goes? We have Tony the Tiger, Smacks the Frog, Toucan Sam, Lucky the Leprechaun and let’s not forget Count Chocula. Do we see the similarity going on here? Yep. That’s right. They’re all men. But the question is, are they all sexist pigs? I went into the field to find out for sure.

Many think that it was simply a ‘way of the times’ to have males as mascots. It’s evident that men make the only really good role models, so why not promote them on cereal boxes? I found a much darker side to this concept.

When asked about his ideas about being a ‘role-model’, Toney the Tiger had only this to comment: “Fuck those little bastards. They’re GGGRRRRREEEEAAAAT when they shut the hell up and do what they’re told. Other than that? I could care less.”

I was shocked and appalled. This loveable killer of the jungle had been a childhood icon of mine. And now. To hear such filth spew from his jowls. It compelled me to find out more.

I tracked Lucky down at a local pub where I found him slamming Guinness after Guinness and playing grab ass with all the women servers. I confronted him on his actions and his thoughts on if women were unfairly oppressed due to him and his sugar coated brethren. “Aye. I could care less what them bitchy lasses think. They’re always after me lucky charms anywho. You’d think the bloody bitches would git up and find themselves a respectable job. But nah. They’re a wee bit too busy primping and gossiping for such responsibilities. Now…if you’ll excuse me…..MISS!!! Aye! Yes you!!! Get those sweet little potato sacks over here…you think you can find me pot ‘o’ gold???” Nearly in tears from my breaking aspirations that these false mentors had bestowed me, I continued vigilantly on my quest to find truth and quite possibly end up verifying that child bearers did in fact deserve the right to vote…

Many months later, I arrived at the manor of Count Choc of Yoola. Known in his Hollywood days as ‘Chocula’. I was greeted kindly by his door maid and was allowed to believe that this kindness in association to this dream shattering story may bring hope and some way to hold on to a part of my childhood. But alas, it was but momentary. Upon entering his private chambers, my eyes grew wide in dismay. There lay Chocula….completely adorn in ‘bling’. With ‘hoes’ all over him. I screamed as a child walking in on his parents and finding out there was no Easter Bunny at the same time would. “Git yo ass outta here foo!!!! Deez MY bitches yo!!! Now let’s get back to da skee skee skee and kill us a crackuh!” was the reply given by my broken idol.

It was all true. Women really HAD been oppressed. And here I thought ‘bare foot and pregnant in the kitchen’ was just a common sense ideal. It turned out to be gender biased slandery. A broken man, I had to find some rectification. Some for of validation for those poor little women that had been ruled by the overbearing hand of breakfast cereals. The female side. There WAS a female side. I left immediately to find the one gurly sassy enough to have made her way in a world of pig headed man-toons oh so long ago. Aunt Jemima.

Weeks of asking around and finding connections led me to the ‘Naughty Nipples’ strip club in the south Bronx. Was this where I was to find the most confident of female combatants to the male role models? I nervously entered. Then quickly left. That was just nasty. You don’t even want to hear about it. Think…seriously think. She was pretty damn OLD back then. Let’s just say age does NOT bring beauty in some cases.

It was no use. I couldn’t make righteous this time in a dark and looming past. I couldn’t confront Mrs. Crocker. Her husband had put her into a coma for messing up a batch of cookies LONG ago. There was no hope.

I was forced to make the conclusion I never thought I would need to.

Women…..DO deserve to vote.

The Italian Writer for ‘Askapothead’…..a broken…broken…equal to females….person…..

Written by The Italian Writer

Only When They Lose Themselves

Posted by Ask A Pothead on April 17th, 2006

Once again, the mental state of mass society has got me confused and reeling. I can’t seem to figure out where most are coming from with a constant state of denial to themselves and this seemingly endless drive to impress everyone around them. It’s frustrating to try to find reality and a genuine thought to follow in another person, when it seems that everyone is so worried about showing the world what they only wish for the moment they could be.

I go out to interact with society. To meet individuals, hopefully find some like minded ones, and argue with the rest. I try to have a good time. Try my best to leave the more annoying side of my issues at home or for a proper time. Bottom line, I’m myself when I’m out. Whether in a bad, quiet, goof-off or sincere and grounded mood. I’m still very much myself.

As for the majority of others I see around me? Let’s just say it takes HOURS to wash away the rotting stench of desperation that I seem to collect on any social gathering I venture to these days. I suppose maybe I’m just ‘lost to the game’, or just too much of a bastard to want to ‘play along’ with it, but in my opinion…it’s just fucking ridiculous.

Why in the holy hell would any one want to base even an initial attraction or connection to someone who wasn’t being themselves, but instead trying desperately to be whatever they thought you wanted them to be? And more so, why would anyone out there want someone attracted to some mask you put on to ‘get them’ only to find out the REAL you may in fact be something the are completely set against being around?

This ‘comfort zone’ everyone refers to when discussing a relationship…I’ve noticed it’s almost feared these days. I really don’t think it should be. It’s suppose to be the part in the path of two people when total trust occurs and the stress of embarrassing yourself just melts away. Granted, we’re all human. There’s a certain amount of primping and preening expected to make one’s self more appealing. But to alter a personality itself to dupe another into wanting to show an interest of emotion towards you, well, I just find that sick, sad and wrong.

If you’re a whiney, clingy little bitch? Hell. Just tell the other person. Do you really want to pretend not to be only to have the other person pull away when they find out you’re not the confident, spirited individual they thought you were? Isn’t that just going to add to your little emo complex and make it hurt worse?

If you’re a complete jealous jerk, let ‘em know. Eventually you’ll find someone that can deal with it. But to play off like nothing bothers you…only to bottle it up deep inside and let it explode into little fits and acts of annoyances towards the one you ‘claim’ to care about, that too will only add to your issue.

Everyone just needs to be required to wear shirts that best explain their personality. Pretty much any guy from Wyandotte County would have to have something about NASCAR, physical abuse…and making them ’samiches’…and most Independence residents would require some kitchen sink meth symbol…but it’d help everyone kind of figure out what they were getting into. If you’re a raving lunatic that’s going to end up stalking me, I’d like to know the second I run into you.

Now, the worst out of all of this…when two people that were playing ‘the game’ towards each other decide to ‘attempt’ a relationship. I think it’s amusing as HELL when someone that isn’t even being who they really are claims to ‘love’ another. It’s great. Really. A great example of the heresy of romance in vivid color. I hate to break the news to society, but romantic love is actually a mutual thought. You love someone for who they are, what they mean to you and why they mean everything they do. How in sweet the sweet lord’s name are you gonna know what someone means to you…when they have no clue who you really are. This actually applies to friendships too.

For Christ’s sake people. Drop the goddamn acts. There’s enough drama on cable television. I’d kind of like to NOT worry about it when I go out to kick back and relax.

Written by The Italian Writer

“You don’t go to the bar for the food, service or drinks. You go there for the atmosphere.” Atmosphere of course meaning the girls that are falling out of the barmaid outfits. Or so I’m assuming after going to this particular establishment in Johnson County. I’d like to argue the idea behind the statement personally. The girls? Yeah. Cute. But they don’t stay that way in my mind when they continually piss me off by negating nearly any form of customer service whatsoever.

So far every single time I’ve been to this bar, I’ve not received the OFFER for a drink order until nearly half an hour after arriving. Most times after finally getting the opportunity to request my beverage of choice, I’m due another ten to fifteen minute wait on said item arriving to my table.

Some may say ‘But..but…but…they’re busy’. I tell those people to shut the hell up. I’m an ‘observer’ of my surroundings. I keep an eye on things. The only the majority of these scantily clad servers are busy doing is hitting up the potentially rich Johnson County socialites with flirts hoping for…who knows. I refuse to throw myself into a sorostitute state of mind to try and figure the rest out.

This, of course, doesn’t apply to absolutely every server at this food and drink service industry business, but it does fit in a description of most I’ve encountered there so far.

So, for those that are fed up with trying to refuel and getting the shaft time-wise, I’ve come up with a proposal on how to remedy this situation:

1. All servers at the bar will be required to where shock collars.

2. All patrons will be handed a remote control ’shock-inducer’ by a host/hostess upon entering the establishment.

3. When feeling the desire to request a frosty beverage, the patron will press his/her ‘inducer’. This will in turn send a quick, yet very motivating ‘zap’ to their particular server. This can also be used to inquire as to the where abouts of one’s drink or order.

4. As each server has more than one patron to wait on, each individual ‘inducer’ will create a different form of ’shock motivation’ to the barmaid.

5. It will be up to the server to figure out which table the particular ‘motivational reminder’ is originating from.

I’m quite confident that with this proposal instituted, we’ll either get out drinks in a timely manner….or at least be entertained in our times of parchment. Besides, I’m much more given to flirting with waitresses and leaving larger tips when I GET MY DRINKS.

Thank you for your time

Written by The Italian Writer

Disassociation

Posted by Ask A Pothead on April 14th, 2006

Noun

1. Disassociation - the state of being unconnected in memory or imagination; “I could not think of him in disassociation from his wife” 2. Disassociation - a state in which some integrated part of a person’s life becomes separated from the rest of the personality and functions independently

I have been accused many times by many people of being cold and unfeeling. People complain that if something bad happens to me, I don’t cry. If something good happens, I rarely smile. If something funny happens, well, you get the picture. I wondered about that for a while. How could they not see me cry when my heart is broken? I know I do. How do they not see me smile when I am proud? It is because I am able to disassociate my facial expressions from my actual emotions. I have been through a lot in my past and learned that what most people want to see is emotions, just so they can find weaknesses. There are evil people like that in the world. But as a defense, I learned to disassociate my feelings from everything.

Is it so wrong to keep your emotions to yourself? Granted, showing you are happy once in a while is good. Showing love once in a while is good. But why show pain? Why show anger? Why show any negative emotion? It doesn’t make you feel better, in fact, most of the times it has made me feel worse to show if I am hurt. I am a rather proud individual and to show any type of pain is complete agony for me. I hate to show my weaknesses to anyone. Why make other people who care about you worry? Especially when you can work things out yourself? Why show the person who caused the pain what they did to you? It doesn’t make you feel any better and it probably won’t make them feel as bad as you do.

I have cried in public for many things, including broken hearts. But the most satisfied I feel is when I cry for another’s pain. Take what happened on 9/11. I cried for a week and a half for the people that died in that. The innocent people. It actually made me feel better afterwards to know that I wasn’t so selfish as to sit and be happy I wasn’t in there. It helped me realize that I was a compassionate person. That I cared for others. And yet, I have recently been chastised for caring more about other people than myself. Now, seriously, how fucked up is that?

All in all, I think it is good to disassociate my negative emotions until alone. Until I have time to figure them out. I am all for showing positive emotions. But let me be me and disassociate when I feel the need. If someone doesn’t like that then why are they hanging out with me? They obviously don’t like who I am. If you don’t like me, don’t hang out with me. Everyone should follow that rule.

Written by Miko Hamano

The World’s Just Not That Into You

Posted by Ask A Pothead on April 13th, 2006

Here will be our first lesson into insight and enlightenment.

Chapter One: The World’s Just Not That Into You. A look into the self absorbed ideals sweeping mankind like a plague.

I’m sure a lot of you have heard of some book out there called ‘He’s just not that into you’, or the male read counter part ‘She’s just not that into you’. Well, I’d like to first point out…They’re BULLSHIT. I skimmed through one of these when I went over to a friend’s house. It’s sick. It’s all generalizations. Based entirely on actions with no exceptions. Sorry to say, that’s not how life works. Life is nothing save for exceptions. No two individuals in the WORLD are the same (thus the term i-n-d-i-v-i-d-u-a-l-s), so why categorize all the actions of a few into what EVERYONE is thinking? You can’t. The only way you can do what resembles this, is by ACCEPTING that everyone is thinking as themselves and should be thinking for themselves. Quit basing what one does on the other. That doesn’t mean you have to be naive and put up with shit. All it means is that don’t place the actual ‘blame’ on one for what another did to you.

On to part two. The ‘World not being into you’ part.

Guess what…it’s not. You’re not super stud man or little miss everyone loves you. Face it. Then get over it. You’re you and they’re them. Don’t expect them to take all your actions personally and on the same note, don’t take there’s as an assault against you. Be sufficient in yourself, yet not better than any other. I have the motto ‘I am no better than ANYONE…except those who think they’re better than me.’ Someone who places themselves above me, automatically lowers themselves in my eyes because they obviously feed on the ignorance that their humanity is worth more than anyone else’s. And that single blocking of edification turns their thought into the oxymoron that puts them beneath me. There is one exception to this rule: Rapists and Pedophiles. Even festering dog crap is better than those two. If you’re one of those sick bastards? Do the world a favor and rid yourself from it. You’re wasting good flesh.

If the above confused you in any way, good. It just means that you’re too wrapped up to try and understand it. Keep reading it. Believe it or not, the more you think about the parts that start revealing themselves to you, the more you’ll start to see beyond yourself. I will break it down into a less abstract version to give a spoiler on the point though.

QUIT MAKING IT ALL ABOUT YOU! If you’re one of these self absorbed snoots, you’re going to soon and someday realize this: The only person who thinks your ‘all the shit’…is you. You’re making a fool of yourself. Others may feed your ego, but I garun-goddamn-tee you that they’re laughing at you behind your back. Quit making it all about you. It’s not. Nothing life or the world presents is a personal attack or glorification of you. There’s a billion and a half other pawns scrambling around this earth besides you. You’re one of many and no more or less important than any other of ‘em. The fact that you’ve lied yourself into believing that you’re so much more DOES make you more laughable than the rest of them. But that’s about the only thing above average on your score card.

Good luck with life. Sorry it was so long, but much needed to be said.

Next lesson: Who knows. We’ll see what pisses me off in a few days.

Written by The Italian Writer

A Morning in the Life

Posted by Ask A Pothead on April 10th, 2006

Today started out like most days, that is it started with a wake and bake which, in my opinion, is a hell a fine way to start your day, (for those of you who haven’t tried it) and then off to milk my cow. That’s right, a cow. This ain’t no goat or cat that I’m milking, it’s a cow.

For those of you who haven’t milked a cow before, any trivial thing that happens to them will make them mad, and they will think it’s your fault, even if it wasn’t. This time it happened to be my fault, okay so I let her run out of water over night, who cares right? Wrong. She cares very much, very, very much, so much in fact it pissed her off. But this cow I’m milking, she’s pretty smart, she won’t let me know right away, subtly, little by little, she will start showing aggression until BAM!!! So I started milking and everything was going fine, then she started to piss, so I moved the milk bucket and quit milking, then she stopped, so I started milking again, then she started pissing again. So this went on for about five or six minutes and then she was out of urine. Ten minutes later, two of her utters were out of milk. So it was time to let the calf suck, this all went fine until I put the calf back in her pen. Then she tried to squash me against a wall. Using logic from nowhere, I grabbed on to the ceiling for support and ran over the back of her and jumped to the other side.

You should have seen her eyes, they were saying: “What the fuck? Didn’t I just… Did he just….?” I mean, they were wide man, real wide. So I’m thinking that the next time she’s mad about something, I’m going to get her high. Fuck that Spiderman shit, I shouldn’t have to be hanging off the ceiling, running over a cow while she tries to squash me. That’s bullshit, or milk cow shit to be politically correct. She needs to learn how to conserve her water, and since I don’t think that’s going to be happening anytime soon, I’m going to make sure that she forgets that she even ran out of water in the first place. I mean, this doesn’t happen often but when it happens in the morning when I just woke up, and I’m stoned, my reaction time isn’t so fast… I could have died out there.

For those of you who don’t have a cow, I don’t expect you to understand, I don’t think you’re even trying to understand. Sometimes, it’s like you’re not even listening to me, like the spark isn’t there anymore. When I lean over to hold you at night, why do you always lean away? What’s up with that baby? Anyways, as you have probably guessed by now, I’m leaving you. Shhh…. Shhh… Words won’t make me change me mind now, its over it’s… What? Oh, don’t forget my milk cow? Well, I wasn’t going to…

Written by The Enlightened One

One of those times…

Posted by Ask A Pothead on April 9th, 2006

Ever have one of those times when you’re so stoned that your basic motor skills fail to act and react properly? When you fail to perceive the world around you with precision? One of those times where your friends are laughing at you but it’s not funny, you feel like you really have a problem. Ever have one of those times when you’re smoking hash and you’ve passed the bong around about 6 times and it finally comes back to you but you forget how to hit it? You cant figure out how to coordinate the lighter with the bowl and hold your finger over the air hole at the same time and your starting to panic because you just hit it like 5 minutes ago and it worked fine then. Then you begin to think that maybe you never actually did hit it. Maybe you just imagined you did. Is this a dream? Is this a fucking dream? If it is then I’m done fucking around, fuck you guys, fuck this shit, I am so fucking out of here. I mean, you cant ask for help because if its real you have the chance of being passed up on the next hit because you friends think you’ve had “one hit too many.” You can’t miss that next hit; I mean it’s that important, even if the hit is imaginary. An imaginary hit is better than no hit at all. Then you realize your just holding the bong backward with the bowl facing you instead of in front of you. Ever happened to you? It’s never happened to me either…

Written by The Enlightened One

Everyone is Special

Posted by Ask A Pothead on January 31st, 2006

What happens you decide to go one Sabbatical not the religious type just a break from the pot. First of all you become more lazy and apathetic than usual. I’m a lazy and apathetical person to begin with, I sit here all day long trying to pick fights on the internet, it’s similar to the Special Olympics. It’s kind of retarded and everyone’s a winner, with the major difference of nobody gets a medal.

They should hand out medals to everyone for everything, they give you chips in A.A. You’ve been sober now for a week here’s a chip. What if A.A. chips were a publicly traded form of currency. I think we would have a lot less alcoholics, or more recovering ones at that. Every time someone says something profound we should give them a medal, and they should get two if they never graduated high school. Here’s a medal for being you, everyone should feel special for at least one day. So today you are special here’s your medal.

What happens when we throw cookies into the mix? Complete and total anarchy that’s what, so we would have to give out cookies no one likes, like those one’s that are similar to fruit cake but not quite. I don’t really understand everyone’s beef with fruit cake. It’s not that bad, I think people give fruit cake a bad reputation because it doesn’t ever go bad, if it could retain it’s moisture like Twinkies I believe it would be a nationally traded commodity. If we could develop a fruit cake that would retain it’s moisture, we could send one to every country that’s pissed off at us right now with a letter that says, “Sorry that was our bad, here have a fruit cake and a medal. Today China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Most of the continent of Africa, Korea, Russia, and even you France, you are special today.”

See this is what happens when I go on Sabbatical I believe all our nations problems can be solved with nice letters, a fruit cake, and a medal. The other option is to rise up as a nation over throw King George II and send all of those countries a letter saying, “Yeah we know, that guy was kind of a dick, sorry our bad, here have a fruit cake and a medal, today we are all special.”

So no more Sabbatical and stop following me you damn government agents. Because Today We are All Special.

Written by Handsome Rob, AKA Tokey The Bear

The Reasons Nyquil doesn’t work

Posted by Ask A Pothead on January 20th, 2006

When did it seem like a good idea to down a bottle of Nyquil? Around 1 in the morning last night that’s when. Out of pot? Don’t chug Nyquil. Laying awake unable to sleep? Don’t chug Nyquil. Depressed? Don’t chug Nyquil. Maybe it’s my new found alcoholism or my tolerance for over the counter medications, but don’t chug Nyquil. Wanted to sleep that’s it, shouldn’t have chugged Nyquil. Although Cheers is a much better show when you chug Nyquil, don’t chug Nyquil. I hear Robotusen is much better, but just say it with me: “don’t chug Nyquil.” Wake that worthless dealer of yours up and get some pot. What’s that you say? I’m broke. Look, smoke banana peels but don’t chug Nyquil. I would recommend physical fitness, but none of you worthless potheads (or me) are going to do that. The following are “recommendations” for sleep, when you know better than to chug a bottle of Nyquil.
1. Meg Ryan movies (yawn)
2. Listening to the jazz hour late night
3. Math class
4. 20 it’s that time somewhere in the universe every second of every day.
5. .Read this article
6. You know what, screw it chug a bottle of Nyquil, bottoms up I’ll see you all in hell.

Written by Handsome Rob AKA Tokey The Bear