Miscellaneous Prats07 May 2008 05:15 pm
By Nelson
Thanks to Elias.
Please correct the fact box on ’skunk’
It’s called ’skunk’ because it actually smells like a skunk!
I know we don’t have them in the UK, but you guys should really know that !
(or does the BBC no longer hire people who have been to university?)
Rob
It was a desperate attempt to put people off smoking it. They did the same thing with “crack”.
I’ve been to university and I have no idea what a skunk smells like. Perhaps the BBC should issue a “scratch n sniff” card of all popular narcotics.
Shit - for a spell there, I thought he meant an actual skunk.
There are some unbelievably stupid people on that particular HYS. I’ve actually hurt my face from belming so hard.
Now I can understand that going to University would teach you what skunk the drug smells like, but how would it teach you what the animal smells like? I know I did Modern Languages and not whatever this drivelard reckons he studied, but the smell of mustelids just never came up.
so the I still have a chance of a BBC job then?
Im also pleased that someone has the time to create a box containing ’skunk facts’,naturalist wankoids.
It’s obvious the BBC are covering up a conspiracy, it’s actually made from skunks, people, can’t you see?
Great HYS thread! I only read the first page of comments and I got to “As for dangerous,a lethal dose of cannabis is 100,000 times an effective dose.When is the last time you drank 100,000 pints in one day?”. It got me thinking….
It wasn’t last week because I had that thing on. Pretty sure it was Wednesday, 2 weeks ago.
Unfortunately, i didnt go to university.
Can anyone tell me if ’speed’ smells like Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves?
No, but ‘whizz’ definitely smells like pee.
>I know we don’t have them in the UK but…
there are no skunk in the UK? well how does all the cannabis get in then? eh? eh? honestly if these people would just think for a second.
The cunning plan to make druggies “out” themselves worked then.
I enjoyed this comment particularly, mostly because it made me think what Girls Aloud would be like if you replaced Cheryl Tweedy with a stereotypical weed dealer:
Cannabis should not even be aloud it just ruins peoples lifes. Ban drugs altogether, whoever made them just wanted to escape their life, but they didn’t know that they can’t escape prison. Anyone who is thinking of taking that drug don’t there are consiquences!
Thanks
Georgina, Bolton
Also, I think this guy has just not been doing it right:
Tried cannabis years ago and couldn’t really tell the difference between that and alcohol to be honest. Alcohol consumed irresponsibly is dangerous as is cannabis. Would legalising the so-called less dangerous cannabis make things better?
Drugs policy just seems to pander to vox pop as times. As does most of Labour policy. And Conservative for that matter…
[BigManInBadShape]
Gordon Brown making cannabis class B because he ‘believes it is wrong’.
I believe that his stupid haircut and that wierd thing he does when he inhales between words is wrong but I’m not going to campaign for Gordon Brown to be reclassified.
Why not? Sounds like fun…
In my day, the first thing we did every day at University (after morning prayers) was learn the smells of Mother Nature, not least her most pungent creation, the skunk - or ‘zorillo’ as it was known back then.
I fondly recall Nobby Barkins’ remark upon smelling the stench of the slow loris: “Pee-ew! This is worse than old Chalky’s socks!” How we laughed - and it made men of us.
Thanks
You sure that’s a genuine gaffe? That’s the sort of post I would put if I was having a laugh.
Really?
Are you the person who watches “Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps”?
Are you saying weed doesn’t smell like pot? Of course it does!
The first time I drove through a cloud of skunk roadkill stench in Los Angeles I thought I had driven right by a huge hydroponic drughouse! It was then I realised that this is where the term comes from.
Perhaps the guy’s comments on the BBC hiring people who’ve been to university is referring to the ability to do research and discover that some types of pot actually do smell of skunk, not necessarily about knowing what skunk smells like.
Remember… Google is your friend.
Did somebody really just say “Google is your friend” on my blog? I think this might be the end of the world.
Fuck right off you Grade-A Sainsbury’s “Taste The Difference” prick.
Google is your friend - unless you’re a Chinese person trying to access the foreign media.
Really? Let’s check it against the things I look for in a friend:
Get its round in at the pub - no.
Lend you a quid when you’ve no bus fare - no.
Introduce you to its hot sister - no, and if you were about to suggest gmail then you have real problems.
Thus I conclude google is not my friend, rather it is a useful internet search engine. I think the only way one could confuse the two is if one had no actual real friends made of human beings.
Nelson: I apologise if I offended you… that had not been my intention.
Ok. I’ve crossed you off my “Beheading” list.
I have laughed so much at this thread that I’m crying. Thankfully, the fact that I’m too lazy to apply makeup before 6pm means that I’ve avoided the Gothic ‘rivers of mascara’ look.
The spellchecker, on the other hand is NOT your friend. Although it might’ve helped with the consequences.