Should ecstacy be downgraded to class B?
Dear Sirs:
I do not think that ecstasy should be lowered to a class “B” drug. There have been deaths in the past and will occur again in the future. Parents have been in the media advising, tearfully, against the use of the drug, only after having lost a loved one. In my opinion any form of mind bending drugs are very dangerous to the human body. I believe that drugs for the use in social and pleasure are a sure sign of a breakdown in Society!
Yours faithfully,
Peter Brake
Peter Brake, Christchurch/Dorset
Don’t worry Peter, pills ain’t what they used to be and nobody uses them for pleasure any more. The best you can hope for is a hot flush and a slight headache. It’d be right up your street actually. You could neck a couple every morning instead of putting on those horsehair knickers.
87 Responses to “Mind Bending Drugs”
Ugh, tearful advice is the worst kind.
Oh shit they advised tearfully? See I was going to recommend a rational debate looking at potential harmful effects of ecstasy and the criteria for different drug classifications, but there’s no arguing with those tears.
Dear Sirs,
I send Grave Letters such as this to the Telegraph every week. As of, yet they have not seen fit to publish me. Methinks HYS will serve as a most edifying substitute!
Yours faithfully,
Sexcrime Rhino (Capt. Rtd)
I’ve had some of the best times of my life with a baggy of MDMA and my collection of tear-stained pen-pal correspondance from Peter Brake pleading with me to see the error of my ways.
“There have been deaths in the past and will occur again in the future. Parents have been in the media advising, tearfully, against the use of the drug, only after having lost a loved one”
I’ve also seen whinging parents blubbering on telly about their kids being knocked over or killed in car crashed so I think we should ban those as well!!!
Oh, and didn’t that McCann slapper blub in front of the cameras when her kid got snatched on holiday? Better ban holidays in Portugal as well to be on the safe side…
Actualy, in the interests of media balance and redressing any bias in the reporting I think every time the BBC shows one of these “crying parent” interviews when someone dies of ecstacy they should immediately cut to someone who’s actually ripped off their tits on the stuff screaming “WA-HEY! E’s are fucking MENTAL mate!!!”
Have you tried push-starting it in second gear?
I can just picture Peter finishing off his beautifully crafted letter on the computer and then sitting back and in a self-satisfying way getting wasted on 2 bottles of Claret.
“In my opinion any form of mind bending drugs are very dangerous to the human body.”
You’re thinking of those body-bending drugs. They suck.
“I believe that drugs for the use in social and pleasure are a sure sign of a breakdown in Society!”
I believe that starting imperial foriegn wars for profit and trying to justify them by demonising an entire section of the public is even more a sign of a breakdown in society. But you probably think that’s a good thing down you? You reactionary ignorant right-wing cunt.
Near here’s a thing. Nobody gives a flying fuck what you or I believe in and this weekend I will do exactly the same drugs I did last weekend, and have been doing every weekend for the last twenty-five years (during which I’ve gained an advanced Oxford degree, and developed a well paid career having worked now in half a dozen countries on three continents).
What have you got from your ignorance and self-imposed prohibition (one should rightly say inhibition) apart from idiotic opinions that make no sense and stupid fucking beliefs that some other cunt has rammed into you for their own agenda?
Now, the challenge is to figure out if this guy is all fucked up by drugs or whether it’s just the standard HYS level of non-chemically enhanced fucktardery.
If The Shamen couldn’t stop people taking E, tearful parents certainly won’t be able to.
You should see what body-bending drugs do to the human mind. Now that was a weekend!
“Dear Sirs”
How does he know there aren’t any wimmin HYS moderators? That’s sexist that is. He’s just being a misogynistic badger’s tadger using a greeting like that. I bet he thinks wimmin-type females should be seen – preferably in the nuddy – and not heard. Probably thinks all girly-type wimminy persons with big, firm titties should stay at home and do the cooking and cleaning and cock-licking on demand and not be out there carving a worthwhile career in the field of technological customer-interactive media supervision while simultaneously enjoying a fulfilling physical and emotional relationship with a the partner (or even partners – fnarr!) of their choice. I’ll bet that’s what he’s really saying in that post. I’ll bet it is.
Or I might be reading too much into the subtext…
Christchurch in Dorset has the highest per capita proportion of OAPs in the UK. Not for nothing is it known as the paragon of progressive thinking.
I bet Peter’s daughter is a fag hag coke fiend and he just doesn’t want to see the same happen to any other impresionable young ladies.
impresionable=impressionable
[please insert biting satire here I'm too wasted and am busy throwing shapes in the house of dance]
Arrgghh…ah…urgh……the pills…
*thump*
He’s got the comforting hand of god and state patting him on the head for being a good little ant. That’s what. Can’t you see that your sociality and pleasure are getting in the way of the hive-mind? Why aren’t you using your spare time for more work? Couldn’t you be more involved in persecuting outsiders?
For Gods sake. Think of the larvae.
Relax! I’m a termite.
I think Peter Brake is a good bloke. And so is my wife.
Shouldn’t there be a Col(Rtd.) at the end of Mr Brake’s posting?
Shouldn’t there be a Col.(Rtd) at the end of Mr Brake’s posting?
I wonder if Peter Brake is any relation to Patricia Brake who played Ronnie Barker’s daughter Ingrid in “Porridge”?
She was a bit of all right she was in a 70′s style chavvy kind of way.
Well, *I* would’ve given her one. I’d have given her several in fact (consecutively, not simultaneously, obviously)
But then as I was only 13 at the time it would’ve made her a disgusting pervy paedo, which sort of puts me off her a bit now I think about it.
But I still would though.
Oh. And don’t do drugs coz they might fuck you up and Peter Brake will come round and kick your Dad’s head in.
Doing it before the loss of a loved one would be a bit weird:
*sob*, *sob*, please don’t take this evil drug. It hasn’t taken my only child away from me. Don’t let that not happen to you, *sob*
“Parents have been in the media advising, tearfully, against the use of the drug, only after having lost a loved one.”
He’s probably thinking of that ex-copper fucknut who wanted to be the UK’s first drug czar. He was constantly bitching about how his own daughter had died from taking E despite the fact that the coroner established the cause of death to be toxic poisoning from drinking too much water.
Obviously, if he’d gone around bawling calling for a ban on water he’d have been laughed off-stage, regardless of any sympathy his emotional blackmailing might have raised.
“Doing it before the loss of a loved one would be a bit weird”
True but that seems to be the HYS response to Muslims and paedos: “lock them up/burn them just to sate my ill-founded prejudice”
Although presumably not including words like sate and prejudice….
I bet he didn’t feel the same way when he was designing the cover for Sergeant Pepper’s Ronery Hearts Crub Band.
Anyone else notice the address being written as:
“Christchurch/Dorset”
Which is it then? is it a new HYS tic?
Definition – Brake: Retard something
I think its a well placed family name for old pete, I think secretly Gary glitter gave him an E in the 70s when peter was only 65 yrs old and did him up the wrongun. Old pete never quite recovered.
right i’m going back to shaving my balls
I used to think that drugs and kinky sex was cool until I woke up after a coke-fuelled S&M orgy next to Frank Bough in a gimp mask.
Blimey, he got Gary Glitter up the Gary Glitter!
@ John Rennon – you’ve just given me a “drink pouring from nose” moment.
Thanks.
as in, don’t do drugs – I did a load this morning and now I can’t remember where I put my kids.
Meh.
Not up to your usual standards.
A mild broadside against downgrading E?
Not really worth bothering with. Quiet day, was it?
I like lots of the drug HYSes… Like this one
Brilliant!
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It’s a local thing. We’re having Christchurch flung out of the county for being a bunch of horses’ fannies.
too bloody rite it shud just cos class a are swots dus’t mean they shud get all the drugs.
chelsea, class b
“I believe that drugs for the use in social and pleasure…”
Anyone else think he was a bit mashed by the time he got to the end of that sentence, it makes less sense than an emu on acid.
“It’s a local thing. We’re having Christchurch flung out of the county for being a bunch of horses’ fannies.”
we need to annex the pubs though.
Pologies man. Dropped some of dat well dodgy gear I got from Harry the Lash on Pete. Didn’t fink he’d mong it dat bad tho.
Relax: when im talkin bout not lowerin to class B he finkin of da qwality innit. Clart.
“Everyone should have their blood tested on a regular basis. Those taking drugs should be fined, loose their job and loose their homes.
[JackMaxDaniels], Midlands, United Kingdom”
Fuck me – that’s a bit harsh on the poor sods taking Beechams and Night Nurse to get through a bad head cold isn’t it?
And if you’re automatically sacked and evicted from your house how the fuck are you going to pay the fine?
I suspect you’ve not quite thought this through Mr JackMaxDaniels!
“Ecstasy has no long term effects on people, especially if used appropriately”
Michael Booth, Manchester
Try telling that to my friend who has just been told that her sister has no chance of recovery after being diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia after years of taking ‘E’s and smoking cannabis and is now going to spend the rest of her life locked up in a psychiatric hospital after finally being sectioned for trying take her own life after several unsuccesful attempts. She is 33.
[mizzdaizyduke]
Anyone else have Vicky Pollards voice echoing through their heads while reading mizzdaizyduke’s witty and acerbic riposte?
“Everyone should have their blood tested on a regular basis. Those taking drugs should be fined, loose their job and loose their homes. It’s not fair that they come into work the next day and do a decent job while i stumble in bleary eyed and fuck everything up due to my drinking a bottle of jack a night.
[JackMaxDaniels], Midlands, United Kingdom”
To be fair, maybe it’s having their jobs and houses too tight that’s making them take drugs. He might be on to something.
Hehe – just saw this discussion on BBC HYS and thought it would be rich pickings for this site
The discussion is moot: who takes pills these days? The true connosieur takes straight MDMA powder now!
In these days of doom and gloom there’s never been a better time to get smashed.
Surely someone has linked recreational drug use with terrorist finance by now.
Legalising drugs isn’t what’s bothering me…it’s that EU Forrun weights and measurements are taking over our drug culture!
When I was in court the other day, the judge said I was caught with 2kg of heroin. He should have said I was caught with 4.4lbs of heroin, which I consider English.
F@cking Tw@T. I can write better English than this flamingo’s fanny whilst smashed off my face than he can apparently sober.
[mizzdaizyduke] appears not to have though through the possibility it could be that the someone-who-she-doesn’t-actually-know might have been using the drugs in an attempt to control her symptoms. Either that or she was getting some well-wicked ganja.
Phew! For one moment there, I thought you’d written that you couldn’t remember where you put the drugs.
On an unrelated note, this here:
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/08/the_large_hadron_collider.html
is a fucking goldmine. Please extract some of the mineral-rich ore for us and melt it down into beautifully sarcastic pieces of jewellery.
I’d like to get my job loosened.
Quite right! We keep cigarettes firmly in Class A, and we make sure no-one ever drives a car because they’ve caused deaths too.
Oh wait. I’m talking fetid bollocks.
http://xkcd.com/481/
WE NEED ONE OF THESE.
I’ll post the exact same link three more times for emphasis:
http://xkcd.com/481/http://xkcd.com/481/http://xkcd.com/481/http://xkcd.com/481/
WE NEED ONE OF THESE
I remember reading something about an experiment they did on some rats – gave them about 50-tabs worth of E and subjected them to loud dance music for several weeks or sommat. Apparently the rats were quite pleased, but had a bit of a long kip afterwards.
But that’s irrelevant. It’s still more dangerous than, erm … actually I can’t think of anything less dangerous, but it’s a DRUG. Therefore it should be class A. Whatever that means.
Relax, I’m a tragically misinformed concerned parent.
“Those taking drugs should be fined, loose their job and loose their homes.”
Back home in bongo-bongo land I had to work and borrow 500 times what my house was worth just to live in it. All the drugs in our counrty were exported to the West.
Now that I’ve emigrated to England (not UK) I have an inexhaustable supply of drugs and the benefit payments to be able to afford them.
Relax, man.
@ Col John Matrix: I believ you mean 4lbs 4 ounces. One does not subdivide the mighty pound into units of ten…
“@ Col John Matrix: I believ you mean 4lbs 4 ounces. One does not subdivide the mighty pound into units of ten…”
Curses! My cover has been blown! ABORT! ABORT!
“Near here’s a thing. Nobody gives a flying fuck what you or I believe in and this weekend I will do exactly the same drugs I did last weekend, and have been doing every weekend for the last twenty-five years (during which I’ve gained an advanced Oxford degree, and developed a well paid career having worked now in half a dozen countries on three continents).”
Yeah, well i shat in my friends face, assaulted a police officer and then spoke to a door for three solid hours whilst high so you can fuck right off.
I’ve had some of my best religious experiences on drugs – in fact all the ones that weren’t the byproduct of a dire medical emergency – and religion’s probably a good thing for the average HYS brownshirt fuckwad – so where does that leave us????!??two[) oh hang on a sec I’ve got the virgin mary on the other line
Relax, I’ve been sniffing brake fluid
No, 2 kilos is about 4lb 6-and-a-half oz.
Re the rats experiment, did you see the one with spiders? Given weed, they make half-hearted webs with gaps in them; given coke, they make perfectly symmetrical webs (better than without it – see, it’s good for you); given caffeine they make something that looks like crazy paving. It fucks with their little spider minds a hell of a lot more than the illegal stuff does.
I have to admit, I’ve never tried E. MDMA did interest me once, as did LSD, but in the end I decided to go with TITWANK and got a triple word score and an extra fifty points for using all my letters.
i took an e once but it didn’t do anything.
oh and by the way – i expect we won’t have to worry about universal drugs testing at work – the houses of commons would be deserted – and the city.
In that case, what did the f*** did they give to that Sir Tim Berners-Lee bloke? A pint of acid with Crack Crutons?
I agree with Davis van Pelt IV. This letter was not worthy of this website. What Peter Brake was wrote was completely true.
The opinions aren’t particularly bad, but you have to admit, he does sounds like a pompous horse’s arse.
Dear SYB,
I am writing to complain about the merciless abuse of the unsuspecting fool who posted onto a website as if it is formal letter to his MP. I too write to these so-called blogospheres in this manner and would find it distasteful if I were mocked in the same manner.
Yours sincerely,
Far-Q esq, DFC, KFC, PDF & Bar.
i disagree with anne and alex. his opinons are wank.
i fail to see why just because a drug ‘bends your mind’ makes it dangerous for your body.
i also think sitting in watching celebrity cocksuckers or x factor on a saturday night is more of a sign of a broken society as going out dancing, meeting people and generally having a good time.
relax, i’m a dj!
Well you have to be carefuln with your terms there, don’t you. What Peter Brake describes as
actually means
The broken blockquote is an eloquent metaphor for society’s brokenness, before any of you fucking philistines start.
“during which I’ve gained an advanced Oxford degree”
Is an advanced Oxford degree one where they finally realised that BSc is a more appropriate title for a Scientific subject? If so I’m glad to see your cute little Uni has finally caught up with those outside of Oxbridge.
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I can’t believe you could mock the in no way innacurate and overdramatised story of the person mizzdaisyduke has never met. This poor benighted woman is clearly so unwell she’s had to be sent back to the 1930s for treatment, when people were occasionally “locked up for life”.
Not of course that’s there’s anything wrong with lifetime detention. I’m about to incarcarate myself for the public good, as I have had a few funny cigarettes and I’m a touch forrun. I’m a fucking disgrace.
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