Random thoughts

[roguejuror]

What part of China?

 

[Mudcat]

I remember mucilage. I remember those rubber nipples that you had to cut a little slit in and then you squashed them down to apply the mucilage and then you smeared it around. I remember those nipples.

They probably don't use those any more but I remember.

Yap.

 

[Matty]

We used those in (pre?)school. I was a bit obsessed with cleaning the nipple of any hardened glue.

 

[MonkeyF0cker]

I have never used mucilage.

Must be a third world thing...

 

[Mudcat]

We used those in (pre?)school. I was a bit obsessed with cleaning the nipple of any hardened glue.

It did behoove one to be vigilant on that matter.

 

[reno cool]

mucilage. now there is a powerful name for something. You wouldn't think they'd let kids play with it.

 

[Mudcat]

It's a very pretty name. And the great thing is, if you happen to be writing poetry about aircraft components, it is one of the best rhymes for "fuselage"

 

[Mudcat]

I don't understand why my headphones cord keeps getting so twisted around. I pick them up and put them on, I take them off and set them down, always in the same spot. I am not flipping them through the air or anything to make the chord get twisty. Certainly my head does not spin round and round when I have them on.

But I frequently find it necessary to dangle the phones so the chord can unwind. Like at least once a day. And it unwinds like 10 spins.

I have no idea how it got like that.

Seriously. I am not completely ignorant of things. I studied Physics at a University level. I have some understanding of why things happen.

I exaggerated a bit about it unwinding 10 spins every day. It's probably more like every 3 days. But still . . .

It makes no sense, what I experience with this.

I have gotten to the bottom of this situation. The reason my headphones cord was getting so twisted all the time was because I was twisting it. Now that I am making the conscious effort not to twist it, it is not getting twisted any more.

Another mystery solved.

 

[roguejuror]

Muddy how fast can a person get addicted to crack?

 

[Mudcat]

Man I don't know. There are mental and physical components to addiction and different people have different reactions.

For someone with a pronounced addictive personality - like myself - I would think the compulsion could kick in almost instantly. Like if you are an addict and there is crack available and nothing else, I would be addicted from the first use. I would be vigorously chasing the crack right out of the starting blocks.

To get physically addicted to the point of experiencing withdrawal, that's another story. And again, people have very different constitutions. In my prime, it took a hell of a lot for me to get to that point with something. At my current advanced age, it would not be so difficult. But I have known people who are very weak and fragile and susceptible.

As I have never done crack, I can't even estimate what it would be for me. I went through extended periods of doing very large amounts of cocaine and never got physically addicted.

 

[Matty]

I don't think you can physically get addicted to coke.

 

[betplom]

I have gotten to the bottom of this situation. The reason my headphones cord was getting so twisted all the time was because I was twisting it. Now that I am making the conscious effort not to twist it, it is not getting twisted any more.

Another mystery solved.

 

[betplom]

muddaaaaaaaaay!

 

[Matty]

Shit is edible.

 

[Mudcat]

I'm glad there is more now about mucilage. Where we left off with the conversation before - it did feel like there were important things left unsaid.

 

[roguejuror]

Best Bono yet.

 

[rito]

SG not moving to Bogota, decided she likes being dirt poor. You can only do so much.

 

[roguejuror]

She was going there for a job?