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[slothfacekilla]

20 minutes ago, Screwball said:

If you are old, like I am, you will hear the horror stories about health and old people (they go together). Getting hooked on opiates is not at all uncommon, and a concern for many my age. And they love to push the stuff. Cha-ching!

I am currently reading a book on the Sackler family called Empire of Pain and it is heavily reinforcing my desire to stay away from opiates.  Sad stuff.

[Screwball]

14 minutes ago, slothfacekilla said:

I am currently reading a book on the Sackler family called Empire of Pain and it is heavily reinforcing my desire to stay away from opiates.  Sad stuff.

There was a documentary on Netflix a few years ago called "The Pharmacist" that is a must watch.

[Tigerbomb13]

I used to have an edible daily, but haven’t touched the stuff in close to a year. I stopped without any issues

[chasfh]

2 hours ago, slothfacekilla said:

I am currently reading a book on the Sackler family called Empire of Pain and it is heavily reinforcing my desire to stay away from opiates.  Sad stuff.

When I had my left shoulder surgery in 2008, I was prescribed Oxycontin for pain. This was before I knew thing one about it. Tried one. Didn't help. Never took another. Lucky me.

[Sports_Freak]

30 minutes ago, chasfh said:

When I had my left shoulder surgery in 2008, I was prescribed Oxycontin for pain. This was before I knew thing one about it. Tried one. Didn't help. Never took another. Lucky me.

I had an rx for it for my torn rotator cuff. I took one, thinking I would get a good night sleep. It make me very, very sick. Sweating and shivering all night long. I flushed the rest of them and just used Motrin. That stuff is nasty and like you, I consider myself lucky. I put down an allergy to it on my medical records. Never again...

[LaceyLou]

Percocet had me praying to a porcelain god, and decided pain wasn't so bad, after all.

OxyContin had no effect on me whatsoever.

I count myself lucky. 

[Sports_Freak]

On 2/6/2026 at 2:54 PM, Mr.TaterSalad said:

 

Yes, because kids today and anyone who isn't a redneck under 65 want to hear Lee ****ing Greenwood. I'm no Bad Bunny fan. I don't listen to that type of music at all. But Lee Greenwood at the Superbowl halftime show . . . LOL!

No. Just no. Bad Bunny, apparently, has appeal to a younger generation. Me? I have never heard his music. And I don't care, one way or the other, if they had him play halftime. I simply didn't watch it. Now....when Tom Petty, Paul McCartney or Bruce Soringsteen played, I watched. That's the music I prefer. But to each his/her own. Pop music passed me by many, many years ago. I simply don't care for any of it. Typical boomer!! 😅😅

[Screwball]

When people don't have a means and/or can't afford pain meds, they turn to other things. Eventually this feeds the heroin problem. Black market, cheaper than doctors and proscription meds. Other drugs as well. It's all they have. Sad ****.

[CMRivdogs]

From one of my FB faves...

[Mr.TaterSalad]

 

[Motown Bombers]

Was there not any other flat surface besides a toilet seat he could snort a line of coke off of? 

[CMRivdogs]

Not if the UVa stories I heard were true

[CMRivdogs]

6 hours ago, Motown Bombers said:

Was there not any other flat surface besides a toilet seat he could snort a line of coke off of? 

 

[Tigeraholic1]

PLEASE run for president.

 

[chasfh]

12 minutes ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

PLEASE run for president.

 

Yes, the RFK admission was embarrassing, wasn’t it?

[Motown Bombers]

AOC used big words that MAGA rubes can't understand. 

[Tigeraholic1]

 

[chasfh]

Go, Jack White!

 

[romad1]

17 hours ago, CMRivdogs said:

 

The Kennedy Family and the Windsors definitely have a sine wave of quality to their progeny. 

Joe Kennedy wanted to let Hitler win.  RFK Jr is trying to kill the human race via plague.  

 

[Tigeraholic1]

5 hours ago, Motown Bombers said:

AOC used big words that MAGA rubes can't understand. 

I thought you were anti Bernie bro/sister? Please roll her out there. Team her up with Harris or Big Gretch. 

[pfife]

What an incredibly hilarious self own

[CMRivdogs]

Luv it!

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The FBI posted about being careful about online scams and being catfished for Valentine’s Day and the replies with photos of Kash Patel with his country singer girlfriend were getting so much traction the FBI deleted the tweet.

 

[gehringer_2]

12 hours ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

PLEASE run for president.

"One of the connections that is underdiscussed — particularly in the security space — is that we are seeing, around the world and in the United States, extreme levels of income inequality leads to social instability and drives authoritarianism, populism, and very dangerous domestic, internal politics.

"That is a direct outcome of not just income inequality, but the failures of democracies, over decades, to deliver: the failure to deliver higher wages, the failure to rein in corporations.

"In the United States, antitrust is such a foundational bedrock value not just because the ascent of monopolies creates the abuse of power by corporations in market power, but there is a level of market concentration and corporate consolidation where a massive company can get so big that its consolidated power can rival that of nation states.

"In democracies, we have elected leaders. In massive corporations that then begin to consume the public sector, they start to call the shots.

"We’re starting to see this with some of the billionaire class throwing their weight around in domestic politics, and in global politics as well.

"It is of utmost, urgent priority that we get our economic houses in order and deliver material gains for the working-class, or else we will fall to a more isolated world governed by authoritarians — that also do not deliver to working people."

I'll let you guess who wrote that. Be careful what you wish for.

Edited 11 hours ago by gehringer_2

[Tigeraholic1]

 

[Tiger337]

On 2/10/2026 at 1:31 PM, Screwball said:

If you are old, like I am, you will hear the horror stories about health and old people (they go together). Getting hooked on opiates is not at all uncommon, and a concern for many my age. And they love to push the stuff. Cha-ching!

Right, that is what started the epidemic in the first place.  

Edited 10 hours ago by Tiger337