On Thursday, May 13, 2021 at 9:11:10 AM UTC-10, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2021-05-13 1:32 p.m., Mike Duffy wrote:
> > On Thu, 13 May 2021 09:32:39 -0400, Dave Smith wrote:
> >
> >> On 2021-05-13 4:17 a.m., Sqwertz wrote:
> laska (they huff it).
> >
> >> It seems to be very popular in some communities.
> >> [...] there were people passed out on the sidewalk.
> >
> > In their defence I need to point out a tangential situation wherein I
> > called an ambulance for a kid that had passed out and hit his head on the
> > sidewalk from being drunk & sleep-deprived in a below-freezing line-up
> > for tickets to see The Boss. All his friends could not wake him up. I had
> > one of those at-the-time ostentatious cell phones, and offered to call an
> > ambulance. His only friend who said anything was not to call, that they
> > knew he was passed-out just because of how much alcohol he had consumed.
> >
> > So I asked her how long they were planning to leave him lying on the
> > sidewalk before dying of hypothermia / exposure, especially considering
> > how much alcohol he had consumed.
> >
> > While she was coming up with an estimate, I dialed 911.
> >
> > He woke while they were picking him up, but so drunk he couldn't
> > understand anything. They checked his head for marks / bumps but they
> > still needed him to sign a waiver. It was on a clipboard, so they just
> > stuck a pen in his hand and then moved the clipboard around like spinning
> > a cat's-cradle to make him sign a perfectly neat "X" on the form.
> >
> Well yeah, That is really in their defense. Unfortunately, it is a
> community with high rates of substance abuse. They like to blame
> colonialization and residential schools, but the fact is that it started
> with their first contact with alcohol. Those who whine about us not
> hnouring treaties should have a look at some of the numbered treaties
> with the tribes in the west. They forbid the sale and consumption of
> alcohol to and by the Indians because it had wreaked havoc on them.
>
> A friend of mine was part Inuit and his family moved back up to Baker
> Lake. It was officially a dry community, but when the mail plane came
> half the cargo was booze. Our friendship was seriously affected by his
> drinking and drug use. I have to hand it to him, he kept it hidden
> pretty well.

Alcohol is a big problem for the white man too. rfc needs a Usenet Posting Field Sobriety test big time! I figures most of yoose is posting drunk off your asses.