On Thursday, May 13, 2021 at 4:40:15 PM UTC-5, Graham wrote:
> On 2021-05-13 1:45 p.m., bruce bowser wrote:
> > On Thursday, May 13, 2021 at 3:44:12 PM UTC-4, bruce bowser wrote:
> >> On Thursday, May 13, 2021 at 3:11:10 PM UTC-4, 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.
> >> Its the poverty whenever you see run-down places. Because there is drinking, gun fascination and and drug use among teens in all communities. There is no way to stop it. That's why legalization is gaining steam.
> >>
> >> If all that stuff is legal (like in many places in Europe) it actually goes out of style.
> >
> > In Amsterdam and Zurich, drugs and guns are legal. Nobody gives a damn.
> >
> The Dutch are saved by being dammed.


"The Dutch are chatterboxes, dilettantes and swindlers..."

- Joseph Goebbels

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Greg