The "WTF" Thread

Talking about cocaine: sure, back in the 1980's all the rock stars took it. Yet it is illegal. That rockstar could snort cocaine like drinking coca-cola and get away with it: at least where the law is concerned.

However, if I were caught with cocaine in my apartment, I'd be arrested and put in prison for 10 years. That is why I will not touch drugs. The music stars and models made it all so glamorous, but the reality is that it is not glamorous at all.

Drugs destroy lives: and I don't care how the magazines portray drug use. Those people are millionaires, but I am not. I would end up on a drug programme and in a great deal of legal troubles. Worse than that, I'd be a prison cell, being beaten up by my cell mate every day.

That isn't very glamorous, is it?

Things can surely look different whenever it becomes personal. But creating laws to meet each personal consideration just isn't practical.

I've already lived them. Justice is rare.

I couldn't put it better myself.

I wish it weren't so. But the government never saves money.

I don't think I ever said justice shouldn't be pursued.

It's sometimes tempting... A strong stick in the spokes... No maybe not but they would think twice in future

Assuming of course they were not dead....... 

Don't you just love how some people at fault love to blame someone else for their mistakes?

I've never liked thieves, a_muppet: that kid got what he deserved.


This quote stood out to me: there are people always quick to blame others: when - in fact - they are the one in the wrong.

I'd say also that there is a difference between accepting responsibility - which is a "grown up" thing to do - and blaming oneself. The two often get confused. Realising where you've gone wrong is a mature thing to do: but blaming yourself for other people's behaviour isn't right.

Often people victims of abuse get the two mixed up. They'll say in therapy "But I was told to take responsibility for my actions." No: they were told to acknowledge their feelings and behaviour, not believe themselves in the wrong for other people's problems. There is wisdom in knowing the difference between these two things.

Just another thought.

I do love that lamp.

Incidentally imgur, would not accept that I had 'righted' the picture. 

No, it's not just you. LOL

Cassie, was it this week that your grandson visited?

www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/02/ffour-year-old-dutch-boy-racer-utrecht