Folks, was there an excess of nitrous balloons around the downtown mall late Saturday night or was it just me? I didn’t know Charlottesville was that public about its drug consumption.
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An excess? As opposed to most nights when there are only a handful?
Why draw attention to this ? Thought we agreed that in discussions of drug use, discretion was a priority.
The downtown mall is a big place.
Well, you forgot we had a member of The Grateful Dead in town that night, with that name comes the Wookies selling drugs… just a thought…
Nitrous? You’ve got to be kidding me. What next, parachute pants and John Cusack teen-angst movies?
Grow up and burn a bowl - I mean, jeebus, do you know just how much nitrous you have to ingest in order to hallucinate? (I do ;-))
I second Oy on this one. Not to sound like someone’s granny, but it was also really disappointing to be walking home and see so many balloons literally littering the streets…if you’re running back to middle school to start huffing things again, at least have the courtesy to not leave a trail of garbage behind. We were pretty amused walking home after bar time and seeing all those deflated little balloons laying all over the street looking a lot like the big winners that left them there.
its not about hallucinating. its about the wahs.
and boo-hoo cvillians, whine abot how sad it is to see balloons n the ground. where were you walking hme form? bar? after drinking alcohol?
i think its awesoem there are folks brave enough to run tanks on the mall. i wish it wer a weekly thing. and i dont even huff the shit. i gave it up when phish gave up.
anyone hear about the acid tests this coming weekend?
Brave to inhale a junior high drug? Who the fuck are you trying to kid? Can’t wait to see these morons inhaling paint and glue fumes too, right?
Ah, Hippie Crack…I don’t do it, but it and the spunions who love it are always around after concerts of a certain sort. If you haven’t seen it since high school, you might want to take advantage of a few more of the great concerts that happen in this town.
It’s part of the jamband culture. And, just to clarify, I guarantee you will not see tanks on the mall after Wilco.
I think it’s awesome…..i sort of wish I had gotten in line myself, but I was worried they were going to get busted.
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never said the folks huffing it were brave. waht i sad was that some people finally got the fucking balls to get out and RUN tanks. thats pretty brave. you could, like, get arrested and stuff.
i forgot though,that unless something is pretentious and way cooler than everything else, it is not worthy of the time of you cvillians. now i am actually going to go out and have fun, not stand around and think about how awesome i am for living here. later suckers!!
nice
Ah, I get it - you’re an idiot. It all makes sense now.
be nice!
Be nice? Ok - I’ll try anything once…
I… um… heard from a friend that if you have inadvertantly stepped over your personal threshold with any sort of psychedelic, that nitrous is a way to calm your rapidly disintegrating ego structure. First it blows you way into some sort of strataspheric nebular state of conciousness where you can literally see individual atoms, among other things. This creates a relative “coming down” effect as the relatively short live gas blast starts to abate. Then as an added bonus, there is a slight anesthetic effect with nitrous that lingers after the rush. Plus it really dumbs down the brain a bit, which prevents one from over thinking and falling into “i have to remember to breath or I will stop”, or any other classic over psychedelicized mental loops. This is one of the reasons it is popular in jam band scenes, and other melieus where intentional chemical psychological restructuring is prevelant. Just remember, if the ballon is bigger than your head, sit down.
Or so says my friend. I wouldn’t personally know anything about any of that.
People who don’t sit down drive me crazy!
At JazzFest about three years ago, my group had the pleasure of having the hippie mafia set up right next to us at the fairgrounds (how much of a bribe do you think they needed to get a half tank in?). Within 30 seconds of the first pssst being sounded, trustafarians were falling all around us. Some of the people I go to festivals with love the stuff, but at least they have the sense to sit down before they inhale.
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