Let’s SLOM Baby!
Ashlyn is home for the holiday break and I have to admit that I had forgotten what it is like to have two teens in the house. She, Riss and I were up late watching marathons of that Sweet Sixteen show on MTV. (Come to think of it, I had forgotten MTV.) While the unbelievably spoiled brats picking VIP friends and fancy cars are funny enough on their own- “My parents better buy me this 6 Series because I deserve it!”- the funniest thing of the night was the Abovetheinfluence.com anti-drug ad featuring SLOMing. This is the most ridiculous anti-drug campaign that I have ever seen. I wonder if the writer was tripping when he thought of it. Check it out:
Hey the videos aren’t working right here so I can’t watch it.
I also haven’t actually seen this either so I don’t know if it’s any good. But it’s supposed to be the female answer to the timberlake in a box thing.
http://www.geekentertainment.tv/2006/12/23/xmas-special-music-video/
Is Riss OK? I think you said she twisted her knee or ankle or something?
BTW hope I didn’t over do it with the banter – sorry if I did.
You got kinda quiet and I didn’t know whether I stepped over the line or you’re just busy.
Oh yeah, I just remembered, I’ve seen the SLOM ad on TV. If it’s the same one you’re right – it is kinda retarded…but then that’s pretty normal for anti-dope ads….
There was one I liked though. It was a while ago (1980s maybe?) this guy is walking faster and faster saying “I gotta do coke. So I can work harder. So I can have more money to buy more coke so…” (endless loop) until he speeds up and disappears. That one kinda hit home.
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Riss is ok- she injured her knee skiing but we doubt that it is serious. We came home from UT a day early because we did not want her to overdo it. We ski Jackson Hole in 2 weeks and want the knee rested.
I was worried about my pop the other night, and planning for Ash and my 9yo brother to come to town. Sorry if I seemed off.
SLOMing is leeching yourself. Pretty stupid stuff. I sort of understand your commercial, but mine would be: “Gotta get the floors done, so I have to get some blow. Can’t get the floors done without some motivation.”
LOL that sounds like a commercial FOR blow if it’s ever legalized.
Doesn’t really show the downside.
BTW I tried to get the picture/avatar thing to work and so far it doesn’t seem to. Let’s see if it’ll work here.
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There’s a downside?? The only one I know of is its (il)legal classification. It has been some time since my floors and baseboards were cleaned on the same day and the reason is that I rather enjoy living in the house I pay for. Rather the floors be a little less clean than the house become a casualty of the WOD. ;o)
Well, one time I did seven grams or so a day on average for two years, so I discovered a downside completely unconnected to the illegal status. Paranoid delusions, heart palpitations, non-stop nosebleeds, little stuff like that.
I was an outlaw anyway, so the illegal thing didn’t really bother me. Besides, it created artificial scarcity, which was a great business opportunity for the young and thrillseeking lad I was then.
I’ve never had a house anyway, but nevertheless managed to become somewhat more risk-averse over time. For one thing, having an involuntary housing situation…
The illegal thing does bother me now, as I’ve developed a learned aversion to jail time as I’ve gotten a little older, but also on a larger philosophical scale as I’ve studied all the social harm caused by prohibition, both academically and experimentally.
Giving up the using and the dealing was hard, a dual crash from being high all the time and feeling like superman to being depleted of dopamine and having a brain no longer trained in producing its own; and from high social status to very low. At the same time.
Took quite a few years to climb out of that hole, and I’m far from being completely out of it.
Like everything else it’s a matter of balance. After ten years of being completely off it, on the few rare occassions I messed with it in the five years or so after that it has never been a problem.
Q)How many coke heads does it take to change a light bulb?
A)Get the fuck outta my way, lemme do it!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1975161,00.html
Pot now the biggest cash crop in the USSA ahahahahaha the war on drugs. It is easier to buy drugs now than anytime in history! Hint to dealers, DO NOT carry a mobile phone when holding…it’s called Reverse GPS motherfucker…ahahahahaaha happy ano neuvo, chica!
And here I thought that potheads paid for their own Funyons. Silly me.
While we’re on the subject of drugs, anyone know where I can get a steroid prescription (the kind for bronchitis, not the kind for weightlifting) without an office visit? I had a doc listen to my breathing with a stethoscope and she thought it might be bronchitis, pneumonia or emphysema, or perhaps even tuberculosis.
Basically, crackling from fluid in the lower lungs.
I have a long-term chronic lung condition and then I had a cold develop while we were petitioning in Maryland. I took a few days off and then when I felt up to it I rode the metro down to the Watergate and met with Steve Gordon and Shane Cory at LP national.
Then when I got back to College Park it was a lot colder and I should have had a warmer jacket, plus I got lost wandering around for an hour and finally found the station again and took the bus. Then I worked the next day and got sicker again.
The doc was not an office visit – we were drinking over at their house actually – but she gave me six steroid pills and they helped (two at a time) but only for a few hours.
I don’t have medical insurance, not being a corporate or government employee, or money for the abnormally high fee-for-service rates that the market charges due to the price spiral caused by the degree of government interference in the medical services market over the last few decades, and I’d rather not sit around the ER as an indigent if it can be avoided at all.
Might have to tho…
Hey Michelle, we miss your posts here
http://lastfreevoice.wordpress.com/
http://pauliecannoli.wordpress.com/
it was nice having your energy there.
I hope you’ll be back there soon and not just here.
Q)How many coke heads does it take to change a light bulb?
A)Get the fuck outta my way, lemme do it!
AA) No, fuck you, that’s not how you do it, get out of MY way…
(tussle over bulb. bulb breaks. discussion ensues whether getting more coke or more lightbulbs is more important).
Fuck it, who needs lightbulbs? Coke makes you see better in the dark.
I like the commercial, it shows the rediculous things teens will actually do, trust me, someone out there is actually doing this.
Kelsey,
How old are you?? I would guess that you are either very young and easily convinced by BS, or you are very old and have forgotten what it is to be rebellious.
Recent studies indicate that teens are less likely than adults to use drugs. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F20F1FFD3C540C708CDDA80894DF404482
I am 19 and a christian that learned her way theough doing stupid things, i got hurt and hurt people from stupid choices, SLOMing is dumb, but its real, people at my college do it
You spelled “Through” wrong..
is that all you have to say to me?
Kelsey, I hope you know that it wasn’t me in the last response.
FTR, SLOMing (probably better known historically as bloodletting) may be experiencing a rebirth of sorts, but I think that if it is being used to get high, a better alternative would be going to the Red Cross and donating some blood. Anytime there is adequate blood loss, one can experience a high from simple things like rising too quickly, drinking or smoking. That said, I know some Christians handle snakes as a measure of faith- I am not calling for a ban on Christianity based on their stupid actions.
Oh yeah, you can actually make money donating blood to get high. You would likely have to spend money to get leeches. Where is the Red Cross when I need it????
Wow, there’s people who actually slom? I thought it was a joke.
I hope you didn’ think that i SLOM… i don’t never! nasty, i just want people’s views to learn how to help others, im a hands on person.
Kelsey you are too stupid for words. You’re only fooling yourself and those as stupid as you are. Nobody is sticking leeches on themselves, it’s a DARE commercial. And please don’t pretend to be in college if you don’t have a grasp on the english language.
Jesus people are gullible
yea someone above me is right… your a retard if you think this si real
Thanks Chris and Buttes LOL- Kelsey was making me feel tragically unhip and old. I knew it was BS until she told me she knew people who did it. I started wondering if DARE was on to something new. ;o)
Iz dis shit really real who would slom thats iz nasty as hell
No, a’lexus, SLOMing is not real. Unfortunately, the commercial is.
I am from Texas. We were havin a pasture party and the cops came and busted it up. We were all slommin and my frind Jess pasted out and taken to the hospital and my friends mom got charged with injury to a minor since we were at her land. She got 6 months of jail and 10 years probation. It’s real.
SLOMING IS REAL!!! ummmm…. are you people crazy. I am a fishing maniac, I have had leeches stuck to me all the time sometimes for hours before I relize them. I don’t feel any diffrent or get this so called “high” you “slommers” tend to be so addicted too. How do you do it. Is there a special place on your body to stick the leech. Or do you put it on your body at random and just wait. And my other question is why? And who started this RIDECULOUS TREND!!! I have a health project that I have due in about a month and just because I read this “slomming” is going to be my topic. So someone explain to me…why?
Lauren,
SLOMing is only government propaganda. You may think about the government’s ridiculous war on drugs as a project. cheers babe!
Hey fatty, I SLOM and i stick leeches on my testicles
Okay well if it just “government propaganda” then how come i keep finding blogs and things that say it is real like leilah from texas. is she just messing with this site or is she serious??? honestly i kinda think it is real.
people in my skool do it and I dont no wat 4?
I walk into the bath room and peeps are all around the sink slomming. I dont get why they want to do that bc. it doesnt seem 2 do any thing. My princible is sespending every one who is doing that. and we have cameras over by the sinks now.
You got me kiddo. Everything I had seen suggests that it is BS.
well it aint BS till da fat lady sings!
I guess it does make since that it isn’t real. But just where did they come up with the meaning to the word “SLOM?” Sticking leaches on yourself. Is that what the word “SLOM” really is? And if it was then someone or some people in history have to had done it to get its meaning sticking leaches to yourself. Right?
the word slom means Sticking Leeches On Myself se the slom
okay yeah i get what “SLOM” means i have picked that up! So in simpiliar words…. in history was sloming ever done for like religion or tradition or for culture or anything.
Click the Wiki link from earlier in the comment thread. Bloodletting was common.
i dunno