Bridgend, depression and infrasound

[Mr. Tea]

This morning for instance, on ketamine...

Hahaha, John Lilly's life summed up in six words.

 

[noel emits]

Potential program idea for Richard & Judy.

 

[Mr. Tea]

Potential program idea for Richard & Judy.

I'd buy THAT for a dollar!

 

[noel emits]

"Let's see who's, through the k-hole!"

 

[bassnation]

"Let's see who's, through the k-hole!"

LOL. yes, thats what we need - ketamine-themed daytime tv. wonder if anyone would notice. certainly not john lilly, as he'd be part of it! i wonder if he also communes with the fruit & veg when he does his weekly shop at sainsburys, on ketamine.

 

[Mr. Tea]

A few years back I went with a mate to visit a mutual friend of ours from university who'd gone back to live with his folks in Kettering. The town's near-homophony with a dissociative anaesthetic was not lost on us.

 

[bassnation]

A few years back I went with a mate to visit a mutual friend of ours from university who'd gone back to live with his folks in Kettering. The town's near-homophony with a dissociative anaesthetic was not lost on us.

were you tempted to get ketted up in kettering?

 

[Mr. Tea]

were you tempted to get ketted up in kettering?

The event we attended was our mate's 21st in the local social club, so it was a pints-of-lager-and-shots-of-Aftershock kind of affair, rather than a dirty squat rave bash. Sadly.

 

[mms]

Yeah, I've always thought this whenever people talk about Sweden like it's some kind of socialist utopia. Although the country's high latitude and correspondingly long, dark winters have to be taken into account, I guess.

isn't that swedish high suicide rate a massive slander on sweden via president Eisenhower:


'Sweden is quite far down in the European suicide table, in 15th place. Yet people abroad still tend to describe us as being more suicide-prone than others. The source of the rumour is a speech given by US president Dwight D Eisenhower in 1960, in which he claimed that “sin, nudity, drunkenness and suicide” in Sweden were due to welfare policy excess. People soon forgot the link to welfare policy, but Ike’s suicide label spread round the world.'

leftys see..

 

[Mr. Tea]

Looking at the modern data it does seem that Sweden's rate is only slightly higher than the USA's (13.2 vs 11 per 100k people per year), though the relative rates almost 50 years ago could have been very different. You're right that Sweden has a bit of an undeserved reputation as a global suicide hotspot, especially compared to some E. European and Asian countries, and I'm pleasantly surprised to see how far down the list the UK is, actually.

 

[IdleRich]

"well, that sounds a lot more likely than "its those evil social networks" like as if bebo is all about assisted suicide rather than a bunch of teens chatting shit."

I remember reading some creepy short story about those social network "suicide groups". Basically one participant was meeting up with members and killing them because he knew he could get away with everyone thinking it was a suicide.

“sin, nudity, drunkenness and suicide” in Sweden were due to welfare policy excess

If that's true then bring on the welfare excess I say.

 

[Mr. Tea]

I doubt there's that much drunkenness in Sweden these days, you can only buy booze from special state-run shops and it costs a fortune. Though maybe it's one of those places where everyone makes their own moonshine from apple cores and potato peelings.