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h3rbalist

I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to, too
I get the hacked account thing but i think this is different. Mrs H does not or has ever had an account on blueyonder.co.uk. She is on yahoo.

Also I understand ppl have there contact lists stolen.

If that is the case how do they know my partners name and that she is my partner.

(She doesn't use my surnane btw)

The equivalent would be only you recieving a spam/virus from an email address that has your wifes name in it.


?????????????????
:shrug::shrug::shrug::shrug:

@His_Highness lol that's funny.

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I'm not bothered by the spam, it's the fact they knew my partners name that worries me.
 
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His_Highness

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king
@h3rbalist - I'm still stumped....can't figure out the tie that binds. It would have to be from a source location that has both your partner and your information.

I've gotten calls from someone looking to buy my house. They also called my wife. Each time they had the correct names at hand. They got it from readily available public info.

Not that it matters but is the 'from' address real?
 

killick

But I like it!
So we live about 30 minutes from Washington State border with British Columbia. A couple of weeks ago our good vape vendor @stickstones sent me some MiniVAP pieces, which arrived awhile ago, but I just got down today to pick them up. Coming back into Canada they border chick asks what I have. 'Medical vape parts', so inside we go. I'm asked to provide any info I have that confirms this is medical, so out comes ID card and Veterans Affairs ID, and woop woop - no taxes or any import costs whatsoever.

So MM is legal on both sides of the border, just not at the imaginary line between the two. Think that'll change any time soon?
 

Buzzbomb Almighty

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So we live about 30 minutes from Washington State border with British Columbia. A couple of weeks ago our good vape vendor @stickstones sent me some MiniVAP pieces, which arrived awhile ago, but I just got down today to pick them up. Coming back into Canada they border chick asks what I have. 'Medical vape parts', so inside we go. I'm asked to provide any info I have that confirms this is medical, so out comes ID card and Veterans Affairs ID, and woop woop - no taxes or any import costs whatsoever.

So MM is legal on both sides of the border, just not at the imaginary line between the two. Think that'll change any time soon?

If it's new parts and clean I wonder why they were curious about if it was medical? I'm in the southern OK in the summertime but haven't gone down through Oroville in about 5 years. You probably drive right past my place. :wave:
 

HellsWindStaff

Dharma Initiate
My random thought is, I don't understand luck, probablity, or gambling.

I go to the casino two times in the last month with my one friend, he is a huge gambling head, I do not gamble ever really, other than when I go to the casino.

Every time I go, I lose. Period. Sometimes I lose just on buying my drinks. Sometimes I lose big. But I never walk out with a profit.

Every time I go with my friend, he wins. It's obscene. He wins more on gambling than anyone I know, but he also gambles more than anyone I know.

First of all, we only went to the casino yesterday, because he got a call from the local club that he won their Super Bowl numbers bet......he bought the numbers at the start of the season for like $20 or $30.

Won $1500. He got the check yesterday, so we head down.

I play a slot, I lose 20 bucks.

We go over to The Walking Dead game, my buddy really wants to try it again. When we went a few weeks ago, he was down to his last 20, bet twice, and got the free games and won something like $250.

There's one machine open. He offers it to me, I tell him no I know you were trying to play, I already lost $20, you go ahead.....

He bets 3/4 times. Loses. Hits the bonus game on the 5th. Wins $300. A few more spins, hits the bonus game again. Wins $60. Hits it again, gets like $20-$40 bucks.

Literally almost the exact same scenario as we went in last time. I should have taken my hint, as I lost $100 last time, but I was only down $20. I go and sit at this video roulette table. I see they hit 3 blacks, in a row, I win quickly on a red.

Do that essentially a few more times, on reds/blacks and evens/odds with a dollar on the Zeros. I'm waiting for the trend, then I'm betting, then I wait for the trend again. Been sitting there like a half hour and I made almost the whole 20 back. I'm at like $38.50. If I win one more time, I'll have a TOTAL profit on the day, of just 1.50. But, I'd of drank for free, and damn, that would be nice to not leave the casino with a total hole in your pocket, let alone with an actual dollar!

So, I look at the board. 4, 8, 14, 22. (examples..) oh, 4 evens in a row, I'll bet $5 on odd.

16.

NO big deal, this has happened before, you simply just stick with it, and double up. Eventually it will hit, and you'll have a profit, provided you have the money to front with it. I put $10 on Odd.

26.

Hmmm... well, shit, I guess I have to bet $20 on odd this time. It's hit 6 evens in a row...

28.

-_- ok. Jesus christ. Is the fix in? When I came to casino last time, I lost like $80 bucks doing the same thing, I expected a black after a series of 3 reds, and it went 7 reds and I lost all my $.

Well fuck. It's been 7 god damn evens in a row. I put $40 on odd.

32.

:uhh::rant::goon::cuss::rip:

I walk away. Of course the next one is an odd. I should of learned from my first experience, especially since this trip mirrored that first experience so well. I truly don't know if my buddy has a profit from gambling, but by outward appearances, it certainly seems like it. Who knows though, maybe he gets all his probability "losses" buying scratch offs so he's due for that win. I have no clue. But I do know that logic has failed me twice at the casino. Heads or tails, you certainly never expect to see 7 or 8 heads in a row. So there must be some other force at play. Luck? The fix?

Is luck finite? Is he sapping my luck at the casino like some sort of luck parasite? I never go to the casino alone, I always go with someone and I primarily go with this same person. Him, or whoever else I go with always is winning! I always lose! What the fuck! If I went by myself, would I have more luck? These things confuse me.
 

gaseous_clay

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Speaking of bad luck, I know all about it.

My dad used to play the lottery every day. Would win occasionally. He always told me if I dream of a number, play it. One night I had a dream that had a 4-digit number in it (don't remember the dream at all.) I told him about it & began playing it. For a month, both straight & boxed. Nothing. The day I quit the damn thing came out straight. Dad called to tell me. I told him I had quit playing. He had won something like $6000 total. When I told him I should get a cut, as it was my number...

"Tough. You should have played it."
 

His_Highness

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king
Gambling....Blackjack is the only game I play. The odds are still in favor of the house but the percentage in favor of the house is the smallest of all the games. This assumes you have studied how to play and that includes money management. The best advice I've ever been given when learning about the game was 'Other than card counting...There is nothing that can be taught/learned so that you are guaranteed to consistently win more than you lose over the long haul. The odds eventually catch up. You can however learn enough so you can lose much slower and enjoy the entertainment'.

Slots, roulette, etc. can be studied to improve your odds as well but the odds will never be near that of blackjack when played correctly.

So back to the question of luck. The odds are against it :rofl:
 

gaseous_clay

Well-Known Member
I'm a bad person.

I have a friend. He's the one person who shows up to help you move. When I needed a place to stay, he rented out his attic to me. He can be annoying & weird though, and has no problem slobbering all over the bong before passing it.

So what makes me a bad person? He wants to crash at my place for a couple nights because it will theoretically save him a few minutes in the morning while working a temp job. I said yes, but am really dreading those couple nights. I honestly don't know why he would want to crash with someone who doesn't have extra rooms & will be putting him up on a blow-up mattress. I also am nocturnal & can't get to sleep before usually 3-4a. So I get to spend a couple nights basically sitting around
not making noise & watching him trying to sleep. Yay.

Hope his wife likes having V-day husband-free. I get to tell the woman I've been messing with that she can't come over for naked fun times because a friend needs to save 15 minutes in the morning.
 

farscaper

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I have this buddy and we have know each other a long time. but man... he can be a real swindler and con artist...

always trying to cut a deal so he can come out with free stuff... it kinda bugs me to have a friend like that... but I cant begrudge him since its the only life hes known...

when I was hard up for cannabis he would only help me out when he could pinch my bag... so even if I got extra weight... he pinched it. if it was right on target... it would be a light bag and he would blame the dealer... I know he pinches cause he tells me when he does it to "his other friends" so one can figure out pretty quick... but ive known him a long time...
always want to go in on cotton but he has to do all the money play... which means im paying for most of if not all it and he just reeps rewards...

when he visits he wont stop talking about his vape job and how awesome it is! how hes gonna run the company some day... but when I asked him to help me get a job too... he said no. he didnt think it would be good for "us" to work together.... then goes on about how yhe president was so happy with his performance and how hes gonna get this perk and that and im just like...
"well I hope you find what makes you happy man" even though inside im like fuck you dude...

keep in mind hes like my only real life friend.... but were talking about a guy who bailed on a 600$ electric bill we had when we lived together over a decade ago... that credit black mark followed me for a long time and he walked away scott free... plus got me evicted by refusing to pay rent cause I couldnt cover it....

why do I fuck with this guy? am I just that desperate for human interaction beyond a wife and kids?

seems kinda pathetic doesnt it?

maybe im just too nice? and should be a dick and tell him to get lost once and for all...
 

h3rbalist

I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to, too
I have this buddy and we have know each other a long time. but man... he can be a real swindler and con artist...

always trying to cut a deal so he can come out with free stuff... it kinda bugs me to have a friend like that... but I cant begrudge him since its the only life hes known...

when I was hard up for cannabis he would only help me out when he could pinch my bag... so even if I got extra weight... he pinched it. if it was right on target... it would be a light bag and he would blame the dealer... I know he pinches cause he tells me when he does it to "his other friends" so one can figure out pretty quick... but ive known him a long time...
always want to go in on cotton but he has to do all the money play... which means im paying for most of if not all it and he just reeps rewards...

when he visits he wont stop talking about his vape job and how awesome it is! how hes gonna run the company some day... but when I asked him to help me get a job too... he said no. he didnt think it would be good for "us" to work together.... then goes on about how yhe president was so happy with his performance and how hes gonna get this perk and that and im just like...
"well I hope you find what makes you happy man" even though inside im like fuck you dude...

keep in mind hes like my only real life friend.... but were talking about a guy who bailed on a 600$ electric bill we had when we lived together over a decade ago... that credit black mark followed me for a long time and he walked away scott free... plus got me evicted by refusing to pay rent cause I couldnt cover it....

why do I fuck with this guy? am I just that desperate for human interaction beyond a wife and kids?

seems kinda pathetic doesnt it?

maybe im just too nice? and should be a dick and tell him to get lost once and for all...

I think we have all had a 'friend' like that at some point in our lives and can relate.

Yes, from what you have said you are being too nice.

My Dad used to say 'if you give someone enough rope, they'll hang themselves.' And I think when he stuck you with that $600 bill you should have cut him loose then.

I used to think shared life experiences made good friends, I know now this is not the case.

Share your life with positive loving ppl and your soul will feel better for it.

I used to think the guys I shared my life with were my friends. I would rather sit in an empty room on my own than spend time with those leaches.
 

His_Highness

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king
@farscaper - Oh heck yeah....I've had 2 'good' friends like that. What always amazed me was how pissed they'd get when someone treated them the same way they treated others. In one case I was called an idiot for allowing myself to be treated badly by someone else who was treating me the exact same way they were.

Why did I remain friends with them in the first place? Guilt. We had known each other for decades and while they were ass-wipes from day 1 there was so much history between us that included really good times.

As I got older I started to lose my interest in the 'friendship' because the relationships became one-way-streets. In both cases the friendship ended when I was asked to lend each some money and never got the money back. I remember thinking...I'll never get the money back but it will be the best money I've spent in years........ when it removes the guilt I'd feel for ending the relationships. Sure enough when it came time to pay me back there was always some reason it didn't happen so after a few months I stopped taking their calls. Every now and then I still hear from one of them but the topic of the loan never comes up and I still don't return the call.
 

CuckFumbustion

Lo and Behold! The transformative power of Vapor.
Will Mattel's 3D Printer Mean the Death of the Toy Store?

Didn't know where to place this post. But couldn't keep it a secret for very long. LSS. It's about a $300.00 3D printer meant for children to design their own toys. :whoa: It does rely on certain templates, so I'm not sure if you can say create a part from scratch. But, Children (and their parents) will have the tools and can learn basic engineering science with an inexpensive desktop model printer. So it is only going to get better from here.

I'm somewhat of an accessory maker-faker myself. So the underlying impact of this is not lost on me. You could build a protype part at home. Then Make the finished one with the materials you intended at a larger printer eleswhere. There is some considerations compared to say buying the same part from a manufacturer and their QC. But yea, this indicates a much bigger game change.
Will watch this subject that much closer.:peace:
 

HellsWindStaff

Dharma Initiate
This is all kind of refreshing.....not that I'm happy that you guy's have had to deal with shitty friends, but I too am currently dealing with a shitty friend. This may be long winded, but it's always cathartic of me to vent about it.

That right there, the fact that it's cathartic for me to vent about it, just kind of hit me that I really should do whatever's in my power to distance myself. He's always been kind of a shitty friend I guess, but I've known him for 15+ years. Lots of good times with the bad.

He at one point was one of my best friends, and I spent lots of time growing up at his house and with him and his family.

He's selfish, narcisstic, and tries to "parent" me (make sure you pick up your bongs, make sure you throw out the trash, make sure you pay me rent today, make sure you do this, make sure you do that. There is no history of me NOT doing these things.....).

He thinks he knows everything, about everything. No offense to anyone working a job without a college degree, but he's a god damn hose salesman. It's literally impossible to have any sort of discussion with him, because he will just get loud, and then try to make some tangential point. It literally gets to the point that when he tries picking a fight with me on his stupid shit, I'll respond with "Whatever helps you sleep at night buddy"

He actively tries to "Debate" and pick fights, but he's ill informed and when he loses, he can't accept it. You can see how annoying this would be.

I should mention, I am currently renting out of his dining room. 3 people living in a 2 bedroom apartment. Other roomate was supposed to leave, is ALWAYS "planning" on going back to school and quitting cigarettes and doing this and doing that, but never follows through. That's another story. But, I do need to mention that I am grateful he let me stay with him, but he tries to hold it over my head. I was initially waiting for the other room to open up, I don't think I'm doing that anymore. I do think he thinks I"m only there because I have no where else to go, which is not the case at all. When he gets in pissing matches with me, he always tells me how I can enjoy using all my vapes at my parents house...... like man I can move out any day....when Roomate 2 leaves, he's going to be up shit's creek if I'm not already out the house by then.

Here are a few gems as to why he's a shitty friend:

- Years ago, I'm talking when we're 18/19, I was at his house, didn't have any weed. Asked to have a hit or to smoke the bong with him. He told me......"NO, HWS you need to better learn how to budget your stuff I'm not giving you freebies" An elephant never forgets......

- I move into his apartment, and am renting out the dining room. My bags of weed I'm just leaving on the couch. I notice them seeming less than I remembered, of course I wake up early in the morning prior to him going to work and see him rummaging through it. This is not even a week of being at this place.

- I start taking my weed, and putting it under my pillow kind of... not exactly, but between that end of my mattress and the wall. I am up early again one morning, and see shadows creeping around in my room. I sense a presence. I see his outline and his hand trying to casually get behind my pillow/bed without me waking up. I grunt. He sits in fear of me waking up, although I was already up and watching with slit eyes, for the next hour until he has to go to work lol. I continually would grunt and make it seem like I was one second from waking up, just to fuck with him.

- I buy a lockbox with a padlock. Now I have to keep all my stuff locked up in the place I'm living. That's cool. He starts bitching at me a few months later about something stupid, calls me "selfish" and I tell him that he has some fucking nerve since he's been stealing my weed a handful of times to the point I Needed to buy a lockbox (I caught him doing this multiple times early morning). What's the first thing a guilty party does? Justify (well it was only a little bit) and then shift blame (I KNOW YOU TRIED TAKING $60 OUT OF MY DESK, YOUR LUCKY YOU PUT IT BACK!!)

I never ever touched any of his money. Lol. I tell him he's delusional. He tells me "you can believe what you want we both know the truth, keep kidding yourself" I tell him, OK, whatever helps you sleep at night.

The shifting blame, just goes hand in hand with the narcissm and always being right. This guy literally should probably run for president with all his "knowledge." But, in actuality, he regurgitates info at a face value level without really ever understanding any concepts or anything. This is a guy who falls for clickbait news articles and gets simple spam problems........yet, he's knowledgeable enough to build his own computer and any time I mention a computer anything he has to give me his "informed" opinion that amounts to jack shit. It's like that for a lot of things.

- Not totally related, but there is a game he plays called League of Legends. It's a 5 person per team game, and it's highly team oriented. I used to play it too, but I couldn't stand being a "factor" in every loss and I couldn't stand him being "the MVP" of every success. Even now, every game he loses, I hear him talking to other people via headset, it's always one of the other guys fault. Every win, it's a good thing they had him on their team. Just a little bit easier example to get an idea of how this guy is.
 

HellsWindStaff

Dharma Initiate
There was a "straw" so to speak that broke the camels back though. After he was stealing me weed and we had that blowup, my "connect" well by golly wouldn't you know he always had weed when I needed it. But when he needed it, well conveniently he is now dry.

Funny enough though, a few other guys I know, he basically burned the bridges. By whining and demanding things, they're doing you a service, don't act like a shit. He literally has one guy now to get tree from unless me or other roommate gets it for him.

And I wasn't getting him stuff for a long while. But then a handful of months pass after the first blow up, and he's been.....alright. Still a general douche, but at least reminds me why I became friends in the first place. I end up getting him nuggets a few times. More importantly, my connect started getting BHO which just isn't common around here. I get some for myself a few times, and he eventually begs me to get him some, so I do. Do this a few times.

One day a few months back, both my nails were filthy. He doesn't have equipment, he was using my nails. I take the nails apart, and plan on sitting them in ISO for the day. I do that at lunch.

ME, knowing that he has some dabs he'll want to use, but now won't have a way of ingesting them, shoot him a text: "Hey man, I'm letting my nails soak in ISO for the day, so if you want to dab you'll have to grab a nail on the way home"

He responds, "Pay me my rent money today then."

I should note, he told me originally to pay at the end of month. Last of month, I always paid my rent. He never has to tell me, and I'm never late.

So I respond to him, because that response annoyed me...."OK. You should keep a better grip on your finances if you need my rent money to buy a $40 nail."

He goes off about how I know nothing about responsibilities and "You don't have to write an 800 check each month!" and how if I keep that tone I can "use your equipment at your rents" and how he "shouldn't have to tell me when to pay me."

That fucking made me lose it. When you choose to tell me to pay you without being prompted, don't fucking dare try to throw that back in my face that you shouldn't need to do that.

I basically say to him: You're right. You don't need to do that. Seeing as how I'm never late, don't know why you chose to do that. But if you want to by all means go ahead not like I can physically stop you. That he should of just thanked me for letting him know the nail was out of commission, and that he should just be thanking me for getting him dabs because he wouldn't have them otherwise.

He has the audacity again to chew me out, and then hours later send me a text telling me to make sure I get him the gram I was supposed to. Lol. I did get him the gram, as the deal was already brokered prior to him acting like a fuckboy.

Ah, but this is the real icing on the cake. I have another friend from Erie who comes down occasionally, and has different connects in the city with some really awesome concentrates. He shows up the next day, oh hey, he has concentrates? Bring any for me to try or to buy? My roommate whose a fuck bought an 1/8 but didn't extend the offer to me to buy any. I took that as my hint that he truly doesn't need me for BHO.

(Keep in mind, he would BEG me not to forget his orders and would ask constantly when I was going to go get it......and I'd let him know when I was going and get his order.......guess the courtesy isn't extended the other way)

That was at the end of November. I should mention, that the day he asked for his rent to buy the nail, I did indeed give it to him that day. And then promptly on the first of December, I paid my entire December rent in full so he would have no leverage or anything to bitch about or to ask me to get for him in lieu of rent.

My dude who I buy weed from, he's back at the old habit, he always has weed when I need it, and is always out when he needs it ;)

My shitty roommate needs trees today. He'll probably ask me to text or call one of the other connects. I always "text" them and they never respond.... ;) (Funny, he will text them and they'll actively ignore, when I do text them they get back to me in 5 minutes)

My dude who has BHO, ah, well he doesn't do that anymore. "Do you have any BHO to sell me HWS??" "NOPE. Sorry. My dude doesn't get it as often anymore and this may be the last of it."

Just the other day I got a bunch of this really nice purple weed, of course I knew he would want me to ask my guy to sell him some of that soon. Aw shucks, my guy only had a half ounce for me specifically....

That lockbox I own, has a 3 digit padlock on it. I legitimately feel that in the half hour he's home and I'm not home from work, or if I go out to get food, I straight up feel he would try every single combination to be able to get in there. I change it almost daily. The few times I had to leave for extended periods of time, I would take my lockbox and put it in my car. Can't even let my stash where I'm residing without fear of him breaking into it.....that's just fucked on many levels among other things and one of the many reasons why I need to move out.

It's tough though....I make good and decent money. I pay sub $200 on rent. My cost of living shoots up a lot if I rent on my own, but luckily I've been able to amass a decent savings over the last year or so. The money I save isn't worth the stress and discomfort, although for awhile I kind of thought it did. Mental health is more important! Few times I thought I was legit going crazy because of how warped his perception sounded.....like really that's what happened???

Thanks for reading if you took the time, I know it's kind of disjointed but like I said it feels good to vent. I got like "Drive" for the day to make sure I am better at conquering my day today than he is at conquering his. Lol. Shouldn't be hard, he works 8 hours selling and driving around hose material and then comes home and plays video games and eats frozen food from 5:30-11...dude is stagnant as fuck in his life.

(First time I've ever had a post be too long for one post)
 

His_Highness

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king
@HellsWindStaff - Read it all and it brought back so many memories of my 'good' friends. I feel for ya.

Rest assured that when the times comes where you move out....he will be telling everyone what an ungrateful ass you are/were. That's what happened to me after I stopped hanging out or taking calls from my 'good' friends. Whenever someone told me what was said I'd respond with ' I'm going to remain an ungrateful, unreachable ass until the loan is repaid'. Thank goodness neither of them tried to repay me.
 

gaseous_clay

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Glad I'm not the only person who noticed that Chocolate Rain guy & Willie Tyler might need to have a Maury Povich moment.
 

CuckFumbustion

Lo and Behold! The transformative power of Vapor.
The shifting blame, just goes hand in hand with the narcissism and always being right.
Thanks for your case examples of Narcissistic Friends and perhaps NPD. I got to know that type early and had to come up with ways to reason with them on their level.

As condescending as that sounds, I don't think in their circles as much as they do. And tire of them keeping score and trying to have the upper hand in any 'negotiation'.
It feels like grade school to me. But thats other people for ya'. I try not to form deeper prejudices towards that and the other personality types that get played out. Sometimes you can point out things to them in such a way, that they can laugh at it's absurdity and they overcome a small part of it. Remind them of WIN/WIN situations benefits all parties and are the best for everybody. Well got to go out in the world and face more NPD's. :peace:
 
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I had too much to drink at work.
So tired...

How's everyone's night going?
Didn't work today. Thanks for asking.
Went into my local funky hippy head shop and someone who worked there (that I kinda knew from before) was walking around the room with a large flat rock and was burning a small brush of dried sage. Which was random enough. Good thing I like some sage things already. :D

Have some dried sage at home that I might vaporize later. Never tried it before. Maybe what happened earlier wasn't so random? Hunh?
 

CuckFumbustion

Lo and Behold! The transformative power of Vapor.
Vaporize sage???

I've used them as incense before, smells great.
Reminds me of Venice Beach ca.
Is that a thing there? I'm guessing it is some sort of Native American in origin. Saw tied brush for sale in new age shops before.
Read about smoking and vaporizing it. Definitely lives up to it's name.
Once I vape it, I'll report back at the The ethnobotanical thread. Read that it is more minty when vaped.
Venice Beach? So was it mostly you burning sage or is it more of a thing there?

I want to get back with the pines and crisp water and air in the backwoods of my region. CNY Central New York.
 
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