well this is my karma post

St. John Ambulance Cadets. I joined a couple of years back and I was going to leave when they promoted me to corporal, the first one in about a year. So I thought I'd better keep going. My privelages are that I get to yell at them when the cadets do drill and I get to take them off into a corner for 'bandaging practice'. More like piss about and annoy Nyika cos I know her sister/am older than her/she's a hippie/she shouts too much. What the hell do they expect? So last week I was informed I had a place on the seargents course and if I didn't go it would cost me. So I'm blowing off £50 next week to go and get yelled at in my poncy uniform with beret, faking Norovirus over the phone to work. And tonight I was entered into a competition despite the fact they KNOW I can't do fucking Saturdays. As much as I hate it I've got some good mates there, but it really annoys me! Sorry about the rant, hope you didn't read all of it!

 

I did, but it doesn't matter
Cadet things can be annoying as hell.. my mate wanted me to join the Army cadets with him. I told him where to stuff it and invited him to join Greenpeace with me He told me where to stuff THAT.. but we're good friends.

 

lol, at least SJA isn't militaristic. I'm an official member of the CND now, should get my badge soon!

 

Nice! I'm not a member of anything really.. except professional bodies but they don't count.

 

Spent a whole free lesson attempting to research something, found a great link about alternative therapies and was still on it an hour later! I would definitely like to do a course in reflexology, did you know it's linked to the fact that people don't go barefoot any more, so don't clear the energy channels in their feet?

 

I figured as much.. definietly explains why going barefoot feels so good!
Except when you tread on broken glass, which is common enough in this town...

 

Ouch! I absolutely love barefooting, although I once decided whilst camping to walk to the shower block barefoot at 6 o' clock in the morning in September. Arghhh, it was so cold! Felt like I'd got into an ice bath!

 

Yeah.. I barefooted in snow (back when we got it in England). I was OK, back then my metabolism ran at about 30 degrees above normal haha.. I went out in bare feet and a Tshirt to play in the snow... bloody hell I was either resilient or stupid!

 

I'm get really cold hands usually, but snow is great! Especially sliding down a hill on a tea tray!

 

I always have warm hands, it's bizarre.. even in -30 cold at the top of Mt Mansfield I had warm hands, but my facemask was frozen to my face. Strange.

 

Lol, you obviously have good circulation! If I let my feet dangle or I lean on my hand I get pins and needles very quickly.

 

I've only got good circulation in my hands - my feet were freezing, and I had the beginnings of frostbite on my face! But 'twas good fun, skiing a black diamond run for the first time!

 

Must be awesome!! I have this feeling that if i tried to ski I'd be one of those people who can't stand up. Though i'm not that bad at ice skating.

 

if you can ice-skate, you can ski. It's a lot easier than it looks and it's awesome fun!
I remember shooting down a piste at about 30mph, skiing right past the "Piste closed beyond this point" sign and thinking "oooh.. FUCK!" But it turned out to be a really good run, obviously no other skiiers to get in my way!

 

Lol, awesome... Hmm, I need some more excalmoatory words, I tend to overuse awesome and immense.

 

How about.. fantastic! Wonderful! Amazing! etc..

 

Lol, those words are utterly amazing. I wish to have a wonderful vocabulary, so I have to use fantastic words. I always was good at comprehension spellings!

 

Just type "amazing" into a thesaurus.. comes up with some good ones!
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We just got completely sidetracked again!
- Who do you think epitomises the hippie movement?
- Timothy Leary or Terence McKenna?
- A festival where the music is so-so but the drugs are great, or a festival where the music is great but no drugs are to be had at all?

 

Cliched, but Jerry Garcia caught it all in his songs, so probably him. There were a lot of people who could sum it all up, but he's foremost in my mind.

Not sure, both had a lot to do with LSD, maybe Terrence Mckenna?

A druggy festival with crap music, much more fun to be had!!

 

My thoughts exactly
Terence McKenna was more into the shamism/spiritual side of drugs - he wrote about magic mushrooms, peyote, ayahuasca, he rejected chemically derived drugs like 5-MeO-DMT and LSD. he also wote extensively about December 21, 2012, which he called Time Wave Zero (that's a little less enthralling than his entheogenic work).
Timothy Leary invented the phrase "turn on, tune in, drop out", he preached enlightenment through LSD, gave it out in the parks of San Francisco. I think he kinda sold out to get out of prison after LSD was criminalised. Terence McKenna sadly died in 2002