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john58

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  • Birthday 01/01/1950

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  1. If you go out to clubs where the sound system is really loud, from personal experience I would recommend wearing ear plugs. I went out just about every weekend for 3 years or so, and my ears would always ring for a day or two after. One time after seeing S+D at Twilo last year, the ringing never stopped in my left ear. I went to a doctor and it turned out I've lost 40% of the hearing in my left ear permanently. Now whenever I go out I always wear ear plugs. Granted I was probably pretty unlucky, but I just wanted to say that it is definitely possible to mess up your hearing if you go out to clubs all the time. I wish I had been smarter and worn them from the beginning, even though they do make you look like a tool.
  2. weird or not, going out alone can be cathartic. You can go when you want, leave when you want. No more "I'm tired, can we go now?" No more people whining about there not being enough girls, or whatever else. I lived in Philly for two years, and if I limited myself to going where my friends felt comfortable, I would have spent all my time at Irish Pub or Continental -- ugghh!
  3. I've gone at 6:00 A.M. a few times. There is generally no line whatsoever, but they still charge the full $35.
  4. Crackorn, lol. thanks for the vote of confidence. When I show up to work shirtless on Monday, I'll cite you as my inspiration.
  5. Also, well built guys with their shirts off are in a sense contributing to the sexual energy of a club. Sexual energy and clubbing are more related than ultimate frisbee and clubbing. But I couldn't agree more on the personal space issue. If you are sweaty and nasty (and a lot of times I am if I've been dancing for hours on end), tap people on the shoulder and say excuse me before squeezing by them and soaking them with your sweat.
  6. Well, two things. If you dance a lot in a packed hot club, you will get really sweaty. Even with a shirt on, the sweat will seep through and gross out people you bump in to. Whenever I dance a lot, I make sure to not bump into anyone as best I can, whether I'm shirtless or shirtful. As for taking it off, if you have a good build, some women will react well to you being shirtless, others will think it is disgusting on principle (god forbid a guy show any vanity). To a single dude, this is definitely a trade off they are willing to make. Better to go out shirtless, attract 2 girls and offend 50 girls, than to keep the shirt on, attract noone and offend noone.
  7. not me, I'm happily waiting for the turkey to cook...
  8. I love a beer at the end of a roll. It takes the edge off things and helps me relax before trying to sleep.
  9. yeah. Because heroin is not as accessible as FOOD. People who use heroin WILL DIE FASTER than, let's say, someone who has been eating unhealthy for the past 25 YEARS. -iliana I think he was exaggerating. Obviously, heroin is more dangerous than fatty food. That said, people with eating problems often regulate their depression in the cyclically destructive manner you delineated above. Many people are depressed about their self image when they are fat. They eat more, which gives them instant gratification but causes even further mental recession. Eventually, the problem spirals out of control. Every substance which gives pleasure is dangerous and addictive. It's a question of degree. By distinguishing between heroin and fatty food you are admitting this. Each substance's relative danger is different. If you perceive MDMA's relative danger to be greater, that is your prerogative. But with no definitive mutually corroborating studies on the subject, it is just an opinion, not a fact.
  10. And by the way, if the subject is lives getting ruined, unhealthy food IS a fair comparison. You make the mistake of assuming that excessive behavior is acceptable as long as it is mainstream. What causes the most deaths in this country? Ecstacy? Nope. Heart disease! 2 in 1000 people have heart attacks each year... http://health.yahoo.com/health/Diseases_and_Conditions/Disease_Feed_Data/Acute_MI/index.html What are two of the major risk factors listed on this page? Smoking and obesity. Americans are obese because they eat for pleasure rather than sustenance. Talking about lives ruined by the pursuit of pleasure without mentioning obesity caused by unhealthy foods is tantamount to saying heart attacks don't ruin lives. By the way, the evidence concerning unhealthy foods' long term effects is actually much stronger than ecstacy, since they HAVE been shown experimentally to cause obesity, which in turn HAS been shown experimentally to cause heart disease.
  11. MDMA (the chemical people are attempting to ingest when they buy E) was invented in 1910. Nevertheless, it's true that no controlled studies on its long term effects have been conducted. Anyone who claims it is harmless in the long term, or who claims it is harmful in the long term, is expressing a personal belief rather than a fact. A claim that people who roll a couple of times are going to have severe problems later in life is a dubious claim at best. To my knowledge, there really isn't any substance which has been shown to cause long term physical damage from very infrequent use. If a person believes that MDMA will be the first such substance, this view can not be contradicted, since no reliable experimentation has been conducted. I just wonder what evidence steers them to possess such convictions. A great danger of drugs lies in physical addiction which alters the usage pattern from an infrequent to a frequent one. Alcohol, cocaine and nicotine are much more suspect in this regard than MDMA.
  12. It kind of varies. I usually go around 8A.M., and between 9:00-11:30 he plays really hard tracks. The last hour he usually plays a mixed bag (hard, a couple anthems for the remaining drags, maybe an odd vocal although usually no marathon mixes). So, it depends when he plans on spinning too. If he goes to 2, it might stay hard as late as 1PM. If he only spins to 12:30, might only be hard until 11:30. You didn't ask, but the crowd in my opinion becomes a lot more bearable around 8:30 or 9:00 (lots of room to dance, no one cluttering the stairways, etc.) People will tell you the whole crowd is a bunch of muscle zombies looking for people to beat up, but late morning most people I see just want to hang out and dance.
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