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Trivial Pursuits => Science & Nature => Topic started by: dejavroom on November 21, 2013, 05:36:51 pm

Title: the dread 420 thread
Post by: dejavroom on November 21, 2013, 05:36:51 pm
C'mon, you can't get more "Science & Nature" than this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aSb5k1hOcI (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aSb5k1hOcI)

Got mine last month and the thing is *delish*. I feel like what, the pothead steve jobs?
Title: Re: the dread 420 thread
Post by: theinevitable on November 21, 2013, 08:49:15 pm
the graphic at the beginning with silhouettes of bongs and stuff floating by is just too much.
Title: Re: the dread 420 thread
Post by: pmcd9 on November 21, 2013, 08:52:00 pm
A blog devoted to vaporizers. Huh.
Title: Re: the dread 420 thread
Post by: dejavroom on November 21, 2013, 09:48:11 pm
Just so y'all know, I'm not really into the whole subculture thing. I'm in the ten millionth of a percent Téodor mentions:

(http://i.imgur.com/s4JZU23.png)

And I actually do create unforgivingly precise jays (the other day I got one to stand on end and, ok, I'll stop now).
Title: Re: the dread 420 thread
Post by: pmcd9 on November 22, 2013, 06:28:58 am
I'll give you a tiny can for that.
Title: Re: the dread 420 thread
Post by: ianmalcolm2 on November 30, 2013, 10:54:33 am


(http://i.imgur.com/s4JZU23.png)


This strip is another weird instance in which Achewood was all kinds of prescient. The nascent "vaporizer culture" that's springing up in our century's gangly teenage years has seemingly created/responded to an actual demographic of yuppie folk who prefer their dank-smokin' devices marketed by way of an aesthetic that combines a community-college dropout's attempt at "professional and slick" web-design c. 2005 with a conditioned aversion to the colour green.

I guess I just miss the dodgy halcyon days where internet discourse on cannabis was just a couple of Nam-touched dudes running websites as earnest in their sublime ugliness as this beaut. (http://project420.com/)

All that being said, though, I'm a total hypocrite on account of owning one of these (http://www.vapman.com/) things. The lady got it for me on account of birthday times, and it's a pretty sweet rig that's less tough on the respiratory squeezeboxes than cranking the traditional j-bird. I wonder, though, if Ray and Lyle had a hand in its promotional angle, because the Vapman's copy will just not shut up about how god damn SWISS this thing supposedly is.

I cannot verify its Swissness on account of my only point of comparison being certain brands of bottled mineral water.
Title: Re: the dread 420 thread
Post by: pmcd9 on November 30, 2013, 10:58:35 am
Well it's just another way for people to be snobish isn't it?
Title: Re: the dread 420 thread
Post by: ianmalcolm2 on November 30, 2013, 11:38:37 am
True say. If it weren't vapes, these same dudes would be talking about the right glassware for drinking craft sours or which of seven canonized 'alternative' tie knots is best suited to a given holiday.

Still, I wonder which country gets arbitrarily co-opted to serve as a symbol of 'superior craftsmanship' in Switzerland
Title: Re: the dread 420 thread
Post by: jaydub on December 01, 2013, 06:21:48 am
Given the Swiss I know, it's still Switzerland.
Title: Re: the dread 420 thread
Post by: miles on December 01, 2013, 03:36:00 pm
C'mon, you can't get more "Science & Nature" than this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aSb5k1hOcI (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aSb5k1hOcI)

Got mine last month and the thing is *delish*. I feel like what, the pothead steve jobs?

Does this thing get you the same high that smoking does? And is it not harsh at all, or just less harsh?
Title: Re: the dread 420 thread
Post by: Arachno-capitalist on December 01, 2013, 04:28:40 pm
Does this thing get you the same high that smoking does? And is it not harsh at all, or just less harsh?
Some say more high. From what I recall, a lot of THC is lost in the combustion process of smoking, but vapes just bring the THC to the boiling point. These same people will claim that a cigarette filter will trap most of the THC and you'll barely get high. I have it on good account that this is very misleading.
Title: Re: the dread 420 thread
Post by: KeithHernandez on December 01, 2013, 11:40:21 pm
They get me way way higher for the first few days then they don't get me high at all unless I take a long break (weeks at least) from using it.  I will admit to using tons more when it's that easy to do though, so that might effect it.

Smoking works everytime.