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NAC4EV

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We had the red, [ it was in keeping with the cold war ]


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_500_telephone
 
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IronWing

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We had the tan and the pink handsets, grandma had the green. We also had this:
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Back then the phone company (only one, of course) charged extra each month for each additional handset.
 

NAC4EV

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We had the tan and the pink handsets, grandma had the green.

Back then the phone company (only one, of course) charged extra each month for each additional handset.

My parents had the puke green, ugh.
Our rip off phone company also charged for any color other than black.
 
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lxskllr

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My parents had the puke green, ugh.
Our rip off phone company also charge for any color other than black.
I kinda like the green. I have a pink princess phone, and a beige wallhanger. I guess I have them anyway. Haven't laid eyes on them in ages :^D I'd love to have a vintage pay phone with a fully enclosed wood booth. Not very useful, but it would be a cool thing to have.
 

CZroe

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The reason we are forced to have those shitty spouts on gas cans in USA these days.
It looks like he totally removed the spout, probably because it was a safety spout. By discouraging him from using a spout at all, it may have actually made the problem worse.

*sigh*
 
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HAHAHHAHHA. So...idiotic I know...but I did something similar once...but I have great lungs and got it put out :p

Everyone is capable of something stupid like that - The problem arises when you are SO STUPID that instead of blowing out the fire or even throwing the gas canister, you instead slosh the gas upward and onto yourself in an effort to put it out... Now THAT is stupid.
 

Pulsar

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So where's the part where they talk about how it affects you mentally (paranoia, anxiety, depression) and the potential effects that make doing things like driving dangerous?

I'm all for legalizing pot. But I wish the pro-pot lobby would accurately represent the drug. Just like alcohol it can be beneficial and even fun if used appropriately. Used inappropriately it can be dangerous or even deadly.
 
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So where's the part where they talk about how it affects you mentally (paranoia, anxiety, depression) and the potential effects that make doing things like driving dangerous?

I'm all for legalizing pot. But I wish the pro-pot lobby would accurately represent the drug. Just like alcohol it can be beneficial and even fun if used appropriately. Used inappropriately it can be dangerous or even deadly.

Deadly? I'm not a pot smoker at all, never even been high... But If I recall one of the boasting points for pot is that the death counter for it is at 0.

Alcohol on the other hand... isn't at 0.
 
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KMFJD

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So where's the part where they talk about how it affects you mentally (paranoia, anxiety, depression) and the potential effects that make doing things like driving dangerous?

I'm all for legalizing pot. But I wish the pro-pot lobby would accurately represent the drug. Just like alcohol it can be beneficial and even fun if used appropriately. Used inappropriately it can be dangerous or even deadly.

You know, for me that bolded part all went away once it became legal for me.....
 

Ichinisan

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Deadly? I'm not a pot smoker at all, never even been high... But If I recall one of the boasting points for pot is that the death counter for it is at 0.

Alcohol on the other hand... isn't at 0.
Deaths due to toxicity from normal consumption may be "zero," but there are almost certainly some tangential deaths due to behavioral effects and temporary impairment. That's what Paratus is saying.
 

Darwin333

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At first I was like, well that wasn't too bad and then OH SHIT!

Takes a special kind of idiot to think "Yeah, I'll just put this fire on the spout of a can of fuel out with my hand and then when I'm completely shocked that it doesn't work and catches my hand on fire I'll not only wave the hand on fire around but also the one holding the burning fuel can".
 
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