@Tryptameanie 586731 wrote:
I’m with you 100* on that GL. In fact to be totally honest I never even thought about the amount of smoking of whatever he’d done or that he’d brought it upon himself.
He was a man I admired when I was younger and just thought it a sad and unfortunate event.
Until the 1980s at least you were not a “real man” unless you smoked cigarettes at the very least. Also Howard could have well spent a lot of time on board ship in such places where there would be abundant amounts of asbest and other such nasties – then there is strong radiation on some vessels from the communications equipment (some of the pirate radio ships used to smuggle over hash between UK, NL and BE; and you could take a fluorescent lamp in your hand (unconnected to anything else); stand on deck and it would light up brightly.
His rehab home will at least have better conditions than prison; ironically his medication will be any amount of class A and B in some large quantities.
incidentally I was watching this news film about a growing room in Groningen what got busted and noticed the particularly well laid out and safe lighting system – the only odd thing about it is it looked lke the work of a much older electrician making good use of a large hoard of now obsolete Philips wide spectrum discharge lamps (it was wired in 1970s style rather tban modern EU practice)
In Groningen they have “hangout places” like youth shelters for old people; according to the Dutch description most oldsters there are relatively well behaved and do not blare out loud music from cars (or their mobility vehicles). They don’t need to though as they have their own pirate stations :laugh_at:
