Party Vibe

TBH I was interested in a wide variety of music long before I started taking drugs [which started more as a way of trying to cope with pressure in high school to do well in exams, I never had any other issues at school with friends or bullying]. Most of us who grew up in the 1980s were initially quite scared of any drugs other than cannabis as we had 1970s era drugs warning films and books which gave the impression that stuff like Nembutal and other barbiturates were still common – they were once used like benzos but had the great disadvantage that overdoses (even without combining alcohol or other substances) were often fatal.

They were contraindicated (discouraged) from prescription in the late 1970s around the same time Britain started using natural gas from the North Sea instead of town gas (which contained a lot of carbon monoxide) – this actually caused a rise in the youth population of the UK as it removed two common methods of suicide.

@Shakyamuni 977089 wrote:

You missed your calling as a demographic historian GL.

quite some folk have suggested I should become a teacher;and I am actually trusted at the local Catholic school (I cycled there to return a lost ID-card a sixth former had mislaid) and didn’t trigger off a stranger alert; but I am not sure if I would be able to teach those kids anything useful; other than the amount of booze and cigarettes consumed by 5 nuns in SE England woudl fill up two full isotainers; or that it would be perfectly acceptabe to meow with your cat and bark with your dog following the doctrine of St Francicsus of Assisi.

As I am safeguarding cleared for all ages as I get older I might see if I can teach them basic electronics and how radio communication works; as I could get the kids to wind the coils used in this equipment as it is fiddly working with fine magnet-wire at my age and I prang my fingers on the sharp ends of this wire (the kids would be more agile).

My late father liked both music and drugs (mostly diverted pharms) but TBH most chaps of his age group did to some or other extent, particularly those who were also interested in electronics and technology.

Several [including many Professors and other brainy folk who invented most of todays computers and mobile phones] have told me over the years…

• A bit of pot is OK
• acid isn’t so dangerous but don’t do too much or you go mad
• speed only kills you if you combine it with other stuff and motorcycles or fast cars
• what will finish you off is taking stuff like Nembutal to “come down” or to combat depression (which is why it was replaced by benzos)

but most of them said what did for many of their musically inclined friends more often was removing a protective earth connection (earth ground) from music equipment to remove hum/noise (often meant that someone playing guitar got 230V directly through the whole body when they grabbed the microphone stand…. (today the RCD would hopefully open before this could happen)

one thing I noticed is that as you did not ask about ethnicity/culture (perhaps for concerns over ethics/political correctness) the “sensation seeking” questions are also likely to flag up anyone who is of Asian ancestry; as many of them (as expected) do like spicy food and/or travel to foreign lands (often those of their ancestors or extended family); although as most like music and drugs anyway and you are in the East Midlands it might not skew the results all that much :laugh_at: