Tuesday, January 12, 2010

'Avatar' causes depression and suicidal thoughts



From CNN.com:

On the fan forum site "Avatar Forums," a topic thread entitled "Ways to cope with the depression of the dream of Pandora being intangible," has received more than 1,000 posts from people experiencing depression and fans trying to help them cope. The topic became so popular last month that forum administrator Philippe Baghdassarian had to create a second thread so people could continue to post their confused feelings about the movie.

A post by a user called Elequin expresses an almost obsessive relationship with the film.

"That's all I have been doing as of late, searching the Internet for more info about 'Avatar.' I guess that helps. It's so hard I can't force myself to think that it's just a movie, and to get over it, that living like the Na'vi will never happen. I think I need a rebound movie," Elequin posted.

A user named Mike wrote on the fan Web site "Naviblue" that he contemplated suicide after seeing the movie.

"Ever since I went to see 'Avatar' I have been depressed. Watching the wonderful world of Pandora and all the Na'vi made me want to be one of them. I can't stop thinking about all the things that happened in the film and all of the tears and shivers I got from it," Mike posted. "I even contemplate suicide thinking that if I do it I will be rebirthed in a world similar to Pandora and the everything is the same as in 'Avatar.' "

Not happening Mike, not happening. And I don't think Mike has ever been laid. Whatever happens, I hope the dude never watches porn. He'll really feel down in the dumps.

Anyway, I know kinkyb!tch and DG were writing about going to see this movie, now I really think you two should go. As a matter of fact, I'll buy the tickets.

Feel free to invite Elfie and Rocket Queen. Hell, take Bitchhog along too. If you aren't feeling suicidal the first time around, let me know. I'll buy you all as many showings as it takes. I'll throw in some rope too.

642 comments:

  1. You're right Kemosabe (CBT).

    I might just be an instigator. I'm thinking a name change to Woody Woodpecker really is in order.

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  2. kb and dg should go and have popcorn sprinkled with sleeping pills. if anyone needs to die, its those 2 ho bags.

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  3. Spurs:

    You got it all wrong. KB and I were talking about how we DON'T want to see this movie.

    Save the rope for yourself.

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  4. I heard you wanted to see that movie Spurs Fan.

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  5. please go watch this movie, dg!!!! please!?!?

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  6. I didnt make the comment about DG and kb but nice try Spurs

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  7. i made that comment because you are too much of a coward.

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  8. says coward number 2

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  9. kb and dg, please go 'an hero' yourselves?

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  10. hee hee woo hoo hee heeeee

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  11. Anon is too much of a coward to show himself. Funny.

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  12. RRROOOOOAAAARRRRRR!!! im the king of the jungle.

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  13. ok gangrene breath

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  14. round and round we go, who is who nobody knows!

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  15. commenting anonymously makes it interesting for others

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  16. let's confuse them with our comments like anyone cares.

    loser

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  17. i bet you do like to slide on some 'wood' huh?

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  18. is that Wop with the pizza box?
    I've never understood why people need to eat ridiculous amounts of food while watching a movie. If you are that hungry, go to a restaurant and eat before the show.

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  19. As much as you talk about gay shit how could you not be gay? you just let all your fantasies come out in the comments. u r the true gaynon and the other gaynon is more likely bianon.

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  20. i am gayer than mp and a jerk.

    oh, the irony.

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  21. New anonymous:

    First off, I've never written under "anonymous", but that was a nice try accusing me.

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  22. I don't even know which anonymous made that last comment.

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  23. fantasize deez nutzz

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  24. spurs, do you make your hot chocolate with milk?
    it does taste better with it, but it is more calories.

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  25. Yes I do kinkyb!tch. It makes it so much better.

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  26. with your giant head you can probably take all of my giant wood in your mouth.

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  27. You can even get crazy and add whipped cream or marshmellows.

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  28. Hey new anonymous, why don't you just pick a name. Like ? mark or something?

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  29. i do add marshmallows, it is good.
    have you ever heard of fluff? it is marshamallow creme (as far as i can tell), but east coasters insist it is different and add it to hot chocolate.

    i make hot chocolate with whipped cream and crushed candy canes on top. yes, it is amazing.

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  30. fantasizing about nuts is a normal for u isnt it. do u prefer your daddys or grandaddys?

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  31. Crushed candy canes?

    That's just bragging.

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  32. And I've never had "fluff" before.

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  33. How about I just delete some comments?

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  34. why would you do that? i could just comment again.

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  35. it is good spurs, try it!
    spurs, did you see my comment the last night? about..fuck how did i word it? seeing something nice and thinking it was amazing, and thinking you had to have it, then seeing it again and going whoa, wtf?!
    ever had that feeling before?

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  36. daddy says thank you. he apologizes for shooting his load all in your eyes. He says next time just swallow.

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  37. spurs fan maybe you should set up the site so you cannot comment anonymously.

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  38. i never wanted shit. i never asked for shit.

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  39. Yes kinkyb!tch, each time I look at your picture.

    (like that one?)

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  40. How about I just call each of you out?

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  41. did you accept the shit, anon?

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  42. why must we use names?

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  43. then back the fuck up off me hatin ass bitch

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  44. Let's all just comment under anonymous.

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  45. you are hilarious, Spurs!
    I am serious. I almost barfed. I keep shutting my eyes and shaking my head and saying 'nnooooo, go away!!'.

    anyway, omg, i cant believe i forgot to tell you this! last night i kept having bad dreams, i was tossing and turning and couldnt sleep at all. i woke up for like the 87th time (it was only 1 am) and guess what i did to calm myself back into a slumber?

    made a cup of hot chocolate.
    it worked, too.

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  46. you are ghetto trash with your gangsta ebonics.

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  47. What kind of dreams were you having kinkyb!tch?

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  48. when rq and i go to the movies, do you think she will buy me red vines? or junior mints?

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  49. I'd go with the twizzlers kinkyb!tch.

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  50. yeah dg youre ghetto and fat bitch

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  51. That's a great idea that I thought of first spurs. Why should only a few keep changing their name and comment anonymously? Only a little bitch cannot have a solid commenting name.

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  52. this is not dg ghetto gaynon.

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  53. I had a weird one with CBT in it. He is going to be disappointed in how lame it was, but it's true. I killed a guy and while I was trying to hide the shotgun I did it with, the cops rolled up. He pulls up in this black trans am and lets me jump in the backseat and drives me away from the cops. not like dukes of hazzard drives away, just normal, but still, i got away. we were talking too, but i cant recall what we talked about. i was scared in that one cause Ceebs had me in the back of a car. Hahaha! No, I was scared cause I had just killed someone.

    Then I had a dream about the Lost season premiere. I cannot WAIT until that show comes on. My dream was scary though, although I didn't see or feel anything scary, besides large bodies of water. I just felt fear in my dream, know what I mean?
    A few other times was the same..just felt scared and kept waking up.
    I wonder if it was because I went to bed with my hair wet? Is that like an old wives tale I dont know about?

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  54. go make up another cbt story.

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  55. sounds like you were on a boat kb

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  56. "go make up another cbt story"

    shut up dg

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  57. Twizzlers are like the flavorless stale version of Red Vines.

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  58. Hey in the movie, didnt the soldier control his Avatar remotely?

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  59. I dont care much for twizzlers. they taste plastic-y.
    does anyone remember grape red vines? they had them when i was a kid. i dont know if they didnt sell well, or they were just a limited edition, but they were good.

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  60. nobody here has seen the movie. Or is that too hard to figure out on your own?

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  61. must have been a limited edition. I've never heard of them. I used to use red vines as a straw. But that would ruin the flavor.

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  62. i did the straw thing too. it was a must at the movies.

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  63. so basically whatever the soldier chose is what his 'fake' avatar body did right?

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  64. If you use the "straw" with Big Red, then you are really out of control.

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  65. you are a badass. Big red, Red Vines, and soda all mixed together. You are so multitaskable.

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  66. something stinks, oh wait thats just the obese moo cow sweating profusely. take a shower dg.

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  67. Will someone answer gaynon? He needs help leading into a lame joke.

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  68. I am multitaskable.

    I'm like a Swiss Army knife.

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  69. big red gum?
    what are you talking about, spurs?

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  70. is that the best you can do? wow.

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  71. No Big Red the drink. And then you use red twizzlers. It's a circus.

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  72. elfie may like you knowing you are swiss.

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  73. thats why dg hangs out here so much. she is the performing elephant.

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  74. I have never had Big Red the drink but now that you mention it I have seen it at the store.

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  75. great, now i have the britney song stuck in my head.

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  76. i have never had big red either.

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  77. Anonymous hangs out here to tell all of his family molestation stories.

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  78. This isn't the regular anonymous.

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  79. that story was just ridic. i dont think i woulda ever shared it. we all need ass to survive, but oh my gosh, i would faked my period to get that guy to leave after he came from nipple stimulation. weird.

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  80. He's always used anonymous. At least there's some consistency there.

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  81. how could there be a regular anonymous. Anonymous is just anonymous. A nameless nobody...faceless in a crowd of regulars. Hidden under a mask to disguise the filth and disgust underneath.

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  82. Consistency is boring. You think you know who this is but you have no idea.

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  83. i am everyone. i am no one. expect me. muh ha ha ha ha!

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  84. you don't like when people comment anonymously do you?

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  85. it shouldn't matter who this is. It's nothing more than a comment board. tmz and the dirty doesnt threaten to delete my comments for commenting with no name. what makes you so special?

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  86. uh, thanks Anon.
    Is it just me or does that girl in the cell phone ad kinda look like Jaime Lynn Spears and Carrie Underwood?

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  87. touche other anonymous

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  88. How do you know theres no Pandora SPurs Fan? Who are you to tell Mike it's not going to happen?

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  89. has anyone tried Tagalongs? Are they anything like Reese's PB cups?

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  90. No but I know the feeling.

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  91. I came out of my Mother. she came out of her mother and so on and so on.......

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  92. anyway i know what i know. so whatev

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  93. You do not want to see what I've seen.
    You may barf.
    Or dry heave.
    Probably both, like me.
    Shudder with regret comes to mind as well.
    Maybe that was the reason for my bad dreams?
    Although I still have hot chocolate, is that fair for me to have suffered so? I don't believe so..

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  94. I didnt make the last comment saying Ive seen more.

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  95. How did you suffer kb?

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  96. u should put those sick rhymes to a beat.

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  97. Anonymous:

    The reason why I know it won't happen for Mike is because Avatar land is fucking make believe.

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  98. Hey SPurs Fan,
    How do you know it's make believe?

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  99. Just because you have never seen something doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

    You claim to believe in God. Have you ever seen God?

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  100. why don't you kill yourself and find out if it is all real.

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  101. Well, I know some fucking blue people on some floating fucking land probably don't exist.

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  102. That sounds like the words of someone who is so happy with their life.

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  103. i am god. u all are going to hell.

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  104. is freak show here?

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  105. somehow i would have pictured God to be more attractive DG. why didnt you at least make yourself look good?

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  106. Two weak bitches fighting back and forth.

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  107. Nobody would see a deeper meaning in Avatar unless they were insane.

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  108. James Cameron has the meaning to life.

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  109. i see blue people all the time. they talk to me and tell me i'm not crazy. they are my friends.

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  110. by the way, happy 75th birthday elvis!

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  111. i dont understand how this movie outsold titanic.

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  112. What are the blue people like? They seem to be peaceful.

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  113. elvis is dead? i heard him on the radio. he can't be dead.

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  114. they are my friends. they kill the evil thoughts in my head. they are like giant smurfs with better bodies.

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  115. Murder the blue people.

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  116. sorry the evil thoughts in my head are taking over.

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  117. nobody said they saw a deeper meaning into avatar. although spurs fan has brought it up and mentioned wanting to see it numerous times.

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  118. I think I brought up wanting to see it once.

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  119. Wrong. You brought it up more than once.

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  120. i haven't noticed that stalker. I guess I just don't analyze the things spurs says that much.

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  121. i am all about selective elimination. I select you psycho.

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  122. Well forgive me. And the other anonymous, I don't pay much attention to what you write either.

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  123. I heard that DG fucked Ari from the dirty.

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  124. Go to your archive you saved. Post it here. Prove spurs wrong. I'm sure you have it alphabetized and categorized to find easily.

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  125. I guess if I turn up dead we will know who did it then.

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  126. kb - at movies we will have a large popcorn. Then we will take one bag of pnut m&m's, a box of junior mints and pour them both into the popcorn and shake it up. Then we will sprinkle it all with jalapeno seasoning. It makes you sneeze and cough during the movies, but as long as we are enjoying it, who cares.

    now, in exchange, i will want one of those candy cane hot chocolates and i want to have it served in my beddie at tuck in time.

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  127. im the queen of the jungle. ROOAARRR!

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  128. I read your comments. I just don't over analyze them and read the backwards forwards and upside down to interpret a new meaning into a simple comment.

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  129. i have a bunch of whipped cream in the fridge, but nothing to eat it with

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  130. where is DG, I was going to ask if she is still using ambien.

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  131. I have connections. I am god. I will strike lightning down on you right now if you dare step outside.

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  132. I am on the wagon, and would appreciate your support

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  133. i think so. should i have a clear sign before makign the decision?

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  134. because so far the only sign has been coming home in my underwear with no shoes on.

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  135. and i'm just not confident i should take that as a sign to stop. i just am not totally feeling it.

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  136. Yeah, I'd take that as a sign to stop.

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  137. That is a sign you should not stop drinking rq. That means you are a fun drunk.

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  138. also, the dude I party with most of the time, albeit we always have a very nice dinner, he drinks like a crazy loon. and he always gets drunk and drives like a bat outta hell. accidnet waiting to happen, gonna wrap that car around a tree. oh wait, there are no trees here. hahaha...guess all is well then.

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  139. wow i like your new picture, DG. congratulations on the weight loss

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  140. And yes, I just got more ambien recently. The other night I had some wine and a little later without thinking about it took my ambien.

    I slept like a baby that night.

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  141. but thank you for the advice. I might be a bit testy and not my normal cheerful self as i struggle through depriving myself of the joys of being obliviously drunk.

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  142. Thanks...I'm proud of these abs. You are jealous, aren't you?

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  143. Yeah, I'd quit the drinking Giraffe.

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  144. excellent, Dg. because I am going to the doc for some. I need all the help I can get to restrain myself from partying. I figure I will pop that sucker around 6pm, then the night is shot.

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  145. no, i'm not DG, because I'm going to have a tummy tuck.

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  146. thanks, spurs, I will.

    I'm having a tummy tuck because I had my appendix out and do not like the way the scar looks.

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  147. Mix it with some wine rq. It's like instant passout drunk. I know that is not going to help you keep you on the wagon but it makes you skip all the drinking and acting crazy and sending you straight to dreamland without the hangover the next day.

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  148. no, i hear you DG, I think that is sage advice. I have in the past mixed it with xanax. I tried to walk to the toilet to pee and ran right into the wall. hahahahahahah

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  149. then someone says i called them on the phone, but damn if i remember.

    DG - you might be doing some wacky things in the night and not remembering them. How about you set up a hidden camera?

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  150. Won't the tummy tuck leave yet another scar? Then what....get a tuck of the tummy tuck? It's never ending.

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  151. you can live feed it to my computer, and if i see you up and about, I'll call and wake you up. Kinda like Freddy Kruger.

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  152. that scar will be better hidden...this one is just too high. I will need someone to fetch me from the hospital.

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  153. I have done that alot. There are many conversations I don't remember. There has been times I've commented on here and don't remember.

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  154. i was going to start going to some support group meetings for the hell of it. There are some cool ones out there. Not that I have any relation to the group, but I think it's a nice way to meet people.

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  155. i was thinking of going to the pet loss support group in paradise valley tomorrow, but i thought that might be bad karma.

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  156. then again i did lose a pet turtle back in the 70's

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  157. It would be rq. Why are you going and spending your money at an expensive restaurant when instead you can meet people sitting in a circle with free coffee?

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  158. Yeah, I don't know if you want to go to a pet loss group if your dog isn't dead.

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  159. ok, well, just don't drive, DG. people do that.

    Judging from your pic, you definitely have not been sleep eating.

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  160. good point, DG. and cookies, too, I bet!

    See, Spurs? DG gets me.

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  161. well, my lovelies, i must slumber in my sleeping chamber now

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  162. Did you ever see that Intervention where that girl was an uncontrollable eater? Her parents had to lock the fridge and all the food up. I'm sure Elfie has seen it.

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  163. Let the record show DG has threatened to strike me dead with lightening.

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  164. Elfie was probably the inspiration behind the story

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  165. you know what I find depressing about intervention? the treatment does not work. At the end of virtually every show, the person has already returned to their addiction.

    That is why my treatment center where I trade one addiction for another, is going to work.

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