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Von Bontee said
I'd say you can get addicted in the same way as you can to eating chocolate or watching television or texting or playing videogames or doing ANYTHING you find enjoyable enough to want to do it again and again.

Yes, thats probably the best way to put it.  With some things though (drugs), walking a self control tight-rope and falling off is much worse than with something of less consequence (video games).

meanmistermustard said
Or break the law.

 

Act responsible folks- or we'll make you listen to the worst hours of the Get Back sessions thru headphones (not sure if that would be every single second of The Long and Winding Road recordings or the Jams but you'll be screaming for leniency and vowing to never repeat your offences).

No, this is what you get for irresponsibility.  

But truthfully, I am glad to see a forum where this can be openly talked about in a mature manner amongst many age groups.  Really does make me smile

Wildcat said
What a great thread, first time I've read it tonight. Everyone has been very articulate. But Satan H, between you and linkjws, I think I've found two soulmates.

"the only thing this thread is lacking is a few more honest voices talking about the mental and emotional freedom they've experienced when getting a little buzz and having fun listening to the greatest band there ever was."

I just picked the one line from Satan H's excellent Aug 16 post, so many to choose from, and would love to share some "honesty," but it's late for me, so all I'll share now is that I, too, am a government worker, currently a decision writer of disability adjudication claims for administrative law judges in the Social Security Administration. It's the highest position attainable in my Division without having to be a part of management, requiring the use of strict Regulatory language and an intimate knowledge of medical terms that require an innate ability to properly spell them correctly, even if I can't pronounce them, mainly Latin-derived words like esophagogastroduodenoscopy and salpingo-oopherectomy that no 'spell check' is going to help with, and an in-depth knowledge of the SSA Book of Federal Regulations and Findings pertaining specifically to Subpart C, Section 4, of Listings 12.04 and its concurrent subparts as applied to Social Security Disability Law.

In April of next year I will have attained 25 years of government service, with a spotless record and a 22-year Thrift Savings Plan that will allow me to retire any time after my 53rd birthday. And I have been a habitual marijuana user for 31 years.

But if linkjws was a Master of Time and a Ruler of The Universe, who could not only promise me that he could take me back to 1964 and turn me into any one of The Beatles I wanted to be, but also with guaranteed immortality, ever-lasting youth and full control of my own destiny IF  the only thing I would ever have to do in return was to spend 7 minutes and 36 seconds with the other 3 Beatles playing backup music to Yoko Ono's brain-melting, soul-destroying audio assault of screams and nonsense tongues bleated at full volume through her megaphone mouth… I'd have to politely decline. No chemical substance on earth would be able to make me high enough to endure that unique, horrendous torture, nor one powerful enough to erase the memory from my conscious mind.

Of course, I couldn't bear to watch more than a few unfortunate seconds, one part where Paul is physically assaulting an amplifier with his instrument during this agonizing exercise of unspeakable torture. For him, Ringo and George to have actually tolerated such sadistic behavior from John and still maintain the composure to keep from beating him mercilessly -

if that ain't friendship, then I don't know what is.

Congratulations Wildcat! So does that mean you will be retiring soon?  Then you might be able to go on into detail in this subject?   That really is incredible though.  To be honest half of your post was gibberish to me but I am sure its pretty ingenious stuff.  However you have truly defined "friendship" in my mind.  I have watched all of the Yoko jam, and have determined its entirely why Paul gained weight and became alcohol-dependant by 1970.  I wish I could send you back as Paul, George, or Ringo (Billy Preston even) if you promised to knock sense into John.  The "Yoko Jam" occurred the same day George left The Beatles during the Get Back sessions.  Maybe after George tried to knock some sense into John when they threw some punches?  Don't know what day that occurred though.