krs
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posted on November 19, 2001 07:25:14 AM
....as part of an anti-drug education program, of course. I guess it takes a lot to get through to kids in Virginia.
http://www.dailymail.com/news/News/2001111024/
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enchanted
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posted on November 19, 2001 08:48:51 AM
Well, I'd rather not talk about explosive diarrhea.  I'll talk about Oxycontin though. Yes, it's being abused by young people. Also, if you don't reach kids by junior high age with even a grain of truth about the truth of drug addiction as opposed to the false mystique of the cool use of drugs, it becomes even harder to break through the wall of denial and harder for a young person to change their behavior away from drug use. Distasteful in subject matter but true and useful.
In addition, this could be a good selling point for the manufacturers of Depends to reach a new consumer market, 12 to 20 year olds.
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saabsister
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posted on November 19, 2001 09:23:30 AM
Let's not play fast and loose with the truth. Although the article is about West Virginia, the Appalachian area of Virginia has a big problem with Oxycontin also. I found this statement interesting:
The campaign highlights the social alienation that can come from the side effects of prescription drug abuse, such as uncontrollable shaking, vomiting, splotchy skin and diarrhea.
I can't even remember the number of times social alienation has been cited as the reason for drug abuse. Now the side effects of drug abuse are said to bring social alienation. The chicken or the egg?
[ edited by saabsister on Nov 19, 2001 09:27 AM ]
[ edited by saabsister on Nov 19, 2001 09:28 AM ]
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rawbunzel
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posted on November 19, 2001 11:20:00 AM
Do we HAVE to talk about it??!!
Why can't we talk about projectile vomiting instead. 
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saabsister
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posted on November 19, 2001 11:38:00 AM
Rawbunzel, here's my chance to contribute a cat story. 
I never believed there was such as thing as projectile vomiting until I had to transport my cat in his carrier. He made a believer out of me as he must have been trying to set a Guinness record - it went all the way across the backseat of the car and into the other cat's carrier.
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hjw
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posted on November 19, 2001 11:42:06 AM
The kids will learn how to craft a sentence with a shocking effect. That's all.
Helen
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plsmith
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posted on November 19, 2001 11:47:12 AM
What the hell are you talking about, Helen, diarrhea as punctuation???
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rawbunzel
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posted on November 19, 2001 11:48:12 AM
LOL Saabsister!
WARNING
BEGINNING OF DISGUSTING CAT STORY
Projectile vomiting and cats is one of my top topics! I happen to have a cat that just yesterday stood on the basement steps [the in the house stairs] and vomited from the stairs all the way over to her food dish, at least five feet away. Unfortunatly my husbands boot was in the path and guess where some of it landed?? I offered to clean it out.
This cat has diabetes and over eats and over drinks and then she does this. About twice a week. This is the first time she has hit anything so interesting. I know,I know, why do I keep a cat like this.....
END OF DISGUSTING CATS STORY
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saabsister
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posted on November 19, 2001 12:02:44 PM
Lol, rawbunzel. Cats are such elegant animals.
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hjw
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posted on November 19, 2001 12:33:39 PM
Hell, Pat
I don't know what I'm talking about.
Let me see....
I think that the kids will learn how to craft scatalogical sentences and shock their mothers.
Helen
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hjw
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posted on November 19, 2001 01:03:53 PM
In other words, the kids will not learn to avoid drugs by the use of this commercial.
The diarrhea message will be just as effective as Nancy Reagan's advice; "Just say no".
Helen
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plsmith
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posted on November 19, 2001 01:19:00 PM
I dunno... I'd kinda like to see Laura Bush "Just say poo"
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saabsister
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posted on November 19, 2001 01:25:02 PM
Good one, plsmith!
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hjw
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posted on November 19, 2001 01:30:51 PM
or poopoo.
Helen
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plsmith
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posted on November 19, 2001 01:47:24 PM
Saabsister, as a cat person you must be aware that the mere mention of previous feline vomiting incidents sets off a new wave of them around the world. You and Rawbunzel had no sooner begun swapping spew stories when my own herd of Feral Terrors began retching in our backyard. The youngest one -- some ten or eleven weeks old -- hasn't quite caught onto the system yet and actually attempted to lap up one appetizing oozy puddle. And now that I've mentioned cat-vomiting again, the curse will be moving back to your house terreckly
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saabsister
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posted on November 19, 2001 02:09:32 PM
plsmith, I hope the king of hairballs doesn't hear your comment. He's hawked them up everywhere. At one point he thought it appropriate to deposit them in his litterbox. I wished he'd stuck with that choice.
Two vets I know went on vacation together with their three large dogs. One dog got car sick and barfed in the keyhole of the driver's Saab - the keyhole is located between the two front seats. The car shorted out and had to be towed.
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snowyegret
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posted on November 19, 2001 02:14:34 PM
Paint sniffers throw up the most disgusting junk you ever saw, and it makes explosive diarrhea look good. Never stopped them.
Rawbunzel, what a great cat story! My stepdaughter's longhair cat hawked up a hairball right by my husband's sleeping face.
You have the right to an informed opinion
-Harlan Ellison
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krs
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posted on November 19, 2001 02:26:16 PM
That cat would be dead today.
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snowyegret
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posted on November 19, 2001 04:01:09 PM
The Booger of Infamy died of natural causes. But he wasn't there when my hubby woke up.
You have the right to an informed opinion
-Harlan Ellison
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MAH645
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posted on November 19, 2001 05:07:55 PM
Why don't we start a thread of "As The Cat's Stomach Turns" where everybody can post their cats most famous upchuck story.
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rawbunzel
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posted on November 19, 2001 07:34:26 PM
HeHeHe..well....if you liked that cat story you should hear the one about the litter of 7 puppies that all got projectile vomiting and explosive diarrhea at the same time.
That was a few days I would like to have not had to live through. They all survived too but I had to stay up all night with them for several nights and give them kaopectate and honey water to keep them going.
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snowyegret
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posted on November 19, 2001 07:53:08 PM
This thread's in the toilet.
7 puppies puking 
You have the right to an informed opinion
-Harlan Ellison
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rawbunzel
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posted on November 19, 2001 08:11:24 PM
7 puppies puking sounds like part of the Christmas song...you know..The Twelve days of Christmas.
Maybe we could re-write it. Never liked that song anyway.
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krs
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posted on November 19, 2001 08:36:13 PM
A swallow in a pear tree.
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sweetpotato
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posted on November 20, 2001 12:27:06 PM
What?? You've all gone to the effort of successfully derailing krs' thread and no one's posted any cat pics for him?
We can't have that, now can we??
(not my cat)
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enchanted
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posted on November 20, 2001 12:54:37 PM
Projectile vomiting and cats is one of my top topics!
Rawbunz, this does worry me.
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