Encountered a Yammerbot today

[Lace Neil Singer]

As described by Dips here.

This guy was just standing in the checkout line yacking away to every single person in it, regardless of the fact that they were all either ignoring him, making "Shut the bleep up" faces or desperately trying to stop him from talking at them. He just wouldn't fricking stop! He carried on talking on right til the moment he was thru the till and out the door; I don't think he even stopped to breathe.

[Peppergirl]

Non stop rambling? Was he twitching too?

I vote meth-head. Anyone else?

[crazylegs]

Sounds like one of our local Mental Health patients (no) care in the community type thing, only your about 200 miles away from me...

(meth hasn't taken off over here yet, thank god)

[Lace Neil Singer]

Yeah; this wasn't a methhead; could have been care in the community tho. O_o

[Rapscallion]

(meth hasn't taken off over here yet, thank god)

Not yet, but there are enough warnings and sightings to take the decent decongestant off the market. That new stuff is marketed as "non-drowsy", which is like saying that caffiene is non-drowsy. I never felt such an effect or heard of it from anyone else from the original gear.

Rapscallion

[crazylegs]

Not yet, but there are enough warnings and sightings to take the decent decongestant off the market.

I can assure you, you *can* produce meth from the current and new stock of decongestants, which is why they are and always have been 'P' rated meds and can only be sold in certain size packs.

That I hope (with the exception of bulk thefts) be enough to prevent meth from being made to any great degree as ALL 'P' meds sales must be made under the direction of a pharmacist.

[Rapscallion]

Um, I can walk into the nearest supermarket and buy some without a pharmacist present - I could do that in the local 24-hour Tesco. No idea how they pull that off, though I think they limit the quantities you can buy in any particular purchase.

Rapscallion

[crazylegs]

If it contains (pseudo) phenylephedrine (sp, big time) or related there will be a limit on quantity.

[AdminAssistant]

(meth hasn't taken off over here yet, thank god)

Meth's been a huge problem in my hometown for a long, long time. My dad was a volunteer fireman for a while, and the stories he told: houses burning with green flames, working meth labs in the back of pick-up trucks and vans, etc. etc. However, the limited quantities on pseudoephedrine just kicked in around 5 years ago.

Do people realize what that stuff is made of? Why would anyone volutarily inject a blend of decongestant, bleach, gasoline, and fertilizer into themselves?

[karma_gypsy]

(meth hasn't taken off over here yet, thank god)

Oh boy, it's running rampant here .... it's to the point where they're stealing catalytic converters from underneath vehicles .... that are parked in parking lots ... you know, at places like Wal-Mart, grocery stores and such ... (they take the converters, melt them down to make an indiscernible hunk of metal and then sell it).




Maybe the guy is on his way to being a meth-head? Either that or a teenaged girl in disguise .... What color was the phone? Was there a small dog under the arm?

[IT Grunt]

I encountered one of these at the emergency room once. My wife and I had just gotten home from our honeymoon, and we went out to get food in the house. Well, we ended up wrecking the car in the grocery store parking lot . My wife had some pain so they took her to the ER to get her checked out. While we're there, a county sheriff and a city cop bring a guy in cuffs into the ER.

They cuffed him to the bed next to my wife's, and there was just a curtain between us. This guy wouldn't. shut. up! He just kept rambling on and on and on, switching topics every 15 seconds. I asked the sheriff where they put the Energizer, because he just going and going and going. He told me he had gone off his meds and was being taken to the mental hospital that night. A friend of mine that came to bring us home wished he'd had a tape recorder, for he figured a recording of this guy would have been fun at parties.

Anyways, I know exactly what you mean.

[BookstoreEscapee]

Not yet, but there are enough warnings and sightings to take the decent decongestant off the market. That new stuff is marketed as "non-drowsy", which is like saying that caffiene is non-drowsy. I never felt such an effect or heard of it from anyone else from the original gear.

Rapscallion

I still buy the real stuff. I haven't noticed any difference in drowsiness levels between them, but I think the real stuff just works better. I'll whip out my ID for it. No problemo. Unfortunately, since they obviously don't sell as much anymore, it seems Target no longer has a store brand of the real stuff. Went there a few months ago and the pharmacy tech said they didn't have it and she wasn't sure they were going to even get it back. So I had to get the name brand and spend twice as much. (Last time I went elsewhere.)

[Andara Bledin]

Not yet, but there are enough warnings and sightings to take the decent decongestant off the market.

I hate meth-heads for the sole fact that the non pseudo-ephedrine sinus meds are totally useless for me. And if it says "non drowsy" on the box, it's doubly so.

If they'd just stop going after the mostly-harmless stuff, legalize it, then tax the carp out of it, they could afford to get the really dangerous stuff cleaned up.

^-.-^

[chainedbarista]

Why would anyone volutarily inject a blend of decongestant, bleach, gasoline, and fertilizer into themselves?

they're affected by a special kind of stupid!

makes me glad i don't have to worry about using it, but still...

[crazylegs]

Why would anyone volutarily inject a blend of decongestant, bleach, gasoline, and fertilizer into themselves?

You forgot battery acid and iodine (just for good measure)