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From: Ace on 22 Dec 2009 12:44 On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:53:09 -0600, Mark Olson <olsonm(a)tiny.invalid> wrote: >boots wrote: > >> Maybe the same as the paracetamol thing in the UK, apparently since >> stores are now supposed to limit sales to less that 2 packs of 16 >> tablets the suicide/poising rate has fallen because it's too difficult >> to go back in and buy another pack. So like murder a lot of suicides >> are spontaneous. > >It's pretty grim to be stupid. > >http://www.paracetamol-suicide.co.uk/ > >I don't think they limit acetaminophen (our word for it) sales in the >US, Correct. Buy it in bottles of 1000 from your local Wallgreens, or any supermarket for that matter. I don't often use them (except now, with a raging fever) but make sure I get plenty of ibuprofen when I'm in the US. >they're more worried about people making meth from pseudoephedrine. That's gone global now. But TBH the replacement stuff, <checks pack> phenylephrine, is just as good a decongestant, so no worries.
From: Tim on 22 Dec 2009 13:27 boots wrote: > On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:53:09 -0600 in uk.rec.motorcycles, Mark Olson > says: > >> boots wrote: >> >>> Maybe the same as the paracetamol thing in the UK, apparently since >>> stores are now supposed to limit sales to less that 2 packs of 16 >>> tablets the suicide/poising rate has fallen because it's too >>> difficult to go back in and buy another pack. So like murder a lot >>> of suicides are spontaneous. >> >> It's pretty grim to be stupid. >> >> http://www.paracetamol-suicide.co.uk/ > > Makes blowing your brains out seem attractive, well in comparison. > >> >> I don't think they limit acetaminophen (our word for it) sales in the >> US, they're more worried about people making meth from >> pseudoephedrine. > > That only sunk in with me recently when working with a couple of > colleagues from the US. They were surprised how easily I could get > Sudafed. Although having just checked my current supplies it no longer > lists pseudoephedrine, replaced by xylometazoline hydrochloride. Apparently pseudoephedrine is one of the ingredients for making crystal meth (whatever that is), hence it's removal from the US market. Tim
From: Ace on 22 Dec 2009 13:45 On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:27:09 -0000, "Tim" <timdownie2003(a)obvious.yahoo.co.uk> wrote: >> On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:53:09 -0600 in uk.rec.motorcycles, Mark Olson >> says: >>> US, they're more worried about people making meth from >>> pseudoephedrine. >Apparently pseudoephedrine is one of the ingredients for making crystal meth >(whatever that is), hence it's removal from the US market. You don't say!
From: Scraggy on 22 Dec 2009 14:09 Grimly Curmudgeon wrote: > We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the > drugs began to take hold. I remember "'Hog" > <sm911SPAM(a)hotmailCHIPS.co.uk> saying something like: > >> I suggest: >> >> # those executed never go on to bother another victim >> # victims/relatives often appreciate the execution >> # it should be cheaper than banging folk up for life >> >> and I propose that it may not deter all but it certainly deters some > > Konzentrationslaager (sp) worked extremely well, so I've been told. > Doesn't mean I want to see any in the Brutish Isles. Operation Demetrius doesn't count? -- I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members. Groucho Marx
From: R C Nesbit on 22 Dec 2009 14:11
Hog spoke: > # it should be cheaper than banging folk up for life If they simply changed the wording from 'life Sentence' to 'Death Sentence' - meaning you are sentenced to prison until you die, would have some effect. -- Rob_P UKRM(at)indqualtec.co.uk uppercase(d) BBIWYMC#1 BOG#11? MRO#31 IBCDBBB#1(kotl) FJ1200, CCM130 Benelli Cabriolet (gone) Looks like Rab C Nesbit. |