The Worse Consequence Of The Economic Crisis

One of the very worst consequences, so far, directly as a result of the economic crisis, has happened, at least in Spain, Hopefully not also in other places. Bargain sale of drugs. An ecstasy tablet costs now just 1€. Free even if one buys cocaine. Speed and LSD cost about 15€. Besides there is now on sale a new hallucinating cocktail mixture of 4 explosive substances put together! Called 'Puchero' which in Spanish means a long cooked stew of various types of meats and vegetables. As if shopping in supermarkets, buy one get one free, summer sale, further reduction this week, clearance sale ... except we are talking about drugs! What is happening here??

With the recent crises, luxury goods and services come down in price to maintain illusion, and many basic daily necessities and general commodities come down too in price to help maintain life, but drugs do to destroy it. The principal consumers of drugs are unfortunately the young, and they now find that what they couldn't afford before is at last available and easy. Being young and carefree, what they seek is experimental pleasure, any novelty and experience, even though vaguely aware of lurking dangers.

Nobody starts off wishing to be an addict, all feel confident enough to just try and feel what it's like, then stop ... but few do. There's always the temptation of a higher expectation, a deeper experience, the attraction of the unknown, the mystery, the promise ... Hell is never advertised.

The cheaper prices are also likely result of cheaper production cost, which can only be deducted from using poorer quality components, all the higher the risk to health and damaging effect. Apparently the ecstasy, before the crisis, was 30€ each tablet, while cocaine was between 40-50€, depending on district, how urgently one needed it, etc. Very much cheaper now yew, but is it good enough reason to kill oneself for it???

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Sin & Fun Of Being Irish

Paddy & Mick go to London to donate sperm. It was a disaster! Paddy missed the tube & Mick came on the bus!! ************************** A Muslim was sitting next to Paddy on a plane. Paddy ordered a whiskey. The stewardess asked the Muslim if he'd like a drink. He replied in disgust 'I'd rather be raped by a dozen whores than let liquor touching my lips!' Paddy handed his drink back & said 'Me too, I didn't know we had a choice!' ************************** Paddy calls EasyJet to book a flight. The operator asks 'How many people are flying with you?' Paddy replies 'I don't know! Its your f***ing plane!!' ************************** Paddy & Murphy are working on a building site. Paddy says to Murphy 'I'm gonna have the day off, I'm gonna pretend I'm mad!' He climbs up the rafters , hangs upside down & shouts 'I'M A LIGHTBULB! I'M A LIGHTBULB!' Murphy watches in amazement! The Foreman shouts 'Paddy you're mad, go home' So he leaves the site. Murphy starts packing his kit up to leave as well. 'Where the hell are you going?' asks the Foreman. 'I can't work in the friggin dark! ' says Murphy. *************************** Two Irish couples decided to swap partners for the night. After 3 hours of amazing sex Paddy says 'I wonder how the girls are getting on' *************************** Paddy takes his new wife to bed on their wedding night. She undresses & lies on the bed spreadeagled & says 'You know what I want don't you?' 'Yeah,' says Paddy. 'The whole friggin bed by the looks of it!' *************************** Q. What's a Catholic priest & a pint of Guinness got in common? A. Black coat, white collar & you've got to watch your arse if you get a dodgy one! *************************** Paddy the electrician got sacked from the U.S. prison service for not servicing the electric chair. He said in his professional opinion it was a death trap! *************************** Paddy's chat up lines: 1. Did ya fart? 'Cos ya just blew me away! 2. Are your parents retarded? 'Cos you're special! 3. My love for you is like diarrhoea. I just cant hold it in! 4. Is there a mirror in your knickers? 'Cos I can see myself in them! 5. Your body reminds me of a spanner. Every time I think of you my nuts tighten up! 6. You might not be the best looking girl in here, but beauty is only a light switch away! *************************** Paddy, the Irish boyfriend of the woman whose head was found on Arbroath beach was asked to identify her. A detective held up the head to which point Paddy said 'I don't think that's her, she wasn't that tall!' *************************** Paddy & his wife are lying in bed & the neighbours dog is barking like mad in the garden. Paddy says 'To hell with this!' & storms off. He comes back upstairs 5 minutes later & his wife asks 'What did you do?' Paddy replies 'I've put the dog in our garden. Lets see how they like it!' *************************** An Irishman is shagging a Jewish girl & says 'You're not very tight for a Jew!' She says 'Well you're not very thick for a Paddy!' *************************** Paddy is said to be shocked at finding out all his cows have Blue tongue. 'By Jesus!' he said, 'I didn't even know they had mobile phones!' *************************** Mick & Paddy are reading head stones at a nearby cemetery. Mick says 'Crikey! Theres a bloke here who was 152!' Paddy says 'What's his name?' Mick replies 'Miles from London!' *************************** An Irishman is rowing his boat in a field of hay. Paddy drives past & stops. He looks at the Irishman in the boat & shouts 'Its thick heads like you that give us Irish a bad name! I'd come over there & kick the f**k out of you if I could swim!' Tags:Irish

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Estell Reiner, Sally & Harry

In the history of cinematography there have a great number of memorable phrases, that can't separate from the faces of actors or actresses who pronounced them, more so perhaps than even the story. In many cases, even long after your have forgotten about the name of the film, the story, but those catch phrases seem to remain for ever, which at any given moment would just pop up in your mind and often pop out from your mouth. I bet we all remember quite a number of those. The American actress, Estell Reiner, passed away a few years ago at the age of 94, of natural causes. She was made famous by uttering just one sentence in one of the most celebrated great films of the 80's, hers but a mere cameo roll in 'When Harry meets Sally'. That was a very enjoyable comedy although for the life of me I can't remember much details of the story, but one particular scene had stuck in my mind ever since, same for sure with the majority of people who have seen it. The scene that had made Meg Ryan a huge star for her delicious performance in which she feigned an orgasm right in the middle of a crowned restaurant, screaming out loud her ecstasy to a thundering crescendo. Estell Reiner came into the restaurant in time to catch that delightful sequence and, just then the waitress asked her what did she want to have, and she said, pointing at Meg Ryan: "Bring me the same - whatever she just had!' Bet you do remember that, don't you? Even if you were too young to see films like 'Gone with the wind' when it was first out, you must have seen it in one of the many reruns that appear every couple of years, and I confessed that I am definitely a fan of old films. I must have seen it in total no less than 6-7 times!! How can anyone forget the way Clark Gable said to Vivien Leigh, with that arrogant smirk on his face: "Frankly my beautiful, I don't give a damn."? Or, Humphrey Bogart saying to Lauren Bacall in the film 'CasaBlanca': "There would always be Paris for us." Or in many of the real oldies, long before all of our time, with Mae West, (all scripts and dialogue written by herself too) when she said: 'When I am good, I am very good; when I am bad, I am better!" That to me was ultimately ingenious. Or her "Come up to see me sometime!" .Ordinary enough remark. Naturally, the way these legendary phrases were so well remembered were due to the credit of the stars, in the way they were said, accompanied with just the right degree of cheek, cynicism, irony, expressions, gestures or postures. I am annoyed with myself that I still can't whistle, even though I have practised many times another of the well known catch phrase: 'Just put you lips together, and, blow!' Alas, I simply can't blow! Tags:oldfilms,catchphrases

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Croissant, Jam & Condoms

An Englishman is having breakfast in Paris one morning - coffee, croissants, bread, butter and jam, when a Frenchman, chewing bubble-gum, sits down next to him and starts a conversation.

Frenchman: 'You English folks eat the whole bread?'

Englishman (not in very friendly mood): 'Of course.'

Frenchman: (after blowing a huge bubble) 'We don't. In France, we only eat what's inside. The crusts we collect in a container, recycle it, transform them into croissants and sell them to England!'. The Frenchman has a smirk on his face. The Englishman listens in silence.

The Frenchman persists: 'Do you eat jam with the bread??'

Englishman: 'Of Course.'

Frenchman: (cracking his bubble-gum between his teeth and chuckling). 'We don't. In France we eat fresh fruit for breakfast, then we put all the peels, seeds, and leftovers in containers, recycle them, transform them into jam, and sell the jam to England!'.

After a moment of silence, The Englishman then asks: 'Do you have sex in France?'

Frenchman: 'Why of course we do', he says with a big smirk.

Englishman: 'And what do you do with the condoms once you've used them?'

Frenchman: 'We throw them away, of course.'

Englishman: 'We don't. In England, we put them in a container, recycle them, melt them down into bubble-gum, and sell them to France!'.

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Girlfriend Experience

Fortunately for the movie world, and more so for the discerning audiences, some good film directors don't always sell themselves out for attractive capitals. Steven Soderbergh is one if those rare species, who confessed unabashed that he accepted to direct the 'Ocean Eleven' saga for money, to enable him to embark on underground projects he is truly passionate about. Like the one he had in hand at the time, the 'Girlfriend Experience', with a team of just 6 people. The film was about deluxe prostitution, starring the real life porno queen Sasha Grey.

During the return of one of his rarities ''Schizpholis' in New York, Soderbergh told the press that film had cost a less than modest budget of $200,000 in 1996, which demonstrated his willingness to continue exploring with experimental films like 'Bubble' and later the 'Girlfriend Experience', a small and intimate story. "After a whole year dedicated to 'Che' I feel like getting my teeth into something totally opposite".

Sounds exactly the type of film that usually attracts me, more so than the big budgeted Hollywood extravaganzas, too often with deafening sounds, over abundance of special effects generated by computers, and an mere excuse of a story. Maybe it's just a coincidence, but in recent months there seem to be an awful lot of films and TV productions on or around the subject of sex and prostitution. The oldest business must still be the best business.

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