Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a pharmacy.
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I'll just mention that in Italy the word for potato is also used to refer to pussy.
Well now I have to see some Italian pussy
Boil 'em, mash 'em, inject 'em.
The first color photos were composed by tri-colored sensitized potato crums/particles.
Good thing I made potato soup yesterday.
Boil 'em . . . mash 'em . . . shove 'em up your ass . . . PO-TAY-TOES!
Not that kind of plug, NutWrench
TIL that I'm growing Ativan in my garden this year.
Those aren‘t just anxiety drugs. Lorazepam is a literal Benzo. Which means it literally depresses (ie. makes less active) your CNS (brain).
These drugs are highly addictive and tolerance forming. They‘re often prescribed for insomnia since they inhibit brain signalling.
Once your brain forms tolerance it increases excitatory signalling to „counter“ the drug. Which means if you abruptly stop, you get withdrawal. Your brain is „overactive“ you have seizures, loads of horrible symptoms, in some cases people die.
(Not trying to scare people, short term or sporadic use is actually decently safe, it‘s long term high dose use which is dangerous. But basically my point is „anxiety drug“ is underselling what this is.)
So what you're saying is that potatoes are a helluva drug.
You're also overstating their dangers by providing incomplete, inaccurate information. I worked on a pharma study on long-term benzo usage, so I'm familiar. Needless, inaccurate fear mongering like this is exactly what individuals with anxiety, recalcitrant insomnia, or seizure disorders do NOT need to read when looking into treatment options.
Benzodiazepines are an effective, appropriate treatment for a number of conditions, including treatment-resistant insomnia, anxiety and panic disorders, and epilepsy.
Long-term use is safe if prescribed and used correctly. Taking a low to moderate dose 2-4 days weekly is unlikely to result in tolerance or addiction. Higher-dosage and/or daily treatment is also safe under the care of a knowledgeable physician. Other modalities, such as SSRIs, tricyclics, and MAOIs, are preferable first-line treatments for anxiety and panic disorders, but some individuals have symptoms recalcitrant to treatment and require adjuvant therapy. Benzodiazepines are used as rescue medications by epileptics, and some have such serious symptoms that their use is a major facet of treatment. See Lennox-Gastaut syndrome to get an idea.
Abrupt withdrawal symptoms can be unpleasant but "seizures and loads of horrible symptoms" is more fear mongering. The most common symptoms of "quitting cold turkey" from frequent and long-term usage are minor but unpleasant: agitation, irritability, increased anxiety, increased sweating, etc. Seizures are rare and tend to be in individuals... wait for it... using these medications for acute seizure treatment. These can be easily avoided by tapering down the dosage over time.
I don't know what your motive here was, but consider the impact before trying to give people a scare.
tricyclics as a first-line treatment
What the hell did I just read?
It's not fear mongering. People need to be aware of the potential consequences prior to taking medication long term. Long-term usage causes (sometimes permanent) cognitive damage and withdrawal absolutely can cause psychosis, seizures and coma. Should you avoid medication if you need it? Absolutely not as the negatives are pale in comparison to the positives, but let's not pretend that those side effects are extremely rare.
I'd agree if you weren't misquoting me and referring to another statement out of context.
Do you have any specific criticism based on both what I actually wrote and actual medical science?
Edit: I expect it's how I mentioned tricyclics as a first-line treatment. Within anti depressants, SSRIs/SNRIs > tricyclic > MAOI due to side effect profiles, but all will often (but not always) be trialed before moving to benzodiazepine monotherapy or higher dose/frequency adjuvant therapy.
Some studies suggest TCAs are more effective than SSRIs. MAOIs are absolutely more effective than both, but their side effect profiles and restrictions due to dietary/medication interactions can be brutal.
The greatest evidence for this cognitive damage is a self-selected Internet survey: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10309976/
We call that "pretty low quality" data in science and public health. Unsatisfied customers are more likely to write a review. lI'm not saying it's not possible, but actual data is scant.
Lorazepam's main purpose is to treat anxiety, though. Calling it an anxiety drug is completely accurate
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They call dogs mans best friend, but we ignore the humble potato. Have they been with us as long as canines? No. That's why they're putting in so much effort to fufill our every need.
One day you're going to wake up and realize you love your potatoes. That they love you. The entire time, you'll know what you need to do. It will hurt, as it always does, as you boil and mash this tuber that was once your closest companion, but in return, they will give you a full days nourishment and only ask for a little more butter this time.
I love my dog, but I've never had to clean potato vomit out of a carpet at 3 am.
Lemme make a pot of mashed potatoes and get extremely drunk. We can change this.
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Potatoes are also one of the few foods you can live almost entirely on. If you eat the skin. They have about everything you need, unlike all other staple foods. The problem is you need a lot of them, and they get weird if they freeze. But you could dry them.
Peruvians used to smash them on the rocks and freeze dry them in the cold Andean air to preserve them for the winters up there above 10k feet.
I saw that movie.
Which movie is that? I just read about it in a news article before the news turned into shit.
The Martian. He gets trapped on Mars, and calculates out how long it's going to take to get rescued, how much food he will require, and decides to create a potato farm, and grow potatoes in a his own poop.
God I love potatoes.
That is all
They forgot that you can make a potato into a perfectly suitable pipe for smoking weed. Also an apple.
When you got weed and no papers, you get creative.
How do you make a potato into an apple man?
by saying it's French name "pomme de terre".. basically dirt apple
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I never understood why people did this. You can also turn an empty pop or beer can into a pipe so much easier. And they're ubiquitous, unlike apples and potatoes.
You mean dent the can and smoke the paint and plastic inner coating instead of just asking a dude for some papes
Are we sure this isn’t because of local contamination or something like that? Are we sure this is actually naturally occurring?
Nanograms / gram.
So just eat about 1 million potatoes daily.
Challenge accepted 😋
Potato tubers, YouTubers who talk about potatoes a lot.
Sorry, I need a potato themed wiafu vtuber or It's not going to hold my attention.
"What's up you guys? This is Tater-Todd and welcome to my four hour deep dive into the Disturbing History of the Yukon Gold Potato..."
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This might be pro-potato propaganda from big potato to drive up demand after the potato market crash in Europe. I'm gonna make mash with mine.
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Wait til u hear what they find in the humble poppy
Anyone got any poppy bulbs, asking for a friend
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Does this mean we could genetically engineer them to produce enough for an adult dose?
A potato a day keeps the psychiatrist away.
Latvians hate this one trick.
I first believed a "potato tuber" to be something similar to a v-tuber, but it's a potato.
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boil em mash em stick em in a stew
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