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Cats Drunk on Copper

Which is the title of a Current 93 album. Incidentally it's their only one I neither own nor have listened to that I'm aware of. Partially because it's yet another live album. But the title, I always adored.

I'm very generally with ManOfManyCharacters. There is a self-perpetuating spiral with mental illnesses and meds. If someone has a problem, it's usually easier to get diagnosed with a mental illness and pop some pills than to admit you have a problem and walk it the **** off. Yes, there are valid mental illnesses, but not everything under the sun is a mental illness.

Also see: Borderline. They've actually changed the definition of the entire 'illness' at least once that I'm aware of, and they're actually not sure if it really exists. But some psychologists and psychiatrists are diagnosing it nonetheless. ****, I'm pretty sure I'd be diagnosed with it, I even fit the revised definition to some extent. Revised definition being that Borderline patients can't produce endorphins normally and therefore have to get their kicks by going to extreme lengths like wolfing down spicy foods (capsaicin triggers endorphin release), experiencing pain (hits the same trigger as capsaicin) and seeking other extreme and/or dangerous situations. Still don't know what's sick about getting that extra kick, but I digress.

The other thing people of the psychiatric persuasion overlook is that there's a chicken and egg story with brain chemistry. People say all mental illnesses are imbalances or faults in other people's brain chemistry. Caused by what? Yes, some injuries can cause malfunctions in the brain. But not everyone who's schizophrenic or bi-polar has been hit in the head with a shovel. Which would lead me to believe that the aberrant brain chemistry is a symptom, not the root cause.

So what IS the root cause then?

This **** is putting me to sleep.

I'm sure torture is illegal... well, when conducted by private persons. How many people has Batman (and Spider-Man on that note) hung upside down from a building until they talked? I'm sure that's casually on the level of waterboarding, and since he's not exactly taking them to Cuba to do it... I'm pretty sure that's a crime.

Those aren't silhouettes.

I see your whoreses and raise you this one:



Enjoy!

Just in case people are unaware, a Mondegreen is "the mishearing or misinterpretation of a phrase, typically a standardized phrase such as a line in a poem or a lyric in a song, due to near homophony, in a way that gives it a new meaning."


So, earlier today I was listening to the BBC World Service, and they advertised an upcoming programme called 'Gross Incontinence' about African expatriates. And I keep listening to the guy talking about gross incontinence and wonder what the **** that has to do with leaving your homeland.

Of course, it eventually dawned on the that the programme was called 'Crossing Continents', but then you never know with those silly Brits.


Now, I know that you (yes, you) have definitely got one of those yourself, so let's hear 'em.

"Use the force, Luke. I've run out of lubricant."