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Will the photo of Michael Phelps smoking pot

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  1. Dave_PH

    Dave_PH New Member

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    ruin the whole TV ad campaign about how smoking pot destroys motivation?
     
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    Maybe someone who is so obviously driven needs to relax once in a while. Anyway, I thought the prohibitions were for performance enhancing drugs, on which pot hardly qualifies.
     
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    It always enhanced my skiing ability.*

    But it kinda discredits the 'pot makes you do nothing' ads when the man who won the largest nyumber of gold medals in a single olympics is a pot smoker.



    * Actually I never smoked it. It was the 2nd hand smoke from other people on the gondolas. Yeah, that's it. Second hand smoke.
     
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    qbee42 My other car is a boat

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    That was before. He hasn't won a single gold medal since he was confirmed as a pot smoker. :rolleyes:

    Tom
     
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    The video looks like he knew how to operate the pipe. Quick learner I guess.
     
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    Who cares what Phelps does when he is not competing? Bad drug policy makes the populace all the more cynical. He is the poster boy that proves pot smoking does nothing but get you high.
     
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    I think it's pretty dumb we lavish all this attention on a jock. It's all about Bread and Circus, to keep the sheep entertained

    Why can't we all aspire to be engineers, scientists, etc?
     
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    The business of America is now advertising, and the audience is high school grad level-or less.
     
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    Pot usually motivated me to eat more, which is the last thing I needed to be motivated to do.
     
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    patsparks An Aussie perspective

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    A lot of people do. My son does.
     
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    If he's interested in computer science or chemical engineering, I'd be pleased to provide helpful hints
     
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    Now there's a reason for genetic engineering. Make pot smokers more motivated to become rocket scientists (or if you're actually a rocket scientist you'd say brain surgeons).
     
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    Doesn't he have asthma? Or is that some other swimmer?
     
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    galaxee mostly benevolent

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    nobody in the target audience believes the tv ad campaigns anyway.
     
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    He is merely self-medicating due to his ADD.
     
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    hyo silver Awaaaaay

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    Athletes, actors...'entertainment' is a huge industry of modern day court jesters making us comfortably numb. Heaven forbid we learn what's really going on, let alone do anything about it.
     
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    Nope, can't have that. Imagine all the bloodsucking middlemen, consultants, lobbyists, etc, who'd be out of a job.

    The horror

    I know I'm giving bloodsuckers a bad name. Even that time a few years ago when I went skinnydipping in a small, rocky lake, and had them attach to various appendages and pointy bits, which required a LOT of patient removal, at least they didn't stick to me with deliberate malice
     
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    If no photos have surfaced of Mark Spitz with a roach clip, I'm sure someone is out there photoshopping Spitz into a bong photo.
     
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    amm0bob Permanently Junior...

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    And just why would that be a problem for him Bra...

    Haven't you EVER heard of ASTHMADOR...

    Get a clue at least on available treatments...

    (Haven't they gone back to using leaches too... let's get with the medical program folks...)


    :D
     
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    amm0bob Permanently Junior...

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    BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA...

    They don't need to photochop jackcheite Bra... he admitted it.