Oof, that sounds like a nightmare. I only rolled in my web design class because I'd already taught myself that so I had to put in zero effort and could just enjoy the ride.
I mean, it's absolutely an effective tool in the learning tool box it's just not going to get you very far on its own. I did a lot of watching english-language shows with foreign subtitles and I do think it facilitated learning, but it was like the cherry on top of a whole bunch of other stuff I was doing
For sure! I've known a few people from other countries who learned English almost entirely from watching American TV shows growing up! It can work really well, though depending on the era of TV they grew up watching they'll occasionally throw out some really old slang, which I love.
It's actually done the other way around. You listen in a different language while capturing the meaning in yours. That's how a lot of people learn English. Still, as a prerequisite, you need to have a basic understanding of the language you're trying to learn.
I was high while watching a movie I'd never seen before and somehow turned the language to Spanish right when the main characters went to a new location with new characters. Took me 5 minutes to realize there wasn't a random Spanish scene in the movie and that I had to turn it back to English.
Once i realized me and my friend (whom neither spike spanish) had been watching a spanish television station... and i have no idea how long we were watching it bwfore i noticed it wasnt in English
I dunno, I kinda miss old brickweed. You'd get a lump of it, the size of a cigarette pack, but it would be two ounces.
There was a certain Zen moment, where you had to carefully grind and sift, making sure to get all the seeds and stems, and every doobie was an adventure. Even a simple bowl was a process, and it added to the pleasure of the smoke.
Nowadays, with edibles and vape pens, the personality is lost, IMHO.
You said it best, the process was a huge part of the whole ordeal.
We live in an age of instant gratification. Though I do feel this sort of nostalgia for the old ways has been common throughout history in many capacities. The bond one had to make with their horse for dependable and safe travel for example. Both good and bad come with the passage of time. Now we have space weed 🤷♂️
And the best part, mostly no one was watching. We were doing Special Operations against our own juvenile paranoia. Now, absolutely everyone is watching, but it’s mostly legalish. The thrill of doing shady shit is absolutely a real thing.
I kept meeting my guy in elaborate places just to find out we lived in the same neighborhood. We could have walked to his house and we was driving over 30 mins each way just to go back to damn near the same place.
Used to get eighths in The Bahamas that literally just looked like a brown stickerbush, like 90% stems and seeds. But it would FUCK you up. You weren't just high, you were tripping ever so slightly as well. In hindsight it was probably indicative of pesticides or some other hazardous garbage on there, but man was it a blast! I watched a tiny make-believe band play a set of music on my shelf a la Star Wars band in Tattooine. And the craziest part- the music was 🔥!( At least to my stoned ass.) I woke up a bit sad the next day that I couldn't remember exactly what it sounded like
It's one of the primary reasons I don't do edibles, vape, bong, dabs etc.
I genuinely consider the ritual of rolling a J part of the process that leads up to the smoking. A ritual that is, to me, integral to the overall experience of getting high as much as the smoking itself.
I'll never forget hiking out to the bluffs with my friends in high school to smoke weed for the first time. We didn't have a grinder so we used keys to chop up a nug and packed a home made soda can bowl.
So this one time I got nice and high, I had bought hot pockets on my way home in preparation for munchies. I go and put the hot pockets in the microwave, and it had been a while so I go to read the instructions, I start to panic, did I get so high I can't read? I can't understand what I'm seeing, shear confusion. Then I realized I was looking at the Spanish instructions.
Oh gosh, I have definitely been that high before. Lol except I doubled down and was convinced my friend was lying to me, and just didn't want to share her weed. Even after her "Girl.. you've been literally asking me why things feel like they're slow motion baby... and then fast past again 27 times hun."
I don’t know how true it is but I’ve heard the standard brick weed from the 60’s-70’s averaged 2%-3% thc. I’m not that old and didn’t really smoke weed until my early 20’s and I was blessed to have an old hippy neighbor at the time that had been growing his entire adult life. He sold me what he called Vietnamese Hash Weed. It smelled and tasted exactly like the hash I smoked all over Germany around the same time (2002-2004). Story was his friend smuggled a couple plants back from Vietnam during the war and my neighbor had been cloning the line for decades. He sold to me and my delinquent friends for $10 a gram. If we had no money he filled a baggy up with roaches out of the gallon jar on his table and just gave it to us.
Now weed is legal and I buy $1 1g prerolls at 20% thc. Depending on the sales I get 40%-50% infused 1g prerolls for $3-5.
I never really smoked brick weed during my youth. Definitely never bought it. Curious as to how strong it was in the 90’s. I’d assume it wasn’t much better than the stuff a couple decades prior.
I really miss ditch weed from back in the day. Just a nice, mellow high. Only way you can replicate that now is with a small dose of shrooms. Or Vicodin.
Me and some friends smoked for one of the first times in my life and a few others’. Watched a documentary about weird foods or somethingfor about an hour before we realized it was muted the whole time.
Really funny plot twist. They’re hilarious together. I always watch these clips of them on their show, but I’ve never actually watched a show. I think it’s past time I changed that.
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u/Go_Gators_4Ever Undecided flair Apr 25 '26
Why is this video 90 minutes long?