Drunk dial shame

Do you think alcohol should be legal out of interest?

I'm a senior NHS scientist with a PhD in a teaching hospital working on genetic biomarkers in leukemia patients predictive of clinical outcome and identifying novel therapeutic targets.

And you smoke weed? Really? That's absolutely disgusting and you should know the absolutely detrimental effects of doing so. Both on your own health, those around you and the impact drugs (yes, even a 'bit' of weed) have on those who grow it? Obtain it and produce it.
As a foster carer and wife of a Paramedic there is no way I would have anything to do with the stuff. The fall out is huge. Both to the children I have come into contact with in my role as a foster carer and those who are having psychosis and other significant health event due to weed. It isn't this harmless drug people assume it to be. It takes lives!!

Grow up!

Comedycook
No I don't drink actually.

Don't feel superior for that.

^^ bastests was replying to this not an earlier post.
V identifying info in your post, op, do you want to think about asking for it to be deleted? Would be easy to recognise you if I knew you.

If you mentioned weed in your messages I imagine that's put him off if you've had radio silence, it's one of those marmite past times.

Yes it must have been an earlier post. I think it's brilliant you've chosen not to drink and fully support that. Same as I don't look down on people who do.

Still don't get the link between sofas and class however! Anyway, supper beckons

You said in response to my post about me not drinking that it was nothing to be proud of. If you are referencing my earlier posts you should have said.

A comment about sofas and classism. These aren't facts.

I happen to be an RG graduate perched on the bottom of my bed with a glass of wine and not thinking about very much. I don't think this makes me especially anything, aside from a twit if I fall off.

I think you've totally hammered made your point @Comedycook

Bad luck OP, who hasn't drink dialled in their time. It's morto when you realise.

I would message him (actually WhatsApp so you can see if he's read it).

Its just a fact. I made no other comment.

I'd just message or phone him OP. If it's put him off then oh well, but it probably hasn't!

Don't feel superior for that.

No I don't drink actually.

I'm not anti weed, but I am risk averse. I enjoy a glass of wine, but I don't like getting drunk. Alcohol is legal and regulated. Weed isn't so you don't know what you are getting unless you grow it yourself.

This is just a personal view.

Is there, incidentally, such a thing as an outdoor sofa, all weather, in tasteful colours, of course? Google is only showing scratchy rattan. I quite like the idea of one for my summer evenings spent enjoying one or two doobies glasses of plonk.

Forget it. If he's right for you he'll get it. Life's too short to be ashamed.

Usually on those threads the men smoke weed every day and are a lazy partner, not doing anything with the kids, etc. OP said her child was at his dad's, so it sounds like she doesn't do it regularly or around her child. If a man had the odd joint on a night out away from the kids but was a overall a great partner, holds down a job, active parent, I wouldn't bat an eyelid.

Interesting everyone defending a woman smoking weed, whereas on threads where it’s the bloke, everyone is tripping over themselves to say LTB

Thank you, I really needed a giggle today x

Op did you message him?

Meh, anybody who moans about 'drug takers' but will happily get sloshed on wine with their mates is a bit hypocritical tbh. If alcohol was banned tomorrow loads of people would be buying it on the black market as happened in the prohibition era, and probably saying "a glass of red in my living room isn't hurting anyone".

It's highly likely that alcohol would banned too if we started from scratch and it wasn't so entrenched in our social system.

Mention of working for the NHS when it's not relevant is giving slight lockdown vibes, everyone on here felt the need to declare.

Just message him, if it has put him off (which it might have, it would me but each to their own) then at least you'll know, chances are though he is just waiting for you to message as he doesn't know whether to acknowledge them or not.

Sounds like classism and ageism to me.

But anyway, we now know the op has a PhD so it's all ok.

The sofa in the front garden crew don't even know the difference between "pass time" and "past time". Just sayin'... Stones in glass houses.

I'm white and I was repeatedly searched as a minor this continued until I was 17 mainly due to the area we grew up in. To this day I do not like the police and the manner in which they conduct themselves not all but most. I just never made the news and neither did my peers. It was harassment which had nothing to do with the colour of my skin. But this is so far off what the original post was about now and quite frankly I'm bored. The sofa outside my house is calling me and I really need to roll a fat one after this thread

The issue there is institutional racism within the police force. That's not OP's fault.