Charlie Brooker in the Guardian on drugs

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I don't know how to link but this was a very good rant on the media, and the comments afterwards were quite interesting; esp people who have taken miaow whatever. I suppose growing old is finding out about new drugs to be afraid of. It sounds pretty awful. A big comedown.

link.

Just copy and paste the web address with 2 square brackets at either end.

It was a very good article.

How do you cut and paste? [ashamed]

Click at the end of the address (up top) and it will go blue. Ctrl and C together to copy it. Then go to the Message box on the thread, and Ctrl and V together to paste it. Then put at the start and at the end, and it becomes a link.

Thankyou thankyou

here

Hurrah

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Oh.

he should lighten up, seriously his moaning is starting to irritate me as much as the stuff he is moaning about

"In its purest form, a newspaper consists of a collection of facts which, in controlled circumstances, can actively improve knowledge. Unfortunately, facts are expensive, so to save costs and drive up sales, unscrupulous dealers often "cut" the basic contents with cheaper material, such as wild opinion, bullshit, empty hysteria, reheated press releases, advertorial padding and photographs of Lady Gaga with her bum hanging out. The hapless user has little or no concept of the toxicity of the end product: they digest the contents in good faith, only to pay the price later when they find themselves raging incoherently in pubs, or ? increasingly ? on internet messageboards."

I think we need this printed in huge letters on the front of newspapers.

You nearly did the link- you just pressed Shift for the last two brackets and made them curly!

great article - thanks Anti!

Of parents who are worried about drugs,

if you took lots of drugs in your own younger days, does that make you more worried about your own kids or less worried?