Millions of Ecstasy Hits in Australia ~ wtf?

gyre · Post by **gyre** » Fri Aug 08, 2008 3:29 pm

15 or is it 50 million doses in one container in Australia, another bust of 750,00 hits....is there really that big a market for this stuff in Australia?
How is that even possible?
I would guess much more is coming in than they found in one container.
Is everyone using it all the time?
What the hell is up with Australia these days?

Simon of the Playa · Post by **Simon of the Playa** » Fri Aug 08, 2008 3:38 pm

i blame ABBA.

EspressoDude · Post by **EspressoDude** » Fri Aug 08, 2008 4:31 pm

more likely "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert"

Token · Post by **Token** » Fri Aug 08, 2008 7:21 pm

Agent Smith or Elrond ...

can't sit still · Post by **can't sit still** » Sat Aug 09, 2008 5:52 pm

They call OZ the lucky country. NFW. I spent a month travelling around a big part of it. Termite mounds and gum trees and desert. They're 6 years into a bad drought. I went up the Oodnadata track and crossed the Great Simpson desert,,etc. I even saw it raining on the rock.
The biggest challenge in OZ is avoiding boredom. That's why Aussies have such a reputation for being reckless. Watch them at the Fiesta de San Fermin in Pamplona.
OZ is a "good" country but you can only take just so much desert. The hole in the ozone just makes it worse. The "ockers" in OZ have a lot in common with our long ago "okies" They're poor, sunburned, and hard-working to a fault.
Most of the country is so boring that they'll drive 150 K to places like Heartbreak Hotel just for beers with their mates. http://www.travelpod.com/travel-blog-en ... /tpod.html
They party til sunup and then jump in their utes and copters and go back to chasing cattle. There's a great old movie about trying to avoid boredom in OZ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rikky_and_Pete
It's a tough life in the dry parts of OZ. I guess ecstasy is one way to escape.

gyre · Post by **gyre** » Sun Aug 10, 2008 1:27 am

Old movie?
It has never seemed old to me.
One of my favorite flicks.
Somehow many australians have never seen it.
I love australian film, even the bad made for tv stuff.

can't sit still · Post by **can't sit still** » Sun Aug 10, 2008 12:59 pm

Gyre, let me check your list;
Where the Green Ants dream
Coca Cola Kid
Galipoli [been there, Geliboulu ,Turkey]
Priscilla...
Man from Snowy River...etc
http://www.listology.com/content_show.c ... t_id.12707
I spent a lot of time travelling with Aussies. I'd run into them in Earl's Court or Delhi or Munchen or Pamplona. I worked with some Aussie guys here. I often had to remind them that we drive on the right. OZ may be god's own country but it's still boring in a lot of places.
Aussies are always out traveling. They prefer boats; http://www.lasr.cs.ucla.edu/geoff/cruisecrew/
I went to the Channel Islands Harbor this morning to see the tall ships. It really inspires one with flights of fancy,,,, sigh...

SecretOperativeBear · Post by **SecretOperativeBear** » Sun Aug 10, 2008 1:37 pm

I had an austrailian girlfriend once. She was a freak but Lotsa fun.
I think aussies are cool.

-Bear

can't sit still · Post by **can't sit still** » Sun Aug 10, 2008 2:09 pm

Normal people are boring. Freaks are often interesting,,, sometimes dangerous. I had a good Kiwi friend. On impulse, she shot herself when some friends pased around a gun. She was born under a dark star

thirt33n · Post by **thirt33n** » Sun Aug 10, 2008 3:02 pm

of course this is a good place for this well known quote from jack K.

â€œThe only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!â€

gyre · Post by **gyre** » Sun Aug 10, 2008 3:47 pm

Very interesting list.
I've missed a lot of these or didn't realize they were australian.
It's missing a lot too though.
I just saw Last Wave, very weird.

Road Games should be on there, with Jamie Lee Curtis.
Australian version of Rear Window.

During filming, she and Stacy Keach saw all these fantastic dunes and couldn't understand that no one was exploring, so they wandered around and were sliding down them and so on.
When they got back, everybody had been looking for them, very worried.
As they told their great story, this crowd of tough australians is turning paler and paler.
Turns out some of the most poisonous things on earth are scurrying around those dunes and no one goes near!

Very hard to remember that it's really a tropical pacific island.
I think perhaps that isolation from much of the world drives that urge to travel.

Absolut Jeenyus · Post by **Absolut Jeenyus** » Sun Aug 10, 2008 4:00 pm

Mel Gibson is running an ecstasy ring..

Simon of the Playa · Post by **Simon of the Playa** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 6:30 am

i beg to differ, he sells passion, not MDMA....

Absolut Jeenyus · Post by **Absolut Jeenyus** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 7:22 pm

Passion and pills...

SecretOperativeBear · Post by **SecretOperativeBear** » Fri Aug 15, 2008 9:07 pm

32,000 hits of X found by ohio highway patrol.
These suspects know how to party!

gyre · Post by **gyre** » Sat Aug 16, 2008 12:42 am

Personal use?

Absolut Jeenyus · Post by **Absolut Jeenyus** » Sat Aug 16, 2008 3:46 am

chop it up and do it all in one phatt line...

joemomma · Post by **joemomma** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 11:14 am

Australian movies, don't forget Mad Max and Mad Max Return to Thunderdome

Absolut Jeenyus · Post by **Absolut Jeenyus** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 5:23 pm

Beyond Thunderdome...

ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 5:56 pm

two men enter, one man leaves.............

can't sit still · Post by **can't sit still** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 11:11 pm

ygmir wrote:two men enter, one man leaves.............

Yes,,,,, maybe. In BM thunderdome there have been some real ass-kicking chicks.

gyre · Post by **gyre** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 11:51 pm

Women have always been more dangerous.

can't sit still · Post by **can't sit still** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 8:13 am

This might make a movie; "We've got a saying up here that the odds are good, but the goods are odd," http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/0 ... index.html

Millions of Ecstasy Hits in Australia ~ wtf?

Millions of Ecstasy Hits in Australia ~ wtf?

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