Surgery All Week!!

[VivAyrshire]

Aled will be hosting a live surgery Sunday 25th-Thursday 29th July 9:00-10:00pm.

The Surgery certainly needs the promotion!!

[Aled]

What do you make of the week long Summer Surgeries?

[VivAyrshire]

Informative/interesting. Good boost and advertising for the normal Sunday slot. And it's been discussed on the Brekkie Show, so additional promotion!! Woo!!

Could do without that silly girl screaming in the "trailer thingy", just before Edith says "We're not animals"..... that goes right through me.

[Mitchell]

I'm absolutely dreading the alcohol and drugs show because I fear it'll be typical reactionary "drugs are bad, don't do them, people who do them are stupid" stuff.

[Aled]

I'm absolutely dreading the alcohol and drugs show because I fear it'll be typical reactionary "drugs are bad, don't do them, people who do them are stupid" stuff.

And was it?

[VivAyrshire]

"people who do them are stupid" stuff.

And that sentence, right there, sums up drugs and people who indulge in them, perfectly well.


Remember, tonight's Surgery will be all about STRESS. Are you upset?! Well, plug in for great and informative advice.

[Yudster]

I'm absolutely dreading the alcohol and drugs show because I fear it'll be typical reactionary "drugs are bad, don't do them, people who do them are stupid" stuff.
See, just because you choose to label that particular truth as "reactionary", doesn't make it less true.

[Mitchell]

And was it?

Once the iPlayer starts working, I'll tell you :) Getting "content not working" errors.

I just tend to get douchechills whenever I see that people are doing shows on drugs because it tends to - total generalisation, here - revolve around a holier-than-thou attitude from the presenter talking about how people shouldn't take drugs, followed by some anorexic shoplifting abuser designed to put all drug users into one basket who relays his life story of how he did drugs, got into debt, escaped the world and then got desperate and did bad things and ruined his life. Then some doctor comes along with a copy of The Sun to talk about how a vast minority of ecstasy users die and therefore it should warn you away from it. And then they go off for a cigarette and a pint of beer to drown their arrogance.

They never have the people like myself on there, who took drugs and were fine. I've smoked weed, snorted cocaine, taken ecstasy pills, tripped out on salvia (not saliva as some may initially read). It never once interfered with my school work, my uni work, my employment, my emotional stability, etc. Never stole anything or got addicted and in constant need of a fix. I still had enough about me to see what it was doing to my friends who WERE addicted and who WERE abusing and the damage it did to their lives and I kept my intake to a sensible (I know, I'm already awaiting the patronising "umm.... excuse me?" comments to follow) level. I didn't see anything wrong with it at the time and, having been clean for about two years now, I still don't regret anything I did and would do it all over again. In some ways, I'm even proud of myself for having that experience under my belt and taking what I did from it. It helped me to mature and consider it an invaluable part of my life that I will take with me when I become a parent and have to explain to my child/ren about the world of sex and drugs.

But you never really hear from those people because it doesn't make for as interesting a story as a guy who snorted his cat and threw himself out of a window into an empty toilet bowl. Obviously, the legal side of it is important too and I do recognise how hard it is to say "go do drugs" when it's flat out against the law. I am just very strongly against this mentality of "don't do drugs, drugs are bad, not listening to your opinion because you took drugs and therefore you're an idiot, there is only anti-drugs or nothing because anything else is wrong and I hope you die because you're a druggie and I don't do drugs because I'm so ****ing perfect and my shit is made of cotton wool and diamonds." Those people piss me off so much.

But once I've heard this particular show, I'll feedback :)

[VivAyrshire]

So, good for you!! You got "lucky" perhaps?!!

You know, I don't care how many people are actually proud (or whatever) to have taken drugs.... I am proud to have never taken Ectasy, Heroin, Cocaine, or anything else. I feel proud I never felt the need to try!!

No matter what anyone says, you simply never know WHAT you are getting in these drugs that "friends" offer you on nights out.

Now, is this "holier than thou", or just plain common sense?!

[Adam]

I think it was good. I listened to the sex edition of the monday surgery. Sadly didn't get a chance to listen to the others. It's a pity there was no podcast (or was there listen again?!)

Someone on twitter made a point to aled via twitter - click here (http://twitpic.com/2aeoci) which I didn't really agree with. They basically said its the same old issues - but the question is - are these issues such as sex, drugs, stress etc, the most common? The answer is probably yes.

[VivAyrshire]

Yep, they are the most common. I wouldn't class them as "specials", but yep, somehow they do need to be discussed over and over.