Glowstick Ban

does glow juggling equipment count as 'glowsticks'?

i was just thinking how much more it would suck if you got your electroglo/beamers/aerotechs confiscated...

they sell glowsticks in fishing shops in the uk yet i didn't see one in all the coffee shops i visitied in amsterdam. my local crackden certainly doesn't have them. drug related how?

Coleman, they didn't "confiscate" them, per se. They gave me the option of taking them back to my car, but since I came with a friend and the car was five blocks away, and the glowsticks were already cracked, I just handed them over.

If they were electroglows or something, they would have to pry them out of my cold, dead hands.

Well at least banning glowsticks will completely stop illegal drug use.



Hey, I'm pretty sure I can get my school shut down under the RAVE law. Who do I call?

Hey, that's a good point. I never thought of that. If this thing starts getting out of hand I will bear that in mind.

I'm just waiting for major chain stores to start carding people for vapo-rub, and passifiers....

Yeah flynt. I want Mikey GEE to move here too....but believe me I have been booted from three clubs for glow stuff matey....
Just because they are "dangerous flying objects" as one burley bouncer grunted as he dragged me out the door.... Sigh...I even had them on short strings...whats the go?!?!?!

Looks at pile of dead glo-sticks from last rave on my desk....
Man I love Canada

I still can't belive they won't let you take in pocket knives but they let in hard, sharp cornered plactic things filled with water, on long stings. I have never seen someobody get knifed at a rave (even ones where people didn't get searched first) but I have seen glowsticks draw blood on at least four occations.

Oooo I have a good idea! lets get together with a bunch of speed freaks in a dark room with loud music and disorienting, flashing lights and start handing out hard objects on long stings so they can spin them as fast as possible with utter disregard for human safety! And let's let those same people walk up behind eachother without paying attention to where they are going.....

Don't get me wrong, I love swinging glowsticks at raves, it is just the utter contradiction that makes me laugh. I mean, glow sticks are _deadly_ in the hands of an inexperienced spinner (esp if they are on speed) because everybody knows that if a person can only do one move, they are going to do it REALY fast!

I guess the only thing worse would be if they let in BEAMING POI!!!

They'll probably worry abt glowsticks explodin all over em wi the chemicals n all. LOL
Hey at least u can spin comets in a club.. my residen club wont let me... stand outside n do it still.

hey mike what club was that? i know city club doesn't allow glow sticks anymore, but that was because of morons who broke them open and flung the glow juice all over the walls...but you mention a mile away so it must have been necto...luckily here in flint there are no glow stick bans...in fact they encourage it here...at the purple moon they cleared the dance floor for me and another kid to battle, and when the owner of celebrations saw it they asked us to come spin at thier club the following night...wierd

Cede, it was necto.

Prometheus, after the last election, I quickly came to the conclusion that voting no longer works. Voting only works when you have an educated populace that understands the issues at hand. We do not have such a populace. We have a populace that is too easily swayed by logical fallacies and appeals to emotion and patriotism to really accomplish anything good by voting. As I've said, the USA is fat, lazy, and decadent.

Bush will win the next election. You watch.

don't you mean satas illegitimate child will win the next election

JGG, the sad thing is that if Bush decided that due to our "national crisis" elections were no longer necessary, I bet a majority of the country would support him on it.

THAT'S why I want out.

cede: I'm from a spot where poi is still growing, as far as numbers go. You have poi battles down there? Like breaking battles or MC battles? That sounds wicked! Can you explain a bit about them to me?

Mike: Canada's always looking for new doctors, and we still have a fairly intact Bill of Rights. Seriously, the Maritime Provinces are constantly complaining about the brain drain to the U.S. (your money is just worth so damn MUCH. Who cares if it's got a few drops of blood on it?). We can always use more doctors, if you can handle having to stand firm on your right to every salary increase. Supporting socialist structures (health care, publicly-funded radio and TV (almost everyone here who gives a crap about art or news listens to or watches the CBC. There have been protests to keep it publicly funded. I love it ), etc. in the face of an outdated capitalist structure is difficult, but worth doing. Economically, this is because the end goal of socialist structures is sustainable prosperity. The nature of capitalist structures is perpetual growth, which is impossible without a) endless resources, or b) unequal distribution of the finite resources and an opressive system to maintain that unequal distribution. So inflation, driven by capitalism, means people involved with socialized industries have to push to keep their SUSTAINABLE salaries in step with the times.

Yeah, and not only are glowsticks legal, in many places here posession of small amounts of marijuana has been effectively decriminalized as well. Whether you smoke or not, it's heartening to know that a government was willing to set up a national task force to study pot and pot use, come up with honest findings, and then allow municipalities to implement relaxed laws based on this contemporary info.

blah blah blah. Backlog of POI postings anyone?

What I'm saying is, come on up and play.

peace and love, y'all.

Rick aka Loki

[ 02. May 2003, 20:11: Message edited by: Rick ]

I would just like to point out...three years later...that I predicted the results of the election.

DAMN HE'S GOOD...

(and not just in bed...)

Well at the this time of night shouldn't it be 'Just not in bed'?

And Mike, you are not unique in this gift, other people have it too. they are called 'Cynics' or 'Realists'...

I didn't know people your age glowstick doc.