Actually, The Drugs DO Work

Sometimes Far Too Well

We'll get into that in a little while, you unspeakable degenerates.  Firstly, Conrad was playing his i-pod in the office, because he HATES THE YOUNG PEOPLE'S MUSIC WITH THE PASSION OF A THOUSAND SUPERNOVAE as you should surely realise by now.

     And one of the CDs was The Chemical Brothers "We Are The Night", and they have the pretty awesome track "The Pills Won't Help You Now" upon said platter, which Conrad played twice because he likes it that much.  Art!

     Someone has been watching "Pan's Labyrinth" too many times, and don't ask me what this scary-ass moofer is supposed to be - hang on -

     Influenced by "Lonely Metropolitan" an artwork by Herbert Bayer, whom I've never heard of.  Art!

     Hmmmm so Guillermo Del Toro has a touch of plagiarism to his name, hmmm?  Speaking of which, when WATN was re-released, it was minus the Herbert Bayer - er - 'homage', possibly because lawyers got involved.  Art!

     If anything this is even more baffling, as it s

     ANYWAY that title made me remember an old click-baity BOOJUM! with the title of "THE D RUGS DON'T WORK" which only works if it's in upper case, and lo! and behold, here's a link to it:

BOOJUM!: THE D RUGS DON'T WORK (comsatangel2002.blogspot.com)

      You'd better follow that link and read it, because it took ages to find.

    ANYWAY AGAIN what immediately came to mind was a chemical cocktail that we've mentioned before in BOOJUM! but not for a while now, so I think it's time to go round again.  Art!

A gift of a name

     This is the commercial and non-prescription wonder drug that fuelled first the Teuton civilian population, and then the Wehrmacht.  It was everywhere and you could even get Pervitin chocolates.  The Pervitin Panzergrenadiers used it to attack Poland, Scandinavia, the Low Countries and France, Greece and the Sinister Union.  The Teuton high - no pun intended - command loved it because it increased aggression, diminished hunger and eliminated tiredness, ensuring that Teuton soldiers took it by the fistful.

    Commercially, it was Pervitin.  

    Chemically, it was methylamphetamine.

     Yes, crystal meth.  Produced in pure tablet form with no impurities or adulterants by the million.  What could possibly go wrong?  Art!

     Next day would come the dreaded come-down, frequently fended off by necking more Pervitin.  Gradually, the Teuton high command realised that Pervitin was horribly addictive and that the side-effects included acute paranoia and homicidal rage.  The latter of which is fine when fighting the enemy yet considerably unwanted when it comes to your own side.  In high doses it killed people.

     So, very much in the sense of The Pills Won't Help You Now, Pervitin use came to a screeching halt.  Art!

    That's Alan Moorehead sitting down, and Alexander Clifford in the background, war reporters both of 'em.  I seem to remember Al reporting on some British soldiers finding Pervitin on the body of a dead Teuton, and one Tommy was careless enough to take a tablet or two.  Within minutes he was a frothing maniac desperate to kill, proving that, indeed the drugs do work.
      Was it on Crete?  I can't remember and it might be in the long and detailed "Desert Trilogy" and whilst Conrad loves his readers, he doesn't love them that much.

Another Attempt To Be Sophisticated

No harm in trying, is there?  Yes, another look at Late Medieval Korean architecture SIT BACK DOWN! it is interesting.  Art!

     This is Anapchi Lake, an artificially-created water feature, and do you know, there's an episode of "Kingdom" that looks as it was shot here when it was frozen over.

     It was created in the late seventh century - so more Middle Medieval - as part of a palace complex and was popular with local wildlife.

     With the fall of the Silla state, the lake was effectively abandoned until 1974, when it was drained and archaeologists went over it with magnifying glasses, recovering tons of artefacts.  It's now part of a national park and is popular with tourists.

     There!  You see, we can be high-brow when we try.  We just don't like to put the effort in very often.

"The Sea Of Sand"

Our gallant band of survivors have found the scene of a bio-vore attack on a Tuareg caravan, behaviour that steels the Doctor about his decision to create an atomic bomb.

Sergente Capriccio joined the Doctor, picking up a long metal tube that dangled a trigger mechanism.  A rifle, with all the wooden fittings destroyed.  Next  were a pair of toy-like slippers, rotted and decayed by centuries of wear.

          A shiver utterly out of place in the baking mid-day heat ran down Tam’s back.  He watched the burly Italian sergeant pick up a child’s toy, stare at it for a second and then drop the item, wiping his hands against his tunic.  Lieutenant Llewellyn’s foot stirred tiny clinking beads strung together, which he recognised as ear-rings, hastily moving off the sands.

          ‘I would guess that the bio-vores carried out an interception here,’ stated the Doctor.

          ‘Women and kids, mind,’ added Tam.  Then he added a great deal of cursing.

          Femme et bambini,’ agreed Capriccio, gnashing his teeth.  A stream of voluble and emphatic Italian followed.

          The Doctor felt any doubts concerning the imminent destruction of the bio-vores receding.  To attack and kill soldiers was one thing, to attack unarmed civilian non-combatants and slaughter them en masse, that was another thing entirely.

          ‘So you think the wogs ran into the nose-goblins?’ asked Tam of the Doctor.  ‘And got killed for their pains?’

          Roger saw an emotional shutter fall over the Doctor’s face.

     Tam!  Tam. man, you're going to encounter trouble in about five seconds flat.

O Wow.  You Wouldn't Believe This Sideline

We began our blog with an Intro about drugs, legal ones.  What did I espy on the BBC website?  The following title:

Jared O'Mara: MP made fake expense claims to fund cocaine use, court told

     

     That, people, is serendipity.  NO!  Not the sci-fi show about Brownshirts - or was it Browncoats?  Brown blazers?  Brown Nike Gilets?  

     ANYWAY matey here tried to scam local government out of £30,000 because he wanted to buy lots of illegal drugs with it.  Greedy oaf!  Those are MY taxes you're defrauding with, you royal cocaine paine.  Actually the Mara in "The Weirdstone Of Brisingamen" are also horribly unspeakable creatures, so he's in good company.

I Love A Good Bang

NO SNIGGERING AT THE BACK!  I just came across a short on Youtube about the 'Daisy Cutter' bomb, which was a monstrously large bomb of the Vietnam era.  In fact it was so large that no conventional fighter-bomber could carry it and it needed to be dropped from either transport aircraft or helicopters.  Art!

     Note puny humans for scale.  This thing weighed about seven tons and was intended to clear jungle in Vietnam, which it did with extreme prejudice.  Art!

"We make the jungle go away"\

     They saw their last use in the liberation of Kuwait, where they were used to basically scare the living daylights out of Iraqi infantry.  Some SAS patrols were skulking around where they weren't supposed to be and witnessed one of these going off.  Art!

     Immediate radio message goes back to HQ: "Sir, the lads have nuked Kuwait!"