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BLINDBOY BOATCLUB of the Rubberbandits made an impassioned call for discussion on the link between mental health and drug use on Newstalk last night – all while on “legal yips”.
The Dáil sat late to push through emergency legislation after a court ruling this yesterday made drugs like ecstasy, ketamine and crystal meth legal (at least until tomorrow).
With songs like Bag of Glue and Double Dropping Yokes with Eamon de Valera, the Limerick hip-hop duo were obviously very tickled at this news.
They first expressed a desire to go on LiveLine with Joe Duffy while ‘under the influence’:
Then they had their ‘challenge’ accepted by Newstalk’s Tom Dunne – Blindboy Boatclub claimed he would be appearing on the show “while on legally consumed yips”:
Blindboy greeted Dunne by saying: “Let’s just say, my legs are having an argument with my shoulders over how much rent my body is charging.”
But when asked if he was on a (briefly) ‘legal high’, he was vague:
OK, I’ll be honest. I’m on a yoke, but if we take a ‘yoke’ to be a colloquial term for an object that could be anything, I mean – I’m standing on a yoke right now.
The chat didn’t stay light and breezy for long, though – Blindboy went on to astutely discuss the links between drug use and mental health.
We need to move towards a conversation about mental health. I’m not into telling adults what do do – but any time you get a pang in your body for any substance, you have the opportunity to ask yourself, using interpersonal emotional intelligence: Why do I want this substance right now?
If you’re stressed for an exam and you want to smoke a fag, ask yourself: Why do I want this? You might find out that you don’t want that substance any more. At the core of all of this we’ve got a mental health discussion. It’s hard to have rational mental health, when the drug laws themselves are irrational.
Listeners were pretty impressed at this high level of chat from someone claiming to be under the influence:
But it all came back down to earth with Blindboy’s sign-off:
Will you play something off The Prodigy Experience? Anything off The Prodigy Experience? Tom, I really love you.
Listen to the full interview here.
Originally published on DailyEdge.ie
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No one will do anything. Until they actually launch an armed ICBM.
@John Shea Hen: they’ll do nuttin
Well if that isn’t giving you the middle finger, Mr President, I don’t know what is.
The neighbours will be fairly miffed again at President Trump coming back to Mar-a-Lago so soon…
It’s a pity that the US doesn’t have more to say about Syria after the recent sarin attack on civilians and children. The Assad regime has crossed the red lines and has to be stopped.
@Chris Kirk: and you’re certain the assad regime carried out this alleged chemical attack?
And the next lesson for the Trump admin.
You’ll do fu(kin nuttin
Hey AFP. Susan Rice Susan Rice Susan Rice Susan Rice..
Hey raymond grehan: LOL LOL LOL LOL
After months of eschewing confidential security briefs Trump has been landed in the midst of an escalating crisis. His recent response to the gas attack in Syria by blaming Obama shows how unfit he is to be leading the USA. Undoubtedly he is ready to lash out at North Korea and my guess is it will be an attempt to wipe out from the air the whole military infrastructure of that country. Great if it works amd spares the lifes of an already suffering population. Bad news if it only does partial damage. A wounded wild animal is a very dangerous thing.
@gowfc@yahoo.com W: What about China? That’s the end game I’m sure.
Trump is gearing up for a war, but I don’t think the rewards here outweigh the risks…. It’ll probably be Iran in a few years, possibly his second term.
So which would be better? “Unpredictable consequences” of regime collapse in a) a scenario where NoKo does not have the capability to hit US and Western targets or b) a scenario where it does?
Answers scribbled on the margins of a copy of Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road” perhaps. …
Just wait until the North Korean People’s Liberation Front and the North Korean Liberation Front of The People hear about this!
Trump needs a war or two so he can pretend to be a strong president- he won’t get that by using his brains
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