Note by @fastfinge

Rosalyn Anne @Rosalyn@mindly.social

6mo

While visiting New Jersey in October, I learned about poppers. My gay buddy from high school told me about that. It's basically a gay party drug that shows up at clubs. I asked how one acquires the drug and was told, it's sold as certain types of nail polish remover. It can also be sold as VCR cleaner, but les often now that VCR's have been phased out. Apparently sniffing poppers to get high results in amazing sex. I would not know. i tried to find out more about the culture behind poppers online. But all I can find is articles explaining the risks associated with the usage of this so-called drug. Does anyone know anything about this phenomenon?

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

6mo

@Rosalyn At least in my high school friend group, poppers was just another word for whippets. But it's possible this is a Canadian thing, or that my friends were morons.

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James H @quanin@allovertheplace.ca

6mo

@fastfinge @Rosalyn That was also what, like 20 years ago? The English language has gotten dumb since then.

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

6mo

@quanin @Rosalyn Right, but something sold as VCR cleaner is gonna be even older than I am.

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James H @quanin@allovertheplace.ca

6mo

@fastfinge @Rosalyn Meanwhile half our mutual followers just went "The fuck is a VCR?".

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

6mo

@quanin @Rosalyn Oh, true! Well, children: back in the day, whenever we wanted to watch a movie, we had to walk up hill, both ways, in six feet of snow, to go to a place called Blockbuster, so we could pay for a large rectangular object that sometimes contained a movie that we could only keep for two nights. Usually, though, it was broken. Anyway, when we finally arrived, a minimum wage employee would be rude to us while charging us $500 in late fees for the last movie we forgot to return, and then telling us they didn't have a copy of the movie we actually wanted to watch, so we'd have to watch American Chainsaw Ninja Robots XXVI instead. When we finally got the movie home, we'd have to engage in a ritual called "rewinding" in order to appease the Gods, so that they might allow us to actually watch it.

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James H @quanin@allovertheplace.ca

6mo

@fastfinge @Rosalyn You forgot the important part. Complaining for half an hour about the bastard who was obviously not taught kindness as a child, hence your need to rewind.

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

6mo

@quanin @Rosalyn We were always the other way. If we got a tape that was already rewound it was a half-hour celebration, because it meant that tape was completely new and had never been played by anybody before, so it would actually look and sound decent.

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