Lou Macari and monkey dust
Apparently he now runs a drugs and homelessness centre in Stoke and there is an epidemic there sweeping the city of a drug called monkey dust (excellent BBC2 series back in the day).
Fair play and huge respect to Macari for doing this but so surreal hearing him talking about the effects of "monkey dust" I was expecting Chris Morris to pipe up about cake. Bizarre
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Didn't see Lou Macari but read about Monkey Dust and straight away thought of Cake.RodneyCharltonTrotta said:Listening to LBC and they have got a surreal segment about former Manchester United manager Lou Macari which frankly is like an episode of Brass Eye.
Apparently he now runs a drugs and homelessness centre in Stoke and there is an epidemic there sweeping the city of a drug called monkey dust (excellent BBC2 series back in the day).
Fair play and huge respect to Macari for doing this but so surreal hearing him talking about the effects of "monkey dust" I was expecting Chris Morris to pipe up about cake. Bizarre
Explains a lot about what @bobmunro posts on here. : - )5 -
They're still talking about it. Nick Ferrari talking about £2 for a bag of monkey dust...it is like it's a tribute to brass eye.
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Oi!Henry Irving said:
Didn't see Lou Macari but read about Monkey Dust and straight away thought of Cake.RodneyCharltonTrotta said:Listening to LBC and they have got a surreal segment about former Manchester United manager Lou Macari which frankly is like an episode of Brass Eye.
Apparently he now runs a drugs and homelessness centre in Stoke and there is an epidemic there sweeping the city of a drug called monkey dust (excellent BBC2 series back in the day).
Fair play and huge respect to Macari for doing this but so surreal hearing him talking about the effects of "monkey dust" I was expecting Chris Morris to pipe up about cake. Bizarre
Explains a lot about what @bobmunro posts on here. : - )
On a serious note - Lou does a tremendous amount of work for the community and is a genuinely nice man. One of the good guys.10 -
Christopher Morris and Brass Eye were so squirmingly good, I could never take television seriously again. Remember how he got Carla Lane to kneel and pray to a stuffed cow; and got 'Mad' Frankie Fraser to rate being "grassed up by a nonce" on the scale of one to ten. The Paedogeddon special was truly magnificent.10
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Awful drug - apparently worse than spice.
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Just hope it doesn’t surface in our prisons. Dealing with the effects of spiced up cons is bad enough but monkey dust sounds worse. I’ve read that it increases paranoia massively, keeps users awake for up to three days and gives those under the influence hulk-like strength.hoof_it_up_to_benty said:Awful drug - apparently worse than spice.
Oh for the pre-MDT days when the ‘residents’ were happy with a bit of hash.
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It's basically synthetic Khat, isn't it? So not the drug itself that's bad - but the process of 'replicating' it synthetically and whatever it ends up being cut with.
We're living in the end days people. Zombies in the streets. Wibble2 -
I thought this was going to be a thread about a new band.2
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Whatever happened to Angel dust as that drug was reported to produce hulk-like strength in the 80’s? Has it returned as monkey dust?AddickUpNorth said:
Just hope it doesn’t surface in our prisons. Dealing with the effects of spiced up cons is bad enough but monkey dust sounds worse. I’ve read that it increases paranoia massively, keeps users awake for up to three days and gives those under the influence hulk-like strength.hoof_it_up_to_benty said:Awful drug - apparently worse than spice.
Oh for the pre-MDT days when the ‘residents’ were happy with a bit of hash.0 -
Most surreal thing I've hear recently was also drug related: In the 80's a heroine addict deliberately injected himself with HIV infected blood so that he'd become higher priority for NHS provided drugs (methadone?). He was dead within 9 months. It's a mad mad world - if you're on drugs.0
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Joss Ackland’s Spunky Backpack.2
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The takeover thread is a form of spice I think1
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It affects a part of the brain known as Shatner’s Bassoonhoof_it_up_to_benty said:Awful drug - apparently worse than spice.
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SuedeAdidas said:
It affects a part of the brain known as Shatner’s Bassoonhoof_it_up_to_benty said:Awful drug - apparently worse than spice.
It’s a drug Jim but not as we know it.
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Same family I think. Amphetamines - inhibit pain receptors in the brain and enhance Dopamine response. Worst thing about this is that the effects last days rather than hours. Nasty bit of work.Solidgone said:
Whatever happened to Angel dust as that drug was reported to produce hulk-like strength in the 80’s? Has it returned as monkey dust?AddickUpNorth said:
Just hope it doesn’t surface in our prisons. Dealing with the effects of spiced up cons is bad enough but monkey dust sounds worse. I’ve read that it increases paranoia massively, keeps users awake for up to three days and gives those under the influence hulk-like strength.hoof_it_up_to_benty said:Awful drug - apparently worse than spice.
Oh for the pre-MDT days when the ‘residents’ were happy with a bit of hash.0 -
Solidgone said:
Whatever happened to Angel dust as that drug was reported to produce hulk-like strength in the 80’s? Has it returned as monkey dust?AddickUpNorth said:
Just hope it doesn’t surface in our prisons. Dealing with the effects of spiced up cons is bad enough but monkey dust sounds worse. I’ve read that it increases paranoia massively, keeps users awake for up to three days and gives those under the influence hulk-like strength.hoof_it_up_to_benty said:Awful drug - apparently worse than spice.
Oh for the pre-MDT days when the ‘residents’ were happy with a bit of hash.
PCP is still around, predominantly in the US. Originally produced in 1926 as an anaesthetic it brings on hallucinations, both visual and auditory. Not a drug anyone I know has ever tried but I don’t think it really surfaced here in any vast quantities.
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Just read up on it; another nasty synthetic stimulant which is a slightly modified version of the principal active compound found in 'khat', as Leroy says. Appears to be highly potent and has just about all the undesirable side effects that you wouldn't want, e.g psychosis, paranoia etc. Apparently, was sold as 'bath salts' in US petrol stations for years....WTF
Why anyone would touch any of this shit, given that there are alternatives, is beyond me. Highly addictive and rapidly destructive. Not good.
Hold on. Maybe this explains the erratic behaviour of the contemptible Shitweasel that is currently running our club into the ground....just a thought.
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It's cheap.bigstemarra said:Just read up on it; another nasty synthetic stimulant which is a slightly modified version of the principal active compound found in 'khat', as Leroy says. Appears to be highly potent and has just about all the undesirable side effects that you wouldn't want, e.g psychosis, paranoia etc. Apparently, was sold as 'bath salts' in US petrol stations for years....WTF
Why anyone would touch any of this shit, given that there are alternatives, is beyond me. Highly addictive and rapidly destructive. Not good.
Hold on. Maybe this explains the erratic behaviour of the contemptible Shitweasel that is currently running our club into the ground....just a thought.
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Monkey dust was one of my favourite TV series of all time. As was brasseye.3
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I heard that interview as well .. great stuff from Lou .. let's hope he can make some progress or at least stem the tide of this vicious drug epidemic .. another caller to LBC made the point that if one were to put strychnine in another's tea cup, that would be attempted murder. Why are the dealers in potentially lethal, illegal drugs not treated as potential murderers ?RodneyCharltonTrotta said:Listening to LBC and they have got a surreal segment about former Manchester United manager Lou Macari which frankly is like an episode of Brass Eye.
Apparently he now runs a drugs and homelessness centre in Stoke and there is an epidemic there sweeping the city of a drug called monkey dust (excellent BBC2 series back in the day).
Fair play and huge respect to Macari for doing this but so surreal hearing him talking about the effects of "monkey dust" I was expecting Chris Morris to pipe up about cake. Bizarre2 - Sponsored links:
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There is actually a really good documentary about Lou Macari on MUTV, which we get as part of our package here (I would never pay for such filth!)
He is obviously a wonderful human being, and in his days with Swindon was heavily involved with the disabled supporters of the club, some of whom he is still in contact with today.
Also has worked with the disaffected youth in Manchester for a number of years, and is very much ‘hands on’ with his charities involvement, and certainly doesn’t do it for publicity.
As part of the same show, he also explains why he bought a ‘Fish and Chip’ shop, a stone’s throw from Old Trafford, apparently he bought it to give his Mum something to do, when she moved down from Glasgow, but she died suddenly before she had moved down, and he could never bring himself to sell it, so it still there today looking exactly as it did in 1976!
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Sounds a great, caring man. Surprised he's not been recognised with honours given his good work and how they're often awarded to those without such merit.
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He’s got a Great chip shop up at Old Trafford0
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Showed himself to be a thoroughly decent guy in the excellent BBC film 'Marvellous'. Hugely recommended on here several times, and enjoyable even for those who don't much like football.More power to the bloke, and good to have another positive for football to set against all the negative stuff thats out there.2
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My only knowledge of PCP / Angel Dust is from Trading Places, when Louis is framed at the police station.AddickUpNorth said:
PCP is still around, predominantly in the US. Originally produced in 1926 as an anaesthetic it brings on hallucinations, both visual and auditory. Not a drug anyone I know has ever tried but I don’t think it really surfaced here in any vast quantities.
Whatever happened to Angel dust as that drug was reported to produce hulk-like strength in the 80’s? Has it returned as monkey dust?Awful drug - apparently worse than spice.
Just hope it doesn’t surface in our prisons. Dealing with the effects of spiced up cons is bad enough but monkey dust sounds worse. I’ve read that it increases paranoia massively, keeps users awake for up to three days and gives those under the influence hulk-like strength. Oh for the pre-MDT days when the ‘residents’ were happy with a bit of hash.
Great film BTW, up there with Escape to Victory in the list of all time greatest pics.1 -
Mr Macari appears truly to be a rare rare specimen. All the better for not relentlessly illuminating his works on soshal meeja to bathe in the perceived reflected glory, he just gets on with it.IdleHans said:Showed himself to be a thoroughly decent guy in the excellent BBC film 'Marvellous'. Hugely recommended on here several times, and enjoyable even for those who don't much like football.More power to the bloke, and good to have another positive for football to set against all the negative stuff thats out there.0
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