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Re:As weed gets more potent, teens are getting sick by daveslash on Thursday June 23, 2022 @01:20PM (#31852276)
Yeah. I used the same schpeel (or something similar), with my kid when we found out she was smoking at 15. You know ~ it's not heroine or cocaine, but it can make you content to just do nothing, when you'd be happier doing something.

Sometimes "do nothing" is exactly what we need in this crazy, hectic, busy world. Sometimes it's good to be bored. But keep it in check. Also, I have no problem with adults partaking, but kids with their developing brains ~ that's another story in my mind.

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Re:As weed gets more potent, teens are getting sick by monktastic1 on Thursday June 23, 2022 @03:43PM (#31854246)
FYI, spiel :)
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Re:As weed gets more potent, teens are getting sick by davidrupp on Thursday June 23, 2022 @04:04PM (#31854475)
More info at https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/spiel . Pronounced as you (gp) spelled it phonetically because it's borrowed from German.
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Re:As weed gets more potent, teens are getting sick by gowld on Thursday June 23, 2022 @04:53PM (#31855019)
It's taken from Yiddish, which took it from German.
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Re:As weed gets more potent, teens are getting sick by daveslash on Friday June 24, 2022 @11:31AM (#31863748)
From Yiddish? I didn't know that. Interesting and Thank You.

A few years ago, I used the word "Schmuck", and someone asked me if I was Jewish (I'm not). I didn't realize that "Schmuck" was also a Yiddish word until then. I looked it up, and I didn't realize that some Yiddish speaking people consider it to be obscene profanity! So now I use a little more sparingly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmuck_(pejorative)

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Re:As weed gets more potent, teens are getting sick by detritus on Thursday June 23, 2022 @05:36PM (#31855449)
Personally I prefer 'schpiel' :)
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Re:As weed gets more potent, teens are getting sick by daveslash on Thursday June 23, 2022 @04:02PM (#31854450)
Thank you.
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