I used a lot of MDMA in my days, when it was still available in the Netherlands.
I have never had my eyes roll back in my head.
And I think a toddler would probably suffer irrepairable damage to liver and kidneys from one adult portion.
There is no way that this kid was under the influence of MDMA.
I just saw the video this morning.
That kid was NOT on drugs. I’d bet the farm on it. She was goofing around and then after she caught the attention of one of the girls the girl started on the “rolling” comments. The mother was not being very rough with the girl in her attempts to stop her from rolling her eyes up. It seemed like a simple playful incident.
Well, I’ve never used X or been anywhere near X or seen a person high on X or whatever, however, I’m pretty sure I clearly heard on the video, before all the Ecstasy talk started, one the girls say, ‘‘You shouldn’t have given her all that cocaine!’’
Which sounds like a natural progression from, ‘‘Hey, she looks like she’s on some kind of drug, say, cocaine,’’ to ‘‘actually, she looks more like she’s on ecstasy.’’ Unless you want to suggest that they gave her both cocaine and ecstasy, it seems incredibly unlikely that there would have been any mention of cocaine if they had given her X. One of the most common expressions we use around here is ‘‘you’re on crack.’’ It seems more likely that this was one of those kind of things.
Though that eye-rolling thing was definitely freaky.
Snopes claims the child is not on ecstasy.
Hurrah for Snopes. But boo to their utterly, utterly stupid javascript that tries to prevent users of their website from even highlighting text with the cursor. Some days I think they’re deliberately going for the highest usefulness to usability ratio on the entire web.
Yeah, that was driving me crazy when I was trying to cut and paste the quote; I ended up just typing it up myself.
I fucking hate this too. Almost worth a Pit thread all by itself.
You really have to wonder, don’t you, whether people who feel their work is so utterly, utterly inviolable as to require stopping people from even highlighting it might not be better off not publishing it on an open-to-the-world medium whose very mechanism entails downloading an individual copy to every computer from which it is viewed. I’m all about the protection of intellectual property, but honestly, when you’re fucking around with basic browser behaviour to stop people even trying to quote you, you really have to step back and wonder what the fuck you’re doing on the internet at all.
At this level of anality, it’s a lot like making people sign a non-disclosure agreement before starting a conversation about the weather. Sooner or later, people are just going to stop talking to you.