Most of these come from my
Random blog, which is an electronic scrapbook of stuff I thought I might like to view at some time or other. For those who want to view stuff on drugs I've collected the very best links here. Unless otherwise stated these are full-length features, usually an hour or more.
If you have a slow connexion and are unused to viewing multiscreen films on Youtube here's what to do: click the first one and play on mute, stopping and starting as it does. Then, when it's done, click on Repeat Play and you get the full entertainment without interruption. While you watch screen one, do the same to screens 2, 3 and so on. So as each bit finishes, the next part's ready and waiting.
Mexican Black Tar Heroin: "
Dark End"
Khun Sa, whose name meant Prince Prosperous, had been, before his death in the mid 2000s, the world's biggest dealer in China White Heroin: "
Lord of the Golden Triangle"
In-depth portrait of the Afghan heroin trade at its very height. Includes heroin-lab bust. "
Afghanistan's Fateful Harvest"
Classic miniseries whose title became a catchphrase for the misery of life in East Asian prison. Nicole Kidman plays a privileged middle-class girl set up to mule heroin through Thai customs with the inevitable consequences. This is so long it had to be posted in two parts. "
Bangkok Hilton 1" (first 2 hours or so); "
Bangkok Hilton 2" (last couple of hours).
Short film: from tapwater-clear H4 in the USA to murky black Afghan brown in Norway: "
Heroin Addicts Speak"
Before his untimely death this guy kept a video diary. Here's the hour-long highlights as broadcast on BBC TV: "
Ben: Diary of a Heroin Addict". Thanks to
Noah for the original link.
Some of the most entertaining scenes from Britain's top soap (as much for the poor research as anything else). Not even Phil Mitchell would go from nought to multi-hundred pound binges this fast: "
Phil Mitchell on Crack" (just over 5 minutes).
Scientist lady shows us how to cook up gear: "
How Much Citric?" Lucky cow: her brown is 70% purity! Oddly we never see her actually do her hit... maybe she got camera shy...
And lastly:
German documentary following a life from teenage addiction to untimely death before the age of 30. The decline in this girl's appearance is truly shocking. "
Süchtig: Protokoll einer Hilflosigkeit". Sorry no subtitles; this is here for anyone learning German who's after practice material a little more gripping than Lindenstraße!
13 comments:
OBVIOUSLY I cannot give answers to the 12 but my for gemstones my favourites would be blue diamonds and sapphrires~ haha. not cheap am I?
I fancy the pink diamond myself but I'm not much of a jewellery person.
OH I'm hopeless with bling:
I"m pretty sure 6 is a diamond? 8 is a sapphire and 9 an emerald . . .10 I think is a pink diamond too and 12. Just different colours and cuts.
1. tanzanite
2. colour looks like ruby - do rubies come with the star?
3. garnet (or a fake ruby) (colour isn't right for either I think)
4. blue topaz
5. peridot
6. ?
7. ? fake emerald (too dark)
8. fake sapphire (not dark enough)
9. emerald
10. ? pink diamond? do they come pink?
11.?
12. diamond
I love gems. Would love a tanzanite like #1 - have a couple rings with them but they are small and not great colour but tanzanite is my favourite - used to be amethyst - but I also love sapphires and rubies and garnets -emeralds are growing on me. I have a LOT of jewelry
It's hard to tell from photos and no way to tell what size these stones are...but here goes for fun :o)
1. Fancy cut deep purple/blue Tanzanite - so rare! I want one!
2. 6 point star ruby.
3. Looks like a red sapphire, as I have one just like it.
4. Tricky...strange cut. If it was aquamarine, it would be a rare find in that rich colour, so I'd guess at topaz but not sure.
5. Probably peridot, but could be green sapphire or Tsavorite garnet
6. This looks like a rare Ceylon sapphire to me - they are pale sky blue like chicory flowers. Or it could be a blue diamond.
7. Emerald maybe. They're rarely clear and this one has visible inclusions.
8. Looks like deep sapphire colour but not a good photo as it shows little fire. Might as well be glass.
9. Probably too clear for emerald, so tourmaline or alexandrite maybe.
10. A bit stumped, it coud be a (disappointing!) pink diamond, a pink tourmaline, or pink kunzite.
11. Guessing again...chrome diopside?
12. Looks like an ice blue diamond - strange colour though.
See if you can find yellow kunzite - it's really unusual and sort of glows from within even if you shade it!
H
I love bling too...especially the real stuff that you're talking about. The coloured stones are my favourites...sapphires, emeralds, rubies, etc. Diamonds? If they're with other stones, yes, but on their own, they do nothing for me.
Wow. Tough to name them stones but you seem to have quite a few readers that seem to know what they are talking about.
All time favorite for me I guess is Sapphire but I am also into Tourmaline and amber.
Very good answers...
roll up roll up! MORE please!!
the quiz ain't closed yet! ;->...
1. no idea
2. star ruby
3. garnet?
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.sapphine
9.emerald
10.
11.topaz
12. aquamarine
Sorry I didn't pass gemology class.
10 is my fav i LOVE pink, reg color and yellow diamonds so pretty as far as my answers i dont know lol
I'm still discovering gems I've never heard of before. To me "bling" is cheap OTT fake stuff - I couldn't use the term for genuine gemstones.
Puss-in-boots - what about coloured diamonds? A good white diamond, even a quarter carat, is an amazing thing! Hold one in the sun, and gently turn it around - it will reward you with a display of intense shafts of brilliant, dazzling coloured light, in all shades of the spectrum! Fancy coloured diamonds do too, I'm told. And they're tougher than other coloured stones - diamonds are forever!
H
Come on you 'orrible lot!
More answers please, the competition doesn't close till Monday!!
the answers are here
http://gledwood2.blogspot.com/2010/01/gledwoods-great-bling-quiz-answers.html
Jeannie you are the winner with 7/12, scoring 0.5 for answers 7 and 12
H got 8/12 right but gave a lot of alternative suggestions!
Baino 5/12
Syd 3/12
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