My best friend Luke was dating a girl who wore Misfits gear on a regular basis, but he found out that she thought it was a trendy clothing brand.

@Jm31xxx You already have me as an enemy, mostly because the first time I met you, you mocked my educated and career because I don't do drugs while at work, and then why I berated you for it, you claimed it's because of your religion.

@BlueMetalChick I sort of complimented you actually, I pressumed the prefix "high functioning" might be applicable to you but I was wrong.

@Jm31xxx That's because your definition of "high functioning" is a lazy fuck who sits around getting high and doesn't go to work. And you better believe that doesn't apply to me.

And no you did not compliment me. I told you I'm an apprentice astronomer at a highly regarded scientific research institution and you asked me if I smoke weed while at work and lay around "contemplating the truths of the universe" instead of doing my damn job and actually researching it.

@BlueMetalChick i promise you, I expend more energy before my first break than you expend throughout you're whole day.

When I smoke weed, I only sit around while Im actually smoking it. As soon as the joints stubbed out, I get to work.

I used "high functioning" in the same context as a FBI profiler.

@Jm31xxx No you really don't, you can't promise me something that ain't true.

Smoking weed doesn't make you a lazy person necessarily. Suggesting I should smoke weed, then proceed to not do my job and sit around fantasizing about things instead of actually learning them does.

"High functioning" is not a prefix, by the way. Both "high" and "functioning" are complete words. A prefix is a set of letters applied to the beginning of a word to change its meaning. And how the hell would you know what an FBI profiler uses it to mean if you aren't one? What, are you just casually friends with a bunch of FBI profilers who tell you what code language they use?

@BlueMetalChick High functioning is a legitimate prefix and is indeed used by the FBI. I just happen to know stuff. Thats probably because when I consume whatever substances, I myself am the very definition of the term.

Its kinda funny you berate me for whatever I said in regards to your profession. Looking at the stars is a spectators endeavour and many people aren't as poleaxed by being stoned as you so consequently, would suffer no professional impairement.

However I remember you going to some boxing match which is also (for those in the audience) a spectacle to be watched, and you were taking monkey dust. You weren't an active participant but wanted to get "pumped". Sort of feel theres a wee double standard here.

@Jm31xxx No it's not a prefix. Look up the definition of the word "prefix." A prefix is not a complete word.

When you consume substances, you're not "high functioning." You're just high. You're not special because you get high. Millions of other people do it, myself included. I get high on everything from peyote cactus to DMT. And I'm no more "high functioning" than you are.

Yes, anyone would suffer professional impairment. Astronomy is more than stargazing. Don't believe me? Then I challenge you to smoke some weed, then try to calculate stellar movement and orbits using astrometrics and other relevant mathematics, graph them accordingly, identify the type of star based upon temperatures in Kelvins, or determine the age of the star by measuring its emissions spectrum to figure out what element it is currently fusing. You couldn't do that shit while you're NOT high.

I can get high at a boxing match because I don't work there. I'm not expected to be performing any kind of duties. Nobody is reliant on me to provide a service, and I'm not on someone's payroll. Drugs should be something you do for fun and recreation on your own time, like when you go to spectate a boxing match, when you're hanging out with your friends, watching a movie at the theater, when you're at a sports game, or any other hobby you might engage in.

But you believe the opposite is true. You think drugs are to be done while at work, and not while off the job. Meaning you think your boss should tolerate you being "high functioning" while you're on his dollar, but you think anyone who enjoys drug usage while not at work, such as myself and most others, are doing something wrong.

@BlueMetalChick why do you insist everything affects other people the way it affects you?

FYI the 'high' in 'high functioning' doesn't refer to being high (just in case theres some confusion) and the term is not solely limited to the use of substances but is often used by the psychiatric community in relation to syndromes/conditions.

Btw my boss knows Im stoned at work often and so are half my team.

I was stoned in school and passed all my exams I was stoned in college and passed all my exams. Why would that template suddenly not work with astronomy?

I'll tell you why, simply because I wouldn't want to work that profession thats why. Your field is perhaps one of the most important to mankind but the actual nuts and bolts are just so boring and I always hated the idea of personal research avenues being determined by higher ups.

And Im guessing thats partly why you're always pissed: you probably had a romanticised fantasy of what being an astronomer was but now you find yourself doing the coffee run for fat neck beards and listening to them talk about their DnD adventures.

@Jm31xxx I know "high functioning" doesn't refer to being high. I was trying make fun of you.

If your boss knows you're stoned at work and does nothing about it then he's either a shitty boss or you do some type of menial labor in which being under the influence isn't a liability. Which is not to insult you for performing menial labor, either. There's no shame in working a job like that.

Passing exams in school is a cinch. There's no challenge in that. I got the highest score in my entire senior class on the ACT exam and I went into it having been awake for 52 hours straight and had eating nothing for breakfast but a can of cake frosting. Passing tests in schools is, usually, pretty damn easy..

I appreciate you saying that my profession is extremely important. The "nuts and bolts" of it aren't boring to me, but they are tedious and require lots of checking, double checking, and attention to pedantic details that most people can't do even when not under the influence.

No, I'm not pissed because I had a fantasy about what astronomy work is like. I was a much angrier person before I found a job in my field. I'm an angry person because I grew up in a fucking war zone watching people get brutally murdered every day, that's why I'm angry all the time. I saw a significant improvement in my emotional stability when I got this job because I like it so much that it gives me something to do with my time, something to focus on, something I like to do and that provides a challenge for me. I'm not doing coffee runs for anyone, much less "fat neckbeards" who talk about Dungeons and Dragons. Nobody like that even works here. In fact, most of my coworkers and superiors are Finns, who talk at each other in a language I can't understand and who routinely bring odd pastries to work with them to snack on.

@BlueMetalChick if they eat pastry - routinely - then they're probably at least fat. And if you can't understand them, they could be all bragging about their weekend DnD adventures for all you know.

My work is very menial (and very physically demanding, thats how I know I burn up more fuel than you).... But when I had a sit down job which necessitated multi tasking, both macro and micro, I did just fine and I was stoned then too. Just hated sitting down all day

@Jm31xxx They're small pastries. Smaller than an average donut. And look at me, I eat a TON of sweets from pastries to candy to ice cream, and I'm medically underweight.

You don't burn up more fuel than I do in a day. Maybe at your job vs. my job, yes, but my day outside of work consists of an excess of physical activity for a variety of reasons. Unless you're a bike messenger or a physical trainer, you're not more active per day than I am.