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Smoking dead scorpions is the latest addiction in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Dawn, Pakistan ^ | Apr 08, 20162 | Izhar Ullah

Posted on 04/29/2016 4:25:14 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki

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To: sukhoi-30mki

I prefer a Camel.


21 posted on 04/29/2016 5:01:40 AM PDT by tshaun
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To: sukhoi-30mki

You learn something every day. “Nasha pa nasha khatmege”—that phrase is a keeper.


22 posted on 04/29/2016 5:03:25 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine (The would-be Empress has no clothes. My eyes!)
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To: Fai Mao

But it’s “natural”...


23 posted on 04/29/2016 5:04:12 AM PDT by Does so (Vote for Hillary...Stay Home...==8-O)
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To: sukhoi-30mki

You can almost see the scenario unfold => Scorpion-smoking will become a fad in the US. A profitable trade will develop as people in the Southwest try meet demand. There will be horror stories, and the govt will pass laws to deal with it.


24 posted on 04/29/2016 5:18:32 AM PDT by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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To: sukhoi-30mki

I wonder if the venom actually has a direct intoxication effect, or if the “high” is simply the massive release of endorphins from the body as it tries to fight the pain caused by the venom.


25 posted on 04/29/2016 5:21:48 AM PDT by Little Pig
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To: sukhoi-30mki

Still hooked on banana peels from the 60’s.


26 posted on 04/29/2016 5:38:19 AM PDT by showme_the_Glory ((ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government))
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To: sukhoi-30mki

As if 1400 years of inbreeding hasn’t made these people into perfect morons they need to smoke scorpions to complete the job?


27 posted on 04/29/2016 5:44:31 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: W.

Banana peel didn’t do anything that I noticed

This article makes it sound like scorpion smoking is like a long lasting DMT or maybe more like ketamine

Rough stuff


28 posted on 04/29/2016 5:45:54 AM PDT by wardaddy (gonna need a lot of rope and lamposts and gibbets after this primary season.....)
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To: showme_the_Glory

My wife is smokin hot and has about the same effects although not quite as deadly.


29 posted on 04/29/2016 5:48:26 AM PDT by oldasrocks (They should lock all of you up and only let out us properly medicated people.)
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To: Feckless

That’s what I was thinking. Flipped over an old deer blind that had been on the ground for over two years and there was probably 75 or 80 scorpions under it.


30 posted on 04/29/2016 5:48:38 AM PDT by Dusty Road (")
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To: Ken H

Then AMC will make a hit drama series about an entymologist who gets AIDS and starts breeding potent scorpions to sell on the black market in order to pay for his treatments...


31 posted on 04/29/2016 6:03:33 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: sukhoi-30mki
The high lasts for almost 10 hours. The first six hours are more painful, as the body adjusts to the high. Slowly, Sohbat says, the feeling eases into enjoyment. “Everything appears like it is dancing,” he calls. “The roads, the vehicles, everything in front of me.”

I can see this becoming a problem in the southwest part of the country where scorpions are abundant. The 6 hours sounds like it would be a turnoff, but if the 4 pleasurable hours are that pleasurable, as they must be, then idiots will go for it.

32 posted on 04/29/2016 6:05:51 AM PDT by Robert DeLong (u)
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To: wardaddy
Never tried either...

But the banana peel bit did make for a great Don Martin cartoon in Mad Magazine back in the 70's...

33 posted on 04/29/2016 6:07:17 AM PDT by W. (Screw it. Send in the Marines! NOW!)
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To: sukhoi-30mki

Smoking Dead Scorpions -What a name for a Punk Band!.....................


34 posted on 04/29/2016 6:13:58 AM PDT by Red Badger (WE DON'T NEED NO STEENKING TAGLINES!...........................)
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To: Covenantor

Looks like Keith Richards when he was young........


35 posted on 04/29/2016 6:20:58 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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“I started scorpion smoking in the mid-'60s,” recalls 74-year-old Sohbat Khan.

If you remember the 60's, you weren't there.

36 posted on 04/29/2016 6:44:47 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: elcid1970

Babu Bhatt disagrees. You very bad man...


37 posted on 04/29/2016 6:46:12 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: elcid1970

YES - Pakistan is absolutely the worst country in the world. Corrupt, violent, illiterate, inbred, muslim. Somalia runs a close second.

I read that something like 70% of Britain’s special needs and special education budget goes on the 5% of the population that is Paki origin - consequences of inbreeding.


38 posted on 04/29/2016 6:46:53 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Feckless
I’m sitting on a freaking gold mine!

At last! Something the U.S. can export.

There are a few around my place. (One got in the house and I once caught one in a mouse trap in the garage.) I recently got a UV flashlight to check the population once it gets warmer and they're in season.

39 posted on 04/29/2016 6:48:53 AM PDT by snarkpup (I want a government small enough that my main concern in life doesn't need to be who's running it.)
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To: wardaddy
"E-lec-tric-al banana
Gonna be a sudden craze,
E-lec-tric-al banana
Got to be the very next phase.

They call it Mellow Yellow..."

40 posted on 04/29/2016 6:54:20 AM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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