Smoking Weed Underground

[sinker]

Reading this thread, noting the contributors, then re-reading other totally non-related threads with posts from the same contributors....
I'm staggered by the coincidences I'm seeing and the connections I'm making.
A lot of things are starting to add up....

 

[Paul Marvin]

Reading this thread, noting the contributors, then re-reading other totally non-related threads with posts from the same contributors....
I'm staggered by the coincidences I'm seeing and the connections I'm making.
A lot of things are starting to add up....

It always amuses me how they drift of topic 

 

[mikem]

Could be paranoia, from smoking too much...

 

[Boy Engineer]

on the train from Bradford to Sheffield to see my then-girlfriend; by the time I got there I was on a different planet

This is true irrespective of circumstance, with all due respect to the good folk of Sheffield.
As a youngster I was excited to learn we were to visit the Alhambra, with the prospect of hot Iberian weather and Moorish architecture. It was something of a come-down to end up in Bradford, in the drizzle.

 

[Paul Marvin]

on the train from Bradford to Sheffield to see my then-girlfriend; by the time I got there I was on a different planet

This is true irrespective of circumstance, with all due respect to the good folk of Sheffield.
As a youngster I was excited to learn we were to visit the Alhambra, with the prospect of hot Iberian weather and Moorish architecture. It was something of a come-down to end up in Bradford, in the drizzle.

I worked on that shopping centre when it was a big hole in the ground , some years ago now is was a VERY hot summer the reflection of the concrete we were shuttering nearly fried me . At least its still standing  so we must have done something right . Also lost 4 work colleagues driving home, had a smash on the M1 killed all four out right dad and his three sons 

 

[AR]

Reading this thread, noting the contributors, then re-reading other totally non-related threads with posts from the same contributors....
I'm staggered by the coincidences I'm seeing and the connections I'm making.
A lot of things are starting to add up....

It's starting to resemble  Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers cartoon, maybe "The Potheads go Potholing"...

 

[Speleofish]

One of those bad memories from student days. Climbing, not caving but this was merely a matter of chance. Much partying the previous evening. We took our hangovers very, very gently up something vegetarian on High Tor. A friend, still speeding from yesterday, sprinted halfway up something else, encouraging one of the novices to follow. Then it all ran out. Fortissimo to diminuendo in about a minute. Fortunately, he had managed to plant some decent protection. Less fortunately, he fell asleep mid-pitch and fell/floated down about 5 metres, ending suspended inconveniently in the middle of nowhere. A slightly complex rescue followed as none of us knew what we were doing....
it would have been much harder underground. 

 

[Tangent_tracker]

We have banned smoking at Alderley once we discovered higher than expected levels of Radon. There is a link between smoking in elevated radon areas and cancer. I think it has something to do with the positively charged smoke particles attracting the radon particles and thus the radon is thought to sit decaying in your lungs for longer...

So if you want a good reason to stop smoking underground, you might have just found it!

 

[pwhole]

It's also looking possible that THC may reduce the likelihood of developing lung cancer, and reduce the growth of existing tumours, but it is early days yet, and studies are hard to get started for the simple reason the stuff is still illegal in many countries. But smoking in a radon atmosphere isn't a good idea, whatever it is. Just go to Matlock Bath caves and mines if you must do it as there's no radon there

 

[Tangent_tracker]

It's also looking possible that THC may reduce the likelihood of developing lung cancer, and reduce the growth of existing tumours, but it is early days yet, and studies are hard to get started for the simple reason the stuff is still illegal in many countries. But smoking in a radon atmosphere isn't a good idea, whatever it is. Just go to Matlock Bath caves and mines if you must do it as there's no radon there

Wouldn't be surprised tbh!

If only I could smoke the stuff but after doing too much LSD and having a lot of downers in my younger years I seem to too easily get spooked on weed I think a lot depends on the company though... The last experience I had the only negative issue was releasing the bottle of wine I had lay in my stomach after some rather powerful stuff round a camp fire :chair:

 

[pwhole]

And this just in - ohohoh. I look forward to comments tomorrow evening, but it's past my bedtime

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/may/18/any-amount-of-alcohol-consumption-harmful-to-the-brain-finds-study

Higher volume of alcohol consumption per week was associated with lower grey matter density ? the researchers found, with alcohol explaining up to a 0.8% change in grey matter volume, even after accounting for individual biological and behavioural characteristics. This might seem like a small figure, but it is a larger contribution than any other modifiable risk factors. For example, it is four times the contribution of smoking or BMI, said Topiwala.

 

[Paul Marvin]

It's also looking possible that THC may reduce the likelihood of developing lung cancer, and reduce the growth of existing tumours, but it is early days yet, and studies are hard to get started for the simple reason the stuff is still illegal in many countries. But smoking in a radon atmosphere isn't a good idea, whatever it is. Just go to Matlock Bath caves and mines if you must do it as there's no radon there

I would have thought the Matlock areas was high in Radon ? we only live 5 mins away and had to do all sorts when we bought our house for the so so high Radon in the area  :-\

 

[mikem]

Granite generally contains more radon than limestone (so avoid Edinburgh & Cornwall...)

 

[AR]

I suspect most of the cave radon monitoring in recent years has focused on the Castleton area, close to the shale margin, but that doesn't mean there aren't issues elsewhere. I recall being told by one of the guides at Middleton Top Engine House that they are limited to the number of hours they can do each year due to radon build-up in the buildings, and I can't help but wonder whether Omya did monitoring in the stone mine when it was working - they probably did have to, though their ventilation systems would likely have stopped build-up. I think you might get a nasty surprise if you were to do some radon monitoring off the main routes of the popular Matlock mines...

 

[RobinGriffiths]

Now you definitely woudn't want to smoke in Kingswood Mine, Devon - or probably even enter it.

 

[mikem]

Counts inside the mine are over 166 times higher than those on the surface... (there is also plenty of granite on Dartmoor, but not at buckfastleigh!)

 

[Cantclimbtom]

Counts inside the mine are over 166 times higher than those on the surface... (there is also plenty of granite on Dartmoor, but not at buckfastleigh!)

That could be a seed for a new thread. "Drinking Buckfast Tonic Underground", maybe we'd get a few Scots contributing on that one?

Why are you reading my reply here, you got a problem with it, eh? eh?  what "the hell are you looking at"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckfast_Tonic_Wine#Antisocial_image

 

[rhychydwr1]

Buckfast Abbey next door to Devon's top caving area Buckfastleigh.  What is the world coming to?

 

[Flotsam]

I've theorised that the months/years spent digging at the high Radon bottom of Nettle Pot combined with his smoking is what caused Frank Brown's lung cancer.

 

[AR]

Now you definitely woudn't want to smoke in Kingswood Mine, Devon - or probably even enter it.

There's Terras Mine too, that's one you definitely don't want to enter...