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[–] Piecemakers3Dprints 34 points 7 months ago (1 children)

A spoonfulla cocaine helps that medicine go down...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

Plus it makes you more confident and better looking.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Is it 7*(1-2) = 7 to 14grs, or 7+(1-2) = 8 to 9grs?

Also love the range of potential error. Plus or minus 1gr? Eh, it's fine.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 7 months ago (3 children)
[–] AnUnusualRelic 24 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It was defined such that 252.458 units would balance 1 cubic inch (16 cm3) of distilled water at an ambient air-water pressure and temperature of 30 inches of mercury (100 kPa) and 62 °F (17 °C) respectively.

Nice and convenient.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

That's the way I would have done it. Pretty intuitive.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (3 children)

So "7 1-2" should be read as 7.5? Do you know if there is a difference between "grs" and "GRS"?

[–] Zron 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Considering the active ingredients seem to be listed in bold, I think it’s safe to assume that it was just simpler to use all caps for one part of the label and lower case on the other half.

GRS probably stands for grains. A grain in 1/7000th of a pound, so these is actually not that much per serving. Unless this is using British Imperial Units, which are different from American standard Units. If it’s British imperial, I don’t know how much this is meant to mean.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Found some pics. Definitely 7 and 1/2.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Agreed. It sent me digging.

An avoirdupois pound is equal to 16 avoirdupois ounces and to exactly 7,000 grains. The conversion factor between the kilogram and the international pound was therefore chosen to be divisible by 7 with a terminating decimal representation, and an (international) grain is thus equal to exactly 64.79891 milligrams.

Pound(mass)

The Avoirdupois entry had a good visual representation as well as more weights history.

The "q. s." remains a mystery though.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

The "q. s." remains a mystery though.

q.s. means quantum satis and is Latin for "as much as necessary". Which means they add enough for the right consistency or flavour or whatever, but the exact amount isn't given and might vary.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Gotcha. Terrifying.

[–] schmidtster 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Big words big GRS, little words little grs. The GR and GRS is what should be questioned.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That makes sense. And the q. s.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Ahhh, ok. Thanks!

[–] Orbituary 1 points 7 months ago

Yeah. Lack of standard notation or standardized font for ingredients. No regulations in ppace for legibility.

[–] Ultraviolet 6 points 7 months ago

Oh, not grams. I thought the dosage seemed high.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 7 months ago

10% alcohol, cannabis and chloroform. Sounds like a very long night's sleep after a small cup

[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago (3 children)

How much antimony is too much antimony?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

It sure is.

[–] killeronthecorner 2 points 7 months ago

The top tax rate

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

More importantly though, how much is enough?

[–] HeapOfDogs 17 points 7 months ago

After being sick with a terrible cough and realizing that the only good cough suppresent is a controlled substance I bet this shit worked great.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago

“uphill both ways” is a lot funnier if you interpret it as being really blasted

[–] samus12345 15 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Nobody ever drove me to school when it was 90 degrees below

We had to walk butt-naked through 40 miles of snow

Worked in the coal mines 22 hours a day for just half a cent

Had to sell my internal organs just to pay the rent

[–] creditCrazy 7 points 7 months ago

Replace coal mining with flipping burgers at mc Donald's and that's just today

[–] stoicmaverick 5 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Didn't have no swimming pool when I was just a lad, our neighbors septic tank was the closest thing we had!

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 2 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago

Next time, instead of asking if someone is pregnant, just ask if they are anodyne expectorant.

[–] nixcamic 10 points 7 months ago

If you have cannabis and morphine do you really need everything else?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I wonder what this stuff tasted like

[–] stoicmaverick 7 points 7 months ago

It probably tastes like nothing because it instantly numbed your tongue.

[–] LemmyKnowsBest 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Can't taste anything when you're instantly unconscious

[–] GoosLife 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I would genuinely love to try this one day. I just want to know what it's like.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Same. It sounds like a good time

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

So that's where YOLO came from.

[–] peopleproblems 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Finally Something that can take my mind off life and go to sleep

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Chug that bottle and you can potentially go to sleep forever 😴

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Some of Sassy's special stuff right there!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Is this a The big Lez show reference? I just found that series today and that would be quite the coincidence

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Yeah lol xD

[–] GoosLife 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

you talkin' to me?

[–] snausagesinablanket 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

They just released Bill Cosby's recipe for Saturday nights at the playboy mansion.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] misophist 6 points 7 months ago

grs. is grains, not grams. 1 grain is about 1/15 gram, or 65mg.