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darkemeralds ([personal profile] darkemeralds) wrote2009-11-03 02:41 pm

Sugar poisoning

Damn these people who bring Halloween candy to work. Seriously! I'm all on board with self-determination and personal responsibility, but the combination of stress, Smarties and Whoppers is about to kill me.

I'm very, very tempted to go around and quietly throw every bit of it in the garbage. Because what's worse? Me on a sugar high (followed by hangover) or Whoppers in the trash? Either way, it's wasted, but at least in the trash it's not making my head explode.

[identity profile] coyotesuspect.livejournal.com 2009-11-03 11:23 pm (UTC)(link)
BE STRONG.

[identity profile] forodwaith.livejournal.com 2009-11-04 12:05 am (UTC)(link)
I'm feeling the same way about the enormous amounts my kids brought home. I don't want/need all this damn candy & yet there seems no way to get rid of it responsibly. Someone suggested the local kids' hospital might want it; I'll have to call and see.

It was much easier when they were small & their treat collection radius was limited to a single block.

[identity profile] emeraldsedai.livejournal.com 2009-11-04 12:07 am (UTC)(link)
I can't think why a hospital would want what amounts to Poison For Kidz. The only responsible action is not to buy it in the first place, but failing that, trashcan seems perfectly civic-minded to me.

[identity profile] roxymissrose.livejournal.com 2009-11-04 12:10 am (UTC)(link)
*GASP*

Whoppers in the *trash*????

I'll pretend I didn't see that!

[identity profile] emeraldsedai.livejournal.com 2009-11-04 12:12 am (UTC)(link)
Hee! I know, right? Because Whoppers = Hell. In the good way, till it's bad.

They are, in short, crack.

[identity profile] serenity-valley.livejournal.com 2009-11-04 12:23 am (UTC)(link)
Hee! Your comment on my post makes so much more sense now! I was wondering how you randomly came up with Smarties and Whoppers....

You have my sympathies. And will have them even more in about an hour...

[identity profile] emeraldsedai.livejournal.com 2009-11-04 12:24 am (UTC)(link)
How come? Dinner?

[identity profile] serenity-valley.livejournal.com 2009-11-04 01:49 am (UTC)(link)
No, I was actually figuring that would be about the time the sugar coma would hit. ;)

[identity profile] emeraldsedai.livejournal.com 2009-11-04 04:21 am (UTC)(link)
Oh! LOL.

It probably was, but by that time I was riding it off on the trip home. \o/

[identity profile] kispexi2.livejournal.com 2009-11-04 09:15 am (UTC)(link)
Smarties and Whoppers: a porn!fic in which a group of nerdy academic young men come upon a group of well-endowed body-builders ...

[identity profile] creedcascade.livejournal.com 2009-11-04 01:34 pm (UTC)(link)
You know... Smarties are a different candy in Canada. Harder resist. Chocolate goodness... mmm. We call your chalky Smarties... Rockets.
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[personal profile] starfishchick 2009-11-04 04:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm, Rockets.

[identity profile] emeraldsedai.livejournal.com 2009-11-04 05:42 pm (UTC)(link)
LOL.

Trust you to find the pr0n.

[identity profile] emeraldsedai.livejournal.com 2009-11-04 05:44 pm (UTC)(link)
I was thinking about this last night. (Because, you know, candy is a thing to expend thought on, right?) I think your Smarties are our M&M's (chocolate dots with a candy shell, right?).

We don't have Rockets. But yeah, Smarties. Chalky tart goodness. Mmmm. Thank God they're gone now. Because I ATE THEM ALL OMG.

[identity profile] roseambr.livejournal.com 2009-11-04 10:42 pm (UTC)(link)
I have nothing to add to this conversation! I've been so thankful in the last four Halloweens we have not had to buy or consume treats for this horrible day. It makes me sick just remembering those times. And yes, they are irresistible, if nothing else due to their sweet and innocent size and appearance,. Just one can't hurt... right?

[identity profile] emeraldsedai.livejournal.com 2009-11-04 10:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Today I actually grabbed the last handful of crap from the "treat cabinet" (you know the one) and walked straight to the restroom with it and threw it away in there.

Barn door, horse, all that, but that was one handful of candy nobody ate.

[identity profile] roseambr.livejournal.com 2009-11-04 10:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Most especially not eaten by you. Yeah for conviction!