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citric acid is added to the mix when its diluted to help aid solubility, they may be helpless drug addled fiends but they know their chemistry!!

full info here http://www.drugs-info.co.uk/drugpages/h ... eroin.html

Probably what it's cut with and perhaps citric acid is produced when it is cooked up? Educated guess by the way and I never have and never would touch the stuff!

This really isn't as hostile as I'm sure some people will try to tell you it is...

Going to football and arranging certain elements of your life around it is not putting your life on hold, it's doing something with your life.

We are each allocated 168 hours per week to use as we see fit or as is dictated to us by biology, circumstance, capitalist agenda, Maslow, the modern world and a whole host of other determinants. Of the time we have remaining once we have paid our various pipers, attending a football match seems to me to be a perfectly excellent recreational use of time. Not as worthy, perhaps, as attempting to cure cancer, but certainly better all round than shooting up in the alley behind a pub.*

Non-footballing acquaintances insist that the time I spend trawling all over the country following United is a grotesque waste of time. I usually respond by asking them how they spent their Saturday in the alternative. Upon this question,I am usually met by the face of a dawning realisation that what they in fact did was absolutely sod all, in the pretence of having a embarrassment of riches in the spare time category. Of course, this is late Sunday evening, by which time it's far too late for them to make amends and they spend the next 5 working days contemplating the futility of their wasted lives before resolving to spend the coming weekend doing something productive. Me, I already know what I'm doing at the weekend because Torquay are playing (alright, not THIS weekend, but in general) so I not only feel the benefit of putting my time to good use, but I save time during the week also, by not having to soothe my tortured soul.

Football is win-win.

Matt.

* Druggies - I saw a thing on TV the other day which seemed to suggest that large quantities of vitamin C and/or citric acid were a hallmark of heroin use. I have Googled it, but I can't find a satisfactory explanation as to the meaning of it all. Help a brother out?

bixieupnorth wrote:the lame performance and defeat at Colchester when a win would've kept us up was the one that made me most angry, not often I lose my temper at a match, but the display and passion from the team that day made my blood boil, still does!

That day changed my whole relationship with football and Torquay United.

I wasn't so much angry as stunned by the sheer sickening twist of fate - I remember that final day relegation battle being described as having 13 possible outcomes, only one of which would have seen us relegated. The irony that only one year previously I'd made the same journey back from Essex in ecstatic mood only added to the misery and tainted the memory of the Southend game.

Prior to that, I'd only missed one home game in around eight years, gone to obscure pre-season friendlies and youth games, plus plenty of away games, made sure I got married on a day when United couldn't possibly be playing etc. etc. but thereafter decided I was no longer going to put my life on hold for something as unreliable as a lower league football team.

Fair play to those who continue to do so, though.

the lame performance and defeat at Colchester when a win would've kept us up was the one that made me most angry, not often I lose my temper at a match, but the display and passion from the team that day made my blood boil, still does!

nice one dan will look out for out.

Check out my article in the '#hegulls' collumn!

My 'Gulls dream team' is in the HE this week! Unfortunately, Jason Fowler is in there twice, it's supposed to be Martin (Buster) Phillips on the wing! Hopefully an article of mine on my day with the media team will be in there next week, I have sent an email about the idea and see what happens.

One of my worst memories of a defeat besides those others Steve was at Morecambe the other year when we were 1-0 up through Kee who scored with about 10 to go and then they got 2 penalties in the last 5 minutes which they both scored and won 2-1. That tw*t Duffy came to the Torquay crowd arms out giving it large and it nearly set me off, there were a few 'disagreements' shall we say with myself / mate and some of the Morecambe fans coming out of the ground too. That defeat really stuck in my memory.

Two worst defeats (joint in their heroic crapness) for me are the second half capitulation against the greasers and the debacle at Old Trafford.

Both awful for many many reasons.

BUMP. (and apologies for shameless plugging)

Second #hegulls column hit the sports pages of the Herald Express today including this from me:
http://www.thisissouthdevon.co.uk/burge ... z2MDpLz6yT

...and an all time best XI from our very own Danny. Great work Dan.

This is a column for all fans, with the intention on keeping things positive and nostalgic. Fans of all ages and locations can contribute, all contributions will be read and considered.

Some great writers and knowledgeable writers here, so to get involved with an article on anything to do with TUFC please email:

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Cheers.

PhilGull wrote:From Jody Banim's Wikipedia page, "He started 10 games for Torquay and decided against an offered contract for the following season." A near miss!

To focus on his other role as Rik Waller's body-double

From Jody Banim's Wikipedia page, "He started 10 games for Torquay and decided against an offered contract for the following season." A near miss!

My favourite trip to Grays (well there's only been 2 of them and they were both appalling) was the year after, we won 1-0 in the last minute with a diving header by Wayne Carlisle, it was played in monsoon conditions with a wind so strong it was blowing goal kicks out of play for throw ins, barely outside either keepers penalty area. Really helped Bevs kicking that night!!

anyway around 150 Gulls started out on the terrace behind the goal by the end all had seeked cover apart from me, Paul Ba$tard and a couple of blokes at the back to witness Carlisle's header hit the net. #SoakedtotheCoreWhenTheGullsScore

Random point the ground at Grays has since been knocked down and turned into housing, a very peculiar ground built surrounded fully by houses in the first place and situated in the worst place in the world. Grays is that bad that the people of Baghdad are holding a rock concert for them.

Correct! Soon the fans were screaming 'Ban'im from the ground'

That was an enjoyable 2 or 3 days watching us lose at grays before making the commute on an ice cold monday night to Plainmoor to see Andersen chuck another 2 in and lose to aldershot in the last minute.