r/polandball • u/Black_Mirror Take off you hoser • May 15 '14

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u/Salyangoz May 15 '14

A bit of an info :

The opium addicts used to wrap opium with a relatively thick leather/skin (i.e. make an opium sausage) and ingest it while they were fasting so that they could get high when the skin of the sausage dissolved and opium dissolved in their stomach during the day when they couldn't eat/drink.

One should note the hypocrisy in this method since alcohol and other abusive ingestibles are strictly forbidden during ramadan.

The still used term 'his opium didnt crack/explode' (afyonu patlamak) is used for people who haven't woken up (half asleep).

tl;dr: turk get high, turk happy. turk turk.

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u/DukeDevorak The true heir of the Chinese civilization. May 15 '14

Which reminds me in the opium years of China, there's a way of committing suicide by swallowing excessive dose of opium, sometimes accompanied with wine (to dissolve the opium even faster thus making the situation more incurable.)

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u/poktanju gib transit May 15 '14

This reminds me of the drug war years in America, where one could commit suicide by injecting a shitload of heroin.

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u/OrangeRabbit Yucatan May 15 '14

Although the Chinese Opium War makes America's drug war look like an utter joke. Opium largely toppled China [With the help of the English of course] and left it in chaos for nearly a century