i can't read books high as the words don't go in, and i find it amazing that anyone can!

but here are a couple of recommendations:

- mason & dixon, by thomas pynchon. possibly my favourite novel, and i recently finished a fourth or fifth reading of it.

- ways of being, by james bridle. fascinating book about AI, climate change, computing, and how we humans relate to (or fail to relate to) the non-human world.

Same, thats where Audible comes in handy :D

oh good tip! and nice to know i'm not the only one who can't read when high.

i'm kinda resistant to audio books for some reason (i think podcasts fill that gap for me).

any favourite audiobook recommendations?

oh yeah I'm the same - can't really enjoy books stoned! Audio books are a good idea :)

Thomas Pynchon is such a good writer. My personal favourite is Gravity's Rainbow. Pretty sure that he would write a lot of his work completely high to help him get into the characters' heads...and then edit it sober. Which isn't a bad process. It's probably how he came up with a guy who's have sex when a missile falls, so they use his erection as an early warning system ;). Also a long, phantasmagorical trip down a toilet.

Aye, I really enjoyed the Unhappy Medium by TJ Brown, hilarious and Redshirts by John Scalzi is fun

Bro speed reading when stonned is hilarious, I just make up what I am reading haha!

Im in awe of anyone who can manage Pynchon . Tried n failed!

Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain

Mr Nice & Dope Stories by Howard Marks

You're reading Mr Nice again?

Shantaram

Septimus Heap books (kids books, don't care, love them and read them yearly, Harry Potter can fuck off)

Ink and Sigil series

Kane and Abel by Jeffrey archer if you like a saga 👍

Love a good book!! Here’s some good recommendations

Bios mainly rock n roll people

Dear boy - keith moon

Thanks a lot mr kibblewhite - roger daltrey

Dr Ozzy - ozzy osbourne

Ozzy

Scar tissue - Anthony kiedis

Other true books

First light - about a spitfire pilot

Mad world my masters - John Simpson the news reader

Mr nice - Howard marks

Adverntures of a racketeer - Patrick ??? (Howard marks brother in law

Snowblind -

Shantaram- Gregory David ?????

Fiction

Wasp factory - Iain banks ( must read if you haven’t it’s mental)

Lord of the rings

Sherlock Holmes - surprisingly good

Jeeves and Wooster - any books all awesome

Corfu trilogy - Gerald Durrell

The teachings of Don Juan - Carlos casteneda

Just a few of my faves , I read lots of different books

Wow - I can't believe I've never read Sherlock Holmes?! Sounds like an obvious thing... Need to add it to the list!

Seriously they are great and once you read them you understand why the name and stories haven’t disappeared enjoy !!!

Mr Nice is definitely on my list. What did you think?

Joe Abercrombie is my current favourite author. Kind of grim fantasy.
He builds characters so well you feel like you know them. Start with the First Law trilogy or The Heroes if you just want to dip your toe in.
If you prefer audiobooks the narrator who reads for him, Steven Pacey, is awesome. I didn't like audiobooks at all before listening to him

new Abercrombie book out next month. Great books, especially when read by Pacey!

Been reading "Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking",

Really interesting when you want to get into philosophy.

Mockingbird - Walter Tevis
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke
Snowblind - Robert Sabbag
The Name of The Wind - Patrick Rothfuss

Snowblind is amazing. Old school smuggling at its finest.

How about The Day Of The Jackal by Frederick Forsyth

for philosophy then Meditations by Marcus Aurelius of course 😀

This was excellent.

If you like fantasy that doesn't take itself too seriously, anything by Joe Abercrombie. I've just finished his latest ' The Devils' and blew through it in a week, it's fantastic.

Anything Jeff Noon. Start with Vurt though. Falling Out Of Cars is my favourite by him.

Thoroughly depressing dystopian shit, all set in a future Manchester.

It’s great. If you haven’t read Jeff. Read him immediately. It’s so bleak it totally cheers you up.

Automated Alice.

He rewrote Alice In Wonderland the minute it was out of copyright. Set it in Manchester. In the future. Published that shit.

You have to read Vurt and Pollen first, or it’s just nonsense. 🤣


Aldous Huxley.

Ol’ Bull Lee, Hunter S.

Foucault

Ol’ Palahniuk

Carl Sagan

Trainspotting. Irvine Welsh. It’s kinda Nirvana the band, in book form.

The Bridge. Ian Banks. Wasp Factory if you haven’t read it. Espedair Street is a great book also.

Lanark. Alasdair Grey.

Only Forward/Spares. Michael Marshall Smith.

Underrated books, that guy writes, if you like fun books to read.

Keats. Yeats. Byron. Pinter. Meadows. Morrissey. Mark E Smith. Linton Kwesi Johnson. The poetry of people like Mike Skinner and the master, John Cooper Clarke.

Dickens

HP Lovecraft.

John Lydon.

Kevin Shields.

Not books. Sorry.

Illuminatus!, Cosmic Trigger. Robert Anton Wilson. Carlos Casteneda. Because sometimes you want the bollocks to be true. Bit of Church of The Subgenius. Our captain and saviour. Roberto Dobbs.

Terence McKenna. Food of The Gods.

That’s a book.

Desmond Morris. Errol Morris

Alesdair Crowley. And yes. Jimmy Page did buy his Scottish retreat.

Look into that one. It’s a deep, interesting rabbit hole.

Allen Ginsberg, Tom Wolfe, Jack (Daniels) Kerouac.

Anais Nin

Henry Miller.

Sexytime.

Bill Gibson. Alan Moore. Alan Martin. Bill Drummond.

I’ve given you enough to be getting on with. I wish I could be reading all of that shit for the first time.

Don’t read any of these books or authors. They are a big part of why I’m so dysfunctional.

They do all cut through the bullshit kinda nicely. If you are open to it.

Any book by Thomas Pynchon. Vineland is my favourite

James by Percival Everett

Who Paid the Piper by Frances Stonor Saunders

River god.

American physco.

The shrinking man

Fight club

Easter island

Might be a bit late to the thread but ragdoll by daniel cole is a book i wish i could read for the first time again, crime drama/detective fic, highly recommend. They turned it into a tv series too, which i havent seen yet so cant say if its as good as the book.
Real life stuff i just got done reading the rodchenkov affair, which was a very interesting read although i suppose a bit of a niche topic 😅

Hi there, I fulfilled a life goal (sadly it took a spine injury which is why I smoke so much lol) by collecting and reading every single Terry Pratchett book, namely the Discworld series, in order ofc lol. Described Like Lord of the Rings, but with comedy.

The early few books he's still finding his feet in the world he creates imo but soon it becomes a wonderfully weaved web of hilarity and a comparison of the real world and his own.

Theres also something for everyone, i personally like the "Guards" series following the careers of the officers there.

So many but a random quote without even checking.

"It's impossible to get through the day without committing some kind of crime, unless of course you stand all day in a dark basement.
But even then, you're probalbly guilty of loitering"

Theres a Wizards side, a Witches side, Trolls who get more intelligent the colder they get and DEATH, who really likes curry, and has a daughter.

I discovered this series over 20 years ago and now, read them all several times, have a peruse, theres something for everyone and all 40 odd books can be read individually or in sections

Bram stokers dracula , Dune by frank herbert ,anything by philip k Dick .. Gileads blood by Dan abnett.

I've gone through loads of the SF Masterworks and I'd say the majority of them are really good.
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/6228.SF_Masterworks
Obviously it helps if you like your scifi.

Someone else I came across recently on reddit is Exurb1a; The Fifth Science
https://amzn.eu/d/cTb8lPV
Highly recommend, it's a collection of short stories that do sort of tie into one another. I loved it

A couple of books I've really enjoyed reading while stoned are,

Jerusalem by Alan Moore.

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern.

Jerusalem in particular opened doors to other realms, time, the Universe and our place within it that have never closed.

The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
Mr Nice by Howard Marks
Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
Hit and Run: How Jon Peters and Peter Guber Took Sony for a Ride in Hollywood by Nancy Griffin
Have Gun Will Travel: Spectacular Rise and Violent Fall of Death Row Records by Ronin Ro

Zoroastrianism" is interesting! Originates back over 3,500 years ago! I need to look into this! The last religion in Egypt when Cleopatra was alive was the "Worship of Isis" which was was over 4000 years ago, yet Hinduism is 4500 years old, crazy!

Please check out Rudolf Stiener "Atlantis and Lumeria" you will love that!

Stephen King Different Seasons . I’m enjoying it so far .

If your up for a mind blowing allegedly true story that is amazing try getting your hands on a copy of "The Vertical Plane" its an account of the Dodderton (that might not be spelt correctly) messages. I don't wanna spoil the plot for you or any potential readers so I'll leave it at that, anyone wanting to do there own research pre reading is welcome. Just learning about the incident is very interesting.

The master and his emissary: the divided brain

Be here now! Best book for any psychedelic journey :)

A few of my absolute favourites:

A Confederacy of Dunces - by John Kennedy Toole

Darkness at Noon - by Arthur Koestler

Stoner - by John Edward Williams
(haha not our kind, it's the character's name)

Blood Meridian - by Cormac McCarthy

The Master and Margarita - by Mikhail Bulgakov

All of these books have become important parts of me ever since I read them :)

For non fiction:

Neurosis and Human Growth - by Karen Horney

^ this helped me out in a tough time! Really interesting re human psychology.

The Master & Margarita is wild! 😍

The Glass Bead Game - Herman Hesse. One of the best I’ve ever read.

Loved this https://www.amazon.co.uk/If-You-Survive-Wilson/dp/0804100039

But if you want something more light hearted, https://www.amazon.co.uk/Wee-Free-Men-Discworld-Novel/dp/0552549053

you have killed it my biigga, thanks for this

gotta be the homme homey maedon

I own a launchpad ...

That's the only thing madeon and I have in common

This is one of my favourites too! ☺️

Mos Dub

One of my favourite albums to listen to while smoking

Girl Talk - Feed The Animals

Sickick - Epic 50 Cent Mashup

This or the uptime mix by same artist

This one 👍

I love this

Akash’s rezzett/67 blend

love this thank you bigga

Wugazi - 13 Chambers

Fugazi x Wu Tang Clan

https://youtu.be/u1zSHGL3Drg

Not good quality. But always found this an amusing mashup

That’s pretty freaky if you are logging in with the same account details.

Contact transaxe via Chat on their page. They should be able to see your account/order status from your account name..

Good luck👍

Do you still have a record of your btc transaction to the vendor(s)? The date, time and amount should be unique and enable cross reference internally by transaxe you would think.

Yup, it’s been a long time😢…Smoggyman (although he wasn’t a grower) also sorely missed by me…

The next harvest from Druids Magic will appear around November, easily in the same league 👍😻

Sweet! I’ll look out for Druids Magic then! 😁

Agreed. I managed to get some of Budbotanist's offerings which I recall as being TT too.
Got some bubble hash off Bubble Hash Kings when they were listing which I loved. Ohhhh how I miss them all.

Can't wait for DM!! 🧙‍♂️

I remember well. That Snowball was amazing. I remember another one he did but can't remember the name now. Hope he'll be back with some bits now and then.

Fruit Pebbles x Cheese?….🔥👍🥰

Yes!! That's the one.

You know what?..I still have a couple of nugs of that in the ‘Special Event’ section of The Shelf 🥳👍

If things keep going at this rate it will be $1:£1 before the end of the year, which seems absolutely insane but it's probably going to get even worse than that...

Anyway please borgs make the change, you know it makes sense <3

Thanks for chiming in brother i really appreciate it!!

honestly within the context of this site and without trying to gaslight any biggas, this is probably one of, if not the most important subject / topic of discussion we could possibly be having right now, please do not let this slide this time biggas

we need as much attention and votes drawn to this as possible, this affects every single one of the sites users with every single order, this needs to sorted with the utmost of urgency, the damage has already been done for months now and it only gets worse with every single order

Supported 💯
Easy Change… Make it.

1 day later and this topic has already fallen off the wall and lost traction : (

going to have to keep shamelessly spamming the wall till we get what we are owed lol

that's crazy

thanks, brexit

Who do I have to suck off to make this happen?

Man I wish I could tell you, it really feels like admins don't want this to happen or something but i'm not going to let this topic fall to the wayside this time like it always seems to

Sadly I don't think a lot on here realise how much both vendors and customers are being shafted by the conversion.

English pounds or eskimo pence the sellers just need to lower their rates.

Super Hans or Jez. I bet you would, suck one of them off.

you just need to structure an initiative and get the votes

I think we need *every* currency here and as a European changing to £ would suck worse. at least the $ is a standard for the world if you are only going to have 1.

Probably 95% or more of this sites sales are all UK to UK, it just makes absolutely no sense the way it's currently operating

we don't need every, and we dont need another brexit axis either. we just need major currencies and btc and let the users choose.

Good point well made, I think with the general instability of the world economy LB need to ensure the site remains economically viable, peeps are skint or more skint than usual and it is going to get worse. Thank you Hesh for taking the time to Spearhead this, it’s is indeed of benefit to all users, get behind this biggas before the algos sink the subject again

Thanks for helping keep this topic visible Emz, and also adding your take on it which i couldn't agree with more! things are getting worse VERY quickly and we can't just sit around doing nothing
i'm going to bump this topic every single day till we hear from a borg / admin, the algo's trying to sink it as fast as possible it seems

Agree, needs to change… 💚✌️

Man every single order is over 10% more expensive than it was a couple weeks ago, it's so bad i was not happy making an order earlier knowing i'm overpaying for no reason

it's not just the 10% either it's having to buy even more BTC to cover the extra cost meaning more fees for buying the BTC etc etc...

Thanks hesh - very important topic especially with rising cost of living adding pressure in general.

Is anyone able to explain to me why vendors are losing money by having the site set in $? I totally understand how it costs more for buyers, but surely vendors are making more ££ profit if they don't adjust $$ prices downwards periodically? Is it to do with vendor fees being in $ too?

Thanks for bringing further attention to this topic, I appreciate it!

my understanding was, in the case of vendors, the overall price of orders is unnecessarily higher than it needs to be (because of the exchange rate) which will lead to a loss in sales during a time where sales are likely to be down already due to the current economy, just another lose lose situation

just a quick tidbit, but transaxe, LB's payment processor, works in BTC not £ or $, and the fees are a fixed percentage, so i cannot see a reason for this change not to be implemented ASAP

Is there a way to get a Borg or admin to notice?

daily hopeless bump

Fully agree can't see LB acting though they will just sit back and watch the impending doom.

Also take into account by the years end markets are going to crash, housing, stocks & crypto's which would take the BTC price to around 10k so vendors also have that to look forward to.

Not only did vendors get hit bad at the start of the year and most are still recovering from that tidal wave we now have a perfect storm brewing and what do we do?? We keep on lowering our prices!!

This is a huge car crash just waiting to happen!!

The only way is to either put your prices up to give yourself a buffer which would mean losing biz or all vendors go on strike till it's sorted which won't happen either.

Otherwise, vendors will be crying in their coco pops after the crash realizing they have been wiped out!

Bump..

I managed to get stocked up well with one of RealD's promos at the end of June, so I've been pretty well insulated from the exchange rate shenanigans the last couple of months. Now it's time to start looking for a top up and I'm feeling it...

I can't say that it's going to stop me from buying from any vendor on here, mostly due to convenience (its a fecking nightmare finding a dealer irl when your body is fucked and you don't particularly like dealing with people in person), but if the actual dollar prices on here start to rise alongside the exchange rate tanking and all the fees that come with using bitcoin, on my budget, it would definitely force a rethink.

So yeah, I agree with the suggested change and will follow/bump your thread, in hope more than expectation.

dollars is just a denomination, anyway you slice it the sellers will need to explicitly lower their prices if buyers are going to realise any gain here.

it's not just a denomination, prices on here are incredibly rarely / not at all adjusted to the constantly changing exchange rate of dollars to pounds, leading to inherent and frankly unnecessary instability for everyone along with the added instability of bitcoin, it's a lose lose situation, since the vast majority of the buyers on here will have £'s in their bank account, not $'s

a $60 order a month ago was considerably cheaper than a $60 order today for example, and prices haven't changed to account for the devaluing £

there's no need for any of this to happen, which is unanimous at this point, absolutely everyone will gain from this with immediate effect

Do the site designers/devs even check the threads on here? Who are we hoping sees this?

They definitely do, as we've had changes made before via threads / voting / topics etc

but of course we can't ever seem to actually correspond with the 'admin' so to speak, for obvious security reasons but it's incredibly frustrating!

there's been a LOT of good vendors who have abandoned this place recently due to the total lack of communcation between the vendors and the people who run the site and the glaring issues that still plague the site

there's tens of thousands of £ going through this site on a weekly basis yet it's somehow next to impossible to get even simple changes implemented

I need to make an order right now but it's going to be £15 more expensive than it was a month ago, because we are STILL USING THE WRONG FUCKING CURRENCY

i cannot understand how this issue isn't at the forefront of everyone's mind in the context of this site, this should literally be pinned to the top of the topic wall with hundreds of votes and replies till it's corrected!

Sounds like they need to get on top of it before somebody else dives in and a creates a modern lb type platform with all of the good features and things we wish for here. I can't be too critical of lb though. They are my only platform for buying my medicine. I don't know any real life dealers as I was late to the weed game and none of my friends partake. We all want everything cheaper in life and ultimately somebody usually loses out but this currency change we are after is a win for all three parties involved, vendors, customers and lb devs.

Is that the official Littlebiggy response? Get the vendors to pay the extra on top of the 15% ?

yes a borg pointed out that every seller needs to change their prices for any effect so why not do this now?

Who else thinks the admin have malicious intent with no changing over to £, I mean obviously there must be a reason why when it makes obvious sense for everyone

BUMP, keep this alive 💯

Apologies if I’m being totally dumb here, does happen a lot, but I don’t understand how the dollar - sterling exchange rate is affecting anything.

My understanding is the dollar price next to items is a guide price only, the real price is the bitcoins and it doesn’t matter if your in the UK or the US the bitcoin price is the cost regardless of what currency you are buying bitcoins in.

Are you buying dollars with sterling then buying bitcoin? Or selling coins for dollars and converting to sterling?

Apologies if I’m missing something obvious here.

Let's use a simplified example..

Vendor uploads new item and wants to sell it for £10.

The exchange rate is £1 = $0.50.

Vendor sets a price of $20.

Pound weakens and now £1 = $1.

This means the vendor has to change the price or the buyer has to pay more for the same thing.

As vendors usually sell more than 1 item and the value of the £ is changing so rapidly, it either costs the vendors lots of time to keep the prices accurate or lots of money in lost sales because people don't buy due to increase in price.

Hope this helps explain things :)

It does somewhat mate thanks

I do keep an eye on the btc prices of items and I see them change quite often as much as 10 times an hour, as the price of btc moves.

Do those vendors have to manually adjust their prices or is there a sql script do it?

Seems sensible to have a scriot that’ll adjust the retail price as coin value moves