A public service announcement from your friendly forumite Akratus.

[TorontoReign]

Shrooms come from animal waste, is getting high on shrooms vegan?

we could start a debate about if shrooms are animals or plants.

I say they are anipants

i stopped eating mushrooms when i learnt that the cap part is where the digestion happens and the frills are the lungs.

down with mushrooms!

Not to brag, but I spent one day a week during the warmer months (from April to October) for the last two years hiking and specifically trying to find, photograph, and identify wild fungi. The cap just serves as a structure to hold the gills. The gills produce spores to spread and reproduce. So it's worse than you think.

Sincerely,
The Vault Dweller

The fun kind?

 

[The Vault Dweller]

I wasn't looking for magic mushrooms no. I just knew very little about that part of nature when I know lots about everything else and I try to learn new things constantly so I decided to go on nature hikes more often and to try to find fungi.

I'll say this though the fungi commonly called "magic mushrooms" (Amanita muscaria) is found worldwide, common in your average forest, and tends to grow large and in groups. It also helps that it's bright red and has white spots. I'm nearly certain to find it if I'm hiking in the middle of summer regardless of where I go.

I've considered "using" it though I don't do drugs just for the novelty of saying I did, but I won't.

Sincerely,
The Vault Dweller

 

[Walpknut]

If you eat Hen menstruation but you are weirded out by eating animal organs or mushroomd you are a crazy person.

 

[SnapSlav]

I'm always open for serious discussion though, so if you'd like, you can always send me a private message. Or open a thread, if that's more to your liking.
If anything, I find the topic interesting and I don't really have many people to discuss it with.

Unfortunately, the last time I had the same discussion, it was barely a 10 minute talk while I was busy cleaning another (late) Serb's belongings for an estate sale (a tragic story in its own right). Talking about anything that crossed our minds was a way to pass the time while toiling and cleaning away in this vacant warehouse, and this family friend had a bit more knowledge of centuries-old breeding practices and customs in the Balkans than my mother, who was also present. But if it came down to tracking the familial origins of a name, it would be the other way around; he didn't believe me when I said my mom can say where a person's family originates just by their name (so long as it's European) but she's been freakishly accurate at doing so for as long as I've noticed that habit. Some of the "specialties" people possess in certain discussion-worthy areas really fascinate me. So often times, whether it's church, or someone's slava, or seeing family in Europe while on vacation, I often prefer to be the listener to just absorb all the inane idiosyncrasies and information.

 

[TorontoReign]

I wasn't looking for magic mushrooms no. I just knew very little about that part of nature when I know lots about everything else and I try to learn new things constantly so I decided to go on nature hikes more often and to try to find fungi.

I'll say this though the fungi commonly called "magic mushrooms" (Amanita muscaria) is found worldwide, common in your average forest, and tends to grow large and in groups. It also helps that it's bright red and has white spots. I'm nearly certain to find it if I'm hiking in the middle of summer regardless of where I go.

I've considered "using" it though I don't do drugs just for the novelty of saying I did, but I won't.

Sincerely,
The Vault Dweller

Amanita muscaria isn't the kind you want anyway...unless you want to piss yourself, go into a mini coma, and hallucinate vividly for about 6 hours.

 

[Walpknut]

Amanita Muscaria, you say it's called?

 

[Hassknecht]

I wasn't looking for magic mushrooms no. I just knew very little about that part of nature when I know lots about everything else and I try to learn new things constantly so I decided to go on nature hikes more often and to try to find fungi.

I'll say this though the fungi commonly called "magic mushrooms" (Amanita muscaria) is found worldwide, common in your average forest, and tends to grow large and in groups. It also helps that it's bright red and has white spots. I'm nearly certain to find it if I'm hiking in the middle of summer regardless of where I go.

I've considered "using" it though I don't do drugs just for the novelty of saying I did, but I won't.

Sincerely,
The Vault Dweller

Amanita muscaria isn't the kind you want anyway...unless you want to piss yourself, go into a mini coma, and hallucinate vividly for about 6 hours.

Why wouldn't you want that?
Salvia Divinorum, anyone?

 

[TorontoReign]

I've done that...I mean I don't advocate using such psychedelic awfulness. But if I did do it, it would be best described as a very strong body high and hallucinations and memory loss.

 

[The Vault Dweller]

I wasn't looking for magic mushrooms no. I just knew very little about that part of nature when I know lots about everything else and I try to learn new things constantly so I decided to go on nature hikes more often and to try to find fungi.

I'll say this though the fungi commonly called "magic mushrooms" (Amanita muscaria) is found worldwide, common in your average forest, and tends to grow large and in groups. It also helps that it's bright red and has white spots. I'm nearly certain to find it if I'm hiking in the middle of summer regardless of where I go.

I've considered "using" it though I don't do drugs just for the novelty of saying I did, but I won't.

Sincerely,
The Vault Dweller

Amanita muscaria isn't the kind you want anyway...unless you want to piss yourself, go into a mini coma, and hallucinate vividly for about 6 hours.

For the sake of satisfying my curiosity without me risking physical/mental discomfort I owe you one. Not that I was going to try it, but I wondered.

Sincerely,
The Vault Dweller

 

[TorontoReign]

I wasn't looking for magic mushrooms no. I just knew very little about that part of nature when I know lots about everything else and I try to learn new things constantly so I decided to go on nature hikes more often and to try to find fungi.

I'll say this though the fungi commonly called "magic mushrooms" (Amanita muscaria) is found worldwide, common in your average forest, and tends to grow large and in groups. It also helps that it's bright red and has white spots. I'm nearly certain to find it if I'm hiking in the middle of summer regardless of where I go.

I've considered "using" it though I don't do drugs just for the novelty of saying I did, but I won't.

Sincerely,
The Vault Dweller

Amanita muscaria isn't the kind you want anyway...unless you want to piss yourself, go into a mini coma, and hallucinate vividly for about 6 hours.

For the sake of satisfying my curiosity without me risking physical/mental discomfort I owe you one. Not that I was going to try it, but I wondered.

Sincerely,
The Vault Dweller

Don't get me wrong. I would do it again. Just know that I blacked out and pissed myself...before you try it.