You can’t get high on zip-ties—or can you?
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Hardcore Autoerotic Asphyxiation? 
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Acceptable risk or not, there are people who do use zip ties (cuffs and regular) for that purpose. (Any restraint can be dangerous if used improperly.)
Again, given how widely available they are, and given the reviews I have seen on Amazon, it is pretty clear the vast majority are using them for things other than police/military cosplay, rent-a-cops, or some bizarre kidnapping scheme.
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Depends on the chemicals in the plastic? It could just kill you.
Don’t do drugs… er… zip ties, kids.
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I’m a scientist who wrote about Covid for doctors and dentists all over the country
…while running your little coffee shop and home-schooling your kids?
Please, do show us these ‘writings’. We like to be entertained.
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You can’t get strung out, but you can get strung up.
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I wonder what would have happened if someone had executed a citizen’s arrest of the attempted citizen arresters?
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My car is partly held together with zip ties, though I’m aware having zip ties in my glove compartment might be an odd look.
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suspicious:
not so suspicious.
Theoretically, you could bind someone’s hands with the latter, but that’s not what it was designed to do.
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A “rat king” like nest of a bunch of people connected by zip ties?
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Or shot them? Arizona has stand your ground laws, kidnapping is a felony, so…
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ETA:
Using them to threaten someone is terrifying and dickish, but they are useful items.
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Huh -that’s creative.
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I understand the risky neck ties are all the rage in Al Amarja; but, then, what isn’t
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Well, look! It’s happy hour already. 
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Did the teachers fail THEM, or did they fail themselves by being too lazy and/or defiant to do the work required to learn?
That’s what I see with all of these groups: the kids who did not value getting an education, goofing off and/or engaging in various misdemeanors and getting away with it all, back when a high school diploma – even if barely earned with a less than 2.0 grade average – was enough to get some type of job to pay the bills. Now they’re losing even those jobs to hungry college graduates and have no discipline to do the work required to make themselves competitive, so they find causes like this to make themselves still feel like they’re the ones in control, the same way scrawling nasty remarks about teachers on the bathroom wall once made them feel.
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IIRC the Cultural Revolution in China was a great time for D students, who discovered that their reactionary teachers had failed them to keep the working class down, and now they could take their revenge.
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So many examples in world history. Fear and loathing of those who are more educated is so stupid and so frustratingly human.
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Generally, one would use a tight ring around your pipe to keep it from going down… or so I’ve heard
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The older ones also really resent the fact that every business now involves mastering some kind of digital technology (AKA the “nerdy computer stuff” they mocked in HS). The ones who made a lot of money in fields that don’t require a college education or book smarts for success (e.g. landlords, salespeople, restaurant owners) indulge themselves even more in that kind of anti-intellectualism.
They could be channeling all that energy into helping create a society where you don’t need a post-secondary education to have a “good” job (i.e. one that pays a living wage, is safe, and doesn’t destroy your body and mind), but that might give the children of the “undeserving” a leg up and they can’t have that.
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