First George Michael gets busted for sex in LA, now...

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― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 27 February 2006 04:42 (twenty years ago)

He's only 42? Huh.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 February 2006 04:50 (twenty years ago)

from wikipedia:

Class C drugs

* Benzphetamine
* Cannabinol or a cannabinol derivative (downgraded from Class A from January 29, 2004)
* Cannabis and cannabis resin (downgraded from Class B from January 29, 2004)
* Chlorphentermine
* Fencamfamin
* Gammahydroxybutyrate (added in July, 2003)
* Ketamine (added in January, 2006)
* Mephentermine
* Methaqualone
* Pemoline
* Phendirnetrazine
* Phentermine
* Pipradrol
* Prolintane

So it could be almost anything, as near as I can tell from the article.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Monday, 27 February 2006 04:51 (twenty years ago)

His tobacco habit, he says, developed out of another relatively recent hobby: smoking dope. "I started smoking grass because is was wither that or some kind medication which I didn't want to take," he says. "Then when you couldn't get a joint you lit up a cigarette and that was that. It took about three years for me to become a real smoker and in the last year-and-a-half I've been trying desperately to give it up and have been failing miserably." Dope smoking seems such an unlikely pursuit for a self-confessed control freak. "I know," he laments, shaking his closely cropped head. "But, I tell you, this time last year I was a complete and utter pothead. I know it's lunacy but the horrible truth is that the grass really helped me. It got me through making Older. I was under more stress than I'd ever been.

― yuengling participle (rotten03), Monday, 27 February 2006 05:01 (twenty years ago)

Cannabis and GHB allegedly...
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/showbiz/articles/21828874?source=Evening%20Standard&ct=5

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Monday, 27 February 2006 10:39 (twenty years ago)

I was betting on meth!

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!! (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Monday, 27 February 2006 10:42 (twenty years ago)

Fortunately we don't have crack for crackers here yet!

GM has gone on record in MANY newspapers as someone who smokes a lot of weed.

I had no idea that GHB was Class C though - that seems WRONG and should probably be a B.

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 27 February 2006 10:47 (twenty years ago)

Anniversary of his mother's death apparantly. Could be related. Or not.

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Monday, 27 February 2006 10:54 (twenty years ago)

i was putting money on meth too
(speaking of which, have we got the full story on george dowd, yet?)

― anthony easton (anthony), Monday, 27 February 2006 10:57 (twenty years ago)

GHB, really isn't a hard drug, is it? At least not to my experience. 25 joints a day on the other hand sounds pretty heavy...

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 27 February 2006 11:43 (twenty years ago)

They must have been very small joints.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 27 February 2006 11:50 (twenty years ago)

I must say I enjoyed the mirror's front page pun today:

CARELESS SPLIFFER

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=16752369%26method=full%26siteid=94762%26headline=exclusive%2d%2dcareless%2dspliffer%2d%2dgeorge%2din%2d%2dcannabis%2d%2darrest-name_page.html

― Daniel Giraffe (Daniel Giraffe), Monday, 27 February 2006 11:53 (twenty years ago)

It's a godawful small story, it's only on the tabloid front pages because its: PUN CITY ARIZONA!!!

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 27 February 2006 11:56 (twenty years ago)

Last June he was photographed leaving a 24 hour convenience store in the middle of the night with three tubs of ice cream. Sudden bouts of hunger, known as "the munchies", are common among cannabis users.

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Monday, 27 February 2006 12:04 (twenty years ago)

Dope me up before you blow blow

AAAAARRRRGGGHHHHHHH

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!! (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Monday, 27 February 2006 12:04 (twenty years ago)

http://images.thesun.co.uk/picture/0,,2006090843,00.jpg

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!! (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Monday, 27 February 2006 12:07 (twenty years ago)

OI, Bob Hoskyns! You seen George?

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 27 February 2006 12:09 (twenty years ago)

..."busted for sex" - if "sex" means also doing it with yrself in the toilets.

― fritz the cat, Monday, 27 February 2006 12:10 (twenty years ago)

The tabloid subs got it wrong again. I know one who would do a better job than most with a headline of this nature.

BAKE ME UP BEFORE YOU GO-GO. Where WAS this?

Emotional shit, yeah -- he was tight with his mum.

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 27 February 2006 12:56 (twenty years ago)

Wow, he looks like Sean Connery and an owl.

― Cathy (Cathy), Monday, 27 February 2006 13:01 (twenty years ago)

For a *spliff* second I thought that the guy in that pic was George Best! He looks a bit *puffy* if you ask me.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Monday, 27 February 2006 14:39 (twenty years ago)

http://the-op.com/images/episode/204/gm-snoopy_sm.jpg

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 27 February 2006 17:22 (twenty years ago)

"Last year, Michael announced that a new film about his life was the start of a retirement from public view."

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 27 February 2006 18:15 (twenty years ago)

"My own stupid fault, as usual" -- which I gotta say actually does make me sorry for the guy.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 27 February 2006 18:39 (twenty years ago)

He said: "PS: I promise I won't make a record out of this one - even though it is tempting."

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 09:45 (twenty years ago)

If they're sent to the same jail: he should totally write a song about it with Pete Doherty.

― StanM (StanM), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 10:53 (twenty years ago)

I heart George Michael.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 11:09 (twenty years ago)

Me too, Tuomas, I think he's a great guy.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 11:10 (twenty years ago)

He looks soooooooo Greek these days!

― Rotatey Diskers With Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 11:12 (twenty years ago)

OMG mark that arrested development pic is AWESOME

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 11:42 (twenty years ago)

four years pass...

Just give me the keys, George

― Oracle Crackers (Tom D.), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 13:04 (fifteen years ago)

wake me up before you go-go

― ,,,,,,eeeeleon (darraghmac), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 13:14 (fifteen years ago)

"In June 2007, the singer was banned for two years after pleading guilty to driving while unfit through drugs."

lol you guys invented this language, right?

― kind of trill and very self-righteous (some dude), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 13:35 (fifteen years ago)

It's BBC English...

― ninjas and lasers and gold and (snoball), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 13:41 (fifteen years ago)

He had spliff smoke coming out of drug end, m'lud

― Oracle Crackers (Tom D.), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 13:43 (fifteen years ago)

his drug end, I mean

― Oracle Crackers (Tom D.), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 13:43 (fifteen years ago)

lol you guys invented this language, right?

as with everything else we invented, we've shit the bed on a national level

― frap your hands say yeah yeah yeah (history mayne), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 13:44 (fifteen years ago)

Spinning the wheel again, I see

― kenan, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 19:35 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mp3c96XssJg

― jed_, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 19:39 (fifteen years ago)

two months pass...

George Michael jailed for eight weeks

... and yet Pete Doherty roams free?

― Tom A. (Tom B.) (Tom C.) (Tom D.), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 14:24 (fifteen years ago)

Time is like a loop.

― Duncan Donuts (Ned Trifle II), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 14:25 (fifteen years ago)

A pal of mine was walking past the damage in Hampstead a couple of days later. It had been graffiti'ed - "Wham!"

― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 14:33 (fifteen years ago)

being in the same cell with George Michael - classid or dud?

― Zeno, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 16:26 (fifteen years ago)

I guess this was one instance when George wasn't praying for time.

― (¬_¬) (Nicole), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 16:30 (fifteen years ago)

Praying for Time off for good behaviour.

― State Attorney Foxhart Cubycheck (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 16:58 (fifteen years ago)

Or begging for Freedom.

― (¬_¬) (Nicole), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 17:01 (fifteen years ago)

So... he'll be jailed for eight weeks, of which he will spend four in jail?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11299938 -> "jailed for eight weeks" vs. "will serve four weeks in prison, with the rest of his sentence spent out on licence under the supervision of the probation service."

― StanM, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 17:19 (fifteen years ago)

political correctness gone mad

― HOOS' THE BOSS (ken c), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 23:46 (fifteen years ago)

Poor George. He's had a shite 10 years.

― piscesx, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 00:12 (fifteen years ago)

Anti-Greek bias in the British judiciary imo

― Tom A. (Tom B.) (Tom C.) (Tom D.), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 11:38 (fifteen years ago)

six months pass...

his latest crime

― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 16:02 (fifteen years ago)

Fucking awful.

― everything, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 18:15 (fifteen years ago)

not great but not his worst by a long chalk. the new FAITH CD remaster might be the best sounding remaster i've ever heard. just a sparklingly brilliant and wondrous thing.

― piscesx, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 18:49 (fifteen years ago)

It would be just about tolerable if the pitch correction was taken off the vocals. And if it were faster. And if GM wasn't spliffing it like a chimney. And if he understood the intent behind Barney's words.

― a murder rap to keep ya dancin, with a crime record like Keith Chegwin (snoball), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 18:56 (fifteen years ago)

I mean, the only way this could be worse would be if Enrique Iglesias was singing it.

― a murder rap to keep ya dancin, with a crime record like Keith Chegwin (snoball), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 18:58 (fifteen years ago)

featuring Jessie J

― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 18:58 (fifteen years ago)

"gets busted for sex" is a hilarious phrase

― wavy g. wavegarten (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 18:59 (fifteen years ago)

I don't mind Jessie J - although I'd like to be a fly on the wall when someone tells her that she's picked the same stage name as a pr0n star.

― a murder rap to keep ya dancin, with a crime record like Keith Chegwin (snoball), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 19:01 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaoLU6zKaws

― naus, Thursday, 24 March 2011 08:09 (fourteen years ago)

what the FUCK

― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, 24 March 2011 08:31 (fourteen years ago)

I guess I appreciate the sheer insane wrongheadedness of it...

― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, 24 March 2011 08:33 (fourteen years ago)

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