Gerard Healy fesses up to illegal drugs

[Ext User(Spyro Gyro)]

Gerard Healy said on 3AW tonight that he'd "as I've said previously, I
inhaled, and more than once".

I can't remember hearing a public admission from him about this previously,
and I don't recall Healy coming to Dale Lewis's defense either.

Could Healy be the Brownlow medallist referred to in the article by Andrew
Fraser in the Sunday Age yesterday?

[Ext User(vossaka)]

On Mar 26, 8:38 pm, "Spyro Gyro" <souvl...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Gerard Healy said on 3AW tonight that he'd "as I've said previously, I
> inhaled, and more than once".
>
> I can't remember hearing a public admission from him about this previously,
> and I don't recall Healy coming to Dale Lewis's defense either.
>
> Could Healy be the Brownlow medallist referred to in the article by Andrew
> Fraser in the Sunday Age yesterday?

Don't know, but read the "Police target footy rat-pack" article by
Andrew Rule. They seem to be describing Dermie, with all those
references to hairdressers. And the sex-obsession fits the bill as
well.

Maybe I should make my own confession, I've "sucked the limestone".

While travelling through Peru and Bolivia in the 80s I kept seeing
these little plastic bags containing green leaves and a chip of
limestone. I was told that it was leaves of the Coca bush from which
cocaine is derived. The idea is that you chew the leaves whilst
simultaneously sucking on the limestone. The alkali chemicals in the
limestone react with the active ingredient in the coca leaf to produce
a very mild dose of an alkaloid which wasn't exactly cocaine but it
gave you a little lift, similar to a strong cup of coffee. The
natives had been using it for millenia and it was still perfectly
legal.

Anyway, when I think Cocaine I think massive egos, so who else but
Dermie fits that bill?

Vossaka

[Ext User(Dave -Turner)]

inhaled what tho!? like, pot or crack?

[Ext User(Spyro Gyro)]

Hard to know what he meant. "I inhaled" has become a colloquialism for
imbibing in just about anything so whether he's referring to marijuana,
horse tranquilisr or performance enhancers is a mystery. Dwayne Russell
certainly didn't ask him to clarify, which is both surprising because it
leaves Healy's comments open to interpretation, and unsurprising as Russell
seems more concerned about getting on the right side of whoever's buttering
his bread than asking hard questions.

I wonder if some folks aren't getting anxious about how this "AFL drug
scandal" story is panning out and have decided it might be better if the
Average Joe saw a toke here or a snort there as No Big Deal rather than
something to be getting all fired up about?

If it's No Big Deal, and I'm inclined to agree, why are our prisons bursting
at the seams with non-violent drug offenders? All blokes who couldn't kick
over a jam tin, obviously.

It's a pity hypocrisy isn't in short supply overseas as there's enough of it
here in Australia to corner the market.



"Dave -Turner" <d@t.3.2.1> wrote in message
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> inhaled what tho!? like, pot or crack?
>
>

[Ext User(sdf)]

"Spyro Gyro" <souvlaki@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:4607a2b9$0$28625$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.a u...
> Gerard Healy said on 3AW tonight that he'd "as I've said previously, I
> inhaled, and more than once".
>
> I can't remember hearing a public admission from him about this
> previously,
> and I don't recall Healy coming to Dale Lewis's defense either.
>
He probably had a couple of joints at Uni. Big deal.

> Could Healy be the Brownlow medallist referred to in the article by Andrew
> Fraser in the Sunday Age yesterday?
>
I'd say most definately not. I think Vossaka is on the money.

[Ext User(Ian Galbraith)]

On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 20:38:57 +1000, Spyro Gyro wrote:

> Gerard Healy said on 3AW tonight that he'd "as I've said previously, I
> inhaled, and more than once".
>
> I can't remember hearing a public admission from him about this previously,
> and I don't recall Healy coming to Dale Lewis's defense either.
>
> Could Healy be the Brownlow medallist referred to in the article by Andrew
> Fraser in the Sunday Age yesterday?

There's a world of difference between marijuana and the harder drugs.

--
"I have never understood why it should be necessary to become irrational
in order to prove that you care, or indeed why it should be necessary to
prove it at all." - Blakes 7

[Ext User(Power Mad)]

"Spyro Gyro" wrote...
>
> Gerard Healy said on 3AW tonight that he'd "as I've said previously, I
> inhaled, and more than once".
>
> I can't remember hearing a public admission from him about this
> previously,
> and I don't recall Healy coming to Dale Lewis's defense either.
>
> Could Healy be the Brownlow medallist referred to in the article by Andrew
> Fraser in the Sunday Age yesterday?
>
Nope:

"One night before my spectacular fall from grace I was at a Melbourne hotel
favoured by AFL footballers and during the evening I was invited upstairs
for a line of cocaine. I stepped into the room to find three star
footballers with something in common: they were all premiership players ...
and they were all snorting the white powder.
I was not shocked at footballers consuming coke but I was surprised that
these high-profile players were having such a red hot go. Especially a
Brownlow medallist."

[Ext User(Mark Shea)]

Ian Galbraith wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 20:38:57 +1000, Spyro Gyro wrote:
>
>
>>Gerard Healy said on 3AW tonight that he'd "as I've said previously, I
>>inhaled, and more than once".
>>
>>I can't remember hearing a public admission from him about this previously,
>>and I don't recall Healy coming to Dale Lewis's defense either.
>>
>>Could Healy be the Brownlow medallist referred to in the article by Andrew
>>Fraser in the Sunday Age yesterday?
>
> There's a world of difference between marijuana and the harder drugs.

Problem 42(b) With Drug Law Reform: My Hard Drugs are not
necessarily Your Hard Drugs.

Mark Shea

[Ext User(Andy Wolfe)]

Spyro Gyro wrote:

> Could Healy be the Brownlow medallist referred to in the article by Andrew
> Fraser in the Sunday Age yesterday?


Hi
i'd take what he says with a grain-of-salt;' remember he has a new book
to sell.

--
cheers, andy wolfe.

"Stupidity is a choice..."
Master Spy Robert Hanssen (aka William Hurt in the film).

[Ext User(damnfine)]

WHO. FUCKING. CARES.



--
/^\damnfine/^\
"Given the astounding number of galaxies and potential worlds arrayed
overhead, the complexities of life on earth and the advances in our ethical
discourse over the last 2,000 years, the world's religions offer a view of
reality that is now so utterly impoverished as to scarcely constitute a view
of reality at all." - Sam Harris

[Ext User(Spyro Gyro)]

"Who fucking cares," asks 'damnfine'.

What a magnificent contribution 'damnfine', you are clearly a fuckwit of
truly gargantuan proportions.

Does anyone here fucking care that damnfine doesn't fucking care?

Hear that damnfine? No one cares for your non-fucking-opinions, they just
wish you'd shut the fuck up you fucking moron.




"damnfine" <damnfine@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> WHO. FUCKING. CARES.
>
>
>
> --
> /^\damnfine/^\
> "Given the astounding number of galaxies and potential worlds arrayed
> overhead, the complexities of life on earth and the advances in our
ethical
> discourse over the last 2,000 years, the world's religions offer a view of
> reality that is now so utterly impoverished as to scarcely constitute a
view
> of reality at all." - Sam Harris
>
>

[Ext User(CDK)]

Spyro Gyro wrote:
> Gerard Healy said on 3AW tonight that he'd "as I've said previously, I
> inhaled, and more than once".
>
> I can't remember hearing a public admission from him about this previously,
> and I don't recall Healy coming to Dale Lewis's defense either.
>
> Could Healy be the Brownlow medallist referred to in the article by Andrew
> Fraser in the Sunday Age yesterday?

So what if he is.

He has done something that may be illegal.

Can you honestly say you have never broken a law?

CDK

[Ext User(Spyro Gyro)]

"So what if he is. He has done something that may be illegal. Can you
honestly say you have never broken a law? CDK"


Read the orginal post carefully, CDK.

Now read your reply, CDK.

Notice anything odd? That's right. The original post is a question and CDK's
response is an answer. But CDK's answer has got fuck all to do with the
original question.

Was the original post hard that hard to comprehend? Nope. Plenty of folks
understood exactly what it was about; i.e. in light of some recent media
coverage about drug use in the AFL ranks, there's a couple of decades worth
of Brownlow medallists carting the label of "possible coke user" over their
heads. If Healy puts his hand, then they are probably in the clear and the
media can stop speculating about it.

As it happens though, and as Vossaka rightly pointed out, the fingered
Brownlow medallist was also premiership player so Healy can't be the one
referred to in the newspaper report I was wrong. And that's where the
discussion should have ended.

Usenet would be a terrific medium for discussion if it wasn't inhabited
mainly by morons. That's your cue to take a bow CDK.

[Ext User(Power Mad)]

You're a bit uppity for a newbie. Mind your ps and qs until you've been
here a year or two.


"Spyro Gyro" <souvlaki@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:460a157e$0$23675$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.a u...
> "Who fucking cares," asks 'damnfine'.
>
> What a magnificent contribution 'damnfine', you are clearly a fuckwit of
> truly gargantuan proportions.
>
> Does anyone here fucking care that damnfine doesn't fucking care?
>
> Hear that damnfine? No one cares for your non-fucking-opinions, they just
> wish you'd shut the fuck up you fucking moron.
>
>
>
>
> "damnfine" <damnfine@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:130i12fposifu0c@corp.supernews.com...
>> WHO. FUCKING. CARES.
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> /^\damnfine/^\
>> "Given the astounding number of galaxies and potential worlds arrayed
>> overhead, the complexities of life on earth and the advances in our
> ethical
>> discourse over the last 2,000 years, the world's religions offer a view
>> of
>> reality that is now so utterly impoverished as to scarcely constitute a
> view
>> of reality at all." - Sam Harris
>>
>>
>
>

[Ext User(gF)]

"Spyro Gyro" <souvlaki@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:460a3b87$0$16552$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.a u...
> "So what if he is. He has done something that may be illegal. Can you
> honestly say you have never broken a law? CDK"
>
>
> Read the orginal post carefully, CDK.
>
> Now read your reply, CDK.
>
> Usenet would be a terrific medium for discussion if it wasn't inhabited
> mainly by morons. That's your cue to take a bow CDK.
>

Welcome to the world of the irrelevancies!
If you plan on inhabiting this realm you will just
have to get used to them!

They still believe Sheedy when he says they
are gonna be in the finals and give the flag a shake!

gF

[Ext User(Mark Shea)]

Spyro Gyro wrote:
> "So what if he is. He has done something that may be illegal. Can you
> honestly say you have never broken a law? CDK"
>
>
> Read the orginal post carefully, CDK.
>
> Now read your reply, CDK.
>
> Notice anything odd? That's right. The original post is a question and CDK's
> response is an answer. But CDK's answer has got fuck all to do with the
> original question.

<snip>

This rant of yours is surprisingly orthognal to your point and
CDK's, given its subject matter.

Surely the answer to your question ("Could Healy be the Brownlow
medallist referred to in the article by Andrew
Fraser in the Sunday Age yesterday?") is obvious: 'he could be, but
maybe not because he was also a premiership player, but was the
original allegation particularly strict with and/or differentiation?
so... he could be.'

The real issue is the meaning of this new admission, if indeed it is
new; and the meaning of the whole issue.

Responses seem to be generally of the form that an explicit
admission that Gerard Healy took in a minor indulgence (even if this
implies 'harder' drug use) is relatively irrelevant.

Mark Shea

[Ext User(CDK)]

Spyro Gyro wrote:
> "So what if he is. He has done something that may be illegal. Can you
> honestly say you have never broken a law? CDK"
>
>
> Read the orginal post carefully, CDK.
>
> Now read your reply, CDK.
>
> Notice anything odd? That's right. The original post is a question and CDK's
> response is an answer. But CDK's answer has got fuck all to do with the
> original question.
>
> Was the original post hard that hard to comprehend? Nope. Plenty of folks
> understood exactly what it was about; i.e. in light of some recent media
> coverage about drug use in the AFL ranks, there's a couple of decades worth
> of Brownlow medallists carting the label of "possible coke user" over their
> heads. If Healy puts his hand, then they are probably in the clear and the
> media can stop speculating about it.

Who gives a rats arse what the media thinks.

And who is to say that only one Brownlow Medalist is a possible coke user.

It sounds a lot like a coulda woulda shoulda.



> As it happens though, and as Vossaka rightly pointed out, the fingered
> Brownlow medallist was also premiership player so Healy can't be the one
> referred to in the newspaper report I was wrong.

You mean there may be more than one????? Shock horror, who would have
thought of a very well paid high profile sports person taking drugs,
surely not. Who really cares?

> And that's where the
> discussion should have ended.
>
> Usenet would be a terrific medium for discussion if it wasn't inhabited
> mainly by morons.

Well you could improve it vastly by leaving, that would be one less
moron inhabiting usenet.

CDK

> That's your cue to take a bow CDK.

Five letters for you HDGFS?

CDK
>
>

[Ext User(CDK)]

gF wrote:
> "Spyro Gyro" <souvlaki@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:460a3b87$0$16552$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.a u...
>> "So what if he is. He has done something that may be illegal. Can you
>> honestly say you have never broken a law? CDK"
>>
>>
>> Read the orginal post carefully, CDK.
>>
>> Now read your reply, CDK.
>>
>> Usenet would be a terrific medium for discussion if it wasn't inhabited
>> mainly by morons. That's your cue to take a bow CDK.
>>
>
> Welcome to the world of the irrelevancies!

I see you have been welcomed to that world by its King.


> If you plan on inhabiting this realm you will just
> have to get used to them!
>
> They still believe Sheedy when he says they
> are gonna be in the finals and give the flag a shake!

Want another handout down there at Princess Park, Frotty?

CDK

[Ext User(Chris Glover)]

"CDK" <mickymouse@disneyland.com> wrote in message
news:9EsOh.2840$M.600@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
> Spyro Gyro wrote:
>>
>> Usenet would be a terrific medium for discussion if it wasn't inhabited
>> mainly by morons.
>
> Well you could improve it vastly by leaving, that would be one less moron
> inhabiting usenet.
>
> CDK
>
>> That's your cue to take a bow CDK.
>
> Five letters for you HDGFS?
>
> CDK
>>

Colin, does this wanker sound a bit like the recently arrived, and ever so
quickly departed, Aaron Meadows?

Chris Glover
Asgardian

[Ext User(CDK)]

Chris Glover wrote:
> "CDK" <mickymouse@disneyland.com> wrote in message
> news:9EsOh.2840$M.600@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
>> Spyro Gyro wrote:
>>> Usenet would be a terrific medium for discussion if it wasn't inhabited
>>> mainly by morons.
>> Well you could improve it vastly by leaving, that would be one less moron
>> inhabiting usenet.
>>
>> CDK
>>
>>> That's your cue to take a bow CDK.
>> Five letters for you HDGFS?
>>
>> CDK
>
> Colin, does this wanker sound a bit like the recently arrived, and ever so
> quickly departed, Aaron Meadows?

A bit, although he can actually string a few words together in a row,
without resorting to capitals.

Aaron has been around for quite a while and as soon as he popped up
again he went straight into the bozo bin. I am sure Spyro will enjoy
his company.

CDK