Such Is Life

[LMA]

Was hesitant to watch it, but I did, found it interesting

[White Line Fever]

Cuzzy is just a face to the drugs.
Everyone thinks drug users are bums but I'm yet to meet someone in my age group (I'm 25) that hasn't tried drugs.
I know lads playing afl that love getting on it.
He wasn't the first nor the last and I commend him on putting it out there to make people aware.
Drugs are huge in gen y...
This doco will save so many lives from the thousands of parents talking to their kids tonight.

[dedja]

You have to be Gen Y to be into drugs?

Man, you Gen Y's are so naive!

[Media Park]

Cuzzy is just a face to the drugs.
Everyone thinks drug users are bums but I'm yet to meet someone in my age group (I'm 25) that hasn't tried drugs.
I know lads playing afl that love getting on it.
He wasn't the first nor the last and I commend him on putting it out there to make people aware.
Drugs are huge in gen y...
This doco will save so many lives from the thousands of parents talking to their kids tonight.

I'm in that bracket (age), and I haven't tried anything illegal, but my facebook was clogged with notifications about Cuzzy, about ice, about the blondes, etc, really glamourising drug use, and he clearly has a pantheon of young people who want to be like him

[Q.]

You have to be Gen Y to be into drugs?

Man, you Gen Y's are so naive!

[A Mum]

Cuzzy is just a face to the drugs.
Everyone thinks drug users are bums but I'm yet to meet someone in my age group (I'm 25) that hasn't tried drugs.
I know lads playing afl that love getting on it.
He wasn't the first nor the last and I commend him on putting it out there to make people aware.
Drugs are huge in gen y...
This doco will save so many lives from the thousands of parents talking to their kids tonight.

I'm in that bracket (age), and I haven't tried anything illegal, but my facebook was clogged with notifications about Cuzzy, about ice, about the blondes, etc, really glamourising drug use, and he clearly has a pantheon of young people who want to be like him

Ditto MP - that's exactly what I am seeing on Facebook as well.
I'm finding it a tad sad actually.
Hopefully these 'mostly teens' will see a different side tomorrow night and take it a bit more seriously.

[mal]

1996-2007 Champion
2009-2010 Good on paper shite on grass

[the big bang]

I'm 23, and although i joke about taking drugs, rooting a heap of women, breaking the law and what not, the truth is, i bust my balls for 50+ hours a week to provide a living for me, my fiance and my 3 year old son, and dont mind having a few beers on the weekend with my mates.

please dont take what you see on facebook and the like as what is actually going on out there. i talk that much carp on facebook about what i'm doing/going to do that if i done half the stuff, i'd be in jail/mental institute/sex dungeon in austria.

[GWW]

I'm 23, and although i joke about taking drugs, rooting a heap of women, breaking the law and what not, the truth is, i bust my balls for 50+ hours a week to provide a living for me, my fiance and my 3 year old son, and dont mind having a few beers on the weekend with my mates.

please dont take what you see on facebook and the like as what is actually going on out there. i talk that much carp on facebook about what i'm doing/going to do that if i done half the stuff, i'd be in jail/mental institute/sex dungeon in austria.

You mean to say you're NOT Joseph Fritzl?

[the big bang]

I'm 23, and although i joke about taking drugs, rooting a heap of women, breaking the law and what not, the truth is, i bust my balls for 50+ hours a week to provide a living for me, my fiance and my 3 year old son, and dont mind having a few beers on the weekend with my mates.

please dont take what you see on facebook and the like as what is actually going on out there. i talk that much carp on facebook about what i'm doing/going to do that if i done half the stuff, i'd be in jail/mental institute/sex dungeon in austria.

You mean to say you're NOT Joseph Fritzl?

i didnt say i'm NOT in the sex dungeon though, did i?

[blink]

The shots of Cousins off his face dancing, sitting in the kitchen etc. etc, are these re-enactments or actual footage of him when he is on the gear?? If he is acting, he is bloody good! Possibly a bit of method acting though?

[Q.]

The shots of Cousins off his face dancing, sitting in the kitchen etc. etc, are these re-enactments or actual footage of him when he is on the gear?? If he is acting, he is bloody good! Possibly a bit of method acting though?

I think I heard today on the radio that the only re-enactment was when he was running from booze bus.

[Punk Rooster]

I dont condone what Ben has done at all but i do feel sorry for the bloke taking the complete wrath of drugs in football .... who are we kidding here dozens of them do it .. not to that extent maybe and we all know who they are.

If thats what they wanna do within control good luck to them its only to there own detriment .. No different to the swarm of Power and crows players ya see out on the P*** on a regular basis is it

is P*** booze or pills????

Ben Cousins is not an orphan- in football or away from football.
There are people from all walks of life who do what he did.
Ben let his partying (drugs) get in the way of his footy- no different to what many professionals, tradies or labourers do, & yes, if they go too far, it can cost them their job.
Drug addiction knows not whether your wealthy or poor.

People just seem mainly annoyed that a guy who has it all, is not living up to their expectations.
What started out as having some fun, ended up controlling him- he was guilty of wanting a good time all the time.
Ben has let himself & his family down first, & foremost- then as his life became more about partying than football, he let his team-mates down.
He needs help to get out & stay out of his destructive lifestyle, which it appears has happened.

Congratulations Ben Cousins on a wonderful career.

[Punk Rooster]

Whats got me beat about all this stuff is:-

1. Where did he get the stuff from in the first place?

word of mouth can get you nearly anything- you get 10 young blokes together, someone will know someone.

2. Why have not these pushers been brought to justice?

a naive view- if someone wants something, they will get it.
The term "pusher" is a term for those who are clueless, yet want someone to blame for their whoever it is close to them, who has ended up with an addiction.
These (addicts) generally use drugs to fill a void in their life.

When the Law enforcers get these two problems right, then maybe I'll have a bit of pity on the users.

As you may have guessed i didn't watch it to night or will be watching tomorrow night.

perhaps if you had watched it, you may have learned somthing.

[White Line Fever]

You have to be Gen Y to be into drugs?

Man, you Gen Y's are so naive!

I'm a gen Y and am speaking from my experiences...

Not comparing to other generations???

You old chaps are so naive

[superlative steve]

Ben Cousins is the greatest man alive.

[Johno6]

Ben Cousins is the greatest man alive.

HERE HERE, TOO BLOODY RIGHT!!

[White Line Fever]

Ben Cousins is the greatest man alive.

HERE HERE, TOO BLOODY RIGHT!!

X3

[Browny25]

He made the doco to show the affect of drugs and if it saves 1 persons life then its worth it...

what about the 1.5mill het got for it!?

Maybe that should be donated to help preventing drugs in society..

[OnSong]

I don't see a problem with him getting paid for the doco.

We pay counsellors and drug prevention workers, how is this any different?

The price they paid reflected the amount of exposure both 7 and the story would get.

I applaud the doco and how it didn't shy away from the hard stuff.

I found the footage of him smoking a crackpipe sickening.

I liked the way he kept reiterating that for most of the time of his addiction, he didn't think he was addicted and how it all came down when he ended up alone in and American hospital.

As for the facebook reaction, I saw it was mostly girls commenting on how hot he is and the guys who rated his behaviour were generally drug f*cks already.

If people watched that doco, with footage of his family crying and the like, and still come out thinking Ben's behaviour was 'cool', then they are dumber than him.