Hello, and welcome to another installment of “Dirty Filthy Snuff”. Now while I usually pump my off blog full of vulgar, dark humor, and I will not disappoint but first this. I feel that there is an issue that needs to be addressed, and yes this is going to sound pretty corny, but I feel that like many of the other issues that   we are faced with or not, this should still be one that still needs to be seen in some serious connotation. So, while yes it’s absolutely hilarious to see your alcoholic-coke addicted coworker to photocopy his bare ass like 200 hundred times at the office Christmas party, or the drunk girl at the party who smokes the wrong end of  a cigarette. It's all fun and games, until the next day. When your head  has basically become the fucking jackhammer itself. Or how about your friend having a seizure due to a heroin addiction that he never told you about, and the vicodin you popped just wasn’t enough. Or how about your best friend who needs to get ride of a hangover so badly that he’s willing to snort six lines chill powder just for an airplane bottle of vodka. The simple fact is that
 addiction in all seriousness hurts kills and mane's many in it's course, and that is not funny, well it isn't right up until till your friend turns blue and starts foaming at the mouth.


Moving on: Now it's time for "What Really Chaffs My Nuts". What really chaffs my nuts is chalk. Chalk, yes, chalk, those little mineral sticks of childhood joy used to draw our fantasies. Yeah, all of us as children have spent time drawing out the boards for hopscotch games, elaborate landscapes of mystical lands that only we understand as we let our imaginations grow and blossom. Our teacher, friends, and trusted authority figures figures have all done the same in an attempt to help envelop a heavily child hood.

See how much fun it could be. We children drawing unicorns, rainbows, and butterflies. Our houses and families. And who can forget our imaginary but truly wanted family dog. All happy, as we show our love for what in our little minds is the best of world. And then the weather changes, the real world delivers not it giver of life, but also cruel does of reality. Rain. 

The thing that many tribes pray, dance and sacrifice virgins for, but we as westerns hate because it depresses us, ruins our days, picnics, and romantic dates. Besides of course for the idea of "Singing and Dancing In The Rain". But our fucking chalk drawings of our beautiful youth get washed away and down into some drain or gutter. That's what happened to one of our concrete pieces of childhood. But before I'll go any further here is some history on chalk curiosity of Wikipedia:

Chalk ( /ˈtʃɔːk/) is a soft, white, porous sedimentary rock, a form of limestone composed of the mineral calcite. Calcite iscalcium carbonate or CaCO₃. It forms under reasonably deep marine conditions from the gradual accumulation of minutecalcite plates (coccoliths) shed from micro-organisms called coccolithophores. It is common to find chert or flint nodules embedded in chalk. Chalk can also refer to other compounds including magnesium silicate and calcium sulfate.

"Nitzana Chalk curves" situated at Western Negev, Israel are chalk deposit formed at the Mesozoic era's Tethys Ocean

Chalk is more resistant to weathering and slumping than the clays with which it is usually associated, thus forming tall steepcliffs where chalk ridges meet the sea. Chalk hills, known as chalk downland, usually form where bands of chalk reach the surface at an angle, so forming a scarp slope. Because chalk is porous it can hold a large volume of ground water, providing a natural reservoir that releases water slowly through dry seasons.

Contents   [hide]  1 Deposits 2 Formation 3 Composition 4 Uses 5 See also 6 References 7 External links

[edit]Deposits

The Chalk Group is a European stratigraphic unit deposited during the late Cretaceous Period. It forms the famous White Cliffs of Dover in Kent, England, as well as their counterparts of the Cap Blanc Nez on the other side of the Dover Strait. TheChampagne region of France is mostly underlain by chalk deposits, which contain artificial caves used for wine storage. Some of the highest chalk cliffs in the world occur at Møns Klint in Denmark.

[edit]Formation

Ninety million years ago the chalk downland of Northern Europe was ooze accumulating at the bottom of a great sea. Protozoans such as foraminifera lived on the marine debris that showered down from the upper layers of the ocean. Their shells were made of calcite extracted from the rich sea-water. As they died a deep layer gradually built up and eventually, through the weight of overlying sediments, became consolidated into rock. Later earth movements related to the formation of the Alps raised these former sea-floor deposits above sea level.

[edit]Composition

Chalk is composed mostly of calcium carbonate with minor amounts of silt and clay. It is normally formed underwater, commonly on the sea bed, then consolidated and compressed during diagenesis into the form commonly seen today. During diagenesissilica accumulates to form chert or flint nodules within the carbonate rock.

[edit]Uses

Former underground chalk quarry inMeudon, France.

Chalk is used to make quicklime and slaked lime, mainly used as lime mortar in buildings. In southeast England, Deneholes are a notable example of ancient chalk pits. Such bell pits may also mark the sites of ancient flint mines, where the prime object was to remove flint nodules for stone tool manufacture. The surface remains at Cissbury are one such example, but perhaps the most famous is the extensive complex at Grimes Graves in Norfolk.

The traditional uses of chalk have in some cases been replaced by other substances, although the word "chalk" is often still applied to the usual replacements.

• Blackboard chalk is a substance used for drawing on rough surfaces, as it readily crumbles leaving particles that stick loosely to these surfaces. Although traditionally composed of natural chalk, modern blackboard chalk is generally made from the mineral gypsum (calcium sulfate), often supplied in sticks of compressed powder about 4 in (10 cm) long.
• Sidewalk chalk is similar to blackboard chalk, except that it is formed into larger sticks and often colored. It is used to draw on sidewalks, streets, and driveways, mostly by children, but also by adult artists.
• In agriculture chalk is used for raising pH in soils with high acidity. The most common forms are CaCO₃ (calcium carbonate) and CaO (calcium oxide).
• In field sports, including grass tennis courts, powdered chalk was used to mark the boundary lines of the playing field or court. This gives the advantage that, if the ball hits the line, a cloud of chalk or pigment dust can be seen. Nowadays the substance used is mostly titanium dioxide.^[1]
• In gymnastics, rock-climbing, weight-lifting and tug of war, chalk—now usually magnesium carbonate—is applied to the hands to remove perspiration and reduce slipping.
• Tailor's chalk is traditionally a hard chalk used to make temporary markings on cloth, mainly by tailors. Nowadays it is usually made from talc (magnesium silicate).
• Toothpaste also commonly contains small amounts of chalk, to serve as a mild abrasive.
• Polishing chalk is chalk prepared with a carefully controlled grain size, for very fine polishing of metals.^[2]
• Chalk is a source of quicklime by thermal decomposition, or slaked lime following quenching with water.
• Builders putty also mainly contains chalk as a filler in linseed oil.
• Woodworking joints may be fitted by chalking one of the mating surfaces. A trial fit will leave a chalk mark on the high spots of the corresponding surface. Chalk transferring to cover the complete surface indicates a good fit.
• Fingerprint powder
  • Calcium oxide (CaO), commonly known as quicklime or burnt lime, is a widely used chemical compound. It is a white,caustic, alkaline crystalline solid at room temperature.
  The broadly used term lime connotes calcium-containing inorganic materials, in which carbonates, oxides and hydroxides of calcium, silicon, magnesium, aluminium, and iron predominate, such as limestone. By contrast, quicklime specifically applies to a single chemical compound.

  Contents   [hide]  1 Preparation 2 Usage 3 Use as a weapon 4 Health issues 5 References 6 External links

  [edit]Preparation

  Calcium oxide is usually made by the thermal decomposition of materials such as limestone, that contain calcium carbonate(CaCO₃; mineral calcite) in a lime kiln. This is accomplished by heating the material to above 825 °C (1,517 °F),^[1] a process called calcination or lime-burning, to liberate a molecule of carbon dioxide (CO₂); leaving quicklime. The quicklime is not stable and, when cooled, will spontaneously react with CO₂ from the air until, after enough time, it is completely converted back to calcium carbonate.

  [edit]Usage

  Quicklime is relatively inexpensive. Both it and a chemical derivative (calcium hydroxide) are important commodity chemicals.
  Quicklime produces heat energy by the formation of the hydrate, calcium hydroxide, by the following equation:^[2]

  CaO (s) + H₂O (l)  Ca(OH)₂ (aq) (ΔH_r = −63.7 kJ/mol of CaO)

  The product, commonly called "quicklime", has many uses on its own. As it hydrates, an exothermic reaction results and the solid puffs up. The hydrate can be reconverted to quicklime by removing the water by heating it to redness to reverse the hydration reaction. One litre of water combines with approximately 3.1 kilograms (6.8 lb) of quicklime to give calcium hydroxide plus 3.54 MJ of energy. This process can be used to provide a convenient portable source of heat, as for on-the-spot food warming in a self-heating can.
  When quicklime is heated to 2,400 °C (4,350 °F), it emits an intense glow. This form of illumination is known as a limelight, and was used broadly in theatrical productions prior to the invention of electric lighting.^[3]
  Precipitated calcium carbonate is made by mixing calcium oxide into water, and then bubbling carbon dioxide into the solution. It is used by itself or with additives as a white paint, known as whitewashing.
  Calcium Oxide is also a key ingredient for the process of making cement.
  Annual worldwide production of quicklime is around 283 million metric tons. China is by far the world's largest producer, with a total of around 170 million metric tons per year. The United States is the next largest with around 20 million metric tons per year.^[4]

  [edit]Use as a weapon

  
  
  

  Historian and philosopher David Hume of Godscroft, in his history of England, recounts that early in the reign of Henry III, the English Navy destroyed an invading French fleet by blinding the enemy fleet with quicklime:

  D’Albiney employed a stratagem against them, which is said to have contributed to the victory: Having gained the wind of the French, he came down upon them with violence; and throwing in their faces a great quantity of quick lime, which he purposely carried on board, he so blinded them, that they were disabled from defending themselves.^[5]

  Quicklime is also thought to have been a component of Greek fire. Upon contact with water, quicklime would increase its temperature above 150 °C and ignite the fuel.^[6]

  [edit]Health issues

  Because of vigorous reaction of quicklime with water, quicklime causes severe irritation when inhaled or placed in contact with moist skin or eyes. Inhalation may cause coughing, sneezing, labored breathing. It may then evolve into burns with perforation of the nasal septum, abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting. Although quicklime is not considered a fire hazard, its reaction with water can release enough heat to ignite combustible materials.^[7]




Now I understand that this is a little over done, chalk is used for many other less harmful uses than a weapon, but seriously who the fuck comes up with the idea that we should build up our fucking youngest memories with a fucking thing that while easy to clean could crush our views of life is an abomination. It's like those bastards at those shampoo companies who make products that "Won't hurt when they get in our eyes" but the moment a bit of suds drips into our sockets we scream out "Son Of A BItch". And what's up with the colors of chalk? You find a piece that is supposed to be red and it turns out to be damn pink, pink. And of course you can't erase that part of the drawing with out nothing else but water(at least on the concrete). Damn you evil bastards at the mining industry, damn you you with your deceitful ways. Damn you child care workers for your underhanded destruction of our innocence, which is by the way this is one of the real causes of Antisocial Personality Disorder. It's not always abuse, or genetics, sometimes the damn kid just gets so bored that they got no chose by to shove Legos' down the throats of one of the kids they don't like just to save themselves for the slow meaningless death of the "educational purposes of chalk" and a like. Motherfuckers!

With that being said I'm signing off now. This is Lou Ford, till next time.