Listening to Glenn's words come out of Zen's mouth is getting so old. She regurgitates his skewed facts and conspiracy theories, and if you challenge what she says, she just starts yelling. It becomes this big "nuh-uh" competition. Mostly about weed. She never cared about weed before, and actually said on several occasions that she doesn't like being high, but now that her boyfriend and has become the center of her world, if he does it, she does it. If he's passionate about it, even if she doesn't understand it she's passionate about it. Its hollow. Its gross. I don't know if she just doesn't think for herself, or if she does go through the trouble of formulating her own thoughts and opinions, and then dismisses them when her boyfriend thinks something contrary.
Zen (out of nowhere): "Did you know that Kaiser did a study and smoking weed prevents cancer?"
Me: "Did you know lycopene prevents cancer?"
Zen: "Well, how many tomatoes do you need to eat to get enough lycopene??"
Me: "I don't know. I bet you can take a supplement, though."
Zen: "WELL, DID ANYONE EVER SAY THAT TOMATOES WILL KILL YOU??!"
Me: "Can you find me any one credible, current example of someone claiming that smoking weed will kill you? And stop yelling."
Zen: "WELL THEN WHY IS IT STILL ILLEGAL?..."
Etc, etc something about conspiracies.
*some time later, watching Star Trek episode This Side of Paradise*
Zen: "This is so about communism. See how they only grow as much vegetation as they need to survive??!"
Me: "Yep."
Zen: "Oh, yeah. And its sooo evil that they just want to stay here on their planet with their PLANTS.." (Because obviously, anything referencing any plant of any sort much be a euphemism for weed. Everything is a euphemism for weed, Zen assures me.)
Me: "But, like, these plants are evil. They release a spore than inhabits your body. They feed off radiation."
Zen: "Enterprise just WANTS YOU TO THINK THAT THE PLANTS ARE EVIL."
Me: "Mhm. You watched this with Glenn, didn't you?"
Zen" "NO. I watched it alone first, and then I watched it with Glenn."
Me: "Mhm."
Zen (out of nowhere): "Did you know that Kaiser did a study and smoking weed prevents cancer?"
Me: "Did you know lycopene prevents cancer?"
Zen: "Well, how many tomatoes do you need to eat to get enough lycopene??"
Me: "I don't know. I bet you can take a supplement, though."
Zen: "WELL, DID ANYONE EVER SAY THAT TOMATOES WILL KILL YOU??!"
Me: "Can you find me any one credible, current example of someone claiming that smoking weed will kill you? And stop yelling."
Zen: "WELL THEN WHY IS IT STILL ILLEGAL?..."
Etc, etc something about conspiracies.
*some time later, watching Star Trek episode This Side of Paradise*
Zen: "This is so about communism. See how they only grow as much vegetation as they need to survive??!"
Me: "Yep."
Zen: "Oh, yeah. And its sooo evil that they just want to stay here on their planet with their PLANTS.." (Because obviously, anything referencing any plant of any sort much be a euphemism for weed. Everything is a euphemism for weed, Zen assures me.)
Me: "But, like, these plants are evil. They release a spore than inhabits your body. They feed off radiation."
Zen: "Enterprise just WANTS YOU TO THINK THAT THE PLANTS ARE EVIL."
Me: "Mhm. You watched this with Glenn, didn't you?"
Zen" "NO. I watched it alone first, and then I watched it with Glenn."
Me: "Mhm."
ultimatelewser:
This is why I'm a Jean-Luc Picard man myself.
embla:
Thanks for commenting on my set 
