# Stop saying "meth!" It is stupid! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 10, 2013, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-saying-meth-it-is-stupid/655310 "2013-04-10T09:39:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2013, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-saying-meth-it-is-stupid/655310/121 "2013-04-10T21:10:15Z")
> [@woodstockbirdybird](#): > > In a thread about misused terms, I feel it’s my duty to pint out it’s [Crips](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crips). > [@woodstockbirdybird](#): > > Obviously, this post was destined to contain a typo. Ha! Ha! Maybe you should lay off the meff a little. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2013, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-saying-meth-it-is-stupid/655310/122 "2013-04-10T21:15:36Z")
> [@lorene](#): > > This post would have been just _that much_ better if you had referred to it as “the marijuana”. > > _Are you sure you’re not taking the marijuana?_ And spelled it “marihuana.” ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2013, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-saying-meth-it-is-stupid/655310/123 "2013-04-10T21:19:36Z")
“meth!” ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2013, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-saying-meth-it-is-stupid/655310/124 "2013-04-10T21:21:13Z")
> [@czarcasm](#): > > “meth!” **stop it!** ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2013, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-saying-meth-it-is-stupid/655310/125 "2013-04-10T21:26:16Z")
“We’ll stop calling it Meth when _I_ decide to stop calling it Meth.” Walter White ---
**Author:** ![RedFury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ec9cab/32.png) [@RedFury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedFury)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2013, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-saying-meth-it-is-stupid/655310/126 "2013-04-10T21:28:04Z")
Meh! No “t” needed. ---
**Author:** ![Scoo8b](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Scoo8b](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scoo8b)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2013, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-saying-meth-it-is-stupid/655310/127 "2013-04-10T21:32:32Z")
Wow, I live in Central Iowa, a place where meth has long been popular, and brujaja was wrong about every goddamn thing he said. I would have thought it would be hard to not even be right about something on accident, but here we are… Seriously, how dumb are you? ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2013, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-saying-meth-it-is-stupid/655310/128 "2013-04-10T21:35:02Z")
(sung to the tune of the Meow Mix jingle) Meth! Meth! Meth! Meth! Meth! Meth! Meth! Meth! Meth! Meth! METH! Meth! Meth! Meth! Meth! Meth! ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2013, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-saying-meth-it-is-stupid/655310/129 "2013-04-10T21:43:26Z")
Is meth! the way the Bushmen say it? Meth-_click_ ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2013, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-saying-meth-it-is-stupid/655310/130 "2013-04-10T21:58:07Z")
> [@RedFury](#): > > Meh! The Cheat? Is that you? ---
**Author:** ![deltasigma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e5b9ba/32.png) [@deltasigma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deltasigma)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2013, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-saying-meth-it-is-stupid/655310/131 "2013-04-10T22:02:17Z")
> [@Johnny\_Bravo](#): > > **stop it!** I want to man but I can’t. It’s crazy. It’s like my mind can’t hold every idea it wants to create and they’re just piling up and up like an episode of hoarders until they block all the doors and windows but like it doesn’t matter because I’m suffocating from the bugs man. Can’t you see them? It’s like they’re right there under my skin and I try to dig them out but you can never find ‘em. Ya know? People think the govt designed them like that but that’s not what happened. I’d tell ya man but the less you know the safer yur gonna be, you know what I’m sayin’ man? ---
**Author:** ![Tarwater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9de0a6/32.png) [@Tarwater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tarwater)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2013, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-saying-meth-it-is-stupid/655310/132 "2013-04-10T22:25:47Z")
**brujaja** , where do you live? EDIT: Other than the underworld, I mean. ---
**Author:** ![pendgwen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3da27b/32.png) [@pendgwen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pendgwen)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2013, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-saying-meth-it-is-stupid/655310/133 "2013-04-10T23:07:40Z")
> [@brujaja](#): > > First of all, NO ONE who uses speed EVER calls it “meth.” Really? Because when I was a medical student in an area where methamphetamine abuse was a major problem I had many ED patients tell me that they used “meth”. In my current area of the country when patients say they use “meth” they mean methadone. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2013, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-saying-meth-it-is-stupid/655310/134 "2013-04-10T23:09:06Z")
Meth Adventures series Another Fine Meth Meth Conceptions Meth Directions Hit or Meth Meth-ing Persons Little Meth Marker M.E.T.H. Inc. Link Meth-Nomers and Im-Pervections M.E.T.H. Inc. in Action Sweet Meth-tery of Life Meth-Ion Improbable Something M.E.T.H. Inc. Meth-told Tales Meth Alliances Meth-taken Identity Class Dis-Methed Meth-Gotten Gains Meth-Chief Meth-Fortunes Meth-Quoted ---
**Author:** ![BlakeTyner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@BlakeTyner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlakeTyner)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2013, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-saying-meth-it-is-stupid/655310/135 "2013-04-10T23:16:50Z")
I know the truth. The OP is really 5-0, like that 8th grade kid with the mustache who used to try to get me to sell him “some high-grade marijuana.” I’m onto you, Steve Narcson. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2013, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-saying-meth-it-is-stupid/655310/136 "2013-04-10T23:21:01Z")
Weeeeeed. Said with a friendly, wicked lil grin. Take my word. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2013, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-saying-meth-it-is-stupid/655310/137 "2013-04-10T23:22:51Z")
I could tell you what we call it, but first I’ve got a question you need to answer. Are you a cop? Yes or no. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2013, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-saying-meth-it-is-stupid/655310/138 "2013-04-10T23:28:46Z")
> [@brujaja](#): > > You do perhaps have a point about why exactly it bugs me so much. I think it may be because people involved with drugs are just about the only subgroup of people about whom it is still okay to make misguided presumptions, and whom it is okay to demonize and/or trivialize, and to outright disparage without the least compunction. Won’t somebody please think of the crackheads? /snort ---
**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2013, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-saying-meth-it-is-stupid/655310/139 "2013-04-10T23:33:52Z")
> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#): > > I’m not sure where the OP came from, but I assume that there’s a method to his madness. Pretty sure you mean _meffod._ ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2013, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-saying-meth-it-is-stupid/655310/140 "2013-04-10T23:36:45Z")
> [@brujaja](#): > > First of all, NO ONE who uses speed EVER calls it “meth.” > > \ > There **ARE NO** methamphetamines available anywhere! Perhaps you’d have better luck finding methamphetamines if you asked for “meth.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-saying-meth-it-is-stupid/655310.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-saying-meth-it-is-stupid/655310.md?page=8)