Stop saying "meth!" It is stupid!

[Manduck]

Okay, what I have learned here is that if I use the word “meth”, I will lose the respect of meth users. I will try to go on somehow.

[bup]

I wish coming up with slang names for drugs was a career choice. I’d be damned good at it.

We call meth *twazzle *here.

[VinylTurnip]

@pendgwen

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”.

Yeah, stim dick is a bitch.

Or so I am told.

[CairoCarol]

@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.

I am trying to figure out the logical connection between the OP’s initial rant and the statement above. So by extension, if I do decide to refer to coffee as “splornk”, this means that I am demonizing, trivializing, and outright disparaging coffee drinkers without the least compunction?

[Ambivalid]

@Lemur866

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.

Damn! “Yes.” Foiled by that darned question once again! :mad: And I was “this close” to bustin’ your ass too!

[Battle_Pope]

[Louis Winthorpe III] It wasn’t heroin, it was angel dust, PCP… [/Louis Winthorpe III]

[bdgr]

Around here, they call it meth. Meth, or crystal meth, or peanut butter meth, or bathtub meth. And yes you can get, if you know the wrong people.

Move to Parker County, Texas. Just look for the bad teeth and ask.

[Loach]

@pendgwen

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.

ED patients. Erectile Dysfunction?

[sisu]

In Australia it’s commonly called Ice or meth and it is truly a fucked up drug.

[dropzone]

@brujaja

With all due respect, I have to wonder if you’d be accusing me of drug-fueled “frothing” if I had written an OP in boldface caps about, say, income taxes or early-morning garbage trucks or rude telephone salespeople.

No, I wouldn’t. As a polite telephone salesperson (yeah, I know, oxymoron and all) I would assume your frothing was alcohol fueled.

@Darth_Panda

I don’t trust anyone who does anything unironically. Except James Mason, he’s cool.

James Mason did NOTHING unironically!

@August_West

And then the first junkie stabs him.

Brujaja will correct me if I’m wrong, or even if I am right, but aren’t junkies “on” the heroin, not whatever the kids these days call the meth?

@Capt_Kirk

I live in the dark underbelly of the World(Music Business)…

But that’s just the underbelly. We’re talking about a whole underworld here.

[deltasigma]

@dropzone

But that’s just the underbelly. We’re talking about a whole underworld here.

In the Underverse, you keep what you kill.

Huh? Wha? :eek:

[Gagundathar]

I just made a run to the Underverse and my contacts say that soon, N-methyl-1-phenylpropan-2-amine will be marketed under the new name of Snarkle.

And, in case anyone wonders, it has nothing to do with the Urban Dictionary definition.

For the record, I wasn’t there to buy anything illegal. Just some research I was doing for my job at S.H.I.E.L.D.

[BrainGlutton]

@brujaja

First of all, NO ONE who uses speed EVER calls it “meth.”

How do you know that?

[pendgwen]

@Loach

ED patients. Erectile Dysfunction?

Emergency Department

[gigi]

@Colophon

I heard there’s a new drug on the street called “meh”. The buzz is like totally average.

Shows how much you know. NO ONE who uses so-so EVER calls it “meh.”

[Miller]

@AClockworkMelon

Meth 1
Meth 2
Meth 3
Meth 4
Meth 5
Meth 6
Meth 7
Meth 8
Meth 9

Hang on, is number 3 saying that meth will bring about racial harmony?

[Trinopus]

Do people still shoot horse?

[Jenaroph]

@Derleth

The Cheat? Is that you?

The Cheat’s in this thread? Is he going to throw a lightswitch rave?

[PlainJain]

@Trinopus

Do people still shoot horse?

They shoot horse don’t they?

[astro]

@brujaja

**THERE ARE NO “METH” USERS! THERE IS FUNCTIONALLY NO SUCH THING AS A “METH” USER! **

(unless they have a prescription for it – and then, we don’t call them “users” – we call them “patients.”)

Anyone purchasing what passes for speed these days is getting “bath salts:” a substance so nasty, so adulterated with God-knows-what, so unpleasantly far removed from anything like a genuine methamphetamine, that it has caused actual (formerly) meth users to give up in despair.

Or so I am told.

Are you sure about this? Just from general reading speed/meth/crank and bath salts appear to be classed (even by users) as two completely different categories of drugs.