What's with junkies drinking Yops all the time?

skooterblue2

skooterblue2 wrote: »

How does he last that long at 38? I dont think I have ever seen a junkie over 32-35? Junkies never last long in the real world. Oh I get it now! your parents keep him fed and watered and fix him up when his system is shot and he pilfers everything that isnt nailed down.

Your parents shouldnt have to put up with that at their age. I have a similar story "Lee-anne is going to turn around and get better and do something amazing with her life, just you see. Now we are all going to pray for her and she will get better you will see. I am going to make a novena for her". Been hearing this crap fro years.

Know of simiar case.

italodisco

Yops, milk, yazoo, yogurts etc help settle the stomach when using opiods/ heroin.

Boom_Bap

They are not a clear bottle, so you can hide your bags of brown in the yogurty goodness....you know, instead of hiding it up the arse.

sbsquarepants

roisinbeag wrote: »

They are probably drinking fortisip, which is a nutritional supplement used for malnutrition - it looks similar to a yop bottle

I know a girl (not a junkie, but very fond of the auld chemicals) who posed as a primary school teacher having her class do a project ion famine, to con a box of plumpy nut out of the manufacturer just so she could get some form of nutrition into her after a hard weekend on the pills.:D

skooterblue2

roisinbeag wrote: »

They are probably drinking fortisip, which is a nutritional supplement used for malnutrition - it looks similar to a yop bottle

My father takes a similar one, his system is shot from lousy doctor prescribing pain killers. They issue him slabs of it at a time from the Chemists. I wonder how much it costs the state.

skooterblue2

sbsquarepants wrote: »

I know a girl (not a junkie, but very fond of the auld chemicals) who posed as a primary school teacher having her class do a project ion famine, to con a box of plumpy nut out of the manufacturer just so she could get some form of nutrition into her after a hard weekend on the pills.:D

****ing genius!!! The charity saw a class of future donors. Thise charities are a load of crap when you know what goes on in the background. Its all about the donations and the industrial donations from planting survayer to gather information.

L1011

skooterblue2 wrote: »

My father takes a similar one, his system is shot from lousy doctor prescribing pain killers. They issue him slabs of it at a time from the Chemists. I wonder how much it costs the state.

€1-2 a bottle usually. State spends 26m on the entirely class of them a year

https://www.hse.ie/eng/staff/pcrs/circulars/pharmacy/01-2019%20pharmacy%20circular%20.pdf

Constantly trying to get doctors to reduce prescriptions of them; some areas have inexplicably high rates compared to others. Cheapo nursing home operators love to have people on them as they can feed them less but I think that's been cracked down on finally.

Autecher

skooterblue2 wrote: »

How does he last that long at 38? I dont think I have ever seen a junkie over 32-35? Junkies never last long in the real world. Oh I get it now! your parents keep him fed and watered and fix him up when his system is shot and he pilfers everything that isnt nailed down.

Your parents shouldnt have to put up with that at their age. I have a similar story "Lee-anne is going to turn around and get better and do something amazing with her life, just you see. Now we are all going to pray for her and she will get better you will see. I am going to make a novena for her". Been hearing this crap fro years.

Yeah that's it really, just like some of his friends and other junkies I know from my youth, except of course the ones who have died. Life-long junkies with well meaning & helpful but perhaps misguided parents. While they are alive they are all physical wrecks in their late 30's/early 40's. He has moved out I think 4 times now and literally all 4 times he got badly beaten up, he doesn't understand that if you steal from people who don't care about you and are dodgy people too then there are real life consequences to that. He has come crawling back to his doting mother every time and she of course is devastated and has him back no questions asked. I should point out too that as much as it frustrates me I don't blame my parents or the junkies parents either. It's easy for me to say "if that was my son he'd have been kicked out years ago" but maybe I would be the same as my parents? It must be extremely difficult to turn your back on your own child. As far as my own parents go I just feel really bad for them but I've done all I can do.

EDIT: Though I should point out too he doesn't steal from the family anymore, I am not a violent person in any way but a while back I threatened to give him a hiding he'd never forget if he stole from anybody in the house again. If that actually happened my poor mother would be heartbroken and I really don't want to hit anyone so I hope it doesn't come too that.

s8n

s8n wrote: »

when we are on the subject, why is there always a junkie with a crutch ??

Duh, it's heroin chic, it's called fashion. You probably wouldn't understand.

corner of hells

Omackeral wrote: »

s8n wrote: »

when we are on the subject, why is there always a junkie with a crutch ??

Duh, it's heroin chic, it's called fashion. You probably wouldn't understand.

Au contraire, it's to make them look like pimps , with a pimp cane and furry tracksuit.

kikilarue2

GarIT wrote: »

It's unrelated to the topic but I passed a guy curled up on his side sleeping in an alleyway at 7 in the morning, wearing the brand new Yeezys, I think they were going for around €750 at the time. They could have been knock offs or he might not have been homeless just drunk or high. But I was wondering what was going on there.

Please don't judge homeless people if they have nice clothes. I used to do soup runs that would also distribute donated clothes, and homeless people were very reluctant to take anything "too nice" for that reason.

policarp

Has there been a survey into what "Junkies" use? Apart from drugs, who knows what these unfortunate people have to survive on?
"Yop" might be their breakfast, lunch and tea.

JustAThought

I remember chitchattimg to a security gaurd in a major supermarket chain in the xity centre - he said yops and yoghurts were the biggest volume of items stolen by junkies - their cost was low so they knew the store wouldn't prosecute, and it was the only/best thing they could ingeat because herion was so hard on the stomach it soothed it. Apparently magnums were next in theft popularity. Didnt ask if that was a junkie desire or randomers.

skooterblue2

JustAThought wrote: »

I remember chitchattimg to a security gaurd in a major supermarket chain in the xity centre - he said yops and yoghurts were the biggest volume of items stolen by junkies - their cost was low so they knew the store wouldn't prosecute, and it was the only/best thing they could ingeat because herion was so hard on the stomach it soothed it. Apparently magnums were next in theft popularity. Didnt ask if that was a junkie desire or randomers.

Well if it was the one at the end of Talbot Street then we know which one it is. Why do they stock it if Junkies are stealing it? I used to buy 2 big ones a day because I was too busy to take a lunch break at work when I started.

Boom_Bap

Kit Kats used to be the second highest stolen item from shops behind Gillette razor blades.


They junkies used to rob the kit kats for the tin foil. That's why kit kats no longer have tin foil. Junkies.

skooterblue2

Boom_Bap wrote: »

They junkies used to rob the kit kats for the tin foil. That's why kit kats no longer have tin foil. Junkies.

Thank you junkies, you just robbed another part of my childhood I cannot share with my children. I used to love scoring the tinfoil with my nail before snapping off a finger of Kitkat. Now I cannot snap the chocolate because they have changed the recipe, Less milk and cocoa solid and more vegetable fat and sucrose!
How will our children ever read Roald Dahl with any understanding of the wonder of good chocolate and tasty sweets?

Autecher

I was in The Square Tallaght yesterday and I saw this junkie fella having a fight with his girlfriend. Nothing unusual there of course except the girlfriend was a stunning, and I mean drop dead gorgeous, French woman. She had what I assume was their baby in a pram and was chasing after him saying "sorry, I'm sorry, wait for me!" while he was saying "fúck off, I don't want to talk you, go home you fúcking bítch". He eventually decided to let her stay with him but she had to carry the bag he had which she reefed of him such was her desire to please him. When they walked off he was still giving her abuse and she was just taking it.
It was such a strange thing to witness. A big muscly guy went over at one point to try to intervene but the junkie was so aggressive towards him that the muscly guy walked away.
Most of the junkie girlfriends that I see are junkies themselves and dressed accordingly but I will never understand what this stunning looking woman was doing with that loser.
'Tis a funny old world we live in.

Deebles McBeebles

He obviously has that certain je ne sais quoi, A.

Autecher

Deebles McBeebles wrote: »

He obviously has that certain je ne sais quoi, A.

I think he has that certain je ne sais stttooooorrryyybuuudddd you have you got any spaarare chaaaange so I can get a hostellll for the night dyaknoowwhhattimeeeeeaaaan mmmmaaaaannnnn

skooterblue2

Autecher wrote: »

I was in The Square Tallaght yesterday and I saw this junkie fella having a fight with his girlfriend. Nothing unusual there of course except the girlfriend was a stunning, and I mean drop dead gorgeous, French woman........................
Most of the junkie girlfriends that I see are junkies themselves and dressed accordingly but I will never understand what this stunning looking woman was doing with that loser.
'Tis a funny old world we live in.

The Junkie is a strange kind that attracts another strange kind, the "enabler". They are usually trying to save this individual because they "failed" (erroneous logic) to save someone else or because of unconditional love.

pappyodaniel

I used to have a great deal of sympathy for heroin addicts, that was until one, an old friend of mine who I was helping out, ripped me off. Now they are all junkies to me and I wouldn't waste my time on them.

corner of hells

Boom_Bap wrote: »

Kit Kats used to be the second highest stolen item from shops behind Gillette razor blades.


They junkies used to rob the kit kats for the tin foil. That's why kit kats no longer have tin foil. Junkies.

Correctamundo Mr Bap , though addicts who smoke heroin can access foil specially manufactured for smoking heroin for the discerning addict.

Regular tin foil that you cook your roast chicken is full of chemicals that are released when "chasing the ol dragon".

Some chemicals good , some chemicals bad .

Sonny noggs

Boom_Bap wrote: »

Kit Kats used to be the second highest stolen item from shops behind Gillette razor blades.


They junkies used to rob the kit kats for the tin foil. That's why kit kats no longer have tin foil. Junkies.

Tell them to start nicking the 2 finger multipacks, they still use tin foil.

skooterblue2

skooterblue2 wrote: »

Thank you junkies, you just robbed another part of my childhood I cannot share with my children. I used to love scoring the tinfoil with my nail before snapping off a finger of Kitkat. Now I cannot snap the chocolate because they have changed the recipe, Less milk and cocoa solid and more vegetable fat and sucrose!
How will our children ever read Roald Dahl with any understanding of the wonder of good chocolate and tasty sweets?

Is this a joke?

You can not seriously be comparing a life of crisis-level addiction to your inability to share kit kat nostalgia.

skooterblue2

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

Is this a joke?

You can not seriously be comparing a life of crisis-level addiction to your inability to share kit kat nostalgia.

You cannot seriously be comparing my lifelong Kit-Kat addiction to a junkies inability to manage an A-class drug

Tamara tamara

It's kefir they are drinking down my way lately.

skooterblue2

corner of hells wrote: »

Regular tin foil that you cook your roast chicken is full of chemicals that are released when "chasing the ol dragon".

Some chemicals good , some chemicals bad .

Never underestimate the wisdom of the Junkie

skooterblue2

Tamara tamara wrote: »

It's kefir they are drinking down my way lately.

Once they get on that stuff, they are on it for life. Plus they are happier and healthier as well

Boom_Bap

Boom_Bap wrote: »

Kit Kats used to be the second highest stolen item from shops behind Gillette razor blades.

Is it the drug addicts stealing the razor blades also, or what's that about?

I would have thought alcohol would would be the most coveted item for the garden variety shoplifter/addict.

Boom_Bap

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

Is it the drug addicts stealing the razor blades also, or what's that about?

I would have thought alcohol would would be the most coveted item for the garden variety shoplifter/addict.

They were part of it, you could either buy them for €13 in the shop or buy them off the lad that pinched them for €5. Easy money for some people, I think that they are still in security cases in shops these days.