What is ’slash’ ?
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Topic: What is ’slash’ ?
Posted By: ginger
Subject: What is ’slash’ ?
Date Posted: 29 October 2007 at 9:57am
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Does anyone know?
It is a drug term, but I need to know what drug. Can anyone help? Thanks!!  ------------- Cuinn Lachlan 23.1.09 - 22:00 Antonia Helene 4.8.11 - 09:41 |
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Posted By: ElfsMum
Date Posted: 29 October 2007 at 10:12am
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i googled and the only thing i could find was this..
At the recent annual gathering of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, which 27,000 cancer specialists attended, much of the news coverage focused on the new "targeted therapies" and much of the talk in the hallways on the astonishing prices drug companies are charging for them. For years, we've been hearing about the "magic bullet" drugs that will expand cancer treatment beyond the long-standing triad of surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy (often derisively called slash, burn, and poison). A few of these new drugs have won FDA approval and come to market, but the prices are so high that many patients who might benefit will not get them. Probably not what you wanted but it was the only thing that came up!!:) ------------- Mum to two amazing boys! |
Posted By: Paws
Date Posted: 29 October 2007 at 10:22am
I have no idea but I am dying to read your latest blog entry.... ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Bombshell
Date Posted: 29 October 2007 at 12:14pm
| OMG there is another one??? (gets ready to explain to judges what "slash" is).....I havent heard of slash before but maybe another way of cooking up P? |
Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 29 October 2007 at 12:14pm
| you might have to give us more info - are you talking slang for street drugs or a medical term for a type of drug or something you heard or saw written????? |
Posted By: Bombshell
Date Posted: 29 October 2007 at 12:20pm
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i have a drugs booklet...scary i know....and i cant find slash in it....if you wanted rush, kix, charlie, rocks, blow, eckies, go fast, whiz, crank, shrooms or blue meanies then i can tell you what they are....LOL!!!!
now i am curious ginger.... 
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Posted By: Peanut
Date Posted: 29 October 2007 at 12:25pm
No idea what slash is either...even my delightful students aren't talking about it....although they do mention the need to go for a slash when referring to the need to pee!
Gotta love teaching at a boys school! -------------  
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Posted By: Bombshell
Date Posted: 29 October 2007 at 12:34pm
| LOL thats what i first thought when i read the title...going for slash! |
Posted By: ginger
Date Posted: 29 October 2007 at 3:05pm
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I'm having a wee employee issue. The term 'slash' keeps coming up in a particular context in emails etc ... After reading, re-reading, and re-reading again 10 times, I think I may have it a bit wrong though, and 'slashing' and 'slash' are somehow tied in to a particular loose lifestyle ... hard to know!! The drug thing is definite though, I'm just trying to dig it out properly. I'm sooo unused to this sort of thing! v. proud of myself though - knowing what Eckies are. And, if someone has been up 4 days straight without food etc, then said someone is probably on LSD or P - right? Could be party pills though I suppose ...
Deep joy. That's a handy little booklet you've got there BS  ------------- Cuinn Lachlan 23.1.09 - 22:00 Antonia Helene 4.8.11 - 09:41 |
Posted By: Bombshell
Date Posted: 29 October 2007 at 3:23pm
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well - E lasts about 4-6 hours. LSD trips last about 6-12 hours but then they might take more when they have peaked after 3-4 hours. Then they might get insomnia etc
I know for drug testing P only can be detected within 24 hours...yet marijuana can be up to 2-3 weeks depending on use. ok now i sound like a druggie but honest i am sooo not! just need this book and info in my work! |
Posted By: AlyAyde
Date Posted: 29 October 2007 at 3:43pm
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lol the only term i know for "taking a slash" is going for a pee. ha ha ------------- Jayde 25/12/04 Alyssa 08/04/03 http://Alyayde.bebo.com |
Posted By: caraMel
Date Posted: 29 October 2007 at 3:52pm
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Is the employee gay? I remember learning in media studies (of all things) about slashing, which was a gay male thing. ------------- Mel, Mummy to E: 6, B: 4 and: 
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Posted By: Rachael21
Date Posted: 29 October 2007 at 4:00pm
| A lot of people will take a few es tho and that can last a few days. It sounds more like p or party pills tho. |
Posted By: Sarah Beth
Date Posted: 29 October 2007 at 4:02pm
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Ok, have spent an age going through the urban dictionary and so far found one meaning slashed: extreme intoxication ------------- "> 
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Posted By: Bombshell
Date Posted: 29 October 2007 at 4:15pm
| wouldnt that be sloshed? |
Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 29 October 2007 at 4:39pm
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slash is also a fan fiction slang word...not sure what it means but it came up when i googled. sounds like you are spying on some one ?!
maybe if you give us an example of how the word was used we could help better... |
Posted By: Sarah Beth
Date Posted: 29 October 2007 at 4:45pm
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bs - comes from smashed and sloshed being mixed together, no doubt came about when one was slashed
There were many interesting words I learnt about while looking for slash though, good ol urban dictionary ------------- ">
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Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 29 October 2007 at 5:49pm
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I'd say P or Party Pills if up for 4 days straight. E doesn't quite have the same awake effect... unless it has a speed component in the pills too.
And haven't heard 'slash' before but then I've been out of the party scene a few years now!
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Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 29 October 2007 at 5:52pm
Very plausible given the tendency to meld words at the mo - like Crunk - Crazy drunk |
Sarah Beth wrote:Posted By: buzimumto3boys
Date Posted: 29 October 2007 at 6:22pm
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But slashing?? strange one!
Maybe you should just do a "random" drug test? You can buy the kits quite easily (relatively cheap as well) and your best bet would be on a monday morning or possibly fri morning if they go out on a thur night as well. |
Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 29 October 2007 at 6:53pm
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Haha this thread is hilarious!
BS I'd like to have a read of your recipe book someday!!! -------------  |
Posted By: Bombshell
Date Posted: 29 October 2007 at 9:18pm
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LOL it is a handbook put out by waitemata health a few years back...I first heard of P as being a real problem in about 2000 and this book is from 2003...so probably a heap more now and my cliens are constantly educating me....
ginger - so is this one of your employees? what are you going to do?? i threatened one of my last secs that she was going to end up being drug tested by boss if she wasnt careful - complete write off thurs to tues each week from party pills, dance club DJ scene etc - she quit while i was on mat leave...quit or fired? hmmmm..... |
Posted By: ginger
Date Posted: 30 October 2007 at 8:43am
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Sounds exactly like my life (and our secretary!) at the moment BS!
Yes it's an employee ... I'm just reading her employment contract to see if we can do the same - I don't think it's occurred to the boss to threaten it! I'm completely astonished by the whole thing and trying to get this kid to do WORK! 
Yesterday she was off sick, so the day was spent going through about a hundred emails, many of which the content was so dubious I just wanted to get home and have a shower! ------------- Cuinn Lachlan 23.1.09 - 22:00 Antonia Helene 4.8.11 - 09:41 |
Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 30 October 2007 at 8:52am
| if shes not doing her job then surely you can go down the warning road and start the process to get rid of her, or it might make her buck up her ideas. Even if she is or isnt doing drugs the boss (or whoevers job it is)should be able to sit her down and talk to her about slipping standards etc... |
Posted By: Bobbie
Date Posted: 30 October 2007 at 9:03am
Slash in fan fiction is a male/male or female/female pairing. Not sure how that fits into the context of the emails but yeah it's the only way I've heard it applied too. -------------  
 
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Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 30 October 2007 at 9:16am
| Geepers... I'd say the emails alone would be enough to give a warning normally right? Don't businesses usually have a use of computer/email/internet code thingy? |
Posted By: Tiff
Date Posted: 30 October 2007 at 9:17am
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OMG - sounds seriously dodgy. I think it sounds like warnings need to be issued. From an employers side it's so hard to fire anyone these days. ------------- http://lilypie.com">  
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Posted By: ginger
Date Posted: 30 October 2007 at 10:07am
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Don't worry - we've consulted someone and the required processes are being followed. I just honestly couldn't believe it and because of the content of some of the emails, I just wanted to see if anyone knew what that one thing was.
It wasn't even spying! I had to work at her desk because she was away (she has programmes that I don't because I don't really need them) and I needed to use her email etc and lo and behold!  Aside from the fact that I knew she was emailing flat out, it's the content that would turn your hair white!------------- Cuinn Lachlan 23.1.09 - 22:00 Antonia Helene 4.8.11 - 09:41 |
Posted By: cuppatea
Date Posted: 30 October 2007 at 10:10am
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I'm intrigued, maybe you should post some for our viewing pleasure lol ------------- 
 
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Posted By: Bombshell
Date Posted: 30 October 2007 at 6:41pm
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im still wondering how Bobbie knew about slash????
Ginger - her name isnt Jess is it...she sounds just like my old sec....whose ambition in life is "to be a playboy model and go to the playboy mansion" - yep said in high voice and accompanied by "OMG (to BS)did you go the mansion when you were in USA?".... oh yeah right!!! |
Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 30 October 2007 at 7:21pm
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LOL she needs a letter "you have been sending several emails from our work computer mentioning the word 'slash'. We have no idea what this means but our google search came up with a whole heap of suggestions, all of which are very dodgy"
BS I sure could do with one of those booklets myself, somedays! How did I get to not having any alcohol except wine (and even that wasn't until after I was 21), AND never touching a cigarette... to a legal sec who has to know how to spell methamphetamine and all manner of other drug names!! LOL ------------- |
Posted By: ItchyFeet
Date Posted: 30 October 2007 at 7:48pm
| There's some definitions on urbandictionary.com. You may find what you're looking for on there, but I don't really want to know how my DH knows about that site... |
Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 30 October 2007 at 8:01pm
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Haha my DH knows about that site too but I never thought of asking him how!!! ------------- |
Posted By: Sarah Beth
Date Posted: 31 October 2007 at 8:16am
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I already went through urban dictionary, no help there. ------------- ">
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Posted By: Bobbie
Date Posted: 31 October 2007 at 10:59am
haha ask me no questions...... Actually it's because the most disturbing thing I have ever stumbled across on the internet to date was a slash fiction about the Weasley twins on from the Harry Potter books. Funnily enough, no matter how hard I try I haven't been able to forget it - just the concept I didn't actually read it.  -------------
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Posted By: KateW
Date Posted: 31 October 2007 at 11:13am
I thought crunk was stoned and drunk? Joys of teaching teenagers LOL ------------- ~Our miracle IVF babies~ http://lilypie.com">  
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Posted By: fattartsrock
Date Posted: 31 October 2007 at 2:09pm
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I thought crunk was some kind of crazy clown dancing thingy ------------- The Honest Un PC Parent of 2, usually stuck in the naughty corner! :P |
Posted By: caraMel
Date Posted: 31 October 2007 at 2:16pm
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Hehe Annie, you're thinking of Krumping. ------------- Mel, Mummy to E: 6, B: 4 and:
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Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 31 October 2007 at 2:55pm
Yeah... I think it's also Chronic and Drunk mixed. But I think the one's I've come across lately don't smoke so they use the other way. Unless I'm wayyyyyyyyyyy outta touch! *sigh* I'm only 22. |
Posted By: kezplanet
Date Posted: 01 November 2007 at 10:10pm
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Just speaking to my sister who is doing a drug & alchol survey for a health research company on behalf of ministry of health & suggested that it could be a name of a "party pill", she said they have strange names like that. ------------- Kerryn, Mum to Ashlyn(29/3/04), Anastasia(1/11/05) & Abigail (24/02/09) |