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    There's an article in the Feb. 5th issue of The New Yorker about an oil boom town in Wyoming and the attendent meth problem. I particularly loved this quote about how to combat it from one of the roughnecks:


    "The only way you're gonna stop the meth addiction here is they've got to introduce something else. In order to get a little they gotta give a little. It's kinda hard to convince the roughnecks--someone that makes a bunch a money, that's gonna be away from his family and his wife for a week at a time, that's with another bunch of bored roughnecks--it's hard to convince them not to want to have fun. the only way I can see for putting a dent in the meth is something like a titty bar--you know, like a Hooters. What else do you see working?"

    Which I thought was great because my first thought on beginning the article was, "Damn, an oil town without a titty bar for me to work in."

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    Default Re: Strippers could help combat meth

    ha! that's rich.
    susan, can i interest you in opening up a Hooters with me?

    Love it!

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    Just so long as they didn't bring any of the dancers from my last club in there, lol...

    OK, not all of them were methheads. But the ones that were were by far the most fucked up, and did much to contribute to the totally bizarre, circus-like nature of the establishment.


    I've done almost every drug there is, and I might do some of them some more, who knows--but meth is unquestionably an evil drug, in my mind.

    I did a little a couple times, but it wasn't much fun. Burnt the hell out of my nose, and made me way more hyper than I needed to be, especially since I can get that way at the drop of a hat, anyway.

    What really convinced me of the danger of the drug, though, was the effect it had on an old roommate of mine. The guy was already an housecleaning fanatic, something I find frightening and indicative of issues to begin with--but he would do a bunch of meth and literally spend three days, 72 straight hours cleaning the fucking house.

    The guy was foaming at the mouth, polishing the hinges on the doors, I swear.

    This is when I knew I was face-to-face with an extremely dangerous drug.


    But yeah, if they could open a drug-free stripclub, it would probably be quite beneficial tothe problem.
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    ...yes, we need more federal funding to help more strippers nationwide put a dent in the meth epidemic.
    "Peter, did you take Stewie to a strip-club? He smells like sweat and fear." - Lois and Stewie (Family Guy) ... "Through early morning fog I see, Visions of the things to be, The pains that are withheld for me, I realize and I can see..."

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    "Roughneck"?
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    Default Re: Strippers could help combat meth

    Even more prone to traits of manly self-indulgence, like heavy drinking and random violence (and maybe getting wired on meth out of boredom) than 'rednecks'.

    Guys who work in tough, physically demanding jobs where there usually aren't any women for miles around, like off-shore oil rigs, cattle herding, etc., etc.
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    ^^^ slang for a guy who works in the field.

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    Quote Originally Posted by WiseGuy_TX View Post
    ...yes, we need more federal funding to help more strippers nationwide put a dent in the meth epidemic.
    More federal funding? You mean there already is some? Damn, how in the world did I miss that?

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    Heh. A few of my friends work in Rock Springs, WY on occasion, one took a pic and sent it to me of a stop sign, and right below the STOP someone had spraypainted meth. Lol. love it
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    A new stripclub in Wyoming? I'm there! LOL

    There's little anti-meth murals all over my town...I always wonder why people in "Mayberry RFD" abuse a drug that makes them crave excitement...in a sleepy backwater???

    Some people start using meth for work (hard labor, hot sun, exhaustion, 16 hour days...they need a boost...) Not excusing it though. It is a purely destructive drug, and filthy too.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bella21 View Post
    "Roughneck"?
    Oil rig worker aka driller aka roughneck

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    Default Re: Strippers could help combat meth

    When I drove through Gillette Wyoming last summer it was a boom town. Families were living in hotel as housing couldn't be built fast enough. The Companies were advertising and the Dept of Energy was paying for the driller school one hundred percent to anyone that completed the course and went to work. Advertising was going all the way to New York as Wyoming is a low population state. If you can play back the NPR archives stories were done on the oil and Natural gas boom in wyoming.

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