Drugs posters

Boulevardier

I am a bit mystified by some posters that have appeared recently on commercial (paid for) advertising hoardings around Dublin.

They are white posters which say "Drugs are not class, they are upper middle class." They do not carry any attribution.

Do people have any idea who is behind them?

imme

Haven't seen them OP.

I'd there a picture or symbol on the poster or is it just the narrative.

is_that_so

This? It's one of the lyrics.

http://forthosei.love

imme

is_that_so wrote: »

This? It's one of the lyrics.

http://forthosei.love

What is that all about

is_that_so

imme wrote: »

What is that all about

https://nialler9.com/for-those-i-loves-music-video-for-i-have-a-love-is-a-moving-tribute-to-friendship/

Boulevardier

Yes I think that "for those I love" is also on the poster.

However there is nothing else.

Could it be a promo for the song?

Birneybau

I haven't heard nor seen it but apparently For Those I Love was on Jools Holland the other night.

raheny red

https://youtu.be/y7AM80tpfBQ

https://twitter.com/Ruaidhri_Croke/status/1325721857128067072?s=19

thenightman

I thought you were talking about the 90's health board "Smile, you're on heroin" ad posters with the rotten toothed drug addicts smiling that I remember being on buses and billboards back then.

AllForIt

It sounds like some some upper middle class champagne socialist blaming lower social class drug crime on his own demographic.

There's a lot of that kind of think going on in the UK at the moment in relation to London's knife crime problem in case one might think I'm not being serious.

There's an element of truth in that viewpoint, though. I know more guards and lawyers who smoke grass and do coke than I do unemployed. In fact, I never even knew anybody who did coke before I moved out of Dublin 1.

imme

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There's an element of truth in that viewpoint, though. I know more guards and lawyers who smoke grass and do coke than I do unemployed. In fact, I never even knew anybody who did coke before I moved out of Dublin 1.

Did you even witness this activity in licenced premises or evidence of it in Dublin 1.:rolleyes:

imme

imme wrote: »

Did you even witness this activity in licenced premises or evidence of it in Dublin 1.:rolleyes:

Yes, of course I did, but I'm talking about friends and acquaintances here. Nobody I grew up with was into the sneachta. Moved out into the suburbs and it's literally everywhere.

Get back in your box for a second there and put your thinking cap on. Out of all the people snorting coke in the jacks in pubs in the city centre......how many of them are locals, do you reckon, and how many are only there because it's, ya know, the middle of the city?

Poor people don't do coke.
Junkies and homeless people don't either.
Middle class yuppie-types out for a few pints with the boyz, though?

Edit: Forgot to add, the whole point of my original point was the hypocrisy. People are being jailed for what their jailors and legal representatives are getting up to as well.

imme

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Yes, of course I did, but I'm talking about friends and acquaintances here. Nobody I grew up with was into the sneachta. Moved out into the suburbs and it's literally everywhere.

Get back in your box for a second there and put your thinking cap on. Out of all the people snorting coke in the jacks in pubs in the city centre......how many of them are locals, do you reckon, and how many are only there because it's, ya know, the middle of the city?

Poor people don't do coke.
Junkies and homeless people don't either.
Middle class yuppie-types out for a few pints with the boyz, though?

Edit: Forgot to add, the whole point of my original point was the hypocrisy. People are being jailed for what their jailors and legal representatives are getting up to as well.

You are welcome to your views.

"get back in your box" you old charmer. :pac: