About Prozac (Fluoxetine) and Fags?!

[FagAsh]

I am a big stinky old smoker. I’ve never quit for more than 2 years. I smoke about 6 a day and love every one. Honestly it’s really pathetic

Anyyyyway, I was prescribing Prozac for severe PMT (PMDD)

And within a week; I’ve just stopped being remotely bothered..... I’ve just stopped almost as though I forgot about it. And this is over new year when I’ve been drinking a bit! I’ve also gone off food a bit but I knew about that already

AIBU to think that Prozac has actually turned off the faggy switch in my brain? Anyone else??

Just making the point that using the term 'f--s' is very offensive

I don't use this word, but as far as i know it is not an offensive word in the UK when used as a slang word for cigarettes. I am happy to be corrected by someone who doesn't have an axe to grind

" has at east " -- has at least. God forbid you might assume I am somehow sneering at your assumptions about the west.

Oh jack it in SarahNade no-one's buying this crap.

But since you're trying so very hard here, would you like to explain how you and the rest of the Western world cope with the traditionally British dish of faggots and mash?

That’s brilliant. Prozac effects your serotonin - the feel good hormone in your brain - so it’s not really surprising when you think about it that you aren’t needing the lift from cigs. And you’ll feel better and smell better and have more spends! Win all round!

Love a good derail!

Ihave no idea what food you are talking about, but the word itself would have had the company who made it banned from making it, or would need to re-brand in order to sell

Um, no - on sale, very popular. You admit you don’t know what you are talking about, yet still insist you can dictate how it is used in this country. FFS - grow up.

@SarahNade

Oh look, faggots. On sale, at Tesco. I don't see any protests.

www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/282049626

@ThePlantsitter So those in the deep south in America can use the term as it is regional and indigenous to their area?

@AskingQuestionsAllTheTime You're not getting my point. It does not matter the context in which it is used, any more than the context the n word (previously a colour shade) is used. I know what it means in the UK. I don't need a dictionary link. What I am saying is that the term should no longer be used, full stop. It is a deeply offensive term, and people from all countries come on here. I'm just asking for a bit of sensitivity for others to be used. That's all. I don't understand why this is a big deal, just because it was used in the UK for centuries (as the n word was in the US) doesn't make it ok. Some words need to be removed for circulation and use. I don't understand why people cling onto the word, when a lot of posters here are not from the UK. Is asking for consideration of other posters and sensitivity really that too much to ask? Can you really not just say cigarettes or smokes?

@SarahNade The word “fag” in the UK means a cigarette and there is no malice behind it in anyway. It’s a UK website and therefore acceptable to use. If you don’t like it,don’t come on here

I have no idea what food you are talking about, but the word itself would have had the company who made it banned from making it, or would need to re-brand in order to sell.

I missed that ^^ little gem.

Educate yourself OP

Ha ha ha about banning faggots. They have been part of the diet by that name in this country since, ooh, at least 1800, and I doubt very much that anyone then would have done more about banning them than laugh in your face. Shall we also ban thick sticks? Those are called faggots too, useful for lighting a fire, and "logettes" as a circumlocution is a horrible word in and of itself.

Sarah faggots are food, from Wiki...

Faggots originated as a traditional cheap food consumed by ordinary country people in Western England, particularly west Wiltshire and the West Midlands.[6] Their popularity spread from there, especially to South Wales in the mid-nineteenth century, when many agricultural workers left the land to work in the rapidly expanding industry and mines of that area. Faggots are also known as "ducks" in Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, and Lancashire, often as "savoury ducks". The first use of the term in print was in the Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser of Saturday 3 June 1843, a news report of a gluttonous man who ate twelve of them.[7]

The first use of the term in print, as cited in the Oxford English Dictionary, dates from 1851, in a piece by Henry Mayhew in which he describes a dish identical to the modern product with chopped liver and lights in an outer wrapper of caul. This was in London.

I'm Yorkshire so it's called savoury duck/ faggots on market stalls but the supermarket carries Mr Brains faggots.

You are blatantly trying to ignore that and labour a point.

I know what it means in the UK. I don't need a dictionary link.

Yes we all know you know what it means in the UK.

That'll be why MNHQ deleted your first comment. Because it was disingenuous, homophobic and quite frankly disgusting

@SarahNade
It must be obvious even to you that it is barely known or used in this country in any other way. You might want to go and troll your own fora then rather than sticking your arse in the air on here.

Fags fags fags.

It what we call them so fuck off.

Well done quitting the fags OP and it's really helpful to know there's another method that helps some people.

I have a real hankering now for some faggots and peas

@ThePlantsitter So those in the deep south in America can use the term as it is regional and indigenous to their area? sure if it didn't mean gay there, as it doesn't here. It's not like the 'n' word, which doesn't refer to anything else. It means cigarettes. In some ways using it to mean that dilutes the negative affect.

My dad is gay and often says he's nipping out for a fag. As he's in his 70s you can guarantee he's come across more honophobia than most. Fag means cigarette here and it's obvious from the op's post that's what she's talking about. Pretending those letters together do not exist does nothing to reduce homophobia.

It's not an offensive word, that's the thing. It's not a slur. You're just using it that way but that's not the meaning it has here. It's a word in the English language that has several meanings, in English, none of which are homophobic slurs. So you're just sounding mental.

@SarahNade
Just thought you should know a couple more British phrases as I’m sure you will hear them at some stage. Two for starters are “you’re a bellend” and “how about bollocks”

Plus you're using 'most of the developed Western world' to equal the US, which is actually offensive. Most of the developed Western world don't have English as their first language.

@TheQueef but why can't they use a different term for the food? Surely in today's day the word would be obsolete. I simply do not understand the resistance to using another word. Just because it has been that way for centuries, doesn't justify it. People now know better, so why still stick to the word?

If the word is going to offend someone, why use it? Is it really too hard to use another word? Would you all have this conversation with an African American over the n word? Just because the UK use the term for cigarettes or a food doesn't make it right anymore in 2020. I don't understand why I am in the wrong for saying the word upsets a lot of people (it does) and can fellow posters please, please show some consideration? Is the word that important to you that you don't care who you hurt or offend? Is it really too much to ask for you to use another term? I don't understand why it is so wrong to ask for a little compassion, consideration and sensitivity.

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And while I'm here, hurrah for the side-effect of Prozac! Giving up smoking being made easy like that is such a brilliant thing, OP.

Prozac really helps with my impulse control so it might be that (it's a known thing, they give it to bulimics for that reason)