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Why do some people insist on snorting their coke off a plate?

dan0125

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I do coke a couple times a month with a few friends. We usually just chop up our coke on a plate, break it up into lines with a credit card, and snort it up right off the plate with a rolled bill. Every once in a while, this other guy comes over and hangs out with us, and he bitches about how he likes to snort off a mirror. I don't see the point in this. I've tried it myself, and it doesn't make any difference, I can see the powder just fine when I'm snorting off a plate. What's the reason for this?
 
Whoah, I just realized I fucked up the title, that should read mirror not plate :) If a mod could fix that it would be great.
 
man, I've crushed, cut and snorted off the flat top of those little silver tampon trashthings in public restrooms before.... as far as I'm concerned, it doesn't matter what you cut your shit on.... it's whatevers available and best suits your needs...
but.....positives for mirrors (flat mirrors with no borders) is theres no edge to get in the way of your hand or blade; people don't eat off them, so I guess they seem cleaner to people; you can see the coke better; more portable than carrying around a dinner plate....
positives for the plate- the border prevents spills! and makes it easier to pass around; (depending on the plate) won't get scratched so bad if at all; which looks more incriminating- a plate with a little white powder on it (could be some powdered sugar) or a mirror with a little white powder on it?....
 
1) Your friend is an idiot, tell him there isn't a mirror handy so he can either do the line of the plate or go fuck himself..
2) It's too much work to change the subject, so it will just have to remain as it is..
And what is the purpose for this subject? Is this like a big issue that needs resolve? I have never heard of such a thing..
 
I dunno why, it just pissed me off after hearing all his bitching about wanting to use a mirror. Wondered if anyone else felt the same?
 
who gives a fuck what you use. i'd blow a line off a dead crack-baby's ass if i had to.
people just have little prefrences. next time he starts bitching wait till he's about to snort the line and take the plate out from under him and say "so get a fucking mirror bitch". then snort his line.
[ 09 December 2001: Message edited by: Big boy ]
 
who gives a fuck what you use. i'd blow a line off a dead crack-baby's ass if i had to.
lmao about that one..hahaha thats disturbing, yet so hilarious.
anways... the guy is prolly just very picky about what he uses, I'm like that, but if its not around I dont care. I have a prefrences for everything, but if what I dont have isnt there, I'll do what I can with what I have.
Also miriors are non-porous, so there isnt a chance in losing anything, even the tiniest itity-bittiest bit of coke. So yea... maybe thats why? I dunno, just my two cents....
 
But ALL the pros snort off a mirror. Don't you want to look cool when you're getting geeked???
[ 11 December 2001: Message edited by: descend ]
 
In the back of some obscure alternative porn/book store here in Dallas, I found a set of comic books from way back when called "Cocaine ComiX".
Anyways, naturally the comics are ALL about cocaine and thier use. Every page is illustrated like some old 70's Crumb comic except instead of weird sexually deviant stories, these are all about Cocaine and how to play with it.
My point is, in one of the stories they explain why to use a mirror rather than any other surface...
Apparently when chopping on a mirror, one is able to get the coke chopped much finer, thus making for a better snorting product, therein lies the main advantage.
Now whether this is true or not I can't say, but the comics are cool as shit...
Brainrape
PS- Personally I like snorting of mirrors because of that one surreal second when you look down to do your line and you see your reflection. And it's looking right into your very own eyes as you get ready to do the drugs, and you are both high as fuck, and you do the line and sometimes your reflection kind of smiles, and you smile back, cause you both just KNOW...I dunno, maybe it's just me...
 
well when i first read your question, and the mirror and plate issue, i first thought it was because after a night of passing, chopping, etc. etc. it seems like the coke ends up sticking to the plate in a sence where it must be scrapped up....and with a mirror it dosen't..
that is just my opinion....i personnally have used both......
casper
 
Huh? NONE of this makes ANY SENSE ... more porus? Allows you to chop the coke finer? WTF? A mirror is made of GLASS, a plate is made of GLASS, so it's the SAME THING except with a mirror you can SEE YOURSELF as you snort the line.. perhaps thats it? Just like how people liketo use a $100 bill to do lines, even though they have a $1 bill thats just as crisp... maybe they want to use a mirror because thats how cocaine is always portrayed - you do lines off a mirror..
Fucking insane.. if I was handing out lines and someone asked fora mirror I wouldn't give them the line..
 
Personal preference. Simple as that. As far as I can see, neither are that different. Maybe he has some attraction to it due to Hollywood's glamourization of the mirror/cocaine combination. Which, I guess, is still personal preference.
 
Personally, the only difference I would note is that it is easier to see a white powder on a mirror than it is to see white powder on a (very likely white) plate.
/shrug
If you're givin' him coke though, and he's bitching about using a plate, tell him to fuck off.
 
i've know this girl who says she wud only snort a drug if she cut it up with a credit car on a mirror and snorted it with money.
She also gets angry at me if use anythign otehr than these and tells me theres no point (shrugs)
 
There is of course the chance that he's just a crazy fuckin tweaka. Everyone has usually got their little habits about when they take drugs and shit - like if I'm doing lines I HAVE to do them evenly eg 2,4,6,8,10 etc otherwise I crack the shits and tweak around like a little smashfuck. I guess this guy just likes to do his lines off a mirror, and that other chick likes to use paper and plastic money to rack up.
Personally I use my blockbuster card to rack up and generally either a 50 or 100 to snort them off my fat glass coffee table. Credit cards are a bitch to crush up with coz drugs get caught in the number imprints. Blah Blah Blah (gettin a little long) I'm gone
 
i dunno why anyone would "insist" on using a mirror... but i can think of a few reasons why peeps would buy/use a mirror.
a) media/movie influence.
b) the coke "culture".
c) mirrors are in general, flatter than plates.
d) the reflection of the powder looks prrdy :D
e) The visibility of little specks of substance is very good.
I reckon cd cases 0wn mirrors cuz if you're crushing up some rock/pill/shard, the edges will catch flying chunks spring off (unless you're really clever and cover the whole thing with a dollah bill or whatnot).
[ 15 December 2001: Message edited by: Dexium ]
 
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