Plain red glass bottle on low pale pedestal with several visible red capsules

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Mr. Hand

What are you, people? On dope?

— Fast Times at Ridgemont High • 1982

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What it means

Our interpretation.

An exasperated rhetorical question aimed at a group whose behaviour seems so dazed, slow or senseless that the speaker wonders if drugs explain it. The tone appears incredulous and scolding rather than curious, treating their conduct as too foolish to be simply ordinary.

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