Scottish twitter is amazing

i didn't understand it at all so it did need a translation

Always thought they were pretty self explanatory myself, but to each their own

Well, they aren't actually chemists. That's probably why we don't call them that. Not that everyone's job title makes sense.

Y'all downvote for anything around here, huh? Bad form.

Actually, when he quoted the Pole, it would remain 'maybe baby maybe no'

They're probably called chemists in other countries as sometimes doctors will create a custom prescription and pharmacists are then expected to create it. More often than not it's a topical solution but also for certain liquids they have to mix them themselves. I work as a pharmacy tech and we have what we call compounding stations it's where all the fun mixing and flavoring happens.

Perhaps so. I'd probably be called a chemist, too. It varies, but around half of my day is making solutions. However, I might also be called a physician, microbiologist, computer scientist, physicist, or even pharmacist on the basis of particular activities.

Most pharmacies are called a pharmacy on their signage but generally in conversation we'd say e.g. "I need to go to the chemists", we still call the pharmacist a pharmacist.

Oh so it's like slang for pharmacists? I usually just call them licensed drug dealers