So first and foremost, the health warning: Do not attempt an alcohol enema. It was recently found at the University of Tennessee that frats were attempting this. It is an incredibly dangerous idea.
The basic principle is that the body has natural enzymes that break down alcohol produced by the stomach and liver, which are bypassed when alcohol is poured directly into the colon. The alcohol is then absorbed directly into the bloodstream.
To say this gets you drunk faster is an understatement. The fact of the matter is it's very easy to reach a lethal blood alcohol content with this because you are bypassing the body's natural defenses against alcohol by doing this.
Anyway, apparently there is a non-zero risk of people actually being stupid enough to try this, so, don't. The fact that it's ridiculous is intuitively obvious, but it bears noting just how hazardous this can be.
So now that the PSA is done, let's discuss the event itself. Actually, first of all, let's have a jolly laugh at it, because let's face it, this is ****ing hilarious. Let it all out, there's no way we can have a serious discussion if you keep that held back. I'll wait.
All done? Ok. The thing I must ask is this: why on earth did this happen in the first place? Why do people do extremely irresponsible, to the point of being fatal, things to get drunk?
Is this a problem all over, or is it particular to America? I do feel like "doing ridiculously stupid things with alcohol" is something American drinking culture, and particularly American college party culture, is known for. Why is that? Every society has alcohol and every society has people doing unfortunate things while drunk. But America seems to be one where people do unusually irresponsible things before they get inebriated to get inebriated.
But then, I know there are countries with higher alcohol consumption rates (and higher alcoholism rates) than the US, so it seems to me that can't be particular to the US. Or is it?
Also if this is the case, why is this? Is it to do with the culture? Is it a by-product of the 21 drinking age? Parental conditioning? Societal conditioning?
Because this is so utterly mind-boggling to me that I feel to take a sociologist's perspective might have some value.
This reminds me of a few years ago when women were soaking their tampons in vodka to get drunk quicker.
Stupid people come up with stupid ideas.
Yes, but why?
Like, I understand the correlation between alcohol and irresponsibility because alcohol impairs a person's judgment, thereby making him irresponsible. Fatal levels of irresponsibility after one is drunk is not, therefore, difficult to understand.
But from whence comes fatal levels of irresponsibility when one is sober to get drunk?
Good ol' cycle of stupid. We always figure out some "new" way to get drunk/high. My guess would be that some combination of boredom and curiosity makes this stuff happen.
Snorting vodka/beer was another incredibly dangerous and stupid way to get drunk.
I wonder if the UT thing was a dare or voluntary...
Alcohol removes inhibitions and makes people brave. Add in other people in the same condition and things get messed up pretty quick. You are talking about college kids here. I have seen college kids do fifths of alcohol in beer bongs. That can kill you just as easy as an alcohol enema. College kids that have been drinking feel they are immortal and can die.
Give an idiot a minute understanding of how the body works, and they'll attempt to get drunk/stoned with it or die trying.
It's no wonder our future generations lag so far behind the rest of the world when the question "Hey, dude, want to shove a tube up your butt and pour vodka in it?" gets a "Hell yeah!" in response.
Because conservative bias is a far, far worse thing. Liberal bias doesn't, statistically speaking, make people stupid. Conservative bias (or at least Fox's version of it) does.
I don't know, I'm still trying to figure out why so many of my otherwise responsible friends with bright futures seem to think that driving drunk or buzzed is not a big deal.
I don't know, I'm still trying to figure out why so many of my otherwise responsible friends with bright futures seem to think that driving drunk or buzzed is not a big deal.
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Because when people drink they feel indestructible. Trying to talk sense into someone who feels on top of the world is all but impossible.
I don't know, I'm still trying to figure out why so many of my otherwise responsible friends with bright futures seem to think that driving drunk or buzzed is not a big deal.
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Totally agree with this statement. If your friends are trying to drink and drive they deserve to have you call the cops on them as soon as walk out the door. Friend of mine actually got 2 blocks before being pulled over.
And I would like to chalk the story of being doing alcohol up the butt as that kind of fake news story they do to make people riot of what "kids" are doing these days. But, I can actually see some idiot doing that.
Also this is not relegated to just the US. Go look at 90% of youtube videos from foreign countries. We are ALL retarded with alcohol pretty equally. I remember a lebanese guy I knew from a game talking about some really crazy stuff that would not be acceptable to post here. But it is defintely on the same "vein" as this post.
Also, it's really not a far stretch. Suppository drug use has long been a somewhat popular method of avoiding injection scars. Most people can't make like the bounty hunter in Pitch Black. And if you haven't done a Jagger-Bong you haven't been to college.
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So now that the PSA is done, let's discuss the event itself. Actually, first of all, let's have a jolly laugh at it, because let's face it, this is ****ing hilarious. Let it all out, there's no way we can have a serious discussion if you keep that held back. I'll wait.
All done? Ok. The thing I must ask is this: why on earth did this happen in the first place? Why do people do extremely irresponsible, to the point of being fatal, things to get drunk?
Step 1: laugh
Step 2: don't do it.
You answered your own question. The reason people do it is because it's hillarious and ridiculous. Their brains never make it to step 2, which is to stop, realize its extremely stupid, and not actually engage in said behavior.
also i heard of people doing this only they take the shot of booze through the eye
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also i heard of people doing this only they take the shot of booze through the eye
Yea that's another very popular delivery method for drug's as well too though. Meth, coke, LSD, some other stuff mixed with vodka dropped into the eye. the alcohol carries the drugs into the system for you and dries up your tear ducts at the same time so you don't cry it out instead.
I am not really sure about other countries, but I know that there was a very experimental subset of people in my high school that would try smoking different combinations of things (and household items) to see how it would affect them.
Although the idea of the alcohol enema is somewhat laughable until you obtain the result of the activity, it does not really surprise me. Seriously, at this point in my life I assume pretty much everything has been done at least once before.
I would have to be at some new stage of drunk, not experienced by me before, in order to try something this ridiculous.
Edit: I actually remember a guy going to the emergency room in college for bonging a fifth of vodka . . . I had forgotten. <sigh>
This is the kind of story you hear, and instinctively lose a little bit of faith in the future of humanity. When I was that age (and holy crap does using expressions like that make me feel old), my friends and I used to drink pretty heavily, and I'll admit that I've tried the snorting vodka thing that someone mentioned earlier. But I can't imagine the amount of alcohol I'd have to have already consumed to think stuffing a tube up either my or someone else's butt and blasting it with vodka was a good idea.
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I was wondering about stuff like this the other day listening to some dance music. It's all about living right now. I think this song was something like "just in case we die young".
It's like saying, "you haven't lived if you haven't done this stuff so if you are one of the unlucky ones that dies, sucks to be you, but we HAVE to party so we don't miss out."
I am 100% convinced that parenting is just teaching your kids to have a longer term perspective.
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I used to work with a bunch of crazy middle-aged Texans who loved to go to work Whiskeyed up, but couldn't have Whiskey on their breath so they would help each other Whiskey Enema before work. Those guys were NUTS! I understand wanting to compensate for the dullness of work, we all did it some way or another, but that one was a bit extreme for me.
Is this an indirect reference to this? Because oh my god, that video split my sides. HOW CAN NOBODY IN THAT VIDEO EVEN SMIRK WHEN HE SAYS THE TERN "buttchugging" LIKE TWENTY TIMES?
russians supposidly used to shot vodka into their eyes :/ tbh my eyes are stuffed enough as they are also why use other parts when you have a perfectly good orifice for the beverage generally the other entrances to the body (one way roads imo) are going to be asking you the same question and then protesting quite violently when you do it anyway
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So first and foremost, the health warning: Do not attempt an alcohol enema. It was recently found at the University of Tennessee that frats were attempting this. It is an incredibly dangerous idea.
The basic principle is that the body has natural enzymes that break down alcohol produced by the stomach and liver, which are bypassed when alcohol is poured directly into the colon. The alcohol is then absorbed directly into the bloodstream.
To say this gets you drunk faster is an understatement. The fact of the matter is it's very easy to reach a lethal blood alcohol content with this because you are bypassing the body's natural defenses against alcohol by doing this.
Anyway, apparently there is a non-zero risk of people actually being stupid enough to try this, so, don't. The fact that it's ridiculous is intuitively obvious, but it bears noting just how hazardous this can be.
So now that the PSA is done, let's discuss the event itself. Actually, first of all, let's have a jolly laugh at it, because let's face it, this is ****ing hilarious. Let it all out, there's no way we can have a serious discussion if you keep that held back. I'll wait.
All done? Ok. The thing I must ask is this: why on earth did this happen in the first place? Why do people do extremely irresponsible, to the point of being fatal, things to get drunk?
Is this a problem all over, or is it particular to America? I do feel like "doing ridiculously stupid things with alcohol" is something American drinking culture, and particularly American college party culture, is known for. Why is that? Every society has alcohol and every society has people doing unfortunate things while drunk. But America seems to be one where people do unusually irresponsible things before they get inebriated to get inebriated.
But then, I know there are countries with higher alcohol consumption rates (and higher alcoholism rates) than the US, so it seems to me that can't be particular to the US. Or is it?
Also if this is the case, why is this? Is it to do with the culture? Is it a by-product of the 21 drinking age? Parental conditioning? Societal conditioning?
Because this is so utterly mind-boggling to me that I feel to take a sociologist's perspective might have some value.
Stupid people come up with stupid ideas.
Yes, but why?
Like, I understand the correlation between alcohol and irresponsibility because alcohol impairs a person's judgment, thereby making him irresponsible. Fatal levels of irresponsibility after one is drunk is not, therefore, difficult to understand.
But from whence comes fatal levels of irresponsibility when one is sober to get drunk?
Snorting vodka/beer was another incredibly dangerous and stupid way to get drunk.
I wonder if the UT thing was a dare or voluntary...
Give an idiot a minute understanding of how the body works, and they'll attempt to get drunk/stoned with it or die trying.
It's no wonder our future generations lag so far behind the rest of the world when the question "Hey, dude, want to shove a tube up your butt and pour vodka in it?" gets a "Hell yeah!" in response.
inb4toughguysclaimingtheycandrinkanddrive
Because when people drink they feel indestructible. Trying to talk sense into someone who feels on top of the world is all but impossible.
Totally agree with this statement. If your friends are trying to drink and drive they deserve to have you call the cops on them as soon as walk out the door. Friend of mine actually got 2 blocks before being pulled over.
And I would like to chalk the story of being doing alcohol up the butt as that kind of fake news story they do to make people riot of what "kids" are doing these days. But, I can actually see some idiot doing that.
Also this is not relegated to just the US. Go look at 90% of youtube videos from foreign countries. We are ALL retarded with alcohol pretty equally. I remember a lebanese guy I knew from a game talking about some really crazy stuff that would not be acceptable to post here. But it is defintely on the same "vein" as this post.
Also, it's really not a far stretch. Suppository drug use has long been a somewhat popular method of avoiding injection scars. Most people can't make like the bounty hunter in Pitch Black. And if you haven't done a Jagger-Bong you haven't been to college.
Pejorative use of the word "retarded" is specifically against the forum rules. Infraction issued.
- Teia
Step 1: laugh
Step 2: don't do it.
You answered your own question. The reason people do it is because it's hillarious and ridiculous. Their brains never make it to step 2, which is to stop, realize its extremely stupid, and not actually engage in said behavior.
also i heard of people doing this only they take the shot of booze through the eye
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Doctor, my eyes...cannot see the sky. Is this the prize for having learned how not to cry?
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Yea that's another very popular delivery method for drug's as well too though. Meth, coke, LSD, some other stuff mixed with vodka dropped into the eye. the alcohol carries the drugs into the system for you and dries up your tear ducts at the same time so you don't cry it out instead.
Although the idea of the alcohol enema is somewhat laughable until you obtain the result of the activity, it does not really surprise me. Seriously, at this point in my life I assume pretty much everything has been done at least once before.
I would have to be at some new stage of drunk, not experienced by me before, in order to try something this ridiculous.
Edit: I actually remember a guy going to the emergency room in college for bonging a fifth of vodka . . . I had forgotten. <sigh>
Is it thief, thug or whore? There's one at the door...
And there's room for one more till the end of creation.
Neil Gaiman, Sandman #4 - A Hope in Hell
It's like saying, "you haven't lived if you haven't done this stuff so if you are one of the unlucky ones that dies, sucks to be you, but we HAVE to party so we don't miss out."
I am 100% convinced that parenting is just teaching your kids to have a longer term perspective.
Just drink on an empty stomach if you want to get drunk quickly.
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