Posted on 05/26/2010 7:34:33 AM PDT by MissTed
Vodka eyeballing. It’s the latest drinking fad on YouTube, and it could cause blindness.
Hundreds of online videos that originated in the U.K. show teens pouring vodka directly into their eyes, straight from the bottle. The videos are getting hundreds of thousands of hits, MyFoxDC.com reported.
Substance abuse expert Mike Gumbel claims kids aren’t eyeballing to get drunk faster, but do it when the effects of alcohol have already set in and impaired their judgment. Eyeballing is more of a prank than a way to become more intoxicated.
“They’re not doing it to get more drunk, they’re doing it as part of a fad. ‘I dare you to do this,’” Gumbel said.
Robert Stutman, president of the Maryland Optometric Association, said eyeballing can be very damaging to the eyes. Vodka is 40 to 50 percent alcohol and can burn and scar the cornea.
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See my post 21. It’s an easier read. ;-]
I like my post. It IS an easy read. Just plain speak and common sense combined with discipline and love and doesn’t cost a thin dime. Why do we need BOOKS to know what and how to teach our children.
I blame everybody who posts Helen Thomas pictures on unsuspecting threads.
Just get her interested in being a career woman and she’ll be just fine. I know the jokes, but concentrating on a career will keep her on track and ensure that she learns self respect and self confidence, not self esteem. Let others rot, but keep her on track and she will do just fine.
Hon, I feel for ya. A few years ago I thought I would die come high school graduation and my darling little angel would be going off to college. Now that it’s here, I can’t wait!!! The only tears I’ll be shedding will be tears of joy as I help the holier than thou attitude pack and show it the door. Don’t get me wrong. Good kid, hard worker and tops in the class, but the attitude is too much. God made teenagers so we’d be forced to send our babies out into the world.
How embarrassing for its parental units.
True story. The sheriff set two 12 can boxes of beer on the store counter. The clerk told him the 24 case was cheaper than two 12 packs. The sheriff said no thanks because he didn't think he could drink a whole case.....
“My daughter is 9-years-old, I’m already terrified of the teenage years. *yiikes*”
You should be. My boy just graduated High School. I am amazed he is still alive after some of the things he has done :-)
Probably a lot of these videos are of teens pouring water in their eyes. How can you tell from a video?
http://www.darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2007-13.html
There were some threads on it here, but I couldn't find them. Our usual tasteful and restrained humor of course....
Kids these days, so lame. It’s LSD in the eyes, everybody knows that.
Thank you, I’ll look into that.
That was uncalled for! :)
A teenager with fluorescent purple hair once told me that it was rude to stare at him.
I laughed out loud and said, “You dyed your hair so people would look at you. Now you want them to stop because it makes you feel self-conscious? You’re an idiot.”
(I should’ve said, “Obama Voter”)
OK.
LOL!
As a fraternity alum and a contact-wearer, let me just say this...they’re out of their freaking minds.
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