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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Stupid is as stupid does.
I just heard about the phenomenon of the “butt-chug”, i.e., beer-bonging with the other end. Hopefully not with the same hose.
Don’t know if you are talking about a boy or a girl, but my theory is that we boys are absolutely know it alls until one event occurs (and it happens to all of us).
We fall in love, then get our hearts ripped out of our chests by said love interest.
At that point, I learned a) I don’t know it all, and b) a ounce of humility is a good thing.
I was 20 and Reagan was not yet prez.
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