I Like a Drink as Much as The Next Guy, But...

[Ben]

The only comment I can muster is WTF?

Story leader quoted below. More, with pics of stupid people, at the link.


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'Drinking' neat vodka through your EYE for a quick buzz? It sounds insane, but countless young people are risking their sight in this new craze

By Barbara Davies
Last updated at 2:20 AM on 15th May 2010

Even as drunken student antics go, it was, by any stretch of the imagination, a disturbing scene. Surrounded by cheering rugby players, applauded by fellow members of the university netball team, 19-year-old Melissa Fontaine tipped back her head and giggled as fellow drinkers in the Students' Union bar pulled apart her eyelids and allowed them to pour a shot of vodka into her left eye.

'Vodka eyeballing', as it is known in student circles, is the latest drinking craze to sweep through Britain's universities.

Those who do it claim that it induces feelings of drunkenness at break-neck speeds, providing an instant high.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1278583/Young-people-drinking-neat-vodka-EYE-quick-buzz.html

[Bogie]

They're not doing it right.
 
Vodka enema.
 
Can separate the intelligent from the dead pretty rapidly.
 

[gunsmith]

young women in the UK are now seemingly
enjoying themselves as much as the young men, the media finds it alarming.
no respect for equal rights to be stupid in the UK press I guess

I remember reading an article about all the drunk girls barfing and passing out on new yrs eve, brit press was aghast.

[taurusowner]

Vodka is best consumed slowly in a dark smoky room while cooly contemplating the destruction of your enemies.  These kids are doing it wrong.


*With Kahlua and cream over ice at the bowling alley is also an acceptable form.

[PTK]

Funny enough, I keep vodka around more for cooking (tomato dishes) than for drinking. Hell, I use it more often as a disinfectant than I drink it.

[MillCreek]

Funny enough, I keep vodka around more for cooking (tomato dishes) than for drinking. Hell, I use it more often as a disinfectant than I drink it.

Ditto.  Back when I was into homebrewing, I would use high-proof vodka to sanitize carboy necks and wipe down some fittings. Then I picked up a bottle of Everclear the next time I was in Oregon.  This also works well as a sanitizer.

[Jamisjockey]

Then I picked up a bottle of Everclear the next time I was in Oregon.  This also works well as a sanitizer.

And as an alternate fuel.

[PTK]

...why did you have to pick it up in Oregon? Do you live in one of the states that disallows high proof alcohol? :)

[S. Williamson]

I drink rum, if I ever drink.

I use Everclear as aftershave, LCD and keyboard cleaner, sanitizer, paint thinner, for cleaning wounds, occasionally when steaming vegetables (more of an experiment than anything else), and have been thinking of mixing it with powdered MoS₂ to use as a quickly-evaporating binder for a wet/dry lube.  I used to run Zippos with it, but stopped because you couldn't see the flame during the day.

But God help you if you ever acquire lab-grade 100% ethanol... 

[PTK]

Anhydrous ethanol has never been that simple to come by. Be glad that you can even get 95% (everclear)

[MillCreek]

...why did you have to pick it up in Oregon? Do you live in one of the states that disallows high proof alcohol? :)

In Washington state, hard liquor is sold only through the state liquor stores.  Everclear, and other industrial ethanol products, can only be sold with a special state permit for medical, scientific and industrial uses.  So the nearest place a private citizen can buy it is out of the state.  For me, that is the Oregon liquor store just a stone's throw from the Columbia River and Washington state line in Jantzen Beach in Portland. 

[wmenorr67]

  I used to run Zippos with it, but stopped because you couldn't see the flame during the day.

Used to use JP4/5 in my Zippo when in Korea.

[S. Williamson]

A suitable alternative fuel.    'Course, it's just fancy diesel/kerosene. 

[wmenorr67]

Well it was also free.

[AJ Dual]

When my grandfather died in '03, I was invited to go through his tools & junk, and to scour the house for hidden firearms.

He had fifth of Everclear in his nightstand. Knowing him though, it was for cleaning something, like telescope optics, or some machine fixture, or some electronic gear. 

He also had loaded M1 Carbine magazines in his underwear drawer, along with about 20 slide rulers, and various aviation weight/fuel/load/balance/wind mechanical calculators too. 

[S. Williamson]

When my grandfather died in '03, I was invited to go through his tools & junk, and to scour the house for hidden firearms.

He had fifth of Everclear in his nightstand. Knowing him though, it was for cleaning something, like telescope optics, or some machine fixture, or some electronic gear. 

He also had loaded M1 Carbine magazines in his underwear drawer, along with about 20 slide rulers, and various aviation weight/fuel/load/balance/wind mechanical calculators too. 

Holy heck.  Sounds like a lost temple of hidden treasure to me. 

[grislyatoms]

Kinda gives new meaning to the old toast "Here's mud in yer eye" doesn't it?

[BridgeRunner]

Vodka is best consumed slowly in a dark smoky room while cooly contemplating the destruction of your enemies.  These kids are doing it wrong.

That's very undude.

*With Kahlua and cream over ice at the bowling alley is also an acceptable form.

That's better.   

My faculty advisor took me to dinner in NOLA at a bar near the hotel.  She ordered a drink with Everclear in it.  Within five minutes she wasn't sure if she was having massive heartburn or a heart attack.  That was a fun evening.

I'll stick to vodka (and tequila) consumed in the ordinary way.

[alex_trebek]

I thought I was hardcore when I placed vodka filled humidifiers strategically throughout the house during parties.  These kids put me to shame...

I drink rum, if I ever drink.

I use Everclear as aftershave, LCD and keyboard cleaner, sanitizer, paint thinner, for cleaning wounds, occasionally when steaming vegetables (more of an experiment than anything else), and have been thinking of mixing it with powdered MoS₂ to use as a quickly-evaporating binder for a wet/dry lube.  I used to run Zippos with it, but stopped because you couldn't see the flame during the day.

But God help you if you ever acquire lab-grade 100% ethanol... 

MoS₂ is not soluble in water and is not organic. Do not spend a lot of resources trying everclear. I don't antcipate it will be much better.

[HankB]

Pouring alcohol in my eye doesn't sound like fun . . . sounds rather unpleasant, in fact.

As for Everclear . . . my grandmother used to make her own version of krupnik, or Lithuanian honey liquor, using everclear. That stuff would really warm you up on a cold winter's day. 

In college, many gallons of anhydrous ethyl alcohol were purchased from lab stock for experiments (wink, wink) and consumed.

[coppertales]

Vodka, the good stuff, shaken, not stirred, with ice.  Poured into a chilled vintage depression glass martini glass, and garnish with a garlic stuffed olive..........the only way......chris3

[Bogie]

Hmmm... It's after noon... A caucasian would be tasty...
 
If I had any Kahlua or any vodka...
 
And the proper beverage for rollin' a few is a Miller Lite.
 
Over the line!
 
They had a problem in the labs with the 100% going missing... Seems that folks were mixing it with diluted H20 and a mild citric acid solution on Friday afternoons...
 

[Ron]

I'm polish, I drink my vodka neat.

I've been known to drink it chilled also (straight up).

[sanglant]

i can't find a pic but everclear has some competition. little cheaper to.

[Ron]

i can't find a pic but everclear has some competition. little cheaper to.

At 190 proof there probably isn't much difference in the taste of them...