http://www.thelocal.de/society/20110330-34051.html
QuoteTeens warned of risks from 'vodka tampon' use
Published: 30 Mar 11 09:11 CET
Police in southern Germany warned this week of a dangerous new form of alcohol abuse among teens – using tampons soaked in vodka to get drunk quickly and hide the smell. The practice poses grave health risks, they said.
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Police in the Baden-Württemburg city of Tuttlingen responded Tuesday to growing online chatter among teenagers that they could become intoxicated using the vodka tampons without having alcohol on their breath.
This is not true, police said, denying that it was an effective way to get drunk. They also warned girls that the alcohol could damage vaginal walls and increase the risk of infection. Boys have reportedly also been using tampons anally.
"I believe this is very dangerous," head of a children's clinic in Singen told southern German paper Südkurier last week. "For us this is a new thing."
In early March a 14-year-old girl collapsed during a street festival in Konstanz, apparently highly intoxicated from using a vodka tampon, the paper reported.
Youth researchers have since found out that this form of alcohol abuse is trendy in the region.
But teens who believe they can hide the smell of alcohol consumption are wrong, experts told the paper.
The development shows a new dimension for alcohol abuse among teens, county social worker Axel Goßner told the Südkurier.
"Alcohol is no longer a stimulant, but a means to an end," he said.
The trend arose among teens in the United States, where it is known as "slimming." But it has reportedly caught on in Scandinavia and other places where alcohol is difficult for young people to acquire.
Some Facebook groups are even devoted to exchanging tips on the topic, complete with how-to videos and instructions.
Wait, so they deny that it is possible to use this method, yet claim that a 14 year old collapsed "highly intoxicated" from using it. :hmm:
Germans are not so clever?
One assumes they did not make an empirical investigation, just an unwarranted assumption :hmm:
Quote from: Slargos on March 31, 2011, 02:54:07 AM
Wait, so they deny that it is possible to use this method, yet claim that a 14 year old collapsed "highly intoxicated" from using it. :hmm:
Germans are not so clever?
Maybe they used the "back entrance" which is suceptible to taking in alcohol directly into the bloodstream?
Quote from: Richard Hakluyt on March 31, 2011, 02:59:20 AM
One assumes they did not make an empirical investigation, just an unwarranted assumption :hmm:
Or they simply honoured the old tradition of lying to the public in order to promote a government sanctioned behaviour, apparently not realizing that in the internet-age you can't really pull that kind of shit anymore?
Thanks, Slarg, for today's :tinfoil: -moment.
Quote from: Syt on March 31, 2011, 03:05:11 AM
Thanks, Slarg, for today's :tinfoil: -moment.
:lol:
Ah, yes. The police always tells the Truth and there is never a need to mistrust the government or what it tells you. :hug:
Quote from: Slargos on March 31, 2011, 03:07:41 AM
Quote from: Syt on March 31, 2011, 03:05:11 AM
Thanks, Slarg, for today's :tinfoil: -moment.
:lol:
Ah, yes. The police always tells the Truth and there is never a need to mistrust the government or what it tells you. :hug:
Sorry Eichmann, but you just don't
do the "Question Authority" thing very well. Your jackboots give you away.
Germans :rolleyes:
Quote from: Tyr on March 31, 2011, 06:39:45 AM
Germans :rolleyes:
Indeed, behind the times as usual. Kenneth Tynan, former theatre critic of the Observer, indulged in the odd vodka enema back in the 1970s. Mind you, he died in 1980 aged only 53 so maybe the polizei have a point :hmm:
It all sounds rather more palatable and less painless than vodka eyeball shots, which the Daily Mail says is a dangerous new craze sweeping teens, so it must be true.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1278583/Young-people-drinking-neat-vodka-EYE-quick-buzz.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1278583/Young-people-drinking-neat-vodka-EYE-quick-buzz.html)
I wonder at what age on reading that you go from "Hey, crazy idea, I must try that!" to "Pass the tonic and ice".
This is nuts.
Now, if you will excuse me, I'll go back to licking toads to get high. :P
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That whole article doesn't make sense. In addition to what Slargos said, the bit at the end about how Scandinavian teens are using this method because alcohol is hard to get at that age.
So, if alcohol is hard to get, what exactly are they putting on their tampons.?
Quote from: Josephus on March 31, 2011, 08:40:06 AM
That whole article doesn't make sense. In addition to what Slargos said, the bit at the end about how Scandinavian teens are using this method because alcohol is hard to get at that age.
So, if alcohol is hard to get, what exactly are they putting on their tampons.?
the article in itself is badly written, but i took that part to mean that since you need less to get drunk your limited suplly goes longer.
Quote from: HVC on March 31, 2011, 09:13:31 AM
Quote from: Josephus on March 31, 2011, 08:40:06 AM
That whole article doesn't make sense. In addition to what Slargos said, the bit at the end about how Scandinavian teens are using this method because alcohol is hard to get at that age.
So, if alcohol is hard to get, what exactly are they putting on their tampons.?
the article in itself is badly written, but i took that part to mean that since you need less to get drunk your limited suplly goes longer.
It's bull shit anyway, because it's not like alcohol is hard to come by for teens here. There is a very much vibrant moonshine industry.
The case might be made for the fact that its popularity is due to the ease of hiding the consumption (carrying the stuff around risks confiscation) but I don't see how the tampons would be much easier to hide given they'll be reeking of the stuff anyway.
"Honest, guv'nah, I'm just carrying my girlfriend's tampons around, I thought the smell of alcohol was due to an anti-bacterial solution"
Not exactly as easy as sipping from a hip flask now, is it. :D
Excuse me while I nonchalantly drop my pants and shove this up my butt ...
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QuoteThe Enema Within
Michael was an alcoholic. And not an ordinary alcoholic, but an alcoholic who liked to take his liquor, well, rectally. His wife said he was "addicted to enemas" and often used alcohol in this manner. The result was the same: inebriation.
The machine shop owner couldn't imbibe alcohol by mouth due to a painful throat ailment, so he elected to receive his favourite beverage via enema. And tonight, Michael was in for one hell of a party. Two 1.5 litre bottles of sherry, more than 100 fluid ounces, right up the old address!
When the rest of us have had enough, we either stop drinking or pass out. When Michael had had enough (and subsequently passed out) the alcohol remaining in his rectal cavity continued to be absorbed. The next morning, Michael was dead.
The 58-year-old did a pretty good job of embalming himself. According to toxicology reports, his blood alcohol level was 0.47%.
Quote from: Malthus on March 31, 2011, 11:00:30 AM
Not exactly as easy as sipping from a hip flask now, is it. :D
Excuse me while I nonchalantly drop my pants and shove this up my butt ...
While the detection method used to be "stop any kid with a back pack on after 1700 hours" now they'll only have to get out the car if they see someone with their pants down which would typically prompt response anyway.
Or perhaps the kids these days are smarter, and simply cut little refill flaps in their pants.
This story is seriously WTF worthy.
Shoving a tampon up your arse....all sounds a bit...well gay to me. Very gay. Not that nice chap around the corner who lives with his boyfriend gay. That leather wearing freak whose gerbil myseriously dissapeared gay. So gay you wouldn't even catch regular gay folk doing it.
Quote from: Tyr on March 31, 2011, 11:31:48 AM
This story is seriously WTF worthy.
Shoving a tampon up your arse....all sounds a bit...well gay to me. Very gay. Not that nice chap around the corner who lives with his boyfriend gay. That leather wearing freak whose gerbil myseriously dissapeared gay. So gay you wouldn't even catch regular gay folk doing it.
:lol:
See, this is my problem with my own prejudices. When coming from the mouths of the hoi polloi, they sound so goddamned plebian.
I don't want to be associated with that moonshine swilling, baby popping, low riding riff-raff, yet by the virtue of my political leanings I am forced into the same corral.
It's a real problem.
Quote from: Slargos on March 31, 2011, 11:50:45 AM
Quote from: Tyr on March 31, 2011, 11:31:48 AM
This story is seriously WTF worthy.
Shoving a tampon up your arse....all sounds a bit...well gay to me. Very gay. Not that nice chap around the corner who lives with his boyfriend gay. That leather wearing freak whose gerbil myseriously dissapeared gay. So gay you wouldn't even catch regular gay folk doing it.
:lol:
See, this is my problem with my own prejudices. When coming from the mouths of the hoi polloi, they sound so goddamned plebian.
I don't want to be associated with that moonshine swilling, baby popping, low riding riff-raff, yet by the virtue of my political leanings I am forced into the same corral.
It's a real problem.
Well, you can always ease the pain with an assful of vodka. :P
It's only gay if you pop a couple of olives and one of those miniature umbrellas up there as well :cool:
Alcohol doesn't smell gay. Ass sweat and semen does.
Stupid kids. Shoving this stuff inside them to try and get drunk! I bet some of them suck the vodka on the tampons afterwards, forgetting they should do that first. ;)