If The Internet Is A Grade School Cafeteria We're All Stepping On Our Food And Eating It: The Daily Nooner (EST)!
Drinking Liquid Nitrogen
When I was a little kid, I used to do all kinds of stupid things to impress people. In 2nd grade I told a bunch of people that my dad held the Guinness World Record for "Best Driver" (and that he trained for it by playing Spy Hunter). In 3rd grade I told a kid that I wrote the lyrics to "Sweet Child O' Mine" for Axl Rose. I had a jacket with all these patches on it, and one of them said "AIRBORNE" on it; I told everyone that a pilot gave it to my mom after she gave birth to me on an airplane.
I stuck gum in my hair at some kid's house like three times in a row because he dared me to. At first his mom tried to get it out with peanut butter, but that didn't work very well, so she eventually gave up and cut it out with a pair of scissors. When I did it again a week later, she didn't bother with the peanut butter. The third time I'm pretty sure she just kicked me out of her house for being stupid.
I used to gather a small crowd in the cafeteria at school, step on my food, and then eat it.
I could go on, but you get the point: I was a weird kid who was willing to do basically anything for attention. I've matured quite a bit since then, of course, and have now channeled that impulse and turned it into a prestigious and lucrative career blogging for Cracked.com, but sometimes I wonder, "What would my life be like if I had never learned to control myself?"
Then I saw this video and I was like, "Oh, yeah - I'd be drinking liquid nitrogen and putting it up on YouTube."
Thank God we still live in a world where you can get internet privacy, even if it comes at a price. Since we the people have been deemed unworthy to maintain our own internet privacy, what has the world come to?
ReplyNot that I'm totally impressed, but this is a lot more than I expected for when I stumpled upon a link on Digg telling that the info here is quite decent. Thanks.
ReplyDoes this guy think Drinking liquid nitrogen is the New smoking cigarrets or what? what People will do for attention nowadays.
ReplyThe real danger in the Liquid Nitrogen trick is if some portion of the Nitrogen gets stuck where it is not supposed to–say, if a pocket of it got stuck in the mouth somewhere where it could not escape. In cases like that the person gets “burned” by the low temperature Nitrogen. Otherwise, as Fitzroy says, it is a harmless pastime.
ReplyYeah, just like gnawing on a gun barrel is a harmless pastime as long as the trigger never gets pulled.
How is "only dangerous if this rather likely thing happens" equivalent to "harmless"?
Dude in the video is a douchebag. Ooooh, look, he blew smoke out of his mouth! And his nose! It's like cigarettes were never invented...
Girls who like him please pay attention. Here's a big news for you. A young lady said she saw his photo on a free and hot celebrity and millionaire dating site call RichMatchMaki ng.c om.............last night.
ReplyI've always wondered if it was possible to drink burning alcohol (>80% pure). Anyone wants to try?
ReplyIronically I did this today in Physics class and it is completely harmless as long as you don't swallow you don't even feel it going into or out of your mouth
ReplyI bloomin' love Tom Waits. Is playing the piano like a savant a good thing?
ReplyI still maintain, despite all the indisputable evidence to the contrary, that Tom Waits is actually a giant fat man. I mean, c'mon, there's no way that voice comes from that wisp of a man!
Replyfact that he's a relentless drunk who happens to play the piano like a savant.
ReplyNothing wrong with Renfield... I mean, c'mon. Tom Waits did an awesome job with the role.
ReplyWe'll just set aside the
Yeah, I got a little bit older and recognized the spider-Renfield-Dracula connection and noticed the error of my ways.
ReplyBut at the time, I was 9 and Dracula, (none of Bram Stoker's work, in fact), wasn't required reading yet.
DOB, are you sure you didn't want to be Dracula? Eating spiders is a Renfield thing to do.
ReplyCrazy things done for attention, huh? Damn it. I can't think of anything I did specifically for attention rather than just doing something and happened to gain attention because of it...
ReplyI told a professor in college he sucked at teaching (it was pre-calc), I could teach myself and any of the students better, and that he should quit. After that, he tried to fail me and four other students that stopped coming to class. I still recieved 100% on homework assingments, 93% on the mid-term, and then a 23% on the final.
The four other students left the class with me and all happened to fail the final. We got our tests and checked them ourselves. The lowest test score any of us got was a 92%. We wrote the proofs and turned them into the dean. The professor "resigned" the next day.
Sweet, sweet retribution.
I hate to be a partypooper here, but it's completely (kinda) safe to drink liquid nitrogen or to fuck around with it, so long as you don't expose yourself more than a couple of seconds at a time. It evaporative at so low temperature that it will never stay liquid long enough to touch your warm skin, which means that all he is doing is "drinking" evaporated nitrogen. You can put your hand down in this stuff without getting the least hurt. You don't want to keep it in there for too long though.
ReplyOK, Dan, I have a spider trapped under a paper cup. Did you or did you not gain Spider-man like powers?
ReplyI would routinely eat spiders in school, for reasons that were equal parts attention and a maddening desire to be Spider-man.
ReplyThere's clearly a correlation between doing really stupid shit as a kid and Cracked Bloggery.
Are you saying there's something wrong with eating worms?
ReplyAt least he's not eating worms... anymore.
ReplyI remember that kids would throw out their Joe Louis snack cakes when they got smooshed. It's just smooshed, it's still a sugar motherlode! Eat it, you prissy bastards!
ReplyLiquid nitrogen... I don't think the actualy liquid ever touched his lips. He would have made a different sound if it did. Kind of like 'aaaaaa-eeeeee!' but with frozen, cracking lips.