so i just watched a video of someone chug a bottle of rubbing alcohol that you would get from the pharmacy. its still alcohol though so like why is it bad. also what likely happened to the guy who chugged the bottle?
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oh hey, i can answer this!
when i was a freshman in high school, i accidentally chugged a decent amount of IPA. I had a bunch of water bottles by my bed. I also had some chiggers or poison ivy so i also had IPA by my bed. I woke up in the middle of the night parched and just blindly grabbed a bottle and started chugging. I remember thinking “why is this water spicy” because it was burning. Kept chugging anyway. Then i realized it was IPA.
The next day, my stomach hurt a bunch, throat hurt a bunch, intestines hurt a bunch, and butthole hurt a bunch.
There are tons of different “strains” of alcohol. The alcohol you drink is ethanol. There are plenty of other kinds.
People used to try and drink some of those “other kinds” during prohibition, often to disastrous effects.
>so i just watched a video of someone chug a bottle of rubbing alcohol that you would get from the pharmacy.
shoenice?
As a recovering alcoholic I can confirm that rubbing alcohol will indeed get you wasted. But it’s a WAR to get down and keep it down. My past preference for “you drank WHAT??” options was, in descending order: Vanilla extract, cooking wine, mouthwash, hand sanitizer, cologne/body spray… and rubbing alcohol is a diiiiiistant runner up to all of those. It’ll mess you up but it’s a wonder I’ve still got my eyesight, my hearing and all my organs intact.
‘If a guy says he’s drinking rubbing alcohol, then he’a definitely drinking rubbing alcohol.’
-this entire generation, apparently
I actually looked this up a while back because i wanted to know why i could buy rubbing *alcohol* as a minor but not regular,
In short to answer your question, it will fuck you up internally, *violently*.
It will essentially cause extreme poisoning aswell as damned near burn a hole if not eviscerate your asophagus (misspelled im sure. Your throat tube.) And stomach.
Say goodbye to your stomach lining, and everything else along with it.
Rubbing alcohol, believe it or not, before prohibition, used to be drinkable and essentially everclear. But during prohibition authorities figured out people would just drink it. So they added/changed the formula to make it poison. Its essentially drinking acetone now. Do. Not. Do. It.
Editing to add source : https://youtu.be/cgQzmB46cjo?si=1A3cqTGVmw_QABc3
>its still alcohol though so like why is it bad
Because all alcohols are bad for you. The alcohol that people normally drink – ethanol – is just less bad for you than the others so you have to drink a lot more of it before it will kill you.
My great great uncle was an alcoholic and drank a bottle of rubbing alcohol once. He went blind for a week. His only comment was “didn’t taste like my usual stuff”.
Eta: do not try this. My great great uncle was just built different. He had smoked his entire life since he was a child but when he died his lungs were allegedly clean as a baby’s.
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