'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.
Not surprisingly, her doctor was stunned when she went to see him. Melissa, who previously had perfect eyesight, was referred to an ophthalmologist, who told her that she had permanent scarring on the cornea of her left eye.
Just what the hell is wrong with people? To follow up on my post below, I see behavior like this and people call marijuana a gateway drug? Guess it is . . . for stupid people. But barring that, they will find something else to do.
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Sad - - very very sad ----- but true.
I played rugby for 7 years. I will not even begin to tell you the stories of the drinking that ensues on & off the pitch. Oy! I am blessed to still be alive with a functioning liver.
Congrats on stomping my ass in the bat shit crazy category.
I hope that Daily Mail article isn't how her parents found out.
I think you nailed it a few posts ago when you mentioned addictive personalities being more of a factor in so-called "gateway drugs" than the drugs themselves. That said, I am not especially enthused over the prospect of legalization. By the fence but not quite on it, as it were.
But this...I don't have any clue how that ever even occurred to anyone to try. How it caught on is completely beyond me.
"How it caught on is completely beyond me."
Its kind of like liberalism or the clap, both social diseases that can easily be avoided.
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