When I was in high school, it was quite common to show how macho you were by snorting vodka (aka doing a "chilly willy"). Burned like hell and made the side of your face go numb for 10 minutes.
I really feel like drinking is a two-part process: enjoy the beverage, AND enjoy the drunk. If you're missing one of those, you're kinda doing it wrong.
Also, a friend of mine snorted a half-shot of vodka this weekend, so it's not just eyeballs.
I'm going to save this article and pull it out anytime I mistakenly develop hope for the future of humanity.
@14 For some of us alcohol tastes nasty and the sooner we can get it over with, the better. (Shots with the birthday boy/girl are both the problem and the solution.)
I don't see how teh surface area around your eyeball is large enough to absorb a substantial amount of alcohol in a reasonable amount of time. To get to 0.08 BAC, a 140 pound woman would need to absorb about 32ml of pure ethanol (the amount in about 2 shots of 100proof) in a reasonably quick amount of time. This doesn't account for metabolism either so it's an underestimate
Cost-benefit analysis: you get drunk slightly faster but might go blind and OH DEAR GOD THE BURNING. Somehow it just doesn't seem to stack up in favor of pouring vodka in your eyeballs. I don't even *drink* vodka straight, I have to mix it with stuff.
I on more than one occasion have put a tab of acid in each eyeball.The hallucinations kick in almost immediately.Good times, when you're seventeen anyway.
This sounds an awful lot like the endorphin rush that comes with overwhelming pain, possibly with a bit of the placebo effect as well. As #19 points out, however, the idea that this could actually get you drunk is complete nonsense.
Ah, the stupidity of youth...
Never put salt in your eyes.
Also, a friend of mine snorted a half-shot of vodka this weekend, so it's not just eyeballs.
Vodka is just rotted potatoes.
@14 For some of us alcohol tastes nasty and the sooner we can get it over with, the better. (Shots with the birthday boy/girl are both the problem and the solution.)
Hey, there's a reason mixed drinks were invented. To cover the taste of nasty vodka with orange and cranberry juice and a little umbrella.