How cold?

[Sir Trev]

This piece got me wondering on two counts:

1 - how stupid do you have to be to drink liquid nitrogen?
2 - how stupid do you have to be to sell a drink containing liquid nitrogen?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/19866191

We've all seen the shattering hand in the original V series, Terminator 2 and what happens to ingredients when that mad chef Heston uses the stuff. Ingesting it has got to be a Darwinian thing.

I think 2 is a more important point. An 18 year old girl may not of encountered any of the aforementioned tv ep/films + is likely to assume something being sold as a drink is safe to consume and hence not question it, especially when drunk. Although i didnt really catch in the article is
f the drink had nitro in the fluid, or was used in some elaborate display (glass within another glass etc)

Beggars belief. I guess the lass won't have to worry too much about weight gain in future

That makes me shudder.

Liquid nitrogen isn't toxic, but 14g (very roughly 14ml) expands to 24 litres when it evaporates (same way the 18g/18ml of water will make 24 llitres of steam). Also either they made that with loads of liquid nitrogen, or she drank very quickly after it was made.

Originally Posted by ClunkintheUK

Also either they made that with loads of liquid nitrogen, or she drank very quickly after it was made.

In a loud and hectic bar, with young teens showing off. Probably

C) All of the above

[Bibio]

WTF. are people really that stupid that they will drink liquid nitrogen.

Unfortunately Bibio, it seems so. This is what people get darwin awards for.

Still think the bar should be shut down for such a stupid idea, but then does anyone remember those oxygen bars, where you could breathe pure oxygen (which is toxic in all but very small doses).

[JamesMio]

At the risk of getting all deep here, what's more concerning (to me at least), is that the people who are stupid enough to do this, had the money to do it.

i.e. despite being so utterly brainless, they have a disposable income. Thus, either somebody actually employs them, or (as I suspect may be the case), they're in receipt of some form of hand-out, in which case my taxes are paying for retards (like this) to do stupid things (like that).

Is there a 'stop' button anywhere, because I think I'd like to get off now please.

I saw that this morning, I did wonder who the hell came up with that idea.

Temperature wise it's held at about -196C, it is also very cheap costing about the same as milk.

[Bibio]

fair enough putting a few drops in a drink to get a mist on the top but anything over that then people need to have their head examined.