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Re: Making chloroform so I can sleep better at night [video]

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Post by kadoban »

mahathu wrote: post #53
labrador wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Let's see there's 50 whippets in a box, 12 boxes in a case. I did a couple hundred cases before I finally stopped. My last two binges 5 years apart were 15 cases over a 2 week period and 20 cases over a 10 day period. Once I start cracking whippets I can't stop. It felt almost like an OCD thing.

Probably it would be more efficient to fill up balloons from a larger tank and then inhaling from the balloons. You can continuously breathe in and out from the same balloon multiple times for a few times until all the N2O has been absorbed by the body (hypothetically)

Giving a drug addict, who obviously doesn't want to be doing the drug anymore, advice on how to more efficiently do drugs seems at _best_ morally questionable.

They've probably already worked out many other options and know this, but even so...just why do this?

Re: Making chloroform so I can sleep better at night [video]

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Post by pcthrowaway »

dalyons wrote: post #14
ravenstine wrote: post #6

I decided to open the Wikipedia page for Chloroform while this video played and thought it was interesting that the idea that criminals can immediately knock someone out with a chloroform soaked rag is really a work of fiction. Not that it couldn't be done, but that it would probably take minutes and not just a few seconds.

Pro tip: make it boiling hot. I knocked myself out instantly (but briefly) by accidentally breathing in over a boiling chloroform vat at a biotech internship. Came to a few seconds later on the floor. (Don’t actually recommend)

Did anyone see it happen? Were you close to falling in?

Re: Making chloroform so I can sleep better at night [video]

#63

Post by Jolter »

mahathu wrote: post #53
labrador wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Let's see there's 50 whippets in a box, 12 boxes in a case. I did a couple hundred cases before I finally stopped. My last two binges 5 years apart were 15 cases over a 2 week period and 20 cases over a 10 day period. Once I start cracking whippets I can't stop. It felt almost like an OCD thing.

Probably it would be more efficient to fill up balloons from a larger tank and then inhaling from the balloons. You can continuously breathe in and out from the same balloon multiple times for a few times until all the N2O has been absorbed by the body (hypothetically)

Let’s try not to help encourage a recovering adding to do drugs in a new, more efficient, way.

Re: Making chloroform so I can sleep better at night [video]

#64

Post by skulk »

labrador wrote: post #57
mahathu wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Probably it would be more efficient to fill up balloons from a larger tank and then inhaling from the balloons. You can continuously breathe in and out from the same balloon multiple times for a few times until all the N2O has been absorbed by the body (hypothetically)

I cracked the whippets into a large plastic bag and then inhaled from that. I stuck with whippets because it was the fail safe option.

My buddy and I used to crack whippets with a knife and frantically try to put the neck into a balloon with.... mixed results. The idea of using a plastic bag never occurred to us!

Re: Making chloroform so I can sleep better at night [video]

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Post by labrador »

pcthrowaway wrote: post #59
labrador wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Let's see there's 50 whippets in a box, 12 boxes in a case. I did a couple hundred cases before I finally stopped. My last two binges 5 years apart were 15 cases over a 2 week period and 20 cases over a 10 day period. Once I start cracking whippets I can't stop. It felt almost like an OCD thing.

Was it a physical addiction? Like would you actually go through withdrawals from not being on Nitrous? I've done a little bit, a long long time ago, but didn't realize this was a possibility. I didn't really enjoy it personally

No, there's no withdrawal so it must not by physical, but it would trash my nervous system so I was sick and in pain for a few days. Nothing more nitrous won't cure! So the cycle of abuse would continue until I physically couldn't go on.

Re: Making chloroform so I can sleep better at night [video]

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Post by [deleted] »

cwkoss wrote: post #44

Is there a youtube channel all about how chemical waste is neutralized for disposal? What happens to the tub of very basic water and maybe some bleach? Just pour down the drain? What pHs are safe to pour down the drain? How is more complex waste, like containing pharmacological products or heavy metals, neutralized and disposed?

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Re: Making chloroform so I can sleep better at night [video]

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Post by johng »

RajT88 wrote: post #21
xkcd-sucks wrote: post #18

Chloroform is great for extractions (if you don't care about the environment) because it sinks to the bottom of a sep funnel, but the thing about it being a knockout gas or sleep aid is complete BS. Based on an unpublished study of about 4 degenerate chemistry undergrads: - It PROBABLY takes several minutes of inhalation through a saturated rag to induce full loss of consciousness, although shorter times do produce n…

It could well be a similar phenomenon to how silencers on firearms absolutely do not make a gun sound like it sounds in the movies, but because it's become an established (and convenient) film trope, it persists in film. Similarly - films depicting kidnapping people using chloroform as an instant knockout drug.

A suppressed .300 blackout subsonic round sounds like the movies. It’s unreal. The slide and mechanics of the gun are louder than the round. A rather large round, at that.

Re: Making chloroform so I can sleep better at night [video]

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Post by labrador »

kadoban wrote: post #61
mahathu wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Probably it would be more efficient to fill up balloons from a larger tank and then inhaling from the balloons. You can continuously breathe in and out from the same balloon multiple times for a few times until all the N2O has been absorbed by the body (hypothetically)

Giving a drug addict, who obviously doesn't want to be doing the drug anymore, advice on how to more efficiently do drugs seems at _best_ morally questionable. They've probably already worked out many other options and know this, but even so...just why do this?

mahathu isn't telling me something I didn't already know. When you are obsessed you figure all the angles. The only way I stopped was to take months long road trips to places that didn't sell nitrous, like the Alaskan wilderness. I did find spiritual recovery by reading Zen books on the road, so now I live in San Jose where there are smoke shops selling whippets on every corner and don't have a problem with it.

Nitrous was useful for helping me look at traumas I suffered in the military by muting my anxiety and strong emotions when I approached the subject. Another reason I don't have a problem with nitrous right now is that I worked through my traumas adequately.

Re: Making chloroform so I can sleep better at night [video]

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Post by mrguyorama »

isk517 wrote: post #39
xkcd-sucks wrote: post #18

Chloroform is great for extractions (if you don't care about the environment) because it sinks to the bottom of a sep funnel, but the thing about it being a knockout gas or sleep aid is complete BS. Based on an unpublished study of about 4 degenerate chemistry undergrads: - It PROBABLY takes several minutes of inhalation through a saturated rag to induce full loss of consciousness, although shorter times do produce n…

Excuse me sir, but are you implying that in 1993 at WrestleMania 9 when Giant Gonzalez knocked out the Undertaker using a chloroform soaked rag that it was all fake? If so then mister, I think you are full of crap. /s

Professional wrestling got a lot more fun and cool when I realized it isn't "fake", because it isn't trying to be real because it's actually supposed to be modern day Shakespeare

Re: Making chloroform so I can sleep better at night [video]

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Post by xen2xen1 »

dalyons wrote: post #14
ravenstine wrote: post #6

I decided to open the Wikipedia page for Chloroform while this video played and thought it was interesting that the idea that criminals can immediately knock someone out with a chloroform soaked rag is really a work of fiction. Not that it couldn't be done, but that it would probably take minutes and not just a few seconds.

Pro tip: make it boiling hot. I knocked myself out instantly (but briefly) by accidentally breathing in over a boiling chloroform vat at a biotech internship. Came to a few seconds later on the floor. (Don’t actually recommend)

Was that the chloroform or hypoxia like someone mentioned? Seems the second would be much more dangerous?
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