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[Anonymous No.12863354]

You'd never drink non-beverage alcohol right /ck/?

>"Someone going through a 500 ml bottle of rubbing alcohol in a 24 hour period is the equivalent of drinking 30 beers,"

>Hand sanitizer, mouthwash, and rubbing alcohol are cheap, easy to obtain, and get a person drunk very quickly—a bottle of rubby costs around $5 [$3.75 USD] and can be up to 90 percent alcohol—which makes them appealing to addicts. One EIDGE member told VICE that crews regularly hit up hospitals to steal large quantities of hand sanitizer, known on the street as "gel."

>The problem is so common in the Downtown Eastside, residents say local corner stores have jacked up the prices of products like Listerine.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/5gj7nd/people-are-getting-wasted-off-mouthwash-and-rubbing-alcohol-and-its-killing-them

[Anonymous No.12863360]

>>12863354
>ironically ingesting hand sanitizer for the lulz
Triclosan is an endocrine disruptor that can fuck up your hormonal functions and sterilize you. But thank him for cleaning the gene pool from this particular brand of stupidity.

[Anonymous No.12863363]

If it's ethanol, it's fair game.

[Anonymous No.12863365]

>>12863354
>citing Vice
you might be right but you're also a bugchasing faggot for voluntarily giving them traffic

[Anonymous No.12863368]

>>12863354
What are you, a fuckin' native?

[Anonymous No.12863370]

>>12863365
>being this triggered by a site whose writers have different views than you
baka

[Anonymous No.12863371]

>>12863363
the grimiest shit I ever did was buy these big bottles of vanilla extract with food stamps and drink it. low point in my life

[Anonymous No.12863375]

>>12863370
>"triggered"
>"""writers"""
>"""""different views"""""
The only redeeming quality of Vice is they publish based Simon Hanselmann

[Anonymous No.12863384]

>>12863354
I may be an alcoholic, but not JUST because of the alcohol.
I genuinely like the taste of alcoholic beverages. Basically all non-alcoholic beverages are either bland af or extremely sweet.

If you want a beverage that punches you in the face with amazing flavor, you really have to drink something with alcohol.

So no matter how much I love alcohol, I could never see myself drinking shitty tasting stuff just to get drunk.

[Anonymous No.12863387]

>rubby
>known on the streets as gel

[Anonymous No.12863400]

>>12863384
>tfw best beverages are those with citrus rinds or raw, whole spices
>hard liquor is best way to extract these flavors
I feel you.

[Anonymous No.12863453]

>>12863365
Vice is cool they have lots of good content despite their retarded editorial stances

[Anonymous No.12863488]

>>12863453
examples please

[Anonymous No.12863511]

>>12863488
Their YouTube videos are fire. Check out the one about the cannibal guy in Japan.

[Anonymous No.12863516]

>>12863511
>cannibal guy in Japan
you mean the serial murderer who murdered and ate Parisian women? who made a comic?

[Anonymous No.12863533]

uhm this is some kind of prank. denatured alcohol is not edible and will cause extreme gastrointestinal problems if consumed.

[Anonymous No.12863551]

>>12863363
But OP is drinking isopropyl alcohol

[Anonymous No.12863562]

This has been a part of Russian/eastern euro culture since time immemorial

[Anonymous No.12863594]

>>12863488
look up the Russian expat pilots in the Congo and the cowboy capitalists in South Africa videos.

[Anonymous No.12863622]

>>12863562
This. Bums here now buy these cheap shitty little bottles of lemon scented cologne. You can find empty bottles of the stuff all over the city. At this point I'm pretty sure even the company making the cologne knows who their biggest client is. Pic related

[Anonymous No.12863623]

>>12863594
all examples so far are shit other, better publications have covered in the past, please be more original

[Anonymous No.12863628]

>>12863371
Did it get you smashed tho?

[Anonymous No.12863636]

>>12863623
Check out their article about struggling farmers turning to Donald Trump as their last hope.

[Anonymous No.12863639]

>>12863533
I wouldn't call that a prank. This is 4chan make a crystal by following the directions type stuff. This is dangerous. This is some tide pod eating bullshit type of crap. Those poor idiots who died from that, omg!

[Anonymous No.12863643]

>>12863636
how come none of you actually give links, faggots

[Anonymous No.12863644]

>>12863488
When they went to North Korea

[Anonymous No.12863650]

>>12863516
sounds based

[Anonymous No.12863652]

>>12863643
do the legwork yourself I'm not your mother

[Anonymous No.12863655]

>>12863644
>>12863652
gay

[Anonymous No.12863659]

fucking newfags are jacking up the prices of my cocktails

[Anonymous No.12863660]

>>12863354
Second I saw the words "Downtown Eastside", I knew this was about my hometown.

Isopropyl alcohol is the most common type used in products not meant to be ingested. When processed through your liver, it will literally break down into solid strands of isopropylene. This can cause scarring and damage very quickly. On the one hand, you're dying; on the other hand, the liver damage makes it easier to get drunk.
In any case, the more people who die in the DTES, the better. I've known friends and family who have been drunks and addicts. I lost my father to booze awhile back. The people who live on the streets in the DTES are on a whole other level of people who have given up on life.

[Anonymous No.12863670]

>>12863659
they have to put secuirty tags on all the mouthwash at my local drugstore
i think i might need to move

[Anonymous No.12863676]

>>12863670
that's unfortunate anon, good luck

[Anonymous No.12863677]

I was looking some of this shit up and accidentally stumbled on the "Pidgin" corner of the web again. Holy fuck I am laughing.
>'I no be dollars you fit put for pocket'
https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/tori-49543592

[Anonymous No.12863697]

>>12863677
>De one we dem de read well well

[Anonymous No.12863718]

>>12863371
So vanilla extract gets you drunk?

[Anonymous No.12863730]

>>12863628
yes its like 40 percent alcohol if you buy the right brand

[Anonymous No.12863739]

>>12863375
You didn't necessarily prove that you weren't trigger lol.

[Anonymous No.12863746]

>>12863718
It's mostly alcohol

[Anonymous No.12863774]

>>12863730
total waste of money since vanilla extract is like 10x more expensive per ounce than the cheapest liquor

[Anonymous No.12863780]

>be SEA monkey
>watch poor retards try to get drunk/high with various stuff
>Dextromethorphan cough syrup mixed with energy drink
>denatured alcohol mixed with moonshine (end up blind)
>sniffing up glue
>"wow, this kind of shit must only happen in 3rd world countries"
>mfw burgers drink hand sanitizers

[Anonymous No.12863802]

>>12863739
what does "triggered" mean, Anon? do inform me since people like you lessen its meaning everyday.

[Anonymous No.12863807]

>>12863802
stop it pls

[Anonymous No.12863847]

>>12863774
I was gonna say this, even if you're getting the artificial stuff, which is usually in a cheaper chemical solvent. Ounce for ounce, you can get some gasoline-grade booze for dirt cheap. Hell, the best alcohol for dollar value will typically be malt liquor if you live in the US. It tastes like piss, but there's a reason why it has its reputation as the drink of the poor.

On the other hand, it's easier to shoplift at a cooking supply store than a liquor store, especially if you've tried it before, so he could have his reasons.

[Anonymous No.12863861]

>>12863807
Content warning: this article contains reference to trigger warnings

[Anonymous No.12863880]

>>12863774
>>12863847
you can't buy liquor with food stamps

[Anonymous No.12863895]

>>12863354
Rubbing alcohol is fucking isopropanol not ethanol enjoy your poisoning you goddamn retard. Anything not meant for human consumption likely has some poisonous or awful compound added to it. Don't be a brainlet.

[Anonymous No.12863897]

>>12863847
>so he could have his reasons.
he said he was buying it with food stamps. you can't buy alcohol, cigarettes, or stuff like that with food stamps, but vanilla extract is allowed i guess because it's considered food.

[Anonymous No.12863900]

>>12863861
fyi: government sponsored hotline for any Canadian anons to discuss spicy memes

[Anonymous No.12863901]

>>12863354
am i gonna have to be the one to bring up lemon extract?
83% alcohol, gets you absolutely fucked.

[Anonymous No.12863905]

Yall need to get a job I worked minimum wage at a liquor store when I was 22 and got an insane amount of free booze

[Anonymous No.12863909]

>>12863895
Just checked mine. It's listed as ethanol? Does it depend on brand?
>>12863900
Canada, America's dumb hat. Please throw it away already.

[Anonymous No.12863915]

>>12863880
>>12863897
Missed that part, as a Canadian. Here we just give people on social assistance the money, and then act surprised when they blow it on drugs. You'd figure that the US would extend the 'can't buy a hot meal' bit to 'can't buy luxury additives and spices'.

[Anonymous No.12863927]

>>12863802
>>12863807
wtf?

[Anonymous No.12863929]

>>12863915
It's up to grocers to regulate that shit and they don't want to go through the hassle of separating departments that far. Eventually they'll tell the state they won't accept welfare anymore.

[Anonymous No.12863940]

>>12863929
Fuck, putting the onus on the consumer is one thing, but passing the buck onto the retailer? That requires an otherworldly belief in people being inherently good.

[Anonymous No.12864013]

>>12863915
>>12863929
>>12863940
who really gives a shit? our government pisses away money constantly. the infinitesimal amount we spend on social programs is so small its not even worth discussing look at the fucking budget. the "people on welfare are leeches!!!!" argument is grandmas on FB tier

[Anonymous No.12864045]

>>12864013
I ain't complaining about the service. Hell, if it wasn't for social assistance, I'd probably not be where I am today. Receiving a minimal income helped me get clothes, food, and a car, and eventually hold down a job. Ten years later, I'm a journeyman electrician, and I laugh when people complain about losing taxes on their wages, because I see myself as still paying back the debt I accrued to the system.

But I won't deny it. Going to the social development office was demoralizing as hell, because you'd see all these people who were chainsmoking or drinking in the parking lot, and you just knew that the clerk had absolutely no way to tell you weren't just another permanent drain on the system. You either give in, or you do your best to prove yourself.

I should add that the system in BC just gives you money, rather than relying on programs like foodstamps or such. More recently, I've heard that they've tried to stopped giving out housing allowances unless a person lets the ministry directly deposit the value to their landlord, but I was out of the system before then.

[Anonymous No.12864089]

>>12863354
>Vice

[Anonymous No.12864125]

>>12864089
literally none of this is zoomer. death grips was popular like six years ago. vice is old as fuck. reddit and twitter? really nigger? h3h3? anime? how fucking out of touch are you

[Anonymous No.12864132]

>>12863354
Yeah me and my alcoholic friend in high school figured that it was very economic to just drink isopropyl alcohol, which we also figured aught to be a healthier because your liver breaks down alcohol into what isopropyl is anyway. He was up all night puking blood.

[Anonymous No.12864194]

>>12864132
>He was up all night puking blood.
Fucking right he was. Shit's designed to be hard to consume, and it absolutely shreds your liver if you do digest it. The liver might be the fucking Hercules of all organs, but if you drank some, even if it's twenty years later, ask your doctor about running a serum liver panel. Just mention the shit about liver disease being irreparable after symptoms develop, and he ought to agree if you're 30 or 40 plus.

It's better to know and try to avoid further damage, than to die at 50 like my father did.

[Anonymous No.12864207]

>>12863354
I always loved the news article that ran in my local area once about how they weren't stocking hand sanitizer in hospitals or something near the indian reserves because indians kept stealing it and drinking it. So the reporter said to them:

>You know you can buy non-alcoholic hand sanitizers, right?

[Anonymous No.12864245]

>>12864207
>You know you can buy non-alcoholic hand sanitizers, right?
Cost and sources, even if any non-alcoholic hand sanitizers are well proven. The bulk of medical suppliers have decades worth of proprietary refills for their proprietary dispensers that they lock medical institutions into buying exclusively.
You can joke all you want about 'lol, there's a simple solution', but it's often the sad problem that a large-scale healthcare provider is at risk of breaking its contracts, many which make the system far more affordable, by seeking alternative products.

[Anonymous No.12864260]

>>12864245
not everyone lives in the american banana republic where buying dishsoap involves ten years of litigation

[Anonymous No.12864279]

>>12863384
I genuinely enjoy the retarded state of mind I enter coupled with trying to play competitive video games. It's a fucking blast.

[Anonymous No.12864282]

>>12864260
Large organizations, particularly government-regulated healthcare facilities, rely heavily on subsidized and contracted supplies. It's not just a matter of being American, or North American. Most hospitals and clinics will agree to sell their firstborn sons for cheaper paper-towels and sharps.

[Anonymous No.12864289]

>what is denatured alcohol?
Never change /cucks/

[Anonymous No.12864291]

>>12863900
I'm fucking dying. Good fucking Christ.

[Anonymous No.12864301]

Maybe if I was Indigenous Canadian

[Anonymous No.12864326]

>>12864045
This. A lot of people feel guilty as hell using social programs.

And quite frankly I've seen the government do far worse with money. And I mean the fuckers you vote for actually doing it personally.

[Anonymous No.12864338]

>>12863354
> Vice

[Anonymous No.12864350]

>>12864326
Having to apply for support is absolute hell for the average person, but using it to break out of the cycle is honestly uncommon. The temptation to just subsist is why so many people are able to crowd and flood the DTES and Oppenheimer Park. I struggled, even trying to even act like a normal person on social assistance, but it can help turn people into productive members of society. Honestly, if I was some yuppie uni-student and not a trade-school reprobate, I'd sure as hell apply to help reform the welfare system here in Canada. But, personal experience isn't equivalent to a graduate degree, and there's good reason for that. Instead, I just need to make sure the next generation of tradesmen don't fall down the hole.

[Anonymous No.12864504]

>>12863780
>burgers
nice reading comprehension monkey

[Anonymous No.12864523]

>>12863354
The one time I drank a bottle of Listerine, it being the only booze left in the house, I passed out and woke up the next day feeling amazing. Just clearheaded and happy in a way I don't remember ever feeling before. I only stock alcohol free mouthwash now, however. I know I'd get very sick if I kept doing that.

[Anonymous No.12864594]

500ml of vodka is under $10 at CVS. These degenerates are killing themselves for an extremely mild and mediocre buzz if any.

At that point you’re just stupid.

[Anonymous No.12864641]

>>12863354
>reading vice
>being serious

[Anonymous No.12865426]

>>12863371
>>12863718
I recently discovered that my local Fred Meyer doesn't card when you buy mirin. Good thing 16 year old me didn't know.

[Anonymous No.12865439]

>>12864523
Last time I drank Listerine my stomach was making all sorts of noise during the drinking and I was waking up during the night with the most foul farts that I've ever produced in my life. Not sure what happened.

[Anonymous No.12865464]

>>12865439
medfag here, anon see a doctor.your farts should have been minty fresh after drinking listerine

[Anonymous No.12865489]

>>12864245
replacing a dispenser is cheap as fuck how is that a barrier

[Anonymous No.12865495]

>>12863354
Even in my worst days of alcoholism, I did not drink anything worse than plastic bottle vodka.

[Anonymous No.12865503]

>>12863780
DXM is a legitimate high, though.