• girlfreddy@lemmy.ca
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    40 minutes ago

    When I was much younger we just called it huffing, whether it was spray paint cans or gas.

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      Yeah I remember it felt like fun, until I found out it was bad for you. That along with any kind of asphyxiation - who knew! You’d think just being able to look up “is huffing chrome bad for you” on the internet would inoculate kids against this kind of stupidity.

      By way of explanation, we were all quite poor and ignorant where I grew up.

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        Yeah. We were poor and ignorant too.

        I remember when I realized how dangerous it was when a girl died … essentially drowning in the condensed gas fumes in her lungs. That woke us up quick.

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      That’s what we called it too, but we didn’t have anyone to give us instructions or make it some sort of challenge.

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        I would never want to be a teenager now. Like having casual sex can give lifelong diseases, the right wing bearing down on everyone’s freedoms (except theirs ofc), hitchhiking is a death trap, etc etc.

        If I was growing up now I probably wouldn’t make it to 20.

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    I don’t understand tiktok. Last trend i heard about was people cheating banks to get free money (aka fraud) and now they’re doing inhalants as a trend? How many brain cells does the average tik toker have?

    Yes i know my age is showing. Get off my lawn!

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      No we are just going back 20 years for fashion trends, make everything chrome. Spray chrome can be inhaled is whats happening

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    Getting strong “MTV made my child addicted to the devils lettuce” vibes from these comments

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      1 hour ago

      From the article:

      The scientists analyzed 109 chroming-related videos on the social media platform that collectively had over 25 million views.

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        Billion user platform that’s popular with young people has young people interested in easy to get drugs. Won’t someone think of the children

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    2 hours ago

    if usually short-lasting, high, but long-term use can lead to complications like brain damage

    Are they talking about Tik Tok?

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        I remember huffing gasoline, butane, Freon, and super glue back in the 90s. It’s a wonder I can breathe at all these days, as well as coherently string more than two words together.

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    Here in Stockholm it is common to see spent 1.3kg N2O bottles just lying on the sidewalk in the morning, especially after a weekend.

    And I doubt that is much dentistry going on on a weekend night on the streets of Stockholm.

    The companies selling the N20 bottles even advertise on Youtube.

    I just had a look at the cost of a 1.3kg bottle of N2O, it is less than the equivalent of 50USD.

    And now I see that they have flavoured N2O…

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      I just want 12 tonnes of strawberry flavoured whipped cream, dude.
      That’s why I need such a big bottle of N2O. I’m a culinary genius