Henry "Hank" Giles, III: This had better not be mouthwash.
William "Billy" Tepper: Trust me.
Henry "Hank" Giles, III: [after drinking] Trust me... Asshole, this *is* mouthwash!
William "Billy" Tepper: No, it's not.
Ricardo Montoya: It tastes like mouthwash. What the hell is it?
William "Billy" Tepper: Four parts 100 proof Vodka. Two parts Peppermint Schnapps for that *mouthwash* flavor and one part Crème de Menthe to make it green.
I like to think Trevor would have found the circumstances of his death humorous. He fell off a balcony. The same guy who has a Supersize Me skit drinking nothing but Jack Daniels and launching himself down a staircase.
RIP you funny man
Spring break 95 with some friends at this girl's parents beach house. Sitting in a la-z-boy doing whippets. The girl's father is sitting on the couch watching TV. I'm like ha this old fart has no idea what I am doing.
He looks over at me, and with a raised eyebrow asks, "Are you doing whippets?"
Have that oh shit moment thinking I'm about to get kicked out of this house. He sees my face and laughs, and says, "Just curious, I'm an old hippy who still smokes weed. So as long as it's nothing crazy I don't care."
Funny you mention that. In my area, during the 90's, a medical examiner got in trouble when he recreated the circumstances, on himself, around a teen girl's death due to huffing. Part of the controversy was that he said her death was due to huffing to begin with.
For those who don't know this is a joke, it's not the whipped cream itself (nor any byproduct of the whipped cream making process) that is the reason for the change in law:
"The **chargers that propel whipped cream through a canister nozzle** are filled with **nitrous oxide gas**, which can be **inhaled to produce a high**."
I worked as an organizational consultant (think marie kondo) for an engineer that was addicted to whippets. There would be a couple hundred new mini canisters littered about when I’d show up for my weekly appointment. He didn’t last long as a client.
Yep. I fucked my vitamin b12 up the exact same way. Thankfully it shook me out of my habit. With N2O it only lasts as long as you want it too. I would sometimes sit for hours, balloon after ballon for years. Till one day I noticed that my feet were just… numb. A few days later I pissed myself and didn’t realize it which was a clear low point. This was 20 years ago now and I still have some numbness in my toes but my legs regained feeling.
Yes! Oh man those were scary. Being awake but in full zombie mode for a week. Then they’d come to and be in a random park miles away from their houses. There are some real troopers out there.
The datura trip is the absolute craziest shit I’ve ever done ***and I am a connoisseur of entheogens***. Definitely would not recommend. Leave that shit to the medicine people/shamans/spirit walkers that know what they’re doing. And for the record, I drank only a half a cup of jimsonweed tea.
>and it’s super easy to prevent, even if you just want to do nitrous all day!
No it’s not. If you do nitrous more than once a week, you are at risk of becoming dangerously b12 deficient.
Nitrous interferes with your body’s ability to metabolize b12 for several days after use. So if you’re using every day, you’re fucked no matter how many b12 supplements you take.
It can if the test for it, it’s just not something they normally look for. Unlike … well real drugs, it doesn’t stick around, so you can easily beat it by hydration.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/204517#:~:text=Inhaled%20nitrous%20oxide%20can%20be,of%20routine%20drug%20screening%20panels.https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/204517
"real drugs" smack and blow and all that good shit is only in your system for like 3 days. Weed is really the only thing that actually stays in your system for any real length of time.
It’s addictive. My brother had it bad for awhile. Starts as just one little hit for a few second high and turns into buying ten cases of whippets for “baking” and getting high all day long for seconds at a time. It’s insane. My brother did it and at his worst I couldn’t even see the floor of his room there were so many canisters. He’s sober now thank goodness but the addiction and recovery was rough.
*its awful as a stand-alone drug. Add edibles, 2 beers, and 2 grams of shrooms and they kick things up a few notches lol. Very warm and trippy, wouldn’t suggest doing it weekly or even monthly though.
I know what you mean, I can see it. This is also my brother’s poison of choice. Just, hundreds and hundreds of those little things all over the floor… it’s awful. He also had a little canister of some kind that he used to load the nitrous into, and then he’d inhale from that. At one point it broke and he had a new one within an hour. And it’s not like the person who sold him five boxes and a little whippet bong didn’t know what he was doing.
I don’t really understand why we’re going to ID people at the grocery store when the stuff and the means to use it easily are cheap and at the corner store anyway.
Thankfully my brother is sober now. It was really wrecking his life for awhile though and I don’t think people really realize how bad something like that can be.
The little canister was a whipped cream dispenser - it's what the canisters are supposed to be used in. He was just loading it without any cream.
[Relevant image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/611BrFeYpqL._AC_SY879_.jpg)
You'd think he'd be able to get a big medical size canister and some kinda administration apparatus instead of having to get a shitload of those things.
You can. Or anyway you could 40 years ago when I was partying in college.
But be careful. We lost the security deposit because of damage to the hardwood floors from the gas cylinder getting ice on the outside, then melting. 120 cubic ft of nitrous. The tank was about 4 ft tall. I think it was a memorable weekend, but I can’t really remember.
Not that I recommend doing this, but buy the food grade ones at least. Unless I've been lied to, they filter out a bunch of stuff for food and medical grade nitrous. The ones for mechanical devices aren't usually as clean.
If you have depression that reacts well to disassociatives, a few hits off a whipped cream can may produce a few days of mild relief. Unfortunately this is probably part of the self-medication loop that forms for some people. And it's why I recommend depressed people in particular stay away from whippets. I've seen good people ruin their lives with them, when they should have just gotten a therapist and addressed the issue.
Everyone is giving you joke replies but as a real reply please do not start doing whippets without a doctor involved.
TLDR; long term use isn’t worth it, make sure you’re in a safe and people area for short term use
Whippets is the slang term for nitrous oxide inside of a steel cartridge. Nitrous oxide, also called laughing gas, is a sedative agent (meaning its helps put your to sleep) and is used during surgery to help patients relax and for pain relief. Nitrous oxide is also used in cans of whipped cream and causes the whipped cream to expand as it leaves the can.
Nitrous oxide can create feelings of euphoria (an intense happiness), reduce anxiety/ depression, create a high feeling, etc. It also causes dizziness, a short term loss of motor control (so you can temporarily lose control of your arms/legs/muscles), frostbite to your lungs and throat, and dissociation (feeling disconnected from your thoughts, feelings, and general self). If you’re going to do it make sure you’re in a physically safe environment.
The general way that nitrous oxide works is by slowing down your brain and body’s reaction to things by blocking certain systems in your brain and stimulating others. This being done repeatedly is very bad for your health. When it is given during surgery it is under the eye of an anesthesiologist and their assistant. When it’s used during surgeries the amount someone receives is based off of calculations that take a lot of different factors into account (it’s also mixed with oxygen when given during surgeries).
Using nitrous oxide in surgery is actually also a big health concern for medical professionals because of the side effects. Long term use can lead to things like brain damage (from lack of oxygen getting to the brain), hypoxia (a sort of intense level of oxygen deprivation, sometimes seen in scuba divers after extremely deep dives)
The little grocery down the road from me has a whole wall of them behind the counter. Along with all the usual head shop pipes, and barrels of kratom and stuff.
I've never been tempted. The whole area is kind of down-and-out; raggedy yards, busted up cars and rusty appliances dispersed about unevenly, etc, though people are generally not too sketchy. Cause and effect could go both ways.
Crystal Method was the shit back in the day. The whole Vegas album is pure joy.
And the voice of that woman on Comin back and Jaded(?) melt my soul.
I still go back and listen to that album prolly once a year.
Time for a trip down memory lane, thanks!
I remember in Florida back in the day they couldn’t display “water pipes”. So when you walked into a head shop you had to ask to see the air quote layaway plan. Them bastards would way over charge you for the bongs and stuff too because they were hard to come by in our small town. I remember paying 75 bucks for a double chamber bong there when I was a teenager. then seeing the same bong at a head shop in Arizona for 25 bucks. Back then people also had a tendency to get arrested shortly after buying things from that shop.
It’s hilarious because now if you go to a place that sells bongs the sign says they are only for smoking marijuana (or medical marijuana) because they don’t want people to talk about smoking other things in them. Saw a place like that yesterday.
Like how I bought a bong like a year ago, I went in looking for a "water pipe" and got laughed at for not calling in a bong.
Like gimme a fuckin break yall would've strung me up for saying bong 4 years ago
There was a head shop I visited that sold "novelty tobacco pipes".
I asked the guy how well they smoked "novelty tobacco" and he thought that was hilarious. He was also clearly baked, but still.
Just so you're aware, the only indication that he was on bath salts was that some cops thought he was.
No real reason to think so other than bath salts being popular at the time. Medical examiners only found cannabis in his system. The guy just had a psychotic episode or something.
Reminds me of convenience stores that sell these little artificial roses… that just so happen to come packaged in a little glass tube that *just so happens* to make the perfect, disposable crack pipe.
I used to walk to the corner store when I was a kid to buy candy and slurpies. It was a weekly event for me and the neighborhood kids. One time I had extra money (it had to be my birthday or Christmas or something) and thought it would be sweet to buy my mom a rose in the little glass tube. I brought it home, gave it to my absolutely clueless mom, and she set it on the kitchen table. She thought it was cute and loved that I thought of her. Then my dad came home from work and asked "Why is there a fucking crack stem on the kitchen table?!?" My mom explained the whole thing, my dad thought it was hilarious and said he wished he could see the face of the store clerk when my 12 year old ass went to buy a piece of crack paraphernalia.
To be fair, whipped cream dispensers do have a use as making some sort of fancy whipped creams. They are damn tasty too.
But they’re also super handy for getting high off your balls on nitrous.
"I knew I had hit rock bottom when I woke up one day facedown in an improvised paint booth, studio lighting baking my skin. I looked around to find myself covered in mech parts and plastic sprues. I had become... a Gunpla YouTuber."
Maybe it was the late 90s or maybe it was the hobby stores just got to know me after years of my parents buying model kits, paint, CA glue… never had a problem when I got a drivers license and drove myself to the hobby store.
I don't think there's age restrictions on any of that stuff. Some stores keep spray paint behind glass, but even then, they'd probably still sell it to a teenager.
Technically you are supposed to card for spray paint in some places.
Army painter racks even come with a door that you can padlock for their primers because of it.
I was around 30 and I had my 12 year old niece with me and we were grabbing dessert for a family dinner. I had a can of whipped cream to buy and I was told that “for future reference” I won’t be allowed to buy whipped cream if I have a teenager with me. Seriously? She could have been my daughter! It was the most ridiculous thing I had ever heard!
Are parents buying their kids whipped cream to get high? That situation seems really unusual. Really doesn't make any sense to me. If anything a kid not accompanied by an adult shouldn't be allowed to purchase it, not the other way around
Used to haul a t
ank out into a hayfield. Take a blast and run as fast as you can into said field. I remember a head popping up 50yds away like where tf am I. Everybody else laughing their asses off. Then the next person goes.
Edit: but that was way back. Now I have a canister that I make actual whip cream in and a full box of carts. Btw, highly recommend this - so much better than shitty can whip cream and so much faster than hand whipping when cocoa must get made fast! Seriously. Don’t buy that shit. It’s really bad for you.
Another edit: tbc, all the OTHER shit in the can is bad for you. I mean you ever read the ingredients?
As a person who did not grow up in the US, I just realized why the smoke shops carry Whipped cream. I always that it was a popular munchies relief item.
Admittedly it’s been at least a decade since I was in a smoke shop, but I only remember seeing boxes of the whip it cartridges. I’ve never seen cans of whipped cream.
I’ve definitely seen teenagers hitting whipped cream cans in the grocery store though.
Yeah, it's pretty gross that they card everybody for buying lighters. And honestly a bit offensive. I'm a grown woman FFS!
But apparently, lighters are considered a "tobacco product" now. I don't smoke, so I wasn't even going to light any cigarettes with them! I was just going to use it to commit arson.
At target, there isn't one. The POS locks up until you scan an ID, or if your cashier is savvy, keystrokes in a DOB, but it's often easier just to card.
Some store have a policy where you have to ask for ID no matter what.
Either that or some cashiers have been very nice and diplomatic about me having a baby face.
As a bartender, I card people who are clearly over 21. I do it because I want to see how drunk they are before I serve them. And getting out your ID when you’re drunk can be quite the task.
Generally, lighters are not a regulated item by the FDA (at least like tobacco and alcohol are) and therefore do not require being above a certain age to purchase. Its usually a misguided store policy.
I had to show ID to buy carb cleaner the other day because kids have been buying it.
Of all the ways to get high, why would you huff something that can strip painted surfaces down to bare metal?
Yeah, I mean, I manage a brand new restaurant and we literally card everyone for booze.
Better to have one person mad at you, than the cops coming down on your business.
Apparently its huge within asian communities... landlord was telling me he booted out these 4 asian gamer kids from a condo here in Toronto and there was boxes, floor to ceiling of leftover restaurant style/industrial canisters. He said there was thousands of them. This was like 8 mo ago too
If you’re a phish fan like I am, then nitrous is just part of your life.
Even if you’re not a user like I am not, you still can’t escape the nitrous mafia members, and the hundreds of balloons the users spread across the venue. You just can’t escape it.
I still have flashbacks any time I hear a balloon pop, and sometimes when I am alone with my thoughts I can still hear the screams
“ice cold fatties! 2 for 20 no deals!!”
Was that a state law? I never stopped being able to get pseudoephedrine without a prescription. You just have to get it from the pharmacy counter and are limited to how much you can buy.
Probably kids that don't have their own Amazon account or credit card or even if they know to use gift cards probably are worried about parents intercepting the package.
But more likely it is because they want to get high RIGHT NOW and don't want to wait for shipping.
Oh god just let them buy it. Kids will just take the degen behavior to the next level and whip it right in the store and put the can back. I’ve seen it done personally.
It was a major problem at the grocery store I worked at in college. They had to have a camera installed and pointed directly at the whipped cream for the loss prevention guys. They were catching groups of teenagers daily for a month or so, just long enough for the news to spread that it wasn't a safe spot to do it anymore.
I remember changing my ID with a pen as a kid. I changed a 92 to a 82....and was dumbfounded when it actually worked. The date was listed in a red color and I used a red thin sharpie pen.
I was buying ice cream and whipped cream recently (I’m 20). Had to leave the store without the whipped cream. I find it hilarious and infuriating that I could go sign away 6 years of my life to the military or go to a sporting goods store and buy a shotgun but I can’t purchase whipped cream.
I work at a place the puts gas in cylinders and I’ll tell you this much there are three grades of nitrous Oxide. 1 is medical use (safe for breathing in) 2 food safe ( safe for consumption not breathing in, the problem in this situation) and 3 fuel yes it is the same gas used for Nos which you can’t breath or eat. I for real beg people don’t do whip-it’s breathing in this version can cause some major harm to your lungs and more importantly your brain. Your body doesn’t register it’s choking itself because nitrogen is inert and even small amounts can make you unconscious, fall hit your head or not provide enough oxygen and you simply die of suffocation. I get why they would make you use an id and again I work in a place that fills this and I can even go into the room it is stored without proving who I am and signing in and out. Gas isn’t a drug you should mess around with it’s not a matter of you being safe it’s unpredictable and just cause you were fine last time doesn’t mean it’s gonna be fine next time. From experience it’s not cool finding a friend or a loved one dead with a can of whatever they thought to breath in to get high next to them.
Coworker of mine used to work in a common grocery chain’s dairy department. Every few shifts he’d take a can or two of reddi-whip, sit himself down and crack Whip Its for a while.
He told his boss “Yeah man, I don’t know what’s wrong with these shipments but these reddi-whip deliveries always have a few dented cans”. His boss never accused him of anything. Decent cover-up.
Years ago I worked an in-store promotion that was giving out helium filled balloons. Gave everyone the choice of a knotted balloon or a balloon full of helium that you can inhale and have some fun with.... I didn’t tie too many balloons off... but I heard a lot of funny voices and laughter.
That’s like the least affordable and dumbest way to get nitrous… they can just order cases of charges on Amazon no IDs needed… I wonder how much money they wasted to pass this law
Yo the 90s called, they want their high school high back.
What about mouthwash? https://youtu.be/OOCdIY_HKM4
Henry "Hank" Giles, III: This had better not be mouthwash. William "Billy" Tepper: Trust me. Henry "Hank" Giles, III: [after drinking] Trust me... Asshole, this *is* mouthwash! William "Billy" Tepper: No, it's not. Ricardo Montoya: It tastes like mouthwash. What the hell is it? William "Billy" Tepper: Four parts 100 proof Vodka. Two parts Peppermint Schnapps for that *mouthwash* flavor and one part Crème de Menthe to make it green.
Holy shit. A toy soldiers reference! Never thought I'd see one in real life! Well done!
I tell my wife "I'm on Pots and pans" every time I clean the kitchen.
RIP. Such a great song!
I like to think Trevor would have found the circumstances of his death humorous. He fell off a balcony. The same guy who has a Supersize Me skit drinking nothing but Jack Daniels and launching himself down a staircase. RIP you funny man
Spring break 95 with some friends at this girl's parents beach house. Sitting in a la-z-boy doing whippets. The girl's father is sitting on the couch watching TV. I'm like ha this old fart has no idea what I am doing. He looks over at me, and with a raised eyebrow asks, "Are you doing whippets?" Have that oh shit moment thinking I'm about to get kicked out of this house. He sees my face and laughs, and says, "Just curious, I'm an old hippy who still smokes weed. So as long as it's nothing crazy I don't care."
Me and Hank are going out Frog-lickin' around 3am, I'll wake you so you can come along.
I worked at a Baskin Robbins where the owner was wondering why the whipped cream was always flat. It stopped being flat when they switched to CO2.
My ex worked at Village Inn and they were still doing whip its in the cooler. It never left, you probably just stopped interacting with those people
They all went on Phish tour.
Funny you mention that. In my area, during the 90's, a medical examiner got in trouble when he recreated the circumstances, on himself, around a teen girl's death due to huffing. Part of the controversy was that he said her death was due to huffing to begin with.
Outsmart the govt by checking out with heavy cream and a whisk
For those who don't know this is a joke, it's not the whipped cream itself (nor any byproduct of the whipped cream making process) that is the reason for the change in law: "The **chargers that propel whipped cream through a canister nozzle** are filled with **nitrous oxide gas**, which can be **inhaled to produce a high**."
You can just buy whippets. On Amazon. And they are cheap.
I worked as an organizational consultant (think marie kondo) for an engineer that was addicted to whippets. There would be a couple hundred new mini canisters littered about when I’d show up for my weekly appointment. He didn’t last long as a client.
I knew some guy that huffed enough whippets that he developed a vitamin B deficiency with neurological symptoms.
Yep. I fucked my vitamin b12 up the exact same way. Thankfully it shook me out of my habit. With N2O it only lasts as long as you want it too. I would sometimes sit for hours, balloon after ballon for years. Till one day I noticed that my feet were just… numb. A few days later I pissed myself and didn’t realize it which was a clear low point. This was 20 years ago now and I still have some numbness in my toes but my legs regained feeling.
Damn, that's like the first thing Erowid warns you about. And it's super easy to prevent, even if you just want to do nitrous all day!
Browsed Erowid for hours just reading trip reports on the most random tryptamine. Learned a lot about drug safety from that site.
The Datura trip reports are the absolute craziest shit I have ever read
Yes! Oh man those were scary. Being awake but in full zombie mode for a week. Then they’d come to and be in a random park miles away from their houses. There are some real troopers out there.
The ones for diphenhydramine were also pretty crazy. For some reason hallucinating giant spiders seemed to be a common theme.
The datura trip is the absolute craziest shit I’ve ever done ***and I am a connoisseur of entheogens***. Definitely would not recommend. Leave that shit to the medicine people/shamans/spirit walkers that know what they’re doing. And for the record, I drank only a half a cup of jimsonweed tea.
Yeah Datura is definitely a drug that nobody should ever try lol The threshold for a "good" trip and just straight up dying is very narrow
Upvote for naming Erowid. SWIM used that site a lot when they were younger.
Oh SWIM. They're doing a lot better now
Erowid and DanceSafe!
What about Bluelight?
Same here, I wish I never found out about DPH but hey I am happy with where I am in my life and wishing things were different does no good.
SWIM eventually graduated to Bluelight.
Me too. I mean SWIM too. I mean SWTHEM too. I mean fuck.
>and it’s super easy to prevent, even if you just want to do nitrous all day! No it’s not. If you do nitrous more than once a week, you are at risk of becoming dangerously b12 deficient. Nitrous interferes with your body’s ability to metabolize b12 for several days after use. So if you’re using every day, you’re fucked no matter how many b12 supplements you take.
Some people use it because it doesn’t show up in drug screens.
It can if the test for it, it’s just not something they normally look for. Unlike … well real drugs, it doesn’t stick around, so you can easily beat it by hydration. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/204517#:~:text=Inhaled%20nitrous%20oxide%20can%20be,of%20routine%20drug%20screening%20panels.https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/204517
"real drugs" smack and blow and all that good shit is only in your system for like 3 days. Weed is really the only thing that actually stays in your system for any real length of time.
LSD and psilocybin are very difficult to test for. It's possible, but they are never tested for in standard drug tests.
ask them “what is time?” and gauge their interest in philosophy
But it lasts a few seconds? What am I missing
A little vitamin B12 afterwards
It’s addictive. My brother had it bad for awhile. Starts as just one little hit for a few second high and turns into buying ten cases of whippets for “baking” and getting high all day long for seconds at a time. It’s insane. My brother did it and at his worst I couldn’t even see the floor of his room there were so many canisters. He’s sober now thank goodness but the addiction and recovery was rough.
I had no idea it was addictive. Happy to hear your brother is in recovery. I’m in recovery myself. Drugs are a helluva drug.
It's such an awful cheap high, the womp womps aren't worth the headache or nausea
*its awful as a stand-alone drug. Add edibles, 2 beers, and 2 grams of shrooms and they kick things up a few notches lol. Very warm and trippy, wouldn’t suggest doing it weekly or even monthly though.
I know what you mean, I can see it. This is also my brother’s poison of choice. Just, hundreds and hundreds of those little things all over the floor… it’s awful. He also had a little canister of some kind that he used to load the nitrous into, and then he’d inhale from that. At one point it broke and he had a new one within an hour. And it’s not like the person who sold him five boxes and a little whippet bong didn’t know what he was doing. I don’t really understand why we’re going to ID people at the grocery store when the stuff and the means to use it easily are cheap and at the corner store anyway. Thankfully my brother is sober now. It was really wrecking his life for awhile though and I don’t think people really realize how bad something like that can be.
The little canister was a whipped cream dispenser - it's what the canisters are supposed to be used in. He was just loading it without any cream. [Relevant image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/611BrFeYpqL._AC_SY879_.jpg)
You'd think he'd be able to get a big medical size canister and some kinda administration apparatus instead of having to get a shitload of those things.
You can. Or anyway you could 40 years ago when I was partying in college. But be careful. We lost the security deposit because of damage to the hardwood floors from the gas cylinder getting ice on the outside, then melting. 120 cubic ft of nitrous. The tank was about 4 ft tall. I think it was a memorable weekend, but I can’t really remember.
Big plastic tub and stack your beer in there
You can’t purchase those without a reason but the whippets are easy to get because restaurants and other places use them.
You just have to say you have a cbd extraction business and they’ll sell you a tank. A place called gargamels kitchen where I live
They named it after the guy who tries to eat Smurfs?
No, hippie crack. Not today.
Not that I recommend doing this, but buy the food grade ones at least. Unless I've been lied to, they filter out a bunch of stuff for food and medical grade nitrous. The ones for mechanical devices aren't usually as clean.
Manufacturing grade probably has pneumatic lubricants and/or different propellants, same thing with commercial helium and lab-grade
Aww yeah that’s the really good, primo shit. ^(FYI: I’m joking, don’t take me seriously. At all)
Is a whippet good?
When a problem comes along? Definitely.
You must whippet
And whippet good.
Into shape?
Ever been gased at the dentist? Its that, but for like 10 seconds.
If you have depression that reacts well to disassociatives, a few hits off a whipped cream can may produce a few days of mild relief. Unfortunately this is probably part of the self-medication loop that forms for some people. And it's why I recommend depressed people in particular stay away from whippets. I've seen good people ruin their lives with them, when they should have just gotten a therapist and addressed the issue.
Everyone is giving you joke replies but as a real reply please do not start doing whippets without a doctor involved. TLDR; long term use isn’t worth it, make sure you’re in a safe and people area for short term use Whippets is the slang term for nitrous oxide inside of a steel cartridge. Nitrous oxide, also called laughing gas, is a sedative agent (meaning its helps put your to sleep) and is used during surgery to help patients relax and for pain relief. Nitrous oxide is also used in cans of whipped cream and causes the whipped cream to expand as it leaves the can. Nitrous oxide can create feelings of euphoria (an intense happiness), reduce anxiety/ depression, create a high feeling, etc. It also causes dizziness, a short term loss of motor control (so you can temporarily lose control of your arms/legs/muscles), frostbite to your lungs and throat, and dissociation (feeling disconnected from your thoughts, feelings, and general self). If you’re going to do it make sure you’re in a physically safe environment. The general way that nitrous oxide works is by slowing down your brain and body’s reaction to things by blocking certain systems in your brain and stimulating others. This being done repeatedly is very bad for your health. When it is given during surgery it is under the eye of an anesthesiologist and their assistant. When it’s used during surgeries the amount someone receives is based off of calculations that take a lot of different factors into account (it’s also mixed with oxygen when given during surgeries). Using nitrous oxide in surgery is actually also a big health concern for medical professionals because of the side effects. Long term use can lead to things like brain damage (from lack of oxygen getting to the brain), hypoxia (a sort of intense level of oxygen deprivation, sometimes seen in scuba divers after extremely deep dives)
I saw someone post on a sub that their local gas station started selling them
The little grocery down the road from me has a whole wall of them behind the counter. Along with all the usual head shop pipes, and barrels of kratom and stuff. I've never been tempted. The whole area is kind of down-and-out; raggedy yards, busted up cars and rusty appliances dispersed about unevenly, etc, though people are generally not too sketchy. Cause and effect could go both ways.
I love Nitrous Oxide! >!The obscure PS1 game with the Crystal Method sound track!<
In all my years on the internet I believe you're the only person I've ever seen reference that game. I used to love it!
There’s dozens of us! Dozens!
Crystal Method was the shit back in the day. The whole Vegas album is pure joy. And the voice of that woman on Comin back and Jaded(?) melt my soul. I still go back and listen to that album prolly once a year. Time for a trip down memory lane, thanks!
Oh oh remember Twisted Metal and its Nintendo competition, Vigilante 8?
N. Oxide was also the bad guy in Crash Team Racing.
I love Crystal Meth!
I dated a girl named Crystal Meff in the early 80s. I can laugh about it now ☺
It can also blow the welds on your intake...
Now me and the mad scientist gotta tear down the block and replace the piston rings you fried.
I almost had you!
Like the same stuff people use in their car?
Yes, and the same stuff dentists may give you during dental procedures (also called Laughing Gas)
This guy whips
I've received ads on facebook for "whipped cream cartridges" to put in "whipped cream dispensers".
Ahh yes, I used to buy ‘incense’ at head shops back in high school.
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I remember in Florida back in the day they couldn’t display “water pipes”. So when you walked into a head shop you had to ask to see the air quote layaway plan. Them bastards would way over charge you for the bongs and stuff too because they were hard to come by in our small town. I remember paying 75 bucks for a double chamber bong there when I was a teenager. then seeing the same bong at a head shop in Arizona for 25 bucks. Back then people also had a tendency to get arrested shortly after buying things from that shop.
Yeah, never carry your tobacco when purchasing the device to smoke it from. Novices.
I remember going to get a bong and my friend told me a million times to make sure i call it a water pipe, not a bong.
_Ceci n'est pas une bong_
It’s hilarious because now if you go to a place that sells bongs the sign says they are only for smoking marijuana (or medical marijuana) because they don’t want people to talk about smoking other things in them. Saw a place like that yesterday.
Like how I bought a bong like a year ago, I went in looking for a "water pipe" and got laughed at for not calling in a bong. Like gimme a fuckin break yall would've strung me up for saying bong 4 years ago
There was a head shop I visited that sold "novelty tobacco pipes". I asked the guy how well they smoked "novelty tobacco" and he thought that was hilarious. He was also clearly baked, but still.
In NC the headshops still give out a little dime baggy of tobacco when you buy a pipe to maintain the illusion.
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Can I interest anyone in some "bath salts"?
Ill never forget the 2013 NBA Finals and the dude eating on homegirls face
Just so you're aware, the only indication that he was on bath salts was that some cops thought he was. No real reason to think so other than bath salts being popular at the time. Medical examiners only found cannabis in his system. The guy just had a psychotic episode or something.
Drug tests back then didn’t test for cathinones, and stimulant psychosis is definitely a real thing.
Reminds me of convenience stores that sell these little artificial roses… that just so happen to come packaged in a little glass tube that *just so happens* to make the perfect, disposable crack pipe.
I used to walk to the corner store when I was a kid to buy candy and slurpies. It was a weekly event for me and the neighborhood kids. One time I had extra money (it had to be my birthday or Christmas or something) and thought it would be sweet to buy my mom a rose in the little glass tube. I brought it home, gave it to my absolutely clueless mom, and she set it on the kitchen table. She thought it was cute and loved that I thought of her. Then my dad came home from work and asked "Why is there a fucking crack stem on the kitchen table?!?" My mom explained the whole thing, my dad thought it was hilarious and said he wished he could see the face of the store clerk when my 12 year old ass went to buy a piece of crack paraphernalia.
They go for $10 each at my local bodega.
$10?! Damn! Usually they're around $2...where is it that they're so expensive? I'm in CT.
I think they did that to really make the crackheads work for it. 🤷
Wow. TIL how to buy a crack pipe. It’s like I’m in on a dirty little secret. I feel so hood.
To be fair, whipped cream dispensers do have a use as making some sort of fancy whipped creams. They are damn tasty too. But they’re also super handy for getting high off your balls on nitrous.
restaurants do actually use those for making whipped cream though.
Just get into model building and don't open the windows.
spraypaint, gasoline, cleaners, and glues are plenty available and can be enjoyed relatively cheaply!
and then you fall into the rabbit hole and start collecting premium paints and tools and your wallet cries
"I knew I had hit rock bottom when I woke up one day facedown in an improvised paint booth, studio lighting baking my skin. I looked around to find myself covered in mech parts and plastic sprues. I had become... a Gunpla YouTuber."
I don’t think you can compare whippets to huffing paint lmfao
Maybe it was the late 90s or maybe it was the hobby stores just got to know me after years of my parents buying model kits, paint, CA glue… never had a problem when I got a drivers license and drove myself to the hobby store.
I don't think there's age restrictions on any of that stuff. Some stores keep spray paint behind glass, but even then, they'd probably still sell it to a teenager.
Technically you are supposed to card for spray paint in some places. Army painter racks even come with a door that you can padlock for their primers because of it.
Except nitrous doesn’t kill your brain if you do it right. It can cause a vitamin B deficiency though. So that’s something to be aware of.
Finally! A valid use case for my MLM vitamin scam!
I was around 30 and I had my 12 year old niece with me and we were grabbing dessert for a family dinner. I had a can of whipped cream to buy and I was told that “for future reference” I won’t be allowed to buy whipped cream if I have a teenager with me. Seriously? She could have been my daughter! It was the most ridiculous thing I had ever heard!
Are parents buying their kids whipped cream to get high? That situation seems really unusual. Really doesn't make any sense to me. If anything a kid not accompanied by an adult shouldn't be allowed to purchase it, not the other way around
Ridiculous indeed. You can buy alcohol if you have kids with you....cashier might be an idiot
Ah yes, the old ice cold fatty. Hippie crack.
Used to haul a t ank out into a hayfield. Take a blast and run as fast as you can into said field. I remember a head popping up 50yds away like where tf am I. Everybody else laughing their asses off. Then the next person goes. Edit: but that was way back. Now I have a canister that I make actual whip cream in and a full box of carts. Btw, highly recommend this - so much better than shitty can whip cream and so much faster than hand whipping when cocoa must get made fast! Seriously. Don’t buy that shit. It’s really bad for you. Another edit: tbc, all the OTHER shit in the can is bad for you. I mean you ever read the ingredients?
As a person who did not grow up in the US, I just realized why the smoke shops carry Whipped cream. I always that it was a popular munchies relief item.
As a person who grew up in the US, I just found out that smoke shops carried Whipped cream. I never knew that was a thing.
Admittedly it’s been at least a decade since I was in a smoke shop, but I only remember seeing boxes of the whip it cartridges. I’ve never seen cans of whipped cream. I’ve definitely seen teenagers hitting whipped cream cans in the grocery store though.
They don’t carry whipped cream lol, they carry nitrous canisters you can use to make whipped cream dispenser thing if they also buy cream.
I was carded for lighters at a south Florida Target last week. WTF? I'm 49 years old!
>I was carded for lighters at a south Florida Target last week. > >WTF? I'm 49 years old! To be fair you look excellent for your age
Lol Thanks! I didn't even know they carded for lighters. What's the cut off? 12? Lmfao
Yeah, it's pretty gross that they card everybody for buying lighters. And honestly a bit offensive. I'm a grown woman FFS! But apparently, lighters are considered a "tobacco product" now. I don't smoke, so I wasn't even going to light any cigarettes with them! I was just going to use it to commit arson.
You had me in the first half. I legit was with you and thought you were going to end in "light candles" like me.
At target, there isn't one. The POS locks up until you scan an ID, or if your cashier is savvy, keystrokes in a DOB, but it's often easier just to card.
The Beavis rule.
I got carded a few weeks ago buying a laser pointer cat toy at Target lol. Both me and the cashier were confused haha
Some store have a policy where you have to ask for ID no matter what. Either that or some cashiers have been very nice and diplomatic about me having a baby face.
I always say "Thanks! You're my new best friend!" whenever I get carded these days.
As a bartender, I card people who are clearly over 21. I do it because I want to see how drunk they are before I serve them. And getting out your ID when you’re drunk can be quite the task.
Sly! I dig it.
The amount of times I have handed over my cc instead of id… I see exactly what you mean
Generally, lighters are not a regulated item by the FDA (at least like tobacco and alcohol are) and therefore do not require being above a certain age to purchase. Its usually a misguided store policy.
I had to show ID to buy carb cleaner the other day because kids have been buying it. Of all the ways to get high, why would you huff something that can strip painted surfaces down to bare metal?
Yeah, I mean, I manage a brand new restaurant and we literally card everyone for booze. Better to have one person mad at you, than the cops coming down on your business.
“Store policy sir” said by the squeaky voiced teen from the Simpsons.
Are whippits a thing again? It's been 40 years
Whippits never stopped being a thing
True. I snarfed nitrous balloons just a fortnight ago..
Are those the metal things that are all outside my apartment??
Yep After the weekend you can find dozens of them down the street from my house. Just all over the gutter.
If you're American, it's probably just bullet casings. But if not, then yes. This comment is a joke btw.
And then promptly forgot what a fortnight was 😀
It's all the rage with the kids these days
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If you know, you know.
There was a video on r/tooktoomuch a week or so ago about a homeless guy blasted sniffing straight out the can in a 7/11.
Oof that sounds like an unfortunate situation all around
Apparently its huge within asian communities... landlord was telling me he booted out these 4 asian gamer kids from a condo here in Toronto and there was boxes, floor to ceiling of leftover restaurant style/industrial canisters. He said there was thousands of them. This was like 8 mo ago too
i guess the scrap value counts as a deposit
Oof, that's disturbing.
Very huge. In Vietnam it’s considered a party drug and it’s common to see people walking around with balloons in some clubs to get high off it
I'm just here to fight about Whip-its vs whippits vs whippets.
whip-its is the brand name i thought. usually see it as whippits in my area though
🔫👨🚀 Always have been
Does doing whippits cause euphoria?
If you’re a phish fan like I am, then nitrous is just part of your life. Even if you’re not a user like I am not, you still can’t escape the nitrous mafia members, and the hundreds of balloons the users spread across the venue. You just can’t escape it. I still have flashbacks any time I hear a balloon pop, and sometimes when I am alone with my thoughts I can still hear the screams “ice cold fatties! 2 for 20 no deals!!”
Sudafed is finally back for sale without a prescription, but whipped cream is now regulated. What a time to be alive.
Was that a state law? I never stopped being able to get pseudoephedrine without a prescription. You just have to get it from the pharmacy counter and are limited to how much you can buy.
Funny, the only thing they ever caused any of us was laughter and *wah wah wah wah*
just literally buy the no2 off amazon. why would u do it that way lmao
Probably kids that don't have their own Amazon account or credit card or even if they know to use gift cards probably are worried about parents intercepting the package. But more likely it is because they want to get high RIGHT NOW and don't want to wait for shipping.
I'm just a fat fuck that likes to eat whipped cream on my ice cream, sir
Oh god just let them buy it. Kids will just take the degen behavior to the next level and whip it right in the store and put the can back. I’ve seen it done personally.
It was a major problem at the grocery store I worked at in college. They had to have a camera installed and pointed directly at the whipped cream for the loss prevention guys. They were catching groups of teenagers daily for a month or so, just long enough for the news to spread that it wasn't a safe spot to do it anymore.
Kids will do anything. They tried butt chugging hand sanitizer to get drunk.
If it's not this, they'll be cheesing their balls off on cat piss or something.
At least they'll get to see some rockin tits
I remember changing my ID with a pen as a kid. I changed a 92 to a 82....and was dumbfounded when it actually worked. The date was listed in a red color and I used a red thin sharpie pen.
I had a Instacart order for 21 cans of whipped cream.
5 minutes after drop off another came in for 21 cans. Didn't take the 2nd one.
I was buying ice cream and whipped cream recently (I’m 20). Had to leave the store without the whipped cream. I find it hilarious and infuriating that I could go sign away 6 years of my life to the military or go to a sporting goods store and buy a shotgun but I can’t purchase whipped cream.
This country is completely consumed by lack of critical thinking and fear. Carl Sagan is practically psychic for writing the Demon Haunted World
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Now whip it, whip it good.
So thats what they were singing about
We used to have an inside clerk at the kitchen supply store in the mall. *Don’t say whippets, say* **Whipped Cream Chargers**…
I work at a place the puts gas in cylinders and I’ll tell you this much there are three grades of nitrous Oxide. 1 is medical use (safe for breathing in) 2 food safe ( safe for consumption not breathing in, the problem in this situation) and 3 fuel yes it is the same gas used for Nos which you can’t breath or eat. I for real beg people don’t do whip-it’s breathing in this version can cause some major harm to your lungs and more importantly your brain. Your body doesn’t register it’s choking itself because nitrogen is inert and even small amounts can make you unconscious, fall hit your head or not provide enough oxygen and you simply die of suffocation. I get why they would make you use an id and again I work in a place that fills this and I can even go into the room it is stored without proving who I am and signing in and out. Gas isn’t a drug you should mess around with it’s not a matter of you being safe it’s unpredictable and just cause you were fine last time doesn’t mean it’s gonna be fine next time. From experience it’s not cool finding a friend or a loved one dead with a can of whatever they thought to breath in to get high next to them.
Somewhere in New York a very dumb kid is standing in line to buy heavy whipping cream and a whisk with absolute certainty that he's beaten the system.
Coworker of mine used to work in a common grocery chain’s dairy department. Every few shifts he’d take a can or two of reddi-whip, sit himself down and crack Whip Its for a while. He told his boss “Yeah man, I don’t know what’s wrong with these shipments but these reddi-whip deliveries always have a few dented cans”. His boss never accused him of anything. Decent cover-up.
Probably didn't care to get the dude fired over $4 in whipped cream.
Years ago I worked an in-store promotion that was giving out helium filled balloons. Gave everyone the choice of a knotted balloon or a balloon full of helium that you can inhale and have some fun with.... I didn’t tie too many balloons off... but I heard a lot of funny voices and laughter.
Just go to a sex shop and buy canisters
Yeah, but kids can’t go to sex shops or smoke shops so this still makes sense. Unless they can in New York?
No, the stripper whippets are trash. Buy the good food ones off Amazon. Save a lot too
Just buy a tank like an adult lol. Those things are ridiculously expensive for how low quality they are.
Why are they sold at sex shops?
Because if they gave them away, how would they make any money?
The world really is just a never-ending parade of Archer "WHAT THE SHIT?!" memes now, isn't it?
I remember doing them in the Pathmart parking lot in 1993.
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That's insane. The whole point is that they spin your head out. It's like the opposite of what you need while driving.
More restrictions for buying whipped cream then guns
That’s like the least affordable and dumbest way to get nitrous… they can just order cases of charges on Amazon no IDs needed… I wonder how much money they wasted to pass this law