A Conversation for SEx - Science Explained

SEx: Snorting

Post 1

benjaminpmoore

This may not sound like a proper, or indeed sane question, but it's a genuine piece of research:

Does anyone have any idea what would happen if you attempted to snort lemsip, or something similar?


SEx: Snorting

Post 2

2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side...

Discomfort.

Lemsip is a powder, and a few years ago, for a set of reasons probably not necessary to go into here, or, indeed advisable... I did an experiment, on myself; involving icing sugar.
Very very bad idea. Several days worth of nose blowing to remove a lot of residue left in the nasil cavities, and I can't imagine it would do any good; asides anything it'd probably damage the cillia, which work in teh nasil cavities to gradually move 'forign bodies' outwards to the vestabils of the nose (bits you stick your finger up to 'pick' ones nose), Additionally, I'd imagine anything like lemsip, (which like icing sugar, must have sugars and 'stuff' in it), would be a suitable media within which bacteria would have even more of a fun and nourishing time, tan just plain nasil secretionc...

Specifically in terms of lemsip (it contains paracetamol doesn't it?), there would potentially be some absorption of the chemicals in it, into the blood stream (such as happens when one snorts the mixture of baby milk forumlar talc, and cocaine, which constitutes most 'street cocaine' these days (so I'm lead to believe)) Though, with all the other, non-paracetamol/active drug ingredients in the lemsip, I'm guessing that would physically impinge or slow down any absorption of the paracetmol, decongestants etc in the lemsip... and any decongestant effect might be totally knocked out by having nostrails full of lemsip powder smiley - laughsmiley - doh

snorting the icing sugar really was a bad idea, I'd not recomend it to anyone smiley - yuk


SEx: Snorting

Post 3

benjaminpmoore

Would the results be in any way funny?


SEx: Snorting

Post 4

Orcus

I had an acquaintance a few years ago who, at a part at his flat in Birmingham decided to get all hard about doing tequila slammers.
His method was to drink the tequila straight, snort the salt and squeeze the lemon in his eye.
He encouraged a few people to do this.

On the morning after, waking up on the sofa with his mates around him in a boozy haze he got a visit from his landlord who walked into a scene of devastation with several unsnorted lines of salt still on the table. His face was a picture apparently.

smiley - rofl

Sorry, not really relevant, you just reminded me.


(Yes, he was a complete nutter)


SEx: Snorting

Post 5

2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side...

(if you'd have said, that was a flat in London, rather than Birmingham, I'd have been convinced it sounded like a party I went to a few years back!) smiley - blush

Funny?;
For whom?;
yes, it might be constewn as funny, to an observer, fo the huge sneezing fit, that occurs immediatly after snorting icing sugar, the waterying eyes, coughing, spluttering, and then just general feeling of ickyness and desire to blow ones nose, that ensued afterwards.
In all honesty, my only defence for having snorted icing sugar like this, would be for me to say, either I was drunk, at the time, or did it for a bet, sadly, neither was the case; I was just bored one day. I get into more trubble and stupid sutations now, from being boared, than I ever did back in my hazient days of extreme drinking and wreckless...
Mind, its difficult to recall whether the snorting icing sugar whilst sober, due to boredom, was worse than eating a whoel tin of cat food, when drunk, for a bet. at least the latter had the being drunk bit, to slightly dampen the experience at the actual time. smiley - blush


SEx: Snorting

Post 6

benjaminpmoore

The idea in fact came to me as a result of a story I heard from the bloke who lives above the shop where I worked. A party he was hosting had a small quantity of vodka left and someone announced that they had heard you could snort it off a spoon. Dave went first and was in far too much pain to be able to prevent the others all having a go in their turn. He too was several sticks short of a bundle.


SEx: Snorting

Post 7

benjaminpmoore

If I made a fictional character snort lemsip would the results be amusing?


SEx: Snorting

Post 8

2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side...

I'd think the vodka would do some serious damage, being snorted.
Another nearly hospitalisting myself moment of... more showing off than bordum, whilst sober (to start with), was opening a half bottle of vodka, and downing it neat. I'm sure a scan of my stomach would probably reveal scarring; that was what it felt like.... Although, to save face, and in a never to be repeated moment of butchness, I manly stomached the entire half a bottle, and didn't let my body go with its first instinct, of rejurgitating the lot smiley - ill
Felt rahter drunk quite quickly though. smiley - blush
ahh... those sweet innocent days of my youth, and the wreckless abandon of those, in their youth who do not know better. hmmm... actualy thinking about it, I wasn't that young, and really should* have known better smiley - blush Just plain stupidity then I guess smiley - blush


SEx: Snorting

Post 9

Lanzababy - Guide Editor

I've never snorted anything smiley - angel but I've accidentally inhaled powdered icing sugar from the tops of mince pies and cake in the past. That is unpleasant enough in itself - so I should imagine your fictional character would dissolve into very, very nasty gasping, spluttering, screaming and so on. Which might be black humour if you phrase it right. I can imagine you'd resort to snorting gallons of water to flush your nasal passages. Holding your head under water and breathing in through your nose sort of response - which might be funny too. As long as your character is supposed to be a clown smiley - biggrin


SEx: Snorting

Post 10

2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side...

Lanza; that is exactly what happens; imagine your accidential slight* snorting of icing sugar, then magnify that a million-fold, if you, as I did, actually 'do a line of icing sugar'. That was such such a bad idea. Though I'm sure I've had and evoked, worse ideas since and before smiley - blushsmiley - doh


SEx: Snorting

Post 11

Rod

Snort water? Yes.
Snort then Snork each nostril in turn -three times each, maybe four sometimes.

Done this in the shower each day since age of about twelve (shovelling & barrowing a ton or two of coal every now & then, into the coalole & coke into the cokeole while living with aunt anuncle).
It clears things out & I like to think it gives a chance for my system to fight back in that reservoir of infection. (I get very few colds etc though a few days' sniffles aren't unknown).


SEx: Snorting

Post 12

benjaminpmoore

Thanks for all the insights guys. Anyone got anything else on this?


SEx: Snorting

Post 13

There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho

I knew a bloke who told me he'd snort lemon juice the moment he noticed that scratchy feeling you get at the back of your soft palate that means a cold is coming on, and he swore that it stopped it dead in its tracks every time.

I tried it once and decided the cold was far less unpleasant.


SEx: Snorting

Post 14

2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side...

I had a really really really unerving dangerous thought, a couple days back, whilst making chilli. The sort of thought I have, which really scares me about my own sense of, well, sense.... I was making chilli... I was using chilli powder... and I started contemplating what would happen if I snorted some... luckily, at the time, I didn't act on this inexplicible thought... still a worrying thought to have, nonetheless smiley - dohsmiley - headhurts


SEx: Snorting

Post 15

Lanzababy - Guide Editor

I thought you'd learned the hard way about chilli a year or so back 2legs. smiley - puff


SEx: Snorting

Post 16

2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side...

Yes. YOu'd think so wouldn't you? I know* it'd be such a stupid, bad idea... but... yet... a bit of my brain is gently mummoring 'go on.... just try it....' smiley - laughsmiley - blush


SEx: Snorting

Post 17

Rod

For those unfortunate episodes - or routinely as a clearer-outerer, there's a cheap treatment.
It comes from roses - shower roses.

Snort then Snork a little water, each nostril, L R L R L R then again if appropriate.

This seems to reset the nasal (whatsitcalled, one nostril naturally more open than the other, switching over every few minutes?), opening up both nostrils for a while.

It also (I suspect, without real evidence) clears out, daily, two reservoirs of potential infection, thus giving the body a better chance to fight back (I almost never catch a cold - but am still prone to those cold weather wet-nose sniffles).



So there. Thus Sprach ZaRoddledy.


Snorting lemsip

Post 18

Tim

I did it. I was desperate to eat my tea without suffocating. It was unpleasant but it had miraculous results. It was like a stringy squid was trying to escape from my nostrils and mouth for about 20 minuets.. Then I felt fine. The paracetamol relieved my chest pain. And the caffeine gave me a slight buzz. The next day I had a slight pain in my kidneys but it was much better than my cold was and it soon passed. I would do it again in the right circumstance.


Snorting lemsip

Post 19

Rod

You did what - icing sugar, lemsip, chili powder, salt ... ?


Key: Complain about this post

Write an Entry

"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a wholly remarkable book. It has been compiled and recompiled many times and under many different editorships. It contains contributions from countless numbers of travellers and researchers."

Write an entry
Read more