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Is it more or less humane? (lemmy.world)
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[-] theangryseal@lemmy.world 109 points 5 days ago

As a child I loaded an air rifle with pixie stix and shot my shirtless friend in the chest with it.

In my mind, it was going to be like some three stooges cloud of flour that would turn his face pink kind of like this. (Best I could find)

What happened instead was his entire chest was pouring blood and filled with burning pixie stix powder. I’m so glad I didn’t shoot him in the face. See, I was aiming for my brother who was the same height as me at the time and my buddy happened to be the one who came through the door.

He was a damn good friend too. The adults weren’t brought in on the matter. We cleaned the wounds with peroxide and waited years to tell anyone haha.

God I miss being a kid. I miss my old friends.

[-] ksigley@lemm.ee 35 points 5 days ago

Learning is fun.

[-] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 8 points 5 days ago

Spoken like a true Dwarf Fortress veteran

[-] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 days ago

Strike the earth!

[-] Benjaben@lemmy.world 15 points 5 days ago

We would've gotten along famously lol. We used to treat cartoons like instruction manuals for fun and cool shit, none of it worked like on TV of course, but still lots of (often painful) fun to be had.

Bedsheets do not in fact make an adequate parachute for a second story jump, btw.

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 8 points 5 days ago

Bedsheets do not in fact make an adequate parachute for a second story jump, btw.

Learned second hand that umbrellas also don't work well as parachutes. My cousin was the first hand ~~victim~~ experimenter

[-] theangryseal@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Die, Mary Poppins, die! Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!

[-] Benjaben@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

I hope it at least had the good manners to do the comical "collapse up / backwards on itself" thing!

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 3 points 5 days ago

It was a table height fall, roughly 1 meter, not enough for that to happen.

[-] Benjaben@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Lol eh, that sounds pretty hilarious

[-] Perhapsjustsniffit@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 days ago

We just used pellets or bbs and wore Canadian tuxedos. No head shots allowed. Airsoft and paintball didn't exist. But air rifles did.

[-] Benjaben@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

Bb gun fights were the best. Topped only by Roman candle fights, and we had some epic, like 10v10 ones spanning entire parks.

[-] 200ok@lemmy.world 56 points 6 days ago

What am I looking at?

[-] shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 96 points 6 days ago

A shotgun shell loaded with Benadryl instead of buck shot (or rock salt)

[-] rbn@sopuli.xyz 27 points 6 days ago

Thanks, I thought that object was some kind of lipstick. :D

[-] SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz 20 points 6 days ago

My stupid ass thought it was a different kind of shot. Was like "wow, they over-salted that rim!"

[-] HertzDentalBar 4 points 5 days ago

Same, dont feel stupid though. Not everyone lives somewhere that home defense is a concern.

[-] Mothra@mander.xyz 11 points 6 days ago

I'm really dumb when it comes to guns. Would this actually work??

[-] shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 6 days ago

Yes sort of. Anything loaded in a shell like this will come out of the barrel at high velocity and could definitely penetrate skin at close range. The pills will probably turn into fine powder, so the effective range is probably like 1m?

[-] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Based on some quick research, the difference is more than 5x.

Bio-availability via oral dosage is 40-60% whereas as topical is less than 10%.

Intravenous is 100% bio-availability so open wounds should help so coating buck shot with it as others have suggested should be affective. It's also immediate, oral is 1 to 4 hours.

[-] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 19 points 6 days ago

So you're saying to load this shell second.

[-] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 7 points 5 days ago

… yea, in case the buckshot to the face doesn’t put them to sleep first

[-] Mini@lemm.ee 3 points 5 days ago

That’s why you use rat or snake shot

[-] spooky2092 4 points 5 days ago

Depends, if the pills stay whole (or in large enough chunks) they don't need shot to help them penetrate.

You just gotta be extra close if you want them to go see ~~Mr Toppum Hat~~ an old friend.

[-] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Or mix in some bird shot perhaps?

[-] 000999@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 6 days ago

If they mixed ground benadryl with oil and coated birdshot inside the cartridge with the mixture it might work. Not sure if the drug would enter the bloodstream of the home intruder in a large enough quantity to cause hallucinations though

[-] hash@slrpnk.net 32 points 6 days ago

Overdosing on benydryll will make you halucinate. And not the fun kind

[-] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 8 points 6 days ago

DELIRIUM !!! WOOO

I do not recommend experiencing it.

I do recommend reading on it, so people who are curious can change that opinion themselves.

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[-] OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works 11 points 5 days ago

High doses of Benadryl can give you a REALLY dissociative high.

[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 12 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Benny overydose will have you seeing the shadowman

[-] sfxrlz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Bang filled with boom, or a cartridge filled with ~~benzos~~ benadryl

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 20 points 5 days ago

Why the fuck are you people using sleeping pills as antihistamines?

[-] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 15 points 5 days ago

Diphenhydramine is a better antihistamine than it is a sleeping pill

[-] KinglyWeevil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 5 days ago

Not if you want to walk the nightmare astral plane

[-] chakh@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

We people as in Americans?

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 6 points 4 days ago

Yeah, as in America.

Benadryl doesn't contain anything like that in the UK, it's got Acrivastine instead (at least for the "rapid relief" stuff).

Cetirizine and Loratadine are the other generics, I think. I don't find those as effective for my needs. They last longer but take longer to get to work. None of these make you drowsy.

You can only get diphenhydramine here as a sleeping aid as far as I can tell. I'm sure it works as an antihistamine as well, but I don't know why a country so car dependent as the US would decide that hayfever sufferers should have the same driving skills as a drunk.

[-] chakh@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

Because regulations in America almost always favor big corporations and not consumers/independent businesses.

I've lived both in UK and US and the quality of food, medication, etc is night and day. You can compare the ingredients of big mac in US and UK and you'll see what I mean.

I actually recently watched a great show called "Dopesick" that tells the story of how American opioid crisis began. I think it does a great job explaining how stupid and ineffective FDA really is.

[-] Trollception@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago

No, nothing to do with Americans. This is discussing medication.

[-] Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 5 points 4 days ago

Can't find a clip but this reminds me of the Pirate from Venture bros that was hooked on tranq darts.

[-] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

That's hilarious. Thanks for sharing. It reminds me of when wild animals get trap-happy.

[-] ivanovsky@lemm.ee 8 points 5 days ago

Shoot them all. Let the Hat Man sort them out.

[-] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago

Introduce intruders to the Hat Man

[-] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago

Much easier to buy them at Costco h they come in a bottle, so no blister packs.

[-] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 6 points 5 days ago

I abused diphenhydramine on purpose several times during my younger years, and I had a pretty uncomfortable time every time.

[-] easily3667@lemmus.org 4 points 5 days ago

It's funny how scared you are

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