Tippex
A friend of mine from back in high school would do anything for a dare! You know the sort... suck on a highlighter, eat a fag, drink some piss and all the other high school frolics...

Anyway, one day - we decided to dare him to drink a bottle of tippex (We'd got bored of attempting to get high by sniffing it NB: this doesn't work and neither does lighter fluid from a lighter)

We didn't even have to give him any money to do any of the things he did - just the words "I dare you to..." would do.

Anyway, rambling over - he drank the while bottle of tippex, turned pretty white and almost immediately we figured it would be a good idea to call an ambulance - he had to have his stomach pumped and he'd caused irrepairable damage to his kidneys.

Still... he never stopped taking on dares. Mighty stupid methinks but he's a living legend.

Still learning..long time lurker... first post!
(ladyredshoes, Sat 3 Nov 2007, 15:31, closed)

Nice...
....pun.

"he drank the while bottle of tippex, turned pretty white and almost immediately "

I can only assume that this fellow has gone on to smaller and dimmer things as his life has moved on.

Fair play though, every school needs a chap like that....

...there is a tree with a plaque to remember the lad from my school. Poor bugger.
(The Pollitt is still having naughty thoughts about your mum on, Sat 3 Nov 2007, 16:28, )

Tippex
You're not supposed to sniff the Tippex - it's the Tippex *Thinner* that does the business.
Honestly, kids today etc.
( electric_goat, Sun 4 Nov 2007, 14:47, )

trichloroethane ban
It depends when this happened.
Fifteen years ago tippex thinner was
1,1,1 trichloroethane, I believe this handy checmical is now banned because it theoretically affects the ozone layer, as if the ammount in tippex was significant.
An aquantance of mine convinced a girl to take her clothes off in their sixth form common room after sniffing tippex.
I don't know what thinner is in tippex these days but it is probably less exciting.
(t18, Sun 4 Nov 2007, 15:51, )

Clarification of date
This was 13 years ago - and we were 11/12 if that helps in your research?
(ladyredshoes, Sun 4 Nov 2007, 23:07, )

Here's the science bit....
Tippex thinner is now an aliphatic hydrocarbon. I think it's methylhexane, but I don't know where I dug that up from.

Nothing like as toxic to the human system as 1,1,1 TCE.
( K2k6 is a true Scotsman - see profile for proof, Mon 5 Nov 2007, 8:31, )

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Youthinks he's a living legend: methinks, "not for long, he ain't."
( Enzyme is in ur [noun]z, [verb]in' ur [noun]z, Mon 5 Nov 2007, 14:12, )