Is this gonna be the new ipecac gag?

You know what would have won the humour? If there was a way to mix Nitrous oxide with Helium.

Interesting, they seem very aware as well. I wonder how aware you are in NO2?

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I have tried nitrous many a time when I was at University, as you could buy it at a few local stores very cheaply (and legally) in New Zealand.

The video is definitely real. It usually lasts about this length of time and it IS that funny, though I've never seen anyone laugh quite as loudly as that one dude. Me and my mates were usually like the other two - uncontrolled but silent laughter. It's great fun, and harmless so long as you don't suck on a tank of it. Sometimes we used to use a second balloon after the first; this was even better. We also tried three but that didn't give any improvement over two.

The only time we ever had any trouble was when a mate was laughing so hard he smacked his head against the concrete wall he was sitting against. No harm done...I think.

I don't think I ever did it standing. That would be interesting. Now I'm reminising about the good old days...

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>> ^unpopp:
The only time we ever had any trouble was when a mate was laughing so hard he smacked his head against the concrete wall he was sitting against. No harm done...I think.

Replacing the mixture of gases that makes up air with another gas (other than oxygen) does do harm. Maybe not in the short term but depriving your brain of oxygen is generally a bad thing.

This video is a lie.

I've done Nitrous hundreds of times (even have a $85 personal dispenser) and it definitely does not work that way.

Also, it effects your voice opposite of what helium does - makes it drop about 1 or 2 octaves. None of their laughs seem to be effected by the gas whatsoever. This is something you have no control over. If you inhale the gas, your voice drops.

Last, inhaling/exhaling the way they are doing would be sure to make them seriously dizzy, probably fall over, and maybe even pass out. But again, noone seems to be that effected by it. So, again, I call lie.

>> ^volumptuous:
This video is a lie.
I've done Nitrous hundreds of times (even have a $85 personal dispenser) and it definitely does not work that way.
Also, it effects your voice opposite of what helium does - makes it drop about 1 or 2 octaves. None of their laughs seem to be effected by the gas whatsoever. This is something you have no control over. If you inhale the gas, your voice drops.
Last, inhaling/exhaling the way they are doing would be sure to make them seriously dizzy, probably fall over, and maybe even pass out. But again, noone seems to be that effected by it. So, again, I call lie.


Not necessarily if they're nose breathing at the same time. They're obviously not toking on x-times-exhaled air for 30 seconds, so i assume that is a given. Try getting an inflated balloon and breathing in and out (with your nose blocked) 20-30 times, you'd be surprised how hard it is. I'm 99% certain these guys are substituting fresh air with their noses to go with the balloon gas (whatever it is) which they are trying to get the effects of.

This also effects your first statement - if they are breathing in/out to get themselves 'nitro-genated' (like oxygenated but with nitrous, get it?), getting it into their system as best they can - like divers do - breath in and out deeply many times before taking a large breath to get their blood oxygenated due to it soon being highly de-oxygenated, then their lungs wouldn't be full of gas and hence their voices would, at least from a physics point of view, not be affected. The change in octave of taking in certain gases is caused because of the different properties of the gas passing over your vocal chords. Air passing over our vocal chords sound normal to us, heavier gases sound deeper, lighter gases sound higher. So unless the nitrous affects the inner workings of the body such that the vocal chords are slack/tight, the pitch may be unaffected or mostly so.

As for the laughing, i know nothing. I was skeptical of the first guy's stupid laugh. Seemed extremely fake to me, but the other 2 didn't seem that way.

>> ^volumptuous:

I've done Nitrous hundreds of times

A lot of questions I had about you have just been answered.

super fake and stupid

/voice of experience