When I was a youngster we'd call this The Elevator. Sometimes you can press on a person's chest, or do it yourself with hands around the neck. I liked it, like cheap drugs. I might have been dorky.
― Ed/Alan Chairs, Sunday, 5 March 2006 21:05 (nineteen years ago)
― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Sunday, 5 March 2006 21:06 (nineteen years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 5 March 2006 21:08 (nineteen years ago)
Excellent!
― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Sunday, 5 March 2006 21:11 (nineteen years ago)
― nastym**thaf*ka, Monday, 6 March 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)
Either kids are actually doing this or kids are lying to stupid pollsters, I vote the latter. Another article to scare parents about something that probably doesn't even really happen all that often.
― stan this sick bunt (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 19 March 2012 15:11 (thirteen years ago)
A friend's daughter died this way.
― tokyo rosemary, Monday, 19 March 2012 15:17 (thirteen years ago)
This was as common a slumber party game as watching Lost Boys on repeat.
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Monday, 19 March 2012 15:19 (thirteen years ago)
I went to wildly different slumber parties as kid, apparently.
― stan this sick bunt (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 19 March 2012 15:21 (thirteen years ago)
Guess so, but I'm sure someone will back me up here.
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Monday, 19 March 2012 15:25 (thirteen years ago)
this game cropped up at several parties when I was in high school
― thuggish ruggish Brahms (DJP), Monday, 19 March 2012 15:29 (thirteen years ago)
We only did it in gradeschool. After 6th grade there were boobs in the way.
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Monday, 19 March 2012 15:29 (thirteen years ago)
For some.
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Monday, 19 March 2012 15:30 (thirteen years ago)
I'm not disputing its existence, not in the least, I just don't think its quite as prevalent as that article purports.
― stan this sick bunt (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 19 March 2012 15:32 (thirteen years ago)
Did this a few times in eighth grade. Kids were doing it in the hallway at school for a minute.
― Trip Maker, Monday, 19 March 2012 15:32 (thirteen years ago)
So weird that I never even heard of this until I was in college, and even then it was always a "well I heard someone's friend's cousin once was at a party where they tried this" kind of thing.
― stan this sick bunt (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 19 March 2012 15:35 (thirteen years ago)
I thought everyone did it, but I had a pretty limited perspective as a 9-10 year old. It was definitely a preteen thing.
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Monday, 19 March 2012 15:36 (thirteen years ago)
I think that statistic (1 in 7 college kids) sounds about right if not slightly low, assuming my anecdotal experience follows the national trend.
― thuggish ruggish Brahms (DJP), Monday, 19 March 2012 15:36 (thirteen years ago)
Well, I'm learning more here. I assumed that was just a another hysteric yahoo article.
― stan this sick bunt (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 19 March 2012 15:40 (thirteen years ago)
I have really strong memories of opening my eyes and being like WHAT HAPPENED and wondering why everyone was staring at me. No one ever got hurt, but it couldn't have been safe. I mean, we didn't tell our parents we were doing it.
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Monday, 19 March 2012 15:42 (thirteen years ago)
Yeah it seems so fucking stupid and dangerous in hindsight.
― Trip Maker, Monday, 19 March 2012 15:51 (thirteen years ago)
this is for sure a real thing
― Mordy, Monday, 19 March 2012 15:51 (thirteen years ago)
seemed stupid and dangerous in 7th grade iirc
― the ineffable genius of DJP (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 19 March 2012 15:53 (thirteen years ago)
Kids would go behind the raquetball courts and do this and I remember thinking they were even dumber than the kids who smoked
That's the difference between 4th and 7th grade, I guess? To us it was just normal. No one smoked in 4th grade.
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Monday, 19 March 2012 15:54 (thirteen years ago)
I also went to all girls school.
I wonder if there was a an afterschool special/cautionary tale that highlighted the dangers of this, and then someone in my class (or an older sibling) saw it and decided to try it?
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Monday, 19 March 2012 15:56 (thirteen years ago)
― the ineffable genius of DJP (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, March 19, 2012 8:53 AM (3 minutes ago)
remember how adults did this and called it poppers?
― aka vanilla bean (remy bean), Monday, 19 March 2012 15:56 (thirteen years ago)
Add this to the list of childhood pastimes with serious potential consequences that you don't give a passing thought to like 1. jumping off the roof, 2. stealing people's mail and setting it on fire, and 3. throwing mud balls at cars driven by angry dudes with guns. I think our method was to breathe in and out really rapidly until you passed out?
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Monday, 19 March 2012 19:37 (thirteen years ago)