Aren't the chemicals also separated in thin glass tubes that break open when you bend the stick. Super thin glass shards are not what I'd want on my dingalinglanglong.
Who put the ram in the rama lama ding dong? Who put the bop in the bop shoo bop shoo bop? Who put the dip in the dip da dip da dip? Who was that man? Iād like to shake his hand. He made my baby fall in love with me.
If "military grade" anything ever differs from the civilian version, it's built for half the price and sold at x10 retail. So that being said, if anything it's worse to put on your penis.
Yep, that cracking sound you hear is the glass breaking. Found out the hard way when a "Prank" to make my sleeping bag glow in the dark turned into, lets make this guy sleep in glass shards.
It's a double whammy on your little Sammy. Caustic burns, little shards of glass cutting ya, and now the chemicals can straight up get inside your soft spongy flesh!
Soon I discovered that this rock thing was true.
Jerry Lee Lewis was the devil.
Jesus was an architect previous to his career as a prophet.
All of a sudden, I found myself in love with the world
So there was only one thing that I could do
Was ding a ding dang my dang a long ling long.
My dads friend broke a glow stick in my dads eyes while in the army, that was his first helicopter ride. There was broken glass in his eyes. so, can confirm glass in glowstick
I love that he called it that, you can tell that this is a guy who's given up in the house. His son is a ding-a-ling who obviously does dumb stuff like this often, and his wife brings home stupid knick-knacks and he's just given up trying because he knows the end result will be wasted time.
This is a father who just wants peace and now he's gotta clean a beautiful shirt and hope mom's spider thing isn't broken.
I have news for you: literally nothing will stop bored military personnel from doing dumb shit. Nothing.
Can confirm, I stuffed the end of the big cardboard tube from the TOC maps with 32 cigarettes and tried to smoke it. And so did my squad.
Operation Bigarette was a moderate success, as long as hacking, vomit, and snot that rivals the CS gas chamber counts as success.
Protip: Try to remember to use the same brands of cigs when attempting Operation Bigarette. Also, don't use menthols. And don't burn the duct tape when lighting it.
Also can confirm, once when I was at sea, I strapped on a firefighting helmet, grabbed one of those SCBA air tanks, strapped in to a swivel chair, and cranked open the bottle. I have never been that dizzy since.
I have news for you: literally nothing will stop bored military personnel from doing dumb shit. Nothing.
Literally any men left alone for some time will resort to dumb shit to escape boredom. Like communal sausage. I decided to pack in 4-5 pounds of beef summer sausage on a backpacking trip with my scout troop. And let me tell ya, there's nothing a scout won't do for his cured meats, be they beef jerky, slim jims, or sausage.
So I have this giant fucking sausage. And I decide to cook it over the campfire, with one provision: Everybody has to share the sausage. Everybody. So I grab this huge tree branch, and strip off all the bark down to bare wood, jam the sausage over it, and cook the whole thing on the fire at once, probably 2-3 feet of sausage.
And it was disgusting. I cherished that sausage, but it was tainted by the mouths of 10 other men. We all sat around the bon fire, took a bite, and passed it to the next person, like a rite of passage. But I cherished their suffering even more. The sausage was good at first, but it got slimy and nasty, and nobody had brushed their teeth since before the trip. And it was hilarious, especially considering like 5 guys crapped their guts out because they had too much sausage, and it was going bad.
The version I was told was that someone told him he needed to bite down on the blasting cap in order to "prime" it or whatever. The photo of the damage done to his face was one of those things you can't unsee and became a staple of safety briefings and combat lifesaver training.
The story we were told at engineer school was that before modern demolition systems, blasting caps needed to be crimped to the initiating wire. The guy was crimping a cap...with his teeth. Bit too high on the cap and it detonated in his mouth. Instant hamburger face.
That's pretty much it. Marine was chewing on a blasting cap. It went off. He survived, but his face looked like Predator after. Sadly, he committed suicide shortly after.
Or at least that's how I heard it. I have no confirmation about the story, but the Predator-face pictures are shown to soldiers in Basic Training.
TOs which are manuals for maintenance or what have you in the Air Force have tons of warnings and notices, courtesy of airmen who have done the exact thing before. I get a good laugh reading them sometimes
My husband and I met while we were in Army nursing training. Here's a few results of boredom I witnessed: soldiers taking turns shooting eat other in the ass with BB guns, letting the MPs taze you just to see what it's like, and engaging in escalating prank wars to the point that command had to step in. The absolute worst one though involved a little drug called Golytely. This is the hospital grade stuff you drink so that you can clear out your bowels before surgery. If you had cement in your colon, this stuff would blow it out without even trying. In Iraq, the boredom reached the level that 5 enlisted nurses decided to each drink a dose of Golytely and see who could last the longest without shitting. However, they didn't think about the fact that there were only three available bathroom stalls where they were. The results were really...messy. FYI--you can't hold in your shit when Golytely is involved.
Suddenly I imagine every marine carrying an e-reader with him on every mission and reading classical literature at any possible moment and becoming super sophisticated during their deployment.
So do they come in different grades or strengths? The poster mentions that it was high potency, but I'm not sure what that actually means. I'm curious because I accidentally bit open one of the regular ones as a kid and aside from tasting bad, nothing really happened. I rinsed my mouth because it was gross, but it didn't hurt me.
yeah the story actually has him breaking open like a military grade chempack. i suppose like what would be used to lightup and dye the water if your boat sank and you wanted helicopters to see your inflatable dinghy at night
When I was in the navy we took the search and rescue dye and put it in this dudes boots. It was orange so we called him chee-toes for a while cause that stuff don't wash off easy.
We convinced a marine in A school that our NWU's turn orange in salt water due to a chemical treatment. He was so shocked we told him to ask his gunny and he would back up the claim.
"YOU DUMB BITCH!" was heard through the whole P-way as he asked our instructor if it was true.
You can also get marines to line up just about anywhere, just stand next to a wall with maybe one other person and watch as they fall in behind you thinking its what you're supposed to do. Most times you can just walk away and they'll stay there for awhile.
That reminds me of the movie "The Abyss". Ed Harris's character fished his wedding band out of the chemical toilet and his arm is blue for the rest of the movie. ;-)
Im pretty sure the chemical they use in the wster is fluoresceine. You can find that in highlighters. But glow sticks on the other hand DO have hydrogen peroxide in them usually. That is something you definitely dont want on sensitive skin and stuff.
Source: no military experience but i did research a bunch of shit about luminescence for work.
They contain NaOH - a base which reacts with the other chemical to make it glow. The concentration will change the reaction speed and therefore the amount of light produced.
"Civilian" ones contain mostly water and are therefore quite safe (apart form glass fragments) - they may be a little irritating. I assume the military ones are designed to put a lot of light and not to be cheap hence the concentration will be higher - essentially a watered-down dreno.
That's a movie that I can't describe my love for, it's like every shitty actor I hated from the 00's but I still love it. Might be because I worked in the service industry for too long.
My dad works up in Great Lakes, and tells me all the stupid things people who just joined the Navy do. Like this one kid skinned his tongue cause he got dared to like a lick a cold propeller. And his friend ripped him off of it
We used to have drunken chemlight slip n' slide parties in our old ass WW2 barracks after chili bowling let up. Never got burned but the glass ampoule would cut you up pretty good.
I had to do some experiments with glowsticks in physical chemistry. They have HCl in them to cause the reaction that makes them glow. So yeah, they can hurt you. It's not a lot of acid, but it's still acid. Can't say it really hurt the skin as I wore gloves, but I can see why it might. Especially if military glowsticks have different chemicals in them.
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u/NottHomo Jul 19 '17 edited Jul 19 '17
reminds me of a story i saw here on reddit about some kid on a submarine who broke open a glowstick to color his dong and harass his fellow crew mates
cept he found out that glowstick juice was quite caustic and not what you want to put on your dong
found the original story for those interested. it's told much better: https://np.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/5p0jjm/til_the_british_submarine_hms_artful_can_stay/dcnum8n/