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E-Flask
Taking public alcohol comsumption into the 21st Century | |
Looks like an electronic cigarette, but you insert cartridges of flavored
liquid alcohol, which is heated to the boiling point and the gas is
inhaled like smoke.
Rudyard Kipling
http://answers.yaho...100222011324AA0wm3t
Wise words. [8th of 7, Oct 04 2011]
E-Cigarettes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-cigs
[21 Quest, Oct 06 2011]
maybe it *can* work
http://www.awolmachine.com/page-2.htm
[swimswim, Oct 06 2011]
[link]
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// heated to the boiling point and the gas is inhaled like smoke //
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The term "carburettor" would seem to apply.
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The term "stoic fuel/air mixture exploding in the user's lungs" would also seem relevant.
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Could be marketed under the name "Death Stick" ?
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Extremely dangerous, highly inadvisable and potentially lethal use of volatile hydrocarbons. [+]. |
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[+], but if it looks like an electronic cigarette it's
going to hold maybe 5ml of alcohol, or the
equivalent of a tablespoon of spirits. Why not go for
a cigar? |
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And why not, indeed. After all, "A woman is only a woman, but a good Cigar is a Smoke"
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A larger size would be perfectly acceptable, in my view. But all
you really need it to hold is a shot or two. You don't typically
take out a flask and chug the whole thing right then and there.
You smoke a shot or two, then reload it with a few spare
cartridges when you need a refill. |
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Step 1: construct hollow false hand to resemble your own
hand, with threaded removable thumb.
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Step 2: remove own hand (preferably non-dominant hand).
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Step 3: replace real hand with hollow replica, fill with
alcoholic beverage of choice, enjoy public consumption of
alcoholic beverage of choice without frigging around with
silly little fake-cigarette flask.
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There, problem solved. Everyone happy? |
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[Alterother]'s suggestion is truly optimal, but if you need something more quickly, wouldn't it be easiest to simply put the hooch in an empty water or juice bottle? EDIT: errr, what [bigsleep] said. |
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New from Alterorder, Inc.: the Handy-Flask!
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Please include sample hand with completed order form to
ensure proper fit and realistic appearance. |
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If you post it, they will bun. |
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I think I will, if somebody hasn't beaten me to it.
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They haven't. Bunbelievable. |
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// If you post it, they will bun. //
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I thought this was going to be an iphone holder built
into a flask. |
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Hot alcohol vapor isn't fun to breathe. They have
created machines that create a nebulized mist of
alcohol. See: AWOL
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Go simmer some alcohol in a pan, lean over it and
breathe and get back to me after you are done
coughing your eyeballs out. [-] |
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// coughing your eyeballs out //
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We will pay a dollar to watch that. |
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The same could be said of tobacco smoke, daseva. You've
described
in very accurate fashion my reaction when I tried smoking a
cigarette the first time. I had the same reaction when I tried
smoking marijuana. That hasn't stopped both from becoming
hugely popular in most parts of the world. |
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Sigh. Then go lean over it and tell me when the
coughing stops (2 dollars for that one, borg?). |
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Capital "B" in "Borg", IF you don't mind .. we are a proper noun. |
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It's the only thing proper about them, in fact. |
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My deepest appy polly loggies. |
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And no, I won't go lean over it, are you mad? I also don't
carry a flask with me in public, so why would I carry an E-
Flask? |
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"I am the inventor of this product and even I wouldn't
dare use it. Order now: $32.99 for your first e-Flask
and one dozen cartridges. Order now, now, NOW!" |
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Well think about it, if I don't enjoy breathing hot smoke
why would I enjoy breathing hot vapor? I'd find someone
who *does* and have *them* do the marketing. |
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// one dozen cartridges //
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You could make that "thirteen cartridges. MONEY BACK GUARANTEE ! Refund to your heirs and successors on 12 cartridges if returned unused, intact in their original packaging." |
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All I want to do is get back to the idea. And it is a
pretty shit idea, 21, IMHO. |
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Well ok then fine, back to the idea we go. E-Cigs produce
a vapor, which is inhaled in lieu of smoke, and people
have taken to them without issue. Why would alcohol be
different? |
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Because, as has already been ever-so-briefly touched
upon, inhaling alcohol vapor is basically inimical to
respiratory function. |
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// inhaling alcohol vapor is basically inimical to respiratory function //
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Further, inhaling and then igniting alcohol vapor is basically inimical to life |
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Presuming that your idea of "comedy" is watching someone's thorax explode with lethal consequences, then yes.
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Sounds like cause for a fire sale -- a product that
doesn't accomplish its intended function, and an
exploding product at that. |
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Ah... I admit, I was unaware. Inhaling smoke was inimical to
respiratory function when I tried it... how is alcohol vapor
different? |
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Hmm... Maybe it *can* be made to work, with some
minor modifications. <Link> Here's a bun to make up
for all the bullying we've been putting you through. |
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// how is alcohol vapor different? //
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I don't know exactly how to explain it in biochem terms,
but if you really want to know, try this:
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Buy a bottle of Bacardi 151, pour some into a coffe mug
and microwave it on the lowest setting; about 30-40
seconds should do. Once vapor is visible over the surface of
the liquid, put your mouth over the mug and inhale deeply.
Then you will understand how inhaling alcohol vapor is not
the same as inhaling smoke.
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I have not done this myself, but that's because I already
have a pretty good idea of what would happen. |
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Have you inhaled smoke? It's got a pretty nasty effect, one
which has been known to be fatal on occasion. That hasn't
stopped people from sucking on cigars and cigarettes. |
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Yes, [21], I have inhaled smoke. A good deal of my career
as a welder has involved inhaling smoke. The last time I
did it was about
20 minutes ago when I had a half-hit of indica to ease the
pain in my leg. Just trust us, it's not the same. As I said, if
you want to know this badly, just try it.
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Furthermore, once your lungs were filled with alcohol
vapor, it would take only a tiny spark to ignite it--for
instance, a static discharge from the electronic device
used to vaporize the alcohol. Then it won't just feel like
you're breathing fire, you actually will be. |
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Alcohol is more volatile than nicotine. It has a
greater propensity to get in the air and this
translates to a greater propensity to destroy the
tissues, (kind of). Absorption by the body tissues
depends on many other factors, but this is a good
start.
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Also, the LD50 (dose required to kill half the
members) for alcohol is somewhere around 3500
mg/kg bodyweight. The LD50 for nicotine is about
50 mg/kg. Therefore, one could hypothesize that
the vapor concentrations for inhalable alcohol
should be 7 times that for nicotine in order to get
similar bodily effects. Inhaling 7 e-cigarettes at
once is gonna burn like a bitch too!
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This is a lot of handwaving, I admit. In the end,
the fact is that nobody has ever had fun inhaling
hot alcohol vapors, there are products that get
alcohol in the air, but the mechanism isn't simply
"heat alcohol, inhale". The successful mechanism is
more like "nebulize the alcohol into particles small
enough to deposit in the lungs, inhale". |
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