[MAD] Please: So What IS Neknominate?

[Fedup]

This is something I knew nothing about, never even heard of until this morning and I could not believe it, I hope you find this helpful. Ireland at the moment is getting hit with heavy rain (a lot) and high winds of around 70 to winds recorded (where I live) of 123 miles per hour, it was not surprising when you hear of people falling into a river or something like that, but then I heard about "Neknominate". This is what happened.

It seems there's a new trend in town: Neknominate. Seemingly invented by the Aussies, the craze has crossed the water and taken Britain and Ireland by storm. The challenge consists of filming oneself "skolling" - that's downing to you and I - copious quantities of alcohol in a short space of time, and then setting a challenge for someone else to complete.

There has been a call for facebook to with draw pages refering to Neknominate. But facebook has rejected calls to ban pages and videos linked to a "neknomination" drinking craze despite several deaths in Ireland being linked to the online dare.

One description, appearing on one of many Facebook pages set up in honour of the game, reads: "Neck your drink. Nominate another. Don't break the chain, don't be a dick. The social drinking game for social media! #neknominate. Drink Responsibly."

One youngster bit the head off a chicken before his session started. I just think parents should know about this, to me it is unreal.

 

[N Sperlo]

Urban dictionary definition: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=neknominate

Just like any stupid fad. It will pass, but the stupidity will hurt or kill people.
To put it simply, peer pressure and drinking is what its about.

 

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N Sperlo

Stupidity is very true and I do hope it passes,I had no idea if other people had heard about this or knew what it was. I had no idea about it, never knew it existed so I just thought I would mention it. I cannot get over the youngster who bit off the head of the chicken, had his drink and then ate the head.

 

[CQ:)]

Im an Aussie & I never heard of this neknominate until I read this post & looked up N Sperlos link.

It does sound like a really stupid fad which hopefully won't last to long.

 

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CQ

Thank you CQ you see I think they are looking for somewhere to blame and nothing else.

 

[2ndchances]

What the..... ? Haven't heard of it either! Just, wow.

 

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2ndchances

I would be just afraid it would catch on.

 

[Nakamova]

Wow, that's a new one to me! Of course, competitive drinking has been around in one form or another since caveman days...

 

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Nakamova

That is very true it has been around but not to this level.