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[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 97 points 1 week ago (5 children)

what do I need to know to understand this?

[–] breecher@sh.itjust.works 71 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I think you need to be American. It is funny how the Americans are busy explaining the drug to you, but failing to understand that it is the underlying premise that most non-Americans won't get.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Yeah I didn't get that that was a shotgun shell I thought it was a film canister.

Also every antihistamine I've ever seen has been a tiny little round thing, those are huge

[–] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They expanded in the liquid. That should help.

Whenever I get Benedryll (I assume what’s pictured) there’s a lot of carrier material (supposedly for the tummy), but if you get Sudafed by itself (the main ingredient) it’s a tiny little round pill.

[–] emeralddawn45@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Im not saying you're wrong about the amount of carrier material, but sudafed(pseudoephedrine) and benadryl(diphenhydramine) are two completely different drugs.

Edit: also i don't think there's any liquid inside the shell

[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

my first thought was force feeding, but i do hope nobody force feeds nails to home intruders over there, so my second thought was uhhh, some sort of gun that shoots whatever you put in it? but would pills even work if someone uh, shot you with them? i'm pretty sure all pills are designed to need processing by our digestive track

[–] JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

All of the Oxy 80's that have been railed or smoked over the years would like a word.

[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

that's still inserting them into your body in a semi-intended way, curious choice of hole but guess it works. i was thinking more a pill shard making its own hole into your body,,, that probably won't give the pill's intended effect

[–] JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

boofing would work way better than snorting or inhaling most pills i imagine, since your ass is still a part of your digestive track and things still do get absorbed through there

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 68 points 1 week ago (3 children)
  1. Benadryl is a brand name of diphenhydramine, an antihistamine with a powerful side effect of drowsiness. Benadryl is labeled as an allergy relief medication but the same drug is sold under other brands such as Sominex as a sleep aid. Effects of overdosing on diphenhydramine include seizures, extreme drowsiness, excessive sleepiness, delirium, and hallucinations.

  2. The translucent object packed with several of the pills is a shotgun shell. The text refers to the practice of reloading shotgun shells with other objects in an attempt to alter their lethality and/or pain potential. A shell loaded with rock salt for example, salt is much lighter than lead so it should have less stopping/penetrating power, but any wounds caused are automatically salted.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

any wounds caused are automatically salted

I'm a little disappointed in myself that I didn't think it'd work like that.

[–] teamevil@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

It's okay...most folks are focused on the shotgun, the salt is definitely secondary in that moment

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The idea behind a rock salt shell is it would be less likely to kill and more likely to HURT. Also possibly less likely to damage anything behind. You might take a little paint off the fridge but not destroy it.

Whether that's actually how it works or not, call Adam and Jamie.

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

...or Johnny Knoxville

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

The salt load has an added benefit of temporarily incorporeating ethereal beings.

[–] turtlesareneat@discuss.online 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

It would make a lot more sense with robotussin but whoever made this doesn't really understand what's in today's OTC drugs, the Benadryl that was fun isn't pink like these. Diphenhydramine is just a bad drug they need to recall.

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It’ll still fuck you up in a deeply unpleasant way if you try to have fun with it.

Literally having conversations with people who weren’t there. A hellish night of no sleep while desperately needing it. 0/10 would not recommend.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I mean, are you going to blast a home intruder with your fun drugs?

[–] LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

With MDMA. Then be a shoulder for them to cry on.

[–] meowMix2525@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

What Benadryl are you talking about, I've never heard of it being anything but diphenhydramine? People definitely abuse this form, it's a deliriant in high doses and can cause hallucinations. I can't recall its name but I distinctly remember there being a community about it on the other site.

Edit: perhaps you're thinking of Sudafed PE, in which the main ingredient, pseudoephedrine, was switched for phenylephrine? The latter drug was recently found to be ineffective like you're talking about. Though, the reason they made pseudoephedrine prescription only in the first place was because people were using it to make meth, not because it was a fun drug to abuse.

[–] bier@feddit.nl 1 points 1 week ago

If we can get an intruder high on any drugs in this scenario I'd go for datura. It's not an otc drug, but I think you can legally grow the plant or even get it from a plant store. Most people describe the trip as hell

[–] FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Something important that people aren't really mentioning is that you can use salt-filled shotgun shells in a home defense situation to reduce collateral damage caused by the shotgun pellets penetrating through walls (idk what the nails are for, I'd assume something similar)

[–] classic@fedia.io 10 points 1 week ago

There's an upper limit to how much benadryl you should take in a sitting if you don't want to breach the stratosphere

[–] raltoid@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's an allergy medicine that's also used as a sedative, put into a shotgun shell.

In higher doses it can cause dissasociation, delerium, hallucinations, etc.