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Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: idolminds on Thursday, June 03, 2010, 10:07:31 PM
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What the fuck is WRONG with people? (http://money.cnn.com/2010/05/26/news/companies/bros_icing_bros.fortune/index.htm)
"Icing" -- or "getting iced" -- is a drinking game that's rapidly gaining popularity amongst office workers, tech and media types, and college students. The rules are simple: If a person sees a Smirnoff Ice, he or she must get down on one knee and chug it, unless they happen to be carrying their own Smirnoff, in which case they can "ice block," or refract the punishment back onto the attacker. In order to dupe people into stumbling across the beverage, participants have devised creative ways of presenting them with Ices, like strapping the bottles to the backs of dogs or burying them in vats of protein powder.
Really?
Within weeks, Joe says, "BrosIcingBros" became a hit, so much so that his classmates were carrying protective Smirnoff Ices in their backpacks to ward off attacks.
Really? You're in college, you can tell someone to fuck off and not play their shitty drinking game.
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Smirnoff Ice? Who the fuck drinks that shit?
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Smirnoff Ice? Who the fuck drinks that shit?
That was probably the point when the game started.
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One of my coworkers told me about this game a few days ago. He's thrilled about it. That says a lot about the caliber of individuals I work with.
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I can kind of see the point...kind of...except for the whole smirnoff ice thing....and the "anytime anywhere" aspect of it. On roadtrips, "Buffalo" is pretty standard....get caught drinking with your right hand and you have to pound the rest of whatever it is in your hand. And then it reverses on the way back. Conversely, my old rugby club used to have a game where there'd be some random rules flying around, never more than three (although I don't remember the condition for when you'd actually make a new rule). For example, the rule may be that whenever you answer the phone you'd have to say something retarded like "buy low sell high" or you wouldn't be able to say a common word, or you have to run up stairs anytime you encounter them. The point of the rules were to make you look like an idiot, but drinks didn't stack so if you weren't drinking and there wasn't someone being a prick with a case in their backpack, you'd be fine at work, school, out in public not drinking/whatever. It'd be a "yeah, you got me...fuck you" kind of situation....unless you had booze on you.....because the whole point of the game is to get your friends really fucked up...not to make them drink a single drink really fast at 11:00 am on a tuesday. Don't get me wrong - it's stupid as shit, but that's kind of the point....and rugby players do way stupider shit than that (example....it's about 9 years later and my friend just restarted a round of this with his club)
This seems kind of retarded because it's the opposite....why the fuck would I ever carry a Smirnoff on me? I'll drink 6 of yours to start off my night. I thought this was a big meta joke at first.
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Whenever I hear "bros" I want to punch kittens with knives.
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Yeah, it's "brah". Fuck.
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Sounds lame.
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So, I just had the best lake weekend/buddy's stag ever and icing motherfuckers is actually really fun.....when you plan on drinking for 48 hours straight anyways.
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At least replace that garbage with something worth drinking.
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Well, that's kind of the point. I have chugged many foul concoctions in the name of drinking games or getting drunk, but nothing to date has been worse than having to drink a warm ice. Its like a melted slurpee with an extra cup of sugar thrown in....horrible.
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Haha... point taken. I've been drunk every day for like 50 days, so it's not like I can really say anything one way or the other about this.
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Haha... point taken. I've been drunk every day for like 50 days, so it's not like I can really say anything one way or the other about this.
Do you have diarrhea yet? I always get the runs after a good bender.
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I think that would sort of kill the enjoyment of it and I'd probably stop. So uh... no.