Neck nomination

Jaysus 

Not buying the peer pressure angle on this....its down to the fact that nominee plays the game because it involves drink, bravado and doing something for which the drink can be blamed. In our dysfunctional little country any behaviour as a consequence of drink is permissable, tolerated, forgiven and becomes an amusing episode.  

Citizen wrote: the game itself is fairly cringe tbh, people necking a can in their kitchen of a Tuesday and making a video of it.

the game itself is fairly cringe tbh, people necking a can in their kitchen of a Tuesday and making a video of it. 

If you're trying to blame necknomination for the deaths then you might as well accuse the internet of killing them, or try to ban peer presure. Yes pleople died as a result of doing something thick after being dared to down to a pint but unfortunately the term death from misadventure is too common these days and will happen with or without internet games.

There is always going to be peer pressure growing up and there is always going to be pressures to do things from mates etc.  Its one of lifes learning skills that you have the cop on to no do things that have a high risk factor and to be able also to spot the high risk factor.  

Edited by Baldrick - 11 Feb 2014 at 3:08pm

You bottom line about fb is true. And cadra hoop I think you have missed the point.

The difference between your normal drinking game with the lads and neknimination is that neknimination is a Facebook chain game. It uses Facebook as the platform to get the game to a wider audience. Thats the whole idea. Get as many people downing drinks as possible.
A well and good when its a pint. But with no rules it grew.

I think you can agree that the more people that do stupid things; tge higher the chance of deaths etc
The idea of neknimination was to get as many people downing a drink, which led to as many people as possible doing stupid things

In the grand scheme of things Ger, what I'm saying is that the existence of this game is of little or no consequence. Loads of games go too far resulting in far from ideal outcomes, the ultimate being people dying of course. If any of the people who died here or in other countries or those who found themselves in hospital as a result were willing to do what they did because somebody on the internet said so, then I'd bet my bottom euro, they have done similar before and would do it again if their antics didnt have the terrible outcome they did. Now maybe these were just once off incidents for those who died and they paid they ultimate price, but we all know people who do stupid things, and of course these people have to start off somehwere, but usually once they get the first piece of stupidity out of the way, theres more to follow untilnhopefully they cop themselves on. I used to kncok back vodka at a fair rate in my mid to late teens, thought I was the business downing the guts of a 70cl bottle, a real clever clogs. Luckily, I lived to tell the tale and grew out of that kind of thing, and this was before FB or any other 'excuses' came along.   

Edited by sham157 - 11 Feb 2014 at 2:37pm

The GerK wrote: You don't believe that awareness should be created to orevent further tragedy?