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What is that stuff?
Compressed air. Used to clean electronics. You can also use it to get high (which is what is being implied is happening here) with some very serious side effects.
Very serious == death, dont do it kids.
If you turn them upside-down you can use them to make stuff cold also.
Also very flamable that way.
I used to do that to doorknobs as a kid. Getting high never occurred to me but it's good I didn't know were flammable because... 🔥
I had an old, dusty laptop that needed some serious cleaning recently, so I went to the store to buy one of these. Was rather surprised that they’d make me go to the counter and show my ID before allowing me to purchase one, but now I know why.
More specifically it's usually a chemical called tetrafluoroethane and yes it is absolutely horrible for you
https://youtube.com/watch?v=H6TW6v39_kQ
So more likely compressed nitrogen or something. I can't see people getting high on air.
Compressed air is about 0% air, you're correct in that, but nitrogen is a part of air so it's not it. It's butane, propane or other less flamable but worse shit, afaik
They get high on the propellant (usually difluoroethane), basically, enhanced by hypoxia
Nitrous oxide (“whippits”) is a whole other thing that is very much a grey market drug dealer “this should probably just explicitly be legal at this point because the hoops people jump through are kind of silly”. Like if you’re into cooking nitrous oxide chargers are a valid thing to own for making whipped cream and such so headshops often stock huge tanks under the guise of “for culinary use only”, just like how people only use bongs for tobacco, right
I got a restaurant I worked at to buy a tank of N2O for staff.
The kitchen staff kept huffing my beer gas (N2 & CO) despite multiple warnings and explanations that it wasnt getting them high, just suffocating them. Twice I found a guys passed out in the walk in, still holding the still running line. The gas is heavier than air, so it pools on the ground, and it was a small walk in that didnt cycle often, so this was really dangerous.
I managed to convince the owner that buying a N2O tank for $300 and occasionally 'forgetting' to lock it up was way cheaper than the costs associated with a staff member dieing on premises, especially considering the health dept would almost surely force us to replace our old system and put in air testers and stuff.
Cans of compressed air to blow out computers.
Lots of blow jobs.
Thanks. I was wondering, especially about the abuse stuff. Could this be more like compressed nitrogen?