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The Pass-Out Game.

Everybody's freaking out about "The Pass-Out Game" after they discovered some girl who was playing it BY HERSELF and managed to kill herself. If you don't know the pass-out game, here's how it's supposed to go.

Two people.
1 person leans up against a wall (so their fall is braced if they fall backwards), puts their hands across their chest and around their own neck. 2 person puts their hands over the other person's hands and applies pressure, when the other person stops breathing they kind of nod to indicate they can't breathe. In about 30 seconds, 1 person blacks out, 2 person removes pressure, 1 person either falls backward against the wall, or forward to 2 person who catches them, then both laugh hysterically that they've managed to black 1 person out.

Playing it by yourself, you know, with a belt or something is just moronic. There's no way to do it safely. You're just being dumb. Playing the game at all? Dumb. Playing it by yourself? All sorts of dumb.

The game's been around forever and people are only now freaking out about it. Look, if your kid has no sense of self-preservation, that's their own damn fault. Sorry about that kid, but you failed the Darwin test. Does anybody else have more sympathy?

posted by Doug 7:58 AM

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