Vodka, wine, jaeger, piss, oil, rum, gin, vinegar, de-icer, gravy, chilli powder, put it all in a glass and down it and then nominate your mates to do the same. Sick. Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past month you will have had your newsfeed littered with #Neknominations just like these. This online drinking game, which originated in Australia, requires the neknominee to film themselves downing a pint of alcohol, usually beer, and then proceed to nominate two others to do the same within a tight 24 hour window.

Sounds pointless and idiotic but… harmless enough, right?

Well as one would have expected, the competitive nature engrained into human beings has turned this ‘game’ of binge drinking and peer pressure into something much darker than anyone first imagined. Always wanting to outdo each other and be that ultimate lad, people mix deadly cocktails of spirits and an array of disgusting ingredients they can get hold of and continue to nek them. Do people actually think these pathetic videos make them look cool? Fair play to some of them, I will admit I creased at seeing a chick ride into Tescos on a horse:

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But I hate to break it to the rest of you, mainly the fellas: most of the time we’re laughing because we can’t believe that people this stupid and pathetic actually exist. And, sorry again guys, but nobody ever got laid from a Neknomination — the chances of someone stopping you on a night out and whispering in your ear ‘you’re that guy who downed a pint of vodka and then bit the head off a baby chick aren’t you? Take me home and show me what a man you are’, are slim to none.

In these dangerous and stupid circumstances sadly it was a matter of time before some truly awful outcomes of neknominations started to emerge…