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NekNominate is a deadly game of drink or dare
Joe Shute
The Telegraph
February 10th, 2014

A back garden in February, and a young man in a black vest is making a nomination. “First things first,” he shouts in a thick Welsh accent, opening a can of super-strength lager, “our old friend Kestrel: no introduction needed.”

He downs the beer in one, stabbing the can with a knife so the liquid flows down his throat faster. “Next, I’ll introduce you to my little friend Donald.” At this point he produces the body of a one-day old chick normally used to feed reptiles, bites the head off and hurls the rest to the ground. Next, he pours a pint of vodka into which he cracks three eggs.

“Now before I drink this I need to get myself psyched up,” he says, snorting a large spoonful of the muscle-building powder creatine. He screams, stubs the cigarette he is smoking out on his tongue, throws the butt into the vodka and downs the whole vile mixture in one. “I nominate you” – he shouts his friend’s name at a camera recording him, while trying not to retch. “So ------- man up.”

This is just one gruesome example of the new worldwide internet drinking craze, NekNomination, that is now sweeping through Britain. The premise is simple. People film themselves downing a drink or concoction – more often that not, alcoholic – in one and post the video on social media. Then, they nominate a friend to outdo them. If the nominee doesn’t respond in 24 hours they are subjected to ridicule on their Facebook wall and Twitter timeline. It may sound absurd, but in a matter of weeks the game has become hugely popular. Now, it is starting to claim lives.

Yesterday, police and health groups issued warnings about the “highly dangerous practice” after the first two British deaths were blamed on NekNominations.
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Bob Loblaw said:
At least in America we usually leave this shit to teenagers.
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Yeah. Teenagers here have been doing that sort of shit since the dawn of time. It wouldn't surprise me if such stupidity among teens was common all the way back to the pilgrims. :p

I don't really get what goes through people's heads... but then again, there are shows like Jackass for a reason.
 
I clicked this thread expecting to just see the typical fail journalism the UK always spits out but then things got a whole lot crazier.
 
Fucking stupid game played by young men trying to be the 'top man' which has already killed 4 Brits.
 
^ cheryl coles bumcheeks wins it for me.

basically this should be called the darwin awards. maybe even the DareWin awards. trademarked to me here first
 
At uni we do a different kind of neck nomination. You simply down a pint in a daring or silly situation, like stopping cars at a zebra crossing or dressing up as a cow and going to the vet claiming you're an alcoholic cow. We've been doing it since September so when these Australian ones started coming it was like wtf that isn't even funny.

Did see a hilarious Ronald McDonald one though
 
this started in my country, new zealand and ever since our news published it I've started seeing it crop up all over the world on my facebook feed haha
 
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