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Borgs: Blackout Rage Gallons Are Tide Pods For Dumb College Students

By Hank Campbell in Science 2.0
March 8, 2023
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Submitted by Hank on Wed, 03/08/2023 - 12:52
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Last weekend, 46 University of Massachusetts Amherst students were hospitalized after participating in a drinking game popularized by China's second most dangerous export this century, TikTok. 

The idea behind these "blackout rage gallons" - BRGs, pronounced "borgs" - is that a gallon of water and electrolytes will mitigate the after-effects of drinking 16 shots of a known carcinogenic central nervous system depressant. 

It obviously does not work that way, but look for more of these events on college campuses as 12 million Americans too dumb to know you don't eat Tide pods declare they're Irish this month - which will be three times as many people as the actual population of Ireland. 

@kettlebellkel bad day to be a borg at umass #umass #blarney ♬ original sound - kelley

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