Chaser, the Hangover Reliever

[sween32]

I was up late into the wee hours this morning, and I managed to see an infomercial for a new pill that prevents hangovers; called Chaser. It blocks the after-effects that alcohal will have on your brain.

The first thing I thought: This is not good for mankind. Sure, it's little known now and with the whole patent thing it will grow slowly.

But with this technology, what kind of punishment will we have for getting completely smashed in the future?

We'll be able to go out, get absolutely **** faced, and then wake up the next day and go to work just fine. There goes our livers, there goes our children's futures, and there goes the car insurance company getting rich on how many times you crash your car into a lake.

This is what Shnops is to hard liquor. Hard Liquor is SUPPOSED to taste bad so you don't go too far, but make it taste like candy and who's going to stop you until you're bent over the toilet? Now that people know that they can get smashed and still go to work we're all doomed.

Can you say illegalization of alcohal due to lowered life expectancies? I knew you could.

 

[anonymous4401]

Kind of like what abortion is to sex.

 

[WillJ]

I never trust infomercials anyway.

 

[sween32]

Here's the website for it if you want to check it out: http://www.doublechaser.com/

I fear for our future.

 

[WillJ]

Do too many people not drink in excess simply out of fear of getting a hangover? Will too many drunken scumbags (no offense to people who drink a lot; just couldn't think of a better word) actually bother buying this stuff? And will this catch on? Does it even work?

If the answers to all of these questions are yes, then this pill may very well lead to the crumbling of society. Eh, probably not, but you never know...

 

[sween32]

Well, I'm not talking about tomorrow. I'm talking years from now. If this thing really works, it could very well eventually become an everyday technology. Just like Alka-Seltzer. And you know how much college students and youngin's party... without hangovers how will they ever learn to stop? Many people in their late 20's stop drinking as much because they can't handle it the next day like they used to. What's to stop that generation from drinking every night and just taking a cheap pill? We're talking about liver problems in their early 30's.

 

[Bose]

I know there would be a drastic increase in the amount of nights a week this little black duck drinks! If this is the real deal i'm getting a huge loan and buying a hotel...

This has been claimed many times though...

 

[sween32]

I think at first this is a great product. Like it said in the commercial, there are people who have a hard time with wine. I know a few who do. It'll help them go out and have a good time. But then again, Oxycontin is supposed to help with cancer.

I need a beer.

 

[kmad]

When I read this thread title I thought it was some reliever in baseball named Chaser who plays when he's on a hangover

 

[WillJ]

Originally posted by sween32
Well, I'm not talking about tomorrow. I'm talking years from now. If this thing really works, it could very well eventually become an everyday technology. Just like Alka-Seltzer. And you know how much college students and youngin's party... without hangovers how will they ever learn to stop? Many people in their late 20's stop drinking as much because they can't handle it the next day like they used to. What's to stop that generation from drinking every night and just taking a cheap pill? We're talking about liver problems in their early 30's.

Well then hopefully the next generation after that will learn from them, and know not to drink too much because of their health, not hangovers.

 

[sween32]

of course, we all know that kmad has the true hangover reliever in his avatar. never fails.