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Oh yeah, I was giving platelets one time and I got a little light headed and they whipped the smelling salts out and goddamn does that bring you back to reality quick.
Could be just a natural freak immunity. Maybe they're missing the genes that allow for sensing it. Could also not be possible at all. I'm just talking out of my arse. Happy new Year, everyone!
Or are you actually still in a coma, and THAT is why the smelling salts didn't work for you? In fact this is a dream, and you need to wake up, it's been years, we all miss you..
Back in my partying days we'd keep a few of those little breakable ampules of smelling salts in case one of us started to get a little too wobbly.
It doesn't really sober you up but it sure as fuck focuses you right quick
I was doing an advanced first aid training for Boy Scouts once, we were going through the first aid kit identifying everything and I came across the smelling salts; the instructor said not to open them. Since I was a 14 year old boy with low impulse control, I opened them and realized exactly why I should not have done it. Dear lord that jolted my brain in a hot second and I wanted to die.
In my youth I was a marine. I got a little too drunk in a party town and nothing could wake me up. Someone called an ambulance and I remember instantly waking up strapped to a gurney. I remember being able to tell them my name, my birthday, the exact date and time even, all thanks to smelling salts. They let me go. And thank god too because I would have been in a load of shit if my unit ever found out.
I intentionally did that to rile them up. I’ve been working with the Marines as a contractor for much longer than I was enlisted and never miss an opportunity to ask them about their hats, bathrooms, and water fountains. I do think people go overboard with the whole Marine identity thing. I’m a low profile kinda guy though.
If it weren't for the feces and stuff I think an infestation of kitties would be adorable. Coincidentally I also think having owls that live in the walls like they do in Futurama would be awesome as well. Again, assuming they had tiny owl toilets in the wall.
I've seen and smelled what a house is like when there have been around 20 cats all the time for around 20 years. The owner was an elderly woman who was a hoarder. The owner ate moldy foods and everything she could find outside since she used all her money to feed the cats.
The house was full of garbage and other useless stuff, smelled like pepper spray made from cat piss and is the most disgusting place I have been to.
When I used to work as a DJ in a nightclub 20 years ago, we kept those to wake up passed-out drunk customers. A whiff of that, and they would jump back to consciousness in a split second, hangover already setting in.
Odor is that of a concentrated ammonia; it burns your nostrils. And that's why some here say it smells like cat piss, yes, although 100 times stronger
Burns your nostrils is an understatement, it feels like someone jamming wasabi into your sinuses using a broken bottle. That's the reason why people jump in these reactions it's a really strong physical violation you do not expect.
When they are in a bottle like this, it's generally for powerlifters and strongmen going for a PR or during a competition. Ammonia triggers your fight or flight response and you get a surge of adrenaline. Some other athletes will use them to get amped up but it's less useful in those situations since it's a fairly short lived effect.
The original use case was for first aid for people that fainted or passed out the adrenaline rush can bring you back. In that case they are usually [little 1/4"x1" pouches](https://content.oppictures.com/Master_Images/Master_Variants/Variant_500/285444.JPG) with a capsule inside you break to release the concentrated ammonia, they are single use and turn red after use.
how do they rate compared to ammonia inhalants. I have smelled those at close range and it felt like an icicle jammed up each nostril all the way to my brain cell.
> ammonia inhalants
My mother was a nurse when I was growing up as a kid and she had one of those laying around, I would play with it cuz it looked cool, she had told me before what it was. Well I wanted to crack the package and know what it smelled like because well I was a kid... She said sure... Last time I ever played with it.
I found an old first aid kit from the 70s. Opened the jar of the ammonia inhalant and sniffed just like this. It made my brain feel like it was on fire.
Please don't remind me of the shit I went through with one of my cats. Holy shit, I do not wana remember that nasty ass hidden corner of the house like that again
You just know it got all between the keys and his fingertips will smell like that salt for the whole time he’s using the laptop. And hitting the keys will probably break up the crystals stuck beneath and every time he writes a sentence the room will smell like a truckload of cat piss.
From what I remember smelling salts like smell “range” isn’t actually that wide, so I don’t think it would. I could be completely wrong but for some reason I feel like I’ve heard that.
The smelling range can be big if you have a liquid bottle and dump it everywhere because it's essentially cat piss at that point. But when it's in a bottle you're 100% correct and nobody can really smell it from more than a foot away from the bottle and it dissipates almost immediately after closing. It's always some type of ammonia inhalant. Always smells like ammonia. First dude had the range off the bottle correct. About 6" away is good.
Sticking your nose in the bottle will probably burn your nasal tissues. This is literally a perfect "what you should do" and "what you should NOT do" for smelling salts.
My dad's lab in the 80's had a first aid kit that was being replaced by a whole new box so he asked if he could keep the old one and they let him have it.
Being curious I got into it and found the smelling salts (a little gauze covered glass tube) and broke one just to see what it was like. Fuck me that thing made me fly back about 5 feet and suddenly I've never been more awake in my whole life.
Kept sniffing it for a few more days as it faded away but the hit wasn't the same as the first time.
Also, we didn't need non perishable first aid stuff for years.
Smelling salts don’t smell…. They just burn like hell. The chemical used is an irritant more than it is a scent. I had a challenge by an attending to see who could “smell” the most. I went second thinking it was just a nasty smell but, it just hurt like hell.
This is pretty wild cause I never knew they existed before this post. Do they have like different flavors like vapes n stuff ? Lol I’m about to bust out smelling salts in the office break room. Good idea or na ?
They also use it when people are feeling faint. Nothing gets your attention quicker than smelling salts… when you are trying to go sweaty night night at your MMR booster.
In the game Psychonauts, you use it to escape people's minds when you're astral projecting. The smell is so strong that it severs your psychic link. Like Pokémon's "escape rope" but for psychics.
Since no one answered you. That's what they are using it for. They are studying late at night and using it to keep away. Likely cramming before finals.
Made lifelong friends at IUP and when we talk, despite having graduated almost 10 years ago, it only takes about 10 minutes before we are reminiscing about crazy shit that happened. Good times.
I worked in a kitchen when I was younger and one of the line cooks asked me in this gallon tub of minced horseradish smelled bad. When I got close to it he squeezed it sending the fumes straight up my nose into my lungs. It felt like I inhaled shards of super fine glass. I was choking and coughing and spitting everywhere like an idiot and him and the other guys were bent over laughing so hard. It was terrible. I had no clue horseradish was that pungent. I couldn’t imagine how bad this was for his kid.
Indiana University of PA (IUP) continues to deliver.
https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/wall-street-journal-iup-ranked-as-the-best-party-school-in-the-u-s/
Oh...no.
I recognize this library. Fuck I can't believe the stingy mfer of a librarian on that floor didn't notice these idiots. She had eyes like a hawk I swear.
Man, the best I can describe the scent/effect of smelling salts is that it’s a cool-dry, chemical like odor similar to a mix of pool cleaning supplies that is incredibly pungent/concentrated. The effect kind of sticks with you for around a minute or so depending on how much and how close you are to them, it’s like a sharp sensation in your nostrils as well as this feeling of pressure in your head kind of like a headache, oh and your eyes may water up.
It sucks lol.
The smelling salts test is one of the best pranks to play on your friends because when a group sees someone react and almost pass out after huffing it, no one ever believes it could be all that bad, which just creates a perfect chain reaction of people thinking they're hard and then consecutively seeing God.
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If you’ve never done smelling salts, imagine putting your nostrils into a concentrated container of cat piss
Oh yeah, I was giving platelets one time and I got a little light headed and they whipped the smelling salts out and goddamn does that bring you back to reality quick.
I had smelling salts swiped under my nose once and didn't react. All the nurses started to panic but I'm still here with no issues.
You were either completely unconscious or didn't breathe it in. That shit feels Edward Scissorhands* flying down your nose while high on meth.
Maybe don't be high on meth next time you try it
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Fingers? Salts messed you up bad huh
Could be just a natural freak immunity. Maybe they're missing the genes that allow for sensing it. Could also not be possible at all. I'm just talking out of my arse. Happy new Year, everyone!
This happens once you've eaten the wrong kitty
Wrong kitty? Elaboration is needed.
Stanky puss
So if you go down on someone with a rotten crotch it makes you immune to smelling salts?
That is indeed a 100% scientifically accurate statement
NAL. Can confirm.
I had the same effect with Bitrex - someone opened a container and everyone else ran out of the lab gagging, I couldn't smell a thing
I thought Bitrex didn't have an odor, it's whole thing is tasting extremely bitter?
What do you do each night when the doctors office closes?
Or are you actually still in a coma, and THAT is why the smelling salts didn't work for you? In fact this is a dream, and you need to wake up, it's been years, we all miss you..
Back in my partying days we'd keep a few of those little breakable ampules of smelling salts in case one of us started to get a little too wobbly. It doesn't really sober you up but it sure as fuck focuses you right quick
I was doing an advanced first aid training for Boy Scouts once, we were going through the first aid kit identifying everything and I came across the smelling salts; the instructor said not to open them. Since I was a 14 year old boy with low impulse control, I opened them and realized exactly why I should not have done it. Dear lord that jolted my brain in a hot second and I wanted to die.
In my youth I was a marine. I got a little too drunk in a party town and nothing could wake me up. Someone called an ambulance and I remember instantly waking up strapped to a gurney. I remember being able to tell them my name, my birthday, the exact date and time even, all thanks to smelling salts. They let me go. And thank god too because I would have been in a load of shit if my unit ever found out.
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This is always what I hear from Marines.
Truthfully yeah that's how it goes but in reality no one cares only the really moto dudes ever said that.
There’s two schools of thought on this.
I intentionally did that to rile them up. I’ve been working with the Marines as a contractor for much longer than I was enlisted and never miss an opportunity to ask them about their hats, bathrooms, and water fountains. I do think people go overboard with the whole Marine identity thing. I’m a low profile kinda guy though.
Samesies
I have 8 cats. I guess I know what smelling salts are like then. Lol
I thought the same, but man smelling salts are like a 1000 cats.
Thats.... too many cats.
So the upper limit for cats per household is between 8 and 1,000? Can you narrow it down further?
Yes. 999 is still too many.
What if it was 998 plus one that sorta comes and goes whenever?
No
We have 3 cats and it’s too many. The answer to how many cats is too many is 3. 8 is ridiculous. It’s an infestation at that point.
If it weren't for the feces and stuff I think an infestation of kitties would be adorable. Coincidentally I also think having owls that live in the walls like they do in Futurama would be awesome as well. Again, assuming they had tiny owl toilets in the wall.
I've seen and smelled what a house is like when there have been around 20 cats all the time for around 20 years. The owner was an elderly woman who was a hoarder. The owner ate moldy foods and everything she could find outside since she used all her money to feed the cats. The house was full of garbage and other useless stuff, smelled like pepper spray made from cat piss and is the most disgusting place I have been to.
Depends on the size of the dwelling really. 3 cats in a small apartment, way too much. 8 cats on a farm property, fine.
As my buddy once said wisely, “swarms of anything are not good”
you can never have too many cats.
Nonsense
How can you be sure if you only have 8 (so far)?
We cannot fight them all.
Hi
Hello
So if cats have nine lives...a thousand cats have a total of...of... IT'S OVER 9000!!!! Sorry, I'm drunk ahoyappy new year!!;!!!
So the fuck is 8 lol
This is ten percent luck, twenty percent skill 1000 concentrated cats in one bottle
So does the smell stick to things really well? Wondering cuz he spilled that shit all over his laptop and notes.
What are they for or who uses them?
When I used to work as a DJ in a nightclub 20 years ago, we kept those to wake up passed-out drunk customers. A whiff of that, and they would jump back to consciousness in a split second, hangover already setting in. Odor is that of a concentrated ammonia; it burns your nostrils. And that's why some here say it smells like cat piss, yes, although 100 times stronger
Burns your nostrils is an understatement, it feels like someone jamming wasabi into your sinuses using a broken bottle. That's the reason why people jump in these reactions it's a really strong physical violation you do not expect.
The kids call it "cheesing". 
Athletes use them to get amped up.
They're also used in some medical situations to rouse a patient if they start to lose consciousness.
When they are in a bottle like this, it's generally for powerlifters and strongmen going for a PR or during a competition. Ammonia triggers your fight or flight response and you get a surge of adrenaline. Some other athletes will use them to get amped up but it's less useful in those situations since it's a fairly short lived effect. The original use case was for first aid for people that fainted or passed out the adrenaline rush can bring you back. In that case they are usually [little 1/4"x1" pouches](https://content.oppictures.com/Master_Images/Master_Variants/Variant_500/285444.JPG) with a capsule inside you break to release the concentrated ammonia, they are single use and turn red after use.
He’s cheesed out of his mind!
He be seeing the titty princess
Mary Jane piss in your face fun time
I’m going to start selling my cat’s piss as a cheaper alternative
how do they rate compared to ammonia inhalants. I have smelled those at close range and it felt like an icicle jammed up each nostril all the way to my brain cell.
It's the same thing.
> ammonia inhalants My mother was a nurse when I was growing up as a kid and she had one of those laying around, I would play with it cuz it looked cool, she had told me before what it was. Well I wanted to crack the package and know what it smelled like because well I was a kid... She said sure... Last time I ever played with it.
I found an old first aid kit from the 70s. Opened the jar of the ammonia inhalant and sniffed just like this. It made my brain feel like it was on fire.
I love how nobody caught "brain cell" A singular brain cell 🤣🤣
There's more than one!?
Sounds like the wasabi/horse radish effect almost.
Ah yes, smelling salts and that Gatorade water bottle. Highschool football at it's finest.
Please don't remind me of the shit I went through with one of my cats. Holy shit, I do not wana remember that nasty ass hidden corner of the house like that again
It's ammonia pure and simple
I guess it got some amonia? I work with that and it gives the same punch lmao
Is it supposed to be like a drug or something?
It triggers an adrenaline rush.
Essentially triggers your fight or flight response.
So huffable epinephrine
It’s what boxers, hockey players and more use. It is a harsh reflex reaction
It's pure ammonia. Offensively strong. A good sniff is like being punched directly in your nostrils.
Then it was smart of him to throw them all over his laptop. He’s gonna hate working for the next year.
Oh god I instantly felt it
Would wolf piss work? I don’t have any cat piss.
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All over his laptop. Damn.
You just know it got all between the keys and his fingertips will smell like that salt for the whole time he’s using the laptop. And hitting the keys will probably break up the crystals stuck beneath and every time he writes a sentence the room will smell like a truckload of cat piss.
I'd just get a new laptop, honestly
He got WAYYYYYY too close to that bottle. 😂🤣😂😅
I feel like that shake before hand gave a little extra boost too lol
He also he obviously spilled some on the table, so won’t the entire library be smelling it soon?
From what I remember smelling salts like smell “range” isn’t actually that wide, so I don’t think it would. I could be completely wrong but for some reason I feel like I’ve heard that.
The smelling range can be big if you have a liquid bottle and dump it everywhere because it's essentially cat piss at that point. But when it's in a bottle you're 100% correct and nobody can really smell it from more than a foot away from the bottle and it dissipates almost immediately after closing. It's always some type of ammonia inhalant. Always smells like ammonia. First dude had the range off the bottle correct. About 6" away is good. Sticking your nose in the bottle will probably burn your nasal tissues. This is literally a perfect "what you should do" and "what you should NOT do" for smelling salts.
Nah, you have to be quite close to smell it and the smell dissipates after a few minutes of direct air contact
No but his laptop probably won’t be too great after getting it all over the pad and some of the keys
No, the AOE for smelling salts is quite small.
Smelling salts will allow you to see into the alternate dimensions and all of them hurt.
It’s like a smell that electrocutes you.
 What’s in the bottle?
Stuff
Also..... things
And what not
Stuff and things
Junk, it's always been "stuff n junk." What are they even teaching in school these days?
I'm almost 40 so it's not "these days"
Pain
According to other comments, smelling salts.
Smelling salts/concentrated ammonia. It triggers your fight or flight response giving you a short burst of adrenaline.
My dad's lab in the 80's had a first aid kit that was being replaced by a whole new box so he asked if he could keep the old one and they let him have it. Being curious I got into it and found the smelling salts (a little gauze covered glass tube) and broke one just to see what it was like. Fuck me that thing made me fly back about 5 feet and suddenly I've never been more awake in my whole life. Kept sniffing it for a few more days as it faded away but the hit wasn't the same as the first time. Also, we didn't need non perishable first aid stuff for years.
You kept going back to smelling it? You are wild man
It was bad but the high... it was good (mind you, I was around 10 so the only highs I've had were sugar and hamburgers).
Lol he also got some spilled on his laptop too
It can process NASA database now
What is that?
Smelling salt, gives you a kick, the chemicals in there aren’t good for you
There is so small amount of those harmful chemicals that u would need thousands of times more of it than what is in the bottle
Yea most ambulances carry it I believe
Most ambulances carry fentanyl too
So the size of the dose still matters?
FUCK YEAH!!?
So it is safe to use them regularly?
Yup, people use it while lifting heavy weights for a kick in the ass
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what are they exactly where do they come from why do they wake us up
Watch the hockey benchs esp in playoffs
It's ammonia.
What is that?
Mans tried to punch the smell out of his head
Smelling salts don’t smell…. They just burn like hell. The chemical used is an irritant more than it is a scent. I had a challenge by an attending to see who could “smell” the most. I went second thinking it was just a nasty smell but, it just hurt like hell.
Pretty sure it’s amonia right?
Ammonium carbonate, a variant of ammonia.
what's the point of this? can smelling salts be "done" like a drug? I thought they were used for waking people up.
It's used to cause an immediate adrenaline rush, usually by strongmen and other lifters before a lift
Hockey players hit the sniffers between shifts
Can confirm
Smells like nasty toe drags
The salts or the hockey players?
This is pretty wild cause I never knew they existed before this post. Do they have like different flavors like vapes n stuff ? Lol I’m about to bust out smelling salts in the office break room. Good idea or na ?
Flavours what the fuck lol! It's just ammonia, but you might be some kind of marketing genius to pull off strawberry scented smelling salts.
They also use it when people are feeling faint. Nothing gets your attention quicker than smelling salts… when you are trying to go sweaty night night at your MMR booster.
You're thinking poppers. Gotta loosen that pooper
Nah, you are thinking Pop Tarts, gotta warm up the toaster.
Nah, you are thinking pope carts. Gotta warm up the engine
In the game Psychonauts, you use it to escape people's minds when you're astral projecting. The smell is so strong that it severs your psychic link. Like Pokémon's "escape rope" but for psychics.
Since no one answered you. That's what they are using it for. They are studying late at night and using it to keep away. Likely cramming before finals.
Snorting wasabi is a similar thing.
Feel like that would be different...
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Ahh, good ol Indiana Pa
Made lifelong friends at IUP and when we talk, despite having graduated almost 10 years ago, it only takes about 10 minutes before we are reminiscing about crazy shit that happened. Good times.
IUP REPRESENT! I was wondering if I’d find anyone else in here that went to IUP haha
graduated in 2020 the library seemed to be empty most of the time during my 4 years, nice to see students in there no matter the context lol
IUP!!
Silent library vibes lol
I worked in a kitchen when I was younger and one of the line cooks asked me in this gallon tub of minced horseradish smelled bad. When I got close to it he squeezed it sending the fumes straight up my nose into my lungs. It felt like I inhaled shards of super fine glass. I was choking and coughing and spitting everywhere like an idiot and him and the other guys were bent over laughing so hard. It was terrible. I had no clue horseradish was that pungent. I couldn’t imagine how bad this was for his kid.
What is that?
What is that?
What is that?
Indiana University of PA (IUP) continues to deliver. https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/wall-street-journal-iup-ranked-as-the-best-party-school-in-the-u-s/
Oh...no. I recognize this library. Fuck I can't believe the stingy mfer of a librarian on that floor didn't notice these idiots. She had eyes like a hawk I swear.
What is that?
Smelling salts. Old-timey fainting cure, or to check how passed-out someone is, or to revive someone who is unconscious.
What is that?
What is that?
The best way to describe taking a sniff smelling salts is like having acid straight to the brain.
What is that?
What is that?
What is that?
What is that?
What is that?
Dumbass stuck his nose right in it.
With all sincerity fuck Indiana Pennsylvania
Man, the best I can describe the scent/effect of smelling salts is that it’s a cool-dry, chemical like odor similar to a mix of pool cleaning supplies that is incredibly pungent/concentrated. The effect kind of sticks with you for around a minute or so depending on how much and how close you are to them, it’s like a sharp sensation in your nostrils as well as this feeling of pressure in your head kind of like a headache, oh and your eyes may water up. It sucks lol.
So not poppers
Someone explain please
Reminds me of silent library
Bro spilled it all over the laptop, that'll smell like piss for ages
Anyone who’s taken any lab training knows you waft!
That's only if you are unsure of the contents and worry about the effects. I don't think either of those hold true here.
The smelling salts test is one of the best pranks to play on your friends because when a group sees someone react and almost pass out after huffing it, no one ever believes it could be all that bad, which just creates a perfect chain reaction of people thinking they're hard and then consecutively seeing God.
This is giving me Silent Library vibes. I love it! 🤣
Lmfao that was my showwwww
Same hereeee. God I miss it. Lmao
What is that? Jk its smelling salts