[Albion] Is it acceptable for Albion players to do ‘balloons’ on a team night out?

[Munkfish]

No. Because having a beer with a meal is an entirely different set of circumstances to being seen getting high on hippy crack in a nightclub.

Have you ever tried it? You are literally throwing around a daily mail buzz word. No one, literally no one calls it hippy crack.

 

[dejavuatbtn]

It doesn’t look good. It isn’t healthy. It can be dangerous. It’s not something they should be advertising to kids. There must be more grown up things to do with their time and wealth.

 

[Bakero]

It doesn’t look good. It isn’t healthy. It can be dangerous. It’s not something they should be advertising to kids. There must be more grown up things to do with their time and wealth.

Would you rather they had a few JD and cokes?

 

[drew]

Acceptable is a stupid word really only used by the shrieking entitled so I won't answer the poll.

All i'll say is the players are looked after well by the club and paid well by the club and they are fully aware of the importance of how the club is perceived in attracting big sponsorship deals like with Amex which go towards their wage. So I can't understand why, and wish they hadn't done something which attracts this sort of negative publicity.

Have to agree with this. Pretty dumb to be doing something that they know will be looked upon badly by the club in what appears to be an open area where anyone (and someone did) film them!

These aren't a bunch of teenagers on an end of term binge to some overseas party destination. Those saying there is nothing wrong with this are completely missing the point.

 

[schmunk]

off their nut on coke drink

 

[Easy 10]

Have you ever tried it? You are literally throwing around a daily mail buzz word. No one, literally no one calls it hippy crack.

Nope I haven't tried it, not really interested. But then I'm not an 'elite athlete' in the midst of a Premier League relegation battle getting woozy in some nightclub.

And "hippy crack" seems to be the term being used fairly widely across the media and Twitter, its certainly not exclusive to the Daily Mail. So to say that "literally no one calls it hippy crack" is patently bollocks.

 

[RossyG]

Are they technically “at work” when they’re on these trips, in the same way, say, that we would be classed as at work if we went on an overnight training course or an office party and decided to play the Lord of Misrule in the bar?

 

[Mellotron]

No. Because having a beer with a meal is an entirely different set of circumstances to being seen getting high on hippy crack in a nightclub.

Please can people stop calling it “hippy crack”? It’s embarrassing, and the language used by Daily Mail columnists/*****.

 

[RossyG]

I was watching Woodstock the other day and saw plenty of hippy crack.

Mind you, this was fifty years ago, back in the day when people knew how to use the word literally in sentences.

 

[Westdene Seagull]

Not bothered to read the thread but really, we're all entitled to a private life outside our work lives, so why not the players ? Let them get on with it if they wish just as long as it's legal.

EDIT - and I'd be surprised if those that have commented in a negative way have NEVER done anything their employer might find questionable.

 

[Wrong-Direction]

Nope I haven't tried it, not really interested. But then I'm not an 'elite athlete' in the midst of a Premier League relegation battle getting woozy in some nightclub.

And "hippy crack" seems to be the term being used fairly widely across the media and Twitter, its certainly not exclusive to the Daily Mail. So to say that "literally no one calls it hippy crack" is patently bollocks.

Or it shows how many people believe the shit the media spew out every day

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[Wardy's twin]

The reason why they should not be doing it is because like me they probably don't know the full implication. It might be nothing or it might be something. If these guys are professional (athletes/footballers) then they should be following strict diets and inputs and having several beers DOES affect performance several days after, a few % but enough to make a difference at the top level.

 

[RossyG]

If they’d all been smoking cigarettes I imagine the outcry would be even worse.

 

[GT49er]

Have you ever tried it?

Sadly no. I'll certainly give it a go if it becomes available in Lloydspharmacy or Boots though!

 

[Easy 10]

Urban dictionary: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hippie crack

Hippie crack
This is the term for Nitrous Oxide, or laughing gas, used to get high. It is usually administered by taking the small metal capsules used in the old fashioned whip cream canisters and piercing the top with a 'cracker' (paraphenelia used for this exact purpose as no one making sundaes uses a cracker) and allowing all the gas to fill a large balloon. The balloon gas is then inhaled and held in until the user starts to feel a high from the gas. This high only lasts only lasts for a minute or less but leaves you wanting more- Hence the association with Crack. Other than killing braincells its fairly harmless (don't take this as gospel) so its more for lightweight hippies instead of serious drug addicts. In addition, its become very popular in deadhead type gatherings and is associated with Hippies in that way too.

Seems a fairly standard term for it thats banded about. So sorry to offend

 

[Whitechapel]

No. Because having a beer with a meal is an entirely different set of circumstances to being seen getting high on hippy crack in a nightclub.

Daily Mail/The Sun buzzword
Doesn’t actually seem to understand what he’s taking about

What a frankly unprecedented combination that is.

In a way it’s actually impressive how shiterags like The Sun have managed to convince an entire army of Your Da types that Nitros Oxide is a massive danger simply by saying it is and making up a stupid, nonsensical nickname. Honestly it just comes across as “I don’t understand this thing but the paper said it’s bad so I don’t have to think for myself”

 

[A1X]

 

[Hamilton]

No it is not.


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[Easy 10]

Daily Mail/The Sun buzzword
Doesn’t actually seem to understand what he’s taking about

What a frankly unprecedented combination that is.

In a way it’s actually impressive how shiterags like The Sun have managed to convince an entire army of Your Da types that Nitros Oxide is a massive danger simply by saying it is and making up a stupid, nonsensical nickname. Honestly it just comes across as “I don’t understand this thing but the paper said it’s bad so I don’t have to think for myself”

*sigh*

As pointed out, its just a commonly used term for nitrous oxide. The fact it appears in The Sun, The Mail etc is neither here nor there, its hardly EXCLUSIVE to them and I very much doubt they "invented" it either. Neither did I at any point say its a massive danger.

Other than that - great post chap.

 

[Kazenga <3]

Imagine they'll be suitability embarrassed being caught doing balloons. Absolutely childish 'drug', at least pop a molly.