If you’ve yet to read this hilarious trend story from the Awl about a phenomenon called “Icing Your Bro” — a thing at least a handful of people across the country are doing that involves forcing a friend to get down on one knee and down a Smirnoff Ice as fast as they can — do take a look.
The rules are simple: hand a Smirnoff Ice (the warmer/more disgusting the flavor, the better) to a friend (your “bro”), and he must get down on one knee and chug the malt beverage, regardless of location and situational appropriateness. HOWEVER. If said friend happens to have a Smirnoff Ice on his person, then the bro who initiated the battle has to chug BOTH Ices.
According to this interview, Icing Bros has become popular in areas with a lot of Southern fraternity students and alumni, so it stands to reason this could have happened somewhere in D.C. Has anyone ever actually seen it done?
Apropos of this perplexing concept, WTOP links to a KTLA story about “vodka eyeballing,” which is exactly what it sounds like: pouring vodka directly into an eyeball in the hopes of getting a fast, intense buzz. This is of course completely stupid, because it could very well permanently damage one’s vision.
Gawker rightly lampooned the original source of the vodka eyeballing “trend,” a story from the Daily Mail that chronicled this purported behavior among UK students. And frankly, any trend story that involves drinking behavior among college students should be read with a deeply skeptical eye (BREAKING! College students like to get fucked up!).
But let’s say just for the sake of argument that someone, somewhere is currently debating which of these dumbass things they’d like to try out. Which one is dumber? I’m having a hard time deciding.