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The story
A thread titled “(´;ω;`) I’m gonna drink for 24 hours starting now!!!” popped up on 5channel’s Newssoku VIP board, with the poster live-blogging their drinking session — starting with seared bonito (katsuo tataki) as a snack, washed down with shochu-and-cola and whiskey.
Fellow posters flooded in with worried warnings like “you’re gonna get kidney stones” and “are you gonna puke again,” but the poster ignored them and kept drinking late into the night.
What people said
(´;ω;`) That's right
(´・∀・｀) Lost 1.5kg!
Gonna keep grinding on this diet
(´;ω;`) Nice work! Keep it up
(´;ω;`) Whiskey's expensive… shochu's the way to go
(´;ω;`) Alcohol's got nothing to do with stones
(´;ω;`) I'll probably fall asleep though
(´;ω;`) It's shochu mixed with zero-sugar cola
Can you seriously go the full 24 hours (^q^)
That doesn't even go with seared bonito…
(´;ω;`) It's almost all gone already
(´;ω;`) I only throw up once in a while
(´;ω;`) They say booze is medicine, don't they
Alcohol itself doesn't directly cause kidney stones, but the dehydration and excess intake of certain substances that come with drinking significantly raise the risk of urinary stones. There's also a folk myth that "drinking beer to boost urine output will flush the stones out," but that's medically false — in fact, it's known to backfire.
(´;ω;`) Shut up, I'd rather grow a stone than quit drinking
(´;ω;`) I'll allow myself to sleep
That's just you wanting to drink (^q^)
(´;ω;`) What's so gross about it?!
(´;ω;`) And it's cheap too — best snack there is
(´;ω;`) It's only just started though
(´;ω;`) Sea bream and yellowtail? Looks delicious
Whoa, whoa, whoa—
(´;ω;`) This looks like an izakaya!
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(´；ω；｀) Gross
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(´;ω;`) Nice, whiskey! It's kind of dim in here though…
Background and Key Points
Since the article doesn’t hinge on a formal institution or numbers-driven controversy, I’ll focus the background on the format itself and the specific cultural touchpoints the thread raises, per the “thin thread” fallback.
The “AA” ( (´;ω;`) ) live-blog format is a longstanding tradition on 5channel’s Newssoku VIP board, one of the site’s most active boards for anonymous, off-the-cuff threads. Posters routinely narrate risky or self-destructive activities in real time — all-night gaming, extreme diets, gambling binges — and this “drink for 24 hours” thread fits that mold. The emoji-style kaomoji faces function as a stand-in identity for the anonymous original poster, letting readers track a single continuous narrator across hundreds of replies without a username. Katsuo tataki (seared, lightly-charred bonito, usually served with garlic, ginger, and ponzu) and shochu-cola highballs are everyday izakaya staples in Japan, not exotic choices — the drink pairing readers might find odd is actually one of the most common cheap drinking combinations sold at convenience stores.
The thread’s real split isn’t about whether the marathon is a good idea — virtually everyone agrees it’s reckless — but about *why* it’s dangerous. One camp fixates on kidney stones as the looming consequence, while another poster corrects the record: alcohol doesn’t directly cause stones, but the dehydration and byproducts of heavy drinking raise the risk, and the folk belief that beer “flushes out” stones is specifically debunked as backfiring medically. That exchange, not the drinking itself, is where the thread’s only real disagreement plays out.
What outside readers likely miss: nobody in the thread raises Japan’s comparatively lax cultural and legal tolerance for solo binge drinking, or that this kind of live-blogged self-endangerment is treated as low-stakes internet entertainment rather than a cry for help — which is why the replies are teasing rather than alarmed.
*This article is compiled from excerpts and a summary of the 5ch (Newssoku VIP) thread “(´;ω;`) I’m gonna drink for 24 hours starting now!!!.”
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