# Putting friend's hand in warm water while he's asleep **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 21, 2003, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putting-friends-hand-in-warm-water-while-hes-asleep/220323 "2003-12-21T16:45:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Vortex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/fbc32d/32.png) [@Vortex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vortex)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putting-friends-hand-in-warm-water-while-hes-asleep/220323/1 "2003-12-21T16:45:47Z")
I’ve heard of this slumber party trick, but never tried it. Does it really make a person urinate? ---
**Author:** ![gluteus\_maximus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f17d59/32.png) [@gluteus\_maximus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gluteus_maximus)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putting-friends-hand-in-warm-water-while-hes-asleep/220323/2 "2003-12-21T16:57:56Z")
Experiments like this are best conducted on non-human subjects first… preferably ones with relatively small bladders, if for no other reason than reducing cleanup time. If you don’t happen to have a hamster handy, then at least put down a rubber sheet before you make the bed for your slumber party guest guinea pig. A goodly amount of some diuretic beverage (beer) provided to your subject before bedtime will likely enhance the effect of your experiment. It’s generally considered unsporting to choose victims… uh… subjects… with a prior history of bladder-control ineptitude. That was not a hint. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putting-friends-hand-in-warm-water-while-hes-asleep/220323/3 "2003-12-21T17:09:12Z")
[If seeing is believing…](http://mysite.verizon.net/fmurtley/pisspants.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![IBBen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/85f322/32.png) [@IBBen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IBBen)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putting-friends-hand-in-warm-water-while-hes-asleep/220323/4 "2003-12-21T20:22:12Z")
Cecil has [written](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_027.html). Personally, I’ve never tried it and have only met those who claim it works, not those who’ve actually succeeded in embarrassing their unwitting and unconscious ‘friends’. ---
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putting-friends-hand-in-warm-water-while-hes-asleep/220323/5 "2003-12-21T20:41:48Z")
Wow your link **fear Itself** shows that when wearing khakis and you piss in your pants more piss to travel agains gravity then with it. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putting-friends-hand-in-warm-water-while-hes-asleep/220323/6 "2003-12-21T20:43:06Z")
I haven’t done it in years but rest assured it never failed to work. ---
**Author:** ![Eleusis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Eleusis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleusis)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putting-friends-hand-in-warm-water-while-hes-asleep/220323/7 "2003-12-21T21:49:12Z")
We tried once in the fifth grade. It didn’t work, so we poured the water on the kid’s crotch and then _told him_ he wet the bed. ---
**Author:** ![Blown\_Injected](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a87d85/32.png) [@Blown\_Injected](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blown_Injected)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putting-friends-hand-in-warm-water-while-hes-asleep/220323/8 "2003-12-22T01:30:40Z")
Some friends tried some of the UL type stuff many moons ago. There was nothing we could do to get a sea gull to eat an alka seltzer, and the warm water thing was also a failure - but it was fun trying. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putting-friends-hand-in-warm-water-while-hes-asleep/220323/9 "2003-12-22T03:53:27Z")
“sea gull to eat an alka seltzer”? Wha…? ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putting-friends-hand-in-warm-water-while-hes-asleep/220323/10 "2003-12-22T04:00:27Z")
“sea gull to eat an alka seltzer”? Wha…? ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Sarang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jack\_Sarang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Sarang)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putting-friends-hand-in-warm-water-while-hes-asleep/220323/11 "2003-12-22T05:28:13Z")
The trick supposedly is… You feed a seagull an alkaseltzer… because gulls will eat anything… the little tablet then starts to effervesce once in the gull’s stomach… supposedly this causes the stomach to expand beyond what the gull can handle and the stomach explodes… and the gull plummets from the sky like a rock. ---
**Author:** ![netscape\_6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/8c91f0/32.png) [@netscape\_6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/netscape_6)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putting-friends-hand-in-warm-water-while-hes-asleep/220323/12 "2003-12-22T05:48:56Z")
do gulls lack the ability to burp? ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putting-friends-hand-in-warm-water-while-hes-asleep/220323/13 "2003-12-22T05:50:48Z")
I would presume that even gulls can burp… ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putting-friends-hand-in-warm-water-while-hes-asleep/220323/14 "2003-12-22T05:52:55Z")
heh 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Blown\_Injected](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a87d85/32.png) [@Blown\_Injected](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blown_Injected)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putting-friends-hand-in-warm-water-while-hes-asleep/220323/15 "2003-12-22T06:50:15Z")
Even if they can’t, they are smart enough to know the difference between food and a dirty trick - did not matter how much bread we molded around the tablet.