The best part of this video isn’t the frozen tongue (which is epically stuck), but my friend Cris’s explosive laughter at the ‘sticky’ situation.

For the first 39 seconds, he hysterically laughs while I flail around; at 0:40 he tries breathing on my tongue to get it off; at 0:57 he tries rubbing his finger on my tongue and at 1:09 I mumble that this is the dumbest thing I’ve ever done.

Finally at 1:20 (not real time, I edited out all the boring crying) I get my frozen tongue off the pole.

“You’re never gonna kiss right again, Ryan!”

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