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Coke is running a "Share a Coke with ____" campaign in New Zealand (and Australia?), so that each bottle has a different name on the label. I happen to find these two side by side in the shop:


Outside on the wall, this poster:


Looks like someone in coke's marketing department follows BCB, hehehe.

This post has been edited by Migrant: 03 December 2012 - 10:04 AM

ha

oh my godddddd how exciting!!!!


.. WAIT HOLY SHIT I DID NOT NOTICE THE HUSBAND'S NAME ON THE SECOND PICTURE HOLY SHIT

Well I guess we all have to ship MikexLucy now

and she txt

The Mike x Lucy ship is just like Coke, in fact. A drug-based rush that quickly burns out, leaving you crashing afterward; a highly acidic, overrated, originally medicinal, luxury drink with better tasting alternatives available; and a growing health problem for the nation.

YEAH SPACEY LET'S ALL JUST SWITCH TO RUM AND PEPSI.

Jerk, on 03 December 2012 - 07:22 PM, said:

don't knock it until you've tried it, man

Rum and pepsi is pretty sweet, but a Screwdriver's where it's at.

I'd rather prefer a fine Irish whiskey on the rocks.

And I don't mean that over-exposed Tullamore Dew piss.

Or just cheap lager if it's all about getting shitfaced on a budget.

Coke is better than Pepsi. Pepsi is FAR too sweet to drink. RC cola is ok.

I'm squarely in the "don't adulterate my soft drinks with vile-tasting alcohol" corner.

If it's mixers you want, gotta go with Gin and Tonic or Whisky and Soda. Schweppes is the best brand here. Burbon and Coke or Rum and Coke are too sickly sweet, only dumb ass first years drink that crap.
Of course you'd only mix cheap booze with that. Get a sip of cognac on a warm glass or single malt scotch on the rocks (or pure for the hardcore people among you). It'd be sacriledge to mix it with soft drinks.

wacko, on 03 December 2012 - 09:34 PM, said:

Honestly soft drinks are kind of disgusting. Do you you realize you're drinking fire retardant?

Fire retardant? Geez bacon, do you mean the WATER in the soft drink or the CARBON DIOXIDE? As in, you know, those things that you produce in your own body when you breathe...

(and yeah, I'm just screwing around. I read up on BVO. It's only toxic in high ammounts, that you would get on a "soft drink binge". But to be fair, everyone already knows soft drinks are bad for you. You gotta be concient when you have that much to drink, and it's your own fault if you're not. It's just that calling it a fire retardant is fearmongering. There's hundreds of common chemicals that can do that and are perfectly harmless. Like the old joke about the toxicity of Hydric Acid.)

This post has been edited by Migrant: 03 December 2012 - 10:38 PM

Migrant, on 03 December 2012 - 10:06 PM, said:

That would be me then. I'm a first year in high school, and I love that stuff. Though to be fair, I hardly ever drink alcohol, so I like the sweetness. Actual beer or ´´pure`` alcohol just tastes vile to me.

Uhm, sorry mace you still have 3 years to go before you become a dumb ass first year. You see, high schoolers are usually not allowed to drink any alcohol at all, unless they're the "going back to school to get my degree" kinda people. Hence, if they do we don't call them by the year or whatever, but merelly "truants", "hooligans" or "damned kids".

In hindsight, it was kind of naïve of me to start talking about mixers in a forum full of minors.

This post has been edited by Migrant: 03 December 2012 - 10:29 PM

Ah, my bad. I guess I should've done a bit of research on that.
By the way, where I live (Denmark) I hardly think I'd consider high schoolers minors, since the legal age for pretty much anything is damn low.
I get the point though, sorry for being ignorant regarding this.

Migrant, on 03 December 2012 - 10:19 PM, said:

Just because it's only 'toxic' in high amounts, that doesn't mean it can't cause negative or undesirable effects on humans. Your body, and any other body, is a microcosm of interconnected machinery that is built to interact with certain chemicals, proteins, what have you. When you start introducing chemicals and substances that body doesn't interact with on a regular basis, or one's that it doesn't natively interact with, it's going to have some sort of effect on the processes of that body, even if it's a negligible one. Shit, I recently read that traumatic childhood experiences can influence
the regulation of stress hormones for the rest of your adult life.

Epi-genetics have shown us that environmental stressors can and do change your genetic output. And when you continually bath your gut in brominated vegetable oil (bromine being an element that has no biological role in humans or even mammals), it's going to change how your gut responds to it's environment. You never know, it may change it for the better, but odds are this is not true. I'd say even one soda a day could have lasting effects on you, but I don't know for sure. Also fructose is bad for you, glucose is where it's at.

Just stick with fountain drinks or glass bottles. It's the plastic bottled drinks and cans that usually have it.

The body has an inset ability to regulate and change hormone levels for long periods of time (some research suggests even several generations down the female line). But that doesn't mean any just thing can trigger it. Psychological stress and trauma will trigger production (or cancel production) of proteins and biologically active compounds inside the body that can cascade several different changes.

A small ion like Bromide is completely different, as it has a very predictable reactivity. It is mostly biologically inactive. Now the following isn't research, but speculation based on what I know. Its solubility is almost the same as Chloride (present in salt and used by the body to regulate salinity), and its reactivity is similar in solution (though it would be mostly inactive in enzyme controlled reactions). The most that would happen with Bromide in the body would be it binding to certain proteins (or lipids) and making them unusable. Once this is detected by the body, these proteins would be broken down and recycled. With large amounts of bromide you would cause some cells to die or to suicide, and if the number of cells dying is big enough, if can have serious consequences. On the other hand, the treatment is easy, too. Just stop ingesting so much bromide and after some time the body will flush it out. With its high solubility, I can't imagine that filtering and eliminating bromide would be very difficult.

Anyway, don't get me wrong. Even if it is just a minor toxin, I do think that it's a good idea to regulate it (like most of the world seems to do). I just hate people fearmongering about small things like that. The high sugar content in soda alone is probably a much higher risk to health than BVO. Calling it a "fire retardant" is just toying with people's ignorance of chemistry, making it sound worse than it is. Maybe even the DHMO content of soda could be more dangerous!

>dihydrogen monoxide
OH YOU SILLY

Perhaps Coke is the secret to ending Lucy's tsundereness.

If not, then actual cocaine could suffice.

Thank you for the concern for my health, CaptainBaconMan, but rest assured my consumption of soft drinks is considerably less than a can a day. ^_^

Yeah, Purin. That worked so well for Charlie Sheen.

I personally drink double scotch and coke. Everybody in my group is like :C you unclassy bum.

Also, recently I went to Japan and mistakenly thought sake was being served in shot glasses so drank it like a shot. People were initially impressed, then horrified. After the third bottle somebody explained.

BY THEN I WAS TOO DRUNK TO LISTEN.

I once met a guy from brazil (more than 10 years ago actually) who told me they used to drink Fernet Branca and cola over there... I guess he was pulling my leg tho, because I decided to try it (not a smart move bro) and it tastes like medicine -_-

If your going to insult hard liquor by mixing it whith a soft drink you mite as well just have a beer.

Cavara, on 04 December 2012 - 08:42 AM, said:

Taking a shot of Fernet Branca is a good way of confirming to yourself that you're still alive.
Because 5 minutes right after you downed it, you'd WISH you were dead.

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That's pretty much what everybody says to me, but the trouble is I don't like the taste of beer

All the beer I've come across (lager, I'm not posh enough to find a place that serves bitter) smells and tastes like piss, particularly canned beer.

Sky_Paladin, on 05 December 2012 - 03:18 AM, said:

Weve all done it before. If I do mix a drink most of the time it's crown royal and coke. Mikes harder lemonade is about 12% percent and it dosent taste like beer.

bluefox, on 05 December 2012 - 04:08 AM, said:

bluefox I am sorry, but you're 12.

Bluefox, I can't make fun of you over this. I am giving you a homework assignment and I want you to do this for yourself: find the nearest liquor store (if you live in a dry county, you can google the closest one). When you get there, look for or, Hell, ask for the tiny bottles of liquor that they usually keep behind the counter. They're very small, minuscule. You can't miss them and they're very cheap. Pick three you've never tried before (hopefully three separate kinds i.e. rum, vodka, etc., but all 70 proof minimum), put them in the fridge and then drink them later. One at a time so you get the flavor. There probably isn't enough there to get you drunk, but I want you to do this so you have some kind of broader experience with real drinks. The bigger the variety, the more exotic, the better, so you'll know what people are talking about when they talk liquor.

And moreover, never NEVER mention having tried Mike's Anything. If you are asked, under oath, if you have ever imbibed this, lie. It's basically alcohol designed for kids.

No, you do not need my pity, but believe me when I say, this once, I am trying to help you.

This post has been edited by Jerk: 05 December 2012 - 04:58 AM

Well, in Roseville they say, that the Jerk's small heart grew three sizes that day.

Before I get accused of not knowing anything about alcohol, here's a link of what's on my top shelf at the moment:

http://i111.photobuc...in/IMG_0952.jpg

Most of the fun things are up there for cocktails, but I've been casually enjoying the shochu of late. You'll note, of course, the scotch is almost empty. This is the true tragedy.

Edit: The photo has also revealed, somewhat disturbingly, the presence of a giant crack where my ceiling is about to cave in. Wonderful.

This post has been edited by Sky_Paladin: 05 December 2012 - 07:30 AM

Jerk, on 05 December 2012 - 04:57 AM, said:

Sorry for my ignorance, but what does that mean?

'Proof' is an indication of how much alcohol there is in the drink. http://en.wikipedia....i/Alcohol_proof

70 proof is on the spirits end of the alcohol barometer, so drink it in smaller glasses, or mix it with something (like I do). What Jerk is suggesting is that you skip the whole 'smaller glasses thing/mix it up' and just chug the standard drink. The purpose of this is so that you can actually understand what the taste is like. He is not trolling you. This is actually a very sensible (and cheap!) way of getting to try some different spirits.

There's nothing wrong in mixing cheap spirits with soft drinks, mixers, juice or what have you as long as you're sensible about it. Try following known recipes until you have enough experience to create anything.

(For readers of legal drinking age only)

Basically, a proof is 1/2 a percent concentration of ethanol to water.

So a 100 proof drink would be 50% ethanol.

Sky_Paladin, on 05 December 2012 - 08:23 AM, said:

I wouldn't say "chugging" because they're really very small but, yes, the idea is to get him acquainted without wrecking his wallet. I'd suggest trying the base liquor of anything before going for a mixed drink, unless you're at a bar or something and you don't know what the base is.

Watch out for tequila though: you have to read the fine print. If it doesn't say "100% Agave" it is fake tequila. Cuervo is the biggest offender and is not representative of tequila in general. (Blue Full Throttle energy drinks are basically the flavor without the alcohol and metric shit ton of sugar).

CaptainBaconMan, on 05 December 2012 - 02:28 PM, said:

Morgan's Black Label. Oh man, I quit it a year ago but I can't help but smile at the shit I did. But I only drink during special occasions now, like if my dad brings out his reserve bottle of sake at the sushi restaurant we frequent. He is a drunken maniac, literally, but I'll be damned if that'll keep me from the best damn sushi/sake in Dallas.

On an unrelated note, my brother (while attending college) has found employment as a bartender.

I will comply with your request seeing as how im not much of a drinker. As of now ther are 4 bottles of liquor in my home theres Crown royal black,wild turkey,captain morgan,and for some reason a bottle of jose cuervo gold which I have no ideal where it came from . I dont think im going to try the cuervo. If I remember I dont think iv'e had any kind of tequila. What othe liquor should I try for variety.

You've actually got a pretty decent set up right there except for the Cuervo. I don't know that I've seen good tequila in the trial bottles because they import it all, but it's just a lesson in how important it is to read the label. But if you happened to see Herradurra or Lunazul, get that. I digress. I'd add Jack Daniels or Jim Beam as another staple. Off the top of my head, I usually come up with whiskey, vodka and rum. Tequila is my only area of expertise but Jack was pretty good. Hell, if that doesn't help, just tell the guy at the counter you're looking to sample three different kinds and could use some suggestions. I assume a worker at a liquor store would have familiarity with liquor.

Jack Daniel's single barrel is the only jack I think iv'e had.

This post has been edited by bluefox: 05 December 2012 - 09:04 PM

Yeah, gotta be careful with tequila. I always found Patron to be a safe choice. It's totally worth paying a little extra at the mexican restaurants to switch out Cuervo or whatever cheap stuff they normally use with Patron Reposado or Silver in your margaritas. The higher quality tequila is so smooth and flavorful, where as Sauza and Cuervo are downright torture by comparison.

My brother gave me a sample from his bottle of Mañana Anejo that he brought back from Mexico. I think it's my favorite one in terms of drinking it straight. I think you'd be doing yourself a favor by going directly to the 100% agave for your first taste. At least make your first tequila experience a positive one.

Vodka's an interesting alcohol. If it's high quality, it should have no taste at all. Unfortunately, I can't drink, or I'll die--damn antidepressants and all.

On topic: I wonder if they'll bring this campaign to the US? It'd make the perfect gift for a few people I know.

You're not a man until you take a double shot



No chaser.

That's like skipping losing your virginity and going straight for the Cleveland Steamer.

Jerk, on 05 December 2012 - 11:23 PM, said:

jerk speaks from his personal experience

When you're handcuffed to a bed, you sometimes gradually, sometimes violently, realize you should've asked specifically what she wanted to do to you.