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Thanks for the explanation. In Italy we use to express the alcohol content in 'degrees' meaning 1 degree = 1% ethanol.
My first guess was 70 proof = 70% ethanol and that would have made little sense ^_^;

It says the percentage on the bottle too so you figure it out pretty fast if you see it often.

On topic: Mexican Coke is the best Coke and Diet Coke gives you kidney stones.

Pepsi gives you autism.

Good to know about tequila. I never really got into it, cause you usually only get the shit stuff on this side of the world.
When talking whisky, I think we can all agree scotch is best. Johnny Walker is perhaps the most famous but not at all the best. The Red Label is passable at best, and for the price of a black label you can get much better stuff. I've recently found Famous Grouse has very good value for taste. Glenfiddich 12 years is great if you can afford it.

Here's a thing. I heard say that booze is a lot cheaper in the US. How much would you guys say a 700mL bottle of Jack Daniels or of Absolut would cost at a liquor store?

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Actually the relation is the other way around. Autistic kids just really like Pepsi for some reason.

A quick Google search revealed that I can get a bottle of Absolut for 148kr, and Jack Daniels goes for 238kr.
That's 26 and 41USD respectively.
I can probably get it cheaper by checking the ´´border prices`` or something. A lot of Danes by their soft drinks and alcohol just past the border to Germany, usually much cheaper than we can it here in Denmark.

I learned through the use of a double blind trial that Pepsi actually tastes better than Coke, but only if you can't see the label.

Migrant, on 06 December 2012 - 09:38 AM, said:

VINDICATION.

Also? If you happen to look for tequila specifically for some reason, look for the 100% agave thing and, if they have it, anything with "anejo" on it is bound to be the best out of everything. That's their barrel-aged shit. It is the full experience of tequila. Also, from my experience, the darker the tequila the better.

mAceOfHearts, on 06 December 2012 - 05:12 PM, said:

Or just float over to Britain and take whatever you want.

I love how his name is spelled in English. It's ´´Knud den Store.``
Translated: Knud The Large/Big.
Also, I doubt I'd be able to do anything like that. You see, I forgot to pray to Thor and Odin, so Jormungandr might catch me when I cross the oceans.

mAceOfHearts, on 06 December 2012 - 05:12 PM, said:

Half the reason I bough a station-car.
Even though women in their 30's and up continuously ask me if I'm gonna start a family soon

Yea mexican coke is the best because of real cane sugar and a glass bottle. Coca cola made cherry and vanilla coke just for mike and lucy

Jerk, on 06 December 2012 - 09:06 AM, said:

It's also made with dead baby parts, supposedly.

I tried Pepsi.
It tastes like piss that's been squeezed out of Usain Bolt's gym socks.

Pepsi tastes like it tries too hard to please you and ends up getting worse. What's funny is the amount of coke brands we got where I live. Different companies trying to make the same thing but it never tastes anything like it. It's cheaper though.

On an unrelated note, 19 and alcohol free.

that's a pretty cool coincidence, especially with the poster

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Well, on the upside, at least it doesn't have a strange metallic aftertaste like Pepsi does.

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Screwdrivers are the mixed drink of choice for people who are too wussy to have real mixed drinks. I know this from college.

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That's because ethanol does taste vile. Why do you think people mix it into other things so often? How many people drink everclear, or lab grade ethanol? The answer is no one, because it tastes very chemical.

Well, almost no one anyway. And they regret it very quickly. ;P

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Yes, but on the other hand you can't believe everything you read. Anytime you read something like that you should take the study with a huge heaping of salt. In particular, an obvious flaw in that study is that they only studied African-Americans, and they only studied people whow were traumatized, without comparison to a control sample. These are huge confounding factors which they should have taken into account but, by the looks of things, didn't.

While it is somewhat interesting, I would want to see a lot more study before I said something so silly. But I mean, these are psychologists, not even real scientists, and it was a popular media report, so it is to be expected.

I will also note that the study suggests that you can abuse people with the right genes all you want and they'll turn out fine. ;D It also suggests that it is far from 100%, which indicates a lot of other factors go into it.

Anyway, you are also wrong. While it is true that chemicals can mess you up, there are harmful doses and there are lethal doses, and if the chemical compound doesn't approach the harmful dose level, very often it has no impact at all; as they say, the dose makes the poison, and as long as the chemical in question does not linger in the body (this doesn't) then you just put it back out. There is no evidence to suggest that low doses of BVO have any sort of harmful impact.

This is not to say it is great for you, but there are things that people drink which are well known to be highly harmful, and yet people imbibe it in great quantities. Like, say, alcohol. Or for that matter, phosphoric acid.

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Fructose isn't actually bad for you any more so than any other sugar, you gullible sot. I actually would suspect that the largest negative impact from drinking a soda per day would not be from BVO (which isn't even in all soda -anyway-) but rather from the phosphoric acid.

I will ALSO note you are completely wrong. Bromine is actually found in white blood cells.

Not to mention the fact that the soda concentration of 8ppm is pretty low; the human body innately has a bromide concentration of 5.3±1.4 mg/L in the bloodstream, which means that 8ppm is only slightly higher than the average bromide concentration in humans. Moreover, humans who eat seafood have significantly elevated concentrations of bromide in their bloodstreams; you probably get more of the stuff eating seafood than you do drinking soda.

Your mistake was believing people who were selling you on the idea that somehow because it is used as a fire retardant it was somehow evilbadwrong. Though maybe you can work to convince them that water is bad for them because it is used as a fire retardant.

tl;dr Titanium.

I have yet to be shaken from my liking for Coca-Cola. Especially since I ever had vanilla coke for the first time. It's had a tight grip on me since then.

Also I like to think when I drink it I'm stealing from the polar bears in the commercials.



At least when I drink Coke I don't make myself look like a douche Mr. Polar Bear




Side note: I've always enjoyed the ad campaigns Pepsi and Coca-Cola have between each other. It's like siblings trying to beat the other one in a game.

This post has been edited by ThatGuy: 24 December 2012 - 04:48 AM

I like Coca-Cola because without them we wouldn't have santa.

bluefox, on 07 December 2012 - 06:55 PM, said:

I agree 100%. The metal bottle caps are a pain to get off tho.