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Jägermeister+RedBull ... Don't judge me ;)

danieltillett 11y ago
Maybe the bar staff are just trying to save you from yourself ;) Redbull and its siblings do contain a lot of caffeine which allows people to get drunker and still be physically active. One of my colleagues was convinced that all the caffeine drunk with alcohol these days is the cause of the rise in drunken violence.
nness 11y ago
"Jägerbombs"
hanoz 11y ago
Have you considered the UK, where on occasions one can easily feel like the only one in the pub not drinking Jägerbombs, and drinking to massive excess generally is a proud national pastime.
- madaxe_again 11y ago
  Actually, in the UK, it is illegal to serve pre-mixed caffeine and alcohol, but it's rarely enforced. This is why many bars will pour the shot in a highball, and hand you a can of red bull, so what you then do is your responsibility, not theirs.
  - Symbiote 11y ago
    Are you sure? I can't find anything online that supports that. Many bars serve other drinks (vodka and orange, gin and tonic, etc) unmixed, so you can mix it to taste. Buckfast is still sold, and that contains caffeine. Kahlúa too.
    - madaxe_again 11y ago
      Ah, think you're right - this might just be Scotland where it's actually the law, but was certainly the common practice when I was working bars up north.
      - arethuza 11y ago
        There were discussions here about legislating against alcoholic drinks with caffeine levels above a certain level but I don't think anything actually became law: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10164507 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10164507
  - cafard 11y ago
    How odd. I've never had the urge to drink Red Bull or Jagermeister, separately or together. But Irish Coffee has been around for ages. The people I would see drinking it always seemed to manage to walk out of the bar under their own power,
  - stordoff 11y ago
    I suspect you are right that this is only the law in Scotland. At a fairly respectable bar in Cambridge, I've set up 20-drink long "Jagertrains" [1] with the Bar Manager on more than one occasion, and he never mentioned that it was illegal to do so. [1] https://cdn.makeagif.com/media/3-07-2012/ZdwGP4.gif https://cdn.makeagif.com/media/3-07-2012/ZdwGP4.gif
- switch007 11y ago
  If you don't start drinking at 5pm on a Friday, puke up twice, consume your body weight in kebab meat and then go for a greasy fry-up in the morning, you're basically a boring sod.
  - meric 11y ago
    As a Sydneysider I prefer to write a couple of hundred lines of code and play a couple of hours of Dota 2 with my best mate on a Friday night.
  - Cyph0n 11y ago
    That sounds stupid to be honest. To each his own I guess?
    - theoh 11y ago
      Yes, drinking culture in the UK is stupid and everyone knows it's a problem. The cost to the health service means that it's not really something that should be tolerated in the long term. See for example: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/may/10/alcohol-prop-myself-see-problem http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/may/10/alcohol...
      - oldmanjay 11y ago
        If a national health service is an excuse to tell people how to live, I've pretty happy Obama fucked it all up here and just institutionalized health insurers.
        tamana 11y ago
        The people drinking themselves to shit aren't honorably refusing healthcare for their self inflicted injuries
        jedmeyers 11y ago
        Well, then make them pay for themselves then insead of limiting the range of activities they are allowed to do.
daniel-cussen 11y ago
Oh dude, I can't believe the forbade Jägerbombs. I thought you were going to say Everclear plus genuine Absynthe...

Maybe the bar staff are just trying to save you from yourself ;) Redbull and its siblings do contain a lot of caffeine which allows people to get drunker and still be physically active. One of my colleagues was convinced that all the caffeine drunk with alcohol these days is the cause of the rise in drunken violence.

nness 11y ago

"Jägerbombs"

hanoz 11y ago

Have you considered the UK, where on occasions one can easily feel like the only one in the pub not drinking Jägerbombs, and drinking to massive excess generally is a proud national pastime.

madaxe_again 11y ago
Actually, in the UK, it is illegal to serve pre-mixed caffeine and alcohol, but it's rarely enforced. This is why many bars will pour the shot in a highball, and hand you a can of red bull, so what you then do is your responsibility, not theirs.
- Symbiote 11y ago
  Are you sure? I can't find anything online that supports that. Many bars serve other drinks (vodka and orange, gin and tonic, etc) unmixed, so you can mix it to taste. Buckfast is still sold, and that contains caffeine. Kahlúa too.
  - madaxe_again 11y ago
    Ah, think you're right - this might just be Scotland where it's actually the law, but was certainly the common practice when I was working bars up north.
    - arethuza 11y ago
      There were discussions here about legislating against alcoholic drinks with caffeine levels above a certain level but I don't think anything actually became law: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10164507 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10164507
- cafard 11y ago
  How odd. I've never had the urge to drink Red Bull or Jagermeister, separately or together. But Irish Coffee has been around for ages. The people I would see drinking it always seemed to manage to walk out of the bar under their own power,
- stordoff 11y ago
  I suspect you are right that this is only the law in Scotland. At a fairly respectable bar in Cambridge, I've set up 20-drink long "Jagertrains" [1] with the Bar Manager on more than one occasion, and he never mentioned that it was illegal to do so. [1] https://cdn.makeagif.com/media/3-07-2012/ZdwGP4.gif https://cdn.makeagif.com/media/3-07-2012/ZdwGP4.gif
switch007 11y ago
If you don't start drinking at 5pm on a Friday, puke up twice, consume your body weight in kebab meat and then go for a greasy fry-up in the morning, you're basically a boring sod.
- meric 11y ago
  As a Sydneysider I prefer to write a couple of hundred lines of code and play a couple of hours of Dota 2 with my best mate on a Friday night.
- Cyph0n 11y ago
  That sounds stupid to be honest. To each his own I guess?
  - theoh 11y ago
    Yes, drinking culture in the UK is stupid and everyone knows it's a problem. The cost to the health service means that it's not really something that should be tolerated in the long term. See for example: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/may/10/alcohol-prop-myself-see-problem http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/may/10/alcohol...
    - oldmanjay 11y ago
      If a national health service is an excuse to tell people how to live, I've pretty happy Obama fucked it all up here and just institutionalized health insurers.
      - tamana 11y ago
        The people drinking themselves to shit aren't honorably refusing healthcare for their self inflicted injuries
        jedmeyers 11y ago
        Well, then make them pay for themselves then insead of limiting the range of activities they are allowed to do.

daniel-cussen 11y ago

Oh dude, I can't believe the forbade Jägerbombs. I thought you were going to say Everclear plus genuine Absynthe...