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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 generall
by 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 agoActually, 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 agoAre 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 agoAh, 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 agoThere 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 agoHow 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 agoI 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 agoIf 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 agoAs 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 agoThat sounds stupid to be honest. To each his own I guess?
- theoh 11y agoYes, 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 agoIf 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.