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Subhuman · Post by **Subhuman** » Fri Jun 24, 2005 10:07 pm

It doesn't work. I think they're selling us carbonated goat pee and calling it an "energy drink".

Discuss.

Joel Fagin · Post by **Joel Fagin** » Fri Jun 24, 2005 10:18 pm

'Never tried any of them. I never saw the point and I can almost guarentee that they're yet another con, just like bottled water, sports drinks and flavoured water.

- Joel Fagin

G-Lode · Post by **G-Lode** » Fri Jun 24, 2005 10:19 pm

i hardly ever drink caffeine, so if I have a glass of soda, i'm up half the night. It's really rather uncomfortable feeling.

Red Bull would probably keep me up for weeks. But that's just ridiculous.

Subhuman · Post by **Subhuman** » Fri Jun 24, 2005 10:22 pm

Joel Fagin wrote:I can almost guarentee that they're yet another con, just like bottled water

Bottled water is heaven. You take that back RIGHT NOW.

Jim North · Post by **Jim North** » Fri Jun 24, 2005 10:23 pm

I dunno about it giving you pep and energy and whatnot, but I actually like the taste of Red Bull. Goes well with Vodka.

Rkolter · Post by **Rkolter** » Fri Jun 24, 2005 10:26 pm

I drink the sugar free red bulls. Six of 'em turns me into a mutant.

G-Lode · Post by **G-Lode** » Fri Jun 24, 2005 10:39 pm

Rkolter wrote

I drink the sugar free red bulls. Six of 'em turns me into a mutant.

Is that what amorphous blobs turn into upon mutation?

It's kinda like a Pokemon!

Joel Fagin · Post by **Joel Fagin** » Fri Jun 24, 2005 10:50 pm

Subhuman wrote:Bottled water is heaven. You take that back RIGHT NOW.

It's water. Heck, it's usually from the tap. For fifty cents (Australian), it'd be fine. It's worth it in Summer for the bottle and the refrigeration and, you know, it's a cheap product so you shouldn't expect to pay too much for it. Any more than that, and I'll use a water fountain, thank you.

- Joel Fagin

Dutch! · Post by **Dutch!** » Fri Jun 24, 2005 11:08 pm

Nup. To me selling water is close to criminal. At least akin to a snake-oil salesman. It's water! And it always seems to be more expensive to buy than the same quantity (or larger) of any carbonated or juice drink in the same shop. Water is available anywhere in world where bottled water is sold...why buy it for bloody ridiculous prices?

Maybe this is just my background living out of the cities where apparently pure water is considered a delicacy or something...I don't know.

As for Red Bull...their ads are crap too.

Joel Fagin · Post by **Joel Fagin** » Fri Jun 24, 2005 11:20 pm

Dutch! wrote:As for Red Bull...their ads are crap too.

Well, that puts me one up on everyone else then. I don't watch commercial television.

Heck, I barely watch non-commercial television. Doctor Who's my limit.

- Joel Fagin

CJBurgandy · Post by **CJBurgandy** » Fri Jun 24, 2005 11:39 pm

I personally don't like it, but I always find it annoying when people say you can't mix it with alchol, and it bugs me with good reason. Red Bull was originally an alcholic drink in Thailand, but in order to sell it to college students (You can't buy alchol if you're wearing a school uniform), they started making a non-alchol version if it. It sold so well, they starting selling it world wide.

sorry... it's a stupid tid bit, and the first time I tried Red Bull, it was the original alcholic one and it tasted like really sugary beer. it was gross.

MixedMyth · Post by **MixedMyth** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 12:09 am

Never tried Red Bull, actually. But I've read of some hospital cases when people mix it with vodka. Not a smart move.

You know, I never saw the value of bottled water, either. Except that my hometown had VERY good water. Then I moved to places where the water tastes aweful, and suddenly I see the value in it. Of course, I'd go with a filter over bottled water given the option.

Jen_Babcock · Post by **Jen_Babcock** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 1:17 am

Joel Fagin wrote:
Subhuman wrote:Bottled water is heaven. You take that back RIGHT NOW.
It's water. Heck, it's usually from the tap. For fifty cents (Australian), it'd be fine. It's worth it in Summer for the bottle and the refrigeration and, you know, it's a cheap product so you shouldn't expect to pay too much for it. Any more than that, and I'll use a water fountain, thank you.

- Joel Fagin

In taste tests most people can't tell the difference between bottled water and tap water. A recent test showed that people preferred the taste of New York City tap water to Evian (there were about 6-7 samples, and Evian actually ranked the worst).

And yes, Red Bull and Vodka go together pretty nicely.

Psiogen · Post by **Psiogen** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 2:03 am

There was a study that showed that bottled water is actually significantly less safe than most American tap water--something like 1/3 of the bottles tested were contaminated with bacteria.

Jackhass · Post by **Jackhass** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 2:13 am

Never even tried the stuff...

...but in my experience caffiene doesn't really have much effect on me...or that is to say, much positive effect. Too much will give me a headache.

Tears · Post by **Tears** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 2:17 am

My experience is that caffeine alone doesn't give you energy, caffeine just keeps you awake, sugar on the other hand gives you energy but doesn't keep you awake, mix the two and voila, but while I don't particularly dislike red-bull, give me chocolate coated coffee-beans any day.

I think probably the problem with mixing red-bull with alchohol is that the red-bull probably keeps you conscious after you would normally have passed out from alcohol poisoning... (I'm not an expert so I could be wrong about this)... in which case I don't have a lot of sympathy because drinking 'til you pass out is stupid anyway.

Tears · Post by **Tears** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 2:18 am

Joel Fagin wrote:
Dutch! wrote:As for Red Bull...their ads are crap too.
Well, that puts me one up on everyone else then. I don't watch commercial television.

Heck, I barely watch non-commercial television. Doctor Who's my limit.

- Joel Fagin

Cool... you've seen the latest series? What did you think?

War · Post by **War** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 2:19 am

Joel Fagin wrote:'Never tried any of them. I never saw the point and I can almost guarentee that they're yet another con, just like bottled water, sports drinks and flavoured water.

- Joel Fagin

Sports drinks work. I just doubt many people actually need to drink sports drinks.

Mimo · Post by **Mimo** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 2:43 am

4 red bulls allow me to work throught the night

Joel Fagin · Post by **Joel Fagin** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 2:47 am

War wrote:Sports drinks work.

Point 1 - Yes, they are absorbed 15% faster than water but water is absorbed in minutes. The 15% is just not in any way significant.

Point 2 - Yes, they replace electrolytes, but so did a drink called Staminade which was around for, oh, probably twenty years before sports drinks were popular and was a powder that came in a jar. Estimated cost per drink... Well, from my memory of the jar price, probably about two cents a drink plus the cost of the water.

Now, I have no idea what the price of a sports drink is but I'm willing to bet they're one-point-five to twice the price of the equivalent quantity of Coke.*

It's almost completely ephemeral. They're selling it on qualities which would vanish if you huffed on them, It's a depressing and very sucessful exercise in bilking the buying public into buying nothing for something.

I often say that humans are, at their core, their ground state as it were, stupid and gullible. People think I'm joking or being cynical.

</rant>

Anyone here heard of the famous di-hydrogen monoxide socialogical experiment?

- Joel Fagin

* Cola, that is.