Red Bull Cola

Brian

Anyone else addicted to this stuff? And I'm worried that the word "addicted" might be quite literal. The all-natural ingredients of Red Bull Cola happen to include the Coca leaf, ie the source ingredient for Cocaine if I'm not mistaken. There's certainly a buzz off it..

It's expensive in House 6 though.. speaking of which, the grumpy lady at the café till in the Arts Block tried to charge me for a disposable plastic knife*. Grr.

* I just stole a wooden coffee stirrer instead. I was using it to spread Swedish mjukost on some bread that I'd snatched in my mad dash to make it to a 9am lecture after getting out of bed at 8.20

Fad

Baza210 wrote: »

Anyone else addicted to this stuff? And I'm worried that the word "addicted" might be quite literal. The all-natural ingredients of Red Bull Cola happen to include the Coca leaf, ie the source ingredient for Cocaine if I'm not mistaken. There's certainly a buzz off it..

OMG Red Bull Cola has caffine in it OMG OMG OMG, thats like sooooo illegal.



It tastes like paint thinner, ie FÚCKIN horrible

ShaneU

I like it, but everyone I know hates it, was drinking it with Whiskey last weekend.

Brian

It tastes like Haribo Cola bottles.

Brian

Fad wrote: »

OMG Red Bull Cola has caffine in it OMG OMG OMG, thats like sooooo illegal.



It tastes like paint thinner, ie FÚCKIN horrible

Excuse me, are you an trowel?

Fad

Baza210 wrote: »

Excuse me, are you an trowel?

I am.

Brian

I see you've got wood.

An trowel = a troll.

Boston

That stuff is horribly bad for you and you shouldn't drink it in large quantities. Never drink it while working out or doing something which dehydrates you.

Baza, stop being abstract, back in the box.

Brian

I'm bored. I miss the days - in which I did not participate - where dates for crash were found.

Anyway, yeah, never drink a carbonated drink before/during exercise.

Jonathan

Boston wrote: »

Baza, stop being abstract, back in the box.

Your mangonel box.

Boston

Have you been reading the archive? Jesus, shouldn't you be doing the young person thing of studying or drugs ?

jmccrohan wrote: »

Your mangonel box.

I think he's taken, so alas not mine.

Brian

Yup, read your Biki page too. I couldn't find b.ie curious's though, don't know what his former nicknames were..

@jmcc- 1E9 doesn't start until after Christmas, I'm informed.
cin << 2 * 1hr lecturer Friday moring << finished at 11;
cout >> "SWEET"

iostream blah. I don't actually know any C++

Fad

Baza210 wrote: »

I see you've got wood.

An trowel = a troll.

I think ive been on the internet long enough, to know what you meant, am i on it long enough not to take the piss from time to time, no *shakes head*

anyway red bull cola, in theory, should be nice, seeing as its so freakin expensive, but it really isnt. that said, red bull is mindlessly over priced and not nice either.

Brian

It's cheap enough compared to Red Bull, in Tesco it's 1.49 vs 1.09 [a lot to an Engineer]. But still expensive, I agree. 85c for a 1000cc carton of Rio D'Or Pure Apple Juice From Concentrate from Aldi is much better value.

Boston

Baza you're a strange individual. Keep up the good work.

Fad

Baza210 wrote: »

It's cheap enough compared to Red Bull, in Tesco it's 1.49 vs 1.09 [a lot to an Engineer]. But still expensive, I agree. 85c for a 1000cc carton of Rio D'Or Pure Apple Juice From Concentrate from Aldi is much better value.

You can buy Tesco "Kick Energy Drink" which is less than 1/2 the price than a can of red bull, still not nice, but caffine is nice

Brian

Boston wrote: »

Baza you're a strange individual. Keep up the good work.

It must be my orthodox childhood.

Fad wrote: »

You can buy Tesco "Kick Energy Drink" which is less than 1/2 the price than a can of red bull, still not nice, but caffine is nice

I used to drink BPM Red Berry just because of its nasty taste. So horribly synthetic that it's nice. It's pretty potent stuff too, I remember the first time I opened a bottle my eyes actually bulged in alertness from merely inhaling the fumes escaping from the bottle.

Boston wrote: »

I think he's taken, so alas not mine.

Damn right. And unless you can compete with a girl that sends me text messages saying "sudo go to sleep at a reasonable hour" and calculates how fast her bus-up-to-Dublin-to-see-me is going by using her phone's stopwatch and a calculator in conjunction with the Exit Approaching 3/2/100m signs on the motorway THEN YOU NEVER WILL.


Never will what? I don't know. But you probably got lost in that last sentence. Say hello to James Joyce if you see him in there.



I don't know if this thread is actually a symptom of drinking RBC. Probably

mathew

Fad wrote: »

You can buy Tesco "Kick Energy Drink" which is less than 1/2 the price than a can of red bull, still not nice, but caffine is nice

Treated someone recently who had drunk 4.5 liters of the stuff.
Is messes with your body (not in a cool/trippy way)

Had to put her on O2 and everything... not fun..

Turned me further of those sort of drinks than I was... admittedly, 4.5litres is a serious overdose, and clearly a bottle/can wouldnt do any harm.. but still... I've always had a thing against energy drinks..

Jonathan

Baza210 wrote: »

@jmcc- 1E9 doesn't start until after Christmas, I'm informed.
cin << 2 * 1hr lecturer Friday moring << finished at 11;
cout >> "SWEET"

iostream blah. I don't actually know any C++

<?php

$input=$_post["input_time"];
$input=substr($input,0, 2);

if($input <= 11){
exit("score - home early");
}

if($input <= 17){
exit("making mangonels stupid mangonels");
}


if($input <= 23){
exit("pav friday");
}

?>

Assume you have a web page posting a variable called input_time containing the estimated time that you will leave college on any given friday.

mathew

jmccrohan wrote: »

<?php

$input=$_post["input_time"];
$input=substr($input,0, 2);

if($input <= 11){
exit("score - home early");
}

if($input <= 17){
exit("making mangonels stupid mangonels");
}


if($input <= 23){
exit("pav friday");
}

?>

Assume you have a web page posting a variable called input_time containing the estimated time that you will leave college on any given friday.

LOL

now do it in Java to keep Mr W happy :P

Jonathan

mathew wrote: »

LOL

now do it in Java to keep Mr W happy :P

I can do it in c++ too... Will that do? :P

Doesn't really matter.. I cant see us learning much java this year anyway..

Brian

Do we get to learn Python?
import antigravity
tehe.

Jonathan

Baza210 wrote: »

Do we get to learn Python?
import antigravity
tehe.

Nope.. That code above is php by the way not python.

Useless for anything else but making web apps.

Brian

jmccrohan wrote: »

Nope.. That code above is php by the way not python.

Useless for anything else but making web apps.

I knew, don't worry ; )

mathew

Thank God.... another of my prejudices... Java code
Like the energy drinks.. very little reason behind it only its messyness...
PHP: echo "hello";
c++: cout << "hello";
java: System.out.println("hello");

QED

Boston

I can compete with that baza. I have hundreds of gigs of sci-fi.

mathew wrote: »

Treated someone recently who had drunk 4.5 liters of the stuff.
Is messes with your body (not in a cool/trippy way)

Had to put her on O2 and everything... not fun..

Turned me further of those sort of drinks than I was... admittedly, 4.5litres is a serious overdose, and clearly a bottle/can wouldnt do any harm.. but still... I've always had a thing against energy drinks..

Add massive dehydration to the mix and someone would start to show the effects very quickly.

As for the rest of this thread...

mathew

jmccrohan wrote: »

Nope.. That code above is php by the way not python.

Useless for anything else but making web apps.

Unless you use that yoke you found for making Windows exes

Jonathan

Baza210 wrote: »

Damn right. And unless you can compete with a girl that sends me text messages saying "sudo go to sleep at a reasonable hour" and calculates how fast her bus-up-to-Dublin-to-see-me is going by using her phone's stopwatch and a calculator in conjunction with the Exit Approaching 3/2/100m signs on the motorway THEN YOU NEVER WILL.

Where are you from yourself?

Be a good boyfriend and get her a bt gps for her phone..

Brian

jmccrohan wrote: »

Where are you from yourself?

Be a good boyfriend and get her a bt gps for her phone..

Cork, sort of. If you'd come to Beers you'd know : P

And I've already given her a TCD Hoodie, which may result in her eventual lynching as she walks around the UCC campus.

Boston wrote: »

I can compete with that baza. I have hundreds of gigs of sci-fi.

Including Firefly?

mathew wrote: »

Thank God.... another of my prejudices... Java code
Like the energy drinks.. very little reason behind it only its messyness...
PHP: echo "hello";
c++: cout << "hello";
java: System.out.println("hello");

QED

Python: print "hello";
It's meant to be an easy language to learn, just keeping track of the whitespace is difficult.

Boston

Yep. and the movie. I also have all of farscape which I'm guessing you'd love.

Brian

Hmm, I'm not really fond of alieny sci-fi. It's part of the reason I liked Firefly. And part of the reason I don't like Halo / Gears of War.

I'm going to bed anyway, night.

Edit: I mean, I've been in bed on my laptop the whole time. I'm going to sleep.

Boston

awh well, your loss.

mathew

Baza210 wrote: »

Hmm, I'm not really fond of alieny sci-fi. It's part of the reason I liked Firefly. And part of the reason I don't like Halo / Gears of War.

I'm going to bed anyway, night.

Edit: I mean, I've been in bed on my laptop the whole time. I'm going to sleep.

Phone with wifi ftw :-)

Crash

See, I always figure excessive consumption of energy drinks defeats the purpose, as your system adjusts to them pretty fast. so if you're drinking them all the time, when it comes to crunch time you really don't get the kick in the bollocks you need. So i reserve redbull for hours of need, and boozing.

Brian

Someone pointed out to me a very interesting thing about vodka + coke, jagerbombs etc.
The alcohol part of it slows down your heart, and the sugary part of it speeds it up. Which is bad for you, I think.

mathew

It is.. excesive consuption leads to heart attack.

Brian

Do you work for St. John's or something?

mathew

Irish Red Cross.. voulunteer

Brian

Nice one man.

Mark200

Never liked Red Bull or any of those energy drinks, haven't tried Red Bull Cola....probably never will.

Brian

Good choice. I do think it tastes nice though. In small amounts, anyway. By the time you get to the end of the can it's pretty mediocre, but the first mouthful's quite good.

Marshy

Yeah, I'm pretty much hooked on the stuff.

Goes very well with vodka and also tried it lately with Malibu and its amazing...

shay_562

Baza210 wrote:

Damn right. And unless you can compete with a girl that sends me text messages saying "sudo go to sleep at a reasonable hour" and calculates how fast her bus-up-to-Dublin-to-see-me is going by using her phone's stopwatch and a calculator in conjunction with the Exit Approaching 3/2/100m signs on the motorway THEN YOU NEVER WILL.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCXsDmvvzjw

- with appropriate thanks to Stargal for linking to it waaaaay back when.

Topic: This glorious elixir of the gods was just about the only thing that kept me going through Freshers' Week (well, it, pancakes and bolognaisse sauce...not all at once though). Still have a load of it sitting under my kitchen sink. It doesn't taste as bad as regular Red Bull and it keeps you buzzing for a suitable amount of time; can't fault it, really. (except for, like, the massive health damage and such)

Marshy wrote:

oes very well with vodka and also tried it lately with Malibu and its amazing...

Totally agree with the vodka part. I'm vaguely intrigued by the Malibu, but I'm not really allowed to drink rum after The Incident...and The Second Incident.

Brian

raah!

I have a similar problem with the auld red bull coca meself. I started a topic on it in after hours a while back but it was locked and I was banned, obviously they couldn't handle it at the time. Some shops sell it at 89c. Some Londises that is, others sell 4 cans in a cardboard container for 2 euros.

It's also a nice shape so you can hold it easily.

[size=-3]That's what she said[/size]

Brian

You were banned due to drinking RBC?

raah!

no no, I was banned for making a topic about how fond I was of the stuff. I made the topic after getting a free one in cork city one time with a leaflet on all the stuff in it aswell. It caused a scandal.

Brian

I knew it was dangerous stuff.

scout172

Red Bull Cola does taste great, that is for sure. I have always liked the regular energy drinks, but never drank them too often because of their ingredients. The new Monavie EMV Energy drink is what I have been drinking lately, as it's all natural. It does have sugar in it, but it's natural from it's ingredients.

Brian

I support this necrophiliac astroturfing.

dog_pig

I really do hope he just made the account to post that