I agree that it has polarize. I think it has alot to do with the drinking age being changed from 18 to 21. Germany has no legal drinking age and its nothing special to them to consume alcohol. Therefor each time they drink, they arn't trying to get wasted.

Speaking of college students getting creative, anyone ever had "sizzurp"? Me and my room mate made it once and it consisted of vodka, coolaid, sugar, sprite, and cough syrup. Had quite a kick to it...

In college I got a gallon of fresh apple cyder and just letting it set for a while. I remember it having a bit of a kick

Diet Mountain Dew or an iced latte for the extra jolt. I've had way more than my fair share of ethanol and the results were not good. Now if I could just slow down on the caffeine so my wrench would stop shaking!

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imdavid28 made a good point, Europeans make far less of a big deal about drinking alcohol. They probably drink more than us but not to the excesses we do. I grew up in a country with no drinking age and it is no big deal there either. What I am trying to impress on the non-drinkers is that I think you are missing something by not drinking. I don't hardly ever drink to excess or even really get a buzz. I just really enjoy the taste of certain ales, rums and scotches. You don't have to get plastered to enjoy them. My rule is everything in moderation. RT

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I hated rum until I had a Mount Gay and Coke- been thinking it's a drug ever since. I know a few of the Bacardi family thru my profession, but MG is the stuff...

What was the question???

Good man, good man.

I find Mt Gay a bit smoother than Appleton.

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Whiskeydan is asking a ? about drinking???

i rarely drink now, i really think you miss nothing by abstaining.

about one in three in my family are alcoholics more or less. and i think that the national average is not all that far behind.

many people have a propensity to become alcoholics so abstaining is a pretty good idea in case you happen to be susecptible.

tom w

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..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

If money was no object, I'd drink Smirnoff Triple Black every night. But I'm on a budget, so I drink Jocob Best Ice. Can't beat $9 for a case of 24! And it only takes a couple to get loopy.

The only thing more intoxicating than the sound of the MB diesel happily purring along on the 30 mile drive home from work, is the happy sounds of olives frolicking in vermouth and dry gin.

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Coffee first thing in the morning, just to get the fire started.

Water while wrenching, or maybe some iced tea (sweet of course, I AM from Georgia).

Afterwards however, I enjoy whisky, beer, and whiskey. Lagavulin is my favorite, but it's spendy so I don't drink it often. Bowmore is a very good, but cheaper substitute. Highland Park gets an honorable mention. Black Bottle is the only blended Scotch I'll pay money for. I'll drink that Walker stuff, but only if it's free. There's nothing wrong with Irish-Tullamore Dew, Jameson, or Powers. Bushmills is ok too, but for some reason I've just never been as fond of it. In American whiskey (If you can even call it that) I'll take Wild Turkey Rye, Jim Beam Rye, Old Overholt (rye), and not much else. I like rye bread too (with or without the caraway seeds-makes for a great Ruben either way).

I'm more flexible with beer, and will drink pretty much anything other than Bud or Bud Light. I do enjoy India Pale Ales more than most others. I used to drink a lot of stout, but my tastes have changed a bit.

I got really sick after drinking some rum with my next-door neighbors my junior year of college (In retrospect I think I must have had food poisoning-hangovers don't last three days). I don't drink rum anymore.

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"Sizzurp" as you call it, commonly called syrup, barre, purple stuff or lean, has been around for a long time, at least in Houston. It got its popularity in the late 90s. It would cause hallucinatory states where to the user, things would slow down and other crazy stuff would happen. It eventually resulted in a type of rap music down here in Houston called "screw" which is very popular down here in the South (and perhaps other places in the US). "Screw" was created by DJ Screw, an advocate of syrup who slowed the rap down and it mimicked the effects of drinking syrup and sold it on cassette tapes, and they gained the name "screw tapes." The cough syrup in the "syrup" usually contains codeine, and is mixed with the soda of your choice. I've never heard of all of that other stuff mixed in like your friend put in. I DO know of deaths and arrests affiliated with drinking "syrup", including a syrup induced heart attack that killed DJ Screw in 2000 at the age of 30. I would NEVER drink that stuff.

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"Syrup" will shut down your liver. Even if you pull through, I've seen where people's eyeball blood vessels burst, giving them blood red eyeballs.