Careful of that Red Bull
Posted on | February 21, 2007 | 38 Comments
Red Bull, alcohol and drugs ‘can spark violence’
So screams a headline in today’s paper pointing out the fact that people drinking Red Bull with alcohol while they take drugs are coming in front of the courts more after being arrested for violent incidents. Obviously the suggestion is that Red Bull, as it gives you wings, allows you to consume more drink and drugs than you normally would thus pushing you over the edge.
It is true. Dirty Dave decided he’d drink vodka and Red Bull for a while and got himself into lots of trouble. He has a cut off point in his drunkeness where he simply passes out. It doesn’t matter what he’s doing or where he is he just slips into unconsciousness. It’s happened in a taxi, I once found him asleep in a doorway on Aungiers Street and once, on one of the rare occasions that he got lucky, he went to sleep in the middle of going down on some poor woman. There’s no waking him once he’s gone either.
However, when he was on the vodka and Red Bull he was able to drink much more than his natural cut off point and so began the ructions. He’d get a bit mischevious first which might be signified by him mouthing off at other people when he really shouldn’t. Then he’d get slightly aggressive and argue loudly about the way that Eoin Hand was treated by the FAI to bring in ‘that big cunt Charlton’ – it didn’t matter that Hand never managed to qualify for any tournament and Charlton got us two World Cups. We’d have to keep an eye to make sure he didn’t go and burn down FAI headquarters.
On the nights we forgot he’d get sidetracked anyway and resort to wanton vandalism. He was once arrested for running across the roofs of a line of parked cards somewhere in Drumcondra. Sadly for him one of the parked cars was a Garda squad car with two Gardai inside eating their ham and cheese rolls.
Then on one occasion he flew to Rwanda and joined in with ‘a bit of the old genocide’. That was the final straw and we banned him from drinking it ever again.
Anyway, the point is that surely it’s all down to the person. Isn’t a little disingenuous to suggest that someone who drinks a lot of Red Bull while snorting lines of coke all night and drinking beer and does something wrong is any worse than someone who drinks a lot of whiskey and does exactly the same thing?
Is there are purer form of drunken behaviour which makes Red Bull fuelled antics so terrible? Doesn’t the fact that these people before the courts have been doing drugs not have a bearing on things? People who do lots of coke are prone to extremely aggressive behaviour and while Red Bull does give you a bit of a boost a big fat line of charlie every half an hour shits on it from a great height.
And even without drugs it’s not really the Red Bull, is it? A classic Irish solution, blame the mixer, not the alcohol.
Still, they’ll probably outlaw it and every weekend people will go to their dealers, “Yeah, give us an 8 ball, a half ounce of hash, 6 Es and four litres of Red Bull”.
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February 21st, 2007 @ 11:31 am
Ah yes Old Irish Logic, Like the one about making condoms
available would promote teenage sex. We have a great ability to close our eyes
to the real problem. If someone drinks too much the reason is beacuse they drankl too much.
Its not because the pub was open longer, its not because the beer was cheaper,
its not because the barmaid was toplees no its because the person wanted to and was too
stupid to stop before they got off their heads.
I have proof of the above because the pub here never closes while your in it.
there are many topless bars, and Almaza can be got for $3and I
get drunk despite all the time.
February 21st, 2007 @ 11:31 am
Leave my Red Bull out of it, he dosn’t drink alcohol, he dosn’t take drugs
apart from steroids, he dosn’t get into fights, well he gored the auld cunt
with the farm next to me, he wont sell me his land, Red Bull got to hear about it
and gave him good horning, Red Bull has never been to a football match
he’s never been to Dublin, so leave him alone or I’ll bring him up ther
and let him loose and he’ll knock the cowshit out of you Jackeen cowards..
February 21st, 2007 @ 11:39 am
Red Bull can totally kill. You never know which can’s the bad one.
February 21st, 2007 @ 11:50 am
If Red Bull gives you wings…tell Claire Rayner about it. Then they can cut back when making Tampax.
February 21st, 2007 @ 1:32 pm
They should just add something to it that causes a massive explosive reaction when it is mixed with alcohol. Problem solved.
February 21st, 2007 @ 1:45 pm
A few months ago, I got high on caffeine and drunk on alcohol – not something I’ve repeated since – and decided I’d try to climb a hill near our house. Amazingly, I did it. Then JC told me to run down the hill, which stupidly I did.
I now have two scars, one on my hand and another on my knee from that incident.
Red Bull and drink does not mix. Enough said.
February 21st, 2007 @ 1:52 pm
MMmm red bull flavoured minge… could be onto a winner!
By the way do you really still smoke?
February 21st, 2007 @ 2:39 pm
such bullshit…….
so vodka and red bull is worse than shots of that “aftershock” shit, worse than “jagerbombs”, worse than a gallon of whiskey? when you are off your chops, you are off your chops.red bull just makes sure you dont turn into a drooling mess before you leave the fucking club. dario, red bull got you up the hill, and your lack of brain did not get you down……
this country is fucked. red Bull makes the headlines as a purge on our society…..do these people walk the streets with their eyes open????Christ
February 21st, 2007 @ 2:58 pm
I drank vodka and red bull for a while, but it used to do funny things to my heart – made it go all irregular and fluttery. I stick to the charlie these days.
February 21st, 2007 @ 2:58 pm
How can anybody drink red bull. If I talk to someone that had red bull, mixed or pure, I get totally discussed by the smell of it.
(btw twenty, at wordpress there is an answer to resolve the long reply field)
February 21st, 2007 @ 3:31 pm
i’ve always liked red bull because it tastes like the old benylin did. mmm, benylin. the whole problem here seems to be that people are not drinking enough red bull so they don’t have the energy to run away from the cops after being violent. more red bull, more successful getaways, less court appearances. problem solved.
February 21st, 2007 @ 3:35 pm
Twenty , back to Blog formatting (and the kaleidoscope effect). I cannot read from the top
page. Generally, the post has some sort of tool bar superimposed
over it. It is only possible to read the post by accessing the comm
com comments option. Also the comment box doesn’t seem to wrap t
to the next line .. you have to hammer the return key … as I said earlied
earlier that old blog was good .. by the way, IE ver 6,
February 21st, 2007 @ 3:38 pm
Weird, Carlisle.
Try restarting your computer and give us a ring back. Yeah, you can ask for me, my name’s …erm… Trevor. Yeah, Trevor.
February 21st, 2007 @ 3:40 pm
?? Jesus twenty what’s that? My regular fix is in jeopardy ..
February 21st, 2007 @ 3:43 pm
Outrageous. Twenty’s real name is TREVOR – TREVOIR, TREVOR, TREVOR
What the feck is this world coming to
February 21st, 2007 @ 3:44 pm
I always find that people who have been drinking Red Bull have breath that smells like they’ve just vomitted. Or have been eating vomit. One or the other.
On several occasions this has nearly put me off snogging a horrendously drunk bird.
February 21st, 2007 @ 3:50 pm
After four litres of Red bull you’d spend the rest of the night pissing. The other goodies only add to the enjoyment of the night.
Trevor Twenty? Sounds like an AKA to me. What name do the cops use when entering you on the blotter?
February 21st, 2007 @ 4:03 pm
How’s the comment box now?
February 21st, 2007 @ 4:13 pm
testing testing one two three ……………… excellent . working fine .. well done … now for the 10 mark questions ….
February 21st, 2007 @ 4:18 pm
Sid! where are all them ShannonSiders gone to, is there a goat fair down there????
February 21st, 2007 @ 4:29 pm
Hey trucker – there’s a ‘goats’r'us convention that the feckers never invited me to.
February 21st, 2007 @ 4:46 pm
I was in Manchester not too long ago and they have gear like red bull, it’s dead cheap,and
it’s real strong, it tastes like rocket fuel, you get an after taste like when you suck some
ones old dirty underpants when you have a realy bad hangover and you need to comfort youself to sleep
drink it when you’r sober makes you wish you were drunk, drink it when your sober and you wish
you were sober!!!
February 21st, 2007 @ 4:55 pm
You had sense not going Sid. You wanna see what the feckers are doing to the goats.
February 21st, 2007 @ 4:57 pm
They are weird…they are milking them, feeding them and thethering them up. Shouldn’t be allowed. Wrapping text my ar*e…stil ‘aint workin’ dude.
February 21st, 2007 @ 4:58 pm
Use Firefox then. or IE7.
February 21st, 2007 @ 5:23 pm
I shall put that to my employer .. please upgrade your version of IE so that I can view Twenty’s blog … thanks 20 for trying …
February 21st, 2007 @ 5:27 pm
I did try. I don’t know how to fix shit like this though and if it’s working in IE6 and IE7 once it’s updated then it’s Microsoft’s fault and you need to take it up with Mr Gates.
February 21st, 2007 @ 5:29 pm
It’s to hit the net since porn, you were told!!!
February 21st, 2007 @ 6:40 pm
True enough. Authorities are always quick to blame the inanimate object rather than the animate one.
February 21st, 2007 @ 6:44 pm
drink enough and there’s no difference ldbug
February 21st, 2007 @ 7:54 pm
All those energy drinks are bad for a person, not to mention the mixing with alcohol. Death wish, anyone?
February 21st, 2007 @ 10:40 pm
Twenty sir, it appears the boffins at Wired News are reading your blog:
http://www.wired.com/support/blogs.html
I bet Rafferty & Goldblach and the other nerds are only livid with the jealousy :D
February 21st, 2007 @ 10:44 pm
Awesome. I’ve out-nerded the ginger avenger!
February 21st, 2007 @ 11:01 pm
TELL THEM CUNTS AT wIRED NEWS ,WE KNOW ABOUT WANKING AND WANKERS, and where to buy clothes and tech things, so let’m wise up!!
February 22nd, 2007 @ 3:35 am
How the fuck do you cope with all these serious responses to a blog about a drink that was unfashionable years before the price of coke fell within the scope of the average non-tribunal barrister?
No seriously, must be the price of fame.
February 22nd, 2007 @ 6:40 am
Fuckin poufs , red bull me bollix. Your only man for a chaser is a pint of guinness and a bushmills red , twelve of this combo and you can easily think you’re Superman even if the body is getting sluggish.
February 22nd, 2007 @ 8:55 am
The one thing worse than Redbull is the cheap red bull rip-off “shark”. Generally sold in suspect pubs. France – that major alcohol producing country have already banned Redbull.
February 23rd, 2007 @ 3:52 pm
Twenty, it’s not the just the bully that can alter your drinking reactions or let you go past your sell by date. I had a period where for reasons of finance and a desire to embrace our broader European culture, I was sampling the “delights” of Ureich. I stopped after offering to put a lad through a 2nd floor window.