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Red Bull Secret Revealed
AHA! Perhaps the real secret motivation behind the Red Bull BASE team has been revealed?

Insert this URL in your browser and then you make the call:

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1900849,00.html
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Re: [swovelin] Red Bull Secret Revealed
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you'd have to drink 12,000 L of Red Bull Cola for negative effects to be felt
but since we know this, and anyone with half a brain knows this, we are still going to print a scare tactic article. I think redbull light carries the swine flu. idiots.
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But no one knows where Red Bull Cola's coca leaves come from or where they are processed.
totally. its fucking magic. no one knows, not even the people who process the leaf extracts have any idea. I think that some Colombian drug god used one of Andrew K's white magic spells to create coca leaves that come from nowhere.
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Re: [Calvin19] Red Bull Secret Revealed
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Andrew K's white magic spells

Smile I think I saw him levitate recently Laugh
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Re: [GreenMachine] Red Bull Secret Revealed
cheesy floating effect of me

http://vids.myspace.com/...amp;VideoID=21362506
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Re: [Calvin19] Red Bull Secret Revealed
Calvin, you are way out of line! Mad

If you hadn't ripped that quote out of context, you would see:

The fun police wrote:
you'd have to drink 12,000 L of Red Bull Cola for negative effects to be felt — but it was enough to cause concern.

I'm not sure what the official, universal intake level is to 'cause concern', but clearly drinking 12,000 L of Red Bull Cola just to get high is cause for concern. Imagine if all of our children start drinking 12,000 L of Red Bull Cola in a time span of a few minutes, just to get their kick?

What I think the article is trying to say, and what I propose, is that the amount of cocaine in Red Bull Cola needs to be raised to safer levels, so effects can be felt within just two or three drinks. Like beer.

On another note: If it takes 12,000L of Red Bull Cola for 'negative effects to be felt'... clearly its 'positive effects' must come sooner?
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Re: [swovelin] Red Bull Secret Revealed
Red Bull Cola is different than Red Bull Energy Drink, correct?
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Re: [AdamLanes] Red Bull Secret Revealed
AdamLanes wrote:
Red Bull Cola is different than Red Bull Energy Drink, correct?
yeah. Have not tried it though.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Bull
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Bull_Cola
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Re: [Calvin19] Red Bull Secret Revealed
You're not missing anything, tastes like crap.
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Re: [jtnesbitt] Red Bull Secret Revealed
jtnesbitt wrote:
You're not missing anything, tastes like crap.

Having never tasted crap, I don't know if I'm missing anything. I have however, had the Red Bull Cola and it was ok but kinda flat. I can only imagine that crap would be less desirable no? It also stands to reason that crap would be more likely to cause illness much quicker than any amount of Red Bull Cola.
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Re: [hookitt] Red Bull Secret Revealed
I guess it all depends on the individual's crap in question.
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Re: [Ghetto] Red Bull Secret Revealed
negative effects????
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Re: [leroydb] Red Bull Secret Revealed
leroydb wrote:
negative effects????

The whole arguement sounds a little ridiculous to me. One would be sure to feel the negative effects of all that niacin, sodium, caffenine, and half a dozen other ingrediants that are harmful in such vast quantities long before the trace ammounts of cocaine can do anything.
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Re: [jtnesbitt] Red Bull Secret Revealed
There is none of those ingredients in RB Cola. I don't think it tastes that bad, but as hookitt said it has a flat taste.
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Re: [swovelin] Red Bull Secret Revealed
one liter = (aprox) 3 cans (1.065 L)
12,000 L = 36,000 cans

i've never tried the cola but 'normal' red bull is $3 a pop, so:
36,000 cans times $3 = $108,000 (i guess you could buy it buy the case so it would be cheaper, say $100,000)

'mom, can i have $100,000 for red bull?'
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Re: [AdamLanes] Red Bull Secret Revealed
AdamLanes wrote:
Red Bull Cola is different than Red Bull Energy Drink, correct?

Yes, it tastes even more like unwashed skunk ass.
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Re: [diablopilot] Red Bull Secret Revealed
I was at the shop the other day buying some lunch. It just happened to be the day after another current affairs show hyping up the dangers of red bull. I had my sandwich and redbull on the counter paying for it and some middle aged lady had a dig at me, preaching to the whole shop about how red bull was basically killing me.
I calmly turned around and said, 'well, i jump out of aeroplanes and race motocross, I seriously doubt drinking red bull this is the most dangerous thing I'm going to do this week' I walked out of the shop noticing at least 2 ppl having a laugh.
I just wish i was at the stage where I could have added another parachuting sport to the list.Wink