Comments on: UK gets Viagra-laced beer http://boingboing.net/2011/04/19/uk-gets-viagra-laced.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Fri, 24 May 2013 12:04:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/04/19/uk-gets-viagra-laced.html#comment-1086468 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1086468 great for poker night. liquor after this beer! great for poker night. liquor after this beer!

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/04/19/uk-gets-viagra-laced.html#comment-1086469 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1086469 TAGS: BEER, COCKS TAGS: BEER, COCKS

]]> By: Utenzil http://boingboing.net/2011/04/19/uk-gets-viagra-laced.html#comment-1086477 Utenzil Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1086477 Ok, dropping the first reference to a "stiff drink", right here. Ok, dropping the first reference to a “stiff drink”, right here.

]]> By: irksome http://boingboing.net/2011/04/19/uk-gets-viagra-laced.html#comment-1086482 irksome Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1086482 A fine, upstanding product from a pillar of the brewing community. A fine, upstanding product from a pillar of the brewing community.

]]> By: dculberson http://boingboing.net/2011/04/19/uk-gets-viagra-laced.html#comment-1086486 dculberson Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1086486 "viagra, which is available without a prescription there." Woah! So there is something awesome to counteract all the big brother negatives. “viagra, which is available without a prescription there.”

Woah! So there is something awesome to counteract all the big brother negatives.

]]> By: Jake0748 http://boingboing.net/2011/04/19/uk-gets-viagra-laced.html#comment-1086489 Jake0748 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1086489 Do they come in tall boys? "Hey, honey, what's your favorite subject?" "Poetry." "Poetry, huh? Want to help me bone up on my Longfellow?" - Rodney Dangerfield Do they come in tall boys?

“Hey, honey, what’s your favorite subject?”
“Poetry.”
“Poetry, huh? Want to help me bone up on my Longfellow?”

– Rodney Dangerfield

]]> By: happenchance http://boingboing.net/2011/04/19/uk-gets-viagra-laced.html#comment-1086490 happenchance Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1086490 Cue 'Daily Mail' outrage in 3... 2... 1... Cue ‘Daily Mail’ outrage in 3… 2… 1…

]]> By: falz3tta http://boingboing.net/2011/04/19/uk-gets-viagra-laced.html#comment-1087517 falz3tta Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1087517 Yeah, Viagra really isn't available without a prescription in the UK. Yeah, Viagra really isn’t available without a prescription in the UK.

]]> By: woid http://boingboing.net/2011/04/19/uk-gets-viagra-laced.html#comment-1086497 woid Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1086497 Look, you can turn the bottle sideways and the beer doesn't go flaccid. Look, you can turn the bottle sideways and the beer doesn’t go flaccid.

]]> By: Quiet Wyatt http://boingboing.net/2011/04/19/uk-gets-viagra-laced.html#comment-1086499 Quiet Wyatt Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1086499 Streets full of lagered-up louts, crotches a-twitch with unregulated Viagra? Cue the mass female exodus from the U.K in 3... 2... 1... Streets full of lagered-up louts, crotches a-twitch with unregulated Viagra?

Cue the mass female exodus from the U.K in 3… 2… 1…

]]> By: Raj77 http://boingboing.net/2011/04/19/uk-gets-viagra-laced.html#comment-1086503 Raj77 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1086503 Great bunch of lads, BrewDog. Won't be any Viagra in this, though (it isn't really legal to sell without a prescription) Great bunch of lads, BrewDog. Won’t be any Viagra in this, though (it isn’t really legal to sell without a prescription)

]]> By: kc0bbq http://boingboing.net/2011/04/19/uk-gets-viagra-laced.html#comment-1086504 kc0bbq Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1086504 I opened the article expecting the beer to be made by BrewDog. I wasn't disappointed. I opened the article expecting the beer to be made by BrewDog. I wasn’t disappointed.

]]> By: phisrow http://boingboing.net/2011/04/19/uk-gets-viagra-laced.html#comment-1086508 phisrow Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1086508 It might actually be self-correcting. One of the nastier side effects(outside of the specific populations for which use is contraindicated in the first place) of overdose is priapism. Since erectile tissue maintains its shape by restricting blood flow, you can start to get tissue death within a shorter-than-one-might-like period of time.<br><br> If the subject is wasted off their ass and/or too cool for the ER, the "turning black and falling off" stage awaits. It might actually be self-correcting. One of the nastier side effects(outside of the specific populations for which use is contraindicated in the first place) of overdose is priapism. Since erectile tissue maintains its shape by restricting blood flow, you can start to get tissue death within a shorter-than-one-might-like period of time.

If the subject is wasted off their ass and/or too cool for the ER, the “turning black and falling off” stage awaits.

]]> By: ryxxui http://boingboing.net/2011/04/19/uk-gets-viagra-laced.html#comment-1086524 ryxxui Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1086524 I'm with Raj. Between the obvious medical implications of doing something like this (I feel like there must be some valid medical reasons not to wash down your Viagra with alcohol), the sheer awesomeness of BrewDog and the drinks they produce, and the "healthy dose of sarcasm" remark, there's no way there is actually Viagra in this drink. I just hope someone picks up on the joke before people get too carried away. I’m with Raj. Between the obvious medical implications of doing something like this (I feel like there must be some valid medical reasons not to wash down your Viagra with alcohol), the sheer awesomeness of BrewDog and the drinks they produce, and the “healthy dose of sarcasm” remark, there’s no way there is actually Viagra in this drink. I just hope someone picks up on the joke before people get too carried away.

]]> By: Ian http://boingboing.net/2011/04/19/uk-gets-viagra-laced.html#comment-1087036 Ian Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1087036 Just for the record, Viagra is very definitely a "Prescription Only Medicine" in the UK, just double checked in the latest issue of the British National Formulary. Just for the record, Viagra is very definitely a “Prescription Only Medicine” in the UK, just double checked in the latest issue of the British National Formulary.

]]> By: Prufrock451 http://boingboing.net/2011/04/19/uk-gets-viagra-laced.html#comment-1086527 Prufrock451 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1086527 "If you remain drunk for more than four hours, seek high fives." “If you remain drunk for more than four hours, seek high fives.”

]]> By: TEKNA2007 http://boingboing.net/2011/04/19/uk-gets-viagra-laced.html#comment-1086531 TEKNA2007 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1086531 “It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him and it mars him; it sets him on and it takes him off.” That is, until now. “It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him and it mars him; it sets him on and it takes him off.”

That is, until now.

]]> By: Tone http://boingboing.net/2011/04/19/uk-gets-viagra-laced.html#comment-1087053 Tone Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1087053 Bottoms Up! Bottoms Up!

]]> By: Teller http://boingboing.net/2011/04/19/uk-gets-viagra-laced.html#comment-1087067 Teller Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1087067 They've been having trouble with the guys handling the deliveries. The caps are popping off. They’ve been having trouble with the guys handling the deliveries. The caps are popping off.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/04/19/uk-gets-viagra-laced.html#comment-1095521 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1095521 Gordon JC Pearce at least America doesn't drink warm beer.... Gordon JC Pearce at least America doesn’t drink warm beer….

]]> By: hbl http://boingboing.net/2011/04/19/uk-gets-viagra-laced.html#comment-1086580 hbl Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1086580 Brewer's droop begone! Brewer’s droop begone!

]]> By: pAULbOWEN http://boingboing.net/2011/04/19/uk-gets-viagra-laced.html#comment-1087365 pAULbOWEN Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1087365 "in the U.K...viagra...is available without a prescription." Total cobblers! “in the U.K…viagra…is available without a prescription.”

Total cobblers!

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/04/19/uk-gets-viagra-laced.html#comment-1087121 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1087121 You know all those photos you get sent of people so drunk they've passed out somewhere, and then their mates deface them? Well, those photos are about to get a whole lot worse. You know all those photos you get sent of people so drunk they’ve passed out somewhere, and then their mates deface them? Well, those photos are about to get a whole lot worse.

]]> By: jaejae http://boingboing.net/2011/04/19/uk-gets-viagra-laced.html#comment-1087136 jaejae Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1087136 Looks like bottled date rape. Looks like bottled date rape.

]]> By: Teller http://boingboing.net/2011/04/19/uk-gets-viagra-laced.html#comment-1087176 Teller Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1087176 Not to armchair package-design, but a great opportunity was missed as they could have shortened the body of the bottle and greatly lengthened the neck. Not to armchair package-design, but a great opportunity was missed as they could have shortened the body of the bottle and greatly lengthened the neck.

]]> By: Gordon JC Pearce http://boingboing.net/2011/04/19/uk-gets-viagra-laced.html#comment-1087446 Gordon JC Pearce Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1087446 The funniest bit is that not only do cities in the US have even more CCTV than cities in the UK, but you've got armed police everywhere and airport-style metal detectors in all the public buildings. But hey, keep enjoying the stereotypes along with your bad food and worse beer ;-) The funniest bit is that not only do cities in the US have even more CCTV than cities in the UK, but you’ve got armed police everywhere and airport-style metal detectors in all the public buildings.

But hey, keep enjoying the stereotypes along with your bad food and worse beer ;-)

]]> By: RevelryByNight http://boingboing.net/2011/04/19/uk-gets-viagra-laced.html#comment-1086688 RevelryByNight Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1086688 Seems mightily irresponsible to me for reasons outside the expected. Viagra was discovered as a blood pressure drug, because people with ED often suffer heart problems. People with unhealthy hearts who take Viagra are at risk for heart attacks and other nasty things. Docs should never prescribe it (and folks shouldn't ingest it) without testing the person's heart first. Seems mightily irresponsible to me for reasons outside the expected. Viagra was discovered as a blood pressure drug, because people with ED often suffer heart problems. People with unhealthy hearts who take Viagra are at risk for heart attacks and other nasty things. Docs should never prescribe it (and folks shouldn’t ingest it) without testing the person’s heart first.

]]> By: jamiethehutt http://boingboing.net/2011/04/19/uk-gets-viagra-laced.html#comment-1086692 jamiethehutt Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1086692 >>Quite the hard sell. You don't come to Scotland much do you? >>Quite the hard sell.

You don’t come to Scotland much do you?

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/04/19/uk-gets-viagra-laced.html#comment-1086694 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1086694 I just want a little buzz when I have a beer not a hard on that won't go down. Encouraging drinking and sex is a great idea too. I can't see any problems coming out of that. I just want a little buzz when I have a beer not a hard on that won’t go down.

Encouraging drinking and sex is a great idea too. I can’t see any problems coming out of that.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/04/19/uk-gets-viagra-laced.html#comment-1086453 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1086453 Best pun ever. Thank you. Best pun ever. Thank you.

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