Is drinking a beer a day good for your health? Apparently it is, according to Dr. Corina Zugravu of the Center for Beer Studies, Health and Nutrition.
Being Jack Bauer is hard work – you’re basically on the clock non-stop – so it’s no surprise Kiefer Sutherland wanted to blow off some steam when he hit a London hot spot. The 47-year-old star obviously got a little too into his partying and needed some help being carried to the car and into his […]
Being a news reporter must be a pretty hard and unpredictable job, especially when you’re dealing with drunken football fans.
We all treat ourselves from time to time – some more than others. After her months and months of discipline to lose weight, Jessica Simpson decided to treat herself, and have a bit of a banger.
With the image of her lovely buttocks fresh in your minds, here’s some more info merely corroborating that the Royals are just normal people like us (but also not really). The Royal couple recently took an outing to Scotland to visit the country’s oldest distillery, Glenturret – home to The Famous Grouse Experience. Challenged with […]
Don’t give into the morning-after darkness – there are ways to save the situation.
Health professionals are getting increasingly more concerned about the content of sugar in everyday food and drink products.
Calling all party animals! Uber will transport you and your colleagues FOR FREE to and from your office Christmas party. Now you can get as festive as you like, without worrying about the consequences.
The unofficial rules of bar etiquette, also known as “how not to be an asshole”, have just been released by Goldman Sachs. These gems will help you get quick service while keeping your dignity intact
Word is that scientists are on the brink of creating a drug that mimics all the nice things about alcohol, but eliminates all the hangovers, addiction and health issues. You know you want to read more.
This just became your most cherished bar and/or braai tool. Meet the Vortex. It’s a “reverse microwave” that chills drinks in 45 seconds. How does it work? I’m so glad you asked. Please enjoy the video
The Health Professions Council of South Africa is fretting over a steep rise in the number of doctors on their books who are completely off their faces on dwelms and drink. Coke, alcohol, prescription pain medication. It’s all there…
For years people have been arguing over what the essential remedy is for a big night out; whether it’s a strong cup of coffee, a breakfast of champions, herbal tea, hair of the dog or the classic trio of Butlers, Coke and Playstation. Turns out, fizzy pop drinks are the way to go. A team of Chinese scientists have done tests on 57 different drinks and Sprite has come out the winner of the reliever of the alcohol induced illness.
Researchers from Bielefeld University in Germany are developing a robotic bartender, and in an effort to create an accurate facsimile of a real bartender, they set out to determine if bartenders were predisposed to serving certain customers over others. In the process, they accidentally uncovered how exactly to get served first at a bar. It’s all […]
Welcome to to “Speedball”, a small pub in the Northern Cape (South Africa) town of Kathu, where grown men down bottles of brandy in mere seconds.
Pics of Harry Potter star, Daniel Radcliffe, have gone viral after being posted on Facebook following “one almighty session” in Ireland in the early hours of Monday morning. Serendipitously bumping into members of a winning Gaelic football team on the streets of Dublin, Radcliffe’s evening took a turn for the blurry.
The Department of Health has released the results of a study completed earlier this year that paints a grim picture of both Cape Town and the Western Cape’s rampant use and abuse of alcohol. Long story short, the study concludes that Cape Town is South Africa’s drunkest city, and the Western Cape its booziest province. Er, yay?
Let’s face it, as necessary as they are, some awareness campaigns are pretty lame. Especially when they are conceptualised by ad agencies who are out of touch with the audience they are trying to speak to. But not this quality, yet very funny New Zealand commercial. It urges blokes to be “legends” by not letting their friends drink and then drive.
If people keep telling you that drinking alone is a sign of alcoholism, then you either need to drink less, or find a way to make sure that there are people to drink with all the time. The geniuses behind the social network app ‘Let’s Drink Tonight’ figured the latter choice made more sense too.
Kevin who? Kevin Laye – the guy who wrote Positive Drinking: Control The Alcohol Before It Controls You! We don’t know much about Kevin other than that he’s a hypnotist and the last time he had a jol was in 1962. In his book he runs us through a range of techniques of how to stay sober when you feel a party coming on. Here are some of the highlights.
The thing about the future that excites me the most, besides the talking monkeys and the sexy robots, is the cure for the hangover. Some mornings I wake up and I just want to pry out my liver with a spoon and get myself a new one – and thanks to the researchers at the Institute for Regenerative Medicine, that dream is a possibility.