this wouldn't have saved me, i was already driving when i started to get fucked up on [discontinued brand] at school
better thing to do would be to not make teenagers get up in the morning
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Seriously they should, it would be better for them. They dont because sports and extra curricular come after 3 PM (if they start later that all starts later too) and also cause it fits parents' work schedules. Except theyre teens, they hopefully should be able to be trusted to be more independent and go to school by 10 AM.
Ah but that would send the dangerous message to the proles that they have some right to sleep in for health which might carry over into adulthood as demands for flexible work hours to suit human bodies and lifestyles! 
Better to beat them down as children, regiment them, abuse them, force them to take drugs and get used to it early so it's seen as normal and part of "growing up" 
(And as a bonus it generates demand for our caffeine drug market further taking money from their pockets and adding another cost they have to bear just to earn a living)
I just keep thinking of the dead teens graves that should be marked "died while driving exhausted, so we could keep school schedules aligned for maximum profit generation"
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good idea, bad timing. (also better idea to regulate their contents, say for kids caffeine/taurine lower than x, but whatever)
(sleepy kids bought straight caffeine from pharmacies anyway, but like there is something to be said about moderation)
I see so many freaks down like 3-4 of these a day. Schools honestly need to create some curriculum for health Ed about acceptable caffeine limits
It's never been so easy to slowly kill yourself lmao
It's never been so easy to slowly kill yourself lmao
how many people are dying of cafeine
About 10 per year but those are usually accidental crazy amounts. More talking about the stress on your heart. Adds up if your drinking this shit like crazy
Can't die to caffeine if something else gets ya first. Checkmate. sips energy drink
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"slowly kill yourself" obviously means damage to the body, which is well supported, e.g.
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treatlerites reeling. "socialists" crying about paternalism and manifesting thatcher when they - who are evidently children- aren't allowed to have unlimited access to their highly processed bright green ooze.
In a vaccuume, this is a good policy choice. In the context of English politics, this is something of a mistake. Living standards are in decline, more and more pensioners are freezing to death each winter, and the capitalists and blue-bloods are needling for any opportunity to privatize the NHS. If Labour actually lived up to their name (or at least were just cynically savvy), this ban would come alongside a package to actually work on and improve these problems.
Instead, it's just gonna be perceived as an austerity government doing a little bit of nanny state policy on the side, just because they can. Torries will use it as a rally cry, like the big-gulp soda thing in New York was, and most people will remember this as Labour electing to tinker at the margins rather than actually govern to anyone's benefit.
To be clear, this is a good policy. But it's a good policy being done in the most self-sabotaged manner possible.
They cant stop kids from vaping, this ban isn't worth shit.
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i just had this ~~calypso~~ red bull, and it's FOOKIN' MINGING
Regardless of how healthy energy drinks are for under 16s (or anyone, really), this is a fairly short sighted decision if the plan is to allow 16 year olds to vote in the hopes they'll save Labour lmao
I fucking detest energy drinks but any bill that bans them and not freely traded caffeine powder and or bills is going to be worthless
Yeah, I've heard awful stories of people bulk buying caffeine powder off the internet and then straight up taking a lethal overdose
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Huh I thought this was already the case since you get ID’d for energy drinks which was extremely annoying in my 20s. The most annoying one was getting ID’d for painkillers while sick.
In school I’d buy a litre of corrosive red bull knockoff for 99p and drink the whole thing
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I mean, what is childhood for if not drinking dangerous amounts of caffeine and sugar?
I knew kids that would just take caffeine pills straight up instead of energy drinks. Hell I am not even against it in theory, when I was younger I LOVED Rockstar freeze Pineapple & Coconut to an unhealthy degree, but tbh I would have found something else to be addicted to.
I used to do that as a teen.
I still do, but I used to, too.
Au-ADHD brain is really something else when it comes to dopamine hits.
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Way cheaper, if I ever decide to start taking caffeine that's what I'd do
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As long as youre not taking them by the handful they can be nice when you want caffeine but tummy hurts
In an old special, Eddie Izzard tells the joke: "No smoking in bars anymore, and soon, no drinking and no talking."
I used to think that was a funny joke, but I guess it was just an accurate prediction of England's future.
I once hung out with some dude bros who brought a big sack of caffeine powder around with them. They would rail it almost constantly. No idea if that’s actually effective I think they would’ve been happier with coke lmao
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Are they going to ban children from drinking tea while they're at it?
surely there's not a difference between the toxic sludge marketed to minors and a cup of tea?
The amount of people on this website who display zero dialectical understanding of the world is disturbing for a supposedly communist platform
Now you accidentally tripped over very based idea, tea embargo for all Brits.
Energy drinks are way worse than tea though. 55g of sugar per can and some kids will drink two or three of these a day.
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I don’t think the children are drinking tea. Because of woke. I used to mix tea and instant coffee together when I was a kid cos I’m weird
The Briton Wrestling Federation is not ready for "Matcha Man" Randall Civilized
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It's Britain. The majority of the people there might actually put a cultural cornerstone like tea on a higher moral pedestal than your average adult liberals put state sanctioned ridiculous restrictions on children on. Anywhere else, you could attempt that, and people would laugh, and teenagers would protest, but ultimately no massive resistance would take place if laughing it out didn't work. Because when authoritarian and pointless nonsense only affects children, no one actually sees it as a fundamental violation of freedoms and civil liberties. But in the UK, people might actually do something if the government tried to restrict who's allowed to buy, brew, and drink tea. Because Brits love their tea and see British tea stereotypes as a Valued Cultural Institution.
The sugar is the worst shit about these. One can of V is like a fistful.
This is puritanic cringey bullshit. Banning stuff is pointless, governments would be better served enforcing plain packaging, limits on sugar before something has to be prominently labelled as confectione, sold in a separate section with %of daily energy and sugar larger than the brand name or something,
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D:
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