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Tips For Drinking On A Diet

Editors Note: This is another submission by Meghan Chiampa. If you think you have what it takes to write for The Drunk Pirate, send your submission to James@thedrunkpirate.com

Are you a Junior who’s still trying to shed that Freshman 15? Here are five drinks and a few tips that will help you keep you from tipping the scales while you get your drink on.

Before we get down to brass tax, here are some general tips: The juice in bars is usually from concentrate, so try to find alternative mixers like cranberry. And if you are going to drink soda, stay with diet and ginger ale. Another thing to remember is tonic water has calories, while seltzer doesn’t.

That being said, there really are no super miracle low-calorie, low-carbohydrate drinks. As I’ve mentioned before booze is super sugar, so you aren’t really going to find many drinks under 80 calories.
Here are some low cal/good for you cocktails I enjoy.

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10 Reasons Why Beer Pong Is Not Called Beirut

A while back we posted an article on the official rules of Beer Pong. Overall the response was good. However, we kept getting comments and emails from individuals who claimed the proper name for Beer Pong was Beirut. Here is one such comment:

“I really wish the legit drinking websites would stop calling it “Beer Pong”. It’s Beirut, dammit. For those of us that play Beer Pong, to mix up the games is blasphemy. Check this out to get more information. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_pong” (At least he called us legit)

I rank these people right up there with the hippies that tell me cutting down trees is murder and that I shouldn’t eat meat because animals have rights too. They can all go straight to H E double hockey sticks. I’m an American and I will play Beer Pong on my table made of wood while eating a raw steak. But I digress. This post is about why Beer Pong is not called Beirut. Here is an exhaustive and thoroughly researched list of these reasons.

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Does Loud Music Get You Drunk Faster?

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Seems like every bar you go to does two things: they lower the lights and turn up the music. But why? Well the poor lighting is obvious—so you don’t have to see how ugly everyone really is. Probably. But the loud music is no accident.

It’s common knowledge among bar owners that talkers don’t do as much drinking as their silent counterparts. When you’re talking you’re not drinking. And when you’re not drinking, you’re not spending money. Simple enough. But is it true?

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21 Signs You Drink Too Much

1. You tilt your glass even when you’re not pouring a beer.

2. You can name all the different types of Sam Adams brews but you can’t name all of your kids or their birthdays.

3. You’ve ever had more than one pet named after your favorite beer or liquor.

4. You have a perfectly round beer belly. And you’re a girl.

5. If you’ve ever shown up to a 10:30am Visual Communications class drunk. Every day.

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Follow The Drunk Pirate On Twitter

Yes boys and girls, The Drunk Pirate crew has gone social network on your asses and has created a DP Twitter account. We all have access to it and will be updating whenever we can. You can follow us to see what,when and where were drinking. Our Twitter handle is “thedrunkpirate.” We’ll do our best to also give you the complete recipe and mini review of whatever we’re drinking.

For those of you who don’t know what Twitter is, it’s a type of mini-blogging that allows users to update what they’re doing throughout the day. Since most people use their phones to text in what they’re doing, each entry is limited to 140 characters. “That sounds completely useless,” you say? It actually is, but that’s one of the criteria to be a successful Web 2.0 company these days. There must be something to it though because there’s literally millions of people using it. It would probably be a good way to keep track of where you went last night so you can figure out which bar you left your credit card and ID at.

So follow us and we’ll follow you. Hell, we might even post some of your tweets here on the blog.

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