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Britain's Got a Rather Altruistic Drinking Game

Over 500K strangers are buying each other rounds on a pub's app

(Newser) - A British drinking game where people order rounds for complete strangers from their couches has a simple premise: Show these folks a good time, and maybe you'll be next on your night out. And a recent shift in how Facebook promotes groups to nonfollowers has made the Wetherspoons Game...

Man Who Ended Up in Coma After 'Pub Golf' Sues Employer

British PwC employee lost half his skull after drinking heavily, falling down

(Newser) - A PwC employee who lost half his skull after drinking heavily at a work event in the UK in 2019 is suing the international auditing company. Michael Brockie, a 28-year-old who is still employed by the firm, says the "pub golf" event "encouraged excessive consumption of alcohol."...

Here Is Your GOP Debate Drinking Game

'Drink every time Carly Fiorina makes a joke about her own face'

(Newser) - It will likely come as no surprise to you that there are quite a few GOP debate drinking games out there in anticipation of tonight's event , but the one authored by Matt Taibbi over at Rolling Stone is particularly amusing. "The event is taking place in California at...

Here's Your 2014 Golden Globes Drinking Game

Tina Fey, Amy Poehler talk about Sunday's awards show

(Newser) - Tina Fey and Amy Poehler sat down for a pre-Golden Globes interview with the Hollywood Reporter , so of course they laid out the rules for this year's drinking game . "Anytime you see a gown with sleeves, you're going to drink," says Fey. "Anytime they cut...

Beer Pong Balls Teeming With Germs

 Beer Pong Balls 
 Teeming With Germs 
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Apr 20, 2013 6:00 PM CDT

Beer Pong Balls Teeming With Germs

Clemson students uncover the gross truth

(Newser) - It turns out that college kids aren’t the only party animals that show up for games of beer pong: Bacteria such as salmonella, listeria, staph, and e. Coli get in on the fun, too. Those are the findings from a group of Clemson University students who studied the pingpong...

Tina Fey, Amy Poehler Share Globes Drinking Game
Play Tina Fey, Amy Poehler's
Globes Drinking Game
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Jan 13, 2013 6:09 PM CST

Play Tina Fey, Amy Poehler's Globes Drinking Game

Warning: It involves meatball subs

(Newser) - Golden Globes co-hosts and real life BFFs Tina Fey and Amy Poehler give a highly entertaining cover interview to the Hollywood Reporter , in which they offer up an idea for a Globes drinking game you can play when the awards show airs tonight:
  • Fey: "Anytime an actress cries
...

After Bros Icing Bros: Girls Busching Girls
After Bros Icing Bros:
Girls Busching Girls
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Jun 27, 2010 5:45 PM CDT

After Bros Icing Bros: Girls Busching Girls

Women get their own version of frat-like prank

(Newser) - Smirnoff may have delivered a body blow to the odd drinking game of Bros Icing Bros , but Margaret Eby of Salon takes note of an alternative for the ladies. It's called Girls Busching Girls and has a similar theme (along with a website ): Participants unleash a Busch beer on...

Oddest New Drinking Game: Icing

The frat brothers of the world are uniting over Smirnoff

(Newser) - From the frat brothers of South Carolina to at least one Goldman Sachs employee, the young men of our fair country are getting more and more obsessed with a new drinking game: Icing. Also known by the more formal name Bros Icing Bros , it's a sort of prank war that...

A Debate Drinking Game
 A Debate Drinking Game 
GLOSSIES
Sep 26, 2008 4:14 PM CDT

A Debate Drinking Game

Radar helps you spice up a presidential Friday night

(Newser) - With tonight's presidential debate a go, and happily coinciding with TGIF festivities, Neel Shah rolls out Radar’s debate drinking game. Some highlights:
  • Take a sip when: John McCain calls himself a maverick; Barack Obama rolls his eyes as McCain calls himself a maverick; McCain calls viewers his friends; Obama
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