{"id":3033,"date":"2009-04-10T00:00:51","date_gmt":"2009-04-10T10:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/?p=3033"},"modified":"2023-02-26T19:04:11","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T05:04:11","slug":"review-bawls-guarana-g33k-b33r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/2009\/04\/10\/review-bawls-guarana-g33k-b33r\/","title":{"rendered":"REVIEW: Bawls Guarana G33K B33R"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/images\/g33kb33r.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Aww shit!  Bawls Guarana G33K B33R is here.<br \/>\nRaise your bumped glass bottle and cheer.<br \/>\nIf you&#8217;re with a friend, make your bottles clink.<br \/>\nIt takes a real geek to handle this drink.<\/p>\n<p><b>[Interlude 1]<\/b><br \/>\n<i>How do you know if you&#8217;re a real geek?  Well here&#8217;s a little test.<br \/>\nLet&#8217;s see if you answer any of the questions with a &#8220;yes.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Do you talk trash to 12-year-olds while in Halo combat?<br \/>\nCan you recite Jabba the Hutt&#8217;s lines at a drop of a hat?<br \/>\nDo you open up MS-DOS on a 486 to reminisce?<br \/>\nDoes construction with Legos give you orgasmic bliss?<br \/>\nDo you have every episode of BattleBots on VHS tapes?<br \/>\nDoes your closet contain Batman&#8217;s utility belt and cape?<br \/>\nDoes your computer case glow with colored LED lights?<br \/>\nDo you download shit thru BitTorrent by the gigabytes?<br \/>\nDo you subscribe and read Slashdot&#8217;s RSS feed?<br \/>\nDo you dress up in cosplay before you do the deed?<\/p>\n<p><b>[Interlude 2]<\/b><br \/>\n<i>You don&#8217;t do any of those things?  Shhhhiiiit.<br \/>\nWell here are a few others G33K B33R is meant for.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Does the name &#8220;Caprica&#8221; make your naughty parts tingle?<br \/>\nCan you play on your wind instrument the X-Files jingle?<br \/>\nWhen you roll, do you only do it with a 12-sided die?<br \/>\nDid the trailer for the G.I. Joe movie make you cry?<br \/>\nDo you get hard playing Risk when you takeover lands?<br \/>\nCan you display the Vulcan salute with both hands?<br \/>\nIn Borders, do you flip through books with dragons on the cover?<br \/>\nDid someone break up with you because you&#8217;re a WoW lover?<br \/>\nDo you call the Lord of the Rings toys on your shelf figurines?<br \/>\nDoes Lara Croft sometimes end up in your wet dreams?<\/p>\n<p><b>[Interlude 3]<\/b><br \/>\n<i>Nothing?<br \/>\nWell then, maybe G33K B33R isn&#8217;t for you.<br \/>\nSo here&#8217;s what you&#8217;re missing.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The caffeine in Bawls G33K B33R makes it like root beer on &#8216;roid<br \/>\nI like this tasty beverage as much as Michael Jackson loves little boys.<br \/>\nIt gives me a kick but not as hard as other energy drinks I&#8217;ve tried.<br \/>\nThe high fructose corn syrup it contains makes me sad inside.<br \/>\nIts low carbonation makes it easy to drink and doesn&#8217;t tickle my &#8216;stache.<br \/>\nBawls Guarana G33K B33R makes cheap root beers taste like ass.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s got a little bite, but no bitterness from the guarana can be found.<br \/>\nCuz it&#8217;s only ten ounces I can&#8217;t pour one out when a homie goes down.<\/p>\n<p><small>(Nutrition Facts &#8211; 1 bottle &#8211; 130 calories, 0 grams of fat, 35 milligrams of sodium, 0 milligrams potassium, 36 grams of carbohydrates, 36 grams of sugar and 0 grams of protein.)<\/small><\/p>\n<p><b>Item:<\/b>  Bawls G33K B33R<br \/>\n<b>Price:<\/b>  FREE<br \/>\n<b>Size:<\/b>  10 ounces<br \/>\n<b>Purchased at:<\/b>  Sent by Twitter pal Jokeyhaha<br \/>\n<b>Rating:<\/b>  7 out of 10<br \/>\n<b>Pros:<\/b>  Tasty root beer flavor.  Low carbonation makes it easy to drink and doesn&#8217;t tickle my &#8216;stache.  No bitterness from guarana.  Bottle looks like a sex toy.  Trailer for G.I. Joe movie.  BattleBots.<br \/>\n<b>Cons:<\/b>  Didn&#8217;t give me a kick as hard as other energy drinks.  Contains only 10 ounces.  High fructose corn syrup.  Bottle looks like a sex toy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aww shit! Bawls Guarana G33K B33R is here. Raise your bumped glass bottle and cheer. If you&#8217;re with a friend, make your bottles clink. It takes a real geek to handle this drink. [Interlude 1] How do you know if you&#8217;re a real geek? Well here&#8217;s a little test. Let&#8217;s see if you answer any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1440],"tags":[1545,1530],"class_list":["post-3033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-beverage","tag-energy-drink"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":236,"url":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/2005\/06\/23\/x-it-strong-mints-with-guarana\/","url_meta":{"origin":3033,"position":0},"title":"X-It Strong Mints with Guarana","author":"Marvo","date":"June 23, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"(Editor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Note: It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Day Four of Energy Week here at The Impulsive Buy and today I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be focusing my attention on energy breath mints. 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