- Tuesday, 10 November 2009
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America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up - Oscar Wilde
Drink with the Inq without leaving your keyboard
A NEW WEB SERVICE allows friends to gift drinks - real drinks, not fake Facebook ones - via the magic of the interweb.
Yes, now that series of tubes can morph into tubes carrying sweet alcoholic nectar, thanks to Give Real.
The premise is pretty simple, and we'll illustrate it with a simple example. You, dear reader, log on to Give Real and open an account. You include your credit card details so that the system can charge you. Then you click on 'Give Drinks' and charge $20 to your card, whilst typing in the email address of your buddy, in this case, Wily.Ferret@gmail.com.
Your buddy - that would be me - then gets a notice letting him or her know that you've given them $20 worth of drinks. They then register their credit card with Give Real and go to a bar - any bar in the US, not one in some kind of lame scheme or anything like that - and order whatever drink they want, paying with the same credit card that they registered after you sent them the dosh.
In my case, that would probably a Don Draper-esque Old Fashioned.
Give Real then credits them back the dosh to their credit card, and takes it off the $20 tab you set up for them.
It's genius. It's beer, through the internet. It's remote drinking. Its distributed partying. Cloud-based tabs. It's the future.
Go ahead and test out this Internet innovation. We'll gladly let you use our email address provided above to facilitate your testing.
And we promise that any Real Beer purchased through the above email address will be handled with care by your happy haunch of hacks at The INQUIRER's annual Chrimbo Knees-Up next week.
We promise, the more beer you donate, the more likely it is that we'll be able to get Sylvie back into that towel again.
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"We promise, the more beer you donate, the more likely it is that we'll be able to get Sylvie back into and out of that towel again."
Sorted! ;)
Cheers,
John
Its a Distributed Denial of Sober attack!
Beer thats Cold Filter is Dangerous to Your Health beyond Alcohol, As it Ferments within ICE. That yellow Color is type of Plasmossis, Metabolism is sure to Hit Ceiling & Stay There, Theres Faster Ways To Kill Yourself, Yet it No Joy.Why NOT Free GIN? Its Legal & Horrible, Made from Gin Berry.B A R R F. In Fact 85% Ethanol Gasoline Might Be True Answer & Cheap. Ummm, that Premium AfterTaste. Drashek PS How about Medical Marihuana CC Gift?
If you ask me, few things are real in Vegas... Why don't you be a sport, mate, and buy me the first round for me beerkat manors? Besides, I'm still in therapy over the whole "Phil Collins still owes Andrew Thomas a pint" spill (nasty one). And world knows, you can't REAL beer in the states, even if you're trying to float one over.
I would concede you this:
http://www.ftd.com/5970/catalog/product.epl?product_id=7116&index_id=uk&country_id=UK#
No really, after doing the conversion from dollars to pounds, at the end of the day, all just pissed over the damn. I carn't be arsed about last year's You'll-Tide, Chrimbo Knees-Up 404 NORWICH GRN thyme.
Besides it all, buddy, what morphs into tubes for me is a bit Code 35.
I guess the world's Not me Oyster.
Does that come with Spam?