How to Drink Tequila

If you’re entire experience with drinking tequila involves downing endless shots of Jose Cuervo Gold, you’re doing it wrong. Not that there’s anything with doing shots of tequila – never would we say such a thing – but with a little bit of knowledge about this Mexican liquor, a whole new world of beverage enjoyment opens up to you. Luckily, the good people of Details have put together a quick, comprehensive guide to properly enjoying this deliciously intoxicating brew. Find out how to drink tequila, here!

10 Summer Beer Cocktails That Don’t Suck

With summer just around the corner, it’s time to start thinking about how you’re going to quench that thirst for the next three months. So instead of going with the same old mixed drinks you’ve been drinking since freshman year, we’ve put together of a list of delicious beer cocktails that will definitely add some “Ahhhhh” to your summer fun.

1. Ruddy Mary

Ingredients:

1 beer of choice
3 oz tomato juice
1 dash Tabasco
1 dash salt
2 dashes Worcestershire sauce
ice cubes optional

Basically just a bloody Mary, with beer substituted for liquor. Pour all ingredients into a martini mixer, shake, then pour into glass over ice (optional).

2. McLester Bomb

Ingredients:

1 bottle Red Stripe
1 shot of Bacardi 151

A variation on the Jager bomb. Pour the Red Stripe into a pint glass, add shot, drink.

3. Skip & Go Naked

Ingredients:

1/2 bag ice
1 can lemonade
1/2 bottle of gin
1/2 case beer

Best made in big batches, this is a great alternative to Jungle Juice. Empty half a bag of ice into a large cooler. Add can of lemonade, then a 2-liter bottle of Sprite. Add 1/2 gallon of gin and a 1/2 case of beer. Get wasted.

4. Teacher Creature

Ingredients:

12 oz Scottish ale
1 oz blended Scotch
1 oz Drambuie

Mix all ingredients in a large pint glass with no ice, drink.

5. Caribbean Night

Ingredients:

1 can beer
1 oz coffee liqueur

Pour coffee liqueur in a tall glass with ice (optional), add beer, stir lightly, enjoy!

6. Baltimore Zoo

Ingredients:

1 shot tequila
1 shot light rum
1 shot gin
1 shot triple sec
1 shot vodka
1 shot grenadine syrup
1 dash sweet and sour mix
1 splash beer

A variation of a Long Island iced tea, this concoction was created by a student at Purdue University. Mix liquors and grenadine to a highball glass with ice. Top off with sweet and sour mix, add a splash of beer, stir.

7. Caffeine Bomb

Ingredients:

1 bottle Newcastle Brown Ale
1 shot espresso
1 shot Jack Daniel’s
1 small can of Red Bull

Pour espresso, Jack Daniel’s and Red Bull into a martini mixer, pour in beer, stir and pour cocktail over ice in a tall glass.

8. Mexican Iced Tea

Ingredients:

1 1/2 oz tequila
3 oz Mexican beer

Pour tequila and into a large frosty mug filled 3/4 with ice cubes. Add beer, stir gently and garnish with a slice of lime.

9. Michelada

Ingredients:

12 oz beer
juice of 1 lemon (or lime)
2 dashes Worcestershire sauce
1 dash soy sauce
1 dash Tabasco sauce
1 pinch black pepper
1 pinch salt

Mix together the ingredients in a tall glass with lots of ice. Add beer, mix, and serve.

10. Tom Bass

Ingredients:

12 oz Bass beer
1 shot Jagermeister

An upscale alternative to the Jager bomb, the Tom Bass is a simple mixture of Bass and a shot of Jagermeister in a pint glass. Stir lightly, drink!

Have a favorite beer cocktail recipe? Tell us in the comments!

Sexy Self-Shot Mirror Girls 2009

The Internet is good for a lot of things – answering questions, finding a date, wasting your life away in an imaginary digital universe. But possibly its best feature is the endless stream of pictures random hot girls took of themselves in the mirror. We’re not sure who these girls are or what prompted them to strip down into the sexiest little thing they had and take their picture in the mirror (or how they got online in the first place), but we’re certainly glad they did – this is one trend that never gets old…

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How To Pack For The Holidays

If you’re anything like me, packing for a trip usually involves rushing home 15 minutes before you’re supposed to leave for the airport and cramming whatever’s in grabbing distance into whatever container you have (i.e. a garbage bag) that they’ll let on an airplane. But with airlines charging for every piece of luggage these days, it’s become financially irresponsible to not know how to properly pack.

Luckily for us all, the good people at ArtofManliness.com have put together a comprehensive guide, which teaches you all the tricks of packing for your next trip. From checking the weather to tricky folding techniques, these tips will get you there and back without all the hassle (or spending the extra cash.)

Check out How To Pack a Bag for Travel at ArtofManliness.com here!

10 Things From Your Twenties You’ll Regret When You’re Forty

Don’t get me wrong – being young and having fun is as important as anything in life. But assuming you live past the age of 28, there are a few things that you just can’t get away with, without reaping some serious consequences. Here are  the top 10 things you do when you’re young that, when looking back, make you wonder how you could have been such a complete and total dumbass.  (Image used courtesy of The Lizard Man)

10. Body Piercing Plugs

Believe me, I’ve been there. The piercing you either got at the mall or did in your friend Tim’s basement with a safety pin just wasn’t cool enough, so you switched to 16-gauge hoops, then to 14, and before you knew it, you’ve shoved the biggest g*ddamn thing that doesn’t look like it will give you herpes through your ear lobe like you’re from f**king Ethiopia. But beware: once you’ve finally decided to take out the massive disks in your ears, your lobes will be so stretched, you’ll have to have them sew-up to keep from looking like you have a shriveled butt hole on each ear.

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9. Risque Internet Pics

For some reason, people these days just can’t help posting pictures of themselves and their friends doing stupid, drunken, naked things online. But despite the fact that everybody’s doing it, don’t be fooled: Sometime, sooner or later, those pictures are going to come back to haunt you. And when they do, it will start a sh!tstorm you can’t even imagine. And pretty soon that trip to Vegas when you were 23 will turn into the reason you are fired from your job, divorced from your wife and/or estranged from your children. Seriously.

8. Tattoos

These days, having a tattoo is practically like having a belly button – everybody’s got one. The only difference is, having a belly button isn’t going to make you want to punch yourself in the face for stupidity as soon as you’re out of your “Jack Daniels phase.” Of course plenty of tattoos won’t be constantly regrettable reminders that you were once a retard. That is, unless you got any on your face, neck, fingers or any other place where your boss is then forced to know how much you used to like naked Star Wars characters. Oh and ladies, just so you know, one day that lower back tattoo you all seem to have is going to be known as the “old lady tattoo.” Not so sexy, is it?

7. Choosing Your Best Friend’s Girlfriend Over Your Best Friend

She was hot. She was so smokingly hot, your F’ing crotch could’ve spontaneously combusted at any moment. And the fact that she was untouchable, lest you ruin the entire friendship you and your best buddy had built up since you were six, made her all the more desirable. But one day, they broke up. And all of a sudden, you were spending your days holding hands and helping her pick out duvet covers. You and “that asshole” Mr. Ex stopped talking. Time goes by. Then some afternoon you come home to find her blowing a guy from the laundromat. And the sad thing is, in the end, you are the douchebag, and that’s all there is to it.

6. Getting Married Too Young

This rotten son-of-a-bitch trap can swallow even the most farsighted individuals. And I get it: You meet the woman of your dreams. You spend all your time with her; she gets all your jokes. And pretty soon, she’s on the pill and you’re living under the same roof, picking out paint for the dining room, secretly wondering what the hell happened to your manhood. Before you know it, you’re d*ck deep in webcam girl bills and pleated khakis. Next up, divorce, which charmingly includes going into debt to pay for the lawyers. But the sick twist is, she never wanted any of that bullsh!t either.

5. Not Traveling (Enough)

It’s hard to realize when you’re 21, but the time for whisking off to foreign lands with nothing to worry about besides which awesome thing to see next quickly evaporates. (Just ask any older person, they’ll tell you all about it.) Before you know it, you’re still in the same place you were seven years before, but with too many responsibilities to get away with jetting off to India for six months, just for the hell of it. So the best bet is to get as much traveling in while you’re single, childless and can still afford to not be working on building up your 401K (as if those mattered much these days, anyway).  So what are you waiting for?

4. Not Finishing School

One thing you quickly learn in college is that not having any money to spend sucks a hot cup of assholes. By your junior year, all you want to do is sit still for two f**king seconds and relax, instead of zipping around like a PCP addict. So you drop out, get an OK job, do OK stuff and have OK things. Cool, right? Maybe. But if you want to really do something interesting with your life, you’re going to have to do a hell of a lot better than that.

Not only should you finish school, but you should become passionate about something, study abroad and then go to grad school. Become an expert. You know, or you could knock up some chick, get a predatory loan and hope to God you never get fired for the rest of your life.

(NOTE: I know, this is not always the case. Some of the most successful people in the world dropped out of school. Fine – whenever you want to go invent something that changes the world, be my guest.)

3. Smoking

If you didn’t know smoking kills you by now, then you probably deserve whatever fate becomes you. Whatever. The thing the never-smokers don’t understand is, smoking is good for the soul, damnit! (Unfortunately, you only think that because you’re addicted to nicotine.) But unless you’re some type of endlessly-going genetic anomaly, THIS SH!T WILL KILL YOU. Seriously, so unless you want your kids to think you’re a total asswipe, quit right now. If you don’t want to have kids, fine. But that’s not going to make the chemo any less sucky, that’s all I’m sayin’…

2. Bad Credit

This one applies to everyone, since we Americans all seem to be addicted to f**king ourselves over in the long-run by getting greedy and buying a bunch of stupid crap every 10 seconds when we can’t afford it. Yep, I’ve been there, too. And for now, while your biggest commitment in life is playing Left4Dead, it might seem OK. But when you have a family to support and sending your kids to college is suddenly slopped on your plate, you’re going to be eating a giant sh!t sandwich. That is, unless you call saving for the future and holding-off on that new 50-inch plasma  something other than a sh!t sandwich. Not that I have to tell you that anymore, since you don’t have a job. Hmmmm, I wonder how that happened…

1. Not Spending More Time With Your Parents

Mom and Dad might not be hip to your world or your life or even the Internet, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t the two most important people you have. And believe it or not, they can be gone before you know it. (Other times they stick around so long, you could kill them yourself, but that’s another article.)

So whether you live miles away or blocks, make sure to spend time with them whenever you can. Call them, send them a card, do anything that lets them know that you’re not a complete f**k-up. They will thank you for it, whether you know so now or not. It’s not to say that, if you are still living on your parent’s couch, you’re going to be the most satisfied person on the planet. But if you only see the folks once a year, you’re going to have some therapy bills to pay for once they pass, guaranteed.

Honorable Mentions: not banging a MILF, heavy drug use, not learning a foreign language, beastiality

Have a regret to add to the list? Just tell us in the comments!

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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2: The Craziest Sh*t You’ve Ever Seen [Video]

You know people are always talking about how video games make people more violent and all that drivel? Bullsh*t, right? Well, after watching this video of a level from the new, hottest video game on the market,Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, you might be singing a different tune. But regardless of where you stand on the issue, something tells me this level, in which your character mows down an entire airport of civilians, is going to cause quite an uproar.

Seriously, this game is obviously amazing. But I must say, this is the first time a scene from a video game made me nervous…

7 Things You Should Never Go Cheap On

These days, everyone is trying to save as much money as possible for fear of everything going to sh*t (again). And while we’re all for getting a good deal, there are some things you shouldn’t buy if you can only afford to go with the bottom of the barrel. Not that you should pay more for something when you could pay less, but that going with the cheapest option is worse than doing nothing at all. Here are 7 Things You Should Never Go Cheap On.  Read more

Secret Knocks Just Got Way Cooler [Video]

Secret knocks have been around for probably as long as doors and locks. Until now, having a secret knock only really made sense if you were involved in a covert operation or some other equally shady sh*t.  But this guy has created what could be the coolest locking mechanism since Chinese fingercuffs. He’s created a device that automatically unlocks the door when the pre-programmed secret knock is knocked.

Nice Rack: 72 Pool Cue-ties

It’s not often you meet a girl that’s good at pool. Not that women are any less good at the sport, it’s just that pool halls are generally occupied by scragglers and shady fellows – no place for a proper lady. Which is why the girls that are good with a pool cue are just that much hotter. To celebrate these ball-banging super-stunners, here are a ton of hot chicks playing pool!

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Major High School Football FAIL [Video]

I’m not what you call a sports expert. Not that I’m bad at sports (other than basketball, which I should never play, for any reason), it’s just that I’m not an expert. So take this with a grain of salt when I say, I think of these guys f**ked up. Maybe it’s just my amateur eye, but something’s wrong when this happens…

Christopher Walken Performs Lady Gaga’s “Poker Face”

It’s always funny to see people you think of as complete badasses do funny stuff. Take this rendition of Lady Gaga’s hit song, “Poker Face,” as performed by Christopher Walken on BBC1. His intonation and extremely strange Queens accent just give the song a little something extra. On a side note: Is it just me, or does Christopher Walken look more and more like vampire as time goes on? Maybe he is a vampire. That would be an awesome surprise…

Michael Jackson Reborn as an Actual White Dude… at the Bus Stop [Video]

Wow, guys, it’s amazing! Michael Jackson’s alive!… in the body of a white guy. I know, I know, he’s not quite the dancer that Michael once was. But that’s to be expected. See, this is an actual white guy, with with guy dancing skills, whereas before Micheal Jackson’s death (and reincarnation), he just looked like a white dude, but danced with the feet of a black guy. Still, this Michael dances his ass off at the bus stop like it’s nobody’s business.

How to Fall Through a Roof [Video]

All I’m going to say is, if you’re going to snoop around like a cat burglar, it’s probably a good idea to have some clue as to how to walk across a roof without it falling in on itself… four times! I’m mean, seriously, dude. You’re in China. They’re not exactly known for making things that last forever. If you were climbing around on the pyramids, then maybe, but this is just freakin’ ridiculous.

Major Street Racing FAIL [Video]

I completely understand why people race each other on the street: You just spent $35,000 supping-up your WRX, and damnit, you need some place to open the thing up. And what better place than a public street, where people are just trying to get from home to work? Those assholes need to get with the program, and get the f**k out of the way. Or, at least the dude in the white car needs to get the f**k out of the way…