It's not mandatory to drink it like that. :)
But I actually like it. In summer, during the day, it is much more refreshing to drink Alster (thats what we call Radler in the north of Germany, same thing).

In sweden you are not allowed to sell anything with more than 3% alc in normal stores. Instead they sell some kind of light beer with 2.5% of alcohol. I always wondered why they didn't sell Alster, which (believe me) is much better. :)

It's a young people thing :)
We had Radler/Alster for ages (it's beer with Sprite). It's quite refreshing and well established. But recently (5-7 years) these mix drinks spread like hell. It ain't only beer, you get vodka/rum/gin-drinks that are mixed to taste very sweet and contain less than 10% alcohol. These are called alco-pops and are sold to ypoung folks starting from age 16. They are very popular with these, for its sweet taste I guess.
Also: mixed beers are more common with women, who otherwise don't like the taste of beer that much.

Beer (meaning Pilsener) in Germany is still quite exclusively brewed according to the Reinheitsgebot.
What you are referring to is a beer-mix drink and is always labeled as such ("Bier-MischgetrÃnk").
A beer-mix drink is (shocking!) a genuine beer mixed with something else.

To be even more beside the point:
The german "Fenster" is derived from latin "fenestra".
Someone pick up from here. :)

You need to be very careful.

How could this be modded as interesting instead of funny?

That's not the way it works.
What would you say, if I camped in front of your house and followed you around with my cam as soo as you leave house, posting everything you do in public to the internet?
Well, this is somewhere between this s[c|z]enario and being on a picture someone made from the Eiffel Tower for its private collection.

I do not really mind Google filming the street I live in, but I still oppose this stuff as, for me, it's another step into loosing all respect to privacy.

So, when Brits think of their underwear, words like

come to mind?

Kind of scary, don't you think?

So the Times already twitters, do they?

Can do:
"\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"
That would be a pattern to match four backslashes.

But noone could ever think of a case were we need more backslashes!!!!1!eleven

To top this: You could say that Ubuntu takes -25% longer than XP. :)

No. It's in the words.
It lasts 33% longer "than 3 hours"
As you compare some value to "3 hours" you would also compute the difference in regard to "3 hours".

Otherwise I could say things like "100% longer", when I "define" 100% equals 1 hour.

A twisted pair I guess.

Your position seems to be the widely spreading "guilty until otherwise proven" one.
By that logic, why would anyone use sun glasses in winter?
Or even: Why would anyone wear cloth, unless they are unbelievable ugly?

Sadly, a lot of very attractive women seem to wear cloth these days.

Where was I?
Ah, yes: Forbid beautiful people to waer clothes. That was my point!

... so I decided to split up and now there are two of me posting on slashdot.