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Coffee...aka...The Greatest Substance Ever
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Tenacious-V
Thinks his PR is better than yours.
Yep, it's stopping when you're done all that that's the problem...
Tenacious-V
Thinks his PR is better than yours.
I've even found that standard coffee doesn't really do it for me these days. I've even switched to espresso for my early morning classes (damn 8:30 classes, and taking an hour to get to school.....). Nothing like a coffee pots worth of coffee compressed into 1 tea cup!!
MrAngryFace
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I didnt drink it till I moved back up here and worked 2 months of overnighters, at that point it became a close friend of mine.
Justin Bailey
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I didn't start drinking it until I got a "real" job, like the kind where you have to wake up at 7-ish M-F.
Jill Sandwich
the turds of Optimus Prime
It's no good for sufferers of anxiety/panic attacks - but it's SO GOOD (in the morning)
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I'm in a habit of making a 1-shot latte every morning, but when I haven't had enough sleep, a double shot = ZING. Espresso is love.
Mac the KNife
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SD-Ness said:
Beer disagrees with you!
But hay coffee's great
Tenacious-V
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Pellham said:
Also gives me stomach aches sometimes....
And with those stomach aches comes explosive shits......
teruterubozu
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Coffee - it keeps America running!
Tenacious-V
Thinks his PR is better than yours.
White Man said:
I guess I have a wierd espresso maker, it's a stovetop container that boils the water underneath, and then goes/steams up into a separate chamber where the coffee is and it stays there as long as you want it too, and keeps it heated. Then you disconnect the bottom chamber and put a cup underneath it and push this lever thing and it compresses the chamber and all the coffee out of it through the same spout. You end up with a crazy cup of espresso and like a pancake of coffee grounds. You can almost pick up the pancake whole as a disk most of the time. It's pretty neat.
It's really fuckin strong compared to a normal cup of coffee for me.
With the cost of store-bought espresso drinks, combined with their relative lack of actual caffeine content, you might be better off just taking caffeine pills with a large glass of water in the morning. I can't stand the taste of most iced coffees, and hot coffee on hot days isn't always enjoyable, so that's what I do in the summertime if I feel I need to.Tenacious-V said:
Tenacious-V said:
I think that's a Moka Pot? The strong taste and subsequent reaction is psychosomatic, not necessarily indicative of the caffeine content, but of course it also depends on how much you're drinking .
lovelyarsenic
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personally i like my occasional frosted latte or cup of joe...and i did just recently read that scientists have proved a 20 oz. cup of coffee a day to be health beneficial. (although, they also did say that too much more than that can be a problem causer).
Duck of Death
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Coffee is good every now and then, but I prefer tea myself.
A tall cup of tea mixed with orange and honey = BRING IT ON DAY I'LL FUCK YOU UP!!
A tall cup of tea mixed with orange and honey = BRING IT ON DAY I'LL FUCK YOU UP!!
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Oh, I know exactly how much it affects me. Withdrawal can happen after 24 hours if I'm on a steady, daily dosage, and I'm mostly worthless in the morning if I hadn't had coffee yet. I've experimented with going off it over time, and it always involves headaches for a few days, followed by cravings that tend to make me eat sugar. I haven't put the effort into really going off of it, and besides, I like the taste of a good latte or flavored drink too much now.darscot said:
Scrow said:
I'm with you on this. I actually have had a couple cups of coffee then gone right to bed. I used to get withdrawal symptoms after a day or so without it, but I don't anymore, I think because I kept going a few days without every few months.
Coffee actually helps calm me down and focus. Decaf coffee also seems to do this, so I'm guessing it's mostly a placebo effect, but hey I'll take it. :lol
AlphaSnake
...and that, kids, was the first time I sucked a dick for crack
Wow. Some of you are insanely dependant on coffee. It is the most overused drug in America, too. I used to drink a cup almost everyday, but for the past 2 months I find myself rushing out of the house to get to work. I never went through a withdrawl phase or anything like that. I've drank coffee plenty of times before bed and fell asleep with ease.
It has zero effect on me, and I genuinely drink it for the taste.
It has zero effect on me, and I genuinely drink it for the taste.
Your body will adjust. Eventually you'll have to drag yourself to the coffee to feel normal. The plus side is that you have a bit more control over your wakefullness if that's a word.
Caffeine in small amounts won't hurt you.
Try not to drink more than 2 cups a day of coffee.
I drink a few cups of green tea a day. Celestial Seasonings has some great flavors and they scored high on the antioxidant tests. But those bastards won't include a string for the tea bag so I've got to fish it out with a straw at work.
Green tea has caffeine, but it has an insane amount of health benefits. Inhibits cancer growth, increases fat metabolism (easier to lose and keep weight off), slows aging rate a little, and more.
Coffee has some benefits too, but not that many. Coffee recently got recogonized as being the #1 source of antioxidants for the typical American diet. That's not saying much...
Caffeine raises blood pressure to dangerous levels? How much caffeine are we talking about?
Green tea decreases blood pressure:
http://vanderbiltowc.wellsource.com/dh/content.asp?ID=1688
http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=146
Everyone should drink green tea and do other things for their health. Preventive medicine FTW. It works, you feel better everyday, and it's cheap.
I may be wrong about that.
I recall it being about 200-400+ mg of caffeine at once being bad for you. But I'm too lazy to search for it.
Everyone seems to react differently to it though. Just look at some people in this thread having problems consuming a single cup.
Duck of Death
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teh_pwn said:
What about other types of tea?
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Last two times I drank green tea I would up with a terrible headache.
Drink coffee all the time. Favorite "regular" flavor is Maxwell House. If I go for a flavored type, it is usually some sort of chocolate.
Drink coffee all the time. Favorite "regular" flavor is Maxwell House. If I go for a flavored type, it is usually some sort of chocolate.
Wellington
BAAAALLLINNN'
Drinking coffee right now. :lol
I drink one cup in the morning cause I get it for free with breakfast at my workplace's cafeteria. Sometimes I need it, sometimes I don't.
I tend to not really drink coffee unless I am damn near about to collapse from exhaustion. For keeping me awake in meetings, coffee, I salute you. :lol
I drink one cup in the morning cause I get it for free with breakfast at my workplace's cafeteria. Sometimes I need it, sometimes I don't.
I tend to not really drink coffee unless I am damn near about to collapse from exhaustion. For keeping me awake in meetings, coffee, I salute you. :lol
Ahhh.
And damn are some of you guys nervous nellies. If coffee's your dirty habit then you're doing pretty fucking good, and based on a few tsk-tsk reactions here you'd think ppl are talking about shooting crystal meth into their eyeballs 20 times a day in order to get by.There's a Tim Horton's on the first floor of the building I work at now... it's like having your crack dealer move into the apartment next door and install a sliding window into your living room. One awesome innovation of my new workplace is the Friday Flip. We all drink loads of coffee and love our Tim's in the morning, so every Friday everyone (usually 4-7 ppl) gathers in a circle with a coin and flips in unison. Odd man or woman out not only has to do the Tim's run for everyone they have to buy, not only is the competition thrilling but getting your coffee for free makes it taste 82% better than normal. I lost my initial Flip because the first round tied 2-2 and in the second round I dropped my loonie, resulting in an immediate DQ and much mocking. A few of us have special coins just for the Friday Flip, older silver dollars and big novelty coins are popular because it might distract the guy standing next to you.
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