Topic awaiting preservation: Yes, You Really Do Need That Coffee

It's official -- you really do need that coffee in the morning and if you don't get it, you really are in withdrawal, researchers said on Wednesday.
I didn't knew the lack of caffeine could cause headache, nausea or even muscle pain. Are there some inmates addicted to caffeine to that point ?

YES.... So just back away from my french press slowly and no one gets hurt.

Coffee is one of my few remaining vices, or one of the true joys in life, it all depends on how you look at it. But one thing for sure: Life isn't real until that 3rd cup in the morning.

I used the term "addicted" to emphasize the physical symptoms depicted by the study.
Whatever, that study won't prevent me from enjoying a coffee after lunch.

I seem to be one of the few people who don't like coffee.


 

I absolutely despice coffee, Slime. Nasty nasty stuff.

And really - isn't the fact that coffee is addictive...that caffeine is an addictive drug....an obvious thing? Nations full of people who literally are not themselves without coffee (or those who pound mountain dew by the case-load..), and this is a surprise to anyone??

C'mon....

It's just one of those things that is acceptable so people have turned it into a joke.

Yay for Slime and DL-44.

Even being a college student, I despise caffeine. I still drink caffinated beverages (Pepsi, Coke, the occasional Mountain Dew at LAN parties), but I stay away from constant intake and especially away from coffee.

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." -- Arthur C. Clarke
"Any sufficiently arcane magic is indistinguishable from technology." -- P. David Lebling

i think coffee is yum.... i love a lot of the cafe variations of it and i love the smell of freshly roasted coffee beans mmmmm.

but i think 'having' to have coffee, and drinking up to 4 cups or more a day, aside from not being very healthy, is excessive and can almost be as bad as smoking when it comes to filthy habits.

my high school bio teacher had a mug of the stuff practically on the hour, every hour. he reeked of it. stale, rotting coffee smells bad enough when its not wafting off a forty-year-old man.

p.s. i only had one cup of coffee this morning and my last cigarette was yesterday morning. i'm allowed...

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(Edited by LaSun on 09-30-2004 04:48)

DL-44: yep, it's a well known fact that caffeine is a drug. But I didn't knew somebody could develop some physical symptoms of lack of. How many liters of coffee a day does it take to become physically dependant ?

I drink about 4 cups a day and if I go over 24 hrs without caffine I get very bad headaches. My vision gets a bit blurred and my balance is even worse than usual.

Guess that means I'm an addict, but hey- It's not a drug problem if you don't run out......

I'm in the boat with Slime and DL-44... I tried coffee twice.. Once when I was about 12, and once about a year ago... Hated it both times.

For my caffeine, I generally have a soda every now and then, and also I found these really neat mints... "Penguin" mints.. 3 of them combined has the same caffeine as a can of soda. 3-6 right before you go to class really helps ya pay attention.

-Xel

hehehe, Those Penguin mints rocked. 3 never did enough for me though...

I used to hate coffee with a passions. Finally i realized it was because I had never used any *good* coffee creamer. Oh man, that and some sugar makes a world of difference. Yummah!

But what really will rock yah are the Chocolate covered roasted coffee beans. Those will light you up like nothing else... except maybe a large amount of coffee (providing that you don't drink much coffee like myself). Oh, and even to coffee haters, they taste good.

I'm not much for coffee, but if I don't have my sweet tea I'm irritable. for those of you who don't know, to make a gallon of sweet tea you take 3 lipton tea bags and add to a few cups of boiling water, take off and let steep for 10-15 minutes, then add to about a cup-n-a-half to 2 cups of sugar and add water (*don't forget to stir*) let chill and drink iced... it's quite possibly the only thing I'd ever drink if not for my love of milk. so give it a try! I promise you won't be dissappointed




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i love iced tea .. but i make it with blackcurrant herbal tea and so much sugar and frozen cranberry juice from concentrate that i don't know how much of it is really tea anymore ..

not that it really matters ....

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And besides, for waking you up in the morning? A fresh apple beats a cup of coffee hands down.

I have been known to be *somewhat* cranky when I don't get my daily intake of caffeine (in the form of diet soda).

However, I never really knew what a hard core coffee drinker was until I got married. My wife's family drinks the stuff at all hours of the day, all day. Now, I'm game for a vanilla latte or three, but drinking coffee with meals is something I haven't really warmed to.

Coffee is my drug now...no more cigs *sniff, sniff*

Though I don't really notice, if I don't get my coffee...I just love the taste...and the routine...coffee in the morning, nice and slow wake-up...and the aroma...mmmmmhhh.

I normally drink 2 cups in the morning. Too much coffee, however, does tend to make me rather...high-strung.

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I hate Coffee... I really, really, really hate it. I really do. However after reading that study, I have to agree with it. If I go without a Mountain Dew during the day AT ANY POINT I start trippin' out n shit.

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I learned to love coffee in college... started with the sweet creamy lattes and now I'll only drink what I make at home... I hated the stuff for years!

But these days, I drink 2 cups in the morning and I'm good to go all day. If I don't get it, I have a headache by 3pm that day... I'm sure I could wean myself off of it with herbal tea or something, but I have discovered that I really like the taste of coffee with cream and sugar. It's one of my 2 little vices...

I don't like soda at all though. If it's the only thing around, I'll drink maybe half a coke or pepsi, but soda leaves me feeling thirsty still. If I need to actually quench my thirst, I drink water.

Coffee after 2 in the afternoon will keep me awake until midnight at least. That's the down side to caffeine - loss of precious sleep.

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"I once killed a man for a-touchin my Pepsi!"

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(Edited by docilebob on 09-30-2004 16:32)

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"I once got killed by a man for a-touchin his Pepsi!"

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I usually drink coffe until my fingertips quiver slightly, then I back off for a couple of hours before the next cup... Seriousy, on a work day it's somewhere around 8-12 cups a day, weekends 4-5.

I know, I'm insane with coffee, but what the heck, I rarely drink, even more seldome get drunk, I quit smoking 5 months ago after a 25 year daily habit and I never ever do drugs (not counting coffe).

I figure this will give me some leeway
Besides, my brain wouldn't wake up before noon otherwise and I think my employer would see that as a disadvantage...
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I usually have 1-2 cups a day. Waking up in the morning and brewing a cup of coffee for the drive into work and first class is part of my routine. It also gives that needed boost to be alert for my 8:30 classes. I don't eat breakfast (I haven't for about 10 years) nor do I usually eat a lunch - so my energy for the first half of the day comes from the good 'ol coffee

Being a Canadian, I have access to Tim Horton's. Timmy's beats Second Cup or Starbucks any day of the week - and a large cup of coffee from Tim's is $1.40 or something like that. From the Second Cup or Starbucks, it's like, $5.00 for a cup of coffee - and it's not even as good!

I'm part of the group of people that used to *hate* coffee. I also used to despise beer. Then one day, I just started liking it. Now I can't go a week without my beer and coffee!

BEER AND COFFEE!!!! AARRRGSDFEFFFH#$*(@#!#$233 ....

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Slime, I'm right there with ya. I cant STAND coffee. Its so bitter and nasty. That's not to say I'm not addicted to caffeine though. I do love moutain dew.

I actually like coffee quite a bit, but try to limit myself to about one cup a week, or sometimes a cup every two weeks. It seems to only work if you drink it really spread out like that.. I mainly just save it for those days when I have been up real late and have to get up really early.


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I'm not one to drink coffee everyday, or even on a regular basis, at least not when my schedule is normal, which isn't exactly normal. If I'm on vacation though, I have to have 2-3 cups (no sugar, no cream, nothing... Why ruin the taste?) or I'll be somewhat more than irritable all day and have a headache and everything.

During a normal day though, I have to have caffeine. Usually it comes in the form of iced tea, 2-3 cups (32-48oz each) a day. Back when I was playing baseball a year ago, we were supposed to give up all forms of carbonation and caffeine, and within a week I had a headache by 2:00 everyday. So the caffeine part of that fell apart for me real quick, but after a year I still haven't had any kind of coke, which, surprisingly, I don't miss at all (this coming from someone who used to drink as much coke as I do tea now).

... Just realized I went through a whole 16oz cup of tea in the time it took to write all this...

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mmmm, COFFFEEEEE...

A double measuring spoon of Columbian, some Half and Half, Sugar.... and that first pull of the morning smoke... Ahhh, Heaven. The day is all about chasing that feeling from then on out.

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half & half?..... sugar?.... This is sacrilege! One must maintain a state of purity when worshiping the
goddess Caffeinea with your hands clasped around a steaming cup.

If you want pure, why not just inject caffeine directly into your bloodstream via syringe?

I bet it would have more of a kick...

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." -- Arthur C. Clarke
"Any sufficiently arcane magic is indistinguishable from technology." -- P. David Lebling

Like most religions, ritual plays an important role. Thus the steaming hot cup.....

But I must admit that the injection idea has some merit to it. I do believe, however, that a more stable and long lasting blood level of caffeine would be achieved by using an intramuscular injection rather than booting it right into a vein.

And then we have the caffeinated soap for those who preferr transdermal absorption.

(Edited by norm on 10-01-2004 00:42)

Nothing beats a nice cup of warm coffee with a cigarette in the morning.

All you non-coffee-loving blasphemers will burn in the increasingly hot kettle of coffee for all eternity.

Coffee is my psychoactive stimulant of choice.

I'm a non-cigarette-loving blasphemer.

And I already have to inhale that crap whenever someone smokes it.

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Yea, but you know what? I can't kill someone in a car because I'm smoking a fucking cigarette.



And I've tried. =)

Well, if a bee flies in the window and you say;

"shoo bee, shoo bee"

While waving your cigarette hand. What if an ash falls into the coffee that you have in the other hand?

Then you drop your cigarette into your lap while trying to dab the ashes out of the coffe cup. Once you save the java you then notice that your balls are on fire. Naturally you sit up off the seat and try to rub the burning embers off your pants. But, when you sit up off the seat your foot puts more pressure on the gas pedal. Your car lurches forward into a crowd of non-smoking, non-coffe drinking, looky loo's, and then, you could kill someone from smoking and driving.

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Coffee is what the cool inmates drink

Or, Coke, if nothing else available.

Sugar is for wusses who can't take the power of the caffeine in its entirety. Same applies for cream.

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I'm very impressed-

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Sugar is for wusses who can't take the power of the caffeine in its entirety. Same applies for cream.

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If it were not for the difference in our ages, I would have to propose......

I must admit, I drink my coffee with french vanilla cream.

for me, i'll take my coffee and first cigarette of the day after i've had breakfast.. the aroma of the coffee
is so tantalizing... yet i prefer the taste of a dessert coffee - milk and sugar. mmmmmm. about
3 large cups a day interspersed with H20!

when i'm feeling festive, i fire up the espresso machine (i got as a gift a while ago) and steam the milk
- that with the coffee mixed with a portion of chocolate syrup.. and sugar to taste? yes. caffeine on top
of caffeine

(Edited by velvetrose on 10-01-2004 03:06)

velvetrose:
Chocolate is a major entire food group of it's own! You seem to have forgotten that Chocolate must always be capitalized. Just a momentary lapse of recall, I'm sure...

Remember- If the Chocolate is melting in your hand that's a sure sign that you're eating it too slow.

so i'm a wuss

mmmm vanilla latte ...

mmmm... mochaccino ...

mmmmm Choc-o-late ...

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All this talk about coffee makes me want a cup. I'll put some on after the presidential debate, how's about you?

i dont see how cofee can be compared to smoking. Smoking is a known cause of cancer etc, leading to death. Coffee is not. Infact i beleive there are studies that show a cup a day or something is actually good for you. Similar to alcohol or something.

Yea, except there is no way that alchohol is good for you? And also, for the record. Caffeine has been known to kill what with overdoses, withdrawls, and increased heart rates. Though, it's highly unlikely.

Chocolate is an interesting exception to the rule, although I rarely find both coffee and chocolate working well together. They are better as single entities.

Norm - how old are you?

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How old am I? Well....

I'm old enough to know that Coffee and Chocolate are among the things that make life worth living. And I must agree that each may be more fully enjoyed when appreciated separately.

I'm way old... Old enough to have three kids who are now positive that they are teenagers. But I never quite got the hang of being all grown up, and I suppose it's far to late to start now.

Just got back from walkabout catching up on all the threads I've missed. I just had to make myself a nice strong pot of coffee whilst reading this one
Some days I drink coffee some days I don't. When I do I tend towards a strong Arabica made in a preheated cafetiere, and poured into a preheated small(ish) mug.
About 50% of the time I'll drink it the way "goddess Caffeinea" intended, Commando Style The rest of the time I use a soya creme alternative (called Elmlea).
I think I can hear a few people gagging out there, sorry 'bout that
Anyone noticed Dracusis (and the gorgeous coffee sig) back in the forums recently? Coincidence? ~ Music from the "Outer Limits" playing in the background~

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Yea, except there is no way that alchohol is good for you?

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- A glass of Red Wine is actually good for you., as long as it is only one.

And beer also seems to have some good qualities, for men.

(Edited by WebShaman on 10-01-2004 19:34)

I have heard about the red wine analogy, but to my understanding the alcohol doesn't compliment the 'wine' part, which is good for your blood stream.

Norm - well, you can always dream

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And those are the differences that make this world great...

Chocolate and Coffee don't go together well...

And Im a wuss - I like Cappuchino.

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(Edited by Alevice on 10-02-2004 03:52)

Then dream I shall. Dreams of Chocolate, dreams of Coffee, and dreams of......

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norm said:

Then dream I shall. Dreams of Chocolate, dreams of Coffee, and dreams of......

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LOL now thats true comedy!

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i'm glad to hear that most of you don't like coffee....more for me

I drink A LOT of coffee. and i mean a lot! I must drink around 12 cups a day. weekends mean even more. i've gotten to the point to where caffiene doesn't really do anything to me anymore. but if i don't have at least 2-3 cups before going out into the real world, you wouldn't want to be around me for very long. tale tell signs of an addict right there. hahaha

i'm serious though, i drink way too much coffee. but besides tea and water, that's all i drink except for the occasional beer.

i like mine BLACK. As black as you can get it. Straight espresso....or what we call a "Black Eye" which is 2 shots of espresso and then filled with black coffee (usually something nice and strong like Konoa. That'll get ya rockin in the morning in a hurry

so all you keep NOT drinking coffee, because I am sure that I make up for some that don't.

and yes...it will give you one hell of a headache if you are used to it and don't get it.

Later,

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it's like an aspirin regimine, making the blood flow better.




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LOL @ norm. yes, i really did forget to capitalize Chocolate