Remember Kids: Drugs are bad! Except for coffee, which lets you work harder and increases your employers profits.
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More than 400mg of caffeine a day can cause a host of health issues. Of course, because it's legalized and widely available, people discredit the risks.
Just like acetaminophen, which is responsible for 56,000 emergency department visits, 2,600 hospitalizations, and 500 deaths per year, according to the NIH.
This is why I hate this stuff. I hate people joking about how much coffee they're drinking because they have so much work to do and don't get to sleep. Meanwhile, every coffee joke sounds like this to me.
I drink coffee for the joy of it, it doesn't increase my productivity.
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Also alcohol to cope with the stress!
Irish up that coffee, and you can do both at once!
Caffeine has got to be among the shittiest drugs to get addicted to. There's no euphoria; you just get anxiety and can't sit still. And then in a couple of hours you get tired and want to go to sleep.
I just don't understand how people get addicted to the stuff. Even when I needed to drink it for my job, the moment I quit that place was the same moment I quit drinking coffee. It's simply not a fun drug at all. There are much better stimulants out there.
Allow me to introduce you to NICOTINE.
No euphoria, also gives you anxiety, makes you stink, discolors your teeth, hair and nails, and slowly kills you.
It really does suck. You feel tired sooner and right before that you are anxious and jittery
I mean are most caffeine enjoyers addicicted? I don't think so.
I drink ~ 1 Liter of coffee a day but it's because I work a 10 hours shift, 4 hour round trip commute, and get 5 - 6 hours of sleep. I never really crave or need caffeine but it does help keep me from falling asleep at the wheel and dying
get tired and want ~~to go to sleep. ~~
more coffee
Because coffee is fucking delicious. At least good coffee is. No one drinks coffee for the caffeine, it's for the taste and warmth.
No one drinks coffee for the caffeine
I do, the days i need an extra push. Barley coffee else, to avoid the abstinence phenomenom.
No one drinks coffee for the caffeine
Citation needed
If that were the case, then decaf would be more popular.
It could be argued that the some of the processes used to decaffeinate the beans can substantially change the flavour profile.
I had to go to the company doctor years ago, it was mandatory when you just started working there.
One of the questions was how much coffee I consume each day.
"1 on some days 2" I answered.
He goes off by saying that's great, 2 cups is the max you should drink each day because if you get too much caffeine in your system it builds to much pressure on your muscles or nerves, I don't remember.
After that, we looked at each other in silence for a good 10 or 15 seconds before I began stammering: "cu... cups?? No, no. I meant 1 or 2 pots a day...."
He had mini meltdown and went off on me how bad that was for my body.
Arteries* - the big main pipes for blood that gets tapped leading into all your veins in all your limbs and organs
Caffeine increases heartrate similarly to exercise but unlike exercise your arteries don't open up for caffeine. So you're increasing flow but the pipes can't handle it all, meaning the heart has to PUSH HARDER and eventually this will lead to severe fatigue and heart failure. If you have additional risk factors like a high cholesterol diet (lots of meat) or are overweight then the arteries themselves can also become clogged and fail.
I find it scary that I’ve never had a doctor bring any part of this up
It's one of those things where its a very normal slow death over the course of decades, less harmful than smoking or alcohol, so it often gets brushed off as low priority. The real issue isn't even coffee, imo, but people who take 400mg caffeine energy drinks daily or even multiple times per day.
That's probably because it's massively overblown. Drinking just a few cups of coffee a day is perfectly fine. Energy drinks are the devil's urine tho.
Yeah I was just explaining what the doctor would have said, since you seemed confused about "muscles or nerves".
Much appreciated to take the time to do that. My story and your explanation can educate someone that comes across it.
Stay awesome dude.
I only drink 1 cup a day, but the cup is 300ml (~10 fl oz) and it's espresso.
You can avoid this type of confusion if you just get a bigger cup
My dude heard the glass break when you said pots. Went full hunter from l4d2
Does coffee make your testicles swell and float like frame 3?
Maybe Jack would have survived Titanic if he was a coffee addict, he could have floated several people with just his balls.
I hope so
And I hope y'all know they're knees and are just being silly on the Internet
The order of my understanding was, "wtf are those, ah swollen testicles of course," and finally, "oh, knees"
Might be worth trying
As much as I like at some time before 14:00 'o clock and then none.
Caffeine has about 8hrs half-life and blocks a few key receptors in the brain, so it will only mask the tiredness you build up over the day.
You're missing out. A coffee at 1900 or 2000 with just enough whiskey for taste is my jam on a Friday night.
If I would drink any coffee in that time, (even worse with/or booze) I would be still up the next day by a large margin. :(
Fair enough - everyone has a different reaction. I probably also should have mentioned the hash and beer that usually follow this, always end up ready for bed by 0200ish myself.
Hooray for legal poly drug abuse! (?)
Edit: In spite of no one asking, and because I chuckled when thinking about it, an average Canadian Friday night with Cracks:
1900 - Drink coffee with whichever whiskey I have on hand (recently got pumpkin spice flavoured whiskey for this purpose - fuck the haters, it's delicious in coffee)
1930 - Walk to the pub. Have a couple of hits of hash on the way.
2000 - Arrive at pub. Play two embarassingly low scoring games of pinball. Wonder why the fuck I keep playing pinball.
2015 - Order a beer. Have friendly, low stakes chats with patrons and bartender.
2100 to 0000 - Continue ordering beer. As beer level rises and certain patrons come and go, conversations move from asking people about sports stuff to "The United States will dissolve in 10 years max, fuck that little cretin from Manotick, and have you considered that private property is theft?"
~0000 - Bar closes. Walk home.
~0030 - Arrive home. If I made good choices on the walk back, pull up the Anarchist Library and try to read something. Retain nothing, put on Star Trek instead. If I made bad choices, and had more hash on the way, hang out with my toilet bowl as the room spins.
~0200 - Sleep
Is half a pot of black coffee too much?
How many are you drinking per hour
Yes
So that’s the biggest benefit of Keurig machines. Since they only dispense specific measured quantities, each cup is the same size
Edit- autocorrect
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