The coffee thread

[Sir Stewart]

Hmm...the prevalence of high fructose corn syrup is the result of Big Government subsidies for corn farmers and tariffs on imported sugar, thus I'm just being conservative in opposing corn syrup. Ha!

 

[notsnarky]I always forget how non-conservative Bush was.[/notsnarky]

[Moss]

Water makes me pee more than coffee.

 

There are good drugs for osteoporosis now (Prolia). I'm sure I will need miracle ear someday from all the concerts I attend. Doesn't make me want to stop going or wear ear plugs.

 

Giving up coffee would severely detract from my quality of life.

[Duck-Billed Catechist]

That sounds like a terrible idea. Do you really do that?

It's kind of similar to SAD treatment (which is is more of a 45 degree angle than straight-on).

 

Anyway, filtered coffee in moderate amounts is shown to have a net health benefit in study after study. Carm down.

[u2roolz]

Turning up your nose at coffee drinkers might help your sense of self, but doesn't do much for your relations with coffee drinkers.

 

I'm not turning up my nose at coffee drinkers. I have been asked by your fellow coffee drinkers how I do it? I politely tell them that since I don't drink coffee I have never felt the need for it.

 

So as someone on the outside looking in I was just curious how much people need it to function. Much like the people who drink coffee look at me and wonder why my hand doesn't have a cup of coffee.

 

Only on here can a coffee discussion garner more controversy a day after an election.

 

But yeah I can see how coffee drinkers can be analogous to people who grip onto their guns spouting off about 2nd Amendment rights. You don't want to fuck with them.

[Guest Speed Racer]

I'm not turning up my nose at coffee drinkers. I have been asked by your fellow coffee drinkers how I do it? I politely tell them that since I don't drink coffee I have never felt the need for it.

 

This right here. You're turning up your nose at coffee drinkers by implying they *need* it and do not choose to drink it freely. Do you think 3 year-old ikol and Recorded Nap both decided they needed a pick-me-up in the morning, or got into it by the taste? (For the record, all of my coffee consumption through the age of 10 was after dinner coffee.) I have always, always loved the taste of coffee, and I have never, ever crumbled, useless, to the earth because I did not have a cup when I woke up.

[u2roolz]

It's kind of similar to SAD treatment (which is is more of a 45 degree angle than straight-on).

 

Hmm. Fascinating. If I ever got diagnosed with Seasonal Affective Disorder, I would have to laugh and say "I do that to wake up!".

 

I kind of realized that there had to be some scientific reasoning behind what I was doing.

[Guest Speed Racer]

It's kind of similar to SAD treatment (which is is more of a 45 degree angle than straight-on).

 

Also, SAD treatment is with full-spectrum lights - not your off-the-shelf bulb.

[Duck-Billed Catechist]

Right. Mine has blue LEDs. Like the sky. Minus the LEDs.

[Guest Speed Racer]

My mother had one from the Reagan administration that was the size of a big-screen television and was probably visible from space.

[u2roolz]

This right here. You're turning up your nose at coffee drinkers by implying they *need* it and do not choose to drink it freely.

 

Well, the majority of coffee drinkers that have been witnessed by me always seem to say some sort of variation of "I need my morning coffee". People don't go around saying "I need chicken tonight or else...". When the user is saying that they "need it" then it does make you wonder what is going on there. They are referring to it themselves as a necessity.

 

Some scientists think that it is more of a psychological need than a physical need. I already wrote about that on here on another page. I tend to think it probably is a combination of both forces at work.

 

If it is indeed addictive, then you are sort of filling out that need by drinking it. And if you choose to stop drinking it then you probably will get a withdrawal headache.

[Guest Speed Racer]

People don't go around saying "I need chicken tonight or else...".

 

You've NEVER heard anyone say, "Man, I need a [drink][cheeseburger][pizza][candy bar][soda][beer][vacation]" before?

[u2roolz]

You've NEVER heard anyone say, "Man, I need a [drink][cheeseburger][pizza][candy bar][soda][beer][vacation]" before?

 

I have heard people say that, but it's usually not in the context of trying to make it through a work day. And it's usually never in the morning.

 

That's another thing that bothers me: ingesting coffee when you wake up on an empty stomach and having nothing to eat with it. The damage that it does to the esophagus and stomach is bad enough with food to go with it.

[Guest Speed Racer]

That's another thing that bothers me:

 

Have you ever thought about thinking less about others? My esophagus doesn't hurt me at all; I would hate for it to hurt you.

[u2roolz]

Have you ever thought about thinking less about others?

 

Nope.

 

I don't want to be left alone like Vincent Price or Will Smith after everyone mysteriously turns into zombies from bad coffee.

[lamradio]

Get a room, you two....

[Ghost of Electricity]

stop thinking about my esophagus you pervert.

[Duck-Billed Catechist]

People need drugs to get through the work day because they work in windowless offices with a bunch of jerks (everyone else).

[Guest Speed Racer]

I just walked into the door of my cubicle, fyi. 100% face plant.

[u2roolz]

People need drugs to get through the work day because they work in windowless offices with a bunch of jerks (everyone else).

 

Even at J.C. Penney.

[ikol]

I have heard people say that, but it's usually not in the context of trying to make it through a work day. And it's usually never in the morning.

 

That's another thing that bothers me: ingesting coffee when you wake up on an empty stomach and having nothing to eat with it. The damage that it does to the esophagus and stomach is bad enough with food to go with it.

 

I hate to break it to you, but even your caffeine-deprived stomach is full of a corrosive substance that, if left unchecked, is capable of perforating your stomach or causing cancer.

[u2roolz]

I hate to break it to you, but even your caffeine-deprived stomach is full of a corrosive substance that, if left unchecked, is capable of perforating your stomach or causing cancer.

 

So you're saying that we're all fucked.

[ikol]

So you're saying that we're all fucked.

 

From the inside out!

[Lammycat]

I wonder if people who stare directly into lightbulbs first thing in the morning risk damage to the retina or such. I keep thinking about this and how, whenever having this happen to me by mistake, I get an instant headache and feel like puking. Of course, Bill Maher has the same impact on me, but you get the gist.

[u2roolz]

I wonder if people who stare directly into lightbulbs first thing in the morning risk damage to the retina or such. I keep thinking about this and how, whenever having this happen to me by mistake, I get an instant headache and feeling like puking.

 

You definitely end up ruining your eyes by staring at a computer screen for a day because your eyes blink less.

 

And I don't stare at it. I look at it. There is a difference. I'm more casual about it.

[Sir Stewart]

And I don't stare at it. I look at it.

 

Bare bulb?