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The Effects of Coffee
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Some new research apparently shows that coffee doesn't have the effect of making you more alert. The suggestion is that it has its 'positive' effect only on people who have developed a caffeine dependency – bringing them back to a 'normal' level of dependency, but that it has no discernible booster effect on 'clean' people.
It might or might not be valid, but either way I bet the research was funded by the tea producers of the world!
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-- number10
03/06/10 at 10:10
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 From :
number10
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Posted : 03/06/10 at 10:22 |
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| In other words, there's no doubt that caffeine has an effect. So what do they mean by 'alert'?!?
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From :
delisha
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Posted : 03/06/10 at 10:26 |
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| Ditto for me. I'm wired after coffee.
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From :
Maedhbh
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Posted : 03/06/10 at 11:09 |
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| Make anybody rush to loo then? Apparently it is a models best friend. I drink tea. Rare cup of Joe.
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From :
Sagamore
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Posted : 03/06/10 at 11:36 |
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Yep! Always have to rush to the loo for a number 2 within ten minutes of a cup of coffee! (too much information?).
I do love a cup of coffee with a cigarette though. They just belong together.
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From :
Sagamore
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Posted : 03/06/10 at 11:41 |
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| I haven't said number 2 in years!!
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From :
number10
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Posted : 03/06/10 at 12:48 |
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| What about number 10? Boom boom...
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From :
tornaxx
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Posted : 03/06/10 at 12:55 |
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| At that stage, you should be calling a doctor, methinks.
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From :
igor
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Posted : 03/06/10 at 13:35 |
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I drink at least 12 to 15 cups of coffee a day.... and it hasn´t done me any harm!
Baaaaaa-a-a-aaaa!
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From :
hydra
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Posted : 03/06/10 at 13:47 |
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I don't drink tea or coffee.
I tried tea once when I was 15 and burnt my tongue. Haven't gone near either since.
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From :
Maedhbh
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Posted : 03/06/10 at 14:24 |
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| Yeah coffee can make my tummy growl to say the least. Seems to depend on other factors though, other times it's grand but I do get a bit high on it. Coffee is always cooler and thicker than tea in my head. I appreciate a really nice cup now and then but no gra for it like some people have. Apparently there is stomach friendly coffee available if you like it that much sagamore. Don't want ya to 'shit yourself thin'
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From :
evil_giraffe
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Posted : 03/06/10 at 14:41 |
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We’d a power cut in our office about a year ago. I was first in. Everything was okay for about 90 seconds until I realised that the lack of electricity meant I couldn’t have coffee. It was quite amusing watching everyone else arrive in and take almost the exact same length of time to come to the same realisation.
We had to go to the shop to get coffee.
I drink on average 3 cups before my morning coffee break.
None of that instant shite mind.
I don’t miss cigarettes when I’m in the pub. I don’t miss them waiting for a bus. I don’t miss them when I’m stressed.
But every now and again I miss them when having a coffee.
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From :
delisha
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Posted : 03/06/10 at 14:49 |
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What are you all talking about? Coffee makes you go to the loo? What?
I've drunk real tea (like with milk) for the past 4 mornings but that's only because I've been insanely busy and in shite form and I needed an excuse to buy a croissant. I normally drink a lot of herbal tea, and enjoy a cup of builders tea every few days normally, a few at the weekends and enjoy the occasional skinny latte. However, I find the coffee and cigarette combo absolutely vile. I hate the smell of them together and imagine people who mix them to have terrible teeth, awful skin and to secretly hate themselves. I know it's probably not true but I reel at the thoughts of the combination. *shudder*
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From :
number10
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Posted : 03/06/10 at 16:02 |
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| Ah, here, Delisha. It's far from "skinny lattes" you were reared...
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From :
igor
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Posted : 03/06/10 at 16:22 |
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It's far from coffee I was reared. NOBODY drank coffee in good old Catholic Ireland back in the '70s. Well, maybe a few of them "hippy-dippy" free-thinking liberal types "up in Dublin" did, but no God-fearin' patriotic Irish people did!
We were reared on tea...
Tea for breakfast!
Tea for dinner!
Tea for... er... tea!
...and before ya went to bed at night, a big mug-ah-tay!
Irish tea back in those days ALWAYS had way too much milk and sugar. It was a meal in itself. As me Granny´d say, "There's atin' and drinkin' in that!" (Jaysus, she taked some shite my Granny - Must be where I got it from!!)
I remember one time, many years aftter I'd "flown the nest" (and went to college "above in Galway") coming home for a weekend. My mother offered me a cup of tea. I declined and asked whether there was any coffee.
The house fell silent!
It was like a scene from one of those old Western movies when a stranger walks into the saloon and everyone (including the piano player with the bowler hat and the handlebar moustache) stops dead and stares at the newcomer...
After what seemed like an eternity, the whole house erupted into chaos! My father sneered "Oh, coffee is it now? Is that what they're drinkin' above in Galway, hah?". My brother started going, "Ooh, look at me! I'm a big shot now... drinking coffee! Oooh, pass me the coffee please Pater!". My sister started crying! My poor old grandmother fell to her knees and started saying The Rosary! The dog started going mental. The woman from next door (who had called in for a cup of tea) started wringing her hands and saying, "...and he used to be such a lovely young lad!". The Parish Priest (who had called in for a cup of tea) was comforting my Mother who had just turned the colour of death and was rooted to the spot!
It was pande-fucking-monium!
Needless to say, I wasn't welcome in that house from that day on. The shame it brought to my family can still be felt in the local area to this very day.....
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From :
delisha
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Posted : 03/06/10 at 16:23 |
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| Skinny one shot lattes. I'm dead delicate, me.
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From :
number10
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Posted : 03/06/10 at 18:30 |
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| Well, we'd better not say boo to you then!!!
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From :
igor
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Posted : 03/06/10 at 21:11 |
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| Boo!
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From :
Maedhbh
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Posted : 04/06/10 at 07:24 |
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| I liked Monsters Inc. And I like the word Monster in general. But not in the Charlise Theron way.
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From :
number10
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Posted : 04/06/10 at 10:51 |
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| What has Charlize Theron got to do with coffee, Maedhbh?
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From :
Maedhbh
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Posted : 04/06/10 at 11:16 |
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Delish said she was delicate
Igor said Boo
Boo was the little girl in Monsters Inc
I like Monsters and Monsters Inc and the word Monster in general
But not the kinda monster portrayed in the film Monster where Charlise and Cristina were lesbian lovers...
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