BURN OUT THE DAYBURN OUT THE NI-IGHT
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 16 June 2011 22:52 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0Uh-uHea5E
― kkvgz, Friday, 29 July 2011 12:17 (twelve years ago) link
my hands are so light. i could outshred yngwie malmsteen right now.
― Crackle Box, Friday, 29 July 2011 15:23 (twelve years ago) link
http://vimeo.com/22001612
― owenf, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 23:01 (twelve years ago) link
FUCK YES
― Emeritus Professor of LOLology (snoball), Tuesday, 11 September 2012 19:33 (eleven years ago) link
also ate about 4 or 5 donuts.
Also I've eaten about half a dozen little snacky cake things with choc chips in them, and a couple of hours ago I drank a Coke. All of this totally not planned, but it's like on The Incredible Hulk where Banner's eyes go funny just before he Hulks out.http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_T7BhcH-_Lqw/TTsHpJ0MLnI/AAAAAAAAERQ/f9UsVezE95c/s1600/bill+bixby.jpg
― Emeritus Professor of LOLology (snoball), Tuesday, 11 September 2012 19:50 (eleven years ago) link
I don't know what the fuck. Maybe it's the different brand of coffee I bought from the grocery store. Maybe I'm using an incorrect proportion when brewing. But I am jacked up. Nightmares the last few nights. Eyes wide open. Feel like I'm about to have an aneurysm.
― how's life, Wednesday, 1 May 2013 12:30 (eleven years ago) link
that sounds awesome. what brand of coffee was it?
― Spectrum, Wednesday, 1 May 2013 12:59 (eleven years ago) link
Starbucks. Not sure what particular flavor it was. It was on sale. I'm pretty cracked out at the moment.
― how's life, Wednesday, 1 May 2013 13:01 (eleven years ago) link
ok, i was just trying to be funny in xp, but that doesn't sound good. i bought some cafe bustelo once because it was $1.99 for a brick, that stuff made me want to rip my face off.
― Spectrum, Wednesday, 1 May 2013 13:07 (eleven years ago) link
bustelo is gr8
― clouds, Wednesday, 1 May 2013 13:12 (eleven years ago) link
hl i would take a few days off. or transition to black/green tea. didn't you say you were drinking a lot of yerba mate too?
― clouds, Wednesday, 1 May 2013 13:15 (eleven years ago) link
The thing to do is to develop an amphetamine habit in college, then quit, but still retain a high tolerance/numbness almost to caffeine. I call this the "college method."
― rock 'em sock 'em (Treeship), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 13:17 (eleven years ago) link
i wish i could get to yr nightmarishly jacked-up level, tbh. used to love that. caffeine doesn't have much effect on my anymore, even if i drink a ton. keeps me going, but that's about it. (achieved without cultivating meth teeth)
― controversial vegan pregnancy (contenderizer), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 13:19 (eleven years ago) link
But in all honesty stop drinking that coffee. It does sound like my experiences on adderall which a doctor prescribed and it was the worst.
― rock 'em sock 'em (Treeship), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 13:19 (eleven years ago) link
Starbucks coffee is nasty stuff. I've drank all kinds of coffee but that one has a strange effect on me.
― The last of the famous international Greyjoys (Nicole), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 13:22 (eleven years ago) link
xxxxxxp yeah, I sorta miss the days when caffeine would make me want to kick a hole in the wall and scream at the top of my lungs in someone's face. now it just gives me a gross feeling awakeness.
― Spectrum, Wednesday, 1 May 2013 13:24 (eleven years ago) link
hl i would take a few days off. or transition to black/green tea. didn't you say you were drinking a lot of yerba mate too?― clouds, Wednesday, May 1, 2013 9:15 AM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― clouds, Wednesday, May 1, 2013 9:15 AM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I quit yerba mate after Sanpaku posted some convincing studies showing links to cancer.
― how's life, Wednesday, 1 May 2013 13:35 (eleven years ago) link
Mate never made me feel like this though. It was a really clean buzz for some reason.
― how's life, Wednesday, 1 May 2013 13:36 (eleven years ago) link
i've read that it has more to do with the way it is cured and the way it's normally made (multiple steepings, drank at very hot temps). if it actually was a serious cancer risk wouldn't we hear of a cancer epidemic among uruguayans?
― clouds, Wednesday, 1 May 2013 13:46 (eleven years ago) link
Here is the link to a study that shows it's not about whether the drink is hot or cold. He links to other studies about yerba mate elsewhere in the thread.
Bizarro Ned In Buenos Aires To Drink La Yerba Mate
― how's life, Wednesday, 1 May 2013 13:53 (eleven years ago) link
aw no, lapsang souchong too? :C
anyway you can get the smokeless kind at whole foods, but it's about 3x as expensive as the kind you'd get at a bodega.
― clouds, Wednesday, 1 May 2013 14:00 (eleven years ago) link
Kindly tolerate this quote at length:
The “mental-energizing” effects of caffeine reflect its ability to inhibit certain cellular receptors in the brain which ordinarily are activated by the natural metabolite adenosine. Via interaction with the A2A form of adenosine receptor, caffeine has the potential to exert anti-inflammatory effects on the brain, dampening the activation of microglia, supporting the protective function of astrocytes, decreasing production of beta amyloid, and warding off some of the adverse effects of beta amyloid on neuronal synapses and cognitive function. Indeed, most though not all recent epidemiological studies find that people who have made heavy use of coffee for a number of years are at decidedly lower risk for cognitive decline and AD as they age. In one provocative Finnish study, people who drank 3-5 cups of coffee daily in midlife were about two-thirds less likely to develop dementia as they aged. One recent prospective study examined blood caffeine levels in elderly subjects with mild cognitive impairment, and found that caffeine level dose-dependently predicted risk for development of dementia over the next 4 years – none of those in the highest bracket of blood caffeine became demented over this time. Other recent epidemiology on coffee points to heavy coffee drinkers as being at reduced risk for mortality from a host of disorders, including heart disease, stroke, diabetes, infections, injuries, and accidents; some of this protection might stem, not just from caffeine, but from the phytochemical antioxidants in coffee. In light of current evidence, it may be smart to drink about as much coffee as you can, consistent with getting appropriate restful sleep and the concurrence of your physician.
― Me So Hormetic (Sanpaku), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 15:31 (eleven years ago) link
OTOH, the largest study on coffee drinking and mortality to date found that 4-5 cups daily is the "sweet spot".
― Me So Hormetic (Sanpaku), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 15:39 (eleven years ago) link
i have those sbux via things at my desk for when I'm craving coffee and don't want to drink the brewed garbage from work...last week I had 1 at lunch and another in the afternoon and then I was like HIYYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAA brain totally ready karatekick fite everything and everyone
it was a bit scary, so I scaled back
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 17:53 (eleven years ago) link
Engaging with the music of the Meters in a way that's probably unnatural for 5 a.m. Not complaining, you understand.
― how's life, Friday, 18 October 2013 09:53 (ten years ago) link
Getting up early and instantly putting on music is one of the things I miss most about being single.
― Survivalist Compound Row (B.L.A.M.), Friday, 18 October 2013 13:26 (ten years ago) link
Sorry - with coffee, obv.
'single with coffee' should be a daytime show on the OWN network
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 18 October 2013 15:42 (ten years ago) link
are you seeing some kind of savage that won't let you put music on???
― j., Friday, 18 October 2013 22:14 (ten years ago) link
This isn't a lot of caffeine compared to others, but last night I had 5 espresso shots in the course of 2 hours.
― c21m50nh3x460n, Friday, 18 October 2013 22:30 (ten years ago) link
It was the most caffeine I've ever had in a day.
I was just on a commuter bus with Meters on my ipod and jacked to the gills on iced coffee. Plus people kept giving me free caffeine through the day. I'm still pretty good, to be honest!
― how's life, Friday, 18 October 2013 22:54 (ten years ago) link
I'm probably going to sound like a bit of a lightweight, but I've had a 500ml can of Emerge, a large Twix, and a coffee. Now I'm listening to Porn Sword Tobacco and it feels like my head's floating separate from my body.
― wackness unlimited (snoball), Saturday, 25 October 2014 11:07 (nine years ago) link
listening to music in this state = godlike
fuck yes
― wackness unlimited (snoball), Saturday, 25 October 2014 11:09 (nine years ago) link
My tolerance for caffeine seems to have gone way up in the last six months. Now normally I only have like a can of Red Bull or similar a day, so this is not my regular daily consumption, but on Friday I had a 250ml can of Red Bull on the way to work, a 330ml bottle of Lucozade at lunch, and a 500ml can of Relentless on the way to the bus station after work. The funny thing is that I didn't even realise until Saturday morning when I totalled it up, and the caffeine hadn't even pierced the dull exhaustion I feel at my shitarse IT Support job most days.
― here we are now entertain us (snoball), Sunday, 23 October 2016 10:05 (seven years ago) link
I mean two years ago that much caffeine would have put me in RARARAGAAAH Henry Rollins rage mode.
― here we are now entertain us (snoball), Sunday, 23 October 2016 10:07 (seven years ago) link
^^^ ah those halcyon days when energy drinks in the UK were all sugar instead of half sugar/half sweetener.
Meanwhile, today I drank a Monster Energy (black can green logo) and it tasted like liquid soap or possibly the cheapest fucking gumballs.
― just another country (snoball), Wednesday, 24 July 2019 17:32 (four years ago) link
My tolerance for caffeine seems to have gone way up in the last six months.
Now try going cold turkey for a week and see how you feel.
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 24 July 2019 17:51 (four years ago) link
I have a couple of times in the last two years. There are all kinds of warnings about headaches from caffeine withdrawal but I didn't notice any effects. Someone at work was talking about how they drink a small can of Red Bull and basically don't feel any different while one of their colleagues reported getting the jitters from the same amount of caffeine. Certainly I am a long way from where I was upthread five years ago - drinking a weak Red Bull knock-off and a coffee and feeling like I'm stuck to the ceiling? Not any more. Although I have to say that the Monster Energy has a pleasant light background buzz. Pity that it tastes like my anti-dandruff shampoo smells.
― just another country (snoball), Wednesday, 24 July 2019 19:20 (four years ago) link