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Do you drink a lot of coffee?

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Remember Kids: Drugs are bad! Except for coffee, which lets you work harder and increases your employers profits.
- Also alcohol to cope with the stress!
  
  Irish up that coffee, and you can do both at once!
  
  and strong and dangerous antidepressant drugs for the medical lobby to profit from
- I drink coffee for the joy of it, it doesn't increase my productivity.
  
  When was the last time you tried not drinking coffee for a week?
- 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.
- 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.

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
  
  Is that true though?
  I mean as a layman is sounds right but I know better than to trust internet strangers so I'm gonna be the jerk today and ask for some studies on that. Please.
- You can avoid this type of confusion if you just get a bigger cup
- I only drink 1 cup a day, but the cup is 300ml (~10 fl oz) and it's espresso.
- My dude heard the glass break when you said pots. Went full hunter from l4d2
- Fortunately, you didn't said the pot is one gallon.

Does coffee make your testicles swell and float like frame 3?
- I hope so
  
  And I hope y'all know they're knees and are just being silly on the Internet
- Might be worth trying
- Maybe Jack would have survived Titanic if he was a coffee addict, he could have floated several people with just his balls.

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.
  
  Is that nicotine, or just the substances its usually consumed with? Google isnt giving any good answers.
  
  At least with nicotine you get a bit of a buzz. Especially if you haven't smoked/vaped in years. A nicotine buzz can feel like a small hit of weed when you have no/low tolerance.
- get tired and want ~~to go to sleep. ~~
  more coffee
- Because coffee is fucking delicious. At least good coffee is. ~~No one drinks~~ most dont drink coffee for the caffeine, it's for the taste and warmth.
  Edit: citation is my ass. You all coffee haters in here?
  
  No one drinks coffee for the caffeine
  Citation needed
  
  If that were the case, then decaf would be more popular.
  
  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
  [citation needed too]
  
  Because coffee is fucking delicious
  [ citation needed]
- 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
  
  Even if you're not addicted, that whole everything you just said is terrible for you, and I say that as someone who's lived that life before.

Why does he ask? I'm not seeing the problem.
- All the acidity breaks down your tooth enamel of course
  
  Not that this doctor would do anything about teeth, those are luxury bones, he doesn't work on those, just everything else
  
  Coffee isn't very acidic. It's around pH 5. Enamal is damaged by anything less than 5.5, so coffee is bad, but not very.

"How many ~~hot dogs~~ cups of coffee do you ~~eat~~ drink on a daily basis?"
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaAF_GAc3Mk
- "Yes"

Where do i get that cannon?
- Best I can do:
  
  But you get no coffee money shot by singing.
  
  This triggered some childhood trauma.
  I didn't realize this was international, since the entire point of the song is that in German, the letters CAFFEE correspond to the notes.
  
  whoa. You win my lemmy feed for the day. <3 This is fun to sing in my head.
  
  I like where this is going
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGtKGX8B9hU
- taco bell bathroom

Is half a pot of black coffee too much?
- How many are you drinking per hour
  
  Yes
- Yes.

literally me but with tea
- I have a friend who pretty much drinks nothing but tea. No water, coffee, alcohol, soft drinks etc. And he does get his 2-3 litres of fluids per day in like that.
  
  You drink 2-3 liters of water a day? That sounds like alot.
  
  ... caffeinated tea? Is he not dead? That's like, 500 mg after a short Google search.

So that’s the biggest benefit of Keurig machines. Since they only dispense specific measured quantities, each cup is the same size
Edit- autocorrect

Doesn't having 2 or 3 cups a day, actually a good thing?
- If you filter coffee through a paper filter then there are negligible health benefits to drinking coffee which are probably more than offset by the caffeine.
  If you don’t filter it through a paper filter then the cafestol probably negates the benefits before you have to weigh them against the negatives of the caffeine.
  
  Could you be more specific about the negligible health benefits of coffee and the downsides of caffeine? As a regular coffee drinker, I've done some searching to try and gauge the long-term risks of consuming ~100-200mg of caffeine per day, and couldn't really find anything. The medical sources I've seen basically say the long term risk is practically non-existent unless you have a specific sensitivity to caffeine, but I'm curious if you've seen something different.
  
  What about decaf coffee?
- Yes, but 4-6 cups seems to be a better thing.
  
  Yes but 6-∞ Is better
  I HAVENT SLEPT IN DAYS WHEN I CLOSE MY EYES ALL I SEE IS ANOTHER CUP OF COFFEE. I NEED MY DIRTY BEAN WATER!!
- Yup
- No

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. :(

what are those.. plungers? in the tub?
- Looks like espresso machines
  
  Looks like a drip coffee machine imo, the spout is kinda coffee filter shaped
- COFFEE IS BEING DISPENSED
- Am I the only ones see his acolytes mama birding more coffee?

Ooh, I haven't tried the cannon thing yet… why did I never think of that?c

How many hotdogs do you eat a day?

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