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I don't have any "IN" crowd to hang around. But Five people I see and talk to on a regular basis, live and breath for the stuff. None of them smoke and a few drink very lightly. But cheese and crackers these people are never without their Dynamite pint of liquid gold caffeine. Not at work not in the car not at the meal while eating. They range in age from 26 to 78 y.o. What's the attraction Are the drinks delicious? Safety, Situational Awareness and proficiency. Neck Ties, Hats and ammo brass, Never ,ever touch'em w/o asking first | ||
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The cake is a lie! |
Are you talking about coffee or energy drinks? | |||
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Not sure why you think caffeine is the "new" anything. People have been enjoying coffee forever. I don't drink or smoke, but I like coffee. Q | |||
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Caffeine is a strong addiction. I tried to quit it once, for no reason really. The headaches and angry mood were miserable. My wife handed me the first cup. Interestingly there was a guy on Joe Rogan (I think) that was saying how basically that people came out of the dark ages because of caffeine. Something like at the time of coffee and chocolate introduction humans made more progress than any time in history. I've watched a ton of videos on quitting caffeine and most all arrive at the conclusion that there was no benefit. Here is a short from the video I saw. No embed on it. https://youtube.com/shorts/rpM_Oq0MDio?feature=share These go to eleven. | |||
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It’s mainly for the extra kick I suspect, but without moderation, even high content drinks lose the appeal for me. I used to drink a lot of them when Big Lots carried actual overstock/old stock drinks; if they were good tasting, I’d buy them by the case. If they tasted good, by the multiple case. You could get them for as little as .50-.75 cents a can. Now they only carry mainstream products and for more than big store prices so I got away from them. Just about every energy drink made has at minimum the same amount of caffeine as a strong cuppa joe. A good many of them have double or more of the same. While some taste pretty good (can’t stand artificial sweetened drinks), the cost has put me back into low rent coffee. I can make a damn good coffee drink with them if I’m in the mood for extra flavor or something cold. “Remember to get vaccinated or a vaccinated person might get sick from a virus they got vaccinated against because you’re not vaccinated.” - author unknown | |||
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I worked with a guy who used to drink one of those little bottles of energy drink every afternoon, he was a welder. He told me it was that little kick he needed to finish getting through the day. One day he opened a bottle and he let me smell it, to me it did not smell very good. I myself rarely, if at all, drink anything with caffeine in it so I am not sure what I might be missing. The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution. A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. As ratified by the States and authenticated by Thomas Jefferson, Secretary of State NRA Life Member | |||
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Nothing "new" about it. Caffeine has been around longer than any of us. My preferred delivery mode is via a couple of cups of coffee in the morning. Very rarely, iced coffee during the day. I do have a can of Diet Coke with caffeine, no more than one a day. הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים | |||
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I think the OP may be on to something. I've been noticing for some time in convenience stores that the majority (and I do mean majority) of their refrigerated drink cases are taken up by energy drinks. They can have an entire wall of cases and a full 2/3 or more will be taken up by energy drinks. 57 brands in 20+ flavors each. It's gotten so bad that I was in a store a couple of weeks ago and they were almost out of all Coke and Pepsi products because they were sharing a single case, and people were clearly still buying them. It's crazy. And annoying. -Rob I predict that there will be many suggestions and statements about the law made here, and some of them will be spectacularly wrong. - jhe888 A=A | |||
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Most of them are filled with crap, whether it be sugar, HFCS, sucralose, aspartame etc. I quit them 2 weeks ago. I allow myself one 12oz cup of cold brew daily and that's it. Been getting up walking for 45 minutes every morning. Feel better already. | |||
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Coffee only for me, tea on occasion. Pretty much all of the energy drinks don't agree with my stomach. So I cut those out in college. Cut out soda after da rona, 2 years in September. Otherwise it's water or LaCoix (or similar). The Enemy's gate is down. | |||
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| Team Apathy |
I work in a jail and the consumption of 'energy drinks' around here is a straight epidemic. Yes, we do sometimes work long hours, I understand. But the majority of people around here consume at least 2 a days. They drink them casually. They drink them as beverages. They drink them because they "need them". Kidney stones are a common occurrence here. I don't think it is a coincidence. I can't help but wonder what damage they are doing to themselves between the high doses of caffeine, the sugars/hfcs or the artificial sweeteners, and who knows what else. It just seems like a profoundly poor practice. Plus, I can't help but think if one 'needs' that every single day, perhaps that is a sign of something else that isn't going as it should. I work the same job they do, I work the same overtime, I have 3 small kids and wife (many of them are young and single and live with parents) yet they can't get through their day without massive doses of whatever is in there? Doesn't seem like a good situation to me. | |||
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I am certainly addicted to caffeine. But the side effects are minimal and there are benefits. Plus, I like coffee. The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything. | |||
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My BIL [main county jail] used to keep the little caffeine pods (like a tobacco pod) on hand for night shift when he was in a box/pod with a group of 'customers'. Now he's a Sgt & works a desk. Doesn't need to 'pick me up' like he used to. The Enemy's gate is down. | |||
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That guy is basically talking about shitty sanitation. They use to bathe newborns in ale because it was boiled and sanitized (the ale, not the baby). I heard the tale where a teacher w/ a class of students who were often sick and sleepy observed goats eating beans off some bushes and jumping and running around, so he picked some of the beans and boiled a brew and gave it to the students. Just a tale but the main point was it was sanitized by boiling. I personally quit coffee some yrs back. I used to drink a pot of strong coffee per day and I seemed to develop a sensitivity to it. I started getting anxiety. At the same time I got GERDs and no amount of cream or milk in my coffee helped so I had to try something. | |||
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I never liked coffee when I was in the Army. Later, as a young policeman, I still didn't like it and I believe I was the only one on the Department who didn't care for it at all. Finally, at about 30+ yoa, I found some of the better coffees, that I ground myself, to be drinkable, but, truthfully, I really didn't miss them when I ran out or didn't want to be bothered brewing them. Then came the Cold Brew craze and I loved it-bought it from Starbucks and Dunkin and then found LaColumbe and have enjoyed it for several years. The best, for me is the Red bottle, which is their newest and strongest, and runs $5.99 for 42 ounces at Publix. Sometimes it's BOGO and then I try to stock up. I've actually cut waaaay back on the Coke Zero and even drink water with my meals now-3 meals = 3 bottles. I drink two tall glasses of the red LaColumbe with ice, half and half and Splenda most days, rarely more than that. I love it. Bob | |||
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Slight variation on straightshooters post: I dont drink coffee because during my orientation at my first USAF base, a buck sergeant told me he would show me how to make coffee for the admin and command staff. Into the latrine we went, where he proceeded to dip the water for the coffee pot out of the commode! Have not touched the stuff since. My fellow cops thought my lack of coffee enthusiasm was very strange, given I was an ex GI. End of Earth: 2 Miles Upper Peninsula: 4 Miles | |||
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Drill Here, Drill Now |
I'm a migraine sufferer and see a neurologist that specializes in headaches. One of the first changes they made is the same amount of caffeine every day (about 60% of my old intake) on roughly the same schedule. Too little and I can get a headache, and too much and I can get a headache. I also found out I feel a lot better drinking black coffee or unsweetened ice tea as my caffeine source than I do drinking diet or regular soda. To me, the energy drinks taste horrible so zero attraction for me. I've seen some energy drink addicts really screw themselves up (heart attacks in 20s and 30s, overwhelming their mental health meds, etc). By addict, my frame of reference were people drinking 4 to 6 a day at 300 mg a shot which is like drinking 12 to 18 cups of coffee. Ego is the anesthesia that deadens the pain of stupidity DISCLAIMER: These are the author's own personal views and do not represent the views of the author's employer. | |||
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Is it straight coffee or coffee “drinks”, which are LOADED with all kinds of sugar and crap. These “drinks” are worse than coffee itself, IMHO, and I’m sure the sugar rush is just as addictive. "If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24 | |||
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Yep, sugar is da debil....... The question is valid, in the past decade or so we've seen a plethora of "energy" drinks come out, with people addicted to these, loaded with caffeine, sometimes massive amounts and lots of sugar. How much money has RedBull made off those addicted to their drinks, all the advertising, F1 team, Airplane racing, etc. | |||
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Have a blood cancer and one of the significant side effects is called "profound exhaustion." not like being tired more like an heavy cloud of exhaustion. I counter that symptom with strong coffee. Saw a specialist in Boston and wife complained about how much coffee I drink a full pot a day. Doctor replied "better the coffee than the stuff we'd give him." U.S. Army 11F4P Vietnam 69-70 NRA Life Member | |||
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