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[Anonymous No.14937710]

Why is it that so many adults have coffee every day? Is it solely because rely on coffee? Does everyone have sleep deprivation? What are your thoughts?

[Anonymous No.14937818]

>>14937710
It doesn’t give me any extra energy, I just enjoy the taste and the smell of black coffee. On a related note, I think coffee actually makes you more tired and gives you less energy when you start to become “dependent” on it. I had quit coffee for 6 months two years ago, the first two weeks sucked but after that you wake up with so much energy and are more alert without coffee.

[Anonymous No.14937830]

>>14937710
It helps me poo on a morning so I don't have to poo at work.

[Anonymous No.14937870]

I can't function without coffee somehow.
I drink a double shot of espresso within 20 minutes of waiting up otherwise I'm going to get a headache pretty quickly.
After that I usually have a double shot of espresso at lunch time out of habit.
Close to 5 pm I have another double shot of espresso cause I usually find myself being tired around then.
Around 8-9 I usually have a cup of black tea as well.
I think caffeine is actually good for you as long as you don't drink too much, only problem for me is that my teeth are stained and disgusting looking.
>Does everyone have sleep deprivation?
Not at all, I sleep a lot.

[Anonymous No.14938094]

I think coffee is just a popular morning ritual. After a while it primes the mind and body for productivity as you begin to associate it with waking up. For me, it's the task of grinding the beans, cleaning the grinder, putting it in the pot, adding the water, and turning on the percolator that shakes off the morning blues and gives me time to think before I tackle my day.

Nothing that says you can't drink tea, or just have some toast. It's all about getting out of bed, getting dressed, and mentally preparing yourself to do literally anything. It definitely helps that if you're feeling like shit or didn't sleep well you can push past that initial slowness and gain momentum with the caffeine until you're far enough in for it to carry you to the end of the task.

[Anonymous No.14938103]

>>14937710
Coffee is an addictive drug and its consumption is normalized because it was what lead to our enlightenment in the 18th century.
Without coffee we would all likely still be living in caves and primarily be a hunter/gatherer society.

[Anonymous No.14938106]

>>14937870
addict

[Anonymous No.14938110]

>>14938103
Agreed

[Anonymous No.14938111]

a small cup of coffee at about 5-6 PM completely reinvigorates my adderall XR for several hours afterwards

[Anonymous No.14938115]

>>14937710
Shut the fuck up until I've had my first sip of Joe, you fucking retard.

[Anonymous No.14938128]

>>14938111
I wish I could get adderall

[Anonymous No.14938133]

Part morning ritual, part enjoyment, part addiction. I only have caffeinated drinks very rarely, so I can appreciate them for what they are and function just fine without them. Being addicted sounds awful, even if breaking the addiction is just suffering through some bad headaches.

[Anonymous No.14938157]

>>14937830
This, except I poo at work to not waste free time at home.

[Anonymous No.14938162]

>>14937830
>>14938157

[Anonymous No.14938170]

>>14938157
>>14938162
This.

[Anonymous No.14938176]

>>14938103
It was psychedelic mushrooms that gave us consciousness and enlightenment though

[Anonymous No.14938177]

>>14937818
Caffeine does not give energy so to speak, rather it pushes your exhaustion/tiredness till further notice.

[Anonymous No.14938242]

>>14937710
It's a very inexpensive breakfast with bread and it tastes really good if you get fresh coffee beans and grind them yourself. If you're too lazy for that then the next best thing is a reusable k-cup and the freshest ground coffee you can get your hands on. Instant coffee has the worst taste and quality no matter what, you might as well take a nodoze pill if you just want the caffeine high.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV95udLcnwg

[Anonymous No.14938251]

I'm the complete opposite of a morning person so I need a cup when I wake up otherwise I will pass out on the highway driving to work, but once 11 AM or so hits I'm fine with water for the rest of the day.

[Anonymous No.14938256]

>>14938242
I forgot to mention: DO NOT use tap water, always go for filtered or bottled deer park water. Your coffee is only as good as the water that was used to brew it.

[Anonymous No.14938263]

>>14937710
It's delicious and it helps me get in the focus zone. Apparently it can also help maintain mental sharpness as you age, so all good reasons!

[Anonymous No.14938265]

>>14938256
Deer Park sucks.

[Anonymous No.14938267]

>>14938162
>Have 8 years under a great boss
>He retires
>Get moved to another department
>New boss makes a comment about me spending too much time in the bathroom after about a month
>I have IBS and it takes me like 10-15 minutes to poop
>She starts having my co-workers come in to see how long I'm spending on the toilet
And she eventually managed to get me laid off just because of that. Fuck that cunt. Fuck her right in her sand-filled roast beef. She clearly needs it.

[Anonymous No.14938274]

I've never really cared for coffee. I had friends who would drink it back in high school or energy drinks. I didn't have a single energy drink until I was 20 and that was during a deployment. More social than anything. I've had Starbucks a few times later in college but it was always because of the sweet taste. I usually get most of my energy from short naps. I rarely can sleep more than 6 hours straight, so I'll usually sleep 2-3 times a day for 3 hours each.

[Anonymous No.14938277]

>>14938265
Then whatever you think is "good" water. I used to buy bulk packs of giant brand water (like 120 0.5L bottles for $10) and it had an acidic chlorinated salty taste, probably just tap water from their stores lol. I didn't realize how bad it was until I switched over to deer park water in a pinch, instantly made all my coffee taste 10X better.

[Anonymous No.14938292]

>>14938274
It really depends how you make it. Places like starbucks probably use 10 year old burnt coffee beans and tap water because it makes maximum profit for them. They can mask the dogshit taste by drowning it in metric tons of sugar anyway.

Make a really good cup of coffee or even semi decent with a reusable k-cup and fresh ground coffee and good quality bottled water and you'll probably never stop drinking the stuff.

[Anonymous No.14938303]

>>14938292
That's actually a good point. Makes sense. I've truly never had ground coffee/coffee beans before.

[Anonymous No.14938323]

>>14938277
Deer Park tastes like pure plastic.

[Anonymous No.14938331]

I need it because I can't manage to sleep right because I'm so stressed about work, and my natural sleep rhythm doesn't work with having to get to sleep at 10 PM and sleep right through. If I wake up within 3 hours of my alarm there's no getting back to sleep because the stress will hit me.

Every Monday morning I wake up and puke in the shower from the stress.

So, yeah, without coffee I'd fall asleep at my desk.

[Anonymous No.14938333]

>>14937710
RItual, pushes my exhaustion back, tastes good, addiction

[Anonymous No.14938334]

>>14938333
Oh also I don't always get it but the coffee buzz is a great feeling when I do experience it rarely
It feels like I'm really in my head and present

[Anonymous No.14938342]

>>14938331
Where do you work? Dirty needle factory?

[Anonymous No.14938347]

>>14938323
Still better than tap water I guess. I don't have the money to install an under the sink 5-stage water filtration system so I'm going to have to keep making trips for bottled water every now and then. I know there's brita and pur filters but I don't trust a teeny tiny little filter to completely clear water of all that acidic chlorinated salty taste on top of heavy metals that may be present from old plumbing in the system.

[Anonymous No.14938351]

>>14938342
I'm a marketing exec for a Fortune 500 company and I manage millions and millions of dollars all by myself. I also don't really have anyone above me with experience to be a mentor or tell me what to do/how to do it, so I'm constantly feeling like I'm fucking up and will get fired any second.

There's no worse feeling than trying to go home for the weekend and relax but constantly have the nagging feeling you might have plugged a typo into the system and spent $500,000 over two days when it was supposed to be $50,000.

[Anonymous No.14938360]

>>14938351
Hang in there you pussy. You'll probably be able to retire sooner than 90% of us who have to work ourselves to the bone until we have grey hair because we have to take out 10K in credit cards just to not starve to death.

[Anonymous No.14938361]

>>14937710
Because when you have to do adult things and you also don't want to get fat, you start your day off with a black coffee and a cigarette.

[Anonymous No.14938365]

>>14938360
I'll never retire. And the stress will probably kill me first. Not that I could take any time off to go to the doctor to find out if I'm dead.

[Anonymous No.14938385]

>>14937870
That's too much bro

[Anonymous No.14938392]

>>14938361
This too. I really miss those days of ordering a big breakfast or bacon bagel with extra bacon nearly every day in my early 20s when I lived with my parents and didn't pay rent but now I live in the city just to not drive 5 hours to go to work.

>>14938365
We all think like this anon but there is always light at the end of the tunnel. Just stop chasing the American dream and lower your expectations. You can easily retire on 100-200K, just pay off a 15 year mortgage home during your working years and rent out the basement, that way you only have to spend on bills and car expenses. At the end sell the home + renovations and retire in hawaii or whatever.

[Anonymous No.14938413]

>>14938365
Sounds alot like my life. Finance careers are a mistake, how was I this stupid...

[Anonymous No.14938463]

>>14938392
Not that anon but id just rather kys myself instead of doing all that shit

[Anonymous No.14938464]

>>14937710
lack of sunbathing and sleep
coffee also fucks your brain and other things

[Anonymous No.14938467]

>>14938103
>it was what lead to our enlightenment in the 18th century.
you talk like an ignorant that doesnt know or have read or have understood any of the intellectuals in this period or the ones that came before

[Anonymous No.14938483]

>>14938463
Yeah I am that anon and I almost feel that way, haha. I'm not very good at saving, because I firmly don't believe I'll live to see retirement even if I were to save and aim to retire early. My health isn't great (alcoholic with an inherited auto-immune disorder) and I feel like you should try as much as possible to live in the moment because you never know when you're going to get hit by a bus or get cancer or some shit.

Like, my parents saved a whole bunch of money their whole lives and my mom turned 65 this month, my dad retires in two years, and they're not going to be able to use that money for anything because my mom's auto immune disorder prevents her from traveling really. So they're gonna sit on a pile of cash watching TV at home.

[Anonymous No.14938508]

>>14938463
>>14938483
Nothing is free anons, everything in life requires sacrifices. It's either this or paying $200K per 10 years to the big nose tribe and never seeing a cent of that land back in your wallet. Both are pretty harsh sacrifices when you think about it. Renting a home isn't even that bad, a couple thousand dollars in repair/maintenance at most.

I'm sorry to hear about your parents anon #2. Maybe you could get them into PC VR, 4K 120 fps oled headsets are just on the horizon. They'll be able to enjoy things people even 10 years ago deemed impossible in their lifetimes.

[Anonymous No.14938516]

>>14938464
>coffee also fucks your brain
According to whom?

[Anonymous No.14938528]

>>14938508
I mean, I already own a home and it's work $200k more than I paid for it but that doesn't really mean shit when other houses have gone up in value too, and I still need a place to live. I also have a roommate to save money, but meh.

I don't ever plan on getting married or having kids either so life is just kinda bleak now. It's basically this until I die. At least I have my iCoffee to churn out crap quality coffee and keep me awake.

I do want to let this thread know that it inspired me to call in sick to work and say fuck it. I'm having a pool day on the last day of 90 degree temps in 2020.

[Anonymous No.14938556]

>>14938528
Maybe you're onto something anon, life is one big unknown at the end of the day but the fear of having to eat cup noodles every day in a broom closet when I'm old scares me to the core. I at least want to be able to grab a $3-5 sandwich for lunch every now and then on top of cooking really nice and tasty steak/pasta/stew meals in at the very least a large room with a dedicated bathroom/shower.

[Anonymous No.14938576]

>>14938556
Yeah sadly my uncle who committed suicide about 5 years ago ended up in that situation and is most of the reason I feel so bleak. He was a molecular biologist and on the cusp of retirement when his wife decided that as soon as their daughter went to college, she was going to divorce him and take him for everything he was worth. Went from looking at a comfy and well off retirement in a nice home in two more years to sitting in a dingy apartment with barely any money for food, no family, and the stark truth he was going to have to work forever.

So he swallowed a bullet. Such is life.

[Anonymous No.14938587]

Its a normalized ritual and depending on your intake, caffeine does help wake you up.
Rituals matter a lot. Plus it tastes good. You could indulge with lots of creme and sugar, go different with like oatmilk/pumpkin spice, or enjoy it straight for a more pure experience.

[Anonymous No.14938598]

>>14938576
Feminism in a nutshell, sadly infecting women all over world. I missed the time when we thought it was going to mean actual equality between men and women. Can't blame you for running away from marriage, it's one hell of a gamble these days.

[Anonymous No.14938607]

>>14937710
I like the taste, though i don't necessarily have it every day

>wake up
>get out the moka pot and make some strong black coffee
>make a bagel or toastie or somesuch for breakfast
>open the windows for airflow
>sit on the sofa and have a cigarette, drinj my coffee, eat my breakfast
>take a massive shit

I do this a couple of times a week. I love it.

[Anonymous No.14938641]

>>14938267
You guys dont have discrimination laws in your country? if its a medical issue they cant fire you for that.

[Anonymous No.14938669]

>>14938641
>discrimination laws
Like that has any meaning in America. There are a billion ways to bypass that.

[Anonymous No.14938839]

>>14938176
Based fungus-bros

[Anonymous No.14940219]

>>14938256
>>14938277
Stop living in 3rd world for fucks sake.

[Anonymous No.14940232]

>>14938177
It raises cortisol and cortisol is a sugar

[Anonymous No.14940429]

>>14937710
Because the fucking freaks that naturally wake up at 4 AM think that everyone else in the world should have to do it too and they're the ones who were allowed to dictate everyone's work hours.

[Anonymous No.14940450]

Because water gets boring. I make cold brew in the fridge.

[Anonymous No.14941729]

>love the taste of coffee but my body cannot handle caffeine and i get jitters/anxiety

why does my body hate me bros

[Anonymous No.14941801]

>>14937710
they think it's cool to drink coffee and then they get addicted to caffeine

[Anonymous No.14941811]

>>14938669
that's why you sue, ya git

[Anonymous No.14941851]

>>14940232
cortisol is not a sugar but plays a role in sugar metabolism

[Anonymous No.14942003]

>>14937710
Men drink it for the stimulation
Women drink it for the excuse to guzzle a shitload of cream and sugar
Both end up physically addicted and never quit

[Anonymous No.14942020]

>>14937710
It's called an addiction you dip

[Anonymous No.14942177]

i used to grind coffee beans and drink a little like most people, then started doing that with espresso, but now i drink decaff espresso cold, with a little bit of milk and sugar and a massive lump of home made frozen whipped cream, and its a thousand times better than any fucking coffee i ever had

if i dont do decaff though then the caffiene is just too much since espresso is so concentrated

[Anonymous No.14942191]

>>14937710
it tastes fucking good, one thing i like to do is that i mix a teaspoon of instant coffee with one of them small packets of cocoa drink. here is my preferred blend but i can always try out other coffees too.

[Anonymous No.14942196]

if you really want energy, drink chocolate milk made with raw cacao and sugar

theobromine is a cardiovascular stimulant and its much more potent in raw chocolate. thats the part of chocolate that kills dogs. they physiologically cant handle that drug, they cant metabolize it properly or something and they just overdose

[Anonymous No.14942203]

>>14942196
Fatass cope

[Anonymous No.14942232]

>>14942203
my bmi is 23 and im pretty lean

[Anonymous No.14942265]

>>14942196
Theobromine isn't as potent an adenosine antagonist as good ol' caffeine (lower is better). Theophylline is more potent than either, but is only found in trace amounts in cocoa beans.

[Anonymous No.14942279]

>>14942265
>Theobromine isn't as potent an adenosine antagonist as good ol' caffeine
chocolate has both though. it also has minerals, one of them being copper which gives you energy

[Anonymous No.14942285]

>>14942279
>chocolate has both though
It doesn't have as much caffeine as coffee beans by weight. You would gain far more stimulation off of eating an equivalent amount of raw coffee grounds, or just making a cup of coffee.
>copper
Not a psychostimulant. You're conflating 'energy' as in nutritional value with substances that directly alter chemical signalling in the brain. An apple gives you nutrients. It is not an amphetamine.

[Anonymous No.14942288]

>>14937870
your body balance is out of whack bro

[Anonymous No.14942293]

>>14938576
i hope he gave his money away before he anheroed if not it'll go to his wife anyway

[Anonymous No.14942309]

>>14942285
>It doesn't have as much caffeine as coffee beans by weight.
is that for cocoa or cacao? cacao has more
>Not a psychostimulant. You're conflating 'energy' as in nutritional value with substances that directly alter chemical signalling in the brain. An apple gives you nutrients. It is not an amphetamine.
its better than a drug, it helps you absorb iron which gives you strength and energy

[Anonymous No.14942317]

A moderate coffee consumption reduces mortality

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31055709/

So don't drink coffee if you hate life

[Anonymous No.14942412]

I drink instant coffee with soy milk and sweetner because it's a hot, filling drink with very few calories that doesn't cost much money and gets your digestive system going. It does literally nothing for my energy levels and I could easily function without it, but for convenience while watching your weight it's the best.

That said I feel like many of the people who claim to be addicted to coffee and need it to wake up just don't eat breakfast and get used to it filling them up instead of proper food.

[Anonymous No.14942473]

>>14942412
Please just kill yourself.

[Anonymous No.14942485]

>>14942473
Did the soyboy's drink trigger you?

[Anonymous No.14942494]

Should i do the jump to just consuming pure kaffein powder?

[Anonymous No.14942530]

>>14942485
Mostly the delusion that caffeine isn't addictive coupled with the claim that it doesn't affect them and that drinking soy milk is good for watching your weight.
Mental retards should remove themselves from the gene pool.

[Anonymous No.14942550]

>>14942530
Retard, a splash of soymilk won't prevent anyone from losing weight. It's negligible calories. The point about weight was that a big cup of coffee, regardless of what milk you use in it, is a satisfying, filling replacement for a snack or a higher calorie drink like hot chocolate or something.

You just seem mad that not everyone is a caffeine addicted zombie who can't cope with mornings.

[Anonymous No.14942576]

>>14942550
>negligible calories
You can say that about anything that has calories. So no, it's not negligible, especially over a long period of time. For something that is a daily routine, this matters. Your mentality is fucked.
>The point about weight was that a big cup of coffee, regardless of what milk you use in it, is a satisfying, filling replacement for a snack or a higher calorie drink like hot chocolate or something.
If you think of daily coffee as a "replacement" for a higher calorie drink, you are 100% a fatass who is not going to make it.
>You just seem mad that not everyone is a caffeine addicted zombie who can't cope with mornings.
I couldn't care less what other people do as long as they aren't spreading retarded disinformation.

[Anonymous No.14942613]

>>14937818
It doesn't give you energy (outside of stimulating you) it inhibits your brains response to chemicals that cause tiredness. You payback later though, which is why in some cases you can get a throbbing headache (the chemicals flooding back in) or simply crash.

[Anonymous No.14942618]

>>14937870
>caffeine is good for you
>puts body under the stress of 6 espresso shots daily
>you get migraines without it
yeah that must be good for you, hope you don't die of a heart attack too early bro

[Anonymous No.14942625]

tastes good
helps me poop
was a good social ritual at work pre-covid
horrible physical dependence

[Anonymous No.14942632]

>>14937710
It's literally a drug.

[Anonymous No.14942636]

>>14942191

>one thing i like to do...

You mean the only thing you like to do...

>is that i mix a teaspoon of instant coffee with one of them small packets of cocoa drink.

OK Steve1989.

>but i can always try out other coffees too

Why would it make a difference?

>it tastes fucking good

How would you know? You don't like coffee, you like sugar and artificial chocolate flavoring.

[Anonymous No.14942639]

>>14938360
>dude pukes in the shower every morning
>can't even sleep properly
>I'm jealous
money has it's costs man

[Anonymous No.14942645]

>>14938392
you can just retire bro if you never have kids, get sick, get into an accident, etc.

[Anonymous No.14942652]

>>14942636
>You don't like coffee, you like sugar and artificial chocolate flavoring.
Why do coffee elitists always say this whenever someone so much as implies they like to add other stuff to their coffee? That's like shitting on someone for salting their steak.
>U DON LIEK STAKE, U LIKE SOLT WITH STAEK FLAVORIN

[Anonymous No.14942654]

>>14941729
Dude just drink decaf, I have the same problem. Don't even like the rush when I don't get jitters I just like the aroma and taste. Scratches the itch.

[Anonymous No.14942663]

>>14942652
>pinch of salt on a 12 oz steak
>a gallon of milk and cream and other flavorings on top of a 1 oz shot of coffee
the problem is the coffee's more like the salt than the steak in these scenarios

[Anonymous No.14942679]

>>14941729
I really like coffee too but only get it a few days a week from nice places. Sometimes I get cold pressed stuff I can have in my fridge too. If I have too much I get jittery but I like having a kind of medium tolerance where 1-2 is fine but I don't get a headache if I stop for a while.

[Anonymous No.14942682]

>>14942652
Those cream and sugar addicts will literally gag if they try to drink black coffee, I've witnessed it myself. So yeah I don't really think they like coffee.
I'd also say that you don't like really like whiskey if you only drink jack and coke, you don't really like steak if you only have it well done etc.
Some people are just doomed to have shit taste and unfortunately they are in good company, so they feel justified in their retarded beliefs.

[Anonymous No.14942713]

>>14942636
quite honestly the cocoa drink isn't very sweet, it just takes the bitter edge off. and even instant coffees can have very distinct flavors, the brasero blend for example has a very noticeable chocolaty aroma to it which isn't in the basic arabica blend.

[Anonymous No.14942722]

>>14942713

Sorry, just a shitpost bro. I get it, I used to drink a lot of sweet blended coffee drinks, and the coffee does add something even it's more in the background. But I did eventually have to admit that I was drinking more sugar and cream than actual coffee.

[Anonymous No.14942728]

>>14942682
>you don't really like steak if you only have it well done

Now you're just trolling. IT'S STILL STEAK no matter how much it's cooked.

[Anonymous No.14942732]

Coffee wakes me up because I don't drink it often, but the crash negates any benefit that comes from the coffee.

>>14938157
same

[Anonymous No.14943002]

>>14938351
Man, that sounds fucking rough, no joke. I would probably save up some money and then leave as soon as I can, big corporations are horrible for everyone who has a sense of morale and humanity. I am not some "psychopath" memer, but its unironically true that psychopaths due to their low empathy and more importantly their almost non-existent fear and stress, thrive in such hostile environments and actually create even more dread for others, because that way they profit off of their failures.

[Anonymous No.14943096]

>>14937830
>>14938607
>>14942625
That's actually a myth. At most it causes a pavlovian response because you drink coffee in the morning and also go to the bathroom in the morning, which you would have done anyway, but just got in the habit of doing both in close proximity every day for your entire adult life. But really it does nothing. Just another normalbitch facebook "fact" that people like to tell each other like for whatever dumbfuck reason.

[Anonymous No.14943101]

>>14943096
Just wrong again...kill yourself soy faggot

[Anonymous No.14943234]

I only drink coffee at work, I don't particularly like it or hate it. To me coffee is just an excuse to take a nice break.
I once did an internship in electrical maintenance at a hospital. Not only the fuckers there worked from 8 to 16 they would take a 1-hour coffee break morning and afternoon every day.

[Anonymous No.14943296]

>>14943234
>Not only the fuckers there worked from 8 to 16 they would take a 1-hour coffee break morning and afternoon every day.
I see the problem, that seems pretty normal to me.

[Anonymous No.14943437]

>>14937818
You get more energy because coffee blunts the cortisol spike that's part of a normal awakening

[Anonymous No.14943458]

i drank coffee every day and just quit and never had any headaches, is that normal?

[Anonymous No.14943600]

>>14942550
you triggered that retard that typed a paragraph lol

[Anonymous No.14943832]

I drink up to three entire french presses a day of the stuff. Primary function being a mood booster.

[Anonymous No.14943858]

>>14943832
>mood booster

[Anonymous No.14943862]

>>14942654
>>14942679
Will try both of these, thanks anons

[Anonymous No.14943886]

People who rely on coffee just means they are weak individuals, nothing more.

[Anonymous No.14943908]

>>14937710
I used to drink it because I was living on 4h of sleep a night, and I needed a steady source of caffeine to make it through my morning classes.

I've come to enjoy the taste, and I don't find it does much to wake me up anymore. If I find I'm overdoing it or showing any signs of actual dependence or withdrawal, I cut it completely until things are normal-ish again.

[Anonymous No.14944077]

>>14942003
I drink it because I like the taste. Never felt energy from drinking it or had a withdrawal symptom from not having it.