Energy drinks

df1985 · 29-09-2012 06:02PM

theres a seperate thread running on energy drinks as it happens. OP I had to lay off high caffeine energy drinks. Pounding headaches, head spinning etc, never had an issue with them until using a pre gym supplement full of caffeine. since then im sensitive to the stuff. it increases anxiety big time if you in any way suffer from it.

Hande hoche! · 29-09-2012 06:32PM

Enjoyable thread title.

markc1184 · 29-09-2012 06:36PM

If you think your head is bad wait until the heart palpitations kick in! Last time I had a can it was like the worlds greatest drum solo but inside my chest!

yore · 29-09-2012 06:53PM

It's an energy drink. It's an energy drink. It's an energy drink. And it's good for you. And it's good for me. It's an energy drink

King of Kings · 29-09-2012 07:03PM

monster energy with vodka excellent start to a night of debaucery.

outnumbered82 · 29-09-2012 07:04PM

Don't drink red bull or energy drinks but the best thing to drink if u need a lift is coffee mixed with diet coke

MetalDog · 29-09-2012 07:07PM

I drink Mountain Dew from the €2 Shop, and I dont know why, because not only is it pure feckin poison, but it makes my heart go like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibE9yjAJSGo

El Weirdo · 29-09-2012 07:09PM

Merged with earlier thread on energy drinks.

yore · 29-09-2012 07:16PM

af_thefragile wrote: »

I only drink the odd can of Red Bull before an exam or if i'm driving on the motorway to keep myself from falling asleep at the wheel...

And I never drink more than one (rarely 2) small cans of Red Bull in a day if I ever drink it.

I rarely drink coffee or tea either. Wouldn't like to get addicted to caffeine...

No offence, but you shouldn't be near a motorway if you need an imbibed stimulant to stop you from falling asleep!

:eek:

Hank Scorpio · 29-09-2012 08:00PM

don't drink them if you're hungover, they do weird stuff with the electrolytes and drain alot of water

I was drinking them all day once when I was hungover and got really faint with dehydration, couldn't piss for hours even after 3~ liters of water

KTRIC · 29-09-2012 08:53PM

I usually have a can of Power Thirst before the gym

bnt · 29-09-2012 09:27PM

Prick! wrote: »

Waiting for the "I don't know how anyone survived in the olden days without energy drinks" response.

One word: coffee. Have a read of this, by Honore de Balzac, which describes just how insane they could get hundreds of years ago:

Finally, I have discovered a horrible, rather brutal method that I recommend only to men of excessive vigor, men with thick black hair and skin covered with liver spots, men with big square hands and legs shaped like bowling pins. It is a question of using finely pulverized, dense coffee, cold and anhydrous, consumed on an empty stomach. This coffee falls into your stomach, a sack whose velvety interior is lined with tapestries of suckers and papillae. The coffee finds nothing else in the sack, and so it attacks these delicate and voluptuous linings; it acts like a food and demands digestive juices; it wrings and twists the stomach for these juices, appealing as a pythoness appeals to her god; it brutalizes these beautiful stomach linings as a wagon master abuses ponies; the plexus becomes inflamed; sparks shoot all the way up to the brain. From that moment on, everything becomes agitated. Ideas quick-march into motion like battalions of a grand army to its legendary fighting ground, and the battle rages. Memories charge in, bright flags on high; the cavalry of metaphor deploys with a magnificent gallop; the artillery of logic rushes up with clattering wagons and cartridges; on imagination's orders, sharpshooters sight and fire; forms and shapes and characters rear up; the paper is spread with ink - for the nightly labor begins and ends with torrents of this black water, as a battle opens and concludes with black powder.

I recommended this way of drinking coffee to a friend of mine, who absolutely wanted to finish a job promised for the next day: he thought he'd been poisoned and took to his bed, which he guarded like a married man. He was tall, blond, slender and had thinning hair; he apparently had a stomach of papier-mache. There has been, on my part, a failure of observation.

Yeah, you can keep your expensive Monster or Red Bull: I prefer the Old School way. :cool:

bnt · 29-09-2012 09:34PM

Actually, I kid: I've nearly dropped caffeine altogether, now that I'm working full time. Firstly, I like the high, but I don't need the low, which has me wilting like a daffodil by mid-afternoon if I'm not careful. The other reason is that I'm Scottish and I normally talk too quickly for many Irish people to follow, so getting even more hyper is not a good idea in my job. :eek: I'm limiting myself to weak tea on work days.

PaulKK · 29-09-2012 09:47PM

Wanderer2010 wrote: »

This is a bit embarrasing but I drink 12 500ml bottles of Lucozade per week, have had an addiction to it for about 2 yrs now(

I would seriously try and cut that down. If you look at the bottle it says it has 75% of your days sugar in it.

My friend has diabetes and if his levels are low he literally has a mouthful of lucozade to sort it out. So imagine what a full bottle does to you.

af_thefragile · 30-09-2012 03:41PM

yore wrote: »

No offence, but you shouldn't be near a motorway if you need an imbibed stimulant to stop you from falling asleep!

:eek:

Well if you're on a long journey on a friday evening after a long hard day, you're a bit tired and motorways can be very monotonous and mind numbing. A can of Red Bull gives you that little kick which can help you maintain the concentration for the hour or two of the journey...

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