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Is coffee over rated?

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  • #32
    newport2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,642 ✭✭✭newport2


    Coffee is only over-rated for those with bad taste.


  • #33
    Renegade Mechanic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,928 ✭✭✭Renegade Mechanic


    I have the odd cup. Dont mind the taste. But I can genuinely go to bed after a mug at night and still fall asleep without much trouble so I dont get the general consensus about "effects" of it.


  • #34
    ankaragucu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 491 ✭✭ankaragucu


    Just as I thought, most people commenting here are the pro coffee is amazing brigade.After all that coffee drinking you're expending the copious amounts of energy its given you how?By talking about coffee drinking.


  • #35
    FTA69
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,252 ✭✭✭FTA69


    I agree with the OP. There's nothing more frustrating than delaying starting work or a task because someone "hasn't had a coffee yet". It's hot water and a few f*cking berries. I was in a meeting a few weeks ago and vetoed a few people ducking out for "a quick coffee" and I swear to God the heads on them were priceless. Needing a hot drink to start work is a load of effete and limp-wristed b*llocks.

    You'd swear it was f*cking methamphetamine the way people go on about it.


  • #36
    newport2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,642 ✭✭✭newport2


    ankaragucu wrote: »
    Just as I thought, most people commenting here are the pro coffee is amazing brigade.After all that coffee drinking you're expending the copious amounts of energy its given you how?By talking about coffee drinking.

    A bit more understandable than using your tea-hit to bitch about coffee, no?


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  • #37
    Shenshen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,453 ✭✭✭Shenshen


    I wouldn't know, I really, really hate the taste of it so never drink it.
    I can't even stand things like coffee-flavoured Ice cream or cake. Makes me gag.


  • #38
    cat_dog
    Closed Accounts Posts: 276 ✭✭cat_dog


    Coffee is the perfect wake me up & it's been popular way before SATC.


  • #39
    Rubberchikken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,303 ✭✭✭Rubberchikken


    gives me indigestion so don't drink it, but yeah i do think its effects on people are over rated.
    they've convinced themselves they can't function without it. same as any habit.
    love the taste of it on coffee cake though *sigh*


  • #40
    The J Stands for Jay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,932 ✭✭✭The J Stands for Jay


    Coffee is the tool of the bourgeois oppressors.


  • #41
    Mr. CooL ICE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,060 ✭✭✭✭Mr. CooL ICE


    I like coffee. But most of all, I find the word funny for some odd reason.

    "Coffee". Hehehe


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  • #42
    Muise...
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,512 ✭✭✭Muise...


    ankaragucu wrote: »
    Just as I thought, most people commenting here are the pro coffee is amazing brigade.After all that coffee drinking you're expending the copious amounts of energy its given you how?By talking about coffee drinking.

    Starts thread OMG coffee overrated.tv reference what's wrong with you!

    Gets people talking about coffee.

    OMG pro-coffee brigade talking about coffee?copious waste of energy!

    (*Notes that pro coffee can be shortened to PC, which is a nice frothy cappucino of misguided spazzing. :pac: )

    Bravo.


  • #43
    Fox_In_Socks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,615 ✭✭✭Fox_In_Socks


    Out of my way, I need to RUN to get a choco mocha cappa bullsh*t thing before I catch my train!

    Hold on, I'll just stick my sunglasses on top of my head as I'm in a whilrl!

    OK, I've got my frapa capa thing...mmmmm....oh that's good coffee, but you know you can't get good coffee in this country.

    When I was on the J1 in Toronto, I did the coffee run for the guys and they had this nice, like shop somehwere down the street, think it was called Waynes Coffee, or something, nothing like Starbucks, it was DIVINE!

    I'm in my super stressful job, it's like I need the adrenaline, and I just NEED my coffee in the morning or I don't function, OUT OF MY WAAAYYYY!!!!


  • #44
    Awkward Badger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,414 ✭✭✭Awkward Badger


    ankaragucu wrote: »
    You see, thats your description of coffee drinking.To me, its a scam.Any sane non delusional person's "transition from sleep to functioning human" is opening their eyes!Its simply laziness.

    How is it a scam ? I also never said what you have in inverted commas there. I said transitioning from sleep addled zombie to fully functioning human being.

    I'm not bothered citing anything but of you care to check you'll find plenty of evidence to show that people do not function at peak performance or are even fully alert just after waking up and there is also plenty of evidence to show caffeine has an effect on people and their alertness.

    So there is no scam nor is it delusional to drink coffee for a little boost to help you in your day. Its not laziness either its just people rituals or routine to drink the beverage of their choice for a little physical and psychological boost. I think you're taking the "I cannot function without coffee" statements a little too literally. They don't actually think without coffee they will seize up and cease to function.


  • #45
    Snake
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,844 ✭✭✭Snake


    Used to drink it everyday 10 times a day never to wake me up, that's something it can't do, but instant coffee is only ****e now so I just have a latte once a week or that.. Tea 10 times a day now


  • #46
    Frogurt!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21 ✭Frogurt!


    People who say they need coffee are idiots. They need the ritual that coffee offers, but they can have it with a multitude of other things. They're brainwashed, so coffee it is.

    If these sheep knew the effects of caffeine or were somehow effected by them, this 'need' would magically disappear.

    Which is better:

    Living in a way that means your naturally energized or going around like a zombie and wanting a 'quick fix' of some pretentious, overpriced coffee that's served with your name on the cup to make you feel more important than you are and not the mere pawn you actually are in some corporations bid to take over the world?*


    *Slight exaggeration.


  • #47
    Snake
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,844 ✭✭✭Snake


    Frogurt! wrote: »
    People who say they need coffee are idiots. They need the ritual that coffee offers, but they can have it with a multitude of other things. They're brainwashed, so coffee it is.

    If these sheep knew the effects of caffeine or were somehow effected by them, this 'need' would magically disappear.

    Which is better:

    Living in a way that means your naturally energized or going around like a zombie and wanting a 'quick fix' of some pretentious, overpriced coffee that's served with your name on the cup to make you feel more important than you are and not the mere pawn you actually are in some corporations bid to take over the world?*


    *Slight exaggeration.


    That's a bit OTT because people like to drink coffee


  • #48
    Frogurt!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21 ✭Frogurt!


    GrayFox208 wrote: »
    That's a bit OTT because people like to drink coffee

    God, it really was, wasn't it? It's true though. And maybe that hurts some people.

    No I understand some people do actually like coffee. I myself like it occasionally, but I'll drink decaf and I don't 'need it'.

    It's the gang of muppets who deem it fashionable to go parading a Starbucks cup around on their way to work. Surely, it would be nicer to have it at your desk.


  • #49
    newport2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,642 ✭✭✭newport2


    Frogurt! wrote: »
    People who say they need coffee are idiots. They need the ritual that coffee offers, but they can have it with a multitude of other things. They're brainwashed, so coffee it is.

    If these sheep knew the effects of caffeine or were somehow effected by them, this 'need' would magically disappear.

    Which is better:

    Living in a way that means your naturally energized or going around like a zombie and wanting a 'quick fix' of some pretentious, overpriced coffee that's served with your name on the cup to make you feel more important than you are and not the mere pawn you actually are in some corporations bid to take over the world?*


    *Slight exaggeration.

    I think you'll find the phrase "need a coffee" is meant tongue in cheek. Very few genuinely believe things will grind to a halt without coffee.

    I love coffee. It doesn't particularly give me a boost or keep me awake. I just like the smell and taste of it. If the fact that I do annoys anyone then good, they're exactly the type of people I would like to annoy.


  • #50
    sleepytrees
    Closed Accounts Posts: 348 ✭✭sleepytrees


    I love proper coffee but not the starbucks stuff. It's too sweet and grossly overpriced. It's like designer coffee to just look cool.


  • #51
    Sierra Tasteless Barber
    Posts: 81,308 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Sierra Tasteless Barber


    Coffee is great


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  • #52
    Cienciano
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,208 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    I like the odd coffee, tea is the superior drink. Tea is so much easier to make too, you need to much shíte to make coffee.


  • #53
    Muise...
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,512 ✭✭✭Muise...


    Frogurt! wrote: »
    God, it really was, wasn't it? It's true though. And maybe that hurts some people.

    No I understand some people do actually like coffee. I myself like it occasionally, but I'll drink decaf and I don't 'need it'.

    It's the gang of muppets who deem it fashionable to go parading a Starbucks cup around on their way to work. Surely, it would be nicer to have it at your desk.

    That "gang of muppets" don't change my enjoyment of a coffee first thing in the morning (at home) and another later in the day sometimes, or a coffee with a chat with a friend.

    OP seems to think 'muppets'' over-rating of coffee have the power to change its properties and taste for everyone else.

    My only problem with those 'muppets' is their use of disposable cups. But even that doesn't change how I rate coffee itself.


  • #54
    osarusan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,059 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    I make it in the morning like this:

    http://img03.taobaocdn.com/bao/uploaded/i3/258843635/T2FC1hXn0XXXXXXXXX_!!258843635.jpg

    Easy and costs about 12 cents a cup.


  • #55
    Fox_In_Socks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,615 ✭✭✭Fox_In_Socks




    OH MY GAWDDDD!!!!


  • #56
    Calibos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,929 ✭✭✭Calibos


    Was never a coffee drinker but was a smoker and a Coca Cola addict.

    So both a nicotine and caffeine addict.

    Still addicted to both compounds but ingest them by healthier means which remove the harmful compounds I used to ingest alongside them to get my fix. ie. E-Cigs to get my nicotine with out the other 4000 harmfull chemicals. Coke Zero to get my caffeine without the Fcuk-Tonne of Sugar and 1200 calories a day.

    Whats so insidious about both addictions is that you don't actually get a real buzz or lift from these compounds. What you get is feeling worse and performing worse while in withdrawl and craving them. Getting the fix just makes you feel normal and perform normal. If you weren't addicted to these compounds you'd feel/perform normal ALL the time.

    Studies have shown that 3 groups of people given the same task where group 1 are caffeine addicts that have to perform the task while in withdrawl, group 2 are caffeine addicts given their fix before performing the task and Group 3 are non caffeine addicts asked to perform the task. The addicts in withdrawl performed worse in the task. The addicts with their fix when asked felt they performed the task better than the other two groups but in fact performed no better/exactly the same as the non addicted control group.


  • #57
    jaja321
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 793 ✭✭✭jaja321


    I love coffee. Trying to give up caffeine though at the moment so only drinking herbal teas and decaf coffee. It's actually really hard! And I've successfully quit smoking -:(


  • #58
    Frogurt!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21 ✭Frogurt!


    Muise... wrote: »
    That "gang of muppets" don't change my enjoyment of a coffee first thing in the morning (at home) and another later in the day sometimes, or a coffee with a chat with a friend.

    OP seems to think 'muppets'' over-rating of coffee have the power to change its properties and taste for everyone else.

    My only problem with those 'muppets' is their use of disposable cups. But even that doesn't change how I rate coffee itself.

    Not by you, fair enough, but I believe it to be totally overrated in general and due to the way some people behave because of it.


  • #59
    A Greedy Algorithm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 252 ✭✭A Greedy Algorithm


    Coffee addiction destroys families and the community.


  • #60
    challengemaster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,925 ✭✭✭✭challengemaster


    Renegade Mechanic wrote: »
    I have the odd cup. Dont mind the taste. But I can genuinely go to bed after a mug at night and still fall asleep without much trouble so I dont get the general consensus about "effects" of it.

    Have a double espresso, you'll soon feel the effects!


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  • #61
    _Redzer_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,056 ✭✭✭_Redzer_


    I used to be up at 6:30 to head in for college and I used to get a coffee to keep me going. Yeah, it helped wake me up a bit, but then I'd just have a bottle of coke and I'd feel it'd pretty much do the same job. I think coffee is a bit overrated as I think there's a placebo effect going on when you think your day can only begin once you've had a cup of coffee.


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