Americans on TV drinking coffee

[Orang Utan]

Oh yes, this too. So weird. I wonder if these are things that actually happen or just media tropes that are repeated. I've not experienced either.
I'm told in relation to jogging you can get a little extra energy boost on a long run with a packet of gummy bears, but it doesn't affect me mentally (actually I'm not sure if it actually does anything at all).

You’ve never had a cheese or sugar rush?

 

[Orang Utan]

They also seem to use tweezers and get mega high after one toke.
I think this is slightly changing lately now though.

It’s cos they don’t put roaches in and tend to smoke it with no tobacco

 

[maomao]

Now you see this is what I thought would be the logical result of taking a 'speed-type' drug for prolonged periods.

But somebody on this forum (I won't say who, because I'm not sure this forum isn't public) admitted to taking it every day for the last two years - or something as full on as that. So I looked up long term problems of modafinil - and there aren't any.

I was massively surprised. But studies of people with 8-10 year usage have shown so ill side-effects.

I have sleep and anxiety problems anyway so the moda, and the accumulated lack of sleep, exacerbated those problems rather than caused them. And there were no withdrawal difficulties to speak of.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

You’ve never had a cheese or sugar rush?

I've eaten a lot of cheese in one sitting. Pretty sure I didn't get a rush from it. Same with sugar. Just a belly ache.

 

[IC3D]

Why do Americans on TV seem to get a speed / coke type high if they drink more than two cups of coffee? I have had coffee in the US and it's no different to here.
Culturally it seems to be everywhere from Garfield to Friends.

A coffee in the morning gives you that get up and go buzz, can't talk to anyone until I have had one.
Drink a couple of espressos and I can get just about anything done, but get really angry late afternoon.

I drink many cups of coffee a day but have never experienced anything of the sort.

What's all that about then?

Cos merkins are pussys with drugs apart from meth/crack heads who are not

 

[Orang Utan]

I've eaten a lot of cheese in one sitting. Pretty sure I didn't get a rush from it. Same with sugar. Just a belly ache.

They’re both similar - the rims of your eyes feel cold and you get this rushing sensation in your head. Bit like with mustard/wasabi except you feel this physical zonking sensation in the back of your head.
Don’t get brain freeze though

 

[xenon]

I thought this was some new shit Netflix series.

I don’t drink coffee much but drink lots of tea. which we all know has as much caffeine et cetera. I suppose I’d have to not drink tea for a few days to notice the difference. Too much sugar does make me fidgety And a bit focusless though.

 

[xenon]

The worst comedown I ever had was off a caffeine fuelled all-night work session.

oh yeah stayed up all night, aged about 17, with a mateby drinking coffee. Obviously we didn’t have access to more interesting stimulants... was horrible. Modafinil does a better job

 

[Plumdaff]

When I worked shifts including nights I used to drink tons of coffee with (I thought at the time) little effect. I was also smoking shed loads as well. I did have massive sleep issues including regular sleep paralysis and exploding head syndrome

I work mostly office ish hours now and can only tolerate one coffee a day without getting jittery. I therefore now pay more attention to quality over quantity. I drink tea by the gallon still.

I haven't had sleep paralysis in years.

 

[Cid]

Oh yes, this too. So weird. I wonder if these are things that actually happen or just media tropes that are repeated. I've not experienced either.
I'm told in relation to jogging you can get a little extra energy boost on a long run with a packet of gummy bears, but it doesn't affect me mentally (actually I'm not sure if it actually does anything at all).

When you're doing endurance exercise your body essentially runs off carbohydrate (and/or muscle glycogen which is sort of stored carbs), so it's more just refuelling. You will definitely crash at some point without doing it mind you, so in that sense it's a boost.

 

[Edie]

I actually avoid caffeine on nights. My thinking is to let my body handle the disruption as best it can without throwing it out further. If I can close my eyes under a desk (or the classic NHS staff bed- two chairs pulled together) on a night shift I do. Then next morning I eat a meal, watch a low impact tv show, and into bed. Caffeine fucks stuff up.

 

[Cid]

I think it's a filthy lie that tea has as much caffeine as coffee.

 

[gentlegreen]

I think it's a filthy lie that tea has as much caffeine as coffee.

I still won't drink it anywhere near bedtime...

 

[Cid]

<I believe the actual explanation is that the leaves are technically quite high in caffeine by weight, but it isn't extracted as efficiently, and tends to be more dilute>

 

[Numbers]

You’ve never had a cheese or sugar rush?

I never knew there was such a thing as a cheese rush, I’ve eaten tons of cheese loads of times and never felt it - I feel cheeseated

 

[Cid]

Other fun fact of the day:

Dark roasted coffees - low caffeine, light roasted coffees - high caffeine.

Dark teas - low caffeine, light teas - high caffeine.

In aesthetic and taste terms it's counter-intuitive, but when you think about the processing each product goes through it's pretty obvious why this is... Something like a white tea (which a fair few people assume is caffeine free) has minimal fermentation and the alkaloids are preserved. Similarly with coffee a dark roast is hotter (or longer? am not a roaster), and will degrade the alkaloid content.

<I should probably add that these differences are arguably minimal with coffee, point is more that dark does not mean stronger>

 

[emanymton]

When I have gone without caffeine it takes about 10 to 12 hours before I really notice the withdrawal kicking in. I have always thought the first cup in the morning makes you feel better because you had been in the early stages of withdrawal.

 

[Idris2002]

I have witnessed people go a bit Cornholio on strong coffee, even saw someone have a panic attack after a macchiato.

I had Lebanese coffee in Freetown once. I thought I was going to die.

 

[rutabowa]

They also seem to use tweezers and get mega high after one toke.
I think this is slightly changing lately now though.

this definitely isn't true anymore, nowadays everyone in america has massive tolerance due to smoking legal superweed all the time..... if anyone from this country tried a single drag of an american's joint they would spend the next half day clinging to the floor with demons flying around the room etc.

 

[Cid]

I had one too many coffees at a nice cafe <redacted> once... We were just chatting to the owner, seemed rude not to. Also he gave us some port. On the way back I genuinely thought I was coming up on acid, and got really suspicious that he - the owner, hippy - had dosed us. Just the coffee.

 

[Kevbad the Bad]

I remember many moons ago an acquaintance making a big thing about smoking dope, so much so that it didn't seem genuine. To test him out a friend rolled a joint with tobacco and instant coffee. Made him cough and cough. Ha ha. But the strange thing was that it did give you a high, albeit very short-lived.

 

[rutabowa]

oh yeah stayed up all night, aged about 17, with a mateby drinking coffee. Obviously we didn’t have access to more interesting stimulants... was horrible. Modafinil does a better job

I remember getting the coach to sheffield in winter with a mate to see a gig, pro plus had just come out and we had half a pack each and didn't have anywhere to stay and I ended up vomming into a bin at the floodlit coach stand all night in like -1 degrees... that was a really vividly bad experience.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

They’re both similar - the rims of your eyes feel cold and you get this rushing sensation in your head. Bit like with mustard/wasabi except you feel this physical zonking sensation in the back of your head.
Don’t get brain freeze though

WTF? I deffo don't get (or have every heard of) that.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

When you're doing endurance exercise your body essentially runs off carbohydrate (and/or muscle glycogen which is sort of stored carbs), so it's more just refuelling. You will definitely crash at some point without doing it mind you, so in that sense it's a boost.

Oh I have definitely crashed before. A long time ago I used to just go out after dropping my daughter at school. Might have only had a cup of tea, then I would run to Trafalgar Square or somewhere like that (from Croydon, so 10 miles ish?). Mad craving for a packet of biscuits and chocolate milk.

 

[xenon]

Never heard of cheese rush but cheese sweats. Which sounds more disgusting than it is.

 

[Cid]

I remember getting the coach to sheffield in winter with a mate to see a gig, pro plus had just come out and we had half a pack each and didn't have anywhere to stay and I ended up vomming into a bin at the floodlit coach stand all night in like -1 degrees... that was a really vividly bad experience.

Aye, another tale to be written into the records of the Fellowship of the Caffeine Comedown...

 

[Orang Utan]

WTF? I deffo don't get (or have every heard of) that.

You don’t get that zing in the back of your head from eating a little bit too much mustard or wasabi?

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

I remember getting the coach to sheffield in winter with a mate to see a gig, pro plus had just come out and we had half a pack each and didn't have anywhere to stay and I ended up vomming into a bin at the floodlit coach stand all night in like -1 degrees... that was a really vividly bad experience.

Good lord. Why did you do that?

 

[petee]

when we students discovered espresso we didn't know how to drink it and would make mugfuls of it, like it was drip.
more than one 36-hour day.

 

[petee]

I bought some of this recently (mainly for the mug, admittedly) in the hope I'd experience this mythical coffee high, but I haven't tried it yet as I'm too scared it'll kill me.

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this came out just after diet and zero colas got popular: