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Coffee and Conversation
    #18936558 - 10/05/13 03:36 PM (10 years, 4 months ago)

Coffee seems to allow for a more dynamic and free flowing conversation from my experience with it the past few months. Before that I almost never had a cup. Coffee seems to go together with bookshops or lounges and of course cafés where it seems fashionable to talk, or at least read. I guess my question is does coffee stimulate literate discourse like alcohol can potentially stimulate belligerence or what? Is it okay to accept that caffeine does something to social aptitude or should one strive to be as conversational without any stimulant?


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Re: Coffee and Conversation [Re: WScott] * 1
    #18936567 - 10/05/13 03:41 PM (10 years, 4 months ago)

IMO one should strive to be conversational without any stimulant.

If I were to drink any caffeine right now I'd have one heck of a headache to deal with afterwords.

What happens on the day when the java runs dry?:shrug:


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Re: Coffee and Conversation [Re: HalluciNate]
    #18936588 - 10/05/13 03:45 PM (10 years, 4 months ago)

If I drink 2 or more coffees in a day and don't have any the next, I will get a headache the next day after, like clockwork. Has to do with dilation of blood vessels in the brain and some receptor not turning on or not turning off I don't know. So that aspect deters me.


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Re: Coffee and Conversation [Re: WScott]
    #18936635 - 10/05/13 03:57 PM (10 years, 4 months ago)

Coffee is absolutely exquisite. I love it with lots of coconut milk.

Since it's a stimulant, using it in moderate dosages is going to amp up your brain & its output. Too much and you'll get like, caffeine anxiety and withdrawal. Caffeine is already a socially acceptable drug. As long as one doesn't use it as a crutch, I don't see why it would be problematic.


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Re: Coffee and Conversation [Re: Penelope_Tree]
    #18936812 - 10/05/13 04:38 PM (10 years, 4 months ago)

Ah caffeine, what a great gift to the world. Some say the arrival of tea in europe led to the renaissance.  And imo, coffee is lightyears ahead of tea. I like it black and as bold as possible...every morning.


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Re: Coffee and Conversation [Re: Big_Dave]
    #18937771 - 10/05/13 08:25 PM (10 years, 4 months ago)

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I like it black and as bold as possible...every morning




I count in the hundreds the number of people whom I have heard say "I have to have my morning coffee."

For breakfast, I may or may not have orange juice, but it is never 'my' orange juice and I often miss days because it is not a requirement.

That possessive phrasing from coffee drinkers and the never missing of a ritual substance is called A D D I C T I O N.


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Re: Coffee and Conversation [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
    #18937807 - 10/05/13 08:32 PM (10 years, 4 months ago)

Before work I would for a number of weeks began by consuming a coffee milk shake with added protein. At the peak of my experiment with caffeine dependance I was also consuming, on average, 2 cups of dark roast coffee throughout the day. While I enjoyed the effect of increase focus towards the tasks of the job, I did not like the feeling of needing to use it to have a good day of work. I substituted apple juice for the morning coffee milk shake and drank mostly water from then on. I experienced long lasting headaches two days after making the change but was fine a day after that. Is there anything wrong with 1-2 coffees a day? If they're prepared black?


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Re: Coffee and Conversation [Re: WScott]
    #18937844 - 10/05/13 08:40 PM (10 years, 4 months ago)

I never used the word wrong. I only addressed need and the pretense of non-addiction.

An ex-ex-gf always needed 'her' post work cocktail (or more). She turned into a raging alcoholic and never saw it. Even after a DUI and worse.

On the other hand, coffee (or caffeine) addicts tend to remain fully functional with minimal health risks, but still in denial.


Me: Just skip one morning out of 10,000.

Coffee drinker: Why should I skip what I like?


Basically, long-term drinkers simply cannot do it.


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Re: Coffee and Conversation [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
    #18938050 - 10/05/13 09:34 PM (10 years, 4 months ago)

I agree and it seems like that morning Coffee is Ritualized pretty hard. They never shut up about it until they get 'their' dose.

OP, that's really upto you if you want to be conversational or not and whether drugs help you do it but when you think of it in terms of needing Coffee as a stimulant to converse IMO there are other underlying issues coming into play mainly Anxiety.

Consider this, if you go to a cafe and you just drink the free water eventually you wont be welcome at the cafe, so you gotta remember the key component to coffee is that it is a multi-billion dollar industry, the fact that you start relating it to social aptitude and thinking in some cases it's necessary for conversation, means that Business is a booming. They sucked you in to thinking you need their product to function which means you keep coming back and filling their pockets.


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Re: Coffee and Conversation [Re: Withinity]
    #18938064 - 10/05/13 09:37 PM (10 years, 4 months ago)

It's more like the difference between driving 50 km/hr and 80 km/hr, imo. Functionality isn't the issue.


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Re: Coffee and Conversation [Re: WScott]
    #18938158 - 10/05/13 10:06 PM (10 years, 4 months ago)

Whatever works for you my friend, i have never felt any stimulating effects from drinking a coffee or a Red-bull so i'm probably a tad bias and could never understand what all the fuss was about.

I still maintain the idea that if your relying on Nitrous Oxide to obtain those extra 30 KM/PH your ignoring the Engine under your own hood which can be tuned to run an extra 30 without having to rely on outside sources. The problem is that your not an automobile and when your off the Coffee your probably gonna be running below 50KM/PH a.k.a 'Im a bit cranky until Ive had my coffee' unlike a car which wont mindfuck itself when withdrawing from a substance.


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Re: Coffee and Conversation [Re: Withinity]
    #18938422 - 10/05/13 11:29 PM (10 years, 4 months ago)



My car is fussy without jet fuel. :yesnod:


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Re: Coffee and Conversation [Re: WScott]
    #18939182 - 10/06/13 07:53 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

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Before work I would for a number of weeks began by consuming a coffee milk shake with added protein. At the peak of my experiment with caffeine dependance I was also consuming, on average, 2 cups of dark roast coffee throughout the day. While I enjoyed the effect of increase focus towards the tasks of the job, I did not like the feeling of needing to use it to have a good day of work. I substituted apple juice for the morning coffee milk shake and drank mostly water from then on. I experienced long lasting headaches two days after making the change but was fine a day after that. Is there anything wrong with 1-2 coffees a day? If they're prepared black?




Hell there's nothing wrong with addiction if you are willing to accept any possible consequences.  I'm speaking as a life long addict and it's gotten me through some really hard times.  Right now my habit is Kratom.


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Re: Coffee and Conversation [Re: Icelander]
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Re: Coffee and Conversation [Re: WScott]
    #18939516 - 10/06/13 10:07 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

i drink decaf, no wonder i'm such a poor conversationalist :sad:


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Re: Coffee and Conversation [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
    #18939796 - 10/06/13 11:21 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

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She turned into a raging alcoholic and never saw it.




How do they not see it?


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Me: Just skip one morning out of 10,000.

Coffee drinker: Why should I skip what I like?





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Re: Coffee and Conversation [Re: Penelope_Tree]
    #18942510 - 10/06/13 09:53 PM (10 years, 4 months ago)

Well, caffeine is demonstrably physically addictive. That aside, it's definitely a good drug for conversation. I prefer it in green tea, though.


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Re: Coffee and Conversation [Re: Withinity]
    #18950468 - 10/08/13 04:55 PM (10 years, 4 months ago)

Although I'm going to dispute much of what you say, it's not meant as a personal criticism but merely to show that there's another side to the issues that you may not be aware of.

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I agree and it seems like that morning Coffee is Ritualized pretty hard. They never shut up about it until they get 'their' dose.

OP, that's really upto you if you want to be conversational or not and whether drugs help you do it but when you think of it in terms of needing Coffee as a stimulant to converse IMO there are other underlying issues coming into play mainly Anxiety.

Consider this, if you go to a cafe and you just drink the free water eventually you wont be welcome at the cafe, so you gotta remember the key component to coffee is that it is a multi-billion dollar industry, the fact that you start relating it to social aptitude and thinking in some cases it's necessary for conversation, means that Business is a booming. They sucked you in to thinking you need their product to function which means you keep coming back and filling their pockets.




I quit drinking anything other than coffee or water in restaurants more than a decade ago.  I always drink water, and only drink coffee if it's early and I'm meeting some friends at the restaurant and planning on some extended conversation. 

OK, I lied there.  I sometimes will drink hot chocolate at restaurants in lieu of coffee.

And I've NEVER had anyone at any restaurant complain or react to the fact that I drink water and not a revenue-producing beverage like coffee.

Not everyone gets addicted to everything. 

I don't get addicted to anything I've used long term, even though the substances are among those with the highest potential for addiction. 

I was a 3-pack a day smoker for several years before quitting, never missed it in any way.

I was a serious abuser of alcohol for even more years, from age 22 until age 39 when I got a wake-up call, courtesy of a DUI.

While my second wife (who was born and raised in East Germany during the cold war) and I were waiting for the US and German governments to pass her security clearance, (so that we could marry) I had to quit both smoking and drinking, but I had to keep booze and cigarettes on hand because I had to be prepared to host a senior officer and his wife who "might" drop in between 7 and 9 pm, known in the old army as "Visiting Hours."  It never bothered me to drink water and serve booze to my guests, or to not smoke my own cigarettes.  I couldn't do that because I was so broke that I simply could not replace my own consumption.

Several years later, when I got badly shot up in Vietnam and was in constant, unremitting pain/agony; I was given unlimited morphine as I was not expected to live through the event. 

Quitting the morphine was a non-event, at least as far as any craving for it; it was a huge event in the pain and agony field though.  Even so, there was a desire for the pain to end, but not a desire to have more morphine.

I drink two or three med-large mugs of Coffee daily, but often get engrossed and forget the coffee entirely.  I only notice that when I walk past the coffee pot, and notice I forgot to get a cup.

I know, CSBro'...


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Re: Coffee and Conversation [Re: Rool Kat]
    #18953205 - 10/09/13 08:15 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

And I've NEVER had anyone at any restaurant complain or react to the fact that I drink water and not a revenue-producing beverage like coffee.

Would you not get thrown out if you reserved the best table for 10:00 in the morning and only ordered free tap water, either continuously or once till the cafe or restaurant closed?


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Re: Coffee and Conversation [Re: liquidlounge]
    #18955026 - 10/09/13 03:50 PM (10 years, 4 months ago)

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And I've NEVER had anyone at any restaurant complain or react to the fact that I drink water and not a revenue-producing beverage like coffee.

Would you not get thrown out if you reserved the best table for 10:00 in the morning and only ordered free tap water, either continuously or once till the cafe or restaurant closed?




No, the real question is would I get thrown out if I decided that I'd be more comfortable naked, and thence immediately proceeded to get that way.

But as fascinating as those absurd flights of fantasy might be for you to conceptualize, neither have any relevance to this thread and so I don't intend to discuss either question.


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