post here when you've consumed so much caffeine that you want to move on to human blood

I didnt even know Coles made a coffee... ewwwww.

Tempted to have another espresso but its 4.30pm, this would be a Bad Idea right?

i don't have coffee after 11am

i drank a lot of caffeine today but never quite woke up. this means one thing: i'll be twitching and climbing the walls at 2 a.m. when the caffeine finally does kick in!

i broke down and devoured a bag of skittles at work because the sugar high is more instantaneous than the caffeine high.

skittles are really good.

The vibration of my life is perfectly attuned to the guitar break on "Burning For You."

Living for giving the Devil his due!

BURN OUT THE DAY
BURN OUT THE NI-IGHT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0Uh-uHea5E

my hands are so light. i could outshred yngwie malmsteen right now.

http://vimeo.com/22001612

FUCK YES

also ate about 4 or 5 donuts.

Also I've eaten about half a dozen little snacky cake things with choc chips in them, and a couple of hours ago I drank a Coke. All of this totally not planned, but it's like on The Incredible Hulk where Banner's eyes go funny just before he Hulks out.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_T7BhcH-_Lqw/TTsHpJ0MLnI/AAAAAAAAERQ/f9UsVezE95c/s1600/bill+bixby.jpg

I don't know what the fuck. Maybe it's the different brand of coffee I bought from the grocery store. Maybe I'm using an incorrect proportion when brewing. But I am jacked up. Nightmares the last few nights. Eyes wide open. Feel like I'm about to have an aneurysm.

that sounds awesome. what brand of coffee was it?

Starbucks. Not sure what particular flavor it was. It was on sale. I'm pretty cracked out at the moment.

ok, i was just trying to be funny in xp, but that doesn't sound good. i bought some cafe bustelo once because it was $1.99 for a brick, that stuff made me want to rip my face off.

bustelo is gr8

hl i would take a few days off. or transition to black/green tea. didn't you say you were drinking a lot of yerba mate too?

The thing to do is to develop an amphetamine habit in college, then quit, but still retain a high tolerance/numbness almost to caffeine. I call this the "college method."

i wish i could get to yr nightmarishly jacked-up level, tbh. used to love that. caffeine doesn't have much effect on my anymore, even if i drink a ton. keeps me going, but that's about it. (achieved without cultivating meth teeth)

But in all honesty stop drinking that coffee. It does sound like my experiences on adderall which a doctor prescribed and it was the worst.

Starbucks coffee is nasty stuff. I've drank all kinds of coffee but that one has a strange effect on me.

xxxxxxp yeah, I sorta miss the days when caffeine would make me want to kick a hole in the wall and scream at the top of my lungs in someone's face. now it just gives me a gross feeling awakeness.

hl i would take a few days off. or transition to black/green tea. didn't you say you were drinking a lot of yerba mate too?

― clouds, Wednesday, May 1, 2013 9:15 AM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I quit yerba mate after Sanpaku posted some convincing studies showing links to cancer.

Mate never made me feel like this though. It was a really clean buzz for some reason.

i've read that it has more to do with the way it is cured and the way it's normally made (multiple steepings, drank at very hot temps). if it actually was a serious cancer risk wouldn't we hear of a cancer epidemic among uruguayans?

Here is the link to a study that shows it's not about whether the drink is hot or cold. He links to other studies about yerba mate elsewhere in the thread.

Bizarro Ned In Buenos Aires To Drink La Yerba Mate

aw no, lapsang souchong too? :C

anyway you can get the smokeless kind at whole foods, but it's about 3x as expensive as the kind you'd get at a bodega.

Kindly tolerate this quote at length:

The “mental-energizing” effects of caffeine reflect its ability to inhibit certain cellular receptors in the brain which ordinarily are activated by the natural metabolite adenosine. Via interaction with the A2A form of adenosine receptor, caffeine has the potential to exert anti-inflammatory effects on the brain, dampening the activation of microglia, supporting the protective function of astrocytes, decreasing production of beta amyloid, and warding off some of the adverse effects of beta amyloid on neuronal synapses and cognitive function. Indeed, most though not all recent epidemiological studies find that people who have made heavy use of coffee for a number of years are at decidedly lower risk for cognitive decline and AD as they age. In one provocative Finnish study, people who drank 3-5 cups of coffee daily in midlife were about two-thirds less likely to develop dementia as they aged. One recent prospective study examined blood caffeine levels in elderly subjects with mild cognitive impairment, and found that caffeine level dose-dependently predicted risk for development of dementia over the next 4 years – none of those in the highest bracket of blood caffeine became demented over this time. Other recent epidemiology on coffee points to heavy coffee drinkers as being at reduced risk for mortality from a host of disorders, including heart disease, stroke, diabetes, infections, injuries, and accidents; some of this protection might stem, not just from caffeine, but from the phytochemical antioxidants in coffee. In light of current evidence, it may be smart to drink about as much coffee as you can, consistent with getting appropriate restful sleep and the concurrence of your physician.

OTOH, the largest study on coffee drinking and mortality to date found that 4-5 cups daily is the "sweet spot".

i have those sbux via things at my desk for when I'm craving coffee and don't want to drink the brewed garbage from work...last week I had 1 at lunch and another in the afternoon and then I was like HIYYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAA brain totally ready karatekick fite everything and everyone

it was a bit scary, so I scaled back

Engaging with the music of the Meters in a way that's probably unnatural for 5 a.m. Not complaining, you understand.

Getting up early and instantly putting on music is one of the things I miss most about being single.

Sorry - with coffee, obv.

'single with coffee' should be a daytime show on the OWN network

are you seeing some kind of savage that won't let you put music on???

This isn't a lot of caffeine compared to others, but last night I had 5 espresso shots in the course of 2 hours.

It was the most caffeine I've ever had in a day.

I was just on a commuter bus with Meters on my ipod and jacked to the gills on iced coffee. Plus people kept giving me free caffeine through the day. I'm still pretty good, to be honest!

I'm probably going to sound like a bit of a lightweight, but I've had a 500ml can of Emerge, a large Twix, and a coffee. Now I'm listening to Porn Sword Tobacco and it feels like my head's floating separate from my body.

listening to music in this state = godlike

fuck yes

My tolerance for caffeine seems to have gone way up in the last six months. Now normally I only have like a can of Red Bull or similar a day, so this is not my regular daily consumption, but on Friday I had a 250ml can of Red Bull on the way to work, a 330ml bottle of Lucozade at lunch, and a 500ml can of Relentless on the way to the bus station after work. The funny thing is that I didn't even realise until Saturday morning when I totalled it up, and the caffeine hadn't even pierced the dull exhaustion I feel at my shitarse IT Support job most days.

I mean two years ago that much caffeine would have put me in RARARAGAAAH Henry Rollins rage mode.

^^^ ah those halcyon days when energy drinks in the UK were all sugar instead of half sugar/half sweetener.

Meanwhile, today I drank a Monster Energy (black can green logo) and it tasted like liquid soap or possibly the cheapest fucking gumballs.

My tolerance for caffeine seems to have gone way up in the last six months.

Now try going cold turkey for a week and see how you feel.

I have a couple of times in the last two years. There are all kinds of warnings about headaches from caffeine withdrawal but I didn't notice any effects. Someone at work was talking about how they drink a small can of Red Bull and basically don't feel any different while one of their colleagues reported getting the jitters from the same amount of caffeine. Certainly I am a long way from where I was upthread five years ago - drinking a weak Red Bull knock-off and a coffee and feeling like I'm stuck to the ceiling? Not any more. Although I have to say that the Monster Energy has a pleasant light background buzz. Pity that it tastes like my anti-dandruff shampoo smells.