Giving up coffee

Aanvil · Post by **Aanvil** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 5:21 pm

I recommend the Toddy method as well.

Works as advertised.

I won't be giving up coffee... ( no help there I know )

and I like my coffee like I do my women...

However you want to finish that off go ahead.

Post by **Nanohedron** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 11:11 am

Aanvil wrote:...and I like my coffee like I do my women...

Scalding and bitter?

Flyingcursor · Post by **Flyingcursor** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 11:26 am

It's tough enough to give up smoking, and as a side effect, beer. I'll keep my coffee at least until I can drink beer again. By then I'll be addicted to tea.

sbfluter · Post by **sbfluter** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 11:58 am

Well, I have to say that I've had decaff 3 days in a row now and it really doesn't taste as good at all. And it's even been decaff espresso and decaff french roast. Tastes weak and flavorless.

Denny · Post by **Denny** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 12:01 pm

Nanohedron wrote:
Aanvil wrote:...and I like my coffee like I do my women...
Scalding and bitter?

kinda a SoCalSnarky thing....

breqwas · Post by **breqwas** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 10:52 am

Coffee is bad and addictive thing, but there are things worse: energy drinks. Adrenaline Rush, Red Bull, Burn, etc. They contain LOTS of caffine, and some other stimulants. I had that sort of addiction, and it was hard to give up.

Now I drink only chinese tea (all sorts of oolong, green teas, red teas, etc). It also contains a bunch of stimulants, but their effect is more complex and less addictive. And it's more fun to have a bunch of tiny paper packets with some illegal-looking herbs and a weird clay teapot, than to drink that nasty liquid from coffee-machine :)

( hmm, what to drink now? tie guanin, chzu ye tsin, or alishan? or maybe czhen shan siao chzun? yep, that's pretty much like whoa :) )

sbfluter · Post by **sbfluter** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 7:15 pm

Well, I have to report that the detox went well and I'm free. I have so much more energy. I can barely sleep at night. Weird.

WyoBadger · Post by **WyoBadger** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 7:33 pm

Way to stick with it, SB.

The trouble with caffiene is it's like a credit card. You're using energy you really don't have, and you have to pay it back eventually. With interest.

Tea doesn't get me wired. I like the taste of it, and it does seem to make me just a touch more alert. No crash afterward.

Tom

SteveShaw · Post by **SteveShaw** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 7:39 pm

PG Tips all day, but, once the sun's gone down over the yard-arm, it's beer, and only good stuff. Basically then, this rules out Americans. They'll just have to be stuck with that diluted raspberry jam they call "Californian wine."

Congratulations · Post by **Congratulations** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 8:08 pm

Aanvil wrote:and I like my coffee like I do my women...

Hot and often?
Tall and wet?
Thin and tasteless?
Dark and powerful? (Maybe that's "I like my coffee like I do my wizards...")

Congratulations · Post by **Congratulations** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 8:09 pm

SteveShaw wrote:PG Tips all day, but, once the sun's gone down over the yard-arm, it's beer, and only good stuff. Basically then, this rules out Americans. They'll just have to be stuck with that diluted raspberry jam they call "Californian wine."

What's a yard-arm?

WyoBadger · Post by **WyoBadger** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 10:18 pm

SteveShaw wrote:PG Tips all day, but, once the sun's gone down over the yard-arm, it's beer, and only good stuff. Basically then, this rules out Americans. They'll just have to be stuck with that diluted raspberry jam they call "Californian wine."

Make you a deal, Steve--ship me some PG tips, I'll show you how to cook a decent hamburger. You know, next time we're in the same neighorhood.

While I was in England, I actually put that abomination called "beefburgers" in my mouth. Come on, be honest, you guys don't really eat that stuff, right? You just feed it to visitors as a joke?

I won't ask you to send me beer. The cost of shipping would be prohibitive.

Tom

Post by **Nanohedron** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 11:16 am

Congratulations wrote:
SteveShaw wrote:PG Tips all day, but, once the sun's gone down over the yard-arm, it's beer, and only good stuff. Basically then, this rules out Americans. They'll just have to be stuck with that diluted raspberry jam they call "Californian wine."
What's a yard-arm?

We know it as a yardarm.

I love being helpful.

Denny · Post by **Denny** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 11:29 am

sailed cheaply through that storm

Post by **Nanohedron** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 11:39 am

Denny wrote:sailed cheaply through that storm

That's me. Cheap.