Coffee vs. Tea vs. Cola vs. Guarana vs. Mate

Thunder Force · Post by **Thunder Force** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 4:33 am

COFFEE or TEA or COLA or GUARANA or MATE

Vote now, and defend your choice of beverage in this thread. Bonus points if you convert heathen drinkers through beverage advocacy!

benj · Post by **benj** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 4:43 am

Nothing beats hot chocolate with honey!

it290 · Post by **it290** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 4:46 am

Non-caffienated beverages don't count. Although I daresay guarana isn't really a beverage either.

Personally, I voted for coffee. Nothing like good 'ol coffee. I enjoy a shot of espresso or whatnot what I'm in the mood, but truthfully I prefer the taste of plain old weak, black American coffee.

Pixel_Outlaw · Post by **Pixel_Outlaw** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 5:03 am

I drink about 5 cans of Diet Coke a day. I like the taste better than regular.

benj · Post by **benj** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 5:09 am

If chocolate milk doesn't count, this thread is doomed to fail.
And I won't shed a tear for it.

Thunder Force · Post by **Thunder Force** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 5:19 am

benj wrote:If chocolate milk doesn't count, this thread is doomed to fail.
And I won't shed a tear for it.

Chocolate milk = Cocoa = stimulant. Therefore this thread deems chocolate milk a valid alternative lifestyle choice.

iatneH · Post by **iatneH** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 5:29 am

When I imagine how I'm going to kick the crap out of that guy I hate, yeah I could stay up all night. No other stimulants needed.

JBC · Post by **JBC** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 5:33 am

Coca-Cola. With lime.

extrarice · Post by **extrarice** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 5:42 am

I voted other, because my fix comes from Japanese BlackBlack caffeinated chewing gum. Great stuff.

And BTW, espresso has less caffeine than regular coffee. The darker the bean roast, the less caffeine is present (espresso roast is roasted much darker than standard coffee).

sven666 · Post by **sven666** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 6:09 am

i drink more tea than the brittish royals...

converted all my heathen friends to drink it aswell, bonuhs!, great stuff.

tho for proper shmupping it is beer and nothing else, just cant drink it all the time every day

Neon · Post by **Neon** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 6:23 am

iatneH wrote:When I imagine how I'm going to kick the crap out of that guy I hate, yeah I could stay up all night. No other stimulants needed.

You have a lot of anger in you dude.

In my situation it's sometimes necessary to stay awake up to like 36 hours at a time, so I drink coffee. I find it's the most...stimulating? among the choices that I've tried, especially with all the sugar you have to add so it isn't entirely disgusting.

Still nasty stuff, ruins the teeth, I'll quit after grad school.

edit - I actually haven't tried guarana or yerba mate...I heard there's this one plant that's totally legal and if you lick it you trip balls for 15 minutes but it feels like two hours...true?

raiden · Post by **raiden** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 10:40 am

Still nasty stuff, ruins the teeth, I'll quit after grad school.

I hope you manage to, life doesn´t exactly get less demanding at work. Last time I tried to quit was during Christmas holidays, well I managed a month without coffee and haven´t come back to more than 2 cups a day, but staying without any is really hard.

edit - I actually haven't tried guarana or yerba mate...I heard there's this one plant that's totally legal and if you lick it you trip balls for 15 minutes but it feels like two hours...true?

Guarana is simply caffein in another form, dissolves more slowly in the body, supposedly being more healthy that way, but also less effective when you´re really tired.
There are plenty of plant drugs growing out in the wild, just read a book and try to find them. I used to experiment a lot with these as a teenager, but it sure is dangerous, because there´s no such thing as a safe dosage, and sometimes plants look similar, but have entirely different effects, some of which can even be deadly.

neorichieb1971 · Post by **neorichieb1971** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 10:46 am

Hot tea here, nothing like a sip between shmup levels... Has been cause of death sometimes cos the darn level starts so quickly in some games.

captain ahar · Post by **captain ahar** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 1:37 pm

iced mocha... all year long... in michigan.

coffee by a nose... pinochio's nose... after gipeto asks him why he spends so much time in the bathroom...

i like... periods...

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Michaelm · Post by **Michaelm** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 2:19 pm

Well, I do like a joint every now and then.
It is stimulating

howmuchkeefe · Post by **howmuchkeefe** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 3:00 pm

Ahhh... stimulants.

I used to smoke a pack a day, but I've managed to kick the habit entirely. I've saved so much money!

I'm still addicted to Diet Coke and Diet Dr. Pepper. I used to drink them constantly... I can kill a 12 pack in one day, if I don't watch myself. Nowadays, I drink 4-6; I've been substituting them with green tea due to reflux concerns.

SuperGrafx · Post by **SuperGrafx** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 3:38 pm

Definitely Colas for me. Diet of course.

Though lately I've been experimenting with the different Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi flavors that have been coming out. I'm on a cherry diet pepsi kick as of late.

Neon · Post by **Neon** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 4:43 pm

howmuchkeefe wrote:I used to smoke a pack a day, but I've managed to kick the habit entirely. I've saved so much money!

Congrats!

Soda drinkers beware:
http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_coca_cola.htm

it290 · Post by **it290** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 4:47 pm

edit - I actually haven't tried guarana or yerba mate...I heard there's this one plant that's totally legal and if you lick it you trip balls for 15 minutes but it feels like two hours...true?

Sounds a bit like salvia divinorum, although you have to either chew it or smoke it. And yes, it is true, though not exactly what you'd call 'fun'.. it's more similar to taking DMT or something like that.

Jon · Post by **Jon** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 5:37 pm

Green tea all the way. Its an aquired taste but certainly a better option than soda or coffee.

SuperGrafx · Post by **SuperGrafx** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 5:43 pm

Jon wrote:Green tea all the way. Its an aquired taste but certainly a better option than soda or coffee.

True indeed.

professor ganson · Post by **professor ganson** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 5:50 pm

I used to drink tea instead of coffee because I believed that the former was the more healthy option. But lately there has been so much good news about the health benefits of coffee consumption that I have turned to coffee in the morning, tea in the afternoon.

Note that the health benefits of coffee may be outweighed by the costs if you do not use a filter in making the coffee. In the US we typically make coffee by drip through a filter, which captures the bad stuff.

Those who are drinking sodas instead of coffee or tea should seriously consider switching, if you're concerned about your health. Studies suggest that the health benefits of coffee and tea are not benefits of sodas. Partly this is to be explained by the great number of anti-oxidants in the former. Excellent stuff, those anti-oxidants (also present in red wine, dried fruit, dark chocolate... basically all my favorite stuff).

Coffee is usually too strong for later in the day because it often keeps me up past 1am and that's not good because I always wake up by 7:30am no matter when I go to sleep.

DC906270 · Post by **DC906270** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 6:02 pm

i vote Diet Cola.

how is this topic different from the "favourite shmup bullet colour and air freshener" topic which got locked?

Pixel_Outlaw · Post by **Pixel_Outlaw** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 6:40 pm

DC906270 wrote:i vote Diet Cola.

how is this topic different from the "favourite shmup bullet colour and air freshener" topic which got locked?

Huzzah! Yeah, all hail My diet Coke.
-Oh and by the way the show"Mythbusters" disproved many of the coke myths.

extrarice · Post by **extrarice** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 7:03 pm

Jon wrote:Green tea all the way. Its an aquired taste but certainly a better option than soda or coffee.

Stash's Sushi Bar Green Tea is the best nationally available green tea I've found so far.

Andi · Post by **Andi** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 11:20 pm

Doctor-mother-fucking-Pepper.

I lived in Germany for about 2 months and they only have Coke there (or at least they did 8 years ago). No Dr. Pepper? Fuck that shit.

In Germany they also have Vita-Cola which is a pretty rancid beverage.

CMoon · Post by **CMoon** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 11:53 pm

I'm glad to see in a competition between Coffee and EVERYTHING ELSE, coffee still wins!!!

Vexorg · Post by **Vexorg** » Thu Apr 13, 2006 12:16 am

I put down "none" because for the most part, such things tend to cause me more problems than they solve. I've been an insomniac for as long as I can remember, and I find that caffeine is far more likely to keep me up when I'm trying to sleep than it is to help me stay awake when needed. I do drink Coke on occasion, but generally limit it to when sleeping in the next morning to catch up isn't going to be a problem.

shiftace · Post by **shiftace** » Thu Apr 13, 2006 1:09 am

I like green tea, but not for the caffeine. I like Coke and Pepsi, especially the citrus-tinged ones I used to get a couple years ago. But if a winner shall be declared, then the winner must be black coffee. The only valid accessory is ice, on a hot day.

Dale · Post by **Dale** » Thu Apr 13, 2006 1:43 am

I voted for coffee but I drink tea too.

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