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⌈ Secret Post #4859 ⌋

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[tabaqui]

THIS this this this. Sure, *some* people are like that, sometimes, but OMG.
I hate it so much.


Also - i guess - i hate coffee and tea both, don't drink them *ever*. I have a little glass of juice in the morning. And I am *not* a 'morning person' - i hate loud noises and loud people in the morning, I don't like to be rushed.

BUT - when, for instance, my alarm didn't go off and I had to get up and get ready for work and leave the house in 20 minutes? I could still do it, and went on to have a perfectly normal day.

I don't get the 'i can't function without' thing, because if you *really can't*, then you're so fucked in an emergency, and that is baffling to me. Or the zombie apocalypse, pick one.

[(Anonymous)]

As I understand it coffee doesn't actually do anything to make someone more energetic or awake. It just blocks the chemicals that signal you're tired. As someone who drinks coffee all the time (literally all the time) the only real side-effect if I don't have my morning coffee is a headache. It's like withdrawal...which is probably a sign I should wean myself off a bit.

Personally I think it's less about the coffee though and more about a particular persons rituals. We all have those little things we do to wake up or get ready for bed or for anything but for some reason with coffee people think there's something innate about it that does the waking up even though many teas that have caffeine could do it if that was the case but I don't hear anyone talking about "I can't wake up without having some tea!"

[tabaqui]

Oh, definite caffeine withdrawal - i loved how they actually made that part of the plot going forward in Stargate: Universe. People having headaches and being twitchy because they hand no real supplies, etc., so no coffee, no tea, no soda....

Agree, definitely a ritual thing, and i know i am in a *bad* mood for a bit if i'm woken up by a loud radio or tv, or lots of people in the house being loud. I just get baffled by the 'i can't function' crowd. That just seems...extreme.

[(Anonymous)]

I never take it literally when someone says they can't function without coffee. They're just being hyperbolic. They mean they feel like the can't function to their usual standard without coffee.

I work with a few thousand fellow background extras. None of us bring coffee to work because craft services provides it. I know from experience that every single one of us is able to function without coffee. But man, if a production wants to make its BG ornery as ever-loving fuck, they can accomplish that by withholding coffee.

[tabaqui]

Heeeeee!

[(Anonymous)]

I don't hear anyone talking about "I can't wake up without having some tea!"

My brother is a dedicated coffee drinker (minimum of four cups of day in the morning, sometimes eight). At one point he tried to give up coffee, but--without really intending to--ended up drinking 15+ cups of tea a day instead in pursuit of his caffeine fix. So he switched back to drinking coffee, as it was more efficient.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I love tea in its own right, but it isn't anywhere near as effective as coffee. Tea is what I drink to relax in the afternoon/evening, not to wake me up in the morning.