More expresso, less depresso.
Eventually, coffee moves from a drink that gets you going to an emotional support drink.
Submitted 21 hours ago by Quilotoa@lemmy.ca to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
waldfee@feddit.org 20 hours ago
Yeah, although it’s called espresso
snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Ty grammar Nazi.
SatyrSack@quokk.au 21 hours ago
That can be said of most narcotics
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
This is my emotional support crack pipe, you have to let me take it on the plane!
fizzle@quokk.au 12 hours ago
Narcotics are opioids or other downers.
Caffeine is obviously psychoactive but is not a narcotic.
SatyrSack@quokk.au 11 hours ago
As your article mentions, there is no single legal definition of “narcotic”. That article even mentions multiple non-sedative illicit substances as being “narcotics”, such as cocaine, cannabis, etc.
theywilleatthestars@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
99.999% of caffeine users stop before the drink that will cure all their mental illnesses forever and ever and ever.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 19 hours ago
I LOVE DRUGS
(I JUST HAD COFFEE IM SO HYPED HOMIE)
Carighan@piefed.world 20 hours ago
Eventually?!
PiraHxCx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 hours ago
Were I was raised there wasn’t a taboo over coffee as a “drink for adults” (something that I learned from American movies and found quite funny), when I was a kid I’d drink coffee with milk because I didn’t care much about coffee, but nobody would bat an eye I did… I also never understood that thing about people drinking coffee and getting energized, from what I learned the American-style coffee has about half the caffeine of the regular coffees we have here (Brazil), and not rarely I have coffee with bread or cookies before bed (if I didn’t have dinner and I’m feeling too lazy to make something), it doesn’t affect my sleep the least and I never felt the least energized with coffee. I always thought this thing about caffeine getting you high was a joke from movies, but people in real life do seem to claim it :S
(well, I do remember teens smoking oregano thinking it was pot and claiming to be high as well…)ps: Nope, I’m not addicted to coffee. The regular breakfast here is coffee with bread and butter, but most of times I don’t have breakfast before leaving so I don’t drink any coffee the whole day, and I go weeks without drinking it. If it isn’t to have a coffee with bread, cookies or biscuits, I don’t have coffee at all.
Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 hours ago
There’s a common myth over here that coffee can stunt a child’s growth. A myth I only today learned was false after researching it for this comment.
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 20 hours ago
I think that’s just movies - kids just wouldn’t like coffee because it’s bitter. No one I’ve known has said kids can’t have coffee, just recognize they won’t like it.
Hell, my father let me tast his coffee and beer when I was 5-ish because I was curious. I disliked the coffee completely, but the beer had something…
I stumbled on liking it in my 20’s.
PiraHxCx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 hours ago
I also always see people saying that having a coffee or a smoke helps them take a shit in the morning, because they wake up, have a coffee and cigarette and they take a shit… well, I wake up, don’t do either, and after 5-10min I take a shit too…
Mim@lemmy.zip 20 hours ago
You mean it moves to an addiction?
TomMasz@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
I can quit it anytime I want to suffer caffeine withdrawal headaches.
Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Good shower thought
taiyang@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Interestingly, many skip that first step. Iirc, it’s about 30% who don’t get more awake but rather start to relax under caffeine. About the same % who also need to poop right after, but not the same people. Lol
actionjbone@sh.itjust.works 21 hours ago
And, following that, a laxative
Blueliner@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
I’m not going to get into the semantics of the simple equation of
drink coffee‘feel good’RyanDownyJr@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
I had a similar thought to this the other day. For nearly my entire adulthood working, something around 15 years, not a single day has passed where I have explicitly recall NOT having coffee.
Addiction is real. 😬
fizzle@quokk.au 12 hours ago
Anything you regularly enjoy becomes an emotional support.
BashakHimanself@sh.itjust.works 20 hours ago
cheesorist@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
I really hope I can avoid that, haven’t fallen into it yet.
tgm@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Why not both?
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