Death by Caffeine Comments
Well as soon as I posted that last thing about “being heavily linked,” a few people pointed out that I’m also linked on the AOL home page. With 137 comments on the page, the load is just too high… so if you have any comments on it, post them here!
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1. The metric system is kinda cute, I find it charming when little countries dabble in empire building, weights and measures. It’s the only decent thing to come out of France since syphilis. Of course it took an Italian to do get them to do it.
2. Stop bashing Canada. It is the second or third best country in North America. It’s twice as big as the US, although 90% of the population lives within 100 miles of the US border and is populated by the descendants of those who were run out of the US during colonial times. Who the hell else would voluntarily live north of Minnesota?
3. For gods sake people it’s the amount consumed at one sitting not over lifetime. Jebus are you bastards stupid. It’s a good thing you live, vote and reproduce in nations that are unimportant.
I refuse to do this test because you didn’t list Irn Bru.
For those of you who care, and apparantly many of you do: “Caffeine Free” on the label means that no caffeine is added to the formulation when it is produced. “Decaffinated” (as in decaf coffe/tea) indicates that the caffeine, which occurs naturaly in the bean/leaf, has been removed by some process. In a perfect world, the decaffination process would remove 100% of the caffeine, but, unfortunantly it does not. It generally removes about 97% of the caffeine. Hope this helps all of you Sprite drinkers out there!
PS–Be nice. Some of you are rude, on both sides of the pond….
…And the Award for BEST Posting on a message board populated largely by the delusional and/or ignorant, goes to…. ….
Bluepoint Vance!
Thanks Blue… You just made my day!
Interesting data. Just got the link and started reading the comments. I’ll take my chances. I think the human body has enough physical limitations (like fluid capacity) to take care of most of the consumption.
Gimme my Jolt Cola any day!
And, Johnny, I’m no Canadian, but as far as I’m concerned, one can NEVER pet too many beavers. :^)
Paul:
I love history as well but find it sad that you missed one piece of information:
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The atomic bomb came as a life-saver for the U.S., as odds were amounting against them. The Japanese, under the rein of their Emperor, were determined people that would fight to the very bitter end. Only a number of days before the end of the war, Russia joined the U.S. in the war in the Pacific and added leverage to the unconditional surrender of Japan.
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The japs didn’t want to fight to the bitter end. Shortly after the fall of Berlin they asked to surrender, but did not want to do it unconditionally. They wished to keep the Emporer in power instead of enacting a democratic government.
Bluepoint, you’re the best!
Justin, do me a favor and don’t judge America by the dipshits on Fox “News”. Fair and balanced my ass. Maybe balanced like an epileptic ice skater, but you get the point.
Same thing goes for the rest of you. We’re not all bigots and warmongers in America.
Anyway. I hear Budweiser makes a caffeinated beer, and I think there are a couple others around. Can we get some of those on this site? I’m wondering if I’d die of the alcohol or the caffeine first. My hunch is that the alcohol would get to me first, but you never know.
As a side note, Full Throttle’s only use is to be mixed 50/50 with cheap vodka. Both suck alone, but together they’ll keep you awake and drunk all night. And I’m sure if I tried, I’d die of the vodka way before the Full Throttle…
I’m happy to note that the comments seem to be trending toward literacy and sanity.
I’m American and I think for scientific purposes, the metric system is far more elegant.. the relationships between different measurements make the math so much easier. Believe me, I was quite glad to use metric for every physics problem in college. But for daily life, that kind of mathematical relationships are simply not all that relevant. Basically, the gains from switching to metric in day to day life are rather minimal, but the cost of the conversion itself is rather steep. It doesn’t matter how craptastic a measurement system is, when it’s what you’re used to it’s simply easier to stick with it. And then there’s the practical matter of replacing every screw, bolt, and highway sign in the country..
Maybe someone from a metric-speaking country could tell me: does anyone use decimeters in casual speech? I’ve never heard it done before, which confuses me because it seems like the closest metric unit to being on scale with a foot, which we use all the time, but we rarely use yards because they’re unnecessarily long and a meter is even longer.. Just a random thought.
Iraq vs Iran, etc.: Remember that Iraq had enough violations of treaties and UN resolutions, etc. (including the cease-fire that ended the previous war.. thus.. uh.. un-ceasing the fire) that invading Iraq was a legal war. Iran may well be a more worthy target strategically and/or morally for US aggression, but it was not and is not a legal target. We’ll see how things go, but I wonder if the US could muster the will to go into another war in the middleeast again so soon. Unless Iran actually nukes somebody, or at least launches a formal ground campaign (rather than the informal terror campaign they are currently running in Iraq) I doubt we’ll ever actually take them down. The truth is even Bush doesn’t appear to have the determination to follow the “war on terror” to its logical conclusion. Instead he’s toned it down to giving platitudes to the Iranians that actually seek a regime change by saying we “support” them.. with, uh, words. That’ll take down an oppressive Islamic regime for sure! No nukes can defend them from our awe inspiring words of solidarity. (In all fairness, they’re Bush’s words, so given Bush’s linguistic skills they may well get mangled enough to confuse Tehran into submission. Or something.)
And now, big finish:
No hating Canadians. Canadians are cool. After all, concider their latitude.
No hating Americans. Americans are a mixed up lot that defy any stereotype because we are just too heterogenous to describe. Feel free to hate any particular American on their own vices though.
No hating Europeans. It’s not their fault they aren’t Americans. After all, our wide open Southern border (that no politician dares close despite the fact that it would be an incredibly popular move) is too far away for them to get to. Besides that, Europeans are just as mixed up as us, maybe even more. After all they have more languages to cope with, and until recently more currencies.
No hating middleeasterners: Unless they’re terrorists. Most of them just want to stop getting killed and oppressed, and/or want to kill and oppress the world in a global Islamic state ruled by their favorite version of sharia. That they use terrorist networks to work toward this goal is simply a matter of the fact that sharia doesn’t get many votes in democratic societies. So it’s all our fault! Or something.
No hating Jews: It’s too passe.
No hating blacks: For your own safety.
No hating Mexicans: It’s not their fault Mexico isn’t nearly as nice a place to live as being a second class ‘citizen’ in the US, hiding from the law and being underpaid by greedy US businesses. It’s the fault of, you know, those people that rule in Mexico.. I think they’re called, oh yeah.. Mexicans. Or something.
No hating me: Because I said so.
Okay, now I think I’ve managed to piss off everyone and everything without resorting to bad grammar and/or l33t (until now! Mwa ha ha). But just to be sure.
No hating deities: it’s not their fault that everything they say gets twisted into excuses to kill people. I mean, it’s not like they are all knowing and knew that would happen. Or all powerful and have the power to prevent it. Or all loving and have the compassion to step in and clean up the mess. Or maybe they just like it this way?
No hating atheists: they descended from monkeys, what can you expect?
No hating agnostics: … I don’t know why though.
It’s okay to hate solipsists though.
If anyone is wondering why it’s okay to hate solipsists:
A solipsist is someone who believes he or she exists, but the rest of the universe is all in his or her own mind; no one else actually exists.
If someone is a solipsist, and is in fact correct in that belief.. that means that person is single mindedly responsible for everything that exists in the universe, good and bad.
Therefore, that person is responsible for both sides of the war on terror, AIDS, country music, l33t, John Kerry, George Bush, and all varieties of racism. And anything else you want to blame on them.. even your own personal failings in life that would, under other metaphysical belief systems and/or common sense, normally be considered undeniably your own fault.
So it’s okay to hate solipsists. Either for being so arrogant as to imagine that they are the sole entity with a true claim to sentience, or indeed existence.. or because everything bad in the universe is all their fault.
Minion of the Evil Empire
I think I love you only consider one thing:
hating agnostics, well they are atheists with a get out clause… reason enough for me
“wtf is buzz water? that stuff is crazy”
buzzwater
thats right a bottle of water containing 200 mg’s of caffine, bawls has only got 80.
go find somewhere else to fight. this one is for coffee lovers.
Tim…
if thats true then goddamn i want some buzzwater…know where to get any? 
Hi,
I think the hating is just a natural cause of too high caffeine consumption. We go all freaking nuts wuth the … just a moment had to take a sip of coffee before loosing my temper again
On a side note: It would be nice to have a function to calculate the amount of buzz-water needed to make cats do these stuff http://www.bruneistudent.com/board/blog/omfgwtf/index.php?cmd=showentry&eid=34&&st=20
Only the US and 2 countries in Africa use the English system of weights. The English – who invented the English measurements – are now using kilograms. Duh!
oh btw, a mission to Mars got destroyed because a bloke from NASA was actually thinking in “miles” when “kilometers” are needed for the calculation…
Anyone get the idea that most of the people who have posted to this thread are suffering from overdosing on caffeine?
Chill guys.
The unsettling suspicion is that the quality of grammar on this site may NOT be proportional to the intelligence of the authors…
A school system that graduates students with such limitations creates shoals of inept, frustrated citizens; if the results are both wide-spred and long-term, one can only conclude that the system is operating as it does deliberately.
Those responsible – from top to bottom; this is obvious, deliberate and indefensible treason – should be Garfielded.
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On behalf of all Canadians and Literate people everywhere – sincere apologies – the rest of us here are very friendly, good spellers, and tolerant of all measurements!
peace and brotherhood