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you're the tweaker who would prefer some fine cocaine, but will settle for some dirty draino-crank.

at least, that's me. i prefer good coffee but WILL DRINK stale, flavorless, super-cheap, pre-ground coffee from those ribbed aluminum cans with plastic lids. draino-crank.

You know, for this task you could have tried freebasing the grounds. did ya think of that? huh?

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I'm pretty sure that's just you... I could've also chosen to go directly for the sketchy pot of coffee at school available to grad students (for a very small fee). I do have *some* standards. Fresh, decent-quality coffee is a must, even if it's not perfect. Freebasing the grounds... um, no thank you. I'd have considered chocolate espresso beans if I'd been able to easily obtain them, however (hey, the coffee was right there!)

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eh, i suspect my super-low standards for das kaffee come from working at the university. I could pay for something decent, or drink that sketchy pot of coffee at school available to grad students for free. i take whatever i can get- the sign of a true fiend.

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Yes! Yes, I have terribly low coffee standards and LOVE them! It allows me to be an all-terrain coffee consumer, drinking that sweet, dark manna from nearly every location and receptacle!

However, I have not tried freebasing.

Yet.

Hmmm....

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Let this be a warning to all coffee drinkers and caffeine addicts:
Caffeine allergies are a real and dangerous thing!

My whole life, I had been drinking Mountain Dew. It got really bad at a point where my job at a restaurant had me drinking around 3 glasses a day, and I'd go home to a few cans before sleep. My body was okay with this (as it is usually very tolerant of most things until....).
I quit that job. My mother left the house, and that meant the shopping was up to my father. After a heart attack and various health issues, buying something like Mountain Dew was out of the question. Understandable. I dealt with the withdrawal symptoms the following weeks, and it wasn't all that bad. But then I got another job at another restaurant, that served energy drinks as well as Mountain Dew. So a few weeks of that, and I was back to unstable energy levels throughout the day, and that wonderful buzz I had come to know and love.
And one morning, I noticed that my kidneys and my back were kinda sore.... And after that, I started feeling dizzy.
It took me about 3 days to figure out that Mountain Dew, my single source of caffeine and sugar, was causing the problem. Went to a doctor to see if I was a teenage diabetic, and since I wasn't, he said it "was something about the Mountain Dew" and told me to try a different pop. He didn't seem to know what he was talking about, so I ignored his advice and abstained from pop (oh wait, the rest of the world says 'soda' doesn't it?) altogether. I felt better after a few weeks (I was dealing with withdrawal symptoms all over again), and retold this story to a co-worker. That's when she told me she had a caffeine allergy, and that I probably have the same thing.
Googled it. Hm, dizzy spells, panic attacks!?, stomach pains (I'm guessing that the caffeine wasn't processed until it got to my kidneys, I drank so much of it), lack of attantion span. I wasn't absolutely sure (but scared shitless anyway -- there were studies of longterm ignorance to the allergy that included ADD and brain damage of sorts) until I ate an obscene amount of chocolate one day. When I sat up, there was the dizziness, and a (perhaps psychologically induced) panic attack.
Oops.
A lot of people with caffeine allergies noticed that they didn't have a problem with caffeine until they stopped regular usage and started up again. So if you're an addict, try to be moderate?

If it wasn't retro-tasking, I'd probably post this story as a task, because it was a rather defining point in my life.

Now I need to drop this essay addiction. :: grins ::

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I only ever drink water. Ever.

(unless I can get my hands on a delicious can of Milkis that is)