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1st Cup Of Coffee: Hardening Your Arteries

Posted by Hemos on from the caffiene-is-gud! dept.

mikewhittaker writes "A recent article on The Times refer to a report which indicates that the intake of caffeine from a single coffee can have adverse effects on your arteries and heart." Actually, it goes so far to say that the first cup of coffee is the worst. Of course, basically, anything you do is bad for at some level, so I guess it's choosing your poisons.

16 of 304 comments (clear)

  1. wheee by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    wheee bee wha beee qweee ka lame

  2. uuuhhhh.... by TheQuantumShift · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    slow day?

    --

    Shift happens. Fire it up.
  3. Re:shit is a fuck? by Leimy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Really?

    That's interesting... hmmm I will have to think about that and get back to you...

  4. Re:Feline poop? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Speaking of feline poop, my 17 year old cat just took a poop at my front door (inside the house). I think it's some sort of passive agressive protest over not being allowed to eat our other cats' food.

  5. Re:oh well by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Anyone know how to get the Shell car wash (or any automated car wash) to wash your car for free? Give us the code!

  6. Re:oh well by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Type in 'Windows CE programmers are weenies' backwards into the keypad.

  7. Fix this! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hi Richard
    Hi Eric
    You wanna go for a ride?
    Sure Richard.
    Jump In...

    Im a commie boy, in a commie world
    Life in plastic, its fantastic.
    you can read my source, compile it everywhere.
    Imagination, that is your creation.

    Come on Richard, lets go party!

    Im a commie boy, in a commie world
    Life in plastic, its fantastic.
    you can see my source, distibute everywhere.
    Imagination, that is your creation.

    Im a bearded hippie, in a fantasy world,
    Dress me up, make it tight, Im your dolly.
    Youre my doll, rocknroll, feel the glamouring thing,
    kiss me here, touch me there, hanky panky.
    You can touch, you can play, if you say: "Im open source"
    uu-oooh....

    Im a commie boy, in a commie world
    Life in plastic, its fantastic.
    you can have my code, make it 'free software'.
    Imagination, that is your creation.

    Come on Richard, lets go party!
    (Repeated 4 times)

    Make me walk, make me talk, do whatever you please,
    I can act like a star, I can beg on my knees.
    Come jump in, be my friend, let us do it again,
    fix some bugs, fool around, lets go party
    You can touch, you can play, if you say: "Im open source"
    You can touch, you can play, if you say: "Im open source"

    Come on Richard, lets go party!
    (Repeated 4 times)

    Im a commie boy, in a commie world
    Life in plastic, its fantastic.
    you can brush my beard, undress me everywhere.
    Imagination, that is your creation.

    Im a commie boy, in a commie world
    Life in plastic, its fantastic.
    you can brush my beard, undress me everywhere.
    Imagination, that is your creation.

    Come on Richard, lets go party!
    (Repeated 4 times)

    Oh, Im having so much fun!
    Well Richard, we're just getting started.
    Oh, I love you Eric.

    1. Re:Fix this! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      At a guess I'd say the author was making an surreal protest against the slashdot moderation system whereby a post making a really obvious joke gets modded as +5 funny, whereas an intelligent posting which criticises Linux gets a -1 troll. Meanwhile, we all know that almost everyone browses at -1, trolls notwithstanding, so what is the point of moderation anyway ?

      But thats just my opinion, you would have to speak to the poster to find out the truth, and judging by that post, you won't get much sense out of him or her.

  8. Re:oh well by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yes, what you do is leave your car there till it starts raining.

  9. Re:oh well by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I know there is a code like that I just can't remeber it right now

  10. Free Shell Car Wash Codez by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Someone post a link!@#!@

  11. Re:Easy fix by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    the first cup of coffee is the worst

    Too late for me, then. I had my first cup of coffee years ago.

    Anonymous cowards would insert a rim shot here, but it might not get past the filters.

  12. Re:dont many german toilets... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    At first I had no idea what you are talking about, "Scheißplatz" is not a German word. I think you mean the way that the feces don't land directly in the water, but are only flushed later. When I was in the US, the first thing I noticed is that all toilets (at least in SF) are filled very high with water, some so high that your schlong is almost swimming in water filled with your urine and feces. Worse, when you shit, the water splashes up against your butt. Ewwwwww! You call that hygienic? That's just gross. It was such a nightmare that I avoided to go to the toilet too often. I'll look at my own shit any day if it prevents me from feeling the cold splash of urine-water against my butt. (Besides, I see more dogshit on the streets every day than I see in my toilet. It's incredible.)

    The only reason I can see for this are costs: Because of the high water level in the toilet, you don't have to clean it regularly, so it's cheap & easy for restaurants, hotels etc. to use the high water level method. But hygeniacally speaking, I would not be surprised if a study found this kind of toilet causing a variety of diseases, because you are in much more direct contact with your own excrements, and, in case of a public toilet, those of the people that used it previously. It's also a huge waste of water.

    Oh well, watch me get moderated to hell for talking about a taboo topic.

  13. Re:Easy fix by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    "THIS JUST IN - THING PEOPLE ENJOY IS ACTUALLY BAD FOR YOU"

    I'm reminded of the Dilbert strip where they decide to publish 'Generic News'

    Well, here it is: my first ever issue of Generic News. I can sell millions of these babies! - Let's see, Pope denounces war...Iran attacks Iraq...Iraq attacks Iran...Economic indicators mixed...Survey results show that people want more money...

    .

    .

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    .etc etc

  14. Re:My coffee experiences (coffee shits) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Some teacher, at some point during my extended schooling experience (Summa Cum Laude at Princeton, I'm a real fucking smarty-pants assman!), tolds mes that there is a PYLORIC SPHYNCTER inside your body. YOUR BODY, not MY BODIES! BODIES! ICY DEAD PEOPLE! AIM ME!

    Anyhoo, the pyloric sphyncter opens up and the shit falls out of your bottomass! Understanding? I do not know why this only hap[pens once! Sometimes it happens to me 30 or 40 times per minute! True story!

  15. Re:My coffee experiences (coffee shits) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Your sphincter mocks my teachers expressions of fear without containtmewnt!!! containtment !!! taintment!~!!