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I decaffeinate myself about once/year - but I taper off over a period of 8-10 days. For the purposes of this, had I not decaffeinated I'd suffer a most distressing headache. It could readily compound other symptoms from other causes.
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Severe headache is the brain's revenge for depriving it of caffeine! 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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And where's the Designated Survivor when you need one !
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: I decaffeinate myself about once/year
Just curious, if you know caffeine is terrible for you, why not just stay off of it?
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Answering for Balboos, even though I share the same reasons. 
because I am addicted to caffeine and it is my last vice. I gave up tobacco and alcohol a long time ago.
If I give up caffeine, then all I have is water, and that is no reason to keep on living. 
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Slacker007 wrote: water, and that is no reason to keep on living.
Or, it's the only reason for living.
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Slacker007 wrote: because I am addicted to caffeine
It is the world's most popular legal drug.
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First, it is not terrible for you. Not why I drink it, but it is now essentially proven to prevent prostate cancer. Rather Unterrible.
And I like how it tastes.
And I like getting lit in the morning, when I'm already at max attention, to take advantage of the caffeine-makes-you-smarter (temporarily) effect: magic coding powers ensue (until about 1:00 PM or so).
A saying I made up some years ago: "Sometimes you just need better vices" and this one is really better than most (along with single malt scotch).
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: it is not terrible for you
That's your opinion and I allow it. Not sure why you think being addicted to a drug is not terrible for you.
W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: how it tastes.
How does caffeine taste? Maybe you meant coffee? Caffeine has a bitter taste.
W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: it is now essentially proven to prevent prostate cancer.
Nope. You mean coffee? I think your whole response might be around coffee which is not what I had said. Regardless, tomatoes also help prevent prostate cancer. So, why choose an addictive drug over a vegetable?
I can also lose weight by cutting off my leg. Doesn't make it a good idea.
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Now that you mnention it, it suddenly occurs to me that after we were sent to our home offices about seven weeks ago, I haven't used my coffee machine even once!
At the office, I might drink at least one liter, sometimes two, during a normal working day. At home, I usually stick to tea (black, strong - usually Lapsang Suchong). I really was expecting that I would be brewing a lot of coffee for the home office, but that hasn't happened.
It certainly is not that my Home Coffee is any lower quality - quite to the contrary! From a rational point of view, you would expect a huge increase in my coffee budget, especially now that I am out of Lapsang Suchong and my tea provider is corona closed. It just hasn't happened. I might employ some researcers to try to find out why.
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Member 7989122 wrote: Lapsang Suchong
In the world of tea, it doesn't get any better than that!
Some good Loong-Jing, if in the mood for green tea, but in some ways (for what I can afford, at least) it would just be settling.
I wonder if my taste for Single Malt Scotch is related to Lapsang Suchong being my favorite tea, or is it the other way around?
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OriginalGriff wrote: Noticed today that my fingers looked thinner than normal, and my wedding ring slid off very easily.
So, I weighed myself. Last time I did that was 24th April (before I got this) and I registered as 74.4Kg. Today ... 69.5Kg - Five kilos in under two weeks.
Pneumonia certainly does that to you.
I had pneumonia three years ago.
Mycoplasma is considered a mild form, but I lost ten kg. And my stamina was gone for half a year.
OriginalGriff wrote: today's Surprise symptom is "Thick, solid, dark brown mucus" which if it continues is going to need a call to the doctor
No, do call the doc tomorrow. If you believe it's blood, it's bad!
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Jesus .. ain't no point being big & tough & in a pine box .. please call the Dr..the NHS isn't that bad
take care
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But at least Immanuel tried.
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Immanuel Kant was a real pissant who was very rarely stable! 
I've got it from the most reliable source! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
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Socrates himself is particularly missed. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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To "miss" a guy, is that when he has a sex change operation?
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Member 7989122 wrote: To "miss" a guy, is that when he has a sex change operation?
No, it's when he has a failed sex change operation.
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There was this novel, "Hole in the mattress" by Mr. Completely. I never read it. Anyway, that might be sidetracking.
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A lovely little thinker but a bugger when he's pissed.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Haha
My oldest son asked me to tell him what the band was that I played to him ages ago.
After many questions it appears to have originated from your sound of the week as he said that It came from that freak from my forum.
I searched and searched on Code Project and just couldn't find it. Searched heaps.
Then I went to Google and typed "Dark Psytrance Sander codeproject".
Found it immediately.
Back in 21 November 2019. It was OxiDaski Thikhai Thikhai.
I don't always respond about your posts about the sound of the week, but I nearly always love your SOTW.
What I like about it is that it gives me a window to bands and sounds that I would otherwise never get a chance to hear.
So Thanks. I love it.
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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grralph1 wrote: that freak from my forum.
You are now a household name, Sander 
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And thou shalt speak my name at the dinner table.
And thou shalt say, "Sander's sound is that of the week, by which all other sounds will be judged from hereon forward."
And thou shalt raise thy hands up in the air and thank me.
Such is the ritual to praise and honor my name.
So sayeth the holy scriptures of Sander Rossel
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grralph1 wrote: that freak from my forum
What a lovely boy you have 
grralph1 wrote: Back in 21 November 2019. It was OxiDaski Thikhai Thikhai.
A good one!
What your son lacks in manners he makes up in taste 
grralph1 wrote: I nearly always love your SOTW
That's awesome to hear!
I do it to educate people and hopefully support some artists I really like.
grralph1 wrote: What I like about it is that it gives me a window to bands and sounds that I would otherwise never get a chance to hear.
This.
Some weeks I get zero response, but other people have told me they check it almost weekly too, so that's why I keep doing it.
Other times I get quite a bit of response.
I love to hear from others about their favorite songs too.
Some SOTWs started as a comment on a previous SOTW.
Others don't make it to SOTW, but still get plenty of playtime.
grralph1 wrote: So Thanks. I love it.
You're Welcome[^]
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The word freak is used here as a word of endearment and indicates that a person has some quality that is to be admired. It is often used to foster the admired quality.
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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