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(Some Guy) Cool Coffee prevents drain bamage. With bonusly random lolcat   (inquisitr.com) divider line 52
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Tprpa412 2009-01-25 01:34:07 PM  
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Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener [TotalFark] 2009-01-25 01:45:40 PM  
That's what I've been telling you all for years!!!

... right?

:-/

 
notmtwain [TotalFark] 2009-01-25 01:48:54 PM  
Happy to say that a five cup a day habit is finally paying off.

///Wish that it offset some of the other risk factors. Found a report by the quoted doctor on risk factors for and prevention of Alzheimer's Disease.(PDF)

 
BKITU [TotalFark] 2009-01-25 02:04:06 PM  
+1 for use of the perfectly cromulent word "bonusly"

 
Linger [TotalFark] 2009-01-25 02:59:19 PM  
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Stratigus64 2009-01-25 04:02:59 PM  
Caturday again? Feels like it just happened yesterday...

 
Espertron 2009-01-25 04:07:42 PM  
icanhascheezburger.wordpress.com

 
Pus Gut 2009-01-25 04:10:00 PM  
Could it be maybe possibly Catunday?

 
bearded clamorer 2009-01-25 04:12:53 PM  
img1.picturewizard.com

Proof positive that Wilford Brimley had a love child with Eartha Kitt.

 
lajimi [TotalFark] 2009-01-25 04:15:29 PM  
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salsashark1 [TotalFark] 2009-01-25 04:20:23 PM  
We had a cat that LOVED coffee.

 
kid_icarus 2009-01-25 04:21:13 PM  
It seems the Caturday infection is starting to spread...soon it will consume the work week, and then what will we do?

 
Smeggy Smurf 2009-01-25 04:23:03 PM  
notmtwain: Happy to say that a five cup a day habit is finally paying off.

Wimp. I drain my 24 oz mug twice as well as downing a 24 oz. hyper caffeinated soda by noon. Another couple cans of soda, some black tea and another one of those super sodas and I'm ready to go to bed.

/you're only an addict if you try to stop

 
Sarah Jessica Farker [recently expired TotalFark] 2009-01-25 04:24:22 PM  
icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com

 
BBriguy98 2009-01-25 04:25:38 PM  
Your brain may stay intact, but your heart will give out.

/Moderation

 
lajimi [TotalFark] 2009-01-25 04:25:40 PM  
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sonder [TotalFark] 2009-01-25 04:25:48 PM  
Junk science. Correlation does not equal causation.

 
Sarah Jessica Farker [recently expired TotalFark] 2009-01-25 04:26:42 PM  
icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com

 
just_dis_guy 2009-01-25 04:38:20 PM  
My brain certainly wants coffee

/seriously, it will shut down and start hurting in no uncertain terms if I don't go through the proper morning start-up procedure
//did something wrong yesterday, not sure what, but had a migraine for 24+ hours straight

 
JonnyBGoode 2009-01-25 04:41:07 PM  
That reminds me, time for another cup.

/And then maybe a toke, I heard weed prevents Alzheimers too...

 
lajimi [TotalFark] 2009-01-25 04:42:11 PM  
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pchancharl 2009-01-25 04:42:19 PM  
Sonder Junk science. Correlation does not equal causation.

You're a farking retard. It is near impossible to control for every variable in a life style longitudinal study on health. This is why for years the tobacco lobby spouted off that bullshiat, "There is no PROOF that smoking kills you." No, just a ton of evidence. In the case of the article, they even provide a way in which caffeine may have an effect on the bloodstream, which points the way for further research.

I'd like to personally pound in the face of every jingoist asstard that mindlessly spouts this correlation =/= causation nonsense. The entire foundation of statistics is to find correlative patterns, and while it does not always mean causation, it sometimes does.

/statistician

 
Mr. Coffee Nerves [TotalFark] 2009-01-25 04:42:20 PM  
Remember, kids. No more than a gallon a day.

 
Linger [TotalFark] 2009-01-25 04:43:19 PM  
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Militant Moderate [recently expired TotalFark] 2009-01-25 04:44:32 PM  
pchancharl: jingoist

I don't think that word means what you think it means.

 
Bohemian 2009-01-25 04:46:38 PM  
Glad to see more justification for my coffee habit.

 
pchancharl 2009-01-25 04:47:54 PM  
Militant Moderate I don't think that word means what you think it means.

Jingoism is defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as "extreme patriotism in the form of aggressive foreign policy".[1] In practice, it refers to the advocation of the use of threats or actual force against other countries in order to safeguard what they perceive as their country's national interests, and colloquially to excessive bias in judging one's own country as superior to others - an extreme type of nationalism.


Ah, I am an idiot. I suppose I thought it referred to someone who relied on memes and simple heuristic thought patterns rather than reasoned thought. Now that I think about it I want a new word for that.

Oh well.

 
Robert1966 [TotalFark] 2009-01-25 04:53:59 PM  
pchancharl: Militant Moderate I don't think that word means what you think it means.

Jingoism is defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as "extreme patriotism in the form of aggressive foreign policy".[1] In practice, it refers to the advocation of the use of threats or actual force against other countries in order to safeguard what they perceive as their country's national interests, and colloquially to excessive bias in judging one's own country as superior to others - an extreme type of nationalism.

Ah, I am an idiot. I suppose I thought it referred to someone who relied on memes and simple heuristic thought patterns rather than reasoned thought. Now that I think about it I want a new word for that.

Oh well.


The trouble is that the words have the same extension.

 
Militant Moderate [recently expired TotalFark] 2009-01-25 04:54:04 PM  
pchancharl: Now that I think about it I want a new word for that.

Hmm, how about "Republican"?

 
Sarcastica75 [TotalFark] 2009-01-25 05:00:46 PM  
I drink coffee because it helps me not feel hungry.

/thank goodness pasta is cheap.

 
sonder [TotalFark] 2009-01-25 05:02:05 PM  
It is near impossible to control for every variable in a life style longitudinal study on healthpchancharl: Sonder Junk science. Correlation does not equal causation.

You're a farking retard. It is near impossible to control for every variable in a life style longitudinal study on health. This is why for years the tobacco lobby spouted off that bullshiat, "There is no PROOF that smoking kills you." No, just a ton of evidence. In the case of the article, they even provide a way in which caffeine may have an effect on the bloodstream, which points the way for further research.

I'd like to personally pound in the face of every jingoist asstard that mindlessly spouts this correlation =/= causation nonsense. The entire foundation of statistics is to find correlative patterns, and while it does not always mean causation, it sometimes does.

/statistician


Just because there is a simple peripheral environmental commonality in a test group, you can't claim benbefit from that peripheral without a different test OF that peripheral.

What YOU are using is what we actual scientists call 'false logic.' A cat has four legs - ergo, all four-legged animals are cats.'

There is plainly no actual medical finding in this article. There's no basis, SCIENTIFICALLY to claim that coffee had an actual role in the mental longevity of the test subjects other than a common peripheral.

you know what ELSE was common? They all wore socks.

Go read Aristotle's essay on essence and accident and get back to me.

Assjack.

/Engineer

 
Glass Joe 2009-01-25 05:07:10 PM  
Sleep is overrated anyway.

 
Third Day Mark 2009-01-25 05:11:45 PM  
Bram bram bram I am.

/If they make me play Creed, I'm walkin'.

 
Miss Stein 2009-01-25 05:26:19 PM  
Coffee prevents drain bamage.

Explains a lot.

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Hendrix 2009-01-25 05:35:36 PM  
sonder: Junk science. Correlation does not equal causation.

Agreed.

It's funny how some simply just believe this (or many other) articles.

 
the_chief 2009-01-25 05:39:32 PM  
Nothing can be proven. One can only provide a preponderance of evidence.

 
TheMothership [TotalFark] 2009-01-25 06:47:08 PM  
pchancharl: I suppose I thought it referred to someone who relied on memes and simple heuristic thought patterns rather than reasoned thought. Now that I think about it I want a new word for that.

The problem is that "jingo" and "jingle" are too close together, so this confusion happens a lot. Google gives a few more hits for "jingleism" than "jinglism", so I'd go with that.

 
berylman 2009-01-25 06:47:25 PM  
If anything I doubt the caffeine is exerting a protective effect as high concentrations induce glutamate neurotoxicity. There are hundreds of unique molecules in coffee that could be doing something beneficial, but I suspect you would get the same benefit from decaf.

On a second thought, considering that caffeine also mimics adenine which is involved in diurnal gene regulation there might be something to it.

 
Terrified Asexual Forcemeat 2009-01-25 06:49:04 PM  
Me before my coffee:

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HoneyDog 2009-01-25 07:18:43 PM  
Study shows caffiene/hallucination connection (new window)

A recent study conducted by a team of researchers from the University of Durham, High intake of coffee, tea and caffeinated energy drinks could be linked to a greater tendency to hallucinate.

Step 1: drink a lot of coffee (or other caffiene product

Step 2: hallucinate

Step 3: voices in head tell you that you aren't senile

 
TooCheapToTF 2009-01-25 07:24:10 PM  
I'll weigh in on the correlation/causation conversation with this tidbit. A scientist went to a bar and observed the patrons carefully. He discovered that almost all of the patrons who were consuming grenadine became drunk or exhibited signs of intoxication. He then concluded that grenadine causes intoxication, because of the high correlation of grenadine consumption to intoxication.

 
assimilateur 2009-01-25 07:33:03 PM  
Coffee and cats? That's gonna be one horrible amalgamation of anti-funny. Hell, that was already demonstrated in the Boobies.

I tip my hat to you; I didn't know it was possible to suck so bad.

 
ThrobblefootSpectre 2009-01-25 07:45:00 PM  
TooCheapToTF: I'll weigh in on the correlation/causation conversation with this tidbit. A scientist went to a bar and observed the patrons carefully. He discovered that almost all of the patrons who were consuming grenadine became drunk or exhibited signs of intoxication. He then concluded that grenadine causes intoxication, because of the high correlation of grenadine consumption to intoxication.

And then the bartender said "Hey wait a minute. That's not a scientist."

Hahahahaha.

That joke sucked.

 
TooCheapToTF 2009-01-25 07:54:02 PM  
ThrobblefootSpectre: That joke sucked.

Wasn't really a joke. It was an example used to prove a point in a science class I took back in college. We all know grenadine is basically sugar water. Correlation != causation.

 
ThrobblefootSpectre 2009-01-25 08:09:34 PM  
TooCheapToTF: Wasn't really a joke. It was an example used to prove a point in a science class I took back in college. We all know grenadine is basically sugar water. Correlation != causation

:-) I was kidding.

(And I suspect that the team of doctoral medical researchers know the difference between correlation and cause)

 
modesto 2009-01-25 08:26:22 PM  
These epistemological musings are fascinating. Personally, I doubt the article because I have no reason to believe that it, coffee, or the brain truly exist in corporeal reality, since I can only be sure of the existence of my own sensory impressions. So that makes me smart, yeah?

 
signaljammer 2009-01-25 08:44:30 PM  
I'm with pchancharl. Perhaps he could be more politely expressed. It is absolutely necessary to employ statistical epidemiology in health matters. The human body is far too complex too hope to understand simply in terms of causal phenomenon. There could be multiple mechanisms in play here, so far as anyone knows.

//Correlation doesn't prove causation, true
//but often proof is an absurdly high standard to hope to meet,
//cybernetically speaking

 
Joan o' Fark 2009-01-25 08:46:20 PM  
modesto: These epistemological musings are fascinating. Personally, I doubt the article because I have no reason to believe that it, coffee, or the brain truly exist in corporeal reality, since I can only be sure of the existence of my own sensory impressions. So that makes me smart, yeah?

I'm a philosophy major so I'm really getting a kick out of this reply.

/yeah, yeah, I know
//would you like fries with that
///::sob::
////okay maybe not

 
modesto 2009-01-25 09:11:47 PM  
Joan o' Fark:

//would you like fries with that
///::sob::
////okay maybe not



Cheer up. You can always make another horrible life choice and go to law school like I did.

 
CarkinNormal 2009-01-25 09:25:25 PM  
And acid reflux disease prevents me from drinking coffee. Looks like i'll be losing my mind any day now!

 
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