Does coffee make you aggressive?

[Mary Ann]

I limit myself to two caffeine drinks a day as caffeine winds me up. It doesn't make me aggressive, but it makes me feel wound up and panicky. Before cutting back on caffeine I couldn't drink coffee at all some days because it would upset my stomach and give me a bad headache. Nowadays I drink mostly decaf and it doesn't bother me at all, so it was definitely the caffeine that was affecting me.

 

[Miss Chicken]

Maybe it's the refined sugar that is usually added she's talking about? Same for the coke. Coffee doesn't make me aggressive, but it makes me hyper, and if I drink more than one cup, it makes me nauseous. Sugar, makes me as high as a kite as well, then I crash afterwards, and I can feel quite moody.

Too much of anything is never good, all things in moderation and all that. I don't think there's any harm at all in a single cup of coffee every now and then. However, if you're on 6 cups a day, and you suffer from arthritis, you might want to look into that.

Very funny that your ill-humoured friend was accusing others of being unpleasant!

Even if coffee makes my arthritis worse (which I don't think it does), this is offset by the fact that drinking coffee certainly does lessen my asthma attacks.

 

[Canadave]

How much I drink in a day depends on how I feel (sometimes I just feel like drinking tea instead) but it's always at least one cup. Today is a 'lots of coffee' day. I've been awake for about 5 hours and I'm on my fourth cup. Plus I drink it twice as strong as people usually do so it technically counts as my seventh and eighth.

How do you drink it twice as strong? Unless we're talking double-shot espressos, here?

 

[JoeZhang]

I used to drink a lot of coffee when I was out of shape and not getting enough sleep - now I've fixed both of those problems, I might have a couple of cups a day.

 

[Sector 7]

Does coffee make me aggressive?

None of your business, asshole!

No, it doesn't!! Now shut the hell up!!

Seriously, I drink a cup with breakfast and a cup with dinner. It is best not to enter into Sector 7 territory prior to that first cup of coffee!

I have fibromyalgia, so caffeine brings my energy level to almost normal. Without it I am rather sluggish throughout the day, a victim of Fibro Fog. 5 Hour Energy Shot also helps on occasion.

 

[ElBurro]

How much I drink in a day depends on how I feel (sometimes I just feel like drinking tea instead) but it's always at least one cup. Today is a 'lots of coffee' day. I've been awake for about 5 hours and I'm on my fourth cup. Plus I drink it twice as strong as people usually do so it technically counts as my seventh and eighth.

How do you drink it twice as strong? Unless we're talking double-shot espressos, here?

I usually drink instant and most people I know only put one spoonful of coffee in, or 2 if it's a larger cup. I put 2-2 1/2 in, 4 or 5 for a larger cup. If I'm making proper coffee, I put in twice as much as they say on the packet. I once made a single cup of instant coffee that was so strong, my mum in the next room shouted through and asked I had a coffee machine going in there!

 

[Miss Chicken]

I drink weak coffee and only use about 1/2 teaspoon of coffee per cup.

 

[Canadave]

How much I drink in a day depends on how I feel (sometimes I just feel like drinking tea instead) but it's always at least one cup. Today is a 'lots of coffee' day. I've been awake for about 5 hours and I'm on my fourth cup. Plus I drink it twice as strong as people usually do so it technically counts as my seventh and eighth.

How do you drink it twice as strong? Unless we're talking double-shot espressos, here?

I usually drink instant and most people I know only put one spoonful of coffee in, or 2 if it's a larger cup. I put 2-2 1/2 in, 4 or 5 for a larger cup. If I'm making proper coffee, I put in twice as much as they say on the packet. I once made a single cup of instant coffee that was so strong, my mum in the next room shouted through and asked I had a coffee machine going in there!

Instant coffee! *dies*

I guess I didn't think of that, though. I generally just like to enjoy the taste of my coffee, which is why I usually drink a black medium roast. To each their own, of course, but I don't expect I'll be adapting your coffee-habits any time soon.

Incidentally, after posting in this thread, I went out to my favourite coffee shop and had a nice cup.

 

[Miss Chicken]

Very funny that your ill-humoured friend was accusing others of being unpleasant!

Yes, I think she needs to exclude from her diet (or her life) whatever makes her so ill-humoured.

She got quite upset when I told her that people have offered me a seat on a crowded bus on quite a few occasions i.e. when I was pregnant, when I was carrying a young child, and even now. She says no-one has ever given her a seat and she catches buses as often, if not more often, then I do. I laughed and said people must think I look decrepit and take pity on me.

She was in a real bad mood during her last visit. She also got annoyed with me when I referred to my possessions as "all my shit".

 

[ElBurro]

How do you drink it twice as strong? Unless we're talking double-shot espressos, here?

I usually drink instant and most people I know only put one spoonful of coffee in, or 2 if it's a larger cup. I put 2-2 1/2 in, 4 or 5 for a larger cup. If I'm making proper coffee, I put in twice as much as they say on the packet. I once made a single cup of instant coffee that was so strong, my mum in the next room shouted through and asked I had a coffee machine going in there!

Instant coffee! *dies*

I guess I didn't think of that, though. I generally just like to enjoy the taste of my coffee, which is why I usually drink a black medium roast. To each their own, of course, but I don't expect I'll be adapting your coffee-habits any time soon.

Incidentally, after posting in this thread, I went out to my favourite coffee shop and had a nice cup.

I know, I much prefer proper coffee over instant, it's just instant is quicker, easier and cheaper. I am drinking proper coffee at the moment though. Again, far too strong for most people. I don't think I'm going to sleep tonight

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Damn right coffee makes me aggressive. Why else would I drink it?

 

[Capn Flukie]

I get aggressive or moody when I don't get coffee

Same here. (Well, not really aggressive, just cranky.)

I'll super-size this sentiment.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

I think your friend has some ridiculous ideas about coffee!

Coffee makes me poop.

Yes it's a great emetic.

You mean laxative, right? Or does coffee really make you vomit?
I find the first is true, ad I read somewhere that it's because the caffeine relaxes the anal sphincter, though I don't remember where I read that, so I would't take it as gospel.

You're right, I don't know how I got those mixed up!

I have one plunger cup every morning if I'm out for the day, two if I'm at home on the weekend. They I have a few flat whites socially in a cafe. I'm not that keen on too much milk and started having long blacks instead but it was terribly difficult to get people to make those correctly and I couldn't deal with the russian roulette of what the thing would taste like.

 

[Canadave]

^ I do love a good latte on occasion.

 

[Sector 7]

Instant coffee! *dies*...

I know, I much prefer proper coffee over instant, it's just instant is quicker, easier and cheaper. I am drinking proper coffee at the moment though. Again, far too strong for most people. I don't think I'm going to sleep tonight

I only drink a cup in morning and dinner time. I brew a pot of coffee, let it cool, then pour it into a 64 oz. juice bottle and refrigerate. I pour one cup into my favorite stoneware mug, hit the Beverage button on the microwave and voila! a fresh-brewed cup of instant coffee... I know the coffee purists may not like it, but it is a reasonable alternative to instant coffee... and much more affordable.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

^ I do love a good latte on occasion.

That's what I used to drink but I don't like foam and I don't like never knowing if the foam will be 2 inches thick and seriously reducing the amount of coffee I get. Mind you half the time the flat whites are thick with foam too so I've started asking for a flat white with no foam. I'm a real coffee nazi and a pain in the ass to my local baristas. What I really expect from a cafe is consistency. If it's always weak, fine, I'll order a double shot. I just hate when every single person makes it differently so you can't even tweak it. I now only drink coffee in one cafe regularly and I have figured out the 4 different barista's styles and I order based on who is making it. I always ask for it "hot" because of the tendency towards tepid. One of the newer baristas tried lecturing on how in Europe the coffee is drunk tepid so you can drink it down real quickly. Sorry darling, I do not care one whit how anyone else drinks it or how my wanting it hot is incorrect, make it HOT damnit. Oh and don't burn the coffee of scald the milk, there's a good dear.

Like I said, I'm a coffee nazi.

 

[iguana_tonante]

I'm more prone to get into a debate, over anything if I don't get caffeine. I mean, I'll argue whether or not blue is the proper color for the classroom walls at my community college.

This is what I do when I am in a good mood. When I'm coffee-deprived, I just snarl at people.

One of the newer baristas tried lecturing on how in Europe the coffee is drunk tepid so you can drink it down real quickly. Sorry darling, I do not care one whit how anyone else drinks it or how my wanting it hot is incorrect, make it HOT damnit.

That barista was also full of shit, because: a) there isn't one "European" way of drinking coffee (Continental coffee, Italian espresso and Greek coffee are completely different, for example), and b) most place I've visited in Europe served their coffee quite hot, if not scorching.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

The Italian guy doing the vegie delivery at the cafe got into a discussion with another barista about coffee hotness and he said it "was not coffee unless it is luke warm" because that is how his grandmother made it and that is how all the Italians he knows makes it. It could possibly be one of those tastes that developed among an immigrant community that then becomes welded to people's ideas of what a particular culture eats/drinks when in fact either it is something that developed in the new country or something that that existed back in grandma's day in the old country only no one ever got the memo that this isn't the case any more. The latter I know is a fairly common experience with food, mores, traditions.

 

[Lookingglassman]

I dont like coffee.

 

[TorontoTrekker]

I only get coffee-related crankiness when someone at work has taken the last cup and not made a fresh pot, in contravention of the sign that was posted above the machine last year.

I actually had to teach someone how to make it a week or so ago, because he took the last cup and walked away, and when I called him on it he used that as his excuse.

It's not rocket surgery, people!

I once commented to a former colleague that I found it annoying to constantly be walking into the lunchroom and finding the pot empty, and having to wait five minutes while a fresh batch brewed. She said, "That's because everybody wants it fresh, fresh, fresh, fresh, fresh." (She had an odd mode of expression. Imagine that in a thick Russian accent.) My response was, "That's nice. When I want coffee, I want it now, now, now, now, now."

I also get a little annoyed at my local Starbucks when I'm stuck in line behind a bunch of people who a) don't know what they want, or b) want to use a gift card/credit card/debit card to pay for their $2 cup of coffee, and I end up missing my bus because they can't be bothered to carry a toonie.

But once I get my coffee, I'm fine. It's just the process of obtaining it that stresses me out.