I can describe this stuff with one single word…

YUCK!

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This goes out specifically to someone I love.
She knows who she is.

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I ran into this article on the Telegraph.co.uk, and found it interesting on several levels.

It states that people who drink three or more cups of coffee a day, deemed “high caffeine users,” are much more likely to hallucinate, as in hear voices or even see things that are “not there.”

Like what?  The article specifically cites “hearing voices or sensing the presence of the dead.”

The researchers conclude that caffeine could heighten the effect that stress has on the body, triggering these hallucinations.  But then they admit it may also be a case of people who are more prone to hallucinations could also be more stressed and therefore more likely to consume large amounts of caffeine.

In other words, they don’t know if it’s the caffeine that’s causing it, or if the caffeine consumption is just another symptom of what ails them.

What I find interesting is that the researchers simply assume that the voices aren’t really there.  How do they know that?

Maybe, just maybe, caffeine heightens some people’s psychic abilities.

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I’m putting this question to you, because to me – in all honesty – I can’t tell the difference.

Bleached, unbleached, or gold-plated permanent … none of them ever seemed to make my coffee taste any better or worse.

I think, personally, it’s all up to personal preference.  I have friends who swear up and down that the gold-plated reusable filters make a big difference, as they say that they can taste the paper.  I think it’s in their heads, planted there by clever marketing.

Personally I don’t like the reusable filters because it defeats the purpose of using a cone filter.  If I have to wash grounds out of a coffee making device, then I’m going to use a French press.  The only reason I use a drip filter instead is because it’s more convenient and far less mess.

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