Accents are a huge area of study in the field of linguistics. In England a few decades ago, Trevor Goddard, a news presenter on the BBC was considered by many to have the best speaking voice and most English accent. The problem was Goddard was born in the West Indies.
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I was told a coffee in Tokyo was $16 US, and that was nearly 40 years ago! Better be a bottomless cup for that amount. But it probably was just an ordinary cup size, may have been at an airport.
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Scotty wants to know, how many pelicans go there?
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So good! And so true 
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Taxpayer funds for 64 Manus Island prisoner refugees have gone missing ( thatâs a lot of $), presently untraceable owing to Morrisson era untendered contracts fed to companies with non existent experience/enterprise in that field or any. Mates with jobs making out big time and local pollies and their kids skimming cream. ALP retaining secrecy over contracts - a thousand poisoned chalices, convenient darkness, incoming ICAC dry powder?
Why be in govt if you canât exploit misery for profit?
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Look at you elitist fancy pants eating ramen. Whatâs wrong with two minute noodles?
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Iâm questioning your qualifications for being a moderator on this site now.
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Nice aroma but I donât drink it for the taste.
No wonder you are hyper-active
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Most days it is only one, 2 at most.
Trivia. After oil, coffee is the worldâs largest traded commodity. A small frost in Brazil can send consumer prices through the roof. (Like a butterflyâs wings effects).
That includes instant coffee , which is the main focus of Brazil
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There are other reasons but yes Iâm up and down and caffeine accentuates that âŚâŚI love the smell and taste of coffee - completely addicted
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hence âsht liteâ
not as sht, but still sht
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Devilâs advocates contributing to the discourse , not shifting the goal posts to force others to work from anotherâs agenda.
#betterthingsarentpossible
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You do know that six coffees each day will kill you. Australian researchers found that drinking six or more coffees a day increases a personâs risk of heart disease by as much as 22%.
The caffeine in coffee gives it diuretic effects, meaning it causes your body to pass more urine, same effect as being on BBlitz every day.
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Lol
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Yes I get it. But Iâd give them more than a year. More like ALP=Sh.it LNP=Iredeemably Corrupt Nutjob Religious Craven Wacko Cooker Carnts
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Guardian today
Coffee and tea lovers are significantly less likely to be frail in their 70s, according to a study that followed 12,000 people over 20 years
Tue 24 Oct 2023 02.49 AEDT
Name: Caffeine.
Age: Letâs say 1,173 years, because the nicest story about its discovery involves an Ethiopian goatherd named Kaldi who, circa 850, noticed increased activity in his goats after they had eaten coffee beans.
Because caffeine is a drug? Yes, a central nervous system stimulant of the methylxanthine class. Itâs found in coffee, but also in black and green tea, cocoa and â less naturally â energy drinks.
And drugs are bad, right? Just say no! Well, yes and no. Or not always. A new study has found that drinking coffee or tea in middle age can make you stronger in old age.
Yeah, right. A study of 11 people, carried out by baristas and commissioned by Starbucks? Actually, a study of 12,000 participants by a team from the National University of Singapore (NUS) over 20 years. It was published in the Journal of the American Directors Association.
I love that magazine! Sounds legit. How did the study work? Participants were interviewed in midlife (the average age was 53) about their caffeine intake, then again at an average age of 73, when they were asked: do you feel full of energy?
And the coffee drinkers were, er, full of beans? Well, yes. Also, their weight was recorded and their hand-grip measured. They did a Tug test, too.
Veterans tug-of-war! Cool! No, thatâs a timed up-and-go test, in which a person gets out of a chair and walks to a point a few metres away in order to assess their mobility and balance.
And the caffeine addicts were there in a flash? No one is talking about caffeine addicts. Of the coffee drinkers, 52.9% drank one cup a day, 42.2% two to three cups and 4.9% four or more. The 4.9% were found to have significantly reduced odds of physical frailty in later life, compared with the ones who didnât drink coffee daily. Small caveat âŚ
⌠or should that be cafe-at? No. Prof Koh Woon Puay of the NUSâs Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine said: âFurther studies are still needed ⌠to investigate if these effects on physical frailty are mediated by caffeine or other chemical compounds.â
Presumably there have been other studies of caffeine? So, so many. It is associated with positive effects (heart health, decreased stroke risk,improved physical performance) as well as negative ones (digestive issues, anxiety and possibly addiction).
One minute itâs good for you, the next itâs bad. See also red wine, chocolate, beer. In general, it seems that, in moderation, caffeine is fine and may do you some good.
Do say: âDouble espresso, please. The name? Supergran!â
Donât say: âYouâd have the jitters, too, if you hadnât slept for a week.â
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Off for an espresso and a tug test
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