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    I've got a serious coke habit

    Up to 3 diet pepsis a day, 5 days a week, and still wanting more. What's the maximum number you can drink without suffering such effects from the caffeine as to be able to fly home without wings, or spend the whole of the night wide awake?

    #2
    Originally posted by KentPhilip View Post
    Up to 3 diet pepsis a day, 5 days a week, and still wanting more. What's the maximum number you can drink without suffering such effects from the caffeine as to be able to fly home without wings, or spend the whole of the night wide awake?
    "Jolt Cola" ftw!

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      #3
      I drink two cokes a day. It's an expensive habit unless you buy from the Pound shop where you can buy two cans for <drum roll> £1.

      They've also started selling tooth picks, those expensive hairy wire ones, 4 for £1.

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        #4
        I do a couple of 1.5L bottles of diet coke a week. I can't imagine what it's doing to my innards.
        While you're waiting, read the free novel we sent you. It's a Spanish story about a guy named 'Manual.'

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          #5
          Here is a list of all caffeine content in Milligrams to give you an idea.

          Health site says....
          Increasing the amount of caffeine you take in over 300 mg per day may give you "caffeine jitters." Larger amounts of caffeine may make you irritable, sleepless and may even trigger anxiety and cause diarrhea.

          Soft drinks
          Red Bull (8.2 oz) 80.0
          Jolt 71.2
          Pepsi One 55.5
          Mountain Dew 55.0
          Mountain Dew Code Red 55.0
          Diet Mountain Dew 55.0
          Kick Citrus 54.0
          Mellow Yellow 52.8
          Surge 51.0
          Tab 46.8
          Diet Coke 45.6
          Shasta Cola 44.4
          Shasta Cherry Cola 44.4
          Shasta Diet Cola 44.4
          RC Cola 43.0
          Diet RC 43.0
          Dr. Pepper 41.0
          Diet Dr. Pepper 41.0
          Diet Sunkist Orange 41.0
          Mr. Pibb 40.0
          Sugar-Free Mr. Pibb 40.0
          Red Flash 40.0
          Sunkist Orange 40.0
          Slim-Fast Cappuccino Delight Shake 40.0
          Ruby Red 39.0
          Storm 38.0
          Big Red 38.0
          Pepsi-Cola 37.5
          Pepsi Twist 37.5
          Diet Pepsi Jazz 37.5
          Diet Pepsi 36.0
          Wild Cherry Pepsi 38.0
          Diet Wild Cherry Pepsi 36.0
          Diet Pepsi Twist 36.0
          Aspen 36.0
          Coca-Cola Zero 35.0
          Coca-Cola Classic 34.0
          Cherry Coke 34.0
          Lemon Coke 34.0
          Vanilla Coke 34.0
          Diet Cherry Coke 34.0
          Snapple Flavored Teas (Reg. or Diet) 31.5
          Canada Dry Cola 30.0
          A&W Creme Soda 29.0
          Nestea Sweet Iced Tea 26.5
          Nestea Unsweetened Iced Tea 26.0
          Lipton Diet Green Tea with Citrus (16.9 oz) 23.0
          Barq's Root Beer 23.0
          A&W Diet Creme Soda 22.0
          Slim-Fast Chocolate Flavors 20.0
          Lipton Brisk, All Varieties 9
          Chocolate Milk (8 oz.) 4
          Canada Dry Diet Cola 1.2
          Diet Rite Cola 0
          Sprite 0
          7-Up 0
          Mug Root Beer 0
          Diet Barq's Root Beer 0
          Sundrop Orange 0
          Minute Maid Orange 0
          A&W Root Beer 0
          Slice 0
          Sierra Mist 0
          Yoo-Hoo 0
          Fresca 0


          Beverage (8-oz or as noted) milligrams

          Starbucks Grande Coffee (16 oz) 330
          Coffee, Drip 115-175
          Starbucks Grande Latte (16 oz) 150
          Dunkin' Donuts Coffee (16 oz) 143
          Coffee, Brewed 80-135
          McDonald's Coffee (small) 100
          Coffee, Espresso (2 ounces) 100
          Coffee, Instant 65-100
          Tea, iced 47
          Tea, brewed, imported brands (avg.) 60
          Tea, brewed, U.S. brands (avg.) 40
          Tea, instant 30
          Tea, green 15
          Hot cocoa 14
          Starbucks Grande Decaf Latte (16 oz) 13
          Chocolate Milk (8 oz) 5
          Coffee, Decaf, brewed 3-4
          Coffee, Decaf, instant 2-3
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            #6
            Originally posted by KentPhilip View Post
            Up to 3 diet pepsis a day, 5 days a week, and still wanting more. What's the maximum number you can drink without suffering such effects from the caffeine as to be able to fly home without wings, or spend the whole of the night wide awake?
            Unless you also more than 2 cups of filter coffee or red bulls per day as well then don't worry about getting the shakes. Worry instead about your teeth eroding due to the acid in the pepsi......
            "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

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              #7
              High-fructose corn syrup, benzoic sulfilimine, N-(L-α-Aspartyl)-L-phenylalanine,
              1-methyl ester, 1,6-Dichloro-1,6-dideoxy-β-D-fructofuranosyl-4-chloro-4-deoxy-α-D-galactopyranoside, Neohesperidin dihydrochalcone, (3S)-3-(3,3-Dimethylbutylamino)-4-[[(2S)-1-methoxy-1-oxo-3-phenylpropan-2-yl]amino]-4-oxobutanoic acid, sodium benzoate, phosphoric acid, Trisodium (4E)-5-oxo-1-(4-sulfonatophenyl)-4-[(4-sulfonatophenyl)hydrazono]-3-pyrazolecarboxylate, ....

              ...a cocktail fit for the warrior class contractor.
              If you think my attitude stinks, you should smell my fingers.

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                #8
                Someone did a line of coke on my desk after the staff party on Friday night...
                Don't ask Beaker. He's just another muppet.

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by SueEllen View Post
                  Unless you also more than 2 cups of filter coffee or red bulls per day as well then don't worry about getting the shakes. Worry instead about your teeth eroding due to the acid in the pepsi......
                  In my teens and early 20s I used to have 3 cans of coke, 3 bags of salt and vinegar crisps, along with a twix or 2 a day. With the odd pot noodle and real food. I was known as the girl with the cans of coke and crisps. Years later random people remember it

                  It didn't keep me awake at night but ruined my teeth; I now have about 12 fillings and two root canals. I then gave it all up, moved on to fresh orange juice which ruined my front teeth. I've spent a lot at the dentist.

                  I drink more than 2 cups of coffee 2 to 3 days a week. It does make me feel ill and anxious at times. Have to stop it.

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                    #10
                    Coke, Pepsi et al leech calcium from your bones if you drink it regularly.

                    HTH
                    Knock first as I might be balancing my chakras.

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