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Trad climber
pacific beach, ca
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Topic Author's Original Post - Nov 14, 2011 - 09:52am PT
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Just had my first experience with one of these yesterday, and I was seriously tweaking for around 8 hours.
What in the heck is in these things?
The lady that gave it to me said it is all natural, vitamins only.
Riiiiight. I didn't read ingredients before I drank, but inclined to believe there has to be a fair amount of caffeine in them.
She says she drinks a couple a day.
Whew! That stuff is potent, I can't imagine it is very healthy to drink these on a regular basis.
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Blitzo
Social climber
Earth
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Nov 14, 2011 - 09:53am PT
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They do absolutely nothing to me.
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Brian in SLC
Social climber
Salt Lake City, UT
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Nov 14, 2011 - 10:56am PT
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Gulped one down a couple of ski seasons ago, to help give me a post work boost for an early evening ski tour.
Felt like I was going to explode. Kinda scary. Heart really raced and my blood pressure felt like it really spiked.
Haven't tried one since.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Nov 14, 2011 - 11:25am PT
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If you have any degree of the genetic disorder phenylketonuria (PKU), the
inability to metabolize phenylalanine, one of those could really set you off.
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wildone
climber
Troy, MT
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Nov 14, 2011 - 11:29am PT
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I've heard it's 5000% of your vitamin B intake and at that level it acts as a boost.
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happiegrrrl
Trad climber
www.climbaddictdesigns.com
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Nov 14, 2011 - 11:50am PT
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I've heard people who find the *zing* much more than they were expecting, or even comfortable with, get used to those drinks and barely feel them after a while.
Not a good thing to be doing to one's body, I don't think. Never tried one, never will. I'm bad enough with my coffee.
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TwistedCrank
climber
Ideeho-dee-do-dah-day boom-chicka-boom-chicka-boom
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Nov 14, 2011 - 11:56am PT
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Fail.
You need something that will make your Willie into a William, as well as make you feel like you don't fit inside your skin like 5HE.
Big Cherry POW!
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strangeday
Trad climber
Brea ca.
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Nov 14, 2011 - 11:59am PT
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Its a pretty good hangover cure if used sparingly.
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Jingy
climber
Somewhere out there
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Nov 14, 2011 - 12:45pm PT
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Just goes to show people will buy anything.
Wes - Good story. She's tells herself that she is meeting Gods expectations but on the face of it it seems a little wrong to think this way.
Leave it to the devout to think of ways around GOD's word... Just goes to show that the whole thing is totally made up, and counts for nothing.
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the Fet
climber
Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La
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Nov 14, 2011 - 12:45pm PT
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So it either does nothing or wigs you out! Depending on your sensitivity to what's in it.
Probably the main active ingredient is caffeine.
It probably gives some people a Niacin flush. That's probably the biggest factor in wigging people out.
The other amino acids in it may do a little bit.
I think a lot of people who use this and energy drinks don't eat right or get enough sleep.
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TwistedCrank
climber
Ideeho-dee-do-dah-day boom-chicka-boom-chicka-boom
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Nov 14, 2011 - 12:52pm PT
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Hold it a sec Wes.
What was taken up the chute? Some 5 hour energy? Or some your Momo stud's prince William all jacked up on Extenze?
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Social climber
Retired to Appalachia
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Nov 14, 2011 - 12:54pm PT
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I've heard it's 5000% of your vitamin B intake and at that level it acts as a boost.
Unproven, as are most claims of energy drinks.
A regular cup of coffee is likely to give you more caffeine than an energy drink.
The alleged benefits of all of the other ingedients are also unproven and, in some cases, disproven by scientific studies.
But, hey, if you want to give all your money to Red Bull, that's your business. But I've a good deal for you on a bridge in Brooklyn...
Big Chief Tuh-Ah-Lum-Ne
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Nov 14, 2011 - 01:06pm PT
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I'm with Blitzo on this, except for the siezure part. That sh#t does absolutely nothing for me. I can go straight to sleep on it.
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Gunkie
Trad climber
East Coast US
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Nov 14, 2011 - 01:12pm PT
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Having never tried a 5-hour energy, what does it taste like? I mean, it's sold on the counter in the quickie mart at room temperature. Is it an unpleasant taste?
I worked at McD's for two years in HS (1979-1981). The garish motif of the place was designed to make it uncomfortable for people to linger too much beyond the end of their food ingestion, thereby freeing up sitting for the next gobbler. I wonder if 5-hour energy is just the internal garish motif for your body?
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Norwegian
Trad climber
Placerville, California
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Nov 14, 2011 - 01:28pm PT
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one time i drank that stuff
on the north side of the golden gate bridge
and by the time i'd ridden two wheels southbound
i'd begun to glow.
i parked my bike in the wartime bunker
and scampered down to Baker beach.
sifting my sweating feet thru
the sand amongst nude bathers
i forgave christ.
you know, for her sins.
now she's not so wretched.
i totally drunk-dialed christ.
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The Larry
climber
Moab, UT
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Nov 14, 2011 - 01:55pm PT
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My roommates won't let me take that stuff 'cause I won't shut the f*#k up.
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Jennie
Trad climber
Elk Creek, Idaho
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Nov 14, 2011 - 10:47pm PT
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One Mormon chick I know drinks decaf coffee and pops a vivarin in the morning and around 1pm. She thinks it pleases god that she does not partake in strong beverages. She also took it up the a*# and got married as a virgin in the temple.
Sheer fiction, Wes!
Submiting to sodomy or other bestial behavior gets her an excommunication slip...not a temple marriage. That myth about Mormon women has its roots in the Topanga Canyon pornography industry, not reality. I'm getting tired of hearing those fabrications broadcast by the perverts and bigots on this forum.
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The Larry
climber
Moab, UT
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Nov 14, 2011 - 11:54pm PT
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I've never seen any Mormon porn, but I know for a fact some Mormon girls will take it in the butt to save the cherry. Probably high on 5 hour energy.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Nov 15, 2011 - 12:07am PT
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there goes the neighborhood...
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Jennie
Trad climber
Elk Creek, Idaho
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Nov 15, 2011 - 12:18am PT
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No LDS woman in the 20th century has been excommunicated for losing virginity. Sodomy is another story.
A few early church leaders even called for death penalty for initiating or submitting to sodomy. Utah had the most severe anti sodomy laws in the U.S.
Mythfinders says this fable was precipitated by a pornography star and director known as Belladonna. Claiming to be raised in Utah and Mormon, and the daughter of a Mormon bishop, she did x-rated movies following this theme.
However, she was born in Biloxi, Mississippi and spent two of her teen years in Utah before moving on to the California pornography industry. Her or her father's name were never in LDS membership rolls.
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