106 points

It’s actually 10 hours of quarter-assed energy, because it only speeds up your metabolism half as much.

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The correct answer is that it gives you 3.5 hours at 70% of the energy boost.

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53 points
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pick a side you spineless fencesitter

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5 points

It’s this one here, Jedi sir.

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63 points

So quirky! Did they pull out their sp0rks and duel???

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22 points

Oh no, it’s t3h PeNgU1N oF d00m.

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10 points

We are so quirky, even the people in the improve show thought we were soooo random. Some people said we should be on stage because of how random and quirky our conversations are.

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7 points

Is a spork a spoon with an added fork, or is it a fork with an added spoon?

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16 points

Spoon with fork properties. A fork with spoon properties would require adding material back in, whereas the former is just removing a bit of material to create the prongs.

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Caffeine has a half-life in the human body of approximately 4-6 hours. So this means that the “5 hours” in 5hr Energy is just the amount of time it takes for your body to process half the caffeine away.

Therefore drinking half of a 5hr Energy would be 0 hours of the advertised level of energy. At best it would be like drinking a 5hr Energy and then immediately fast-forwarding 5 hours

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21 points

So 5 hours of half-assed energy

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2 points

Not even. I can’t speak for others but the effects of 5hr Energy pretty much disappear after those 5 hours are up. Half the caffeine dose isn’t enough to do much of anything, at least for me. So it’s essentially a waste. I’m sure it depends on things like BMI but to get 5hrs of half-assed energy you’d need to consume 3/4ths of a dose, which would leave you with roughly half the experience of a 5hr Energy (that is, half the difference between the caffeine in your system immediately after drinking one dose and 5hrs after drinking one)

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Except you’ve already had 5 hours of your body metabolizing caffeine, so the effects of the remaining half a dose after 5 hours aren’t nearly the same as if you took that half a dose after a night’s sleep and not having had any. Your body becomes accustomed to it. That’s how all drugs work. You can take 6 grams of mushrooms and it’ll definitely still be in your system after 6 hours, but the effects won’t be the same as taking 3 grams straight up, it will have almost entirely worn off despite the residual psilocybin in your body.

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4 points

It took me until your comment to realise I had skimmed over the word “half” in the OP. Now this whole thing makes sense.

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2 points

I’ve never taken a 5hr energy. Are they really just caffeine shots?

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15 points

Kinda. From the CVS website:

Vitamin B6, Vitamin B12, Vitamin B3 (Niacin), Citicoline, Tyrosine, Phenylalanine, Taurine, Malic Acid, Glucuronolactone, Caffeine. Other Ingredients: Purified Water; Natural and Artificial Flavors; Sucralose; Potassium Sorbate, Sodium Benzoate and EDTA.

So, Caffeine for sure. But the b-complex, and Taurine will also give you a boost, for entirely different reasons. Half this stuff is psuedo-scientific at best, and the rest just filler.

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1 point

5 hour energy drinks are not just caffeine, which is what sets them apart from other energy drinks. Vitamin B12 and shit like that.

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2 points

As far as I’m aware, unless you’re already B12 deficient, the B12 in 5hr Energy doesn’t do much of anything because it already hangs around in your blood stream for a long, long time. Half life on B12 in the body is something like 6 days and excess is even stored in the liver instead of excreted.

Can’t speak to the other ingredients but I’d guess it’s all the same: either it’s already available in abundance if you’re eating a decent diet, or the half life is close to that of caffeine

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29 points

How else can you pronounce egg?

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17 points

My Midwestern ex wife pronounced it “aig”

A long “a” sound. I’m a Southerner so for me it’s egg. With a eh sound.

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Ohh yeah, I have heard “aig” before. I didn’t even think of that as a different pronounciation, just an accent.

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8 points

I mean… That’s the same thing

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16 points

The 'G’s are pronounced like the G in GIF

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9 points

With a soft ‘g’

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16 points

You’re so eggy

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14 points

A total egglord.

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5 points

The first “g” is silent

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2 points

No. The second G is silent. What’s wrong with you?

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3 points

In New Zealand, it’s pronounced “ig”

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8 points

You know you’re pronouncing egg wrong when you have to spell it some other way.

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8 points

You mean like ‘edinbara’ or ‘middlesbra’? Or asthma where the ‘th’ might as well not even be there? Queue? Is it weird or is it wierd? Worstersher sauce? English is full of those, c’mon :p everything is pronounced wrong.

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2 points

Ey

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1 point

Everyone I’ve come across from NZ says it like igg, so there’s that one, too. Aussies have a weird vowel to it that I hear at times, too.

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A person of culture I see. Thank you kind person.

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You could say “eygg” or “uurggs”. So many options.

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