The Low-level arsenic poisoning might actually have an “invigorating” effect. Farmers in the Austrian Alps used to deliberately ingest small amounts of arsenic for its stimulant properties.

I don’t think this stuff ever made it to Europe, but one of our professors once handed out some Olestra pringles he brought from America during in a lecture.
I remember reading that exact warning label and going “Ok, who the hell eats Pringles for the vitamins?”

You’re mixing up actual “tastes” (which are mediated by receptors in the taste buds) with stuff like capsaicin-hotness and menthol-coolness which are detected by the trigeminal nerve in your face.

Although if I recall correctly, the fat substitute Olestra (is that even still on the market? I remember it giving people massive diarrhea) was actually made by sticking fatty acids on a sucrose molecule, so you were ever so slightly right in that regard ;)

Cool, I have a master’s in food science and back then they told us that there was “some” evidence that metallic tastes may originate from fatty acids oxidized by the metal ions rather than the ions themselves.... so does that mean that in the meantime, others were able to replicate the results of this study?

It’s kind of bizarre though that the withdrawal would feel different, as the active ingredient (D-amphetamine) in both is the same - it’s just that Vyvanse is a prodrug consisting of pure D-amphetamine with lysine attached to it, rendering it inactive before it is procesed in the liver, whereas Adderall is 75%…

Ironically, doing a thesis on nutritional psychology helped push me into prescription drug addiction and back into depression, simply because all this combing through the results with SPSS to find something - anything - of significance and coming up with some far-fetched conclusion basically made me feel like a fraud.

Concerta is basically just a really fancy extended-release pill containing Ritalin, similar to Ritalin SR and LA. Focalin is a “purer” form of Ritalin (but it isn’t actually stronger, because the dosages are only half as much).

Likewise, Vyvanse is just a non-snortable version of (dextro-)amphetamine (the amphetamine…

Adderal has a cap concerning its effectiveness. Above the prescribed amount doesn’t do much more as your brain only has so much serotonin and receptors for it, it can’t just make it pop out of thin air.

One could make the argument that an army still commanded by Sunni generals might sooner or later have attempted a coup d’état against a government elected by mostly Shi’ite population (and thus overwhelmingly composed of Shi’ites) once the American forces were gone, although that’s probably giving the 2003 American…

Well, the website’s name, “IS’ NICH’ WAHR” literally is German for “AIN’T TRUE”, so...
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(and yes, I am aware that in this context it means “you’re kidding me, right?”)

Heh, I actually recall this song receiving some heavy airplay on Austria’s state-owned radio, Ö3 (unfortunately, that isn’t a heavy metal umlaut :( ) back in the Mid 90s.

I assume hey were going for

I went through a phase of prescription drug addiction and severe depression, during which I said some things that haunt me to this day.

Still, when I played “Dear Esther”, and my character was narrating about how he was “cramming Diazepam like he’d used to cram for chemistry exams” my reaction wasn’t to feel…

This post might actually justify the existence of Season 2 of True Detective.
Unfortunately, I can only star it, although it probably deserves a freaking Quasar.

Yeah, that line threw me off too. “Contingent”? Who the fuck talks like that? Dawson’s Creek had more believable dialogue than this.

Onanie/Onanism is derived from Onan? You don’t say!
But no, it is fairly unlikely that the Japanese got it from the Christians - after a Catholic rebellion in the early 17th century, Japan further amplified their xenophobic and isolationist policies, and Christians were driven underground. The term “Kakure Kurishtan”…

It’s most likely derived from the related German word, “Onanie”.

Onanii?
I’m assuming that’s derived from the German “Onanie”.
Japanese actually has a bunch of German loanwords, such as “arubaito” (“Arbeit”).

YUKKIII?