Favorite Drink
 

I feel like posting this.

Water.

Generally orange juice, if it's a fine day some scotch to lay back and read.

Water also.

Coffee for me.

I'm a big coffee drinker, I also drink assorted teas from time to time. When I have it, fruit punch with apple juice also makes a great drink.

Strongbow :-D

ice tea..:P

water, iced tea and any fruit juice.

Plain old tap water is my staple but I'm not entirely sure it's my favourite drink: that might be a good hot cocoa.

That's my second favorite, hot cocoa. mmmm.. I need some right now at least.

hmm...beers also...my past time drinks..:D

Coffee used to be my bread and butter. Wake up, coffee, going to sleep, coffee, middle of the night, dreaming of coffee. I seriously lived off the stuff, and then one day, everything changed. Now I drink half a cup, and I twitch like a drug addict, run around in circles (again, no lie), and then in about an hour, I fall over and curl up into the fetal position for eight hours. I don't get it, at all.

Now, I would definitely have to say it's a, um, what are those bright red things with the little umbrellas and ... no seriously, I love water. And by water, I mean the kind that comes in the brown glass bottle, and the stuff outta the tap too.
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A cocktail? :/ But umm, that's a problem you have, I would consult a psychologist or a doctor.

Psychologists and psychiatrists are self-indulgent idiots. Their usefulness factor is right up there with lawyers. I respect anthropology, not psychology.

And doctors are getting paid to find something wrong with you. I don't trust a capitalist system doctor either.

So... I'll stay home.
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With my dad being a nurse practitioner and my sister being a psychologist, I can tell you that you have many misconceptions about the system.

No misconceptions. I don't blanket all doctors with being capitalist horndawgs, just a lot of them in the states. I know there's a lot that do it for really good reasons, but I miss my health care system in Canada, something they'll never have here for various reasons. As for psychiatry and psychology, that's just a personal opinion. I think they're all quacks. How do you suppose to tell me you know anything about me after an hour session of talking. Whereby you earn $300, and the patient walks away thinking they're even more messed up when they came in. Our society has become so microwave dinner that not only can't we take the time to make supper anymore, we can't even make decisions without having a therapist on hand to call.

I'd rather be crazy.
-m

Hear, hear! I'd rather be crazy, too.

Psychologists are not for "I'm soooo afraid of the dark... What should I do?" type problems. They are for more serious problems like schizophrenia or other mental problems that disrupt the way you live.

As for doctors. The system is so over loaded, most doctors would rather send you home because it would mean less work for them. Most get paid on a salary anyway, so they have no profit by lying to you about being sick. At least thats how it is in the US.

Alright to be fair, I should make a finer distinction between psychiatry and psychology. As for the system being overloaded, yes, that's one of the major problems with it - doctors spend more time fighting insurance companies here to get paid than they do treating patients. They need full time staff on hand just to call the 200+ different insurance companies and try to squeeze a dime out of them, so while American doctors spend 80 hours a week, lets say, at work and only treat patients about 30 hours of that time, in Canada, they spend about 60 hours a week at work, and treat patients 55 hours of that time. Salary or no, you need to sell a product to get paid.

Water's still my favorite drink.
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Like running around in circles like an idiot?

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