why does only Red Bull taste good?

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another energy drink thread.  Tweed's insomnia problems have returned... for a while he chased it with escalating doses of trazodone, from 50mg in increments up to 200mg.  now that earns him a passout, but that's it!  I passed out by 915pm, but awoke before 3am and here I am, once again, torn into pieces...

but I ask!  I had this 16oz (diet) Red Bull here, which I am sipping daintily like Marilyn Monroe drinking a martini.  and it tastes good!  it is enormously expensive: I think I paid over $3 for this can.  which would, I've noted before, seem to open up the window for a cheaper imitator.  but somehow, only Red Bull tastes good, nobody else can replicate the taste... not Rockstar, nor Monster, nor Amp... what gives?

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You do realize that those energy drinks are probably the cause of your insomnia, don't you?

all that I will claim to realize is that the cycle has a momentum of its own.  can't sleep --> tired --> abuse stimulants to purchase extra functionality --> can't sleep.... and the loop is closed.  which is the 'cause' of the others is an academic discussion that I will leave to others.

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Young Tweed just took the cutest little 3 hour cat-nap and he's ready to rampage!!

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I've rediscovered nicotine as an academic performance enhancer - not smoking again, but those little Camel snus packets that go in the bottom lip.  almost functions like methylphenidate (Ritalin), real head buzz and clarity of thought, and little of the 'jittery' symptoms that come from caffeine abuse.  only some nausea.

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hope you don't smoke now bro.  though you'd probably pick it up at the hipster school in September anyway.

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again, largely mimicking the effects of methylphenidate.  perhaps we are on to something!

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yes, methylphenidate often led me to porn binges (probably because it is an amphetamine)

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I appreciate angus' Freudian theory of Red Bull taste acqusition.  I'm currently enjoying myself a 16oz diet Red Bull whilst packing a lip of Camel snus: Replacing Alcoholism.

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should I reference Lifetime here?