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posted by n1 on Friday June 23 2017, @08:46AM   Printer-friendly
from the just-like-my-metal dept.

If you like your coffee black, you may be someone who prefers strong flavours, takes good care of their health, or just wants to drink their coffee the way it’s supposed to be drunk. 

Or, you may be a psychopath.

At least, that’s according to a new study published in the journal Appetite, which found a correlation between a love of black coffee and sadist or psychopathic tendencies.

The research surveyed more than 1,000 adults, asking them to give their food and flavour preferences. The participants then took a series of personality tests assessing antisocial personality traits, such as sadism, narcissism and psychopathy. 

The study, carried out by researchers at the University of Innsbruck, found that a preference for bitter flavours was linked to psychopathic behaviour.

The study missed a key, deciding factor: the coffee that psychopaths drink black is instant.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 24 2017, @12:49AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 24 2017, @12:49AM (#530350)

    Roaches, coffee pots, blah blah blah. That sucks - been there, done that. Forget all the fucking chemicals and shit. Forget the pest control guy. Fuck Orkin and all the rest. Boric acid. Buy the little 1 pound plastic bottles of boric acid. Snip the top off the little spout, and practice squeezing the bottle to produce a cloud of dust. You may have to shake the bottle now and then, to loosen the dust. When you can produce a little cloud of dust, start looking at your walls, ceiling, floor, electrical fixtures, plumbing. Any place you can find a crack where a fucking bug can hide, put the spout to the crack, and dust it. No kids? Good. Remove everything from your shelves, remove any paper liners on those shelves, and dust them. Put clean liner paper back, to put your food and dishes on. You don't clean up the dust, you just leave it.

    Roaches are actually pretty clean animals. Kinda like people, they go about the business of foraging food, then they come back to their cozy little homes, and clean themselves. Like dogs or cats, they use their mouths to groom themselves. All that icky boric acid that they've walked through to find food has to go. That means they lick, and ingest, some of that dust. They're dead, dead, dead soon after.

    Keep your home dusty with boric acid, the roaches will disappear. You'll see new roaches in several days - those are the eggs layed by the roaches you've already killed. Just wait them out, they'll get dusty, clean themselves, then die. You may see another wave of roaches in several days again - and likewise they'll die.

    When you haven't seen a roach in about three weeks, they are gone, and they won't come back.

    Orkin can't make that claim. They kill the current population, but they don't touch the new generation.

    Boric acid works, if slowly. Nothing else will get rid of the roaches.

  • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday June 24 2017, @01:38AM

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Saturday June 24 2017, @01:38AM (#530375) Homepage

    Damn, the Donald Trump troll's perfected the personality algorithm.

    We are at the mercy of machines! I will fight you until my dying breath, AI!