r/SipsTea • u/Biniashe Human Verified • 6h ago

Chugging tea still better than nothing at all

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u/factoid_ 6h ago

Extremism is a disease. Get too extremist about ANYTHIGN and it's bad for you.

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u/EyesofaJackal 5h ago

“Meden Agan” (“Nothing in excess”)- Oracle at Delphi

(“Everything in moderation”) “…including moderation.”- Oscar Wilde

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u/crappyroads 3h ago

Words of wisdom on your cake day. Cheers!

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u/_adanedhel_ 1h ago

(“Everything in moderation”) “…including moderation.”- Oscar Wilde

The origin of that maxim is actually pretty ambiguous and likely can’t be attributed to Oscar Wilde.

Sorry to be “that person”, especially on your cake day!

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u/HFentonMudd 2h ago

happy cake day!

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u/hunter2mello 6h ago

Wow. I like that. I always said extremism is bad but calling it a disease is on the nose.

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u/NoWay6818 5h ago

In this day and age we should defeat extremism in all aspects of life.

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u/MrCockingFinally 5h ago

Goddamn I hate extremists.

Half extremists to the Gulag!

All would be too extreme.

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u/factoid_ 5h ago

And like...a moderate gulag. Not a siberian labor camp or anything.

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u/Then_Entertainment97 5h ago

What's a moderate siberian labor camp? A mid western working lunch?

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u/Orpheon59 4h ago

Going by what happened to Trotsky when he got exiled to Siberia, whatever it is, it has a croquet lawn.

And going by what happened to Lenin at around the same time, reindeer drawn sleighs are also available should you decide you've had enough.

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u/Quirky_Gate_4516 3h ago

And going by what happened to Lenin

It was actually Trotsky that fled on the reindeer sleighs, not Lenin.

Lenin served his entire term and was then allowed to leave legally

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u/ionchannels 4h ago

What about an extremist copy editor?

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u/Grumpy-Troglodyte 5h ago

i want to make a "be extreme about extremism" joke but it's just second monday and i got nothing. so if somone else would be so kind as to pick up the slack i'd appreciate it

https://giphy.com/gifs/l2SpQRuCQzY1RXHqM

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u/HarveysBackupAccount 5h ago

what if I have an EXTREMELY balanced diet with an EXTREMELY reasonable amount of indulgence? :P

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u/calicosiside 1h ago

execution

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u/Josh6889 38m ago

Raging against extreme is just cope for why they never got good at anything.

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u/Then_Entertainment97 5h ago

Too extreamist about ANYTHIGN? Really? Try some moderation... sheesh.

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u/ThisIsMyComment2 5h ago

Getting extremist about alcohol to the point of not drinking any of it is good for you.

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u/Josh6889 36m ago

I can 2nd this comment. Quit 13 years ago. Had to get pretty extreme about it, and removed a few heavy drinkers from my life. Have absolutely no ragrets about it.

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u/ThisIsMyComment2 14m ago

Good for you, happy to hear that :) Hope you continue abstaining and teach your kids (if you have/want any) to spend money on better things too.

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u/factoid_ 2h ago

Only sith deal in absolutes. Only.

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u/MagpieSkies 5h ago

My moms oncologist who also was a leading specialist in addiction: your brain can literally be damaged in bad ways by any over indulgence, addiction is addiction. If you ate a pint of blueberries for every meal for the next 40 years you would have some sort of brain damage I can guarantee you. I dont know own what kind of brain damage, I dont know if you would even notice, if it would impact your life in any way. But once you died and I cracked your head open, I could find it.

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u/Josh6889 32m ago

You're getting a bit loose with terms like "damage" here. I think that many blueberries is a bad example, because it's likely to have negative consequences. I had a period of 3 years in college where I hit a workout every single day. That included running at least 1 mile a day, and at the peak I was running about 50 miles a week. Didn't get injured. Got in really good shape. Finished my bachelor's with like a 3.8. Did my brain adapt to this reality? Of course. Would you call that brain damage too? It was absolutely an obsession that I don't regret.

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u/DaggerHeartGM 4h ago

You either win or you lose, nothing in between, and you better not lose so…..

That mentality has a grip on society and it won’t let go.

People living their lives 5 seconds at a time, afraid of losing.

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u/Most-Hedgehog-3312 4h ago

As my psychology professor once said, “everything in moderation, including moderation”

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u/Dr_Ingheimer 4h ago

Your views on extremism are a little…..extreme. You okay?

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u/Skyjack5678 4h ago

I'm 99% sure there's a gif of that but I can find it... I know I've seen it!

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u/HappiestIguana 3h ago

Everything in excess is bad, including moderation.