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by TheaGood
on 15/10/15
Black Coffee Matters
From Rush Limbaugh

RUSH: The story is from the Mother Nature Network. Have you ever heard of that? Well, it's there, and our show prep knows now boundaries. No boundaries. We go wherever there is news. "What does how you take your coffee say about your personality? More than you might think, if a new study out of the University of Innsbruck, Austria, is to be believed. It turns out that if you take your coffee black, you're more likely to exhibit 'Machiavellianism, psychopathy, narcissism [and] everyday sadism.'"

You ought to see the way they're the looking at me, the other side of the glass. Pardon the sniffles, folks. "[I]f you take your coffee black," and remember: Black Coffee Matters, "you're more likely..." It doesn't say you "are" or "will." "[Y]ou're more likely to exhibit 'Machiavellianism, psychopathy, narcissism [and] everyday sadism.' ... The study looked at the taste preferences of 500 participants, who were also given several personality tests, to look for correlations.

"Four classic tastes were distinguished by the study: sweet, sour, salty and bitter. Bitter taste preferences were the strongest predictor of personality, particularly concerning 'malevolent personality traits.'" For those of you in Rio Linda, "malevolent" is the opposite of "benevolent," which still might not be helpful. Malevolent means ill intent. Benevolent means you believe in food stamps and giving away charity and so forth.

"Though the study did not control for coffee preferences directly, coffee is a bitter drink. It can therefore be surmised that those who prefer to leave it unsweetened have a preference for bitter flavors, and therefore have a higher proclivity for psychopathic behavior." I'm just telling you what's in the news.