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snorkie wrote: My coworkers were complaining because we ran out of Starbucks
...and you're asking if we're coffee snobs.
Doesn't that mean the conversation should be about, you know, coffee? I've given up trying to classify that burned brown stuff they offload.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I don't care, I drink whatever is available (and free). If they start charging for it, I'll go back to water!
Hogan
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I drink black coffee, and I can tell you there are differences between coffee brands.
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I agree there are differences. But I find the differences about the same as those between Coke and Pepsi. Basically the same thing.
Hogan
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snorkie wrote: Coke and Pepsi. Basically the same thing
Burn the heretic! BURN HIM!
Software Zen: delete this;
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I am from Austria and every time when we are in the States we got coffee issues. On our project sites we try to get the strongest roast possible, and it still is just like tea, tasting too bitter overall. But not much flavor.
One day a colleague from Switzerland took his Espresso cooker with him, and along some real coffee. First problem was, with 110V AC it took ages to get it hot, but then this was really nice! However, our American co-workers nearly got a stroke from this strength 
BR Florian
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Oh, I am so much of a snob, it's painful. I buy online only because nothing in the stores is worth a crap. I have several different coffee making utensils, like a ceramic filter holder that sits on top of the cup, a water heater with 1-degree accuracy so I can heat the water to the perfect temperature, an espresso press that I use at work, and a Japanese hand-powered bean grinder, because there's so much darn Zen in grinding your own beans by hand.
I prefer the Italian roast to all others, although a really good but not burnt French roast can be a pleasure as well. I've tried the flavored varieties, but I always come back to un-flavored.
As far as beans go, the Arabica is the one I most commonly drink, only because it is the most common bean to be found in these here parts, y'all. The Kona bean is interesting, but I'm not keen on the flavors. The Kenya AA is a darn good bean as well, but my favorite (currently) is the Jamaican Blue Mountain bean.
When I make my single cups of coffee by pouring 209-degree (F) water over Jamaican Blue beans ground moments before and letting the water drip for several minutes through an oil-absorbing filter to remove the majority of any bitterness, my wife calls me a snob. I love it.
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in a way, yes. the coffee has to taste good without any additives. for me if you need extras to dull the bitterness or change the flavor, then I don't want anything to do with it.
a good cup of drip or percolated mild black coffee I would gladly pay for, but a cup of Starbucks even for free I would have to be pretty desperate to contemplate.
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I use MJB only $5.99 for 3 pounds.
Old dog learning new tricks!
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Those of you in LaLaland at being given MVP status, there was a mistake and the wrong winners were announced. The real winners will be announced at Moonlight.
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I'd like to thank the director, my agent, my parents, every hamster I had to sleep with to get this award and just say that I'm humbled, and ... wah? Not me? B*stards! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: I'd like to thank the director, my agent, my parents, every hamster sheeps I had to sleep with to get this award and just say that I'm humbled, and ... wah? Not me? B*stards!
FTFY
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Still a great night.
Oops, wrong show.
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Way back in my teaching days I was taking the roll call at the start of the class and I said, "To speed things up let's just have everyone who isn't here put their hand up."  Several people put their hand up and I told them I would therefore mark them absent! They all paid much closer attention to what I was actually saying from then on. 
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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At the bottom of an (obviously not very useful) email from East Midlands Airport there's the line "If you are not receiving this email, check your spam settings".
Indeed 
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A bit like a poster I saw on the tube some years ago, "Do you suffer from dyslexia?". 
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If you have not received £1.000.000 yet, its because you haven't sent me £1.000.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Years ago, in the company I worked we had a special virtual pbx.
We detected we were losing calls as from time to time the virtual pbx decided the number did not exist.
Wen I called the guys at the carrier company I told them:
"Some people that have called our company have received a voice message telling the phone number did not exist... could you please check what's happening?"
The answer was:
"When this happens please tell it to us and we will check."
Tried to tell them that we would not notice that as we would not receive the call...
I don't know how it ended as I don't work there anymore...
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If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Chess player loses a ton backing one of his men and gets the bird (10)
Slogans aren't solutions.
modified 28-Feb-17 5:07am.
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Kingfisher?
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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Yep - do you want to explain or shall I?
Slogans aren't solutions.
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I can't. Only bird I could think of starting from a chess piece was kingfisher.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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Fair enough ...
The chess player in question was Bobby FISCHER - the legendary American chess genius and general oddball.
Losing a ton (C = 100 in Roman numerals) that becomes FISHER.
Backing a chess man (in this case the KING) we get KINGFISHER giving us the bird.
Slogans aren't solutions.
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Would have never figured it out. Guess you are still up for tomorrow then?
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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