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Pregnant woman eating in McDonalds?
Surely that's a criminal act against the fetus? Possibly a violation of the Geneva Convention or Declaration of the Rights of Mankind, or something.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: Pregnant woman eating in McDonalds?
Eating at McDonald's should be classified as Pica[^].
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.
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Nice though your idea is, the proposition is that the money will be paid by the NHS for NHS services.
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I know, I know...I'm baiting DD! 
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Good luck with that one. DD has been playing hard to get ever since he faked his "departure".
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Ooh. Nice swerve on the malpractice suits. If anything goes wrong now it'll be your own stupid fault for not spending your budget properly! Genius!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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So CodinGame sent me an invitation (second time) to take part in a contest...As the contest opening on Saturday I can not take part, but not as the first time I went to see how it works...
A nice time waster...
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Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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In college we did a Robocode[^] contest in one semester which was loads of fun. Especially seeing my robot crushing the others on the beamer wall 
Might give that site a try, so thanks for the link!
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https://www.codingame.com[^]
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Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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I just realized you didn't actually provide a link - but I found it anyway and then thought you provided a link So, it's all good!
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Discuss.
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Chris Maunder
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Starbucks = Apple
Overpriced and driven by fanboys
cheers,
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Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
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I disagree.
Apple (hardware) products are very, very well designed. Their phone works well as a phone. Their laptops work extremely well as laptops. Their music players shaped what we came to expect from a music player.
Starbucks coffee isn't, as far as I can tell, actual coffee. It doesn't actually fulfil its basic purpose.
I think people go for Apple because they like the design, the ecosystem, the simplicity (we can argue about this later) and the cache that comes with Apple products.
I think people go for Starbucks because of laziness, ignorance, convenience, or because there's no other choice. There are also those who treat Starbucks as a caffeine delivery system: give me a bigun' and I'll plug 'er in and I'm good. Taste is not even part of the equation. This makes me sad.
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Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: Taste is not even part of the equation.
Surprisingly, this is designed in.
Starbucks use reverse osmosis filters to remove all minerals (and impurities) from the local water, to make it all the same.
And that badly affects the taste of coffee: Secret to perfect cup of coffee lies in the quality of the water researchers say - Telegraph[^]
If you want coffee to taste good, you need a water high in magnesium!
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I'm giving you a flat look for sending me research published in a British newspaper about coffee. Britian and coffee is like Australia and drizzly days: we just can't quite get it right.
I would put to the jury that the secret of a good cup of coffee is to start with good coffee
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Start with good coffee, and a good roast (and a barista who knows how to roast): Absolutely! But the water is critical as well. Too pure, and it's too inert to take up the coffee oils properly; too many minerals and it deforms or masks the actual flavour.
Then there is the cleanliness of the equipment, the grind, the age, the packaging, ... it's delicate and complicated stuff, coffee. Just like wine really - one mistake and you have grape vinegar. Get it right...and you have Chateau d'Yquem 1787. 
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I think some of the beans I had this morning were from 1787.
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Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: Britian and coffee
Compared to the dishwater I have been served in the good ol' USA, I will go for coffee here any day. However, I never go into Starbucks, Costa or any of those places, so my experience is coffee at home or in a restaurant; both of which I find quite satisfying.
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To be fair I'm finding the coffee in the UK has improved a lot.
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Chris Maunder
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Nobody in the UK will be offended by what you say about our coffee.
However, if you were to talk that way about our tea - the true drink of a civilised nation - well, then there would be words.
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I can't vouch for Canadia, but last time I was in Merca I went for an emergency heart starter at around 6am before a 500 mile trip.
"Double shot, strong as fuelephant!" I request.
"D'ya wana decaf?" drawls Doofus T Buck-Frain.
It's 6 o'clock in the morning and the eejit is asking if I want decaf!
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They saw you coming a mile away.
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Chris Maunder
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Now, now, now.
I am an absolutely qualified authority on matters of coffee because I am Italian and, specifically, from Naples.
Many things go into the "perfect cup of coffee", so to say.
Here, we say it must have the three "C": Cumm Cazz Coce (=Jesus this is hot).
So, that's the very first thing: if it doesn't burn your lips, you're doing it wrong.
After that, coffee quality is obviously essential, and here come the first pitfalls: normally, you will go for industrial coffee because it's cheaper, but some of us DO buy custom coffee, meaning bags of coffee that cost A LOT more but also have completely different organoleptic properties. These bags are only sold by specialised dealers.
Because of the difficulty of packaging them properly (these are not industries...), however, it is uncommon to see someone being shipped them from outside where he/she lives.
It does happen if you find a good one, but they're rare.
Surprisingly, water is important in more ways than one: water's molecular composition is important, but so is the temperature at which it boils (I don't have to remind you that different altitudes have different boiling points, right?) because if it's too low the coffee is ruined and if it's too high you end up having it rise too early.
Another really important factor is what brewer you use: normally, you would use what we call a "Moka", but some of us do use the ancient neapolitan brewer (which is far more difficult to handle, but the results can taste markedly different).
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