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OK, it's not my birthday for a couple of weeks, but Herself insisted I might as well use it "to make sure it works" since TNT smash the EU to UK plug adapter it was boxed with.
And I have to say it's fine - couple of poor design decisions, but nothing too major, and it makes good coffee.
So I've been experimenting with blending my own coffee and most of the results have been the same: it tastes good, but it's just going straight through me. Still, with blends like these, who needs enemas?
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OriginalGriff wrote: blending my own coffee
drool 
I'm about to try 'locally' grown coffee - they grow/produce coffee in Aus (Northern NSW/Queensland) and PNG - I have a sample pack of 4 suppliers to try (All espresso)
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What make and model is your new coffee machine? pics, links? Sorry, if you posted this already in another thread.
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Gaggia Naviglio Silver | Caffè Italia[^]
It brews a little too fast - about 15 seconds for an espresso - so it doesn't probably pull all the flavour from the beans, but other than that and some poor material choices it's pretty good.
Makes way better coffee than my cafetiere did!
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Now you've gone done make me jealous! 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Coffee and Beer, you don't buy them you just rent them.
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Are you roasting your own coffee? I started roasting about 3 years ago. While I will drink commercially roasted coffee, most of it tastes stale to me.
Roasting is easy enough and the entry level machine I have works fine. It doesn't have the bells-n-whistles much more expensive models have, but it fits my needs. The drawback is that you must plan ahead -- roasted coffee is usable 4 hours after roasting, but it's recommended to age most beans for 2 to 4 days, and they start getting stale after another week or so. Keep in mind that commercially roasted coffee is months old, so 3 week old home roasted coffee is amazing in comparison ...
Nothing tastes as stale as a K-cup
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No, but I can still remember the smell of the little shop that sold the fresh-roasted beans my mother loved. If I roasted my own, the whole house would smell like that, and I'd be drinking coffee 24 hours a day ... 
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 I understand that!
The independent coffee shops in my area mostly buy from a local roaster, and most post a sign in front of each canister of beans, stating when it was roasted. As much as any coffee shop smells good, the independents smell MUCH better.
The cupboard where I keep my roasted beans smells amazing each time I open it!
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The independents in my area re-sell roasted beans. It's far from cheap, but getting a variety of fresh roasted beans is wonderful. This might be an option.
I buy green beans in 3 to 6 lb bags, and do a mixture of re-buying previous choices and trying new ones. Some are better than others, but I've yet to have a bad one!
Except for decaf -- I buy decaffeinated beans in 1 lb bags, as I use very little. My wife and some friends want decaf. The best of these are merely "ok", but decaffeination kills the flavor.
Interesting factoid -- Dunkin decaf tastes pretty good (for decaf) because it has a fair amount of real coffee in it ...
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When looking for a job, you ever ran into a company that asked for social security number and a copy of your ID/passport, whilst not asking for your resume?
I worked some jobs crossing the border, this never came up. Even the German Arbeitsambt doesn't go that far, and they had a lot of forms to sign.
The mails I get contain three languages (kinda normal here), but there's spelling errors in each of the languages. They claim they need my social security number because they need a "unic" identification for the "data base" (she mails in English, as if it her first language).
Asked a former co-worker and after two lines of explanation she asked if it's a scam. Am I just paranoid again, or is this outside the usual? It smells wrong.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
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They need a resume, and not those other things at least until they offer you a job.
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Beat me to it. No employer needs things like your SIN/SSN until they have to file some paperwork with the government. Which means you've actually accepted an offer.
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That was what I thought, but needed confirmation before taking action. Thanks for that.
Reported the incident, and requested further explanation from the company involved.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Greg Utas wrote: at least until they offer you a job.
and not even then... they need those things once they hire you. A.k.a. contract signed by both parts.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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I answered that way because they might want to vet you before officially hiring you. Whether this is necessary would depend on local laws about cancelling an accepted job offer if they found problems when vetting you.
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But even that would imply they give you another paperwork first like the declaration of job intention (or whatever the official english name is), so that you can start the visa process.
But the rest... not in my experience, at least not before hiring you.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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They didn't Google me, what kind of vetting is that? No request for a resume either, so not checking my references either.
And they a recruiter, so no hiring nor a contract until there's a client.
Seems a legit company though; but not sure untill the chamber of commerce replies 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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They're a recruiter and didn't even ask for a resume?! 
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Just wants my SSN and passport/ID. There's a national unemployed database that would already give some basic details where they got the fact me looking for work.
The resume isn't asked for. Nor references. And there was "no time" to Google me. So no five minutes left in their schedule.
I wanted to ask if something wrong or me imagining; your reaction leaves little space for doubt
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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I had a similar situation with a recruiter some years ago. The recruiter phoned me on Monday saying the client wanted an interview before the end of the week. She then asked me to fill in a form which was just a copy of my resume; I replied by they already had my full resume so they could use that. She started to make excuses about the interview, including that suddenly the manager was on holiday. Whether the job actually existed I never discovered, but I did write her a very snotty letter accusing her of blatantly lying to me. Strangely I never heard from them again.
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For a moment, I simply assumed the EU had come up with some stupid new regulations, but all the answers here are roughly pointing in the same direction.
Thanks for your time
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: I simply assumed the EU had come up with some stupid new regulations
No, I don't think that is very likely. 
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: they need a "unic" identification for the "data base"
[Id] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL, Or, if they're looking for a more functional kind of unique key, how about
[EmailAddress] [nvarchar](1024) NULL, Whether they're legit or not, I wouldn't want to do business with them in any case...
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