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Mycroft Holmes wrote: What! you used the bean multiple times, bloody hell that must taste awful. The only part of that which is correct is the part about the taste.
"Road Coffee" is I suppose a more colloquial term than I realized. The size of the USA makes a road trip often rather long. For efficiency, whilst on the road, one will pull over to a coffee-merchant of some sort (deli, gas-station, whatever) and get their rendition of coffee. This can be, as it turns out, almost anything (not only in quality, but I suspect, in content, as well). Bought 'on the road', it's 'road coffee'. These might even be from 'largish' chains: I once stopped, in bleary-eyed desperation, at a "Roy Rogers" for coffee. It was very hot dirty water in a paper cup and with a plastic lid. Anyway - if you use the beans enough times they eventually act as a water filter . . .
Interestingly, the coming of coffee chains has caused an upheaval in road coffee. One can find chains vending likes of Lavazza, Peats, and Starbucks coffee that intend it to be good (they also charge a road-side premium).
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Of course there is bad coffee. In Russia I went to order coffee from a fine restaurant and my friend the Chef said to avoid the coffee here. He said the store did not pay the "extra" that the delivery guy required so they bags of rotted coffee beans (circa 1995). I noticed EVERY cup of coffee I saw was full. LOL. But EVEN good beans in Russia are used to make something approaching TAR more than coffee. I abstained after 1 cup. Or I drank HOT MILK with a drop of coffee, LOL.
I personally hate Starbucks and Bitter Coffee (caused by over grinding the beans, and releasing the tannic acids).
So, at work, I was the guy who broke out the label gun. I Labelled how many level scoops, the water mark on the pitcher of water, and reminded people if they picked up the coffee to grind it for a percolator. It makes much lighter and less bitter cup of coffee.
My Russian Friends call this "Coffee Juice" (as in Juice made from coffee, LOL).
I tend to drink 1-2 cups a day, and work out of the house. I switched to instant. I use a powder creamer. (My parents always drank instant).
I am sure what I like for coffee would be bad to others!
But when you are COLD and HUNGRY. Your standards go right out the window.
During Hurricane Wilma, without power, my neighbor came over with 2 hot cups of coffee.
We found a way to enjoy them anyways. Despite not even being close to my first choice.
And it was such a kind gesture.
BTW: Our office coffee was SO consistent, and EVERYONE made the coffee (I realized labeling worked when I worked at DOW and nobody made the coffee because nobody KNEW how. So I asked the person who made it, and I wrote it down and pinned it to the wall! Weeks later, she was thanking me, and I was just some dumb intern...)
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Worst kind of torture ever deviced by man[^]? (Link SFW)
Ok, who's up next?
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous
- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944
- I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy. Me, all the time
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Nay, that would be Star Wars Holiday Special.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others.
Same thing when you are stupid.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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They just want their moment of internet fame.
I wonder if someone has redone the initial claim of "15 minutes of fame" to now account for the internet. I'd look on the internet if I cared enough.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Drugs and alcohol.
veni bibi saltavi
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Yes, but in what combination, I wonder? And where can you buy it?
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous
- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944
- I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy. Me, all the time
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Johnny J. wrote: And where can you buy it?
Not here.
veni bibi saltavi
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Where do people get the ideas?
Maybe they spend to much time in The Lounge.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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I have spent a fair amount of time in the Lounge, and have never once been tempted to walk on a Lego treadmill, or self mutilate in any other way.
QA on the other hand...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I think toilet is the birthplace of many great ideas (such as "The Running Lego"). Even the pose is sort of like that of a sitting Greek thinker.
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Easy peasy
The easter rising ? (3,5,4)
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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You are up tomorrow - well done
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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WTE?? Howdya figure?
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Hot cross buns[^] are traditionally eaten on Good Friday and it's a double clue: Easter Rising - whats-is-name rising from the dead at Chocolate Egg Season, and the buns are based on a form of bread dough, and have to "rise" or "proof" before they are baked.
It's a good clue!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Thank you
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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The Jesus born ???
cheers,
Super
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Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
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I posted here in July about the heinous subliminal campaign by the Goat Cabal designed to desecrate the sanctity of that most noble of animals, the Sheep: [^].
New evidence has just emerged suggestive of a new, fiendish, dimension to the Goat cartel's propaganda effort: an attempt to lure, suborn, co-opt, the (often benighted and naive) westerners who practice yoga into being proselytizers for a sickening treacly image of Goats, playing upon the naturally tender emotions one feels while looking at baby animals:
In Sweden [^], and America [^], these disturbing images are being used to influence vulnerable youth, and groom them as future zombie acolytes of ... who else ... Satan.
Today, the friendly cuddles; tomorrow, the head-butting Ram who stinks of musk ensnaring souls for an eternity of shopping and binging on burgers. Today, the "yoga lite" practiced by new-age air-heads; tomorrow, sphincter reversal and blood sacrifice's mantra-tantra.
We can only hope for a re-incarnation of Hunter S. Thompson to make sense of this.
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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Damn I wish we could get that stuff you smoke in Singapore.
Still it is much more eloquent than DDs drivel was when he had been partaking.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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