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I have heard that Starbucks outside of the USA is not of the same quality. Family members in Australia have complained about their particular version of Starbucks, after visiting us and tasting the USA variety. That may explain the adverse reaction to the brand from some members here in the Lounge.
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Perhaps the US variant has the kind of stuff in it that makes people fat, and thus they love it 
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Yeah! You may be right! 
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Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex.
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I usually get take away, does that make it an open prison?
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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If they have to put flavouring in their tea, it must be really cr@p tea.
Find a distributor of good quality pu-erh.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I've drank all kinds of tea, but I only like the flavoured ones. Natural tea is just a little tasteless...
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Er, yeah.
Look up "Victoria Wood's Nice Cup of Tea" on spottydick, or whatever, before putting rubbish like that into your body.
By definition, Indian teas are bluddy awful, because they're over-manufactured by British loonies who don't have a clue what they're doing -- the plants are treated more like tobacco than as the basis of a refined, healthy drink.
The Chinese drink more tea per capita than anyone else, but if you put Indian tea in front of them, they run away, screaming in horror.
Flavoured teas take that horrendously manufactured garbage, and vomit it through even more machines.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The next thing you know, you'll be refusing to talk to people to whom you've not been properly introduced, discussing the weather (and nothing else) with those to whom you have, and enjoying British sausages (AKA emulsified offal tubes).
The good news is that at this stage - Anglophilia is still curable. 
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: Anglophilia is still curable
And then comes Cricket.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: Cricket
I've never even seen it. The only time I hear about that is here in the lounge with all those English and Indians discussing it.
I believe it's played with a ball and a bat, but I'm not even certain 
It's totally unknown in the Netherlands (although I just Googled and there is a Dutch cricket team, crickey! )
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It's actually quite enjoyable, with the right mindset.
Read that as after several G&T, ... I wonder if Nagy is into cricket?
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I can't enjoy any kind of sports
I'm not even into football/soccer and/or ice skating!
Not even when the world championships are on.
That's quite rare in the Netherlands...
I just don't see the fun in seeing other people physically perform (either good or bad) and being hugely overpaid for it.
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Sander Rossel wrote: being hugely overpaid for it.
Why do you think professional athletes are overpaid? Are they not getting what the market will bear?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote: Are they not getting what the market will bear?
They are. But that still doesn't justify getting paid millions for playing a two hour game or even just sitting on a bench.
Not only athletes, movie- and music stars too.
I guess it both appealing and appaling that you can make that kind of money in the entertainment business.
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Have we been introduced?
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Sander Rossel wrote: Have we been introduced?
I was under the impression that the Lounge was the equivalent of "Speaker's Corner" in Hyde Park. Anyone may speak, anyone may heckle, and no one is required to listen.
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Yeah, but I can't be seen with the common rabble 
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I may be rabble, but I'm certainly not common. 
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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In Jordan they love BS security measures to enter a "mall". You have to go through one of those metal detector-y things etc.
One time a guard decided I was an obvious terror threat, so he put his arms around me and started to pat me down around my copious belly without any warning. I must have either clenched my fists or the other guard realised I was a foreigner or something as he pulled the the guard away from me. I walked off saying "it's not even as we've been formally introduced" . Probably the I only witty thing I've ever said, and no one within miles who would have understood.
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Yes, they have the same BS security measures in Israel. When I was last in Turkey (about ten years ago), they had them there, as well. To misquote Shakespeare, all men are actors, and all the world is a security theatre.
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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flavoured tea (vanilla, fruits, chocolate...) is awful. (ok, except some fruity tea in the torrid hot summer days with lots of ice)
I used to only like earl-grey tea, but now I like the more earthy Pu-erh[^] tea and the lighter japanese Genmaicha[^].
I'd rather be phishing!
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Tea is a drink made with the leaves of the tea plant.
Anything else is an infusion.
You appear to be drinking an infusion.
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Marketing calls it tea
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Sander Rossel wrote: Marketing calls it tea
And we always believe everything Marketing says, don't we?
Clickety[^]
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
modified 23-Feb-15 4:18am.
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