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I want to talk about coffee.
Nodaisho:
Wait, what do you hate, if not his politics? I have read some of his columns, and that was all that I could see as rubbing someone the wrong way.
peterh:
I just got back in my chair - I'm still giggling insanely from this thread.
I have to admit that THE VERY FIRST THING I THOUGHT when reading that bit about
--- Quote ---What I do is I take a jar of Marks and Spencers instant coffee (The gold one). Then I lovingly remove the lid with a clockwise turning motion of my right hand. Meanwhile, I have set my kettle to boil (remembering to only boil enough for one cup so I can SAVE THE PLANET!).
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was "This could actually be a Clarkson quote!"
The second thing I thought was "Blergh, that's not my definition of a really good cup of coffee, but hey, he's probably English, and to each his own".
And then I find that you hate Jez Clarkson's guts, with a vengeance.
One has to admit that this IS quite funny, this.
KharBevNor:
To be fair, I probably wouldn't have fallen asleep during Dillinger Escape Plan's set that time I saw them if Jeremy Clarkson had been there.
The adjective I'm having trouble here with is 'terrible'. Like, fair enough you can indeed taste a difference between different sorts of coffee. I can do that myself! But I don't understand why a fairly high quality, arabica bean instant coffee should be figuratively likened to drinking a cup of hot cat vomit spiked with arsenic and that bitter tasting liquid people spread on their nails to try and train themselves to stop biting them. The difference simply isn't that great. I refuse to believe that anyone who likes coffee, as opposed to say some syrup-infused mofrapocachino grandeverticale massimo patheticfallacio could find drinking slightly less complexly flavoured, slightly thinner coffee to be a physically unpleasant experience.
Plus I don't think it's ridiculous to suggest there are class/sttus things bound up in how you take coffee.
Jimmy the Squid:
I'd say it's more ridiculous to suggest that the shit that people on this forum wank on about isn't incredibly middle-class. Basically the two biggest offenders are coffee and single malt whiskeys.
For reference I don't like coffee because I find it to be very bitter (don't worry, it's a thing with my taste buds that I'm very sensitive to bitter tasting things and not so much to sweet tasting things so I have a mad sweet tooth). I prefer milkshakes.
jhocking:
--- Quote from: Jimmy the Squid on 13 Oct 2010, 05:39 ---I prefer milkshakes.
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Well that is a non-sequitur. I mean, it may be true but milkshakes and coffee have basically nothing to do with each other. Unless you mean you drink milkshakes before going to work in the morning.
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