Starbucks coffee. Any colour but black.
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Re: Starbucks coffee. Any colour but black.
To take the drastic step of closing all stores for a day, there must have been more going on than this single incident. If that was all there was, Starbucks could simply have apologised, and announced that the manager had been sent to a re-education camp in Death Valley...
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Re: Starbucks coffee. Any colour but black.
mistermack, this post: http://www.rationalia.com/forum/viewtop ... 3#p1763693
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contains a clear person al attack on another member. This is a formal warning that any repetition will result in a suspension.
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A post in which I clearly quoted his personal attack on me in the previous post.JimC wrote:mistermack, this post: http://www.rationalia.com/forum/viewtop ... 3#p1763693
contains a clear person al attack on another member. This is a formal warning that any repetition will result in a suspension.
Seems he does have a licence to namecall then.
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I don't think that follows.JimC wrote:To take the drastic step of closing all stores for a day, there must have been more going on than this single incident. If that was all there was, Starbucks could simply have apologised, and announced that the manager had been sent to a re-education camp in Death Valley...
Their decision is a public relations exercise. That's what you do today. You don't argue your corner, you grovel and go over the top with the sack cloth and ashes. In today's climate, it's the only way to hopefully put the story to sleep.
So long as you try to justify it, you are just feeding the frenzy giving them something more to print.
Those guys are quite rightly only interested in the bottom line. And I imagine that Starbucks has a pretty hefty black clientele. The rights and wrongs of the incident don't matter. It's public perception they care about.
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It's a bar, anyway, not a cafe.Strontium Dog wrote:I call shenanigans. Nobody goes to a Dutch coffee shop to drink coffee.
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And so it came to pass...Brian Peacock wrote:If lak pops up and says he makes the best coffee with the cheapest beans then we'll know the simulation is caught in a loop.pErvinalia wrote:I'm having groundhog day. I'm sure this exact conversation was had in another thread about coffee.
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The mods should suspend everyone. Not sure what happened to this place. Go back and read threads from 5 (and even less) years ago and it was fine to call people shit. Mods, you don't have to automatically ping someone just because they were reported.mistermack wrote:A post in which I clearly quoted his personal attack on me in the previous post.JimC wrote:mistermack, this post: http://www.rationalia.com/forum/viewtop ... 3#p1763693
contains a clear person al attack on another member. This is a formal warning that any repetition will result in a suspension.
Seems he does have a licence to namecall then.
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Re: Starbucks coffee. Any colour but black.
In Dutch:pErvinalia wrote:It's a bar, anyway, not a cafe.Strontium Dog wrote:I call shenanigans. Nobody goes to a Dutch coffee shop to drink coffee.
A café or kroog is in English a public bar. A coffee shop is a café selling weed, snunk or hash but these days in a separated section of the café for which there is no English equivalent. A snack bar sells (unhealthy) snacks and cans of beer and other soft drinks and has limited seating (McDonald does not sell beer). A coffee bar is Starbucks and there is no other. We have plenty of bistro's.
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So where do you go to just have a coffee, with perhaps some small food items (like cakes etc) available as well?Scot Dutchy wrote:In Dutch:pErvinalia wrote:It's a bar, anyway, not a cafe.Strontium Dog wrote:I call shenanigans. Nobody goes to a Dutch coffee shop to drink coffee.
A café or kroog is in English a public bar. A coffee shop is a café selling weed, snunk or hash but these days in a separated section of the café for which there is no English equivalent. A snack bar sells (unhealthy) snacks and cans of beer and other soft drinks and has limited seating (McDonald does not sell beer). A coffee bar is Starbucks and there is no other. We have plenty of bistro's.
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Here no all cafés have croissants or chocolate rolls to sell with the coffee ... paradoxically enough, if you want some bastryh with your coffee, you better go to a good bakery.
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Svartalf wrote:Here no all cafés have croissants or chocolate rolls to sell with the coffee ... paradoxically enough, if you want some bastryh with your coffee, you better go to a good bakery.
The patisseries in France are little pieces of heaven transported down to earth for us to have a little taste of what it is like up there...
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I like the coffee in France. French coffee and croissants go just right together. Shame you don't get the smell of Gauloises or Citanes wafting around so much. The combination is as French as a sweaty armpit.Svartalf wrote:Here no all cafés have croissants or chocolate rolls to sell with the coffee ... paradoxically enough, if you want some bastryh with your coffee, you better go to a good bakery.
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well, I'm a bit more critical about French coffee because a) too much robusta, b) French roast is really too much.
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If people like it that way, then it's the best. Coffee has no other purpose.Svartalf wrote:well, I'm a bit more critical about French coffee because a) too much robusta, b) French roast is really too much.
It's the similar argument to Scotch. People think that single malty peaty bollocks is the best because it costs the most. But it only costs the most because it's rare. And it's rare because people generally prefer blended.
The fact that a small number of people are happy to pay silly prices for something doesn't make it the best.
When a big number of people want it, that's the true best.
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