http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2827771Oh my.
The large-proboscised primitive, the one who doesn't like rural people.
Cyrano (1000+ posts) Wed Feb-06-08 09:36 PM
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Over $1,300 bucks a year for coffee??
That's what I'd been spending either at Starbucks or some other "gourmet" coffee shop.
There I was, a full-time devout liberal, standing in line every morning and too many noontimes, waiting for the privilege of throwing away money. And one day it occurred to me that there are too many people in the world who don't make that much in a year.
My liberal guilt got to me and I started buying coffee in the supermarket, making it myself, and taking a thermos full of it along with me.
It hasn't helped those who earn too little, but it sure as hell has helped me to stop hanging up so quickly on charity calls, or throwing away "junk mail." Much of the money I was literally pissing away, now goes to organizations like Doctors Without Borders.
Perhaps I'm not saving the world, but at least I've assuaged my "liberal guilt." And I just might be making a tiny bit of difference with those contributions.
Think about it the next time you're standing there waiting to pay far too much for a hit of caffeine.
It's a big blazing bonfire, but these primitive comments confuse me:
Lex (1000+ posts) Wed Feb-06-08 09:39 PM
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5. Starbucks coffee sucks so bad they'd have to pay ME to drink it.
Over-roasted beans are their specialty apparently. No wonder people have to put all the sugar and whipped cream and vanilla syrup in it to stand it. Ugh.
marmar (1000+ posts) Wed Feb-06-08 09:40 PM
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6. I kicked my $20 a week soy latte habit at 'Bucks....
... and honestly, if it wasn't for all the soy milk taking the bite out of their over-roasted beans, their coffee would taste like a cup of dirt water.
Now, someone feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but I was always under the impression that Starbucks is one of those politically-correct businesses, like Ben & Jerky's Ice Cream in Vermont, and that primitives supported Starbucks.
What's up with that?
And there's a lot of primitives finding things wrong with their politically-correct coffee
haus.
In case anyone's curious, here's a short comment from the primitive who posted the longest comment, ever, to be seen on Skins's island yesterday, in that beefing bonfire:
Lorien (1000+ posts) Wed Feb-06-08 10:37 PM
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20. I have a friend who is still renting a crappy duplex at age 46
he and his wife have long dreamed of owning a home, but they don't have enough squirreled away for a downpayment. He spends roughly $7 a day on Starbucks chai. Even at only 300 day of buying chai per year, that's $2,100.00. They've been in the crappy duplex for 10 years. Had they set aside his chai money alone, they would have had 21,000.00 for a down payment by now. Add her Starbucks habit into the mix and it would have brought them to about $34,000.00. The little things really add up! When I mentioned this to my friend he became somewhat depressed about it-but he still has two chais each day.
One can always immediately identify primitives trying to be hip, cool, trendy, with-it, when they use the Ukrainian word
chai instead of the English word
tea.
Stupid primitives, trying so desperately to be cool.