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Re: April Moron's Day approaches

From Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.misc, comp.sys.mac.system
Subject Re: April Moron's Day approaches
Date 2015-04-02 13:44 +1200
Organization Aioe.org NNTP Server
Message-ID <020420151344387921%YourName@YourISP.com> (permalink)
References (1 earlier) <551aca1f$0$19819$c3e8da3$33881b6a@news.astraweb.com> <010420150853325266%YourName@YourISP.com> <551be9b3$0$58006$b1db1813$65575428@news.astraweb.com> <020420150853139786%YourName@YourISP.com> <mfhpvk$lsf$1@dont-email.me>

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In article <mfhpvk$lsf$1@dont-email.me>, John McWilliams
<jpmcw@comcast.net> wrote:
> On 4/1/15   PDT 1:53 PM, Your Name wrote:
> > In article <551be9b3$0$58006$b1db1813$65575428@news.astraweb.com>, Joe
> > <joe@nospam.com> wrote:
> >> On 3/31/2015 3:53 PM, Your Name wrote:
> >>> Nobody uses a coffee machine these days ... they all go down the road
> >>> to the coffee shop and pay five times the price for a coffee in a
> >>> plastic / polsytrene / eco-degradable cup.
> >>
> >> The coffee is free at work, so most coffee drinkers take full advantage
> >> of it.  Not being a coffee drinker, this doesn't benefit me at all.
> >> There's also free soda (two fountain dispensers in two separate areas of
> >> the building).  The free soda mostly doesn't benefit me.
> >
> > Most people take full advantage alright, even having their breakfast
> > cereal at work using office milk!
> >
> > "Nobody" was hyperbole, BUT many people are actually snobs. They can't
> > be seen drinking instant or office coffee. They must go out (to waste
> > more time) and buy it from coffee shop made by an "expert barrista in a
> > cup proudly displaying the logo of Starbucks / The Coffee Club / etc.
> 
> There are no- ok, maybe a few- expert barristas at Starbucks.

I did put it in quotes (although the closing one went missing thanks to
a typo). I really only used Starbucks because it's a brand Americans
would know.



> Support your local espresso house!

They don't need support ... their over-pricing gives them plenty of
support.

There's actually one small privately owned coffee shop in the central
city that sells coffee at about half the price of the big brand shops.

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