Poll: Smoking cigarette in this century.
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As for Starbucks, I don't like Starbucks because they don't know how to make a decent cup of tea.
I presume they also don't know how to make decent spaghetti. You know, being a coffee shop.
When I fancy tea, I go to tea shop. Or just make my own.
Sure, but at that price point, people expect distinctive flavors and the like, which they actually used to have when they sold 30 or so different blends.
I remember there being a "blend of the day" for drip coffee, and at a fairly reasonable price too. Not sure about the espresso.
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When they're running a shop in a country that is infamously known for its tea, and they list tea up there at the top of the menu next to the standard coffee, I'd assume they would take some care... but no.
Which is why I go to an independent place that cares about its tea as much as it cares about its coffee. Not that I drink coffee anyway.
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Actually, I don't get all this Starbucks hate. I mean, they're damn expensive, but on the rare occasion I've tried their coffee, it's actually pretty good.
I'd suggest avoiding the one in Newcastle Airport (NCL) if you're ever near the place - the stuff they serve tastes like mud. At least it did the one and only time I've had coffee from Starbucks.
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Actually, I don't get all this Starbucks hate. I mean, they're damn expensive, but on the rare occasion I've tried their coffee, it's actually pretty good.
Their filter isn't too bad, provided it's really freshly brewed. If you want truly good coffee, you go elsewhere (and pay 3–4 times as much while taking a whole lot longer over it).
Non-fresh coffee isn't nice, whoever makes it. The act of keeping it hot burns the flavours.
What, you thought all those hipster kids sitting at Starbucks with their Macs were coding?
I thought they were drinking lightly caffeinated milk drinks, aka lattes, and not coffees.
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I'd suggest avoiding the one in Newcastle Airport (NCL) if you're ever near the place
I just try to avoid NCL altogether. The only time I've been there, I was far too busy trying to find a taxi to take me home (several hours down the A1) due to the damn airline deciding to cancel my real flight and put me on another one to the
butt-end of nowheresunny Newcastle.I even managed to make my dental appointment that day.
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Italian espresso is pretty good too. My theory is that any Italian worth the name won't touch coffee unless it is awesomely good, and so even cheap coffee bars produce a fine product.
Filed under: quadrupleespressoisgreatbutsometimescanleaveyouabitjitteryandmayimpactonattentionspantoo
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…But that makes it harder to find an excuse to take a random walk…
Exactly — I love my smoke breaks: "accidentally" leave the cell phone on my desk, take a nice walk outside around the block/warehouse with no-one calling with an emergency (rain or shine, snow or sleet). If I didn't smoke I'd end up in the break-room where every f'n chuckle-head can bother me.
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I solved this one by having a co-worker that I got on really well with who smoked. She took her cigarette break outside, I went with her, we had a chat and a laugh about stuff that couldn't really be said inside cubicles, I got away from the droolies and she got her nicotine fix.
It also made very convenient 'come on' moments when the workplace WTFery was about to explode because she was more vocal about it than I was (she was the 'get mad' kind, back then I was the 'get even' kind)
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LOL, I have a smoking buddy as well. She's the worry and obsess type, I'm the 'get mad' + 'get ahead' + 'salt the ground'/'nuke' type. I have actually been written up for asking someone "If I have to do your job as well, why are you even employed here‽", then they burst into tears and ran to momma HR…
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Given the WTFs in our team, you'd be surprised how often I had to pull the 'come on!' moment to avoid stand up hissy fit in the team with a different co-worker that I would have loved to have gotten fired if only I could have figured out a way to get rid of her that didn't constitute constructive dismissal.
Filed under: As for HR, you can't spell 'who cares' without it.
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I have actually been written up for asking someone "If I have to do your job as well, why are you even employed here‽"
Interesting story? Or just bog-standard stuff..
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When they're running a shop in a country that is infamously known for its tea, and they list tea up there at the top of the menu next to the standard coffee, I'd assume they would take some care... but no.
Which is why I go to an independent place that cares about its tea as much as it cares about its coffee. Not that I drink coffee anyway.
Best chai is always made at various tapris in India.
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Best chai is always made at various tapris in India.
That may well be true, but your pictures suggest to me that these are the sort of places that should not be patronized by those without immunity to the local strains of E. coli, Shigella, Salmonella, etc.
Filed under: Bacterial gastrenteritis
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That may well be true, but your pictures suggest to me that these are the sort of places that should not be patronized by those without immunity to the local strains of <i>E. coli</i>, <i>Shigella</i>, <i>Salmonella</i>, etc.
<small>Filed under: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traveler's_diarrhea" title="Traveler's_diarrhea">Bacterial gastrenteritis</a></small>
Wrong, wrong and twice wrong. Just remember NOT TO EAT anything if you are not immune to local starlings of bacteria.
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Interesting story? Or just bog-standard stuff..
Basically just your bog-standard lazy ass people… Just today I sent an email with a boiled down TL;DR version of some attached important documentation, explaining some of the finer points and implications of said documents. The recipient calls me. This is just an excerpt, the other parts of the call had my cube-neighbor say "Geez, and people wonder why you get bitchy!" :
"I don't understand this…"
"What don't you understand about it?"
"All of it…"
"Did you even read the email, and the documents?"
"Um… Ah…"
"How about you actually read the email and documents, and call me back with your questions. After discussing it with your manager. OK?"
"Ah… OK…"
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Holy fuck. I didn't realize they would be so big.
That's what she said.
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UPDATE: Just got an SMS from the person's manager:
wtf.wtf. i'll handle this <person> still doesn't understand. explained 2x. can I borrow cluebat?
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Happy ending. Maybe.
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Happy ending. Maybe.
With my luck, more like this one:
<mark>NSFW</mark> Click to expand
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Wait, there are spoiler tags in Discourse?
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Yep, more or less look here for how I did it.
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That's sort of cool and terrible at the same time. I knew there was a reason I liked bbcode for things that didn't conveniently match HTML constructs ;)
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Huge spoiler
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This post is deleted!
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@boomzilla said:
Holy fuck. I didn't realize they would be so big.
That's what she said.
Wrong: that was what you wished she said. Instead of running away screaming.
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Yep, more or less look here for how I did it.
I'm more interested in how you figured it out...
New FAQ based off it btw.
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Wrong: that was what you wished she said. Instead of running away screaming.
That's what you wished she did. Instead of running away laughing.
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It's mentioned in the markdown tutorial…
It only seems to work in Chrome, though, see The Forum FAQ
Filed Under: Holy shit is it hard to type when DirectType is making random letters disappear
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It's mentioned in the markdown tutorial…
.. and, as someone pointed out, it's Chrome only....
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That's because you're using that newfangled Innernet Explora thang.
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That's because you're using that newfangled Innernet Explora thang.
I remote into a VM at my client office and surf from there. That does not let me install browsers, just use ones it has. They have severe flavours of IE on other VM's. TRWTF is access VM via VM.
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I remote into a VM at my client office and surf from there. That does not let me install browsers, just use ones it has. They have severe flavours of IE on other VM's. TRWTF is access VM via VM.
Bah, just
wget
the site and read it usingless
. Noob.
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Literally stumbled across html5-details-summary-tags, and thought "Hey let's give'r a try…".
Did not notice the "Chrome Only" stuff :(.But @codinghorror and @sam, that link has some work arounds for other browsers listed, may be a RFE??
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Oooh! A tutorial… runs off to read...
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Wait, a spoiler tag is now part of the HTML specification? What is the world COMING TO?!
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THEY STILL HAVEN'T ADDED A <sarcasm> TAG
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Surely a sarcasm tag was far more important than spoilers, or heck, even more important than a silly little tag for playing noise in a format that may or may not be supported?
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How about a tag that does nothing unless you use another language with it?
Or
threekindsofstrikethrough?
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I thought at least two of those kinds of strikethrough were supposed to be deprecated by now...