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[challenge entry] i love a cup of char

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(grotpig, Fri 11 Jan 2013, 7:27, archived)
# I was talking about this just the other day
how are the high streets so full of coffee shops when the old British tea rooms died a death?
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Fri 11 Jan 2013, 7:41, archived)
# retail invasion by other countries
personally I hate coffee, can't stand the stuff
(I helped save b3ta! Haku Orange Whip? Orange Whip? Three Orange Whips., Fri 11 Jan 2013, 7:44, archived)
# Stainless steel teapots that dribbled and were too hot to pick up,
and cartons of UHT milk didn't help.
(I helped save b3ta! Chumps 👀, Fri 11 Jan 2013, 7:44, archived)
# because bad tea is undrinkable
but no one notices when coffee is badly made, cos it already tastes rank, but people are too concerned with looking cool to say so
(I helped save b3ta! mictoboy shitting in your cunt since, Fri 11 Jan 2013, 7:55, archived)
# I think you may be on to something
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Fri 11 Jan 2013, 8:06, archived)
# that seems fair.
there have been a few places that have tried to be tea shops, but they've never been as fashionable as coffee shops to the general public.
(I helped save b3ta! Thor_sonofodin has done things, terrible things on, Fri 11 Jan 2013, 8:11, archived)
# every time I say "that coffee smells like dirt"
someone always replies "well it was ground this morning"


/coat
(I helped save b3ta! Haku Orange Whip? Orange Whip? Three Orange Whips., Fri 11 Jan 2013, 8:14, archived)
# and it was monkey shit the previous night
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Fri 11 Jan 2013, 8:20, archived)
# Not really
the coffee on the Dutch train stations is so much more rank, that people became aware of its various appearances of rankness. The coffee in the coffee shop chains is just slightly less rank and/or masked by copious amounts of sugar and fat.
(I helped save b3ta! mediocre ha ha ha, you're reading this, Fri 11 Jan 2013, 8:47, archived)
# I don't think no one notices
they've just been brainwashed into believeing that coffee should taste shit, because most of them sell shit coffee.

If all you can buy is shit coffee, you'll believe that's how coffee tastes.

(I helped save b3ta! Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Fri 11 Jan 2013, 8:55, archived)
# Black with no sugar and you soon work out where to avoid...
(I helped save b3ta! Larry Death Anger Pain Fear Aggression, Fri 11 Jan 2013, 9:30, archived)
# Yes, coffee shops
(I helped save b3ta! DinivanX Has stinging piss after drinking Pact Coffee, Fri 11 Jan 2013, 9:56, archived)
#
It seems everyone is prepared to allow someone else to make their coffee, but the world can get to fuck if it tries to make their tea.
(UTB, Fri 11 Jan 2013, 10:20, archived)
# Tea rooms are generally full of ornery old women and chintz.
I don't know about you, but that just doesn't do it for me.
(I helped save b3ta! jonbob loves you, Fri 11 Jan 2013, 7:56, archived)
# I was in one the other day
Half- full of families, and the waitress was seriously fit. Whoop Woop!
(I helped save b3ta! mictoboy shitting in your cunt since, Fri 11 Jan 2013, 7:57, archived)
# there's a great one in St Albans the used to have the best bacon sandwich on the planet
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Fri 11 Jan 2013, 8:21, archived)
# Is that a euphemism?
(I helped save b3ta! Ghoti Fingers, Fri 11 Jan 2013, 8:46, archived)
# Coffee is seen as a slightly stronger stimulant, perhaps
(macroscian (1 like), Fri 11 Jan 2013, 7:57, archived)
# Whereever Location, Location, Location go
they always seem to find a tea room. Mainly oop north.

My missus has been bemoaning this very fact also
(I helped save b3ta! Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Fri 11 Jan 2013, 8:56, archived)
# "FRIENDS" and their Central Jerk are to blame
While I was at Uni I saw the coffee shops pop up and groups of "FREINDS" trying to re-create the sitting around posing, pretending they lived in NY
(I helped save b3ta! Q4nobody, Fri 11 Jan 2013, 9:17, archived)
# "FRIENDS", you say?
"FRIENDS"
(I helped save b3ta! Hol[]y - WHAT CAN THE HARVEST HOPE FOR, Fri 11 Jan 2013, 9:57, archived)
# hahaha
Love that
(I helped save b3ta! Q4nobody, Fri 11 Jan 2013, 10:20, archived)
# because tea is seen as cheap
people will happily pay £3.50 for coffee (ooh, exotic, from remotest Colombia) but feel ripped off at £1.50 for tea, mainly because they know it's just a teabag from ASDA and hot water
(I helped save b3ta! Mighty Nibus who dares gins | @nibus, Fri 11 Jan 2013, 9:44, archived)
# Fact.
I don't mind if it's a posh teabag though, like a Teapigs one. Furthermore, there is a place in Twickenham what does reet nice tea, in a pot, with leaves and everything, even for takeaway, which is ace.

And other musings.
(I helped save b3ta! Hol[]y - WHAT CAN THE HARVEST HOPE FOR, Fri 11 Jan 2013, 10:00, archived)
#
The truth.
(I helped save b3ta! Jabberwoc misses D.R. and Quinch, Fri 11 Jan 2013, 15:31, archived)