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post #211 of 214
11/21/09 at 2:24am
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Originally Posted by saint View Post
Like audiophiles, coffee geeks are a useful segment of society. They put out huge amounts of posts discussing in minute detail every product, in their particular area of interest, out there. What's not to like? You can get tons of info with little effort and make an informed decision after spending a few minutes digesting the reviews and the counter-posts.

+1. But nobody likes the following:
"I bought a new Krups grinder last night. I'm very pleased with the results so far"
"Krups is an awful choice. You'll get undrinkable results, but you probably aren't drinking single-origin coffee anyways"

as I've said before, look at each individual post in the wines thread and you wont see anything close to some of the harsher posts on this particular thread.
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post #212 of 214
11/21/09 at 2:26am
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Originally Posted by Fuuma View Post
Just go to Seattle for a few days and come back to me...

Art of life cultures have this inferiority complex about them that makes their proponent prone to overcompensating. Not that they're not on to something, comparing coffee to music or dance would just be ludicrous, it's just a nice, everyday thing that you can appreciate but not a noble pursuit that touches the sublime UNLESS you manage to build a culture around it that aims at some form of transcendence, like the Japanese did with tea.

Do you see wine as passing the above test?
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post #213 of 214
11/21/09 at 2:36am
I don't like wine cocks either. I make it a priority to not be one of them.
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post #214 of 214
11/21/09 at 3:24pm
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Originally Posted by BB1 View Post
Do you see wine as passing the above test?
Totally, we have a real wine culture in the western world and it is not chiefly aimed at single 30something white males. It has been going on for a long time, has its institutions and its myths. Having gathered recognition oenophiles usually don't bug me with their pretensions, they're happy to share but non-combative. This is, of course, a generalization. I like reading girl's Japanese comics, they're fun and full of (melo)drama. I'm not going to pretend I don't think the average male fan isn't some fat swine living in his mom's basement and spending his time masturbating to underage cartoon porn or fucking anime character pillows.
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