Things That Are Bothering You, Got You All Hibbeldy-Jibbeldy, or just downright pissed, RIGHT NOW!

[imatlas]



We have two coffee dispensers in the office kitchen, one for regular coffee (we have a selection of different grounds) and one for flavored coffee. The convention is that when somebody makes a fresh pot they leave the empty packet by the dispenser so folks will know what they're drinking. Occasionally (like this morning) someone will make make flavored coffee in the regular dispenser (annoying enough already) and not label it as such. I take a sip of what I expect to be the pure black crack and instead get a mouthful of some horrible flavored crap.

I just don't get flavored coffee. That **** tastes like industrial waste to me.

 

[Piobaire]

Flavoured coffee is coffee for people that do not like the taste of coffee.

 

[b1os]

Just watched a live broadcast of the Berliner Philarmoniker conducter by Claudio Abbado. Whenever there were closeups of Claudio Abbado, the audience was visible (obviously) and one gentleman wore a tie in the colour which is from now on known to mankind as the brightest red of all bright reds. It was seriously distracting.

 

[Connemara]

The heavy rain here stopped in early afternoon, but it's still very grey and drizzling.

 

[aravenel]



Flavoured coffee is coffee for people that do not like the taste of coffee.

Absolutely this.

Though I will say that a dash of cinnamon in the grounds is great if you are drinking coffee after dinner, like at a dinner party or whatever. But that's not really the same thing.

 

[imatlas]



Flavoured coffee is coffee for people that like the taste of industrial waste.

FTFY

 

[in stitches]



Flavoured coffee is coffee for people that do not like the taste of coffee.

what if you like some half and half and a pack of raw sugar. is that not the taste of coffee as well?

 

[aravenel]



what if you like some half and half and a pack of raw sugar. is that not the taste of coffee as well?

OK, that definitely does not fall into the category of "flavored coffee".

 

[L'Incandescent]

Anyone who waters down coffee (with water) does not enjoy the taste of coffee. The true connoisseur eats the coffee beans.

 

[imatlas]

As long as they're coated in good quality chocolate I'm down with that.

 

[in stitches]



OK, that definitely does not fall into the category of "flavored coffee".

 

[munchausen]



Flavoured coffee is coffee for people that do not like the taste of coffee.

I normally agree with you but there's a local company that makes a chocolate coffee that's really subtle and natural tasting. I wouldn't drink it every day but it's really nice sometimes when it's cold out.

 

[acidboy]



Flavoured coffee is coffee for people that do not like the taste of coffee.

now we have lemon and apple flavored beer here. and I think its picking up sales. seriously, what the **** is wrong with people???

 

[patrickBOOTH]

I have the same feeling about people who like herbal tea. Like one tea leaf with a bunch of sticks and berries.

 

[edinatlanta]



So I have this thing about being super efficient in airport security lines. I don't wear my belt and watch until after security, I always travel with a jacket with big pockets so that all my stuff is securely in it well before I approach the scanners..even.part of the reason why I switched to ipad mini is because it fits in a jacket pocket .

Which of course means that 100% of the time, I am standing there with shoes, toiletry kit and carryon bag neatly binned, fuming while everybody else takes forever.

I realize that I do this to myself but still.....

Pro tip: leave your toiletries in your bag. I always fly with a regular stick of deodorant, sometimes regular tube of toothpaste, and just leave them in my bag. These are larger than the size mandates and I've never been caught. Flown out of the country's newest and best international terminal to rinky-dink domestic ones never had an issue. I would assume if you have metal containers it might be different.

Most watches don't have enough metal to set off a detector. A submariner weighs 135g and you need 170g to trip a detector.

If you have to do the body image scanner it won't matter, IIRC.

I just returned home an hour ago from a trip to Asia and experienced this phenomenon over and over again at multiple airports. I'm all about efficiently getting in and out; yet, others are not. Even worse, they have the audacity to get an attitude when I go around them. Just as bad is when people don't remove their bins and bags immediately after it is scanned. It really ticks me off when people stand there holding up everyone else as they put their shoes on and empty the bins. I always grab my bags and bins and get away from the conveyor as soon as they come through.
I can't recall ever removing my watch at an airport.

So when I was flying out of Reagan last week, I clearly have both hands full, I'm holding nobody up and I have my stuff on the belt. Some manatee-beast of a TSA agent comes up and is like "WHOSE BAG IS THIS" (still in its bin). I was like "yeah, that's mine" and again, you could clearly see I'm occupied. She takes it out of the bin, shoves it in my chest and I was like "What the ****?" and put it back down on the belt because my hands were still ******* full.

If you say things that make sense, that will help the conversation go a little bit better.

Well the good news is that me and my GF (again, not GreenFrog) had a good time and my fears were unjustified, which I knew they were going in. Only alluded to SF once and there was context for it. Anyway, we had a great time. Probably should have made some semblance of a plan but it was fun in Charleston nevertheless. Avoided all the rain both home and there. Had a great time on the beach on Sunday. I know its still early in our relationship, not going to rush anything but man... there's something special about this one.

That said, we ate a TON of good food and its been like two weeks since I went to the gym Gotta rectify that now.

And on the way back we stopped at the outlet mall and I kopped a **** ton of stuff. Nice new Brooks Brothers shirt for a slight discount, three ties for the price of one, a pair of AE Park Avenue in Walnut for like, 66% off and two pairs of Adidas shoes, one for running and one for the gym for like, 25 each. Was upset they didn't have boxing boots.

Anyway, that pissed me off because an already expensive weekend was made even more so.