I have a coworker who buys tea at Starbucks. That to me is totally nuts -- you can buy the same tea bags they use for like a one-zillionth of the price!
The tea at Starbucks isn't anything special, either.
It's good to have cargo. Makes us a target for every other scavenger out there, though, but sometimes that's fun too.
Mal ,'Shindig'
Natter 55: It's the 55th Natter
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Tom Scola - Dec 04, 2007 8:35:52 am PST #5397 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
tommyrot - Dec 04, 2007 8:36:44 am PST #5398 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Good, 'cause it's pretty much, isn't that a weird logo, I bet there's some conspiracy behind it.
Well, the Starbucks logo once had nipples. Then they removed them. Then for some anniversary thingie they put the nipples back. Then people got mad. Then aliens created alien/human hybrids.
beekaytee - Dec 04, 2007 8:37:34 am PST #5399 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
you can always counteroffer. He sounds like a lazy sack, so he may work with you so that he doesn't have to find a new tenant.
He is absolutely that. Plus so cheap it forces him to tell lies like, "Um, they don't make locks for that security door anymore so...too bad." And why it took him a full two years to replace the kitchen faucet, also 'not made anymore'.
Having me leave would require him to replace the carpet, repair significant cracks in the walls, repaint, replace the washer/dryer unit (busted knob I just use a clamp to operate) and disclose the lead paint hazard to any potential client (this will be my parting gift to him, whenever I leave). And, considering it took him 6 years to do the initial renovation (and I moved in before it was even finished), that would mean he'd lose his $1800 per month AND all the renovation costs.
I just don't know how to frame the counter argument or what to even suggest.
Gudanov - Dec 04, 2007 8:38:09 am PST #5400 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
I like reading Tom's Hardware for computer hardware news (yeah, yeah I'm a geek) but I couldn't read their holiday guide article after I clicked on it. The cheesecake factor is just too embarrassing to actually read the article.
Jesse - Dec 04, 2007 8:39:00 am PST #5401 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
The tea at Starbucks isn't anything special, either.
Right?? I mean, for hot tea, they put the Tazo bag in the hot water, right?
Kat, you drink Arnold Palmers, right? That makes sense to me to buy out.
Gudanov - Dec 04, 2007 8:39:43 am PST #5402 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
Gud is a FREAK! GET HIM!
Actually, I generally avoid drinking anything served hot. It's a thing.
flea - Dec 04, 2007 8:40:31 am PST #5403 of 10001
information libertarian
Iced coffee! Frapuccino!
beekaytee - Dec 04, 2007 8:41:25 am PST #5404 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
Gud is a FREAK! GET HIM!
I am Gud, except that frappachinoes hold an unwholesome attraction to me. I've never understood it, except perhaps for instant karma making me pay for the mocking of my DexH for having a little coffee with his milk and sugar.
Dana - Dec 04, 2007 8:42:31 am PST #5405 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Coffee is nasty.
Miracleman - Dec 04, 2007 8:43:13 am PST #5406 of 10001
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
Frappawhatevers are not coffee.
Lattes are not coffee.
Tea is not coffee.
Mocha is barely coffee, but with a decidedly suspicious...one might even say unpatriotic...uncoffee flavor.
Coffee...and coffee alone...is coffee.
...
SO DECREES DOOM!!