LARRY

Have a great week everyone!

Yeah Unseen, i know of Timmy H. He is big time big money in Canada. Have heard it is on a par with my local favorite chain, Dunkin Donuts.

I like private tea houses and coffee shops. Some of those tea houses have amazing tea that is just makes the mundane earl greys look like dog poop. And i’ve learned making tea is an art. I think it is far far…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
Starbucks sucks. There coffee is not very good. Coffee is a great drug. I did not start drinking it until i was a young adult. I used to jump around, up and down, talk in tongues and be generally more nuts than normal. Like a mild for of speed with nice mood elevation. By now it is so mild that i wonder if i should stop drinking…

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I’m not anti-Starbucks per se. Like most franchises, it has its place. But in Vancouver they were like unchecked mold growth. One time a Starbucks mildly exploded, and within a few weeks another one opened just down the street to replace it.

But the only thing I ever really want from them is eggnog lattes when in season. I don’t do it anymore…[Read more]

I worked with a guy who went there twice a day, 5 days a week and spent ~7 to 10 bucks each time. I mentioned to him one day; that’s around $4,000 0r $5,000 a year. Later that week he brought a coffee machine to work and said it’ll cost him about 0.75 a cup now.

Starbucks sucks. There coffee is not very good.

Coffee is a great drug. I did not start drinking it until i was a young adult. I used to jump around, up and down, talk in tongues and be generally more nuts than normal. Like a mild for of speed with nice mood elevation.

By now it is so mild that i wonder if i should stop drinking it for a…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Book ban attempts reach record high in 2022, American Library Association report says.

There is a school board in the neighbouring district which has made headlines far too many times in recent years. More recently, parents have been protesting some of the books carried at certain high school libraries. Dissatisfied…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
World of Woo: No more Starbucks coffee for me.  It will also save me about $5 per year.

I think it’s kind of fun, but as an Aries I can say that because I’m not susceptible to hokum like astrology. I know that because it said so in my horoscope this morning.

That said, I don’t have much reason to go to Starbucks…[Read more]

Thank you, thank you Strega!

Conspiracy theories in general are low status—as David Aaronovitch argues in Voodoo Histories, they are a way for the marginalised and uneducated to feel superior and perceptive.

True, but the conspiracy-stricken folks I personally know are not really marginalised. The just think they are. 60 plus years old and still dragging themselves each mo…[Read more]

Have a great week everyone!

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Report: LGBTQ Americans tend to be younger and have no religion

Some interpret this data as evidence that being queer/ trans is a contagion. Some interpret it as evidence that acceptance matters and that more accepting societies make it easier for people to be themselves. Pretty confident we’d see a strong…[Read more]

Thanks, Reg

Have a great week everyone!

Reg,

Normally, I don’t get into news stories consisting entirely of Twitter feeds, but this one below that I came across on the SmartNews app was just breathtaking and fantastic!

Before anyone gets rhapsodic and verklempt at the mention of the word “Democracy,” here is an example of what unlimited Democracy really means…and one brave man…[Read more]

@Autumn – As more people shed their share of religion, instead of dissipating into the air, it concentrates in the remaining believers until it’s exploding out their asses.

That reminds me of the Hitchens quote about Jerry Falwell;

“If you gave [Jerry] Falwell an enema he could be buried in a matchbox.”

_Robert_ wrote:
In contrast, I feel that the US is codifying more religious bullshit now…than I can ever remember.

There is a wave of strong polarization sweeping many nations around the world. It’s almost like there is a given concentration of religiosity that has to be present in the overall population at all times. As more people shed their s…[Read more]