Rant Thread

I really should learn to drink coffee. Just so I can say "yes" when it's being offered to me. I might've in total have drunk half a cup throughout my 30 years.

Thing is though, it just tastes really bad, no matter how much milk or other stuff you put in it.
 
I had 3 phone calls in previous 24 hours from ex-clients or recommendations, for my previous job. I am still great at doing those, really lifts me up when they call me, despite no financial gains from it.

Starting in June, I started writing an e-mail to main company mailbox with client contact details, whenever I get a call, so that the fucker who fired me knows where the clients are coming from. I'm only really doing it to help the people who are still there as coronavirus hit them hard financially, but if they all leave, I'm thinking of just doing the same job again myself as a side-gig.

I was super annoying today with stuff like "client who loved working with me last time" or "a client who recommended me to this person because she was super happy with the service I provided", I just know that the fucker will get annoyed with that :D

I'm thinking that once I reach 20th mail (currently at 15), I can say they should really give me some commission for this.
 
Yax said:
Thing is though, it just tastes really bad, no matter how much milk or other stuff you put in it.
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Here’s the thing: I used to only like coffee after having dumped a shitload of sugar and / or creamer into it, but that just kills the purpose of coffee and is a terrific way to bring on health issues. So I just stopped drinking coffee, except when I’m in Germany. My grandparents have a really really good coffee there that tastes great and I can drink it black. Much better than the cheap, watered down stuff I’ve found in the States, and I really don’t have the energy to find more premium brands.
 
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LooseCannon said:
Get yourself a cuppa joe to get those energy levels up.
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It's a catch-22: you need energy to get coffee, but you need coffee to get energy. Or, of course, you could just sidestep the whole issue and not drink the stuff. I only like coffee in cakes.
 
I've noticed that the caffeine in tea and energy drinks doesn't in fact give me any extra energy or cheer me up. It doesn't really do anything, except delays falling asleep in the evening.
 
I'm not addicted to caffeine or coffee in any sense of the word. I'd rather not have coffee than have a bad coffee.

However I am from a coffee loving culture and such things as "I can't sleep at night if I have coffee at noon" simply don't exist because you get exposed to it at a young age (most people drink coffee - your parents drink coffee and it's off limits to you - must be cool stuff) via white coffee (a bowl of milk with some coffee in it).

When I was in college I had to make a fucking bowl of black, Turkish style, in order to keep me awake from late evening until early morning.
 
Saapanael said:
Why did you want to stay awake all night?
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Some courses required a hefty amount of theory. So if the exam was in the morning I would sit down with the book and memorize stuff.

Magnus said:
a.k.a. "Greek coffee" in Greece*, and domaća in Serbia, if I remember correctly.
*Ordering "Turkish coffee" in Greece, oh the scandal.
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We call it black coffee or Turkish coffee. Since all you require is a pot and some water this is the kind that is usually prepared at home. However, if you sit down in a bar, and ask just for "coffee", you are getting espresso.

In proto-coffee times here was Italy and Ottoman Empire was around the corner. Therefore the distinction in "Turkish coffee" - the preparation style arrived from the Balkans which were dubbed Turkish lands at the time.

More and more people are going for some sort of machine at home too, espresso machines, Mocca...Turkish coffee has its drawbacks, mainly if you don't want to drink a lot of liquid (not good for the stomach sometimes), and it's a bit messy with the fundach (the coffee sediment that's left after preparation)


Edit : This rant is due to the fact that in the coffee world Lavazza is good stuff while Barcaffe tends to be modern sweteened bullshit.
 
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