COVID-19 'Pandemic'

gerryh

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Yeah. I knew you wouldn't.


Sounds like some pansy drink from Starbucks. Was in there once. Asked for a coffee to have them ask what kind. I said a normal ****ing coffee. Ended up walking over to timmies. Never been back.
 

Blackleaf

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They're not.

It'd be interesting if he can produce the figures to back up his dubious statement.

In the UK, 7% of deaths are aged 40-59, with 26 (1%) aged 20-39 and three (0.1%) aged 0-19 (2nd April).

So to say this disease is ravaging the young is just more hysterical scaremongering fake news.
 
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Blackleaf

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Sounds like some pansy drink from Starbucks. Was in there once. Asked for a coffee to have them ask what kind. I said a normal ****ing coffee. Ended up walking over to timmies. Never been back.

I'm not a big coffee drinker, but each time I arrive at work I get a cappuccino from the machine in the canteen. Price: 30p.

Same during the two lunch breaks. 30p cappuccino, plus my grub, while I do The Sun's crossword (although today I attempted the kakuro).

I need that cappuccino to stay awake because I spend most of the eight hours each day driving, and I don't fancy crashing into racking or running some numpty over. It gets a bit boring the scanner on my arm telling me to go to RA-AX6-17-2, then RA-AS07-29-1, then RA-AF1-32-1 and any of the hundreds of other picking locations there are 100-odd times a day. It's like bingo.
 
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gerryh

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I'm not a big coffee drinker, but each time I arrive at work I get a cappuccino from the machine in the canteen. Price: 30p.
Same during the two lunch breaks. 30p cappuccino, plus my grub, while I do The Sun's crossword (although today I attempted the kakuro).
I need that cappuccino to stay awake because I spend most of the eight hours each day driving, and I don't fancy crashing into racking or running some numpty over. It gets a bit boring the scanner on my arm telling me to go to RA-AX6-17-2, then RA-AS07-29-1, then RA-AF1-32-1 and any of the hundreds of other picking locations there are. It's like bingo.

Ya, cappuccino, my wife likes those too. You also wear a "manbun"?
 

Tecumsehsbones

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Sounds like some pansy drink from Starbucks. Was in there once. Asked for a coffee to have them ask what kind. I said a normal ****ing coffee. Ended up walking over to timmies. Never been back.
Back before Starbucks took over, there were about three coffee shops per block in most U.S. cities, generally independently owned. A friend of mine was raving about them, so I went to one with him. Asked the counter drone. . . 'scuse me. . . barista if he could make a Navy coffee. He was fascinated, wanted to know what it was. So I told him you put three times the recommended amount of an ordinary American brand like Folgers or Maxwell House in a coffee maker that hasn't been cleaned in 20 years, run it through, then let it set on an overheated burner for four hours in a room full of vaporized engine oil.

The look on his face was priceless.
 

gerryh

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Back before Starbucks took over, there were about three coffee shops per block in most U.S. cities, generally independently owned. A friend of mine was raving about them, so I went to one with him. Asked the counter drone. . . 'scuse me. . . barista if he could make a Navy coffee. He was fascinated, wanted to know what it was. So I told him you put three times the recommended amount of an ordinary American brand like Folgers or Maxwell House in a coffee maker that hasn't been cleaned in 20 years, run it through, then let it set on an overheated burner for four hours in a room full of vaporized engine oil.
The look on his face was priceless.


Sounds
Like the coffee I used to drink in the transmission repair shops I used to sell to. I swore they used used transmission fluid instead of water.
 

Blackleaf

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I like how in Britain we have our very own coffee chain - Costa Coffee - on every High Street.

It's a bit like how the Scots refuse to make Coca-Cola their best-selling pop, and make their very own Irn Bru top dog instead.

Bolton Costa Coffee:

 

Tecumsehsbones

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I like how in Britain we have our very own coffee chain - Costa Coffee - on every High Street.
It's a bit like how the Scots refuse to make Coca-Cola their best-selling pop, and make their very own Irn Bru top dog instead.
Yeah, guess what multinational Costa is a wholly-owned subsidiary of?

That's right, Coca-Cola.
 

Blackleaf

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Yeah, guess what multinational Costa is a wholly-owned subsidiary of?
That's right, Coca-Cola.

Using your logic, Budweiser is Belgian, Ben and Jerry's is British, Burger King is Canadian, Lucky Strike is British, General Electric is Chinese, 7-Eleven is Japanese, Holiday Inn is British and Hellman's is British.