Does anyone else hate coffee shops.
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I hate the small tables, the bunched up chairs, all the moving about to get a seat, idiots with macbooks sat on the comfy chairs with coke and no-one else with them, strangers attempting to sit at your table, f
king oversized mugs and hundred of fking choices for an unrelaxing time. I never ever go, however I was forced by the wife yesterday to go into one, and worse with the kids (one in a bloody buggy).
I just do not get how you can relax in a place like that.. people everywhere, pushing about..
king oversized mugs and hundred of fking choices for an unrelaxing time. I never ever go, however I was forced by the wife yesterday to go into one, and worse with the kids (one in a bloody buggy).I just do not get how you can relax in a place like that.. people everywhere, pushing about..
Horrible. Too many options, nothing called "Black coffee in a normal sized mug" so instead it's "Americano in a vat or a pipette and you have to ask for milk" and full of pretentious tts hell bent on making sure everybody notices that they're spending £19.99 on a BLT.
Had to order a "Soya decaf cappuccino" or some such rubbish for a client once. Basically hot water I presume.
ts hell bent on making sure everybody notices that they're spending £19.99 on a BLT. Had to order a "Soya decaf cappuccino" or some such rubbish for a client once. Basically hot water I presume.
Steamer said:
I hate the idiotic names you 'must' use in order to get a drink.
Don't get me wrong - I don't mind asking for things in a foreign language when I'm over seas but who the hell thinks up the names for these concoctions!?
One vanillaccino-frappy-latte please. In a très grand sized mug. Don't get me wrong - I don't mind asking for things in a foreign language when I'm over seas but who the hell thinks up the names for these concoctions!?
I really fking hate people who bring little kids, especially in their one-upman, outsized baby buggies, into coffee shops when I'm tring to enjoy a nice large coffee and large newspaper with just the right level of classical music in the background.
OP: Don't listen to your wife; Maccy Ds is that way --->
king hate people who bring little kids, especially in their one-upman, outsized baby buggies, into coffee shops when I'm tring to enjoy a nice large coffee and large newspaper with just the right level of classical music in the background.OP: Don't listen to your wife; Maccy Ds is that way --->
wattsie_2004 said:
Steamer said:
I hate the idiotic names you 'must' use in order to get a drink.
Don't get me wrong - I don't mind asking for things in a foreign language when I'm over seas but who the hell thinks up the names for these concoctions!?
One vanillaccino-frappy-latte please. In a très grand sized mug. Don't get me wrong - I don't mind asking for things in a foreign language when I'm over seas but who the hell thinks up the names for these concoctions!?
I fking hate them.
In Australia, it seems the very act of going and purchasing a coffee has become a fashion statement (their propensity to cling on to and perpetuate anything and everything that makes them feel more cosmopolitan, is astounding). So when Im with my Aussie family in the UK, we cant go more than an hour without queueing up AGIAN in one of these overcrowded, noisy pits of group-think. And if they dont serve a "baby-cino" for the youngster (yes, the must-have-a-coffee-variant for baby brain wash, starts early) there's scowling looks and accusations of Britain being in the Dark Ages. If the waiter doesnt know the lingo (A long black mach, please), more looks of smug astonishment. And after we leave, we have to have a breakdown of whether it was a good coffee or not and how hot it was and the froth etc. And then of course the caffeine makes all the women need the loo 20min later. Hence a 2hr trip around London takes half a day, just from Cofee stops.
Overpriced tat for people who think they are the characters of Friends.
king hate them.In Australia, it seems the very act of going and purchasing a coffee has become a fashion statement (their propensity to cling on to and perpetuate anything and everything that makes them feel more cosmopolitan, is astounding). So when Im with my Aussie family in the UK, we cant go more than an hour without queueing up AGIAN in one of these overcrowded, noisy pits of group-think. And if they dont serve a "baby-cino" for the youngster (yes, the must-have-a-coffee-variant for baby brain wash, starts early) there's scowling looks and accusations of Britain being in the Dark Ages. If the waiter doesnt know the lingo (A long black mach, please), more looks of smug astonishment. And after we leave, we have to have a breakdown of whether it was a good coffee or not and how hot it was and the froth etc. And then of course the caffeine makes all the women need the loo 20min later. Hence a 2hr trip around London takes half a day, just from Cofee stops.
Overpriced tat for people who think they are the characters of Friends.
o be fair, they're not really just coffee shops. The drinks they sell are more akin to coffee flavoured hot milkshakes.
Personally, I love them. But atempt to stay away from them for health reasons.
The shops themselves are, however, overcrowded and horrid (yes you, Starbucks, Nero et al). The real shame is that they have killed the old style coffee shop off unless you are somewhere a bit off the beaten track.
Personally, I love them. But atempt to stay away from them for health reasons.
The shops themselves are, however, overcrowded and horrid (yes you, Starbucks, Nero et al). The real shame is that they have killed the old style coffee shop off unless you are somewhere a bit off the beaten track.
I spent a very pleasant 40 mins in a coffee shop yesterday cosseted in a leather chair sipping a mug of milky coffee with no one but my family about and a couple of visits from the friendly waitress whilst watching the GP, only trouble was I had to get up and go shopping when the coffee was finished.
They hate me!
I tell 'em I want coffee... The look at me strangely, so I qualify, "Black and two - a drop of cold water please".
Mad Italian guy says, "But we've only got tap water, and it says not drinkable."
Says I; "Better be strong coffee then".
Under the counter they have a coffee machine. It purifies the water adds weird ingredients, it even manufactures paper cups from a supply of neatly wrapped, specially harvested trees. Basically they have a machine like a vending machine. It can only do weird coffee. Nothing else. They can only sell cakes that arrive in cardboard cartons by the palette load. The trees, the ingredients, the cakes, the staff - they're all manufactured in China and shipped over nightly by plane on the night freight.
When they open a new shop, the interior arrives on a lorry (from China) they rip out the old, skip it, and slide the new shop in.
Whatever happened to the greasy spoon?
The whole thing courtesy of Alan Sugar. (Well perhaps not literally)
I tell 'em I want coffee... The look at me strangely, so I qualify, "Black and two - a drop of cold water please".
Mad Italian guy says, "But we've only got tap water, and it says not drinkable."
Says I; "Better be strong coffee then".
Under the counter they have a coffee machine. It purifies the water adds weird ingredients, it even manufactures paper cups from a supply of neatly wrapped, specially harvested trees. Basically they have a machine like a vending machine. It can only do weird coffee. Nothing else. They can only sell cakes that arrive in cardboard cartons by the palette load. The trees, the ingredients, the cakes, the staff - they're all manufactured in China and shipped over nightly by plane on the night freight.
When they open a new shop, the interior arrives on a lorry (from China) they rip out the old, skip it, and slide the new shop in.
Whatever happened to the greasy spoon?
The whole thing courtesy of Alan Sugar. (Well perhaps not literally)
Edited by dilbert on Monday 27th September 14:45
The only place a man should go to be served food or drink is:
- Pub
- Curry house
- Greasy spoon cafe where coffee is scooped out of a catering size jar of instant, dropped into a tatty mug with 'Cannock Truck Services' printed on the side, filled with water from a death-trap gas-fired water heater, plonked in front of you for you to add your own milk and sugar and stirred by a manky tea spoon picked out of a mug of brownish water.
- Home
- His mum's house when the wife has the hump and won't cook for him
- swanky restaurant if he is trying to get his leg over
- swanky restaurant if he can claim it on expenses
Ahh good.. so just not me then.
They piss me off, they are a fking mess (left over cups not cleaned off), the tables have suger on then, the table rock about a bit, the chairs cannot quite fit under the tables and everyone just looks so unrelaxed.
And all I want is a cup of bloody tea.. Just fking normal tea, and a cup for a normal person.
They piss me off, they are a f
king mess (left over cups not cleaned off), the tables have suger on then, the table rock about a bit, the chairs cannot quite fit under the tables and everyone just looks so unrelaxed.And all I want is a cup of bloody tea.. Just f
king normal tea, and a cup for a normal person.Edited by joe_90 on Monday 27th September 14:53
joe_90 said:
Ahh good.. so just not me then.
They piss me off, they are a fking mess, the tables have suger on then, the table rock about a bit, the chairs cannot quite fit under the tables and everyone just looks so unrelaxed.
And all I want is a cup of bloody tea.. Just fking normal tea, and a cup for a normal person.
What sort of tea did u have out of the millions of type of tea starfooks have to offer lol. Its an american habit all these coffee shopsThey piss me off, they are a f
king mess, the tables have suger on then, the table rock about a bit, the chairs cannot quite fit under the tables and everyone just looks so unrelaxed.And all I want is a cup of bloody tea.. Just f
king normal tea, and a cup for a normal person.Gassing Station | Food, Drink & Restaurants | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff