The fastidious among us endorse your decision, Becks. That's really frickin' gross.
Bummer. Time to get a big travel mug and make yourself coffee at home?
That "juicily" is causing me to shudder every time I read it, and I'm not even that fastidious.
Cart-coffee is awful; you might as well drink instant.
3 - I took it but did not drink it. I wasn't certain at that point if I was willing to call this thing off so I didn't want to make waves in case I thought there was a way to salvage our relationship. Alas, I don't think there is.
The other carts by my building actually require going outside into the cold, which sucks. They also shut down at 11 AM (this guy was open all day) so my afternoon coffee may be a thing of the past.
Wait, there's no coffeemaker at your work?
I guess he thought your relationship was ready to move on to the exchange of bodily fluids, but you weren't ready for that yet.
Another option, Becks, is to add a delightful flavor-shot of Purell to your java. "I had some dreams, they were snot in my coffee, snot in my coffee..."
5 is accurate; but what about this? The cart outside the rear door of my building (41st and Madison, NW corner) has the same plain old watery cart coffee as everybody else, but has moderately good iced coffee. I'm at a loss to understand it.
I confess I don't really understand this problem, Becks. Why not just have a bottle of Water Joe or something in the morning?
And you made fun of me for suggesting that steak grown in a test-tube might not be bad.
Coffee is as psychological as it is physical.
Drinking hot water has some waking-up effects even without caffeine.
Dear God, what is this place where you live without a Starbucks?
There are at least half a dozen coffee places within 2 minutes walk of where I work (including 1 'cart') and I'd imagine that's not atypical. Oxford's hardly a bustling metropolis.
I confess I don't really understand this problem, Becks. Why not just have a bottle of Water Joe or something in the morning?
Water Joe? Vs. good coffee? No no no no.
And coffee makers at work are almost invariably crap. I keep a french press at my desk.
How could you leave the house before coffee? I have the reserves to make it to pull myself from the bedroom to the kitchen—most days. But no further.
16: Not everyone likes waiting on line to pay too much for not very good coffee.
Oh man, it's so odd to see "on line" like that.
We have linguists loitering around here, right? Anyone know where the "wait in line"/"wait on line" boundary is? (I'm guessing the Appalachian Mtns.)
you might as well drink instant.
Hey! I'm enjoying a fine cup of instant as I type this.
I remember when I made the switch to "on line"...
It was a couple of years ago for me.
Hey! I'm enjoying a fine cup of instant as I type this.
Instant should be banned from even being called coffee.
23: I saw a map once, and if I recall correctly, it was pretty much just NYC and close environs. It's funny, 'in line' isn't jarring or noticeable to me, although I do say 'on line'. (I say 'in line' too, sometimes. I think the difference is that 'on line' is if I'm talking conceptually about waiting my turn; 'in line' refers to my spatial relationship to other people. So if the line is more of a disorganized mob, I got on line when I started standing in the mob, waiting to be served. If someone starts getting pushy about making us stand in single file, we are then getting in line.)
I've never before heard "on line" used in this way; I honestly thought 21 was a typo.
Having learned my new thing for the day, I suppose I should now go back to bed.
"On line" refers to the state of being connected to the Internet or to a state of proper functionality, e.g., Scotty fixing the dilithium crystals to get the warp drive back on line.
To use "on line" to refer to standing or waiting in line is just plain wrong.
I mean, I'm open-minded and all, but you have to draw the line somewhere.
See, if I were from the south, I could say "Help help, I'm being oppressed" now. As a New Yorker, my options are to take this with good humor, or say "Yeah, well, fuck you and the lines you wait in."
Luckilly, I'm the good humored type. (Popsicle, anyone?)
It seems we have comity, despite my best efforts to destroy it.
I'm not sure if we have comity after the good-humored joke, in the sense that I'm groaning about it.
As a New Yorker, my options are to take this with good humor, or say "Yeah, well, fuck you and the lines you wait in."
Emerson's a New Yorker? And why has everyone started listening to him all of the sudden?
Huh. Did we just lose a couple of comments here?
The site seems to be going up and down a bit.
(Like M/tch on w-lfs-n's mom, I suppose.)
I think you lost about 10 or 15 minutes worth of comments, from every thread that got any comments during that period.
Some of the most brilliant commentary ever, gone!
Pair had that hard drive swap scheduled for 11 AM-ish. We may have lost a few comments when they swapped the drives.
But in any case, to repost a comment that disappeared:
Here's an on line/in line map. Looks to me like 'on line' is a New York, Boston, and oddly Detroit thing, with a scattering elsewhere which is probably people who've moved from one of those places (which is how I explain the little hotspots on SF and LA). Scroll down for the 'on line' only map -- it's easier to read.
Anyone know where the "wait in line"/"wait on line" boundary is? (I'm guessing the Appalachian Mtns.)
It's somewhere within the boundaries of New York City, I believe.
39- Nah, one of the comments was just 'er whining about being an oppressed southern boy.
The "Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke" protocol is now in force. Please update your procedure manuals to this effect.
All that map gives us are locations to which New Yorkers have relocated.
They've been waiting 'on line' since before the internet was even a gleam in Al's eye, though, so it is we, the great unwashed non-NY masses, who are the interlopers on this one.
"Luc-kill-y, I'm the good humored type. "
Hmm, a little hidden agression creeping in there, oh good humored one?
45: Boston, SF, and LA maybe, but who moves to Detroit? It seems likely to me that 'on line' is a genuine Detroit thing.
What about "wait in/on line/queue" vs. "stand in/on line/queue"? w/d uses "wait" above, and I do too sometimes but generally I prefer "stand". A little more direct sounding.
If your mom were a data structure, Jesus, she'd be a deque, because she allows rapid insertion at both ends.
How long have you been waiting to use that insult, w-lfs-n?
w-lfs-n, on the other hand, is more of a gap buffer.
i say 'on line' because i like throwing (anageographisms?) into my speech to trip people up. or i could say comity if you new yorkers weren't such unlovable grumps.
could we restore comity by talking more about snot in coffee?
I agree with Becks that this means "good bye coffee man".
But I also agree with others that you have *got* to establish a tighter grip on your own coffee provisions. You should be bringing your own, or making your own at work.
This stuff about relying on somebody else is as crazy as, say, the U.S. relying on distant hostile foreigners to supply our oil to us.
(And them blowing snot in it!)
We have linguists loitering around here, right? Anyone know where the "wait in line"/"wait on line" boundary is? (I'm guessing the Appalachian Mtns.)
I grew up in mid-state NY (Poughkeepsie). It was definitely "in line"--I, too, read "on line" as a typo.
*hugs*,
Meowse.
Heck, Poughkeepsie is practically commuting distance. (Not really, but not all that far.)
It seems likely to me that 'on line' is a genuine Detroit thing.
It was 'in line' when I was growing up in Detroit. I learned 'on line' from a college roommate. She also made fun of the way we said 'syrup.' Bitch.
How do you say syrup, then?
We say seer-ruhp down here.
We Brits don't wait in or on line. We queue. While watching everyone else like a hawk to make sure those other sneaky bastards don't break the queueing rules.
60: Sur-ruhp. Miss Fancypants said something closer to Syeer-ruhp.
How long have you been waiting to use that insult, w-lfs-n?
I used it when I thought of it, in my second year of college. The guy I told it to, Ro/ni Choud/hury, thought it was funny. And he, like mrh, was right.
w-lfs-n, you cock, you dissed me with a used insult? Sure, it's funny, but you still suck.
58 -- I would wager the set of people who commute from Poughkeepsie to work in the city is non-empty.
Also, what's goin' on with the kitty and the dolphin? Everybody else seems to be seeing the dolphin, I am seeing the kitty. Did one of you friendly Unfogged site maintenance people see my fearful posts about the dolphin and take pity on me, and hard-code in for it to show me the kitty? I would appreciate that except you've taken one fear (the toothy cetacean) and replaced it with a more insidious fear (the conspiracy against my sanity).
Huh. And now I get the dolphin. So all my nightmares can get together and rock out tonight.
But then I haven't commented much in the past 12 hours or so.
How do you say syrup, then?
We say seer-ruhp down here.
Mcmc is clearly one of the bleeding-edge youngsters who says "sizurp".
"sizurp"
You mean when said youngsters are belching? Or when they are attempting to pronounce the word "syrup"? Because I think that would be a weird pronunciation of that word. (God knows stranger things are out there though.)
That is news to me. Every time I've drank Purple Drank it's been Everclear and Kool-aid.
Those wacky young people, always thinking up new ways to kill brain cells.
I don't know what it was, but fire made it good.
The dolphin and the kitty-cat were fighting for the crown.
The dolphin chased the kitty-cat all around the town.
Some gave them kibbles, some gave them bits;
Some gave them human flesh -- hey look! It's Apo's tits!
hey look! It's Apo's tits!
Can you not count, Clownae???
That "s" after the "Apo's tit" got me all excited, but no, it's just that tired old tease of a picture we've all seen before.
That "s" after the "Apo's tit" got me all excited
Clearly, a man hard-up for some tit-illation!
