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nubbins`: it's unhealthy to not consume the milk of another species?
mircea_popescu: i guess it's ok if they were breastfed, but anyway
mircea_popescu: it's actually kinda unhealthy for kids to never have raw milk
nubbins`: now ostensibly the people buying this unpasteurized milk knew what they were doing
nubbins`: Duffer1 this "bag" thing is a mainland construct
Duffer1: was he not selling it in a bag? that could be the trouble
mircea_popescu: moiety sounds like a shade under ok. they prolly skim a little to make butter or w/e
nubbins`: well that's the rub
moiety: gold top is 5.4% fat
nubbins`: entitling you to % of milk
nubbins`: so he sold essentially cow timeshares
mircea_popescu: what, you can't pool your moneyz with someone to buy a cow ?
nubbins`: some farmer here used to sell unpasteurized milk
nubbins`: like, you'll go to jail
nubbins`: it's highly illegal to sell unpasteurized milk here
mircea_popescu: 1% really has no business costing more than 1/3 of 3%
mircea_popescu: why not just buy some actual milk and water it down yourself then
nubbins`: and then various creams and blends
moiety: gold top is the way forward in the milk world
nubbins`: rest of it is just boiled turd
moiety: i have never sampled a taco in my life
KRS-One: people where i live even make fun of taco bell...we call it "taco hell"
jurov: everyone around here got addicted to original lavazza/franck and he like
mircea_popescu: might take a venti or two in there, not sure.
jurov: and the other day we went trying taco bell "they rly eat this????"
moiety: i might just go and make muffins now, to go with coffee
jurov: whats the the code for proper, nicely smelling, italian espresso?
jurov: gentlemen, should i happen to end up in starbucks again,
mircea_popescu: hey this blockr.io thing is neat.
nubbins`: mircea_popescu: it's burnt to char, it all tastes the fucking same
mircea_popescu: well then everyone's happy.
mircea_popescu: i can tell you if the milk is 2% or 2.5% ffs.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` you mean that camel piss is so bad people who drink it regularly can't tell decaf from normal ?
nubbins`: start the day off with a nice migraine
nubbins`: i have a friend who used to work at a starbucks
mod6: nubbins`: he was there for the lan party
pankkake: I don't think you are allowed in without a macbook anyway
dub: I'd die before going to starbucks
nubbins`: some people prefer peaberry because they've been more carefully selected, but.. shrug
nubbins`: feels like tea in your mouth
mircea_popescu: none of this solid fruit looking stuff
nubbins`: pankkake, it's when there's one bean in the cherry instead of two
nubbins`: this is for no good reason other than some asshole decades ago decided "hey, i'll sell all these peaberries as a tanzanian thing"
nubbins`: and it's almost impossible to find a non-tanzanian peaberry
nubbins`: and yet EVERY BAG OF COFFEE YOU CAN FIND from tanzania is 100% peaberries
mircea_popescu: "o, it's our time now!!"
dub: if you like coffee you've never been to startbucks
nubbins`: seriously tho.
dub: why this talk of starbucks and coffee
mircea_popescu: nubbins` that's just the italian spelling
nubbins`: that's tasmanian
mircea_popescu: or is that the tanzanian toffee
davout: "complex coffee for two..." <<< lmao
nubbins`: no, that you can only buy peaberry coffee from there
nubbins`: know what pisses me off about tanzanian coffee?
pankkake: I need to find more of the coffee I got at christmas. from tanzania
moiety: i really want coffee now too
nubbins`: "complex coffee for two..."
nubbins`: "i guess this is true... a hypothetical you..."
nubbins`: not even mcdonald's provides this level of americanization
mircea_popescu: so i guess this is true...
nubbins`: so you can go to a starbucks in, say, romania and order the same drink you do in seattle
nubbins`: notably, international starbucks locations all use the same terminology
mircea_popescu: how do they call the police ? "hello officer. vente low fat nutrasour evilguy!!!!" ?
nubbins`: mircea_popescu, they pour scalding water on you
moiety: i think they call the police mircea_popescu
mircea_popescu: what if you go there and tell the girl "i just want you for the sex" ?
nubbins`: but they say "dark or medium"
mircea_popescu: i don't think they have one in this town, and likely i wouldn't want to go there anyway
moiety: sounds like a plan to find out mircea_popescu
pankkake: what would happen if I go to there and ask for coffee, black?
moiety: gonna make kiwi and apple muffins tomorrow
nubbins`: “This is exactly why I only order the Blueberry Muffins from Starbucks.” ~ Oscar Wilde
mircea_popescu: moiety he could just get an enema, but he's too bicurious for that.
mircea_popescu: but that's not nonfat
moiety: you poor soul pankkake how long have you got to suffer this lifestyle?
mircea_popescu: what's the other half ?
nubbins`: "The Double Ristretto Venti Half-Soy Nonfat Decaf Organic Chocolate Brownie Iced Vanilla Double-Shot Gingerbread Frappuccino Extra Hot With Foam Whipped Cream Upside Down Double Blended, One Sweet'N Low and One Nutrasweet, and Ice is the longest possible order you could order at Starbucks."
pankkake: it's temporary of course
nubbins`: drink cigarette tea?
mircea_popescu: what are you supposed to do after lunch ?
mircea_popescu: your doctor who is french forbid to you, a frenchman, coffee ? and this happened in france ?
pankkake: I've been almost a week without coffee, this discussion is torture!
nubbins`: mod6, when the average disposable income reached a certain point
moiety: what on earth do they call espressos?
mircea_popescu: mod6 when the us got involved.
nubbins`: short isn't on the menu
nubbins`: from smallest to biggest: short, tall, grande, venti
nubbins`: mod6, the kiddy cup is a "short"
moiety: ahhh but but but mircea_popescu ... i'm at 71% lol that won't stick if i keep playing XD
mircea_popescu: so how do you say tall, grande ?
mod6: yeah, they told me that, and im like thinkin... 'only in starbucks-universe, when someone orders a `tall` they give you a kiddy cup'
nubbins`: mircea_popescu: nor do they allow starbucks in their country
moiety: and re coffee: my first thought was what are they serving? there's no licence and it's free, could be anything
mircea_popescu: but the italians don't use ounces
nubbins`: and thus, 20oz of drink
moiety: mircea_popescu: wait, lmao was i only meant to have 6 tries?!
nubbins`: mod6, tall is small
nubbins`: fwiw these are seriously drinks you can order
mod6: speaking of starbucks.. i hardly ever go there. but the other day i was like, "hi, tall black coffee plz." then they served me the kiddy cup. im like "wtf!?"