Beamer wrote on Apr 10, 2025, 11:23:

Madoc Owain wrote on Apr 10, 2025, 10:35:

At any rate, the Alien Queen is now a Disney character and should be fetishised accordingly.

Well, that makes me comfortable, because Queens in Disney films live very short lives.

Yeah, but if she gives birth to a Princess, it's all over.

Madoc Owain wrote on Apr 10, 2025, 10:35:

At any rate, the Alien Queen is now a Disney character and should be fetishised accordingly.

Well, that makes me comfortable, because Queens in Disney films live very short lives.

Riahderymnmaddog wrote on Apr 9, 2025, 18:46:
I have many Japanese friends, and I asked them what they thought of this new Predator, and they were very offended. there were no Predator aliens during the age of the Samurai. Damn you Disney!!!!

If AvP is canon, there were Predators when Antarctica was still green? 2000 BCE (https://www.avpcentral.com/alien-vs-predator-canon)
At any rate, the Alien Queen is now a Disney character and should be fetishised accordingly.

Jim wrote on Apr 9, 2025, 13:37:
I understand nothing about coffee. I mean it is bitter unless you add sugar to it and then milk/cream to make it a nice drink. starbucks always tastes burned to me so I don't get the appeal. Some people do pouring rituals and such. Does that make a difference? No idea. So to me I just drink it black for the kick and avoid the calories from additives.

Starbucks coffee IS burnt. They say it's 'strong' but I know the difference. I like strong coffee. I can also easily disprove this because I have used Starbucks Pike Place beans (same as their regular coffee they brew in store), and even they're K-Cups at home, and they taste perfectly fine.

It's burnt.

My wife goes a bit overboard for her brews for the exact same reason. I started drinking coffee way too young so I liked it any which way even before I worked a night shift at Denny's. A very loosely-run place that was, many interesting nights and characters.

And we of course put beans in our chili. Even when it isn't vegetarian chili, I am struggling to imagine what it'd be without them. Are people eating boring manwich (was that it?) sauced meat and calling it chili?

jdreyer wrote on Apr 9, 2025, 21:40:
We Live Like Royalty and Don’t Know It — The New Atlantis

Actually something I think about often. Clean water, abundant food, medicine, sewage systems, the internet, etc. We live in a world where miracles happen daily in our lives, and we take them for granted.

And what a boring existence it is for most people.

We Live Like Royalty and Don’t Know It — The New Atlantis

Actually something I think about often. Clean water, abundant food, medicine, sewage systems, the internet, etc. We live in a world where miracles happen daily in our lives, and we take them for granted.

I have many Japanese friends, and I asked them what they thought of this new Predator, and they were very offended. there were no Predator aliens during the age of the Samurai. Damn you Disney!!!!

Jim wrote on Apr 9, 2025, 13:37:
I understand nothing about coffee. I mean it is bitter unless you add sugar to it and then milk/cream to make it a nice drink. starbucks always tastes burned to me so I don't get the appeal. Some people do pouring rituals and such. Does that make a difference? No idea. So to me I just drink it black for the kick and avoid the calories from additives.

Same. I just drink it black. If I can’t enjoy it that way what’s the point of adding junk like sugar? Not into the burnt Starbucks flavor either but that’s their thing. I go for the small coffee chains when I’m out.

Blue, my guess is that you enjoy a dark roast. That's why the ratios don't make sense.
Prickly baristas will only drink finicky, Light roasts for exotic flavours. Roast must be less than 4 weeks old.
Precise brewing techniques are matched with expensive tools and equipment, pH and mineral balanced water, elaborate note taking,
And a coffee tasters flavor wheel is always on hand.

+80% of coffee drinkers don't have a clue. I was there.
It's fine. In fact, maintain that ignorance. It's way cheaper than falling into a barista rabbit hole.
Guzzle back generic coffee, just like millions guzzle back Budweiser or Miller Light and think they are getting the "beer" experience.

I understand nothing about coffee. I mean it is bitter unless you add sugar to it and then milk/cream to make it a nice drink. starbucks always tastes burned to me so I don't get the appeal. Some people do pouring rituals and such. Does that make a difference? No idea. So to me I just drink it black for the kick and avoid the calories from additives.

To be fair, I don't drink that barbarian swill so whatever you do to it doesn't bother me in the slightest.

Two paragraphs about cream in my coffee....it's the beans in the chili that gets me in trouble..lol

Jivaro wrote on Apr 9, 2025, 12:46:
...I put beans in my chili too BoP *gasp*...

You're dead to me. Going on the ignore list ASAP.

Jivaro wrote on Apr 9, 2025, 12:46:
I put beans in my chili

You need to be medicated

One of these days, I will go back to my press because it does taste better, but my co-workers bought me one of those Nespresso machines last year, and I have been living the life of the environmentally irresponsible ever since. Holy crap does it make a decent cup of coffee compared to any Keurig or Ninja I have ever used.

I know this makes me a heretic in some folk minds, but I add cream to my coffee despite gunning hard for "as dark as possible" when I brew. (I put beans in my chili too BoP *gasp*) I like the bitterness of coffee to get cut by the cream, I don't like the coffee taste to get lost in the cream...if that makes any sense. I started using cream in my coffee when I was only 19 because one of my 3 jobs at the time was the late-night shift in a Denny's. Coffee sitting on the warmer too long is burnt, and cream helps with the burned taste when you don't have time to brew another carafe. My family was tea people, so I wasn't exposed to anything besides Folgers instant coffee until I moved overseas. Got my first press while in Scandinavia. In the 90s, that place was espresso crazy like the US became in the 2000s. Maybe it was always that way, but I wouldn't know. My preference has been to use a course grind with my press and very hot water, followed by a 5-6 minute steep. This gives me a very dark and flavorful cup of coffee that I then add a bit of cream to. Not a lot, I am not a café au lait or café misto person normally. Latte's are great and all, but they need to be like 3-4 shots per 16oz or its too much milk and not enough coffee for me.