Why coffee or tea are good things

[Squirtle The Turtle]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

silence-you are under arrest

 

[Loktar]

Nope.

 

[eloisel]

Get a room.

 

[Loktar]

Touche

 

[I Love Cunt]

This is what you turn the thread into?

 

[I Love Cunt]

Citizen, your dress is provocative. Have you received your papers from the Official Censor and the Grand Chaplain to display your body in such a provocative manner?
Please forward the necessary documents, Citizen, or we will have to arrest you.

Squirtle, in fact I have recieved my papers right here. Come a little closer and I will show you.

 

[Love Child]

Back on topic:

I am, at the moment, in an in-between state. I feel lonely and would like a romantic partner, but at the same time I wish to be alone. Chalk it up to depression and need and "progressive" states of mental recovery.

The solution: Non-sexual social time with interesting people (of either sex...but I'll be blunt and say I'd prefer female company). I.e. Tea or coffee.

The pressure's off, it's not a "date", and you can talk and relax. The cups give your hands something to do other than spanking or caressing or tying knots. The refreshment gives you something to discuss if things run flat (and they rarely do). It is expected that the conversation should be diverse and depth is generally welcome.

So, who wants to have tea with me? I can't promise I won't flirt, but I will promise I won't bite.

And more broadly, what's your favorite "non date" social thing to do?

Coffee and tea are great. I also like group settings where I have a lot of friends around that way there is not so much presure.

A friend is trying to set me up on a blind date and I just cannot seem to find the interest. I don't really want that akward first meeting with someone-there is too much to say. I would rather just hang out-and not have so much presure.

The cups give your hands something to do other than spanking or caressing or tying knots.

It is not my hands that want something to do.....

 

[MamaKitty]

I love both. Raspberry tea. Orange spice tea. And now that it's fall, they have the pumpkin spiced coffees and coffee mates!

 

[Yub]

This is the humble coffee bean. It first came from Ethiopia, but spread around the world, spreading happiness and joy and the ability to function in the morning after a cup of the hot beverage one uses it to make. It is a proof that God exists and He knows that life down here is a right pain in the arse, hence He created it in order that we all don't simply go on homicidal rampages, thus wiping the human race from the face of the planet.

Some people don't like the bean, but I love it. Anyone who hates the bean is, in my opinion, not quite right in the head, the severity thereof based upon how militant they are in their hatred.

 

[The Call Of Nature]

I do like the smell of coffee, but I am extremely sensitive to caffeine so that lately I even drink decaffeinated tea (yes, *sigh*, it borders blasphemy to decaf a flowery Derjeeling, but at least this way I can have a cuppa now and then without getting a heart attack)
I'm a big fan of herbal and fruity mixes as long as they don't contain artificial flavours. On my terrace, I grow peppermint and lemon balm in buckets for tea. I also make my own Chai mix - it gets a little different every time but is always quite good.

Squirtle, if you don't like tea or coffee, how about a cup of hot chocolate? And a few cookies maybe?
And since you are our expert at religious questions: do you happen to know if there is any mentioning of hot beverages in the bible at all? It appears that peppermint tea has a long history as a refreshing beverage in Northern Africa and on the Arabian peninsula. So it would seem reasonable to assume that its use was common 2000 years ago as well. What do you think?

 

[Loktar]

I like lemon, orange, and cinnamon tea. And hazelnut, pumpkin, and irish creme coffee. Mostly I just drink the regular non flavored coffee though.

 

[MamaKitty]

The Call Of Nature:

there is actually such a thing as pumpkin-flavoured coffee?? o_0

Well there is a creamer made by coffee mate that is coffee flavored, and some stores do sale pumpkin flavored coffee, got some last year, can't remember the brand. If you have a world market where you are, they sale it there.

Good stuff.

 

[Loktar]

The Call Of Nature:

there is actually such a thing as pumpkin-flavoured coffee?? o_0

Well there is a creamer made by coffee mate that is coffee flavored, and some stores do sale pumpkin flavored coffee, got some last year, can't remember the brand. If you have a world market where you are, they sale it there.

Good stuff.

Yeah the pumpkin coffee is mainly sold during the winter holidays. Never seen it in the stores though. Its available at Dunkin' Donuts and Starbucks.

 

[eloisel]

One of the things I enjoy is sitting in a coffee shop and chatting with people about all kinds of things. I find it interesting what I learn about people that just looking at them I might never have guessed. That isn't a negative remark so please don't take it that way. Just thinking of some people I used to visit with frequently at my local coffee shop - that is basically no more. On the outside those people looked rather ordinary, not particularly good looking, some kind of poor, but they all had a side that wasn't apparent by the way they wore their hair or by the clothes they had on. The conversations we had over the years were about almost everything. I miss those people.

 

[Loktar]

Never judge a book by its cover. Always good advice.

 

[The Call Of Nature]

E, you should go to Austria, especially to Vienna. They have what they call "Kaffeehauskultur" (coffee-shop culture). There's a tradition of poets, artists and philosophers meeting at coffee shops and exchanging views and opinions. Everyone can participate aso it's always rather interesting (and quite international, usually).

 

[eloisel]

E, you should go to Austria, especially to Vienna. They have what they call "Kaffeehauskultur" (coffee-shop culture). There's a tradition of poets, artists and philosophers meeting at coffee shops and exchanging views and opinions. Everyone can participate aso it's always rather interesting (and quite international, usually).

It sounds lovely. I've heard the food is good too. Is it a friendly to Americans country? Just as long as I don't have to talk politics. I'm not very good at arguing now that I'm out of menopause and can't sustain the pissed off attitude it takes to argue so much. I find I really don't care much for politics these days either. It isn't like anybody gives a crap about how things affect me anyway just as long as I fork over my tax dollars.

When I was very young I went to Mexico with a friend. We did not want to be viewed as tourists so we pretended to be French and I was a French Armenian at that. It worked for about an hour but we just weren't able to keep up the ruse. It was fun while it lasted though. There we were - 18 - prancing around Mexico City reciting conversations in French we had learned in highschool.

 

['Gear]

Is it a friendly to Americans country?

Can you have a sense of entitlement and cultural-centric paranoia in the same sentence? Until now I wouldn't have thought so.

Nevermind that people speaking French in Mexico City would most likely be tourists.

Eloisel, you sure do say some stupid shit. But I'm always happy to point it out.

What's up with the ol' friend request? Lost in the mail? Should I send out another?

 

[Loktar]

Its ok, 'Gear. My mom is a bit racist too. Its all part of eloisel and my mom's charm. I don't judge.

I'm still holding out hope you two crazy kids can get past your differences and work things out. If I could afford it I'd rent you two a hotel room.

 

['Gear]

Its ok, 'Gear. My mom is a bit racist too. Its all part of eloisel and my mom's charm. I don't judge.

I'm still holding out hope you two crazy kids can get past your differences and work things out. If I could afford it I'd rent you two a hotel room.

For health and safety reasons, I wouldn't recommend you hold your breath. I'm simply celebrating our differences in my own special way.

Besides, everyone has to have a hobby. Care to guess what mine is?

Council has suggested I invoke the 5th at this point.