I’m now a pro magic the gathering player! Never thought I’d ascend to such heights, I’m terrible at magic lol
Coffee taster…
Second this, other than Starbucks, coffee is pretty crappy. Any places worth checking out will be highly appreciated
Costa, or any places’ (UK) local cafe’s, you could go into the middle of nowhere and still find a cafe or freehouse
I drink homemade mixes, Starbucks it’s good also, check out YouTube for different kinds of homemade mixes there are some which taste pretty good made with instant coffee.
Christ on a bike I wouldn’t take coffee advice from either of yous two loons
I don’t get it. Why do people like Starbucks? To me it’s bitter and granular. Compared to a Nero which is smooth and sweet.
Yet, many avid coffee drinkers I know love the taste of Starbucks. Is it a genetic thing?
i’m from melbourne, australia which is one of the best places in the world for coffee… when i go to the US i try to find good coffee but our version of good tends to be VERY different
US good is a dark roast - which i find very bitter… australian coffee (and melbourne in particular) is quite a light roast, which is more acidic but less bitter
i find most good coffee in the US to be pretty undrinkable (this probably comes down to choice of preparations: black drip is pretty weak; expresso starts out strong), but a starbucks blonde is… inoffensive (note write relation to your comment: a light right is probably what you’re talking about; especially a light double ristretto… a ristretto is a half shot, twice… the bitterness from coffee comes at the end of the shot, so nero is perhaps a light roast double ristretto… you also tend to get most of the caffeine in the first half i think? so it’s more caffeine if that worries you)
so when i’m in a rush and really just want to not hate what im putting in me, ill find a starbucks not because its good, but because its fucking hard work to find a good coffee that’s also my taste - my usual cues for a cafe just don’t work in the US, and there’s no a fantastic cafe on literally every corner so the choice is even harder
Most of the time I just get a standard coffee and they taste the same between all cafes and coffee shops, and with standard drinks Starbucks is cheaper than Nero, but at custamizing drinks level price doesn’t matter
Is it a genetic thing?
Probably more of a cultural one. Like how even Americans with Scandinavian ancestry consider black liquorice taste bud poison but us Scandinavians IN Scandinavia generally can’t get enough of it 😁
If bikes existed in that era, you best believe he would have rode one
And he still wouldn’t have cycled to Starbucks 🤢
I live in a medium sized US city, and even here, StarBucks is pretty much the bottom of the barrel. Where do you live that StarBucks is the best?
Edit: Not throwing shade, genuinely curious. I had this situation in my hometown. But India is a tea-centric culture, so it’s understandable.
I basically do farming at the level of a second job, so I suppose it would be that even though I don’t do it commercially (yet).
How is this going, where do you live, and what do you grow? I hobby-garden, have more space to plant and wouldn’t mind selling some of it but afraid of growing too much of one thing and throwing everything out of whack.
I live in a rural area in northern Japan.
We just started a few months ago (we were supposed to get the house last year but, due to various factors, we couldn’t take possession and get moved in until just before April). We’re definitely learning a lot about farming and what works for our land and environment but, because of the time we got the house, we’ve been super rushed. I think we’ll do better next year.
My goal is to position myself to deal with a lot of products foreigners living in Japan want and have trouble getting. That’s a lot of peppers, different types of beans, etc.
Opposite climate here in Florida, it’s okra season now & not much else wants to grow except the basil and mint but in the fall, winter and spring we can grow a lot of different things. We did get a couple of watermelons to harvest too, that was nice. Apparently they don’t mind the 35C temps everyday, but once the rains start in earnest it’s just okra time.
Fennel isn’t fussy, that might be good too for you.
Please refer to me as Total War XMunk in the future. I shall reign terror upon this land.
Well, either that or I’m now a professional pilgrim… gosh, I wish you could get paid for just walking a lot.
Sysadmin cosplayer or Barista.
Sleeping
Professional YouTube Watcher or Professional Hobbyist Language Learner.
Huh, I now get paid to waste time staring at the internet. Neat, I guess?
Urgh, better than being paid to start online fights. Your mother?
MY MOTHER’S A SAINT
Professional Cat Petter! 😻
I really don’t want to play Arma professionallyI misunderstood the questionPower point archivist and people tracker downer!
Writing my next novel, which incidentally I do mostly during my work time that my employer pays for.
‘office/M365 tutor for geriatrics’
Compared to actual title
“Director of Information Systems”
Every day makes me understand Marvin from HHGTTG more and more.
Well at least you are probably getting paid to do that, and it shouldn’t be all that hard to do if you don’t get frustrated easily.
Same, but was a library clerk that was for “everything even vaguely computer-tasky for geriatrics and people 20+ who never touched a computer and don’t even know how their $3000 phone works.”
Yeah I had a plan when I quit: Quitting was the plan. Instant relief of so many mental symptoms I could name and some I probably couldn’t lol. Don’t care what happens now. Anything is better than that.
I feel that in my soul. I’m a sysadmin, however it’s mostly password resets 🥲
Director of building Magic the Gathering commander decks but not actually playing them
I feel you. Moxfield is my greatest enemy.
Professional sleeper.
That should pretty much be the answer for anyone with a full-time job.
professional internet browserist. there are 16 hours between sleeping and multitasking.
Might have misunderstood the wording - unless you do a lot of sleeping during working hours?
I get the spirit here but not sure I agree that it MUST be true mathematically.
A full time job is 32+ hours a week. Even if I use the American 40, that’s still only 23% of the week not counting vacation or holiday.
Most people don’t get more then 8 hours off sleep a night. That’s 1/3 the day. 43% of the week for everything else.
That’s enough time for you to do something more than sleep or work. Then count in time for vacation and holiday and if you don’t sleep eight hours every night. And if you do stuff at work that isn’t necessarily in your job title.
Due to my meds I can only sleep 4-5 hours a night.
My reasoning was that you sleep some amount of time every single day (let’s say 6h). I doubt that many people will spend 6h on one specific activity/hobby every single day.
I’m a professional drinker.
Of water, right?
Right?
