Based on your verbage I think I know what old black and white movie you've been watching...
Coffee is going up!
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Based on your verbage I think I know what old black and white movie you've been watching...
satcomer
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What saddens me all of you are so nonchalant about this drought affected coffee crisis. Just wait for the spike in coffee, food, etc do yo drought, price of transportation will cause a drastic spike in all food, drink prices that will drag most western democracies will fall into a depression, just like the old dust bowl did dragging the Great Depression throughout the 30's.
Scepticalscribe
macrumors Haswell
Really? And what might that be, in your august opinion?
Actually, I'm more of a reader of books, articles, newspapers, than a viewer of movies .
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You make a fair point.
When what you can do to alter the effects of climatic or human disasters is limited, one shrugs, laughs and does what little one can in one's own life, which one hopes will a make some sort of small difference.
I think - joking aside - that you will find that most of the self-confessed coffee aficionados - or fanatics - will buy from Fair Trade, or single estate coffee suppliers, who pay their workers a fair and reasonable (and guaranteed) wage, when choosing what coffee to drink. Consumer power at a small, local, - but yet quite informed - level.
Shrink
macrumors G3
Actually, I'm the one who watches black and white movies...I like them better than color.
Does my verbage (sic) hint at that fact?
Anything you want to know about coffee, or black and white movies...I'd be glad to be of service!
S.B.G
Moderator emeritus
Actually, I'm the one who watches black and white movies...I like them better than color.
Does my verbage (sic) hint at that fact?
Anything you want to know about coffee, or black and white movies...I'd be glad to be of service!
I can vouch for that! He knows his coffee and B&W movies.
mobilehaathi
macrumors G3
Forget coffee and food. The big players are moving to control the fresh water.
Scepticalscribe
macrumors Haswell
Another who can vouch for Shrink's effortless expertise re both coffee related matters and B&W movies..
Excellent observation. Very well said. Some one who gets it - and has their eyes wide open while paying heed to the important things.
Forget coffee, and food. And oil. Water - control of, access to, is where it is going to be at ...
BornAgainMac
macrumors 604
I would like to quit drinking coffee. The savings can be put towards a nice new Mac.
satcomer
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With the aquifers being used and the 10 year drought in California and the South West with the drought in South America Coffee growing regions will cause so big spikes. I say this because a lot of the West's winter fruits & vegetables come from that same South American & drought ridden West. Plus with the spike in the oil prices will up prices sky high in food.
Most cities in the USA & Canada haves maybe a three day inventory in grocery stores. Those grocery stores get their stock via trucks and with both the droughts and the spike in oil and the West's economy will go farther in tubes toward depression!
Southern Dad
macrumors 68000
Sheer blasphemy. A heretic amongst us. He knowest not what he says.
Scepticalscribe
macrumors Haswell
Actually, the US was not really the sort of place (or any of the places) I had in mind when agreeing with mobilehaathi about the control of and access to water resources being a serious source of possible conflict in the future.
So? Any saving can be put towards "a nice new Mac". But cutting out coffee is not a saving .more a severe state of deprivation .
Indeed, he knoweth not that of which he speaks ...
bearwrestler
macrumors regular
I wish I had more time to watch B&W movies while drinking coffee... But I have a job, and only have time to maybe watch one movie a day...and the more I watch, the less time I have to read...
I should really just go and commit a whitecollar crime, so that they will put me in a minimum security prison, where I can read all I want. Maybe write a story, and if I'm lucky, have an amazon prime subscription to watch movies...just think- five years in prison....five years to enjoy culture....
and drink really bad coffee
I should really just go and commit a whitecollar crime, so that they will put me in a minimum security prison, where I can read all I want. Maybe write a story, and if I'm lucky, have an amazon prime subscription to watch movies...just think- five years in prison....five years to enjoy culture....
and drink really bad coffee
Nabooly
macrumors 6502a
Looks like Starbucks is raising their prices on some of their drinks.
Starbucks hikes prices on brewed coffee, lattes, bagged beans
"Not all drinks were affected, but the ones that were now cost 5 cents to 20 cents more."
I don't get Starbucks very much.....yet despite the many people that don't like their coffee, I really like their coffee and frappucinos. The frappucinos are pretty expensive though (~$.4.25 for a Java Chip) which is why it's just not economical at all.
Starbucks hikes prices on brewed coffee, lattes, bagged beans
"Not all drinks were affected, but the ones that were now cost 5 cents to 20 cents more."
I don't get Starbucks very much.....yet despite the many people that don't like their coffee, I really like their coffee and frappucinos. The frappucinos are pretty expensive though (~$.4.25 for a Java Chip) which is why it's just not economical at all.
Mr. McMac
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Starbucks is a complete ripoff, even before the price increases. I wouldn't give them 2 cents of my money
Mr. McMac
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I have a couple of old faithful USA made Farberware percolators that keep me going every morning. Coupled with my Costco branded Colombian dark roast coffee at $9.99 for 3 pounds, I'm a happy camper. The "cool" factor of Starbucks does nothing for me...To each his own I guess
bearwrestler
macrumors regular
maybe the price increase will be an opportunity to break from coffee and switch to tea?
Shrink
macrumors G3
BLASPHEMY!
OH, THE HORROR!
Drink tea if you wish...but to replace coffee!?
AAARRRGGGHHHH!
Scepticalscribe
macrumors Haswell
No, I don't get Starbucks either. Never did, in fact. Actually, I just don't like their coffee, seeing it as under- strength, and a triumph of marketing. Granted, their attempt to replicate that wooden floored, high ceilinged European coffee bar vibe is a good idea, but, but, but, I just don't like what they have to offer. Not least the coffee .which is ..extraordinarily...insipid to my taste.
These days, I don't either. In recent years, I have only suffered the place when friends - knowing I like coffee - had suggested meeting there. Not my preference but there you are ...
Ah, bravo.
(Despite promising myself not to do so, I have found myself using one of these new emoticons/smilies; thank the gods whose existence I doubt that there are written explanations beside each of them
) Anyway: Spoken (and written) like a true convert. Now, aren't you glad that our mutual friend Shrink, and a number of nameless others, (which may, or may not, include myself) have led you on the happy road to complete coffee perdition?
On a thread which discusses coffee? You jest, I think ..
Or suicidal ideation.
S.B.G
Moderator emeritus
Ah, bravo.
Anyway: Spoken (and written) like a true convert. Now, aren't you glad that our mutual friend Shrink, and a number of nameless others, (which may, or may not, include myself) have led you on the happy road to complete coffee perdition?
Yes, absolutely! Once I started grinding and brewing on my own at home, I've not gone back except once with a group of friends who insisted on going there. So I ordered what I usually always ordered before I had the knowledge imparted from Shrink, yourself and the other denizens of Our Thread. When I started to drink it, I instantly realized how horrible the stuff was and wondered how I ever once thought is was good tasting! I didn't finish the drink that night, needless to say.
Mr. Retrofire
macrumors 603
*yawn*Coffee is going up!
This is going to suck.
Scepticalscribe
macrumors Haswell
Why waste time and energy offering a yawn? Why not offer an opinion? There are quite a few threads which bore me to tears on this forum, and others, I find ridiculous in their intensity and obsessive fanaticism (and no, I'm not merely referring the the legendary iPhone sub-forums .); I simply stay well away from them, as I have little that is positive or constructive to offer them.
At one level, some of us on this thread are interested in coffee in an amusing (amused) manner, and it offers an opportunity to have a pleasant and somewhat humorous discussion on the topic.
On another, coffee is one of the world's most traded and valuable commodities and crops, (spawning a whole sub section of brokers and traders who live off it) and thus, there are economic consequences, not least for those who actually work to harvest the crop, should climate, soil and war affect what they are able to do.
To my mind, this is a topic which has some relevance, both as an interest and as an important activity with a bearing on the lives of possibly millions of human beings.
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satcomer
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A yawn? Jules's you can drink you favorite so-called energy drinks but many of us adults still love a good cup of morning coffee that has non of that artificial crap in it.
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