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[WriteNow]

I can still remember my shock as a student (when watching Hill Street Blues) at how the cops being briefed sipped coffee while this was happening; to me, at that time, there was coffee and there was - were - work or study settings, and - to my mind - they didn't mix.

Well, things are different in different parts of the world, I guess! I believe you live (or then lived) in the UK, where I understand the cops also wouldn't carry guns like they would have on HIll Street Blues!

You could see coffee being consumed while working on even older US TV shows, like Perry Mason. I think it was probably a standard part of office culture in the US having coffee around.

I certainly saw my teachers with coffee in class all the time.

I've seen photos from the college where my father taught that even show things like a student in a dorm room, studying, with a coffee pot with coffee nearby. I know the offices in both buildings he worked in during the early 1980s had a coffee pot. (I remember being fascinated seeing cubes of sugar the first time.)

Of course, none of this coffee would have been very good. It would not have been the coffee you gently sip and savor. It was just a hot drink that would--at best--be tolerably drinkable.

 

[Apple fanboy]

Well, things are different in different parts of the world, I guess! I believe you live (or then lived) in the UK, where I understand the cops also wouldn't carry guns like they would have on HIll Street Blues!

You could see coffee being consumed while working on even older US TV shows, like Perry Mason. I think it was probably a standard part of office culture in the US having coffee around.

I certainly saw my teachers with coffee in class all the time.

I've seen photos from the college where my father taught that even show things like a student in a dorm room, studying, with a coffee pot with coffee nearby. I know the offices in both buildings he worked in during the early 1980s had a coffee pot. (I remember being fascinated seeing cubes of sugar the first time.)

Of course, none of this coffee would have been very good. It would not have been the coffee you gently sip and savor. It was just a hot drink that would--at best--be tolerably drinkable.

No over here the cops don’t generally carry guns or donuts! 🍩 😝

 

[WriteNow]

No over here the cops don’t generally carry guns or donuts! 🍩 😝

I know someone who has a car that was once used as a police car. He had some issue with it pulling to the right. I joked, asking him if this only happened when he was passing a donut shop.

 

[Clix Pix]

Well, things are different in different parts of the world, I guess! I believe you live (or then lived) in the UK, where I understand the cops also wouldn't carry guns like they would have on HIll Street Blues!

You could see coffee being consumed while working on even older US TV shows, like Perry Mason. I think it was probably a standard part of office culture in the US having coffee around.

I certainly saw my teachers with coffee in class all the time.

I've seen photos from the college where my father taught that even show things like a student in a dorm room, studying, with a coffee pot with coffee nearby. I know the offices in both buildings he worked in during the early 1980s had a coffee pot. (I remember being fascinated seeing cubes of sugar the first time.)

Of course, none of this coffee would have been very good. It would not have been the coffee you gently sip and savor. It was just a hot drink that would--at best--be tolerably drinkable.

What's even more fascinating is watching old movies and old TV shows where people smoked cigarettes -- it was as casual as someone picking up and consuming an alcoholic beverage (the latter still seems to be shown frequently on both TV and films). Nobody thought a thing about it. Everybody smoked, from celebrities on down through the societal hierarchy. Cigarettes were also advertised on television as well, and in print magazines and such. They were a part of everyday life. The tobacco industry flourished.

Sometimes filmmakers or TV producers used cigarettes in romantic scenes such as the classic one in the old film "Now, Voyageur," where the hero gallantly lit both his own and his new heartthrob's cigarettes as they stood on the deck of a ship during a European voyage.

 

[Mousse]

Of course, none of this coffee would have been very good. It would not have been the coffee you gently sip and savor. It was just a hot drink that would--at best--be tolerably drinkable.

I've never been a coffee drinker. Back in the 90's, when I was a new computer repair tech, I was tasked with making coffee for the shop. Unwritten rule of the shop: new guy is the coffee maker. Okay. Not being a coffee drinker, I had no idea how brew a proper pot. A little bit of this, a little bit of that. Voila! Mousse-blend coffee. They repealed the unwritten rule.😁

Thinking back, that might have been the motivation for having me work on all the CRT monitors that came in. If I knew back then what I know today about the dangers of working on a CRT monitor😬, i would have quit the first time they told me to fix the AppleVision 750. I some how survived working on nearly 1000 monitors. God watches over children, drunks and fools. I had a double helping of providence.😇

 

[KaliYoni]

Just want to add that in addition to cultural factors, there's a craft-related reason why actors drink and smoke so often on screen: it gives their characters something to do with their hands. Plus it looks great in B&W (see film noir and jazz album covers)!

 

[PandaPunch]

I'm super happy that my amp came in, now I got my spare passive speakers hooked up, got it detected by Music Assistant and now I got classical and jazz music playing on something that isn't a HomePod. I'm testing it to see if it decides to stop playing the radio stations like the HomePod does sometimes randomly.

Ngl, sitting in front of the speakers like it's a tv is a really neat experience. It was worth getting some wire cutters/strippers and wiring them up.