What cheeses me off

[Pushka]

I’d agree… if I thought it would make the slightest impression on them. They don’t seem to understand. And if you don’t understand, you can’t care.

Plus I’d be worried about the dolphin/turtle/whale I’d be harming

Agree. Pointless gesture to them but I’d feel better.

 

[DejaBrew]

There was much talk about the recent tax cut only being a cup of coffee a week. What didn't get mentioned is that skipping a coffee a week gives you $260 by the end of the year

I was once asked by a friend if I'd ever totalled up the amount of money I spent in a year on coffee (given a regular drinker). Told them that I didn't really want to think about it if I was being completely honest, but I was positive that it was an undoubtedly cheaper habit than either cigarettes or crack

 

[anat0l]

I was once asked by a friend if I'd ever totalled up the amount of money I spent in a year on coffee (given a regular drinker). Told them that I didn't really want to think about it if I was being completely honest, but I was positive that it was an undoubtedly cheaper habit than either cigarettes or crack

Guess everyone has a vice. Blessed are those whose workplaces provide a coffee machine (if you're prepared to accept that standard).

I do like my coffee and love to go to a cafe to get one, and yes it's quite a bit of $5-$6 to swallow each time. Fortunately in my last place of work, often the time required to acquire a coffee was impractical versus the work I had to get done during that day, so I it wasn't a daily habit. (The coffee machine in our common room, however, became a friend to lean on)

I was a kid in those times, but I wonder if the news ever made a big deal about workers crying poor and yet smoking any number of packets of cigarettes per day (granted, they were a lot cheaper in those days and the duty free allowances - viz cheaper international ciggies - were more generous than now). One thing that hasn't changed is the price of a pub beer is always good material for a big brouhaha (brew-haha?)

 

[DejaBrew]

Guess everyone has a vice. Blessed are those whose workplaces provide a coffee machine (if you're prepared to accept that standard).

Indeed! Our new office is pending delivery of new coffee machines. Remains to be seen whether the standard is acceptable.

 

[Captain Halliday]

WCMO: Marketing emails claiming to be gifts.

Specifically ones like “our birthday gift to you” or similar wording where there’s both a minimum spend criteria and expiry date.

A gift is something you give someone with no expectation of something in return.

Imagine a loved one who really enjoys food. Would you give them a cook book for their birthday, but only if they spend $100 on groceries and make you five meals by the end of the month?

What nonsense.

Memo to marketing departments: by all means send discounts and offers, but don’t insult me by using my birthday to claim your spam is somehow a gift.

 

[JohnK]

Like diet coke? (Still a caffeine-delivery system)
There are some who don't function without the grape (or grain)-based depressants

I don't need diet coke or coke zero first thing in morning. In Thailand when I play golf I'll have a coke zero somewhere between the 6th and 15th holes which is usually after lunch or mid-afternoon.

I love alcohol but don't need to have a drink first thing in the morning.

When I did smoke I used to have a cigarette first thing after I woke up and towards the end I used to have 6-7 cigarettes before I'd even think about going to work. Now that was a sickness and glad that was over 22 years ago.

 

[Pushka]

The timing of the need for coke, caffeine and so on is irrelevant to the previous discussion on why do people need their caffeine or other pleasure hit.