Having a real sh*tty f**king weekend 
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New Zealand Couriers. Had to walk half an hour each way to their depot to pick up a heavy box that they wouldn't deliver - it was "too late" at 3:30. In the end the box is big enough to fit in my (surprisingly large) letterbox, but putting mail in a mailbox must also be a concept beyond a delivery company that won't deliver.
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The whole Pretentious Coffee scene.
First off a good cup of tea owns coffee any time.
Secondly why the stupid array of cups and glasses? It's bloody coffee for god's sake not the necter of the gods. It makes me grimly smile to see people struggling to carry/drink from their bucket sized cups of coffee-flavoured milk froth.
And you need a silly, noisy and frankly gay machine to make it. What's wrong with a kettle, some milk and a spoon?
Get over yourselves, it's a massively overrated drink that needs silly props to fool people into thinking it's the dogs bollocks.
First off a good cup of tea owns coffee any time.
Secondly why the stupid array of cups and glasses? It's bloody coffee for god's sake not the necter of the gods. It makes me grimly smile to see people struggling to carry/drink from their bucket sized cups of coffee-flavoured milk froth.
And you need a silly, noisy and frankly gay machine to make it. What's wrong with a kettle, some milk and a spoon?
Get over yourselves, it's a massively overrated drink that needs silly props to fool people into thinking it's the dogs bollocks.
Sounds like you've only ever drunk instant. Which is basically the same as having never drunk coffee
Real coffee > Daylight > Green & herbal teas > Rooibos > Instant coffee > Tea
Nope I've had enough "real" coffee around the cosmopolitan coffee places of Wellington and beyond to realize that I am right.
The only use for coffee is to keep you awake and The USA, (who invented these insipid starbuck-type places), used to drink coffee as it should be drunk, not the namby pamby way it is today.
Can you imagine Robert Mitchum or Richard Widmark going into a bistro and ordering a "flat white" or "latte"? They'd kick your lungs out for suggesting it.
If you want to sit in some trendy brown room next to a deafening machine that sounds like the wheezings of group of emphysemic Glaswegian gentlemen of the road, pretending you are in a "friends" episode then be my guest you coffee-breathed buffoon.
Wow. Dont go to Italy then.
I've been called a coffee snob, but because most cafe 'baristas' wouldn't know the difference between plunger and a ristretto; and are likely to have served your "real" coffee in the cosmopolitan cafes.
Those big cups you refer to are result of the usual American Gargatuan System (AGS) where everything must be bigger...because of course, quantity always over quality. I actually cringe when someone responds to my flat white order with, 'do you want a regular or large?'....there's no such thing as a large flat white, it's regular, ALWAYS regular. A large flat white my friend, is a latte.
Good coffee makes me miss Wellington because Auckland rarely has good coffee. You can't quite beat Havana Cafe, Fidels or Midnight Espresso.
As for the 'only use for coffee is to keep you awake' retort, is the same as 'you only drink wine to get p****d' and if such is the case, you may as well keep to your simpleton tea.
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The whole Pretentious Coffee scene.
First off a good cup of tea owns coffee any time.
Secondly why the stupid array of cups and glasses? It's bloody coffee for god's sake not the necter of the gods. It makes me grimly smile to see people struggling to carry/drink from their bucket sized cups of coffee-flavoured milk froth.
And you need a silly, noisy and frankly gay machine to make it. What's wrong with a kettle, some milk and a spoon?
Get over yourselves, it's a massively overrated drink that needs silly props to fool people into thinking it's the dogs bollocks.
First off a good cup of tea owns coffee any time.
Secondly why the stupid array of cups and glasses? It's bloody coffee for god's sake not the necter of the gods. It makes me grimly smile to see people struggling to carry/drink from their bucket sized cups of coffee-flavoured milk froth.
And you need a silly, noisy and frankly gay machine to make it. What's wrong with a kettle, some milk and a spoon?
Get over yourselves, it's a massively overrated drink that needs silly props to fool people into thinking it's the dogs bollocks.
Sounds like you've only ever drunk instant. Which is basically the same as having never drunk coffee
Real coffee > Daylight > Green & herbal teas > Rooibos > Instant coffee > Tea
Nope I've had enough "real" coffee around the cosmopolitan coffee places of Wellington and beyond to realize that I am right.
The only use for coffee is to keep you awake and The USA, (who invented these insipid starbuck-type places), used to drink coffee as it should be drunk, not the namby pamby way it is today.
Can you imagine Robert Mitchum or Richard Widmark going into a bistro and ordering a "flat white" or "latte"? They'd kick your lungs out for suggesting it.
If you want to sit in some trendy brown room next to a deafening machine that sounds like the wheezings of group of emphysemic Glaswegian gentlemen of the road, pretending you are in a "friends" episode then be my guest you coffee-breathed buffoon.
Wow. Dont go to Italy then.
I've been called a coffee snob, but because most cafe 'baristas' wouldn't know the difference between plunger and a ristretto; and are likely to have served your "real" coffee in the cosmopolitan cafes.
Those big cups you refer to are result of the usual American Gargatuan System (AGS) where everything must be bigger...because of course, quantity always over quality. I actually cringe when someone responds to my flat white order with, 'do you want a regular or large?'....there's no such thing as a large flat white, it's regular, ALWAYS regular. A large flat white my friend, is a latte.
Good coffee makes me miss Wellington because Auckland rarely has good coffee. You can't quite beat Havana Cafe, Fidels or Midnight Espresso.
As for the 'only use for coffee is to keep you awake' retort, is the same as 'you only drink wine to get p****d' and if such is the case, you may as well keep to your simpleton tea.
I rest my case.
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Wow. Dont go to Italy then.
I've been called a coffee snob, but because most cafe 'baristas' wouldn't know the difference between plunger and a ristretto; and are likely to have served your "real" coffee in the cosmopolitan cafes.
Those big cups you refer to are result of the usual American Gargatuan System (AGS) where everything must be bigger...because of course, quantity always over quality. I actually cringe when someone responds to my flat white order with, 'do you want a regular or large?'....there's no such thing as a large flat white, it's regular, ALWAYS regular. A large flat white my friend, is a latte.
Good coffee makes me miss Wellington because Auckland rarely has good coffee. You can't quite beat Havana Cafe, Fidels or Midnight Espresso.
As for the 'only use for coffee is to keep you awake' retort, is the same as 'you only drink wine to get p****d' and if such is the case, you may as well keep to your simpleton tea.
I do like a good coffee but I do believe I've found somebody with an obsession.I've been called a coffee snob, but because most cafe 'baristas' wouldn't know the difference between plunger and a ristretto; and are likely to have served your "real" coffee in the cosmopolitan cafes.
Those big cups you refer to are result of the usual American Gargatuan System (AGS) where everything must be bigger...because of course, quantity always over quality. I actually cringe when someone responds to my flat white order with, 'do you want a regular or large?'....there's no such thing as a large flat white, it's regular, ALWAYS regular. A large flat white my friend, is a latte.
Good coffee makes me miss Wellington because Auckland rarely has good coffee. You can't quite beat Havana Cafe, Fidels or Midnight Espresso.
As for the 'only use for coffee is to keep you awake' retort, is the same as 'you only drink wine to get p****d' and if such is the case, you may as well keep to your simpleton tea.
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Weekends without the Nix or TeeDubs.
There are a pile of people I like talking bollocks with who I haven't see for a week. Damn you schedulers !
There are a pile of people I like talking bollocks with who I haven't see for a week. Damn you schedulers !
Haven't seen you since Palmy...
"Ive just re-visited this and once again realised that C-Diddy is a genius - a drunk, Newcastle bred disgrace - but a genius." - Hard News, 11:39am 4th June 2009
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. It's so frustrating!
perhaps your trying to come back too quickly??? or just repeating the same/similar mistake which causes injury?
Try what Owen did - change clubs. All of a sudden his injuries have miraculosuly disappeared.
"Phoenix till they lose"
Posting 97% bollox, 8% lies and 3.658% genuine opinion.
Genuine opinion: FTFFA
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perhaps your trying to come back too quickly??? or just repeating the same/similar mistake which causes injury?
Well the latest one was last night at training when i got my foot stamped. Hairline fracture.
Others include twisting my knee (it was worse than it sounds), torn achillies and broken leg. I think only the achilies was because i came back too early.
Three for me, and two for them.
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Rustle-proof bags please confectionery companies.
Totally agree with this. It's like the confectionery companies are in cahoots with DVD manufacturers and torrent uploaders to make certain the movie industry dies a horrid death.
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At training the other night I was talking to a guy that 'sort of' follows the Nix via Radio Sport, he was saying how good it was to have passionate supporters in this country at last (helps he's a Wellington lad from way back), and one of our mids says to me, 'Yeah but it's all the poms in the crowd'. What a knob.
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At training the other night I was talking to a guy that 'sort of' follows the Nix via Radio Sport, he was saying how good it was to have passionate supporters in this country at last (helps he's a Wellington lad from way back), and one of our mids says to me, 'Yeah but it's all the poms in the crowd'. What a knob.
First time I've been called a Pom...
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At training the other night I was talking to a guy that 'sort of' follows the Nix via Radio Sport, he was saying how good it was to have passionate supporters in this country at last (helps he's a Wellington lad from way back), and one of our mids says to me, 'Yeah but it's all the poms in the crowd'. What a knob.
fair point though
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At training the other night I was talking to a guy that 'sort of' follows the Nix via Radio Sport, he was saying how good it was to have passionate supporters in this country at last (helps he's a Wellington lad from way back), and one of our mids says to me, 'Yeah but it's all the poms in the crowd'. What a knob.
fair point though
Pathetic. Not apathetic.
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Getting a speeding ticket on the drive down to the game on Sunday 
Apparently I'm apathetic, but I couldn't care less.
"Being a Partick Thistle fan sets you apart. It means youre a free thinker. It also means your team has no money." Tim Luckhurst, The Independent, 4th December 2003
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Yeah, c'mon Smithy, News. Only $80...... 
Jag2010-03-09 10:40:05
Jag2010-03-09 10:40:05Apparently I'm apathetic, but I couldn't care less.
"Being a Partick Thistle fan sets you apart. It means youre a free thinker. It also means your team has no money." Tim Luckhurst, The Independent, 4th December 2003
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People who wear T shirts with the word "Crew" on the back who are not Roadies for Motorhead, the Grateful Dead or someone similar.
There was a time when having a t-shirt with the word "crew" on the back, immediately identified you as a 30 something, beer-bellied, amephetamine-crazed lunatic who's job it was to hump amps up to the stage whilst saying "testing, two, two". Then with the gig underway you'd be supplying drugs to the drummer whilst throwing stage invaders back into the wrecking/mosh pit head first, only to spend time after the show cleaning stains from the inside of the tour bus, made by the union of the lead singer and some local tawdry bint with herpes.
Nowadays it's Otaki Flower Show = Crew T shirt. Plimmerton Women's Rug-Weavers Centennial dinner = Crew T shirt. Pak N Save 10% of Catfood extravaganza = Crew T shirt.
FFS you are a friggin steward/busybody/pain in the arse you are not part of a crew!
I blame WOMAD, when you start putting on rubbish, gay festivals with jugglers and sh*t this is what happens.
There was a time when having a t-shirt with the word "crew" on the back, immediately identified you as a 30 something, beer-bellied, amephetamine-crazed lunatic who's job it was to hump amps up to the stage whilst saying "testing, two, two". Then with the gig underway you'd be supplying drugs to the drummer whilst throwing stage invaders back into the wrecking/mosh pit head first, only to spend time after the show cleaning stains from the inside of the tour bus, made by the union of the lead singer and some local tawdry bint with herpes.
Nowadays it's Otaki Flower Show = Crew T shirt. Plimmerton Women's Rug-Weavers Centennial dinner = Crew T shirt. Pak N Save 10% of Catfood extravaganza = Crew T shirt.
FFS you are a friggin steward/busybody/pain in the arse you are not part of a crew!
I blame WOMAD, when you start putting on rubbish, gay festivals with jugglers and sh*t this is what happens.
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