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There's a book about that. When a few guys split out of Peets and set up Starbucks, the first thing they did was switch to cheap robusta coffee beans.

More likely that was when Baldwin sold Starbucks to Schultz to concentrate on the Peets brand. I've only been to Starbucks once when my brother shuffled through his deck of gift cards and decided to use the Starbucks one. I lived.

I'm not interested in the milkshakes that seem to be Starbuck's real draw and there are several local shops and roasters that I prefer to support. If I get really ambitious I've got some green beans from Sweet Maria's.

One of my customers is Irish. They make the best scientific CCD and ICCD cameras in the world.

The Irish are practical and make good engineers and, occasionally, scientists.

They add a half chip, if needed, to meet the target weight.

I've never seen anyone with a covered toilet roll holder. It would be harder to get hold of the end.

Eh? Sink, bath, toilet, that's three. On the floor. In front of each one.

Those stinky Muslims wash their arses with a spray, splattering s*it everywhere. Amusingly they call them a shataff, which is Scottish for "s*it off."

I've never seen a set with mats for the bath /and/ the sink. I just move mine across. And I've never seen a pedestal mat sold on its own. They may exist, of course.

Now try 183 pounds.

Calibrated isn't the right word.

Shake. The. Bag.

Learn?! What, did you go on a course or something? Most people don't have to learn such basic things.

Same to me, just had the option of less or no salt, which I didn't take.

Take them up Everest and see if they explode.

I always open crisp packets by bursting one end. Makes it less likely to rip down the side, but scares the s*it out of the person next to you.

If you're used to simply tearing the greaseproof paper bag open, you have to work out how to open the plastic ones; either pull apart or compress and pop. All new experiences have to be learnt, either by watching what other people do or experiment.

For example, it took me some time to work out how to open kitchen tongs of this sort:

If "everybody knows" how something is done, no-one will tell you.

Then wrote 14.

Why not just drink a whole litre?

I once spilt an entire pint and they refused to give me a replacement without paying. I wasn't that drunk, I managed to drive home without scrathing the car.

They don't add up for anyone, they stay the same percentage. £99 instead of £100 is a 1% discount. 3 billion of those things sold is also 1% less income for the business.

Why would that stop the correct price being shown? Everywhere but Montana should just do what we do in the UK - the label on the goods states the final price. Tax isn't mentioned at all, they just tell the truth about what you pay.

Where does sales tax go? To the state or the main government?

In the UK, they take huge amounts of taxes from income, sales, business, car ownership, and petrol, yet they still don't fix the roads. Well they do, but they fix the ones which didn't really need fixing, and they do 50 at once, spreading the workforce thin so they take months instead of days and cause tailbacks everywhere. Utter f****ng stupidity.

Why a geocache? They just chose to put it there for a laugh?

This?

I see you're infested with f****ng psycho, sorry cycle, lanes too.