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What are you, an idiot?

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  • 89th8 Online
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    I have the Panera annual subscription, comes out to about 10 bucks a month. Great deal.

    O'Leary is right, but from a numbers perspective. If you could ask people would they rather have $100k in 30 years or have the convenience, flavor, experience, joy, whatever of having a daily coffee each day until then, I think it's reasonable for people to prefer the "here and now".

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      I think what O'Leary is missing is that most of these people ARE making coffee at home, and getting it on the road as well.

      And most aren’t getting coffee. They are getting mocha frappe caramel cream oat milk concoctions.

      The Brad

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      • MikM Away
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        Yep. The regular coffee is not that expensive.

        “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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        • LuFins DadL LuFins Dad

          I think what O'Leary is missing is that most of these people ARE making coffee at home, and getting it on the road as well.

          And most aren’t getting coffee. They are getting mocha frappe caramel cream oat milk concoctions.

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          @LuFins-Dad said in What are you, an idiot?:

          They are getting mocha frappe caramel cream oat milk concoctions...

          ...and getting fat.

          At morning rounds, of of the CRNAs routinely walked in with a Starbucks whatever. One of my partners commented, "That coffee is costing you $1000 a year."

          She switched to the free OR sludge.

          "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

          The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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          • MikM Mik

            Yep. The regular coffee is not that expensive.

            jon-nycJ Online
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            @Mik said in What are you, an idiot?:

            Yep. The regular coffee is not that expensive.

            Though boy has it increased over the years.

            I remember we had a Starbucks in the building where I worked in the late 90s. I used to order a venti coffee, hand then 2 dollar bills and get change. At some point around then the price went up to a hair over two dollars so I started buying grandes. I didn’t want to acquire 95c a day in change and it was more than I was willing to tip.

            "You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."
            -Cormac McCarthy

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            • MikM Away
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              Go to a gas station. A buck a cup and pretty good coffee.

              “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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              • jon-nycJ Online
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                There weren’t a whole lot of those between 72nd and Riverside and 54th and 6th.

                "You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."
                -Cormac McCarthy

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                • MikM Away
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                  Fucking urbanites.

                  “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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                  • taiwan_girlT Online
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                    Lot of things could be "trimmed" from monthly expenses. A lot of people have multiple streaming services and maybe even cable. Phone plans - those can be pretty expensive. Excessive speeding and hard starts and stops probably increases your car gas bill 15% or so. Buying lunch every day rather than bring lunch with you. Keeping A/C low (and heat high) when you are at work and nobody home. Etc.

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                      If you really want to save money, just don't have kids. Or sell the ones you do have. First you save on the kids, then you save on not needing as much coffee, alcohol or prescription medication.

                      I was only joking

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