Comments on: Revisiting an old topic http://dumpinggrounds.com/2007/05/08/revisiting-an-old-topic/ I ought to put a tagline here... any suggestions? Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:19:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Liz http://dumpinggrounds.com/2007/05/08/revisiting-an-old-topic/#comment-157 Liz Fri, 11 May 2007 17:42:54 +0000 http://dumpinggrounds.com/2007/05/08/revisiting-an-old-topic/#comment-157 <p>Maybe it's just because we don't drink coffee that we don't understand the trials of coffee drinkers... but I'm with you, Matt. Slurping anything, including coffee (particularly during meetings), is simply bad manners. If we had bottles of water that we slurped with the excuse that it was too cold and would give us a brain freeze, people would point and laugh. Yet somehow, coffee slurping is widely accepted. Makes no sense.</p> <p>A friend of mine working at a newspaper once wrote an editorial about how she had an irrational jolt of fear that cigarette butts thrown out car windows would incinerate the bottom of her car. I have the same reaction -- I know it cannot happen, but what if it did? Or started a fire elsewhere? Yeesh.</p> Maybe it’s just because we don’t drink coffee that we don’t understand the trials of coffee drinkers… but I’m with you, Matt. Slurping anything, including coffee (particularly during meetings), is simply bad manners. If we had bottles of water that we slurped with the excuse that it was too cold and would give us a brain freeze, people would point and laugh. Yet somehow, coffee slurping is widely accepted. Makes no sense.

A friend of mine working at a newspaper once wrote an editorial about how she had an irrational jolt of fear that cigarette butts thrown out car windows would incinerate the bottom of her car. I have the same reaction — I know it cannot happen, but what if it did? Or started a fire elsewhere? Yeesh.

]]> By: matt http://dumpinggrounds.com/2007/05/08/revisiting-an-old-topic/#comment-156 matt Wed, 09 May 2007 12:43:33 +0000 http://dumpinggrounds.com/2007/05/08/revisiting-an-old-topic/#comment-156 <p>Ah. I get it. Now my job is to invent some sort of sound proof, non-business meeting interrupting, coffee cup.</p> <p>I'll get back to you on my progress. Stay tuned.</p> Ah. I get it. Now my job is to invent some sort of sound proof, non-business meeting interrupting, coffee cup.

I’ll get back to you on my progress. Stay tuned.

]]> By: Murray McKinley http://dumpinggrounds.com/2007/05/08/revisiting-an-old-topic/#comment-155 Murray McKinley Wed, 09 May 2007 11:57:46 +0000 http://dumpinggrounds.com/2007/05/08/revisiting-an-old-topic/#comment-155 <p>OK coffee is usually consumed at at temperature that will cause at least second degree burns. As a result it must be ingested with the proper air hot coffee ratio to lower the temp to a bearable level, hence the slurrping noise. Now the slurping is usually followed by the obligatory AHHHHHHHHH. Now cigarette butts need to be outlawed.</p> OK coffee is usually consumed at at temperature that will cause at least second degree burns. As a result it must be ingested with the proper air hot coffee ratio to lower the temp to a bearable level, hence the slurrping noise. Now the slurping is usually followed by the obligatory AHHHHHHHHH. Now cigarette butts need to be outlawed.

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