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Party pooper LJ!
Well, folks, it seems that LJ has decided to crash our birthday party - the original post is no longer visible. But I still have most of the comments in my inbox, and will re-post the original entry and list the available comments with the simple mentioning of the names, if it's all right with you. If not, tell me, and I'll delete yours.
We won't allow LJ to crash our party!
Original post
Hi folks! *waves*
Time is flying by, isn't it? It's that time of a year again - I'm getting older. In this case, I'm turning 56 on October 9, which means I'd have been retired for a year already, back under the old regime. Women could retire at the age of 55 back then. So I've decided to ignore all that fantastic headway we've supposedly made towards democracy in the last two decades and have considered myself retired for the last year, blithley overlooking the fact that I'll have to work another 6 or 7 or only God knows how many years.
So, let's party! Last years virtual birthday party yielded 943 comments on 7 pages, which won't be easy to top, but we're good, aren't we? WE CAN DO IT! WE CAN BREAK THE 1000-COMMENT-BARRIER! So, let's give it a try! In the recent years, it has always been great fun, so let's have fun again!
You're all cordially invited to help yourself to a slice of virtual cake of your choice. If you want to post your favourite recipe in a comment, be my guest. If not, just drop by and say hello.
Cheers!
Note: The party will be closed on October 9, at midnight, sharp.
Join us and have fun! Feel free to start any thread, any topic you want; we can discuss it, mock the general stupidity of life and laugh at it.
Last count was 1328 comments on 6 pages.
NB: Shoud the original party post mysteriously reappear, I'll delete this one.
We won't allow LJ to crash our party!
Original post
Hi folks! *waves*
Time is flying by, isn't it? It's that time of a year again - I'm getting older. In this case, I'm turning 56 on October 9, which means I'd have been retired for a year already, back under the old regime. Women could retire at the age of 55 back then. So I've decided to ignore all that fantastic headway we've supposedly made towards democracy in the last two decades and have considered myself retired for the last year, blithley overlooking the fact that I'll have to work another 6 or 7 or only God knows how many years.
So, let's party! Last years virtual birthday party yielded 943 comments on 7 pages, which won't be easy to top, but we're good, aren't we? WE CAN DO IT! WE CAN BREAK THE 1000-COMMENT-BARRIER! So, let's give it a try! In the recent years, it has always been great fun, so let's have fun again!
You're all cordially invited to help yourself to a slice of virtual cake of your choice. If you want to post your favourite recipe in a comment, be my guest. If not, just drop by and say hello.
Cheers!
Note: The party will be closed on October 9, at midnight, sharp.
Join us and have fun! Feel free to start any thread, any topic you want; we can discuss it, mock the general stupidity of life and laugh at it.
Last count was 1328 comments on 6 pages.
NB: Shoud the original party post mysteriously reappear, I'll delete this one.
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If you love the smell, that counts! Decent coffee is a lot like dark
chocolate, without the sweetness, if that tempts you at all :) There is a
lot of not-so-good coffee around, though. Instant, anything out of a
vending machine, stale filter, sour espresso... all to be avoided.
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I do occasionally thing if possibly learning to drink coffee, but I find
it does taste very different to the smell. And I have found that I really
enjoy drinking mint tea, when I feel like a hot beverage so it might not
happen any time soon.
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The smell & the taste are different, so I can understand that. And herb
teas can be really refreshing, which coffee isn't. Feel free to start a
tea thread, in opposition, by the way! :)
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Thread started below! Feel free to contribute. ;-)
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We can fight for comments :)
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I think the coffee thread is winning, but to be fair it has had longer to
get going so far. Maybe tea will catch up. ;-) And it is all for the good
of the number of comments anyway.
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Coffee will win! Tea will die!
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but chocolate tops them all!
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I think I'd put coffee ahead of chocolate, even! But it's a close call.
I'd hate to live without either.
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Amen. You really must start a chocolate thread tomorrow. That's your
speciality.
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When you don't like it then you don't like it - we are different people
with different tastes, and it's good so, IMO. I for my part only drink
any kind of tea when I've got a really really bad cold and can't
taste it anyway.
I drink coffee purely for the taste of it. It doesn't keep me awake or
whatnot. I remember making my first degree, when I tended to dawdle all
day and learn for the exams at night, I was easily capable of falling
aslep over some boring book I was supposed to study in ten minutes after
having had a really big double espresso (black, without sugar) at nine
p.m. *g*
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There are a number of things I didn't like the taste of when I first
tried them that I now really love and from what my coffee drinking
friends tell me that can be the case with coffee as well which is the
only reason I keep thinking it would be nice to drink it. I would like to
share in their enjoyment.
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We had these little square lumps of sugar, and I loved it when they dripped them into their coffee for me - I ate it like other kids ate candy (not that I didn't ate candy, mind you).
From there, the way to addiction was free.
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It took me two decades from instant-in-milk to double espresso, so I
think it's definitely an acquired taste.
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I did try to learn to drink coffee in my youth, though it was the
chocolate that was the big draw: At my Grandpa's there would be elevensis
of coffee and his home-made chocolate fudge (no-bake) cake, known to the
family as 'kedge', every day at eleven. If you didn't drink coffee you
got to do the washing up from breakfast instead... (You did still get
kedge though, but not the time to sit down and savour it.)
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Homemade chocolate fudge sounds scrummy!
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I find I've built up a big caffeine tolerance. I have to have about three
or four double espressos back to back to start feeling buzzy these days,
and that tends to make my stomach rebel.