I’ve never understood the idiocy of people spending $5 for a cup of flavored water. I drink two or three cups of coffee per day, but I never buy it at Starbucks or any other retail outlet. I scoop some coffee into a filter and fill my coffee maker with water from the tap. My cup of coffee costs 10 cents and gives me the same caffeine surge as a pretentious overpriced Starbucks Triple, Venti, Half Sweet, Non-Fat, Caramel Macchiato or a Non-Fat Frappuccino With Extra Whipped Cream And Chocolate Sauce.
Walking around with a Starbucks cup in your hand is just another example of shallow math challenged people pathetically attempting to let others think they are successful and cool by flaunting that they can piss money away on flavored water with a fancy name. I guess it boosts their egos. Wasting money on such things is a reflection of a society of waste, egotism, shallowness, short range thinking, and ignorance. When you read the statistics about Boomer retirement savings averaging less than $50,000 and hear the sob stories about needing the government to support them, you just need a calculator and basic knowledge of math to see the impact of buying two Starbuck coffees per day versus saving that money. By brewing two cups at home versus buying two cups at Starbucks and investing the savings for 30 years with a 4% annual return, you end up with $50,000 to $100,000 of savings by retirement. Try it yourself:
http://www.hughcalc.org/coffee.cgi
This is just one example of the frivolous expenditures made by the ignorant masses without thought for the long-term consequences. The chart below reveals a few more things to me. When the Fed is blowing bubbles and the people feel wealthy because their home price is rising or their stock portfolio is growing, the wealth effect convinces them to waste money on non-essential crap. You can see what happened to Starbucks when the financial system collapsed in 2009. Their sales went flat as they continued to add thousands of stores. Profits crashed and the CEO was shitcanned. They closed almost 400 stores as the reverse wealth effect convinced millions of morons to stop wasting money on overpriced flavored water.
But Bennie came to the rescue and began printing fiat at hyper-speed. The return of easy money, rising prices for McMansions, and expanding portfolios for the 1% have led to increased revenues and profits for Starbucks. The delusional masses never learn their lesson. I wonder how many frappuccinos they will be selling after the next financial collapse?
You will find more statistics at Statista
I agree with you Stucky, we use a French Press with a teaspoon of cinnamon for four and a half cups of coffee.
So glad someone point that idiocy out….felt the same for Years about lots of similar consumer crap/
Kinda like the Hummer..
.Anyone who can afford it woudn’t have it, any one who would have it can’t affort it.
Hugh Chou, et tu, Admin?
How can admin make good coffee using tap water? –>
The plumber came by our facility this week. He ran the water for a bit. I asked how long he needed to run it. He said until the brown clears. I agreed, it looks clear until you fill a cup with it. He said the pipes are 50 years old, rotted and crumbling in places. We are replacing them with plastic pipes, he said. I’ve seen them, 1-2 feet in diameter. Several water main breaks have occurred in LA, no doubt this is the reason and not the reported pressure surges.
Water is no good here, (Al Pacino said the same in Scent of a Woman) I went back east to see my daughter, and I brought a gallon of water back with me, it is great, he said. Back east where? I ask.
South Carolina.
clarification: he said he drove there, in case you wonder how he came back with a gallon of water..
Stuck is that the burger you got at Wendy’s?
And it is after noon, Kill Bill. -Mags
Salud!
This is the best site on the net.
KB and MAGS, get a room, Tinker Toys.
@El Comandante Berkey water filter… not a room, just a beer.
Admin,
Filtered water. Please. It’s like night and day.
Your coffee will be sooo smooth.
Chlorine + tap water funk do not = delicious coffee.
Billy says-
“By the way, if anyone cares, best coffee I’ve ever had was Jamaica Blue Mountain. The real thing. Too bad it’s like 50 bucks a pound or so”
Billy, you haven’t paid $50 a pound for anything in your life you inbred snaggle toothed retard. Your coffee habits most closely resemble sticking a dirty sock in a 5 gallon tub extra fluoridated water, so you can just go to hell with yer $50 per lb coffee bean bullshit.
Jamaican Blue Mountain green coffee beans 33 lbs for $1154? I’ll stick with the Brazilian beans.
http://arcocoffee.com/green-unroasted-coffee-beans/green-coffee-beans-non-organic/jamaican-blue-mountain-green-coffee-beans-100-pure-15-kilo-33.07-pounds?cPath=165&
I’m confused, either Billy is this snaggle-tooth retard or he is Gorgeous George in polka dot tights. This reeks of a cover-up, Skandy-gate, if you will. Let’s see, what are the odds a misguided misogynist misfit would bed a bodacious blonde bimbo?
Zero. Billy is so full of shit, turds weep from the gargantuan pores atop his enormous bowling ball shaped head. Billy gets a major thumbs down from me, and that’s some serious shit.
Now I’m really confused, usually, I avoid reading his posts as they has a tendency to fry my synapses, i can hear my brain sizzle like a slug on a mound of salt. But this post on coffee sounds so corn-pone phony that it can’t possibly be from the same Jethro unless he has a split personality on top of his psychopathic eugenics obsession
Billy’s jock itch is so bad it looks like someone stuffed his Speedo with cottage cheese.
Check on the mic?
Doppledouche alert
Llpoh dopple dopple above. Beware.
By the way, Billy’s hemorrhoid is so bad it looks like he’s clenching a piece of rancid Spam in his butt cheeks. Gross.
What you got to say about that you spray paint huffing 3rd grade educated ROTC reject mongoloid?
Billy, you suck.
I guess Billy’s Skandy looked like Jack’s GF in the Overlook Hotel
Billy hasn’t had a non inflatable girlfriend since he kissed his sleeping cousin at the tender age of 15. His nose is bulbous, his acne could only truly be dealt with by a cleaver, his body odor so pungent a gang of Romanian gypsies flee in horror at his approach.
LLPOH, I’m beginning to suspect you are trying to provoke old moss balls. He may be at a klan rally or star trek convention.
Billy’s halitosis brings to mind a homosexual orangutang’s anus, and his weiner is perpetually flaccid and bluish.
Glamorous Billy isn’t biting, and I don’t mean literally. I suspect he is above mere assaults on his personal hygiene and appearance. The hillbilly hothead ain’t having none of that.
what have you tried now? Inbred, Halitosis, bowling ball head, scratch nuts, maggot scent, and none of it has worked. Here is a man to emulate, someone who is above such scurrilous attack. Or maybe it confuses him, since the shit is usually flowing from him.
Billy confoosed. Billy not fighting but it sounds like Billy fighting. Billy go make food. Billy think about this.
El Cumandante
Llpoh is on a grande’ vacation. Every one of those Llpoh’s is a dopple … even the one calling other Llpoh’s a dopple.
It’s not me. The carpet guys will be here Monday morning with the new carpet. I am putting on a FOURTH coat of paint (2 coats primer, 2 coats satin paint) …. the new color is a light beige, and it’s a BITCH covering very dark brown and black (the grooves) paneling. And I still have trim to paint.
Few people are on today. I suspect the doppler is bb, or …….. even you.
Billy’s pet goat has tried to hang itself three times. Billy is known in the local ER as ‘the fissure guy’. Billy has more yeast in his belly button than a Mrs Baird’s factory.
@Stucky…. what is a doppler?
Realize I’m a former radar crewdog, so when I see doppler, I think of phase shift for pulse doppler.
Maggie
A doppler is someone pretending to be someone else. It’s an art on TBP. Stuck is a master.
Actually, I am Llpoh’s official doppler, and Stucky has nothing to do with this.
Leave me alone douchelicious doppler.
Billy’s appeared on people of Walmart twice and both times he had shat himself. When Billy smiles his kids think ‘oh crap, not again’. Billy’s mom won’t let him visit because when he does she gets roaches.
Well, I think Llpoh’s doppler has a most exquisite sense of humor. Bravo for him or her.
When Billy’s wife enters a Waffle House, the other patrons start complaining about a rotten fish smell, but Waffle House don’t sell fish.
1. Maggie gets the T4C good sport award (it could be named for any of the TBP women but T4C is the Grande Dame of TBP)
2. LLPOH’s dopplers are doing a great job covering for the master shit stirrer, carry on
Stucky says:
It’s not me.
The base cops stopped me for blowing a stop sign. One cop came to shine a light in my eyes, I said, I haven’t been drinking. He said, I didn’t ask. That got me a comprehensive sobriety test, the works.
Yes, it could even be me but it would be masturbating to answer my own posts. bb is a comic genius and I will grant you that one, it could be him.
Some of the best value coffee is at costco.
Supposedly roasted by StarFucks
2lbs for 9.99 or the red Expresso bag for the same price
Better shit than FuckStar will ever have
StarFucks, any relation to StarFucker?
El Comandante,
Billy won’t go down on me anymore just because of the warts, and some scabs. Will you do it? I think you’d like it. It smells like beans.
Short answer, no. (but try Beano, he sounds like your type)
Besides, you crazy bimbo, Billy is married, he fired your ass for non-performance. Plus you lied and told him you were Skandy, serves you right you lying bitch, I wonder what Billy saw in you. Oh, yeah, you’re a lying bitch.
Some funny shit going on. Too bad Billy has not weighed in.
@Ghost Doppler from the REAL Maggie… I completely understand Doppling now.
I believe Billy has been driven from TBP like a bad employee from my factory, and good riddance.
Y’all dun made Billy blow his brains out. He always sed these people wer his best frends but from what I now see y’all are hateful bastards. It weren’t billy’s fault about the yeasty genitals. Thanks for nothing TBP.
On the bright side at least now I can blow Llpoh’s Red Pecker without worrying about Billy catching me doing the dirty deed.
@LLPOH dopple, don’t bet on it. HarryP says they can be mocked, ridiculed, minimized but they can’t be driven away; see bb. Hi, buddy!
Maggie says: @Stucky…. what is a doppler?
This ain’t funny guys. We’re in a tight spot here, what with the 4th rolling about to pick up on a full steam. Our trailer leaks, our kids just ain’t right and now Billy’s brains are all over my bed room suite we ain’t even totally rented to own yet. Admin, can you put another money thermostat on the side of this page and label ‘For Billy RIP’ and see what we git?
Billy was pretty surprised to see I allowed niggahs here in heaven.
Bitch, bitch, bitch is all he does. He keeps talking about some Free Shit Army thingee. I keep telling him EVERYTHING in heaven is free for EVERYBODY … that’s why I’m Da Lawd. But that dumbass hillbilly is still trying to organize a KKK club with my Twelve Disciples. Judas and Thomas already joined.
I don’t need this crap. So, I will be sending Billy back to earf. But I’m gonna make him a Negrow this time. Hahaha! I crack myself up.
Thanks, Jeebus!!
I was afraid you’d send that crazy sumvabitch my way. Even I don’t want him.
Ecktually, Mrs. Billy, this is Llpoh’s fault, he trolled Billy hard and rode him like a rented mule. Not many can sustain Llpoh’s barbs and remain standing. Too bad Billy had no sense than to fuck with Chief Twelve Bears. And I don’t mean they is care bears either.
I miss Billy.