I'm inspired to do a java-themed photo collection reflecting my own usage. It will consist of the same liter thermos being refilled over and over again from the same cheap coffeemaker in a series of increasingly jittery and blurred photos. posted by Panjandrum at 4:58 PM on August 24 [2 favorites has favorites]
Wow, what the--? It would take me a little over 9 years to spend that much on coffee... just buy the beans and a $30 French press. Coffee is 15 cents a cup that way. posted by synaesthetichaze at 4:58 PM on August 24
Yep, that's why I started making my own mochas in the morning (bar chocolate in a double-boiler, mmmm) and using a french press in the afternoon. posted by gurple at 5:02 PM on August 24
His most crucial mistake was doing the math in the first place. I calculated how much I spent on coffee my first year of law school and then I vowed to never ever do that again...
Dude should buy a can of Nescafe and a new camera maybe. posted by GuyZero at 5:23 PM on August 24
This isn't Yemeni, it's Sulawesi! And the cup's shaking! I don't want my coffee shaking. posted by setanor at 5:27 PM on August 24 [4 favorites has favorites]
Beautifully done by the very talented Mike Harding.
Back in my day, we didn't have coffee. We had coffee extract -- and that was 95% chicory.
And don't get me started on cups. We fought over the luxury of a jam jar. The loser made do with a rusty tin can. But we were ecologically sound. No whales died during the making of the antibiotics they used to treat the cuts that we'd get from drinking out of the rusty tin can.
I missed the plural at first, and thought this was some type of hyper distilled specialty coffee. Like they took the first civet's poop, and fed it to second, rarer civet, and then strained it through crushed diamonds and steeped it in the tears of a hundred year old monk who lives in a cave in the Himalayans. posted by louche mustachio at 8:55 PM on August 24 [4 favorites has favorites]
This is what it looks like when the world ends. posted by The Whelk at 9:09 PM on August 24
heh, louche mustachio, I had the same thought. posted by baxter_ilion at 9:43 PM on August 24
I thought those coffees look tasty - a flat white perhaps. But they don't have those in the US do they? Oh it's New Zealand - best coffee in the world. posted by meech at 10:00 PM on August 24
I had the same thought as well, lm and bi, but in my imagined version it was then poured into a hideously ugly cup covered with Swarovski crystals. posted by hattifattener at 10:09 PM on August 24
Metafilter: I think that there could be less smugness posted by armage at 10:17 PM on August 24
um, so a recent askMe alerted me to the fact that jokingly referring to this sort of thing as OCD might not be entirely tactful. posted by 5_13_23_42_69_666 at 10:25 PM on August 24
See also.
I really enjoyed the proofpurchase.com! such succinct little stories! posted by 5_13_23_42_69_666 at 10:33 PM on August 24
In my opinion, even ONE rat in my coffee is too much... but, some may have different standards on that... posted by HuronBob at 3:53 AM on August 25 [5 favorites has favorites]
>Like they took the first civet's poop, and fed it to second, rarer civet, and then strained it through crushed diamonds and steeped it in the tears of a hundred year old monk who lives in a cave in the Himalayans.
I've had that, and it's really not worth a penny over $499.95. posted by languagehat at 6:36 AM on August 25
Someone should do this with cigarettes. I've quit now, but I sometimes wonder what it would look like to see every smoke I ever had together. Oh, and DU, isn't that a whole lot of aspartame? I'm just sayin' is all. I don't want bad things to happen to my fellow mefites :) posted by Go Banana at 7:04 AM on August 25
Someone should do this with cigarettes. I've quit now, but I sometimes wonder what it would look like to see every smoke I ever had together. Oh, and DU, isn't that a whole lot of aspartame? I'm just sayin' is all. I don't want bad things to happen to my fellow mefites :)
Careful what you wish for. There was a T.C Boyle story (which I know can't remember the title, of course, ) wherein an apparition of the Virgin Mary appears and is just PISSED OFF at everyone and shows them exactly how much excess and waste and consumption they go through. I believe the phrase "vats of semen" was used more than once. posted by The Whelk at 7:17 AM on August 25
And of course I find it the INSTANT I hit post.
"The Miracle At Ballinspittle."
"And the scales-scales the size of the Washington monument-sunk under pyramids of ketchup, peanut butter, tortilla chips, truckloads of potatoes, onions, avocados, peppermint candies and after-dinner mints, half-eaten burgers and fork-scattered peas, the whole slithering wasteful cornucopia of his secret and public devouring. 'Moooo', accuse the cows. "Stinker!" "Pig!" "Glutton!' cry voices from the crowd."
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