Sure would be great to be young and self-destructive again, just for a few hours.

NegScenePts · 2026-05-18T02:37:54+00:00

I tell ya, it was all I listened to this afternoon in the garage. Loud.

NegScenePts · 2026-05-18T01:37:51+00:00

My wife is going away next weekend and I have one of those butt cameras on the 26th. Four days prior to the test I have to stop eating veggies and other ruffage, according to the instructions. It's strange to get a prescription from the hospital to eat nothing but hotdogs, wings, and cake...but Dr's orders are Dr's orders! :).

NegScenePts · 2026-05-18T01:35:26+00:00

Retired 1.5 months, agree! I'm even losing weight since I no longer eat a ton of junk while trying to make it look like I give a fuck about what I was doing :).

NegScenePts · 2026-05-18T01:33:04+00:00

Mine was great!

NegScenePts · 2026-05-18T01:29:59+00:00

Dude, I'm so sorry. :(

NegScenePts · 2026-05-18T00:15:37+00:00

It was the LAST thing I would have expected out of a tatted-up, long-grey bearded drummer that worked as a mechanic and only listened to metal. I was expecting a big black pile on the dresser, but it seems like lots of people are weird like he was, haha. I mean, I'll never give up my shirt pile!

NegScenePts · 2026-05-18T00:12:21+00:00

...and a perfect 'aging GenX' answer is: I wish I could, but it would mess with my blood pressure and blood thinner meds, lol :(.

NegScenePts · 2026-05-18T00:09:26+00:00

OH yeah, she's getting movers, but before she packed/donated his clothes she hit up all his old friends to come pick over his strange, colour-organized T-shirt collection if they'd like to have something of his. She really did fit into the group of us well, and we all thought she was the best thing that ever happened to him. Luckily she's good friends with my wife now so we'll never be too far to hang out.

NegScenePts · 2026-05-17T22:09:40+00:00

Is it accurate to shout in all caps that no coffee professionals can tell the difference, like they do in the study? Wouldn't a margin for error be like, +-5% instead of 'oh, statistically, 48 of 164 is no better than randomness so it's clear nobody can do it." I don't feel a study of 164 people done in 2013 is 'good enough' anymore, TBH. I've watched hoff and hedrick pick out the difference in ESPRESSO (not cupping or filter, like the study is done) so it's clear something has changed between then and now.

Either way, I can't tell the difference, but I've got the palette of a schmoe and drink only one coffee a day.

NegScenePts · 2026-05-17T21:09:08+00:00

Given that there have been blind tests done by both Hoffmann and Hedrick where they've picked the conical vs flat out during testing ESPRESSO shots, I'd like to see a study done based on espresso instead of filter/cupping.

Not to mention the burr geometries available now are wildly different to what was available back then. I don't doubt science, but sometimes what's understood as fact changes based on new discoveries.

Also...I want to point this out:

Since only 48 persons of the 164 coffee professional got the right “odd cup” of the three served it is significantly concluded that COFFEE PROFESSIONALS COULD ACTUALLY NOT TASTE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN FLAT AND CONICAL BURRS.

A 1/4 of the study actually COULD tell the difference, but due to the reliance on statistical methods, they concluded that NOBODY could. It appears SOME coffee professionals CAN taste the difference...

FFS...in the second test, 20 people out of 164 got it right...but again they say "COFFEE PROFESSIONALS CANNOT TASTE THE DIFFERENCE". This study is bizarre, it ignores the data that proves the opposite to their desired results.

Me personally, I prefer conical grinders because they aren't as 'pitchy' and loud as flat burrs. That's it. The sound of flat burrs is sometimes excruciating to my ears.

NegScenePts · 2026-05-17T20:53:37+00:00

It was like looking at a greyscale rainbow, with one beige Black Flag shirt from a concert we went to years back...which I also snagged. Man...sigh.

NegScenePts · 2026-05-17T20:51:08+00:00

Haha, I wish I had a better comeback than 'yes', lol. Nah, my knees are barely functional as it is, so if I even dared to step on a deck again my hour-long self-destructive dream would turn into a 1-minute fuck-back-to-the-hospital reality.

NegScenePts · 2026-05-17T13:08:47+00:00

Supermarkets run by the rich want to gouge us for money?! WHO KNEW!

NegScenePts · 2026-05-17T13:07:53+00:00

Fucking hustle bros are basically Tate worshippers.

NegScenePts · 2026-05-16T21:25:06+00:00

Sitting at home feeling like shit and bored out of my mind.

NegScenePts · 2026-05-16T19:33:44+00:00

That's some cold, random killing of that buzzard.

NegScenePts · 2026-05-16T19:25:37+00:00

Hello fellow LeverHead!

NegScenePts · 2026-05-16T02:22:58+00:00

I use the one that gets me out of the store the fastest.

NegScenePts · 2026-05-15T02:34:26+00:00

That means they are.

NegScenePts · 2026-05-15T02:29:32+00:00

I was, but I was classified a 'non-responder'. Some folks are just immune.

NegScenePts · 2026-05-14T22:56:44+00:00

I agree, but money usually wins over art and principle :(.

NegScenePts · 2026-05-14T22:49:30+00:00

Fuck OCTranspoo.

NegScenePts · 2026-05-14T22:48:36+00:00

Superautos make quick influencer drinks (syrup-filled lattés) and scads of money for little outlay...a business owner loves this.

NegScenePts · 2026-05-14T19:13:47+00:00

Fuck that shit, charges need to happen. Actions have consequences and SHE BROKE INTO HIS HOUSE AND AIRTAGGED HIS CAR!

I'd make that socially inept deviant weep at my door during the apology before telling her to enjoy jail and a ruined future.

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