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Mark_Wallace wrote: Anyone fancy a spot of tea?
I just bough Earl Grey Tea this morning. What kinds of tea do you offer, or everybody has to bring own tea ?
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Earl Grey smells to me like Dettol. 
You may drink it if you wish, but I'll stick to my "proper" coffee, thank you!
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Dettol ? Is this some kind of cleaning product (google says so)?
Define "proper" coffee please
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Argonia wrote: Define "proper" coffee please
Coffee that doesn't have any tea leaves or perfume in it, like that Earl Whatzit stuff does.
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To add to Marks answer, it comes from a bean, not a jar, and has not been messed with to reduce the caffeine levels in any way.
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Grind it and add water - sorted! 
speramus in juniperus
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The one I make!
At least 1 spoon of coffee for each small cup of water.
Add a very small amount of chicory.
Use a decent percolator, no instant stuff.
No cream, no sugar.
I use grounded coffee from Douwe Egberts, but I can grind my own stuff. Apperantly the real good coffee beans have moved through the digestive system of a cat ...  (but I have never tasted that, pretty expensive and not found in the average pub.)
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chicory is interesting choice to add in your coffee 
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Very popular in French speaking countries.
I don't like it myself, I think it adds too much of a bitter note.
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Don't they know about green tea with grapefruit or Earl grey tea ? Maybe someone has to enlighten them
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That should be an interesting task: enlightening the French about food and drink... 
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Yes, here I am, waiting. Now surprise me.
~RaGE();
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Oooh, where to start?
Australian wine is (on average) better than French wine. Some French wines are superb, but the quality varies far, far too much.
The food in Britain can be (surprisingly) better than in France - not always, but it can. The range is certainly a whole lot better.
French coffee isn't actually very good - it has too much chicory, and is frequently over roasted.
That should start a small war!
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OriginalGriff wrote: Australian wine is (on average) better than French wine
Well, actually, until now, I thought you were joking. I did not think this would go that far. This is national offense. This is trolling at the extreme. I am going to slam you with my baguette ( Just give me a few seconds to prepare my white handkerchief first).
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I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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Don't forget to manger your fromage!
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OriginalGriff wrote: The food in Britain can be (surprisingly) better than in France - not always, but it can.
Say what? I've been to both countries (sic) as a visitor to both and consider this statement as heresy and/or nonsense.
OriginalGriff wrote: ...The range is certainly a whole lot better.
This part may be true, in that British food is so terrible that the good restaurants are run by people from other countries.
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- Harvey
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When I do drink tea, it's always straight from China (usually either Pu-Erh or LongJing) -- none of that English "we finally find out what plant it is, so let's grow it in India and process it in five minutes through a crappy factory, rather than treat it with respect!" rubbish.
You are aware that Earl Grey was invented by someone who realised that the English-style tea was disgusting, so added some of his wife's perfume to it, to smother the horrible flavour?
Teas with added perfume or fruit extract may have a place in the world, but my cup ain't that place.
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mmm, I'm pretty sure the internet will be down on Wednesday
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Carry on... Spying
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I remember this movie - it's the one that ends up with all the Americans going to Mexico - for a change.
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It's me... two complete days without stomach and doing nasty things to the W.C.
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every single customer care department sucks?
I was trying to renew my motor insurance policy on-line. Since it expired yesterday, I cannot do it on-line. I get it. So I try to buy a new one. In the year of manufacture drop down, I just see 2013 and 2012. So, I click on "Live operator chat" and wait for 15 minutes for response. Some idiot finally responds.
I tell him this story and the response was: "Since policy has expired, you cannot renew it. For more assistance call blah blah blah." I tell him I am trying to buy a new policy but cannot see 2011 in year of manufacture. Again, same response.
I then tell him to forget everything and tell me if it is possible to buy policy online for vehicle registered in 2011? Now the response is to call customer care and he disconnects the chat session.
This is just idiotic. Bajaj Allianz, not that you give a sh*t, but you just lost a customer who was buying all the motor and travel insurance from you for past 5 years.
"Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[ ^]
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No its not just you, it was for similar reasons I dumped my long term insurers, I now get fresh quotes annually for ALL insurance, first year I did it I saved £275 on me and wifeys cars and a fair bit on the building and contents, it takes a bit of work but with gocompare it remembers your details for ages so getting quotes is not that hard.
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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It's not just you, but I don't think it is every one of them, it just seems that way. It has come to the point where you expect them to be stupid/rude/arrogant/unhelpful [delete and/or add as applicable] and when they're not you're so surprised you can't actually recall them helping.
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Customer care departments, like all parts of a company, are designed to maximize revenue, not to help customers. Customers are cattle that is to be slaughtered with the highest possible efficiency. I'm not sure how being sunshines maximizes revenue, but if it didn't they would surely be executed on the spot - reducing revenue is High Treason against the Monarch of the Company.
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