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You're trying to make out that the paper cup is the defining characteristic of fashionable, overpriced coffee?

What nonsense. I don't know when the paper cup was invented, and I'm sure you don't either.

Samuel Pepys recorded in his diary on December 3rd 1663 that he had looked in at Will's and seen Dryden and “all the wits of the town” engaged in “very witty and pleasant discourse”.

(Will's coffee-house in Covent Garden. At this time there were 82 coffee houses recorded in London)
How exactly are you supposed to "mince down the street", and conspicuously advertise your coffee in a branded takeaway cup, while sitting in a coffee shop?

Swanning around drinking overpriced coffee isn't a modern phenomenon: but that wasn't the point that Woodbine was making.
 
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How exactly are you supposed to "mince down the street", and conspicuously advertise your coffee in a branded takeaway cup, while sitting in a coffee shop?

Or in a van.

Frothy coffee

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No sign of a paper cup.
 
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How exactly are you supposed to "mince down the street", and conspicuously advertise your coffee in a branded takeaway cup, while sitting in a coffee shop?

Swanning around drinking overpriced coffee isn't a modern phenomenon: but that wasn't the point that Woodbine was making.

Exactly what I was saying. But John thinks he can counter an argument by introducing completely irrelevant gibberish. Maybe he thinks he's being clever.
 
When I ask for a coffee I want a hot drink in a mug, not a multiple choice exam!

Too much choice = no choice.

Sometimes, in a restaurant, they ask you if you want coffee after your meal whilst presenting you with a list of 25 different options. I just ask for a filter coffee. More often they don't have such a thing. Many of these over complicated latte boll0x type coffees are too small. Years ago, restaurants all had a big pot of Cona coffee always on the go. Would it be too easy to just supply something like this. Good quality filter coffee, in something bigger than a thimble.

Then there's the crazy amounts of calories in some of this stuff -

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/f...ve-coffee-ranked-healthiest-unhealthiest.html
 
It's all a load of marketing boll0x. Coffee has been hyped up to hook gullible townies with too much money. They think that mincing down the street with a paper cup of ridiculously over priced coffee is the thing to do. But they're just sheeple, following everyone else.
Yeah I saw someone the other day wearing these 'jeans' things and a coloured top!
Nothing wrong with a hessian sack dress or a stout cotton boiler suit for all comrades! Damn those sheeple!
 
Yeah I saw someone the other day wearing these 'jeans' things

Was that you in your skinny jeans, nosey, to go with your skinny decaff fairtrade latte? :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO: Shuffling along with your 'builders cleavage' hanging out the back? :LOL::LOL::LOL::LOL::LOL:

Still, must say you have a sense of humour. You'd need it with a get up like that. :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:
 
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Was that you in your skinny jeans, nosey, to go with your skinny decaff fairtrade latte? :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO: Shuffling along with you 'builders cleavage' hanging out the back? :LOL::LOL::LOL::LOL::LOL:

Still, must say you have a sense of humour. You'd need it with a get up like that. :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:
Nowt wrong being able to fit in a pair of skinnys. Now that my sprogs are as big as me they're getting all my cast-offs too. There is a method in my madness.

I'm more of a mugga tea man during work hours. Coffee is for mornings and weekends.
 
I have simple tastes; black Americano with an extra shot of coffee. Anyone noticed how it's cheaper to ask for a medium in a regular cup. I used to drink cappuccinos, but couldn't find anyone to make them properly - odd that.

And do the muppets that ask for a skinny latte, realise that full fat milk is only 4% to start with.
 
Lots of caffeine ,sugar and milk - now what would that be called in a poncey coffee shop?
 
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