Starbucks, Camden

[Berek]

I trust, Nick, that this is the same Starbucks I visited just last Weds , the one with the blokes laying pipes outside ??

[Nick]

No, Putney. Staffed entirely by idiots who took so long to establish my caffeine requirements (one filter coffee please), that I picked up a £40 parking fine!

[Berek]

these Starbucks places are a plague on society, they are cropping up everywhere, I shall avoid using them from this day forward and instead give my money to Honest Johns mobile coffee shop ( also rents out porn dvds from the back door )

[tel]

Starbucks is having big problems wit money and image - can't stand the places, full of prats.

[Grumpmeister]

Personally I prefer Cafe Nero (although the extremely cute lass who works there and gives me extra coffee points may have something to do with that).. 

[tel]

Coffee points? Is that like air-miles?

[Grumpmeister]

Pretty much, get points for every coffee you but and when you have enough you get a free one. Unfortunately their packs of ground coffee dont normally count although I'm working on that 

[tel]

Can't stand them either, or any of the others for that matter.

Coffee's coffee, can't be arsed with all this pretentious stuff that is "fashionable" but was only invented to rip you off.

[Grumpmeister]

When I was a kid drinking instant coffee I'd have agreed with you Tel, but having discovered filter coffee years ago I've found there is a world of difference between different bends.

Old Sumatran Java, Kona Hawaiian or Vietnamese Civet coffee 

[tel]

Don't get me wrong, I like coffee and have several different blends at home. It's the latte etc stuff that get's my goat. Milky water?

[Darwins Selection]

when you have enough you get a free one.

Do you get a cup of coffee afterwards? 

[Miss Demeanour]

When I was a kid drinking instant coffee I'd have agreed with you Tel, but having discovered filter coffee years ago I've found there is a world of difference between different bends

How much have you been drinking today GM -

[Darwins Selection]

When I was a kid drinking instant coffee I'd have agreed with you Tel, but having discovered filter coffee years ago I've found there is a world of difference between different bends

How much have you been drinking today GM -

He's been diving instead.

[Grumpmeister]

When I was a kid drinking instant coffee I'd have agreed with you Tel, but having discovered filter coffee years ago I've found there is a world of difference between different bends

How much have you been drinking today GM -

Nowhere near enough to compensate for having to drag my arse in to the office first thing in the morning to cover an extra shift before my normal one. Give me a couple of hours and a few jugs of coffee and I'll be more human.

Insomnia and overtime is not a good mix.

[tel]

Deceptive bends?