So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

[swanson_eyes]

Thanks, jake. It was pretty well under control last night and will be ok tonight. It's a different story upon waking.

I am so confused by coffeehouse nomenclature. I've been known to say "..your smallest size" and let the person behind the counter name it. Or I will admit I don't know what to call it, but I want espresso with ingredients a, b, and c, or whatever. Then the cashier can make a recommendation. I've never encountered one who wasn't accomodating . They want me to spend my money, so...

 

[GHT]

​Horlick”s Malted Milk. That’s the one!
I didn’t know it was still made. I’ll check to see if I can order some from GB.

Of course you can get Horlicks from dear Old Blighty, didn't realise that the rest of the world, and his dog, doesn't stand in the kitchen every night, mixing Horlicks for his good lady.
She can't sleep without her nightly fix of Horlicks.

 

[p51]

Starbucks is good illustration as to why people are insane.
Charge way too much for coffee, convince people they gotta have it every day and make so it takes them half an hour to order (from a menu that lists very little of what they have to offer, so you already have to know what you want). And what happens? You make billions off people from it. I live in the area where Starbucks got founded and I can't stand that I can hardly go anywhere and not have one within sight of where I am unless I'm in the woods (and sometimes, even then).
I never liked coffee. I'm from the Deep South originally, where coffee was a strictly 'old folks thing' until Starbucks invaded there, too.

 

[LizzieMaine]

I get the "sit down at breakfast and enjoy a cuppa coffee" thing. But what I really don't get, and will never get, is the "giant cup of takeout coffee grafted to your hand everywhere you go" thing. Prior to about 1995, I never saw people walking down the street slurping on coffee, or anything else. You'd see kids drinking sodas, or tourists licking ice cream cones, or a bum with a bottle of Night Train in a wrinkled paper bag, but you never, ever saw a full-grown, gainfully-employed adult sauntering down the street in broad daylight with a sippy cup in their hand. I can't begin to explain, even after twenty years of it, how utterly bizarre and alien that still looks to me.

 

[swanson_eyes]

Starbucks is good illustration as to why people are insane.

That's why I make my own and take it with me. It's less expensive and frankly, better than Starbuck's. I only ever go there out of convenience, usually 2 or 3 times during the holidays when I'm chronically sleep-deprived (I work retail). I do see people with bottles of water frequently. I can understand that; there aren't many bubblers around and while a restaurant will give you a cup of water if you ask, that wastes paper and plastic. The sippy cups can be re-used, at least.

 

[Hercule]

I do see people with bottles of water frequently. I can understand that; there aren't many bubblers around...

I thinks that's ridiculous, and it all started after the first Gulf war. Remember the big drive to provide bottled water for the troops in the desert? All of a sudden Jane and Joe Schmoe can't walk down the sidewalk for fear of becoming dehydrated and need to have a water bottle with them at all times.

 

[HudsonHawk]

I thinks that's ridiculous, and it all started after the first Gulf war. Remember the big drive to provide bottled water for the troops in the desert? All of a sudden Jane and Joe Schmoe can't walk down the sidewalk for fear of becoming dehydrated and need to have a water bottle with them at all times.

I can't for the life of me understand why someone would object to people not wanting to pass out on the street.

 

[dh66]

As Swanson_eyes pointed out...there seems to be fewer and fewer drinking fountains around these days since bottled water became the norm.
A few seasons back a new baseball stadium was completed here without a single one, but not to worry, there's plenty of ice cold water at the concession stand for $2 a bottle.

 

[Hercule]

Seriously, you need to have a bottle of water in hand every time you walk outside? I dare say the average person isn't going to pass out or otherwise dehydrate during their lunch hour walk.

 

[HudsonHawk]

As Swanson_eyes pointed out...there seems to be fewer and fewer drinking fountains around these days since bottled water became the norm.
A few seasons back a new baseball stadium was completed here without a single one, but not to worry, there's plenty of ice cold water at the concession stand for $2 a bottle.

Public buildings around here are required a minimum number of plumbing fixtures per potential occupant, which includes drinking fountains. I would have assumed that was pretty universal, but perhaps not.

 

[Big J]

I get annoyed by guys who don't wash their hands in public toilets. I always use the soap dispenser, and dry my hands. I don't get it, what's the problem? I hope these people don't work in the food industry.

 

[HudsonHawk]

Seriously, you need to have a bottle of water in hand every time you walk outside? I dare say the average person isn't going to pass out or otherwise dehydrate during their lunch hour walk.

I've never seen anyone who carries water every time they walk outside, but around here it's certainly possible to feel the effects of heat-related illness and dehydration within 10-15 minutes. I certainly can't fault anyone who's going to be outside for any length of time for trying to prevent that.

 

[p51]

I get the "sit down at breakfast and enjoy a cuppa coffee" thing. But what I really don't get, and will never get, is the "giant cup of takeout coffee grafted to your hand everywhere you go" thing. Prior to about 1995, I never saw people walking down the street slurping on coffee, or anything else.

Amen, there.
It is, I think, a status thing now. It says, "Look, I'm trendy and can afford" this overly-priced cup of 'meh'".

I thinks that's ridiculous, and it all started after the first Gulf war. Remember the big drive to provide bottled water for the troops in the desert? All of a sudden Jane and Joe Schmoe can't walk down the sidewalk for fear of becoming dehydrated and need to have a water bottle with them at all times.

The Army had long known that people generally run around dehydrated most of the time. Ask anyone who's served since the early 80s or so. They'll tell you they never drank as much water in their lives as they did in the military. So when it became a news items that people in the desert were drinking what seemed to the public to be 'crazy' amounts of water, doctors started chiming in. They agreed that people needed to drink way more water than they had been. And we've had that culture ever since. I see it as a good thing.
It's hard to believe now, but hydration wasn't something pushed very hard until recently in history. People don't pass out from the heat nearly as much now as they used to (it was a given that it'd happen,back then; now it's a big thing as it's no longer common). I recently read that kidney stones aren't nearly as common now as they used to be, and I'd think that people drinking more water has to have something to do with that.
Also, keep in mind that water fountains aren't nearly as common as they used to be and I noticed that bottled water started showing up right about the time when you stopped being able to find potable water anywhere you went in a city. All these things seemed to happen roughly around the same timeframe. Coincidence? Beats me...

 

[p51]

I get annoyed by guys who don't wash their hands in public toilets. I always use the soap dispenser, and dry my hands. I don't get it, what's the problem? I hope these people don't work in the food industry.

My whole life, I've seen that. My parents taught the importance of washing your hands every time you hit the bathroom. It was just what you did and I still do it. But yeah, even to this day, I see plenty of people go do their business and walk right out. Disgusting.

 

[HudsonHawk]

It's hard to believe now, but hydration wasn't something pushed very hard until recently in history. People don't pass out from the heat nearly as much now as they used to (it was a given that it'd happen,back then; now it's a big thing as it's no longer common)...

In my world of working outside, the general rule is that you should have to urinate every couple of hours, and if you don't, you're not drinking enough water. We also have urine color charts, which you're supposed to use to gauge your level of hydration. If you're voiding what looks like maple syrup, you're in big trouble.

 

[dh66]

Public buildings around here are required a minimum number of plumbing fixtures per potential occupant, which includes drinking fountains. I would have assumed that was pretty universal, but perhaps not.

It's code here too.

I'm guessing that when someone sat down and did the math to figure out how much $$$ could be made selling water to folks sitting out in the hot sun, that how much it would cost to get around said code was factored into the equation.

 

[LizzieMaine]

In my world of working outside, the general rule is that you should have to urinate every couple of hours, and if you don't, you're not drinking enough water. We also have urine color charts, which you're supposed to use to gauge your level of hydration. If you're voiding what looks like maple syrup, you're in big trouble.

Or you've been eating too much asparagus.

 

[LizzieMaine]

It's code here too.

I'm guessing that when someone sat down and did the math to figure out how much $$$ could be made selling water to folks sitting out in the hot sun, that how much it would cost to get around said code was factored into the equation.

There's a famous, and as far as I've been able to figure out, true story that when Walter F. O'Malley was approving the plans for Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, he was quite clear about not having a lot of water fountains around. People who drink from bubblers aren't paying premium prices for ballpark beer and soda.

He got away with having the place built that way, but a barrage of complaints the first week it was open forced the installation of an adequate number of fountains. And back in New York, all the sportswriters nodded. Same Old O'Malley.

 

[swanson_eyes]

I get annoyed by guys who don't wash their hands in public toilets. I always use the soap dispenser, and dry my hands. I don't get it, what's the problem? I hope these people don't work in the food industry.

I see this frequently. I do not touch that door handle without a barrier.

 

[Bamaboots]

We live in the age of the offended.

On Monday, during the final hole of the playoff round of the Open Championship, 84 year old BBC announcer Peter Alliss said, as the camera panned to eventual winner Zach Johnson's wife Kim, "She is probably thinking, 'if this goes in I get a new kitchen.' "

This crated such an outrage on social media that the BBC issued a formal apology for his "sexist" remarks.

I don't get it. Are we so PC as a society now that such an offhand remark creates controversy. I'd probably receive a public flogging for some of the things I've said, and still say without giving it much thought.

Oh and the winnings were over $1.5 million U. S. Lady Bamaboots would have been thinking new house.