I’m feeling a little bit guilty as my last blog was warm with praise for the brilliance of scientific advancement. Man when equipped with great tools can achieve incredible things. Or so I thought. The world is hypocritical. Whilst one man is learning how to regrow a human limb another is not being allowed to purchase a coffee at a global coffee chain because they have run out of lids. Yes that’s right. That is the world we live in.
A typical Coffee aficionado. Fervent in the pursuit of 'proper coffee'
For the record I was not refused a coffee from starbucks because of a lack of lids. I would never be caught buying an overpriced cup of pretentious arse juice with or without a lid. I hate the stuff and most of all I hate the throngs of coffee aficionados that look down their noses at you for not drinking the stuff. I don’t get it. It’s a drink. It stops you feeling thirsty. End of. Since when has a drink been such a point of interest? Who said it was okay to bond over a coffee? Why do people that love coffee always say ‘oh that doesn’t taste anything like proper coffee?’. Well what does it taste like you idiot?
Harsh? Maybe. But my hatred of all things coffee isn’t really for the drink; what I really hate is the snobbery. The exclusivity of it all. Coffee drinkers are a tribe, a religion, a brethren: and I’m not welcome. So how about all of you coffee drinkers stop turning up your nose when I ask for a cup of tea. Stop ‘doing’ coffee and invite people out for a drink of their choice.
