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Gnat the Beggar
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Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2008 3:15 pm

SIGH.........

I dont know how you sellers do it.
Selling stuff on E-Bay is a big pain in the buttocks.
And expensive too.

SIGH......... :roll:

Just got a note from one of the winning bidders for one of my recent listings.
Winning bidder is in England, and told me that the postage I quoted was way too high.
Of course he offered an example.
He bought a large Book from another US seller with shipping being about half what I told him for the box holding his items.
SIGH............

An Envelope costs x to send, a box costs 2x to send.

I figure that book is being sent in an envelope and said so in my reply.

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Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2008 3:25 pm

Aneoth wrote:SIGH.........

I dont know how you sellers do it.
Selling stuff on E-Bay is a big pain in the buttocks.
And expensive too.

SIGH.........

Just got a note from one of the winning bidders for one of my recent listings.
Winning bidder is England, and told me that the postage I quoted was way too high.
Of course he offered an example.
He bought a large Book from another US seller with shipping being about half what I told him for the box holding his items.
SIGH............

I figure that book is being sent in an envelope and said so in my reply.

I dont understand some people. I read listings from top to bottom before I bid so I can make sure I know upfront what I am bidding on and how much it will cost to ship it. If a shipping amount isnt quoted in the listing, I ask the seller a question. I just asked a Canadian seller about shipping on a couple of items. He wanted over $20 just to ship a couple of modules. So what did I do? I didnt bid on his auctions.

If you put the shipping quote in the listing, then its the buyers own damn fault for not reading the listing and if if was me I would tell him to shove it up his whiny ass. But hey....that's just me. Regardless of what you intend to do, I would block the punk from bidding on any more of my auctions.

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Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2008 3:36 pm

On a different note....after reading this I have a feeling that Badmike will be the happiest person on the planet. The other day I saw an episode of Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives on the Food Network. The episode showcased one particular "dive" where the bartender was infusing bourbon with the flavor of.....yep, you guessed it: Bacon. So it got the better of my curiousity and I did a few google searches and came up with the procedure:

slow-cook two pieces of bacon
place bacon (along with fat) in a jar with 10 oz Bourbon for at least six hours, shaking occasionally
remove bacon
place jar into a freezer overnight
strain out solid fat pieces
filter bourbon through a coffee filter

Also in some of the google searches I found several cocktails that utilize the bacon flavored liquor for a base. I think one was a maple-bacon Old fashioned. :roll:

I have heard of martini's infused with tobacco but this is even crazier. I figure it cant be all that bad for you though since all the fat is filtered out. Breakfast will never be the same again. :wink:

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Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2008 4:00 pm

It would be best to find out about the nicotine levels in any infusion that used tobacco.
A dosage of 40--60 mg is lethal to humans.

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Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 11:52 am

Anyone else like "flavored coffee?" I do. Things like blueberry chocolate or cinnamon (what I'm drinking now), or even egg nog (yep, they make it.) If so, favorite brand? What strength do you like? Do you go with the "normal" 1 tbs per 2 cups?

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Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 12:21 pm

I like my coffee stronger than some do.
Though not inky as a few others prefer.
At times I have tried various flavored blends, but I prefer a medium columbian among the more common blends.

BTW I almost never go to starbucks.
The last few times, I was with my dad, who loves them.
An Appropriate company name imo

star high prices.......... :roll:

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Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 12:37 pm

serleran wrote:Anyone else like "flavored coffee?" I do. Things like blueberry chocolate or cinnamon (what I'm drinking now), or even egg nog (yep, they make it.) If so, favorite brand? What strength do you like? Do you go with the "normal" 1 tbs per 2 cups?

Definitely depends on the flavor. I purchased a Keurig single-cup coffee maker a few months ago because I was sick and tired of drinking the crap Folgers and other mass market coffee producers put in the stores. I have gone from drinking one cup of coffee per day to two and sometimes three on weekends. Keurig has quite a few coffee vendors making k-cups for their machines so there is quite a list of different roasts, blends, and flavors to choose from.

I am not a big fan of vanilla or fruity flavors in my coffee. Cinnamon, chocolate, and hazelnut are good though. Green Mountain makes a coffee called Rainforest Nut that has the flavor of brazil nuts in it. Pretty good stuff.

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Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 12:53 pm

Ah, this is this American thing of taking a perfectly good drink and making it taste of something else?

I was on a cruise on an American liner last year, and for a "formal" tea they only actually had a choice of 3 "real" teas - and about 6 fruit-flavoured ones! :lol:

Why can't coffee just taste of coffee??

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Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 1:04 pm

I prefer my coffee strong and black as either a medium roast Arabica or dark roast Columbian.

We have only one Starbucks in my city nestled in a corner of a large warehouse style bookstore. I have been there once.

What we do have in abundance is the Canadian Tim Horton's chain. Our city had the first Tim Horton's store outside of Ontario back in the early 70's and we now have nearly 20 of them.

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Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 1:12 pm

We have a Keurig coffee maker at work. What amazes me is the amount of trash and waste the thing generates. Each dose of coffee uses a plastic container, one shot and in the dumpster it goes. Made of that nice, toxic, nonrecycleable stuff too.

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Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 1:48 pm

Deadlord39 wrote:We have a Keurig coffee maker at work. What amazes me is the amount of trash and waste the thing generates. Each dose of coffee uses a plastic container, one shot and in the dumpster it goes. Made of that nice, toxic, nonrecycleable stuff too.

I think we quickly had a garbage can full of the k-cups shortly after we got ours here, and we're not that big of an office.

(Personally I just bring loose tea and a tea ball, since I find the k-cup coffee to be pretty bad, and the less said about their teas the better. Tea should be steeped, not made by shooting water quickly through the filter!)

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Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 2:10 pm

lawrenson wrote:Ah, this is this American thing of taking a perfectly good drink and making it taste of something else?

I was on a cruise on an American liner last year, and for a "formal" tea they only actually had a choice of 3 "real" teas - and about 6 fruit-flavoured ones!

Why can't coffee just taste of coffee??

Cheers,
Malc

Agreed.
Coffee should BE COFFEE Not some nutty or fruity flavored abomination.
Black with a bit of sugar.

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Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 2:48 pm

g026r wrote:
I think we quickly had a garbage can full of the k-cups shortly after we got ours here, and we're not that big of an office.

(Personally I just bring loose tea and a tea ball, since I find the k-cup coffee to be pretty bad, and the less said about their teas the better. Tea should be steeped, not made by shooting water quickly through the filter!)

Too each his own I guess. I have never read a good review for any of the teas offered by Keurig but I really dont drink tea all that much anyway so I dont buy them. I'm in it just for the coffee. But I am surprised that you find the k-cup coffee to be bad. It may have been the brew size. I have found that on the larger settings some of the coffees can be diluted. Or it could be just the brand that you had. I have tried them all and some are much better than others. For me, the best thing about the Keurig is the fact that within 30 seconds after hitting the brew button I have a pretty good cup of coffee and none of it is wasted. My wife and I calculated that we actually save money by using a single-cup coffee maker over our traditional brewer. I dont have the money or time for Starbucks or to grind my own coffee....and besides, I am not that big of a coffee connisseur.

I do like a dark, French roast every so often but I prefer the bolder blends. And for some of you that dont care for flavored coffee, you might not say such things after drinking a cup of Creme Brulee or Sugar Bush Maple flavored coffee. Dont knock it until you have at least tried it.

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Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 3:50 pm

jasonw1239 wrote:I prefer my coffee strong and black as either a medium roast Arabica or dark roast Columbian.

We have only one Starbucks in my city nestled in a corner of a large warehouse style bookstore. I have been there once.

What we do have in abundance is the Canadian Tim Horton's chain. Our city had the first Tim Horton's store outside of Ontario back in the early 70's and we now have nearly 20 of them.

Tim Horton's is only Canadian chain I have really embraced and think is better than it's American counterpart. Their doughnuts are much better and generally fresher than Dunkin' Donuts.

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Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 4:13 pm

NetRodent wrote:
Tim Horton's is only Canadian chain I have really embraced and think is better than it's American counterpart. Their doughnuts are much better and generally fresher than Dunkin' Donuts.

Ah...now doughnuts are a whole 'nother thing. I love doughnuts. But I only eat them once in a great while....I am overweight as it is and dont need any more help there. I really dont care much for Dunkin Donuts. Shipley donuts isnt too bad...lots of interesting flavors there. Krispy Kreme is more to my liking but they are way too sweet. And I definitely prefer a yeast doughnut to a cake doughnut.

One place I keep thinking about trying sometime is Round Rock Donuts just outside of Austin. They apparently have some of the biggest and best tasting doughnuts in the country. Damn, now doesnt this look yummy:

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_Dy1T-0siUbk/SGmoa ... C-0228.jpg

The doughnut....not the hand. :wink:

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Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 4:26 pm

Getting a 404 error.

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Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 4:37 pm

Strange....guess I have it cached on my machine. For some reason there is a space between the "/" and "PIC-0228.jpg" in the URL I pasted, but when I try to edit it, it doesnt show up.

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Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 4:45 pm

Tim's is definitely the best chain in Canada, the doughnuts have suffered a bit, but the IceCap has become a summer must-have. But if you're ever in Orillia ( North of Toronto) go to the Mariposa bakery. God help you if you make it out alive. The Texas doughnuts make truckers and cops weep.

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