A Conversation for Talking Point: Losing your Cool!
Coffee in the sugar jar
Gibraltar Rocks Started conversation Nov 14, 2002
Look guys, there is no excuse for this. If you take sugar with your coffee PUT IT IN FIRST! That way, the sugar isn't corrupted for us tea drinkers, and everyones happy. 
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Phrase Posted Nov 14, 2002
Are you writing literally? Is this a sexual thing? ....
I always thought "they" should have towels chained to the table as well as spoons. Then we could wipe the spoon between uses!
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Gibraltar Rocks Posted Nov 15, 2002
There are obviously more euphemisms for sex than I had ever considered!
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Phrase Posted Nov 15, 2002
Getting back to the subject, your post was to do with what makes you angry.
I dare to suggest your anger may not be well thought out.
If one puts the sugar in first, who's to say the previous user handn't wiped the spoon?
Or if the spoon appears clean, mightn't they have licked it clean? (aaarrrggh!)
If you have suffered this infringment first hand, might I suggest you bring your own packs of sugar? (and maybe a spoon too!) "Then we would all be happy."
The sexual thing had to do with the use of "guys" (as if you know what's don't use sugar/spoons in their coffee).
Cheers!
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Gibraltar Rocks Posted Nov 17, 2002
Ahhhhhh! I follow now! Guys was just a generic touchy feely inclusive thing, it had no sexual connotations at all.
I don't care what has happened in the previous life of the spoon, it may well picked up more bugs than a corpse in the forest, I've always hoped the application of boiling water would deal with them. However, if you put the coffee in first, it WILL pick up a coffee coating which WILL be transferred to the sugar bowl. And I hate that. It makes me so ANGGGGRRRRRYYYYYY! 
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Phrase Posted Nov 17, 2002
Well I must say this is becoming quite trite and probably going nowhere.
Are coffee drinkers not allowed to stir? Even if you put the sugar in first..... surely you can comprehend the incongruence of it all?
Just enjoy your crunchy tea and don't bother about the spoon! (and I'm a tea drinker)In fact give it a few licks
You might wish to try clean (new) sugar tho'...
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Hamlet The Cat Posted Nov 17, 2002
What about butter in the jam or marmalade. Yeuuuch! I would have thought that the tiny amount of coffee mixed in with sugar would not make any difference to the taste of tea. Sounds like you're just a touchy woman looking for an argument, (is there any other kind ??!!!)
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Tubaboy85 Posted Nov 17, 2002
Why don't just give everyone their own spoon??
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PQ Posted Nov 18, 2002
butter in the jam I can live with...marmite in the butter 
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Nov 18, 2002
I had many really unpleasant "lumpy coffee" experiences round at my friend Graham's, before we worked out that he would put his breakfast museli in a bowl, stick the spoon in, pour milk on then stick the spoon in the sugar transferring muesli into the sugar in the process.
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Coffee in the sugar jar
- 1: Gibraltar Rocks (Nov 14, 2002)
- 2: Phrase (Nov 14, 2002)
- 3: Gibraltar Rocks (Nov 15, 2002)
- 4: Phrase (Nov 15, 2002)
- 5: Gibraltar Rocks (Nov 17, 2002)
- 6: Phrase (Nov 17, 2002)
- 7: Hamlet The Cat (Nov 17, 2002)
- 8: Tubaboy85 (Nov 17, 2002)
- 9: PQ (Nov 18, 2002)
- 10: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Nov 18, 2002)
- 11: Gibraltar Rocks (Dec 1, 2002)
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