zerogeewhiz.bsky.social
Cars and bad takes. Award-winning writer. Contributor drive.com.au and owner theredline.com.au. Regularly on ABC Sydney and ABC NSW. Vorsprung derp Technik. Confirmed Arctic winter fan. That same boring dude from the other place.
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No, it’s worse than that. Imagine poor people arriving by public transport.
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For evil.
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BTW, I'm not supporting cafe owners who bleat about having to put prices up because wages went up 3.5%. If you don't like employing people and paying them properly, don't run a business.
Every year their rent likely goes up 4%-plus and they never mention that in the usual cry-baby stories.
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This was a poorly thought-through thread wasn't it?
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TLDR: $7 coffees aren't necessarily good coffees because somebody in the chain has to care and if the customer doesn't care and they're prepared to pay it, then cafes will charge it. I guess my point is, $7 for a coffee may not be too much if everything is done right but it rarely is.
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To be fair, even if the beans were good, the general quality of burb baristas would mean they'd be butchered anyway, so they may as well buy vacuum packed supermarket beans from Aldi.
Anyway, suburban coffee is crap and a rip-off so stop paying $7 or at least find good coffee if you are paying $7.
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One of Sydney's best coffee places charges $4.50 for a standard milk drink/long black at its flagship Marrickville cafe. It's way better than The Stinky Pig or whatever is around the corner who might charge $6.50 or $7 for burnt, sour coffee made with mid-beans, a dirty machine and watery milk.
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But the other thing these stories often ignore is that in the burbs, at least in Sydney, $7 coffees are normal while they're still around $4.50-$5 in the CBD. I don't know why this is because most burb coffee is utter swill made by people who don't care and drunk by people who also don't care.
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But $7 coffees aren't necessarily made by well-paid people. Most folks in suburban cafes aren't paid better than folks in a proper coffee shop, the kinds of places I quietly insist people should visit because I'm an obnoxious coffee snob.
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Paying people properly means things get more expensive. If your coffee is down at a certain price point, it's either crap or the staff are badly-paid.
The sector is rife with wage theft, underpayment and poor treatment, with Calombaris types always blaming wages.
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I don’t get that kind of quality out often but I was drinking good coffee and have only slept 6 about hours in the last 60.
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Well we might have but the government may have other ideas.
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There are signs of life. I am this very moment wearing a cap from a roastery in Orlando that was superb
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Like…read the room. Coffee in the Nordics is expensive. Don’t be a jerk. The owner talked her around and said it was barely cheaper and she wouldn’t get a free refill from there.
I’d have ejected her into the sun.
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This thread is amusing me no end
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Because Better Things Aren’t Possible.
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3. supporting anything either Boris Johnson or Minister 4 Everything does/did marks you out as a dribbling idiot.
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Oh man that made me laugh
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That guy is totally out of ideas for people to interview. Even his own party considers him irrelevant and he couldn’t even land a board seat or Big4 gig because he’s radioactive. I thought he’d taken up some dodgy think tank job in Washington. Did they work out he was only 50% of think tank?
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I’ll crank it up to six. Four did seem a bit lazy.
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I lead an absurdly charmed life
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Oh trying to talk to any of the airlines is an exercise in running around in circles
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But with considerably less charm
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Whatever Emirates uses. If I could look it up, I would.
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When will the radical left artists learn
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If the wifi on this plane wasn't so damn flaky I'd rip into that in a heartbeat.
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And the general lack of upkeep as evidence by the rusty roof, the place was a tinderbox
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Oh was that what it was? Well that's certainly better than losing Fred.
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The Wikipedia article did remind me Julee Cruise, who worked on one album of the B52s while Cindy Wilson was on sabbatical, died in 2022
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It's like your connection is leaning against a lamp post outside halfway through lighting up a cigarette, looks up for a sec and goes, "What?"
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But yeah the hullabaloo over “that one shot” is for me a bit - uh, yeah?