The big question.

[OCD]

And I'd suggest you could also add to this, "Don't go asking questions you might not like the answers to".

*Hear no evil.
* See no evil.
* Speak no evil.
* And, above all else, don't ask questions - oops.

Ps safety first.

[CafeLotta]

To quote Scooter, "The Question Is What Is The Question?".

And I'd suggest you could also add to this, "Don't go asking questions you might not like the answers to".

P.S. Should have been more specific - "Don't go asking the question of what life is about unless you're prepared to get an answer that you might not like."

[Javaphile]

To quote Scooter, "The Question Is What Is The Question?".


Java "Jumping All Over The World" phile

[CafeLotta]

Ps They can't be all bad. God obviously loves them. Why else would He have made so many of them?

Maybe a bit of a warped sense of humor?

[OCD]

...When others continually look for the worst interpretation in what people say, the negatives come from the accuser's minds and not from those who they attack.

Have some pity. These poor souls are usually jealous inadequate types with self esteem issues. They know they don't have what it takes to compete with the Barry Humphries of this world. Their only resort, as they see it, is to take them down a peg or two. What they're too dumb to realise, is that when they point the finger, three of them are pointing straight back at them.

Ps They can't be all bad. God obviously loves them. Why else would He have made so many of them?

[CafeLotta]

Australia has gone soft.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-47943745

Yet another outing for "pseudo-moralism". Barry Humphries has earned his name being associated with the award. When others continually look for the worst interpretation in what people say, the negatives come from the accuser's minds and not from those who they attack.

[Jackster]

Y'know what I like about opinions, is that they are allowed to be wrong. Whether I agree or disagree, I like to hear what others think. And it's the extremes of opinions that provide the balance found between.
In my limited experience, I have found that people are generally good, barring a few exceptions.

[Yelta]

Australia has gone soft.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-47943745

I suspect Humphries couldn't care less.

[Erimus]

Australia has gone soft.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-47943745

[OCD]

It's all in the timing...

I assume that OCD didn't see the graphic in post #53 with the "C-bomb" in it which by anyone's standards is unacceptable in a G rated public access forum, even in the off-topic section.

Your assumption is spot on Andy. Unfortunately the "F & C bombs haven't yet been defused and still, for now, have the power to shock. Both snowytec and I are intelligent enough to get our point across without resorting to them. A well chosen word or phrase can cut deep enough.

Ps I hope snowytec continues to contribute. Sans the bombs.

[OCD]

I got a call out of the blue last year or so... some woman saying I won something. I was very close to telling her to do something unmentionable... instead I was polite, and said "Oh yes... and what have I won". Not like me at all. She said $3000 in travel vouchers. Turns out I had entered in a comp when buying an HP laptop from Hardly Normal, so the laptop wasn't just free, they actually paid a few hundred dollars for me to take it. Now I always pause for an extra two secs before hanging up on scam callers...

Give me a break theonetruepath.
Leave me some certainties in life.

[theonetruepath]

I'm afraid to ask.
Everytime I've been told that I've won something, in a contest I don't remember entering, it always turned out to be a scam.

I got a call out of the blue last year or so... some woman saying I won something. I was very close to telling her to do something unmentionable... instead I was polite, and said "Oh yes... and what have I won". Not like me at all. She said $3000 in travel vouchers. Turns out I had entered in a comp when buying an HP laptop from Hardly Normal, so the laptop wasn't just free, they actually paid a few hundred dollars for me to take it. Now I always pause for an extra two secs before hanging up on scam callers...

[Andy]

It's all in the timing...

I assume that OCD didn't see the graphic in post #53 with the "C-bomb" in it which by anyone's standards is unacceptable in a G rated public access forum, even in the off-topic section.

[Yelta]

To be fair to snowytec, this forum is labelled as 'Off Topic - nothing to do with coffee...' Not a forum one would expect to attract budding young baristas.

Ps I don't know about the poor delicate tykes up your way but I haven't seen anything posted on this thread that would traumatize the ones down here. At least, not the ones interested in, or capable of, accessing this thread. They've got better things to do.
The priesthood, on the other hand... I could see as how they might be deservedly offended, but I make no apologies for that.

The language depicted was totally unacceptable, in this or any other forum on Coffee Snobs.

The fact that we are off topic does not give you or anyone else the right to ride roughshod over the feelings and values of other forum members.

Off topic only gives you license to discuss topics other than coffee, it certainly doesn't give you the right to use language that will cause offense to many of our older members who would not and do not use gutter language in open company.

As far as this PS is concerned "Ps I don't know about the poor delicate tykes up your way but I haven't seen anything posted on this thread that would traumatize the ones down here."
Also very poor form, I suspect Mal was posting here when you were still in school, he deserves a degree of respect, not this type of snide remark from a relative newcomer.

I note the offending graphic was removed by a moderator, who obviously also felt it inappropriate.

Time for a little introspection OCD.

[OCD]

Not a great graphic to include with this post mate...
In case you haven't noticed, this is a family based website with loads of young people logging in to learn how to eke the best from their coffee. Smutty graphics have no place here...

Mal.

To be fair to snowytec, this forum is labelled as 'Off Topic - nothing to do with coffee...' Not a forum one would expect to attract budding young baristas.

Ps I don't know about the poor delicate tykes up your way but I haven't seen anything posted on this thread that would traumatize the ones down here. At least, not the ones interested in, or capable of, accessing this thread. They've got better things to do.
The priesthood, on the other hand... I could see as how they might be deservedly offended, but I make no apologies for that.