Billie_Joe_Buttfuck
Whoa, changed in less than a minute. didn't want to out yourself?

Enjoy
Your speedy comment beat my edit.

Billie_Joe_Buttfuck
Gotcha

futurebot
please elaborate on "man"

Toenails
*makes Tim Allen grunts*

Camonk
Doesn't mean he's not an annoying twat while going on and on and on and OH YEAH ON about it. Contrast him to the soda guy, who was very knowledgeable, but also completely pleasant in informative.

This guy is rubbing his knowledge in your face because he thinks he's better than you. Which he might be. I don't know. I'm not here to judge.

nidan
His job is making the best coffee possible for people who are really into coffee. If you don't want to go to as much trouble as he does, no one is making you, but he is giving you the information you need to make better coffee, which he acquired by a lot of hard work and study. He doesn't act like he thinks he is better than you, he acts like he knows a lot about coffee.

I drink a lot of Blue Bottle coffee (from the roaster this guy works for). It is excellent and worth the high price. I guess that makes me a douche.

StanleyPain
Just because someone is right about something doesn't mean they cannot also be pretentious.

Randroid
Sound advice despite being a bit of a cunt, yes.

Xenocide
I am proud that I have no fucking idea about coffee. It is the most foul of beverages.

Also, the term "barista" can go kill itself behind an alley (which it will once it realizes how worthless its art school diploma is.) You people are to coffee what 16 year olds whose parents made them get a summer job are to Big Macs. Don't think you get to have a fancy title.

memedumpster
Have you ever sucked dick for coffee?

I didn't think so.

Ruteger
He's pretentious because he goes on and on about how to make the 'proper' espresso or latte and misses out on the fact that if you were to make one of those lattes with the milk foam art anywhere else in the world people would laugh in your face. He's essentially going on about how to make the perfect 'Seattle' coffee/espresso/milk drinks (which is also probably why he has little beef with Starbucks). I have news for him: Seattle isn't the centre of the coffee universe and what is considered good coffee there is considered crap or worse, a complete joke everywhere else in the world.

glasseye
Uh, no.

The good coffee scene in Seattle is so fundamentally different from the shit Starbucks puts out that bringing up the latter is a total red herring.

Furthermore, Seattle IS the center of the coffee universe. Starbucks isn't; it's the dozens of small roasters and coffee shops producing amazing stuff that give it the #1 spot.

What's your "center of the coffee universe," a dunkin' donuts on the NJ turnpike?

Jeriko-1
And he makes us all delicious, delicious coffee...

I don't see what all the fuss is.

glasseye
If you want to drink raw sewage nobody's going to stop you.

Toenails
It's a little-known secret that the longer a cup of cheap coffee sits in the pot, the better.

Of course, after three days a film of mold starts to form at the top, but you could just skim that right off.

frau_eva
Objectively good? Except to supertasters, who have the most taste buds and are known to usually hate coffee.

Burn.

dueserpenti
"More" does not mean "more sophisticated." If a person with hyperacusis finds sopranos intolerable, that doesn't mean Cecilia Bartoli is a bad singer. The fact that some people are uncommonly photosensitive makes the sunrise no less beautiful.

Lies, lies, LIES!
These stars are for you. If you hate people who know things about stuff and care about what they do, go back to the video games forum and be fat there.

phalsebob
Also, I like Tetley tea because Elves make it. One star per elf.