ABS - worthwhile?

A MotorBike cop? Doubt it!

 

MB's OK,

He's a cop who rides a bike but not (to my knowledge) a motorbike cop.

Moike

 

Or "good and dead"?

I don't think he's a motorcycle copper.

Theo

 

I thought he got in the front and put the crims in the cage on the back.

Nev..
'04 CBR1100XX

 

Not letting him ride in the front yet 'eh?

 

**** off Nev; I don't care if you were first just!!

 

He's a good bloke with a small pair of leathers he is trying to
sell.(small for his ever growing lardarse that is
(doughnut swilling country copper)

 

Hey, I like people who eat doughnuts, as long as they get them from Donut
King, Midland. And yes, I know there's a Midland in every State.

Theo

 

Not yet, but hey, look at Starbucks. 20,000 stores in the US, 4000
elsewhere. They've announced their intention to make it 20,000 overseas.
This was in an article about the Moscow Starbucks where a (some fancy name)
coffee cost $9 when the same coffee in Starbucks NY costs $4.20.

Theo

 

It's called "purchasing power parity" - if you can find an item that
is identical in most countries then you can use it to compare the real
value of someone's income and the real value of inflation.

There are a number of academic criticisms of it, so don't go investing
billions of dollars on the basis of it, but as a rule of thumb
measurement PPP for universal goods is fairly solid. The use of Big
Macs for PPP is questionable (mostly for cultural reasons - different
cultural values ascribed to eating meat, eating burgers and fast food)
but it's a lot more useful than Starbucks is - the cultural impetus
around Starbucks in India for example (where it's considered closer to
what meeting your friends in the lobby of a nice hotel would be here
and hence has a value add markup added) is quite different to its
social positioning in Australia (crap coffee in comfy chairs - fall
back position if you can't find somewhere decent) or in America
(considered to be excellent coffee by American standards (some deity
please help them) in a comfy environment).

JL
(can give you a good academic case study on why starbucks were so
successful in India if you want...)

 

Have you ever asked for a cup of (normal) coffee in the US? It's been
sitting stewing in the dripolator for two hours. And yes, Starbucks is
better than that.

Theo

 

I know. I've been served the swill that passes for coffee in the US.
Even places with a high Italian influence like NY and Chicago still
make it difficult to find drinkable coffee.

JL
(hence my plea for supernatural intervention, I don't think anything
else short of magic and omnipotent beings are going to fix it)

 

Yeah but San Francisco is full of Australians - of course you can find
decent coffee there !!

JL
(and there do exist cafes serving decent coffee in NY Chicago and
Seattle that I'm personally aware of, and I'm sure there are others,
they're just blewdy hard to find)

 

In aus.motorcycles on Thu, 22 Nov 2007 18:56:23 -0800 (PST)

You think you coffee types have it bad.

Try being a tea drinker in the US!

I mean when a character in a TV show has to *specify* "hot"....

Zebee

 

Had some on U.S. warships. I think it was the "I can't believe it's
really coffee" brand. Hot water with a hint of coffee.

 

I'm not a 'coffee snob' by any means, but wtf is wrong with the Yanks when
it comes to coffee? I made a trip back to Sydney some years ago that was
coincidentally around the time of the opening of the first Sydney Starbucks,
and thought to take advantage of the happy coincidence - what a mistake -
and what a f*cking waste of petrol! Someone waved a coffee-bean somewhere
in the vicinity of a mug of hot milk. SPEW! And they call that COFFEE? I
could've got more of a "coffee" hit from <vomit> a few spoons of
International Roast...

Ugh, I'm feeling a bit ill now....

And I'm really and truly not a coffee snob, honest!

betty