Thunderbird Club

[PillO]

Why not Kenyan?

I don't like Kenyan coffee. It tends to be bitter. Not the nice bitter you get with other coffee, but obnoxious bitter. It is something in the mix of alkaloids; Kenyan has too much of something that I find distasteful. I just don't know which alkaloid it is.

 

[PillO]

Even more importantly, why not Arabica? Robusta is generally pretty harsh.

Arabica is the cheap coffee used to make things like flavoured coffee, Tim Hortons, etc. It is just too bland.

 

[BklynKen]

Arabica is the cheap coffee used to make things like flavoured coffee, Tim Hortons, etc. It is just too bland.

What do you like?

 

[PillO]

What do you like?

Central American usually.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Central American usually.

Central and South American are a lot of my faves, but I also like Kona, Sumatran, and Jamaica Blue Mountain, and several African coffees (including some Kenyan). I'm sure I'm forgetting something.

 

[BklynKen]

Central American usually.

Sorry if I'm missing something here, but arabica is a species of coffee, not an origin. It's basically either arabica or robusta. It's very possible you've never actually had robusta. It's generally considered to be harsher, more bitter, and lower-grade than arabica.

 

[Gaolee]

I had one of those. She started cheating on me. That was one of the best things shoe could have done for me, as it turns out. She got preggers and married the guy They were a horrible match. She started calling once a year (after I was engaged to Sharon), at first asking if we could go eat (she suddenly had to get off the phone when I asked if I could bring my finacee), then literally just asking, "Are you still happy? OK, bye." Eventually after a couple of moves that required phone number changes, I quit hearing from her.

Sharon, on the other hand, is a treasure.

She didn't act quite like that, but close enough to let me know I dodged a bullet. She found out that I had a girlfriend and came unglued in a pretty spectacular way. I didn't have to change phone numbers or move, though. She never turned up again.

There have been a few others along the way who were good for my ego, but never any challenges to my wife in any real way.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

She didn't act quite like that, but close enough to let me know I dodged a bullet. She found out that I had a girlfriend and came unglued in a pretty spectacular way. I didn't have to change phone numbers or move, though. She never turned up again.

There have been a few others along the way who were good for my ego, but never any challenges to my wife in any real way.

I didn't move because of my ex-girlfriend. I just hadn't settled. When Sharon and I got married, we moved 3x in the first 4 years for various reasons (generally good). Then we bought a house and stayed put for a while. But that was when the exchange[1] you were on was physically local, so if you moved very far, you changed numbers.

[1] If your number was 867-5309, 867 was your exchange, and generally served ~10,000 customers all reasonably close[2] to one another. The exchange defined an interface assigning a number to a physical pair of wires in a neighborhood (more or less).
[2] Physically close might be 5 miles away in the country, or a few neighborhoods (or high rise buildings somewhere like Manhattan).

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

...oh and @Chucky Stiletti , I drink my espresso black as well. YUMMY!

with a drip of Grappa or Anisette..

 

[Dadagoboi]

Speak for yourself, man. I'm currently in Lower Manhattan. Although within a five-block radius I have at least four Starbucks, I also have just as many much superior alternatives.

I got your superior alternative right here...

 

[BklynKen]

I got your superior alternative right here...

I'll be right over.

 

[dagrev]

this is my current lineup...I like cafetière pressed coffee as well on occasion, but my wife who's of Mexican heritage and only drinks percolated adds cinnamon, brown sugar (Don Julio on occasion) to the coffee and nothing comes close...being Italian, I grew up with espresso but darn, her coffee is way tasty..
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I heard about putting a little brown sugar in coffee to be brewed a few years ago. Thought it sounded dumb. I have experience with dumb so I gave it a shot. I'll be if it doesn't taste pretty good. Don't do it often.

 

[Dadagoboi]

Sorry if I'm missing something here, but arabica is a species of coffee, not an origin. It's basically either arabica or robusta. It's very possible you've never actually had robusta. It's generally considered to be harsher, more bitter, and lower-grade than arabica.

Robusta beans have more caffeine than arabica. They're popular in a lot of Italian dark roast blends. Check out Cerini's in the Bronx for some. They will buzz you big time.

 

[Dadagoboi]

Curiosity is about to bite me - I'm trying to avoid getting bitten. Anybody ever use EMG pickups in a Thunderbird?

Which EMG? They make a lot of different sounding ones in a 35 package, from harsh active ceramic through ceramic/steel, to passive Alnico Hz to mention a few.

 

[Gaolee]

Which EMG? They make a lot of different sounding ones in a 35 package, from harsh active ceramic through ceramic/steel, to passive Alnico Hz to mention a few.

Beats me. I don't do active, so whatever works passive. It probably won't happen, since I'm currently happy with the pickups I have until the ribbon mic habit abates long enough to get a set of Thunderbuckers or Lollars.

 

[Gaolee]

I didn't move because of my ex-girlfriend. I just hadn't settled. When Sharon and I got married, we moved 3x in the first 4 years for various reasons (generally good). Then we bought a house and stayed put for a while. But that was when the exchange[1] you were on was physically local, so if you moved very far, you changed numbers.

[1] If your number was 867-5309, 867 was your exchange, and generally served ~10,000 customers all reasonably close[2] to one another. The exchange defined an interface assigning a number to a physical pair of wires in a neighborhood (more or less).
[2] Physically close might be 5 miles away in the country, or a few neighborhoods (or high rise buildings somewhere like Manhattan).

When my wife and I first got together, we lived in the same apartment in NYC for a number of years. Then we moved to Seattle and moved two more times. The second time was when we moved into our house. The funny thing about that is that we moved in such a small radius that we were able to keep the same phone number. It ended in two zeros. The phone company just gave it to us, but it was too great to give up. We kept a land line for years just to keep that number. More recently, we transferred it to a cell phone that just sits there. Yeah, it's a waste, but so are a lot of things.

 

[JIO]

I got your superior alternative right here...

That's what we're talkin' about!

 

[Engle]

While I think he just made 2 ok instruments into one piece of junk, I have to admire the fact that he followed through on his idea:
Cut and Combine

 

[Jonithen]

Decided to play barbie dress up again and bought my tbird a leather jacket.

 

[Felix Lopez]

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Beautiful!