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You ever run into a whack-job, health nut on the street who told you that coffee is bad for you?

Well, if you haven’t, don’t worry … they’re all the same: first they’ll start clamoring into their long-winded, holier-than-thou spiel of telling you how coffee is no good for you, and that sooner or later it’s going to affect your blood pressure to the point that it will kill you. They’ll also state loudly that this is common knowledge (note: it’s not, by a long shot). What they won’t state at all: that they’re on the ‘roids again (note: they are). Freaking drug-addicted hypocrites!

Despite these weirdoes we, as pure-blooded Americans, continue to enter the coffee shops by the millions every single day (this just in: tea sucks, coffee kicks its ass). For many of us during this down-sloped economy, however, getting this daily fix is tearing out a huge hole in our pockets! What’s a person to do, you ask? Cut down on the good stuff? No thank you, sir … I’d rather give up my cable services than do something crazy like that (there’s nothing good on TV anyways). Sure, it kind of makes sense from a strictly financial standpoint, but from where I’m standing it doesn’t look likely to happen! Continued

So long Starbucks, and good riddance!

Who would have thought you could have made so much money selling coffee? Well, the overpriced coffee fad had to die down eventually (just like everything else in this world) and your contingency plans were horrible (you can thank your upper management for that). I mean, did you think that you were going to keep this “nutty” thing going on until the end of times?

Seriously? You had a good (no, great) run, you saturated the market for the longest time and now your customers are answering the questions that you should have brought up in your board room meeting — “Why am I paying $4 for coffee that I can make at home?” or “What’s wrong with McDonald’s coffee? It’s cheaper and taste better!” Sound familiar? Yea, probably not! Continued