You Know What Really Grinds My Gears....The Sequel!

[Igster]

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[Wormius]

There is also the fallacy that people believe that other people like Tim Hortons' coffee, and thus go on coffee and doughnut runs to Tim Hortons instead of elsewhere. This doesn't mean everybody drinking like it, it's just... complicated.

[Kiran403]

Originally Posted by Wormius

There is also the fallacy that people believe that other people like Tim Hortons' coffee, and thus go on coffee and doughnut runs to Tim Hortons instead of elsewhere. This doesn't mean everybody drinking like it, it's just... complicated.

If I had my choice I would just go to Beano on 17th but that's usually not an option. Tim's isn't my first choice but it will do in a pinch. Plus I like it over McDonalds simply because I like to get something sweet with my coffee and Tim's donuts, cookies, etc are way better than anything sweet at Mickey D's.

[4X4]

Originally Posted by Table 5

Obviously it has its time and place (and in small town Alberta you dont really have a lot of options), but there woudn't be such a cultish demand for Tim Hortons is if it was all about just about convenience and price. McDonalds is just as convenient and cheap (hell, its often free!) as TH is, and it's not as popular with people here. I really doubt all the Crossovers lined up for 15 minutes at the Westhills TH location at 8am, are all hardworking construction guys just looking for a break.

Your weird hatred for Tims is like stalker weird. McDonalds does not have donuts. McDonalds does not have toasted bagels with cream cheese. McDonalds does have some good coffee, but not everyone is looking for a GD egg mcmuffin in the morning. Some people want a bagel with one of the many varieties of cheese they have. And, lo, they also have egg mcmuffins. Also, some people buy a sandwich for lunch or maybe a bowl of chili. A real sandwich, not a big mac. Get over it already. It's not a "cult". Tims has some pretty decent food, and while the coffee may not be up to your standards, there is also tea and hot chocolate and friggin iced capps and smoothies with yogurt.

Man, I bet you just roll your eyes at me when you see me at a light, sitting in my pickup, drinking out of a Tims cup. If only you could get through to me! If only I would understand that I can get better coffee at McDonalds, and I can also haul lumber in a wagon. If only.

[Table 5]

Hash, man, did I drive over your dog with my wagon or something? You've been pretty touchy lately.

[jammies]

All of this is beside the point, because coffee sucks. It's like arguing which NBA team is the best to be a fan of: none of them.

[4X4]

Was that really harsh? I'm just saying that you assume that the only reason people go to tims is to get subpar coffee, and because they're brainwashed. I'm telling you that there's lots more besides the coffee, and you don't need to be brainwashed to want a bagel or a donut.

[Hemi-Cuda]

I have a fairly large shower-only unit in my bathroom, so when I soap up I always just stand away from the water at the far end. Every now and again though as I'm in the process the water heats up to scalding levels for some mysterious reason, so then I'm forced to reach through the lava flow of Mordor to turn the temperature down. Then of course as I'm back under the water rising off the temperature will go back to normal and I'm caught under an arctic ice flow

Inconsistent showers RGMG. We're 1 year away from the Back To The Future future, how have we not advanced shower technology beyond "get the lever to the sliver of habitable zone" technology?

[Dion]

Originally Posted by Table 5

Obviously it has its time and place (and in small town Alberta you dont really have a lot of options), but there woudn't be such a cultish demand for Tim Hortons is if it was all about just about convenience and price. McDonalds is just as convenient and cheap (hell, its often free!) as TH is, and it's not as popular with people here. I really doubt all the Crossovers lined up for 15 minutes at the Westhills TH location at 8am, are all hardworking construction guys just looking for a break.

Here in High River McDonalds sells a lot of coffee. On any given weekday afternoon the place is jammed with seniors having their daily coffee and muffin. Timmies is across the street yet seniors seem to prefer McD and has become a favourite social gathering place.

[Wormius]

Well, enough dogging of Timmies. I tried McDonalds coffee recently during a road trip, and it didn't live up to the hype at all. It was pretty close to 7-11 / gas station coffee.

Anyway, outside of China, the worst coffee I have experienced is at Ikea. Ugh. That is the worst coffee ever.

[btimbit]

Originally Posted by M*A*S*H 4077

If I remember correctly, Canadian football is actually older than American football so if anything you could argue that the NFL is full of quirky rules and an adaptation of "real" football. But that's pointless.

Yes, I firmly believe the NFL has the better athletes (I also believe that the difference between the leagues isn't as wide as some do - other than some of the superstars) but it's also a completely different game and American players cannot just come up here and dominate as has been proven over and over again. I also believe the CFL has the better set of rules, a catch is a catch up here!

To me the CFL is the greatest celebration of Canada there is. No one can take it away from me and it grinds my gears that there are Canadians who go to great lengths to try to diminish our league.

This x1000

Modern football in North America was introduced in Montreal. When the Canadians first went to play a US team at Harvard, the Americans liked that the Canadians had the option to run with the ball. They introduced 4 downs instead of the original 3, in an effort to generate more offence. Since then, the American style kept adding and changing rules, whereas the Canadian game has stayed more true to it's original form. Because of limited campus space at Harvard, they didn't have a full sized Rugby pitch to play on. They had one which was narrower and had smaller endzones than the standard. This became the style of field the NFL uses, while the CFL stuck with the original sized Rugby pitch.

CFL rules aren't gimmicky knockoffs of the NFL game, the two leagues aside and just looking at the bare games,and if you look at their history, they're almost two completely separate games. I love both.

I don't mind that people don't like it, but I certainly don't understand the people that seem to aggressively hate it.

[cyrust]

people who owes you money and YOU have to ask THEM to pay you back... FML

*COUNT DOWN TO VACATION* WUUU SAHHH

[DuffMan]

just noticed a slow leak in a 3/4" copper T, in my plumbing in the basement. This weekend is going to suck, IF it holds on that long, otherwise, one of these next few days is going to be plumbing suckage.

[Dion]

Originally Posted by fotze

Have tried to get Mcd's coffee 5 times, 4 of the times they put sugar in it when I only asked for cream.

The girl serving you probably thinks you're not sweet enough

[btimbit]

Originally Posted by fotze

Have tried to get Mcd's coffee 5 times, 4 of the times they put sugar in it when I only asked for cream.

I think the coffee is good, but the employees not so much

[Table 5]

Originally Posted by 4X4

Was that really harsh? I'm just saying that you assume that the only reason people go to tims is to get subpar coffee, and because they're brainwashed. I'm telling you that there's lots more besides the coffee, and you don't need to be brainwashed to want a bagel or a donut.

Meant to type hah, not harsh. Clumsy fingers + tablet.

When I use the term cult (not the first one in this thread to do that btw), I don't actually insinuate that people chop their balls off and literally join a cult. Tim Hortons is an extremely popular place in Canada, and it's been called a cult in jest many times over. It's the same type of cult as people have over Starbucks. Considering the lineups everyday, the amount of popularity it has in Canada, and how passionately people on this board defending it, you don't consider that kind of cultish?

But anyway, I'm not sure why you're so angry about what I said. The discussion was about Tim Horton's and how it relates to Canadian pride. Some people think people only go there because of the convenience and price, and I think there is more to it than that. I didn't say that people should go to McDonalds for everything.. just that in the budget coffee category, I think it's a step up from TH, just as convenient, and cheaper too. Frankly I think both offer pretty terrible food (must be that wagon owner bias), and don't think going to either as part of a regular breakfast is a good dietary choice. But hey, go nuts if you like it.

Your second paragraph, I'm not really sure what to say to that as there's clearly some sort of personal hate in there or something, so I'll just leave it as is.

[Wormius]

Originally Posted by Table 5

Meant to type hah, not harsh. Clumsy fingers + tablet.

When I use the term cult (not the first one in this thread to do that btw), I don't actually insinuate that people chop their balls off and literally join a cult. Tim Hortons is an extremely popular place in Canada, and it's been called a cult in jest many times over. It's the same type of cult as people have over Starbucks. Considering the lineups everyday, the amount of popularity it has in Canada, and how passionately people on this board defending it, you don't consider that kind of cultish?

But anyway, I'm not sure why you're so angry about what I said. The discussion was about Tim Horton's and how it relates to Canadian pride. Some people think people only go there because of the convenience and price, and I think there is more to it than that. I didn't say that people should go to McDonalds for everything.. just that in the budget coffee category, I think it's a step up from TH, just as convenient, and cheaper too. Frankly I think both offer pretty terrible food (must be that wagon owner bias), and don't think going to either as part of a regular breakfast is a good dietary choice. But hey, go nuts if you like it.

Your second paragraph, I'm not really sure what to say to that as there's clearly some sort of personal hate in there or something, so I'll just leave it as is.

I dunno. Sounds an awful lot like the kind of defensiveness that somebody brainwashed by Tim Hortons would exhibit.

[jayswin]

Originally Posted by Table 5

But anyway, I'm not sure why you're so angry about what I said. The discussion was about Tim Horton's and how it relates to Canadian pride. Some people think people only go there because of the convenience and price, and I think there is more to it than that.

I just think you're putting more thought into it than people do when they go there.

I guess we have no definitive way of looking into it other than anecdotal evidence, but in my experience people don't put very much thought into grabbing coffee and breakfeast other than "Where do I stop for coffee and a bagel?"

I just never see/hear any canadiana reasons for going there. I do hear plenty of reasons, though, and they're always to do with either "they're everywhere" (see: familiarity). Want to grab a breakfeast bagel (they're not the best, but they're cheap and kinda tasty in a fast food kind of way). I'm grabbing coffee for the guys (I'll to Tim's, again, familiarity and they have those handy boxes for large coffee orders if you have a crew!)

I just really think you're confusing a fast food chain that has found a perfect niche in Canada for a number of reasons (4X4 accurately described many of them) and has more locations across Canada than any other chain, for people going there en masse because of national pride, due to their commercials suggesting that.

[4X4]

Originally Posted by Table 5

Meant to type hah, not harsh. Clumsy fingers + tablet.

When I use the term cult (not the first one in this thread to do that btw), I don't actually insinuate that people chop their balls off and literally join a cult. Tim Hortons is an extremely popular place in Canada, and it's been called a cult in jest many times over. It's the same type of cult as people have over Starbucks. Considering the lineups everyday, the amount of popularity it has in Canada, and how passionately people on this board defending it, you don't consider that kind of cultish?

But anyway, I'm not sure why you're so angry about what I said. The discussion was about Tim Horton's and how it relates to Canadian pride. Some people think people only go there because of the convenience and price, and I think there is more to it than that. I didn't say that people should go to McDonalds for everything.. just that in the budget coffee category, I think it's a step up from TH, just as convenient, and cheaper too. Frankly I think both offer pretty terrible food (must be that wagon owner bias), and don't think going to either as part of a regular breakfast is a good dietary choice. But hey, go nuts if you like it.

Your second paragraph, I'm not really sure what to say to that as there's clearly some sort of personal hate in there or something, so I'll just leave it as is.

I guess it just grinds my gears when I read ridiculous opinions that pretty much assume that people are stupid because of where they stopped for coffee that morning.

And I wouldn't call a couple of posts "passionately defending" anything. I am pointing out that you fail to realize that not everyone at Tims is there to get a cup of coffee.

[DownhillGoat]

Originally Posted by Dion

The gal serving you probably thinks you're not sweet enough

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