How is it, that in today’s day and age, people are actually excited about one of the most wasteful inventions in modern day? When the focus has been movign to conserving energy, reducing waste, etc., intelligent, rational human beings are excited about Keurig. I simply cannot understand how my friends and coworkers are creating so much waste for one cup of coffee. Instead of making a pot, with one compostable filter, there are at least 10 people in my office who make 2 to 3 cups of this coffee a day. That is 30 little plastic cups at the end of the day, times 5 days a week, times 52 weeks a year. That is approximately 7, 800 plastic cups per year and that is just for a little section of the office. I want to hang a sign over it that says “Completely Wasteful, FOR SHAME!!!!” How do people shut their brains off so easily? Man. —I hate Keurig
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So, don’t drink it. Otherwise, shut your fornicating mouth and mind your own fornicating business.
Obviously, most people are all talk. I don’t get those things either.
I thought the same as well, that is why I bought a Keurig filter and use my own coffee.
I have a reusable filter for mine. I can fill it with whatever coffee I want and there is no waste, not even a compostable filter. Sounds like something you should take up with your boss and he can bring it up to the coffee company that services your office.
You can always buy the “take ten” coffee from timmies…would put a smile on my face
Marketing! People are generally gullible and like gadgets, ergo the Keurig/Massimo craze. What’s worse is that they LIKE the coffee it makes…
Ob, do your own research before bitching. The PC brand of K cups don’t use plastic, and the other brands use a recyclable plastic that is the same as grocery bags. So, just like grocery bags, it is not the product that is evil, it is the lazy biatch that throws it away.
After reading this bitch, I think I’ll go out and buy one right now to piss off the OB.
I love old school coffee – can still make a cuppa with my old Melita plastic cone and a filter. Nothing beats it besides saving thousands of bucks on little plastic cups for an overpriced machine.
All you guys are pansies. I put the coffee grounds just inside my bottom lip, then sip on hot water.
The best thing about K-cups is exactly how many of them you can cram up an eco-wiccan’s own nether landfill.
“All you guys are pansies. I put the coffee grounds just inside my bottom lip, then sip on hot water.”
This is just about the best thing I’ve read on here since “The Puppet Bitch” and the weedy shower LTWWL a few weeks ago.
I knew it =) GV is Rodney Dangerfield.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afrC_igjyUQ
I’ve also pondered this, not to mention the coffee tastes like shit. As usual though, out corporate society comes up with yet another bandade device for our social ills(i.e not enough time to make a cup of coffee) that will wind up in the landfill.
Hey OP there is this little thing called a Keruig filter, it allows you to put your own coffee grinds or even tea leafs in it, it’s 100% reusable and only costs about $15 for a pack of 4!
Nespresso, Tassimo and even Keurig claim that their pods are “recyclable”, but, what does that ridiculous word mean? That somebody who buys this thing for convenience is actually going to take off the foil, compost the coffee, separate the paper from the plastic and get them all to the right bin?
i make pots of coffee with a paper filter, it’s not hard
I’m with mister meaty … Stop calling that dark coloured water coffee !
As for being wasteful , once they dry out I’ll bet a couple sheets of newspaper & a dozen of those will start your woodstove , with no problem !
Almost same idea More…I use my old Timmy’s cups.. scrunch them together to form a log, a piece of newspaper inside and “Voila” my fire is going.
Fun fact: keurig cups are actually edible. I used to eat them at a place I worked at because David Suzuki told me to in a dream.
I think this is an unfair characterization of the K cup.
To me, it is obvious that the K cup is the ultimate ‘Hybrid Product’ that combines convenience with a reuseable coffee mug.
You are definitely being politically incorrect for trying to criticize or suppress modern ‘Hybrid’ technology.
OB, how dare you condemn the k cup for its use of plastic. The k cup is often alot less plastic than the lid on your artsy fartsy disposable coffee cup.
I make great Timmy’s coffee in my 30 year old Sunbeam percolator.
I saw on CBC Marketplace that K Cups/Tassimo discs are technically recyclable, but many municipalities don’t recycle what they’re made of (even if you do clean them out and sort them into the appropriate place in your recycling!) 🙁
We have a keurig at work and a few of my coworkers use the reusable filter. At home we have a tassimo that we use infrequently (mostly just for entertaining which we don’t do often, or for fancy coffees like mochas or cappucinos etc).
Doesn’t it take energy to recycle shit? Doesn’t melting down plastic create dangerous fumes?
Meaty, there are no hard rules. Some create fumes, others don’t, some arent able to be remelted.
some Russian guy did a utoob video on how to re-use the tassimo pods, since they don’t make a reuseable pod. it involved a drill, a hypodermic syringe and 17 perogies.
Can someone post the puppet bitch again? Man I love that thing
THE PUPPET BITCH (a LTWWB classic)
“HaliFUCK Culture Scene
Posted on Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 1:34 PM
What the fuck is up with the culture scene in HaliFUCKS??! Shit! I moved half way cross the country to this fucking city for school, and its deadd! Fuck, where I come from you could sit out front a building and whip out a puppet, and fucking marionettes would gang round from everywhere. Muthafuckers would be whippin off they socks and drawin faces on em to get in on the action. Shit! Man, this stuff went down daily! Round this fuckin shit spot they anint nothin. Nothinn! Fuck! I took my puppets down to fucking Murphy’s wharf and not one fuckin soul joined me! I fuckin had to do Mid Summer Night’s Dream by my fuckin self! Shit, man, back home we used to find a fuckin cardboard box in an alley, cut a hole in that muthafucker, and put on a fuckin puppet show. What the fuck is wrong with you Halifax??!!! Shit, it pisses me off too much to even write bout!
—puppet master”
I fucking hate those god damned machines, Keurig, Tassimo.. just another way to make something else more candy ass fucking capitalist friendly. They’re disgusting and I want to vomit on anyone who uses one. Give me a simple fucking espresso shot, a chemex coffee, a vietnamese style or french press. Those machines are for the tweedle-simple-dees out there who can’t follow directions unless it involves an app like icon and some sort of zen fucking moment button.