Sinfest Secrets

Finnegan · Posted: Mon Jun 17, 2013 3:40 pm Post subject:

I was really hoping this thread would take off again and my fellow sinfesters could experience the cathartic release of confessing their secrets. but if you find it too embarrassing without ms. frisby to post your secrets anonymously, please feel free to pm them to me and I will post them with every confidence intact.
_________________
Formerly Green_Finn

hey! rock bottom's not that bad
we've got glow-in-the-dark fish down here that's rad

Finnegan · Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2013 5:59 pm Post subject:

stripeypants · Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2013 11:34 am Post subject:

I drink out of coffee stirrers. They are the perfect size for coffee mugs, so I never thought much about it. But then I recently read that some people are offended by this practice, so I thought I had better come clean to you all.

In honor of this, I am drinking out of two right now - because for some reason that was fun when I was a kid, and I want to recapture the magic.
_________________
::lesser crisis mode::

mouse · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 21235 Location: under the bed

isn't that why they are hollow? because otherwise, they are just stealing perfectly good coffee from you.
_________________
aka: neverscared!
a flux of vibrant matter

Atrophy Annie · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 1690 Location: Your Mom

I never used to understand why people didn't drink out of them. But I also still don't understand why people drink coffee.* >_>

*I do but I'm really just emphasizing that I think coffee is disgusting. And I realize this will likely result in someone going BUT HOW CAN YOU NOT or OMG YOU'RE SO WEIRD!
_________________
Way to kill the conversation, Patty.- Trevor

ShadowCell · Joined: 02 Aug 2008 Posts: 7395 Location: California

if people actually think drinking through coffee stirrers is offensive then that is all the more reason to do it

Samsally · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 7577

I had no idea it was offensive to some. That seems like a really ridiculous thing to get in a fit over. I just don't do it because COME ON I do not have patience for that bullshit, give me ALL THE COFFEE IMMEDIATELY thank you.
_________________
Samsally the GrayAce

Monkey Mcdermott · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 3352

AAAaaaaand now im gonna Razz

_________________

stripeypants · Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2013 6:57 pm Post subject:

Apparently, pretentious women drinking cocktails with coffee stirrers is a thing, and that's why it is offensive. I don't know how common the sentiment is, but it was all I was finding when looking up 'drinking out of coffee stirrers' earlier.

I can attest that drinking out of double coffee stirrers is as exhilarating at 30 as it was at 10, though I still don't know why. And you can get five times as many coffee stirrers as you can big straws.

Also, I don't ever drink coffee, and I usually drink cold drinks out of them. I also don't find them hard to drink out of, so maybe I've just got great suction powers.
_________________
::lesser crisis mode::

Samsally · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 7577

fritterdonut · Joined: 24 Jul 2012 Posts: 1462

I never really trust plastic coffee stirrers (for stirring or drinking) because some sort of deep-set dislike for mixing very hot liquids and plastics. The whole Nalgene BPA fiasco didn't help either. I refuse to use straws with hot drinks (or highly alcoholic ones) for the same reasons.

I generally drink my coffee at temperatures approaching the surface of the sun though, so maybe that's why. Pulling a floppy straw out of your coffee isn't very appetizing.
_________________
The Thirties dreamed white marble and slipstream chrome, immortal crystal and burnished bronze, but the rockets on the covers of the Gernsback pulps had fallen on London in the dead of night, screaming. - William Gibson, The Gernsback Continuum

stripeypants · Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2013 4:41 pm Post subject:

You can get special paper straws, and there are also glass straws and steel straws. Though none of those, espexially the steel ones, are good for hot drinks. The glass ones are good sometimes, but I've heard they can crack. And I'm sure paper straws get woobly like noodles in hot drinks.
_________________
::lesser crisis mode::

Vox Raucus · Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2013 6:48 pm Post subject:

I've used metal straws for hot drinks (specifically a Bombilla) and it worked just fine.
_________________
The cat's indifferent or he's just furious, it seems that he's never neither

Him · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 4367 Location: On edge

fritterdonut · Joined: 24 Jul 2012 Posts: 1462