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Wow, we have really come a long way…
Woooooooow….. Jaw on floor.
That’s more like it. And while you’re at it, make me a sammich!
And while you’re at it, learn to give yourself a blow job.
Not really sure if that’s something you can just learn.
I think it’s instictual.
Thats right, the success of your marriage is defined by the quality of your coffee. SO remember ladies, if your husband pops you one in the mouth and sleeps with your sister, you have only yourself to blame for not making better coffee
Whats sexist ? Becuase he’s a jerk or because she actually wants to please her husband ?
Please, go read a book about feminism or better yet, take a course on it (if you can). I don’t mean this in a mean way, but please go educate yourself on this, for the sake of the female half of the population.
Don’t read a piece on modern feminism, you’ll just get a bunch of man hating crap. Read something from the 60′s or earlier. It’s because he treats her like dirt and she blames herself all over a stupid cup of coffee.
Not necessarily, as with everything else, the extreme viewpoint is the loudest/most-covered-by-media. But at the very least, try Simone de Beauvior’s “The Second Sex.” I’d also recommend bell hooks (intentionally not capitalized) “Black Women: Shaping Feminist Theory.” Better yet, “Feminist Theory: A Philosophical Anthology” has those and a lot more.
tl;dr
It’s because he’s a jerkass, she accepts his comments without question, and the whole of it is presented as completely normal and proper.
Notice that her friend also accepted it without objection.
Troll.
Sounds like somebody needs to wake up with one less testicle.
I’ll hold him down; you get the shears.
And from reading a large number of comments and “jokes” on memebase, you would think we haven’t made much progress.
+1
John Wayne Bobbit… the early years.
Oh please, that’s about as sexist as me asking a man to kill a spider for me.
Ladies – and men – here’s the real way to make good coffee.
1: Start with good quality beans. Columbian are the best in the world. They grow way up high in the mountains and are picked when they’re riped. Arbaica – that crap they serve at Starbucks – grow in the lowlands, are picked green, and ripen in a warehouse. (Think about it, you spend extra money for vine ripened tomatoes because they taste better. Well, coffee beans that ripen on the bush will also taste better then warehouse ripened.)
2: Use purified water. Good water = good coffee.
3: Add a pinch of sweetened hot chocolate mix. This will take the bitter edge of the coffee. Not too much though because then it won’t filter.
4: A quick, small sprinkle of salt in the grounds will bring out the flavor.
Scoop as many grounds as you’d like – add the chocolate mix & the salt, pour in the water, brew. Great coffee.
It’s not so much the idea of a woman making her husband coffee that’s so sexist. I would have no issue making coffee for my significant other if it was more practical. In this case, it’s the presentation. It’s basically saying a woman’s worth is dictated entirely on how well she can make coffee. At least, that’s what it feels like to me.
And as soon as you have a pot of it perfectly brewed, you dump the whole darn thing on the jerk’s head…With cream and sugar accompanying it, of course…..
Of course!
perferct!
*perfect!
You’re an ignoramus.
Arabica is a *species* of coffee, not a place of origin, and they *are* the beans that grow best at high altitude. The species generally considered to make inferior coffee is “robusta”.
Columbian beans can be good — they grow both arabica and robusta there, so quality varies — but which is “best” is a matter of taste. Coffee from Kona, Hawaii is regarded as some of the finest in the world. Very good coffee also comes from Indonesia (including Java, which was once so popular that “java” became slang for coffee in general), Ethiopia (The original home of coffee; I prefer Harrar), Mexico, Yemen (the original home of mocha, originally a place of origin for coffee beans now uncommon), and many other places. They all have their distinctive characters when properly cured and roasted.
It is not among Starbucks many flaws that they buy beans picked before they’re ripe. They do tend to use inferior beans (some say it’s mostly robusta, same as Maxwell House) and they over-roast what they get, so the coffee is essentially burned.
If I want coffee and some moronic pr!ck like you adds sugary chocolate and salt to it, they get a punch in the face. If you really knew and appreciated good coffee, you wouldn’t even consider it. Good coffee doesn’t need that.
Drop Starbucks, go to Java City. They at least do fair trade. Better than fair trade. They have deals with small-time farmers and buy directly from them. It’s not all just talk either; I worked there. They make a point of doing the ethical thing. Plus, they’re cheaper and not so pretentious with the “tall, grande, venti” nonsense.
Or almost any other decent chain. (Although to be fair, Starbucks says it does the same thing as you say Java City does.)
Or better yet, a small, local roaster. They will also be serving Fair Trade coffee if that’s something important to the local community — it is, where I live — and chance are they roast in small enough batches that it’s genuinely artisan work.
Small roasters are of course in no position to work out individual deals with growers, but they *can* buy from importers of Fair Trade produce.
Starbucks is fair trade, but I admire your trying to plug a smaller coffee company doing the same thing.
pwnd
Friends, friends, let’s not argue over the “best” coffee, and just enjoy a rich cup of the new freeze dried Maxwell House instant.
It’s the coffee that’s made from the finest beans, carefully roasted, brewed, and then freeze dried into Maxwell House’s own Flavor Buds.
That’s those shiny flecks you see right there in the coffee.
You can always be assured that when you have Maxwell House Flavor Bud instant coffee you are getting the finest cup money can buy.
So for coffee that’s good to the very last drop, look for the jar with the stars on top; Maxwell House instant with the Flavor Bud difference.
Now back to “Richard Diamond: Private Eye”
lol
LOL
While you are correct about the beans, you shouldn’t call people an ignoramus for adding salt to their coffee grounds if you don’t even know that salt does make the coffee taste better.
The point is not to make your coffee salty, but to put in just enough to make your taste buds react to the salt itself; that way you taste more of the coffee’s natural flavor. That’s what salt does, and why we use it in our food, to accentuate the natural flavor of the food.
And there’s nothing wrong with a good mocha every now and then, either!
I can’t remember how you take it dear, one hit of arsenic or two?
(& most of the the “make me a sammich” people are dateless nerds who sit alone in their basements among pizza boxes)
true dat. true dat.
Don’t have a basement. Been married twice, ’cause women these days can’t seem to keep their legs together while their husband is working to provide a house and home for them. Dateless only by my choice. Instead, I’ll just keep my salary to myself and make my own sammiches. Neither of the exes could cook worth a damn, anyway.
The cold hard truth women never admit.
Married 13 years and I make damned sure my legs stay shut while my husband works his ass off for me and our kids.
Yep, I served instant Folgers once. Now I’m divorced.
Thanks liars.
this made me laugh
First you bring it to a boil; then you pour a cup for him – oops! Sorry I burned your package off, honey!
I don’t get the big deal… I make my husband’s coffee every morning, even after 12 yrs of marriage. It’s called LOVE! Though – if my husband spoke to me like that I’d smack him, but you can’t fault a woman who loves her husband enough to want to make him happy.
Unfortunately, not enough women like you, Rosebud.
I think that’s half it. Taking care of someone because you love them is one thing. Expecting it and becoming angry when they don’t is another.
OMG now I finally know where Firesign Theater’s “angerdream” commercial came from!!
As instant coffee goes, Folgers is the least offensive…but seriously…better than perked?
As for the ad, it pretty well hits the mark of what young women growing up in the 50s and early 60s were raised to expect in a relationship or marriage. I once read an old home economics textbook that explained that a good housewife should not only keep her house immaculate, but she should be finished with her duties before the breadwinner gets home so the noise will not disturb his well-deserved restful evening. It all but said she should fetch him his pipe and slippers.
Now..there’s nothing wrong with a lady (or a man, for that matter) wanting their S/O to be happy, but then he had to go and bring up the girls at work and their g*dd*mn hot plate coffee too? If I had been her, I would wait for my birthday to roll around and request “some DECENT sex, like the Stanley Steemer and UPS men provide while you’re at work.”
You tell ‘em!
It might not be better, but it’s not going to be a hell of a lot worse. Percolation (in the usual American sense) is a horrible, horrible way to make coffee.
Oh, this is the edited version that cut away from the hawt lesbian sex scene between the housewife and her advice-dispensing friend before the hubby got home.
Win!
Lol! Although it might have a small grain of truth: men at work, women at home, whatcha gonna do when the chores are done?
I bet the average 1960′s American hadn’t heard of a cappuccino. Yes, we certainly have come a long way.
What’s wrong with expecting a decent cup of coffee?
This is just what women did for ages. If a woman asked me to lift something heavy, would that be sexist too?
Move the sofa or no sammich for you bub.
It would be sexist if the woman assumed that moving heaving stuff on her whim was your only purpose in life.
I dunno. Did the husband in this piece get to decide on his job? You know, whether he’d be an accountant, an ad exec, or a physicist? Maybe the traffic controller at some factory? Because I can assure you, his wife had only one occupation presented to her as being really acceptable for the long term: Waiting on her husband.
Pretty sure lifting something heavy now and then wasn’t considered his main purpose in life. Pretty sure that making his life comfortable *was* considered to be hers. Yes, he was expected to support her financially, but at least he got some choice of the manner in which he’d do that.
And of course, now that men and women generally share financial support for a household, women still are generally in charge of making the house comfortable. And coffee gets made a whole lot more often than heavy things get lifted.
Disclaimer: I don’t drink coffee, so my husband makes his own. We both make money. And he has never suggested I’m inadequate because of my housekeeping skills or lack thereof.
I think all Harvey needed was a nice scalding cup of fresh-brewed coffee in his crotch.
Actually, he reminded my girlfried.
What did he remind her of?
So, I take it none of you have ever had an argument with a spouse, significant other, or roommate over a task they’re expected to perform, and could never manage up to task? What’s sexist about wanting your spouse to perform his or her duties well? My husband expects me to make good coffee, and I expect him not to ruin my clothes when he does the laundry. Of course, when my coffee is lousy, my husband usually suggests a trip to the coffee shop (he dislikes telling me directly that he doesn’t want to consume something I’ve made for him).
It’s guaranteed the guy in the commercial has never touched laundry.
” o/~ And those were the Good Ol’ Days… o/~ “
Silly me… I thought we were s’posed to be amused.
I’ll give him a fresh perk, alright. Gots me a nice blade to do the perking right here.
If I’d been that woman I’d have served him the scalding hot coffee through his urethra.
THANK YOU for pretty much summing up all that needs to be said on this.
Also, holla my tea drinkers out there?
Lmao XD Oh man, I find these old commercials funny.
Rofl. Man how the times have changed. Not only was the ad amusing, but so were the posts. They’ve got everything…a little bit of man hating, a little bit of women hating, and A LOT of rage on how to make a proper cup of coffee.
As a female engineer, I am amused. As coffee drinker, I’m in tears – at how outrageously bad instant coffee is. These days I just drink tea. Can’t trust anyone for a good cup of coffee anymore.
This somehow doesn’t work on my girl to motivate her oO