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Comment author: handoflixue 11 March 2013 06:03:40PM 2 points [-]

I suspect that the vast majority of coffee drinkers disagree with you, and thus your advice is probably inapplicable to most people there. I could be wrong, but you're the first person I've ever met who considers 8-hour-old coffee to be a good thing.

Comment author: OrphanWilde 11 March 2013 06:12:21PM 0 points [-]

8 hour old coffee is insufficiently aged; it has yet to achieve peak bitterness.

Comment author: handoflixue 11 March 2013 06:23:39PM 0 points [-]

You missed the point...

Comment author: OrphanWilde 11 March 2013 06:33:28PM 1 point [-]

You missed that I already acknowledged other people don't share my tastes, which was the point about liking warm beer and soda. You can substitute in your own preferences, even if it's a coffee pot set next to your alarm clock/phone scheduled to turn on shortly before your alarm goes off; it's unnecessary to copy the specific implementation to get utility out of the general concept.

At that point I was merely being amusing; missing the point was rather the point.