As long as they are decent quality, I'm sure she will be happy enough.

Yes, I'd say it's all high-quality stuff.

Starbucks brewed coffee is too strong for some people though.

This is because we roast our beans until they pop twice, compared to the standard of just once at many other places.

I will stop boring you now.

Heh.

No, I encourage your love of tea and coffee.

I don't drink coffee myself, but I like the smell of the beans.

The beans do smell rather lovely.

And I can understand how important subtle differences in flavour must be.

For some people it is important. For others, coffee is coffee.

BRB.

On a happy note, my dishwasher is not broken after all.

Probably just clogged with fat and/or scale.

That is, the special cleaning agent I bought brought it back to life.

You know, it is easy to remove that buildup yourself.

There might be a little trap in the bottom of your dishwasher for such things—grab a screwdriver and see if you can't get it out. Clean it, and voilà!

Of course, this might not solve one's problems at all.

@Mahnax Rather queer measure you’ve got there. :)

@tchrist Oh, my mistake. It is 4.53×10⁻¹kg.

453.59237 g

You know, English does have a word for that.

@tchrist I am using the number found on the bag.

goes and looks

Mine reads: 10 oz (283.5 grams)

This room is abuzzin!

I shall check mine, then. BRB.

My coffee is clearly antipodean.

Turns out I finished up the Tarbucks bag this morning, and tossed it out already. This is some other brand.

sick

Mine says "16oz (1lb) / 453g".

That is what I expected it to say. :)

So do we just have bots in the chatroom, or do we have bots answering questions too?

But I find the rounding suspect.

I hate integer truncation.

@tchrist shrugs

And would anyone care to vote to reopen the question where I posted the comment reproduced above?

@MετάEd Oh fine, but best hurry.

The measurement given in grams is the most precise of those provided, assuming that they are all accurate.

They have just rounded to whole numbers, using 453g as their starting point.

They’ve rounded towards zero.

This is one of those rare single word requests which has a good answer that is hard to find in any readily available online reference.

So perhaps they weigh the beans in grams, and then convert to ounces and pounds.

Hm.

I bet somebody just screwed up.

Likely.

No, they have rounded towards zero, and for good reason. As someone in the business of filling containers and selling them, I can tell you that reason.

@Mahnax Yeah, I could simply pour some vinegar onto the heating iron.

But I think the rotating arm was clogged.

You do not want to put 453.6 grams of stuff in a bag and then make the false claim that it contains more than that (454 grams).

So you claim 453.

@Cerberus Ah, interesting. I wonder how that happens.

Hms again.

When you overstate the contents, you appear to be cheating.

@MετάEd I suppose that makes sense.

And, in fact, when you are selling the stuff by the ton, you are cheating.

@Mahnax 1 lb / 453 g = 1.001307660...

@MετάEd Voted to reopen. I can't believe our role-reversal.

Weird. I repcapped yesterday when I wasn’t even here.

@Mechanicalsnail Hilarious.

@Cerberus Was it this?

@Mahnax I believe water is pumped up from the heating "sink" into the arms. How else does the soap get dispensed among the dishes?

No, the really funny one is when the US government once recommended to the population that they should set their thermostats to 68 °F. This was during a fuel price scare. The actual recommendation was 20 °C, just a nice round number. But this was converted to exactly 68 °F. It made people curious why not 67 or 69?

@Mechanicalsnail Umm to be honest I have no idea what was in it.

@Cerberus I don't have any idea how it works. For all I know it is water voodoo.

@MετάEd Energy usage in Florida skyrockets

@MετάEd Most non-me people seem to prefer 72 to 68 for their homes.

@tchrist And what do you prefer, then?

@Cerberus Role reversal? Well, vote reversal. But we both still think the same as before.

Something blue to dissolve scale, and something transparent to dissolve fat.

Or the other way around.

@Mechanicalsnail Especially at Cape Canaveral.

@MετάEd I am beginning to question your resolve.

69 would have been a lot easier for the public to remember. That's what they should have used.

@Cerberus lol (really)

@Mahnax Usually 66 or 67 for wakey, 64 or so for sleepy. Pends on whether the wind is blowing, or whether the sun is baking.

But when I was sick a few weeks ago I actually cranked it up to 72.

@Mahnax I was forced to form an hypothesis. That is what happens to good people when confronted with technical problems.

@MετάEd stern look

@Cerberus There are none good, no not one. (Romans 3:10)

@tchrist That is respectable.

@Cerberus Right.

@Cerberus Hey. No stern looks in this chat, unless you are @KitFox.

Yon kitty hath a lean and foxy look about her.

My house is 18 °C / 64 °F when I am awake, 12 °C / 54 °F when asleep or away. Lower when away for longer.

You are courageous.

How so?

I do like a window open at night to sleep with.

@Cerberus That sounds absolutely wonderful.

But that risks getting icicles this time of the year.

My street is extremely noisy.

I accidentally let my room get down to 3˚C once.

Left the window open and the door shut?

It was nice for awhile, but then my fingers were too cold to type.

I used to have ice in my loo in winter, in my previous house. It was that cold.

@tchrist Yes.

@Mahnax ...

@Cerberus Blue? I only know red-orange cleaning agents.

Four reopen votes of five ... woo hoo! Thanks.

Just need the last one.

Sorry, I dropped chemistry after one year, in high school. I did have a chemistry set in primary school...but my high-school teacher sucked, and I already had 9 subjects instead of 7.

@Cerberus Sounds messy.

Thrice over.

What does?

Spilt chemicals.

I like chemistry class. It is my second-best class right now.

@Mechanicalsnail ah.nl/appie/producten/product/ah537464/…

@tchrist We were very careful.

@Mahnax I liked polymers.

What, you and the sucky high-school teacher? :)

But having 9 subjects for 7 is also messy. I did that one year.

In an 8-period day.

@Cerberus Polymers seem nice enough.

But I refused to memorize the elements out of disdain for my teacher, so I got a low grade for that part. I still got an 8 for the subject as a whole, but meh.

@tchrist How do you mean?

I couldn't attend all classes. But who does that anyway?

@Cerberus Eight out of… ten?

It is a very busy day, always hurrying and scurrying.

@Mahnax They are.

@Mahnax Yeah.

@Cerberus Everyone who doesn’t want to get cited for truancy.

I never skipped a class even once.

@Cerberus Do they round up, then? So if your average grade was 95% would they give you 10/10, or would they give you 9.5/10?

¹⁹⁄₂₀

@tchrist Naahh not at all. You just attend fewer classes. Latin and Greek overlapped, so that was 2 x 5 hours a week I could skip if I wanted to without punishment. The same applied to French and History. And I convinced my Math teacher that I would get an 8 anyway, and that the weekly sleeping-on-my-bad I did during math class didn't matter anyway. I was always sleep deprived.

@tchrist Oh, boo hoo. You have to know the system. I never once had to stay late or come early despite my skipping classes. And literally everybody skipped gymnastics after 5th grade. Well, 80 % did.

@Mahnax They round up.

@Cerberus Oh boy. I wish they did that here.

nods.

Otherwise it would be impossible to get a 10 on your report card.

@Mahnax O’boy would be an Irish lad.

@Cerberus I could have two 10s if they did it like that here.

Hehe.

I only got 10s for Latin.

@tchrist Yes, and Attaboy is an… American one? Or a canine one?

@Cerberus Nice. I would have had a 10 in French last year, I suppose.

But a 10 in Latin is quite impressive.

Good.

@Mahnax Sounds like a Hun to me.

Nah it wasn't that hard.

@tchrist Maybe.

School is just not super hard if you spend some time on homework and papers.

Same applies to university.

It’s the hautboys you have to watch out for.

TOOOOOOOOT

@Cerberus You said that already.

*hotboys

What?

Schooling. We are not kindergartners here.

Everything post–pre-school is schooling.

And maybe even before.

Oh, you're a school sayer?

Duh.

There is a trend here too.

What school did you go to?

And I must confess I say "class" in English.

Hard knocks.

But always with a distorted face.

@Cerberus Yeah, those woodwinds are always so full of themselves.

Indeed.

It's non-U in Dutch to confuse school terms with university.

Here it just sounds pretentious to distinguish them in that fashion.

So school/teacher/pupil/class v. university/professor/student/lecture.

No doubt you would find me pretentious in Dutch too, if you spoke it.

Which is why it stood out.

I doubt pretentiousness is somehow limited to one tongue and not another.

The funny thing is that a hogeschool is what would be a college in America, except that it is not counted as university here.

What the heck is with sim? She is always in and out, in and out, in and out. I wonder if her webby proggy is a little wangled.

"High school" is called middelbare school here.

Keep it clean.

Well, it is funny.

Bare teenagers tend to get you in trouble.

Hah.

-baar is just a suffix meaning...I don't know, very little? It may be related to Latin -ber, as in October.

"Related to"?

At other times -bris in Latin, which is really the feminine form of -ber, I believe.

Cucumbris? :)

Hmm...

Possibly?

@Cerberus Class and lecture are different things.

feels a class lecture coming on

@Mechanicalsnail I know, I know.

At university, we have colleges and werkgroepen.

A college is a lecture.

Pupil is a very old-fashioned word for student.

Well, actually, werkgroepen are colleges too.

Oh, and there is les(son).

Which really belongs in school, but many people are using this word in university now too.

In Dutch.

sighs

I think that happens here, too.

In college you do sometimes have a distinct lecture from lab, etc.

I forget the other terms. Tutorial maybe.

It sounds so silly.

Because you have a tutor, a grad student who produces exigeses of the prof’s lecture.

Tutorial seems a fine word for uni.

So some days you have lecture, some days tutorial, and for some courses, on some days lab — all for the same ‘class’.

Yeah...we have hoorcolleges and werkgroepen, which are both colleges. In laboratories one has practica.

Even weirder, the names for those pieces varies from institution to institution.

A practicum is also a college.

Yes, practica are labs.

Huh, no.

I was surprised, because I thought lab meant wet-lab.

I meant the Dutch word college.

It just means working something out in practice.

That is what a practicum is.

I just said that.

A practicum is not a laboratory.

stamps foot

Neither is a lab, oddly enough. Sorry ’bout that.