Calgary Water Cooler Talk Thread

[vid]

I thought everyone knew about the Midwest Coffee Talk thread.

[frinkprof]

Nevermind.

[Bigtime]

Originally Posted by vid

Coffee talk refers to the general discussion you have while meeting with people at a coffee shop or something.

When I go to a coffee shop I sit alone at a table blogging on my Mac, because I am a trendy hipster consumer whore like that...

Seriously though, I don't. But what is with those people? They are everywhere!

[MalcolmTucker]

Lol, personally I prefer the term kaffeeklatsch.

Much more trendy hipster modern/ 50s housewife / 1920s Vienna

[Beltliner]

^^^ All this yack about Coffee Talk and not a single "feeling a little verklempt" or "it's like buttah" yet?

[M II A II R II K]

That's funny, a coffee talk discussion about the thread itself.

[freeweed]

Some of you young'uns are probably too young to have heard the expression "water cooler talk", which sounds more like what's intended here.

Maybe I'm just not bohemian enough, but chatting in coffee shops isn't something many of my peers ever do. And these days it's all about the Mac laptop crowd anyway as Bigtime points out.

Anyway, I can confirm that it's not a ubiquitous phrase. I can also confirm that I'm one of those horrible people that doesn't spend their life on SSP and therefore I haven't seen every single non-Canada thread. Heck, I rarely venture outside of Local:Calgary these days.

[freeweed]

LOL @ Mark (or whoever did that)!

[Bigtime]

Wait a minute Freeweed, you are saying there is more to life than SSP?



If anything this could be the one website that actually encourages its members to go outside (and take pictures of buildings and everything else)!

[freeweed]

Originally Posted by Bigtime

Wait a minute Freeweed, you are saying there is more to life than SSP?

Sorta, but I do realize the irony of saying this as someone who has nearly 4500 posts. Over about 30 months, which works out to an average of 5 per day.

And I miss a lot of days.

[Bigtime]

I see that my average is 3.68 posts per day since joining.

Ok everyone post your number!

Edit: Pro-tip, go to your User CP and click on view your profile to see the average number of posts per day.

[Cowtown_Tim]

I'm at 296, with an average post of .88 posts per day. After this post my average should go up quite a bit!

Edit: I just checked and now I'm up to 0.89 posts per day.

[freeweed]

Total Posts: 4,380 (4.59 posts per day)

Make that 4,381.

[Cowtown_Tim]

I think we need one more thread. Although it seems like we have 5000 different threads under the Calgary SSP, another thread couldn't hurt. Maybe one to catch things missed in the coffee talk thread.

[Surrealplaces]

Join Date: 02-28-2006
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Total Posts: 6,144 (5.32 posts per day)

[Innersoul1]

The Killers concert was AMAWESOMEXCELLENT last night.

[frinkprof]

Nevermind.

[Bigtime]

Originally Posted by Innersoul1

The Killers concert was AMAWESOMEXCELLENT last night.

Dinner at my parents was AMAWESOMEXCELLENT last night.

[The Chemist]

Originally Posted by Innersoul1

The Killers concert was AMAWESOMEXCELLENT last night.

I wish I could have gone. They were great when I saw them play in Calgary 2 (3?) years ago.

I wish any big western band I like would come and play a show in Shanghai. I haven't been to a concert in a LONG time, and I miss the fun of a concert so much.

[Rusty van Reddick]

Originally Posted by Bigtime

Dinner at my parents was AMAWESOMEXCELLENT last night.

This belongs in the Food thread.