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Pittsburgh is a land of old people; Rich Westerfield knows this, and that’s why he’s delivered a guest spot on his blog from Mr. Andy Rooney, “60 Minutes” advocate for our griping American elderly. Journalism’s premier curmudgeon takes a break from his busy schedule of napping, drinking prune juice, and complaining on national television for 3 minutes to guest blog over at the Aldo Coffee site.

We’re getting a bit sick and tired of some of our own.

Without naming names, we’ve seen a growing trend of barista arrogance over on Twitter resulting is some absurd exchanges.  A coffee question gets asked and sometimes answered appropriately.  But increasingly replies to questions come back not with answers, but with opinions that the subject matter being referenced isn’t worthy of discussion.  Even though it’s about how to brew coffee.

Or that the person cannot answer the question because it was posed using volume measurements instead of weight.  As if 10 ounces of 200F water in Pittsburgh weighs significantly more or less than 10 oz of 200F water in New York or Los Angeles?  It’s immaterial to the question.

So get over yourselves.  There are bigger issues we should be together on if we want people to take coffee more seriously.

Read the whole shabang…

Aldo Coffee – It’s Time To Get Over Ourselves

“Why do they call it taking a dump? After all, you’re not taking it anywhere…it should be called leaving a dump.” – Andy Rooney