Käffchen?

May. 11th, 2012 12:08 pm
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After the coffe machine at our office died a slow death we bought a new one today. Since only half of our small office drinks coffee (the other tea) we only need an ordinary machine. We discussed changing from filter to pads or capsules. I vetod capsules. I've got an esspresso machine for capsules. I only recommend it for people who don't drink coffee every day. It's expensive and you produce lots of plastic waste. (But the taste ist nearly as great as from a machine that freshly grinds and brews coffee.)
We ended up buying a Senseo. I'm not overly impressed by the free coffee samples that came with it. And I remember drinking better coffee from pads at friends or at our booth on the games trade fair every year.
So my dear flist, can you recommend any brand? How about discounter brands like Aldi? (I think we had those at the trade fair.)

A propos "Käffchen?", I forgot to mention that I saw the musical "Kein pardon!" last month in Düsseldorf. It was kinda meh. Impressive concept and designs - but the music didn't ... well it didn't "klick". I can't remember a single tune. And the voices of the male and female lead didn't really work together. Both performed well but the duets sounded off.
I didn't know any of the singers/actors. But I rarely do anyway. I'm primary interested in the play & music and only secondary in the performers. Same goes for theater and movies.
The musical was not very funny either (and it's a comedy!). Only a few laughs (from the whole audience). Not like the movie it is based on (I heard, I havent seen it yet).
I heard that "Dirty Dancing" in Oberhausen will be followed by "Ich war noch niemals in New York". Hhmm :-/ I heard the story is bad and boring. But I like some of Udo Jürgens music (not all, most of it is too cheesy for me but he does have some songs with clever lyrics). I guess my Mum will drag me there, that's her generations kind of music :-) I would have prefered "Rebecca" as Dirty Dancings successor.
I'm still not sure if I should see D. D.. I havn't heard much good about it from friends.

Oh, and I saw "The Avengers" the second time yesterday ^_^ This time dubbed. And like the other Marvel films the dubbing was done quite well. And I still think that the "Asgardian" talking style sound even more stilted and old fashioned in German. Like in "Thor" translating "Give me a horse!" with "Gib mir ein Ross!" (Ross = steed).
We saw the trailers for the Spider-Man remake (left my brother ranting, he hadn't hear of it before). They had lots of 3D swinging off skyscrapers in the trailer. I wonder if they will do much of that in the movie (is it even in 3D?).
Saw the new Batman trailer - still meh. And I saw the long "Prometheus" trailer for the first time (only watched the teaser and it's one of the few films where I'm trying to not be spoiled much) and it looks AWESOME!!!! Even my brother, who doesn't watch horror films, recognized what movie it is linked to :-) Well the designs are quite iconc, aren't they? :-)

Date: 2012-05-11 05:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lachan.livejournal.com
"meh" ist wohl dein neues Lieblingswort? ;-D

Date: 2012-05-12 05:34 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] journal-ist.livejournal.com
Wir haben jetzt auch einen neue Kaffeemaschine in unserer Kantine. So eine richtig tolle komplizierte Espressomaschine, wo wir extra vorher eine Schulung machen mussten. Bin jetzt sozusagen diplomierte Kaffee-Zapferin... ;-)

Date: 2012-05-12 12:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kahvi-elf.livejournal.com
Nicht schlecht :-) Ist das so ein Vollautomat mit Milchschäumer und allem Drum und Dran?

Date: 2012-05-13 06:20 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] journal-ist.livejournal.com
Ja genau. Mit so Hebeln und Schrauben und separater Kaffeemühle und Stempel zum Kaffeepulver-festdrücken... Wäre in meinen Augen nicht nötig gewesen, aber jetzt wo's da ist, will ich's auch bedienen können, sonst wird's peinlich, wenn ein Kunde mal einen Espresso will.

Date: 2012-05-13 09:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dunkle-feuer.livejournal.com
We have a Senseo at home (and some super complicated coffee maker at work) and while Senseo isn't exactly the cheapest coffee, it just tastes so very well! As for discounter brands - we go mostly for Lidl. Either the coffee crema one or one of the more exotic brands. They are still Lidl, but are marked as Brazilian and, uh, two others. They are quite good.

Your review makes me glad that I skipped 'Kein Pardon' so far, despite living in Düsseldorf. I just have no real interest in seeing it. Of course, I have even less interest in 'Dirty Dancing', so... But I may go and watch IWNNINY when it comes to OB. Not because of the musical, but so that I can see Uli Scherbel on-stage! I saw him during the musical gala in Ludwigsburg this year and he was utterly fantastic! I wouldn't want to go to Stuttgart to see him in IWNNINY, but I may make an exception when it comes to us :-)

I would love to see Rebecca, too, but I'm too disappointed with the casting. Maybe later, once I got over my disappointment or they changed it. Whatever will happen first.

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