The annual roll up the rim to lose thread - Page 9

Razor · #**161** Posted **Mar 7, 2012, 2:21 AM**

free donut tonight, so 1 coffee and 1 donut for roughly 30 tries.

north 42 · #**162** Posted **Mar 7, 2012, 5:18 PM**

Absolutely nothing yet on about 5 coffee's, which is usual.

MolsonExport · #**163** Posted **Mar 7, 2012, 5:48 PM**

They sell coffee at Tim Hortons?

Tony · #**164** Posted **Mar 7, 2012, 7:10 PM**

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Originally Posted by isaidso

And people go to Starbucks out of some misguided sense of value. It's shitty coffee packaged as something high end. Grande? Really? I guess good marketing can pull the wool over most people's eyes. Chain store coffee barely resembles proper coffee.

Actually no. People don't go there for "value", it's simply for a superior product.

If you actually knew anything about coffee beans and the different grades and regions they come from as well as the roasting process and as a result... coffee... you wouldn't say stuff like that.

Coffee is like wine with many different characteristics. The higher-end stores (incl. the chains) hire supertasters to help judge the products they sell. I highly doubt Tim Horton's could be bothered to do so.

Now if you prefer the taste of Tim Horton's lower grade beans.. go for it.

digitboy · #**165** Posted **Mar 7, 2012, 7:48 PM**

Just won my first coffee

1 for 9 !

Wharn · #**166** Posted **Mar 8, 2012, 1:58 AM**

At 4 for 13 now.

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Originally Posted by haljackey

Happened to my friend today:

Lucky bastard!

Last year my neighbour won the barbeque. It's still sitting in his backyard right now, staring me in the face, reminding my of my failure to win anything substantial in this contest.

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Originally Posted by MolsonExport

only the former flagship is back. nothing has changed whatsoever, otherwise.

Might have just been Free Press misreporting as usual. I remember reading an article a while back that said they all closed, so I just didn't bother going. I'll have to check it out again.

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Originally Posted by Tony

Coffee is like wine with many different characteristics. The higher-end stores (incl. the chains) hire supertasters to help judge the products they sell. I highly doubt Tim Horton's could be bothered to do so.

If coffee was like wine, Tim Hortons would be the cheap $9.99 screwtops, and Starbucks would be the fine Italian brandy left to boil for a few weeks.

vid · #**167** Posted **Mar 8, 2012, 2:26 AM**

So far in this contest I have saved about $25 by not buying coffee from Tim Hortons. By the end of the contest I should have about $105. Not bad for someone who didn't roll up any rims at all!

Considering I don't even drink coffee, this is a pretty sweet deal.

The Jabroni · #**168** Posted **Mar 8, 2012, 3:43 AM**

1/13

le calmar · #**169** Posted **Mar 8, 2012, 11:24 PM**

0 for 7, and the 2 Tim's near my home are closed for renovations. Screw them bastards.

Calgarian · #**170** Posted **Mar 9, 2012, 12:31 AM**

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Originally Posted by vid

So far in this contest I have saved about $25 by not buying coffee from Tim Hortons. By the end of the contest I should have about $105. Not bad for someone who didn't roll up any rims at all!

Considering I don't even drink coffee, this is a pretty sweet deal.

haha, I like your style.

vid · #**171** Posted **Mar 9, 2012, 1:27 AM**

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Originally Posted by Calgarian

haha, I like your style.

I got it from a job training programme through March of Dimes. Before they even teach you tips on how to look for work, they teach you how to manage the money you'll have after you find it. The guy running the programme added up the money he and his wife spent on Tim Hortons every day on their way to work. Over $2,000 a year. They paid more for coffee every month than they did for a lot of their bills.

And that is just two customers. Multiply that by the 10 million or so Canadians who go to Tim Hortons regularly.

haljackey · #**172** Posted **Mar 9, 2012, 4:33 AM**

4/8... still got that 50% win rate!

MolsonExport · #**173** Posted **Mar 9, 2012, 2:30 PM**

4/22. Beating the odds. Just barely.

vid · #**174** Posted **Mar 10, 2012, 10:19 PM**

0/1, but there was a wonderful swig of thick chocolate syrup at the bottom. Also had a walnut crunch because those are the bomb.

I think the top prize is a trip to the Caribbean, and the second is an Acer tablet PC. Obviously, Robin's Donuts doesn't have the resources that Tim Hortons does.

Lily white skin.

The Jabroni · #**175** Posted **Mar 14, 2012, 9:23 PM**

3/16

Now the odds are starting to align, but only at the moment.

Free donut btw.

haljackey · #**176** Posted **Mar 15, 2012, 11:29 PM**

5/10

Insane, but I'm still keeping my 50% win rate.

Wharn · #**177** Posted **Mar 16, 2012, 2:00 AM**

4 out of 16.

Haven't won a single cup in a few weeks now.

MolsonExport · #**178** Posted **Mar 16, 2012, 12:32 PM**

6/27. 5 coughees and one d'ohnut.

vid · #**179** Posted **Mar 16, 2012, 10:52 PM**

Still 0 for 1. I attribute this largely to the lack of fucks I give.

Anyone else notice how this oddly coincides with Lent? Obviously, Satan is behind Tim Hortons, trying to lure good, God-is-Love fearing Christians from their holy deeds!!

yaletown_fella · #**180** Posted **Mar 17, 2012, 4:51 PM**

1/11 yet another loss

i thought buying larger cups would increase chances