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I've barely drunk my overpriced coffee.
In the fashionably overpriced Coffee Mania, women in furs sip green tea through surgically enhanced lips and keep their heavily mascara'd eyes peeled for a wealthy "sponsor".
The city's main boulevards are lined with English-language signs; boutiques sell everything from Armani to gem-encrusted Vertu cellphones, and cafes serve the latest in overpriced coffee concoctions.
A culture in which people are more willing to pay for overpriced coffee than a newspaper ensured the downfall of the Independent papers after three decades in print, a senior executive has said.
Students, "probably not even born when they were scraping the body parts off the street", drink overpriced coffee and go to shiny nightclubs; Sinn Féin politicians, their teeth whitened for the cameras, sit in Stormont.
When this millennial couple are not drinking overpriced coffee, they drape themselves across the interior of a helicopter (rented), ride in a Lamborghini (borrowed), and strut about, chins raised, in pinstripe suits (holding something so risibly quaint that it has come back in vogue: hardcover books).
Second – for the time that it takes to drink an overpriced coffee – during the course of that day, everyone would have to find a quiet place, – a park, a garden, a balcony – close their eyes and listen to the sounds of the birds, the wind in the trees, or water.
Every Starbucks: overpriced coffee and underappreciated newspaper.
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