"you know, you don't have to buy the paper, you can just buy a coffee and McDonalds and read their copy of the paper" - kiong

the things is: no. simply, it smells funny, it isn't a plesant place, it would we cheaper to just buy the paper, and i would not drink their coffee.

i can only anticipate the rebuttal of noor, and i'm sure they make fine coffee and the dodgy smell is just psycosomatic, but still, i don't feel comfortable there.