{"id":249326,"date":"2025-10-30T04:13:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T04:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/249326\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T04:13:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T04:13:20","slug":"steve-coogans-alan-partridge-learns-that-ordering-coffee-in-2025-isnt-as-social-as-it-was-in-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/249326\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Coogan&#8217;s Alan Partridge Learns That Ordering Coffee in 2025 Isn&#8217;t as Social as It Was in the Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>The rather tactless, self-isolating television personality <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b00hxqcx\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener nofollow\">Alan Partridge<\/a>, played famously by the inimitable <a href=\"https:\/\/laughingsquid.com\/?s=Steve+Coogan\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener nofollow\">Steve Coogan<\/a> since 1991, decided that he wanted some human interaction, so he went to a coffee shop in the hopes of having a conversation. <\/p>\n<p>In the atomised world of isolated living, the coffee shop is one of the last bastions of human interaction.And not even a grumpy mums-netter, who leaves the door open because she\u2019s got a pram and that means that she can\u2019t close doors, can spoil the cool vibes.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, ordering coffee did not provide him with the experience for which he\u2019d hoped, as the barista pointed him directly to a touchscreen to place his order.<\/p>\n<p>Alan Partridge: Can I have an Americano, please?<\/p>\n<p>Barista: You order it on the touchscreen.<\/p>\n<p>Alan Partridge: But you\u2019re here.<\/p>\n<p>Barista: I know, but you do it on the touchscreen.<\/p>\n<p>Alan Partridge: Okay, why?<\/p>\n<p>Barista: Err, that\u2019s where you do it.<\/p>\n<p>Alan Partridge: Right and what happens then?<\/p>\n<p>Barista: The order goes to the barista.<\/p>\n<p>Alan Partridge: Who\u2019s that?<\/p>\n<p>This is a clip from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/m002hcbk\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener nofollow\">How Are You? It\u2019s Alan (Partridge)<\/a>, which marks the character\u2019s return to television since 2021, where he finds himself unemployed and seeking answers through attending to the mental health of himself and others.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Steve Coogan on Alan Partridge<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated Posts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The rather tactless, self-isolating television personality Alan Partridge, played famously by the inimitable Steve Coogan since 1991, decided&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[49,48,84,393,394],"class_list":{"0":"post-249326","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-mental-health","12":"tag-mentalhealth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}