Starbucks Red Holiday Cup Controversy Brews

[Skylar]

The real controversy is calling that shit coffee.

Ordinarily I'd agree with you. But in the last few years they brought in the Clover machines.

Single cup brewed. Perfectly hot. So fresh the coffee bean oil floats on the top. And only $3.00 for a grande.

 

[Iceweasel]

The real controversy is calling that shit coffee.

Ordinarily I'd agree with you. But in the last few years they brought in the Clover machines.

Single cup brewed. Perfectly hot. So fresh the coffee bean oil floats on the top. And only $3.00 for a grande.

That's exactly my point. They char their beans, that's why there's so much oil. People think burnt beans are gormet.

 

[Skylar]

The real controversy is calling that shit coffee.

Ordinarily I'd agree with you. But in the last few years they brought in the Clover machines.

Single cup brewed. Perfectly hot. So fresh the coffee bean oil floats on the top. And only $3.00 for a grande.

That's exactly my point. They char their beans, that's why there's so much oil. People think burnt beans are gormet.

Try a cup of the clover brewed. You'll see oil on pretty much any roast....as each cup is ground and brewed just for you. They're really quite good.

 

[Pogo]

If there is a war on Christmas, it is not being waged by Starbucks or by stores who want their employees to say "Happy Holidays".

It is being waged by pseudo-christians who think the design on a cardboard coffee cup is worth fighting over, but an abused child is not.

People all across the nation are living on the streets. They are fighting drug addictions. Children are spending their entire childhood in foster homes. Senior citizens are in retirement homes praying for a visitor. Women are staying in abusive situations because they think they have no choice. Children are going to bed hungry. You want to put Christ back into Christmas? Help someone. Spend some time with someone who needs to talk. Make your coffee at home and donate the difference between what it costs and what Starbucks charges. But spare us this faux-victim routine.

You think Jesus gives a rats ass about there not being snowflakes on an overpriced luxury drink cup is a problem?? Or do you think he cares about how we treat each other?



Oh, and if you think a solution to the problem is to spend money at Starbucks and "trick" the minimum wage counter clerk into saying "Merry Christmas", you are not only part of the problem, you are supporting your enemy and acting like a 12 year old.

Nobody's making a big deal about Starbucks holiday cup designs and the conversation has played out very colloquial here. Furthermore, commentary on Starbucks need not be at the expense of caring about abused kids; another absurd claim. And since statistically, conservatives give more to charity than Leftists, holiday giving doesn't seem to suffer neglect from us just because we're having a chat about Starbucks. How you connect the two in your mind is an unfathomable mystery, but such is the futility of puzzling out the highly random and arbitrary thought processes of crazy people who post unintelligible nonsense like you do.

statistically, conservatives give more to charity than Leftists

That's incorrect.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/1100129/who-gives.pdf

What the MIT researchers did find, however, was that conservatives give more to religious organizations, such as their own churches, and liberals more to secular recipients. Conservatives may give more overall, MIT says, but that's because they tend to be richer, so they have more money to give and get a larger tax benefit from giving it. (One of the things that makes social scientists skeptical of the benchmark survey Brooks used, in fact, is that it somehow concluded that liberals are richer than conservatives.)

The degree of religious contribution is important, because a 2007 study by Indiana University found that only 10% to 25% of church donations end up being spent on social welfare purposes, of which assistance to the poor is only a subset. In other words, if you think of "giving" as "giving to the poor," a lot of the money donated by conservatives may be missing the target.

Who's more charitable -- conservatives or liberals?

Your link says conservatives give more, you poor, dumb son of a *****.

Really.
Where does it say that?

 

[idb]

If there is a war on Christmas, it is not being waged by Starbucks or by stores who want their employees to say "Happy Holidays".

It is being waged by pseudo-christians who think the design on a cardboard coffee cup is worth fighting over, but an abused child is not.

People all across the nation are living on the streets. They are fighting drug addictions. Children are spending their entire childhood in foster homes. Senior citizens are in retirement homes praying for a visitor. Women are staying in abusive situations because they think they have no choice. Children are going to bed hungry. You want to put Christ back into Christmas? Help someone. Spend some time with someone who needs to talk. Make your coffee at home and donate the difference between what it costs and what Starbucks charges. But spare us this faux-victim routine.

You think Jesus gives a rats ass about there not being snowflakes on an overpriced luxury drink cup is a problem?? Or do you think he cares about how we treat each other?



Oh, and if you think a solution to the problem is to spend money at Starbucks and "trick" the minimum wage counter clerk into saying "Merry Christmas", you are not only part of the problem, you are supporting your enemy and acting like a 12 year old.

Nobody's making a big deal about Starbucks holiday cup designs and the conversation has played out very colloquial here. Furthermore, commentary on Starbucks need not be at the expense of caring about abused kids; another absurd claim. And since statistically, conservatives give more to charity than Leftists, holiday giving doesn't seem to suffer neglect from us just because we're having a chat about Starbucks. How you connect the two in your mind is an unfathomable mystery, but such is the futility of puzzling out the highly random and arbitrary thought processes of crazy people who post unintelligible nonsense like you do.

statistically, conservatives give more to charity than Leftists

That's incorrect.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/1100129/who-gives.pdf

What the MIT researchers did find, however, was that conservatives give more to religious organizations, such as their own churches, and liberals more to secular recipients. Conservatives may give more overall, MIT says, but that's because they tend to be richer, so they have more money to give and get a larger tax benefit from giving it. (One of the things that makes social scientists skeptical of the benchmark survey Brooks used, in fact, is that it somehow concluded that liberals are richer than conservatives.)

The degree of religious contribution is important, because a 2007 study by Indiana University found that only 10% to 25% of church donations end up being spent on social welfare purposes, of which assistance to the poor is only a subset. In other words, if you think of "giving" as "giving to the poor," a lot of the money donated by conservatives may be missing the target.

Who's more charitable -- conservatives or liberals?

Your link says conservatives give more, you poor, dumb son of a *****.

Read harder.

 

[Ravi]

Red is Satan's color. Looks like Starbucks worships the devil!

Satan doesn't have a color.

Sure he does:

an enormous red dragon with seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on its heads.

Imagery. Your eschatology skills suck.

Bullshit. Lying is a sin, dummy.

 

[Ravi]

I personally don't care. Starbucks had the right to not sell anything Christmas the same way a baker has a right to not make *** cakes.

Their loss. Starbucks is usually on my Christmas shopping list, but if they're going to join the War on Christmas, I'll cross them off the list.

What Starbucks does doesn't bother me anymore than when someone wishes me a Merry Christmas

Let people enjoy their holidays in the manner in which they wish.

I just wish they'd wait until after Halloween to start the whole shebang...preferably after Thanksgiving.

Are you kidding me? I love going into Walgreens the week before Halloween when one aisle is devoted to goblins, witches, and Devils and the next to tinsel, stockings, and wrapping paper. I always hope to catch baby Jesus and Satan battling it out on the candy aisle.

 

[AvgGuyIA]

Take a shit in a red cup, add hot water, stir. Starbucks coffee.

 

[Ravi]

Starbucks is a private company and can **** their customers over all they want. The market will respond accordingly

So the red cup is actually a representation of anal sex gone wrong?

 

[mdk]

Take a shit in a red cup, add hot water, stir. Starbucks coffee.

It isn't that bad but isn't very good either. Whole bean Eight O'Clock Hazelnut Coffee is the 'go-to' coffee in this household.

 

[Skylar]

Take a shit in a red cup, add hot water, stir. Starbucks coffee.

It isn't that bad but isn't very good either. Whole bean Eight O'Clock Hazelnut Coffee is the 'go-to' coffee in this household.

I'll head to a local starbucks for a ceramic mug of clover brewed Guatemala Antigua (tall in a venti mug) when I'm working on the concepts drawings for a new client. The coffee is decent, the location comfortable, and the balance of being around people without having to engage in work related questions is good for creativity.

 

[Moonglow]

It's just a ******* cup...without two girls....

 

[Skylar]

It's just a ******* cup...

Humor them. Its a 'war'.

 

[saintmichaeldefendthem]

I personally don't care. Starbucks had the right to not sell anything Christmas the same way a baker has a right to not make *** cakes.

Their loss. Starbucks is usually on my Christmas shopping list, but if they're going to join the War on Christmas, I'll cross them off the list.

What Starbucks does doesn't bother me anymore than when someone wishes me a Merry Christmas

Let people enjoy their holidays in the manner in which they wish.

I just wish they'd wait until after Halloween to start the whole shebang...preferably after Thanksgiving.

Are you kidding me? I love going into Walgreens the week before Halloween when one aisle is devoted to goblins, witches, and Devils and the next to tinsel, stockings, and wrapping paper. I always hope to catch baby Jesus and Satan battling it out on the candy aisle.

I like going the day after when the candy is 50% off.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Starbucks is a private company and can **** their customers over all they want. The market will respond accordingly

So the red cup is actually a representation of anal sex gone wrong?

D4E zat ewe?

 

[mdk]

Take a shit in a red cup, add hot water, stir. Starbucks coffee.

It isn't that bad but isn't very good either. Whole bean Eight O'Clock Hazelnut Coffee is the 'go-to' coffee in this household.

I'll head to a local starbucks for a ceramic mug of clover brewed Guatemala Antigua (tall in a venti mug) when I'm working on the concepts drawings for a new client. The coffee is decent, the location comfortable, and the balance of being around people without having to engage in work related questions is good for creativity.

I am too much of a miser to pay the prices for their coffee. I go to the track when I need the balance of being around people without having to engage in work related questions. Nobody bothers you in the middle of a run. lol

 

[Moonglow]

I don't drink coffee.....something the Army broke me of...

 

[Skylar]

Take a shit in a red cup, add hot water, stir. Starbucks coffee.

It isn't that bad but isn't very good either. Whole bean Eight O'Clock Hazelnut Coffee is the 'go-to' coffee in this household.

I'll head to a local starbucks for a ceramic mug of clover brewed Guatemala Antigua (tall in a venti mug) when I'm working on the concepts drawings for a new client. The coffee is decent, the location comfortable, and the balance of being around people without having to engage in work related questions is good for creativity.

I am too much of a miser to pay the prices for their coffee. I go to the track when I need the balance of being around people without having to engage in work related questions. Nobody bothers you in the middle of a run. lol

True that! But it is slightly harder to draw.

 

[AvgGuyIA]

Take a shit in a red cup, add hot water, stir. Starbucks coffee.

It isn't that bad but isn't very good either. Whole bean Eight O'Clock Hazelnut Coffee is the 'go-to' coffee in this household.

Folger's Classic Coffee for me...even the crystals.

 

[Ringel05]

Yeah that goes to the people who get offended when I say merry Christmas.

Nobody is offended by "merry christmas".

Its the fake christians who are offended by almost everything and believe they have the right to control everyone else.

It's the thin skinned everyone from every background, political and religious/non-religious persuasion that think they have the right to control everyone...........