tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7155318.post114220247294250304..comments2024-02-26T00:45:24.223-08:00Comments on Petty Annoyances: These Stupid Starbucks Cup QuotesRowsdowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11838121237664869405noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7155318.post-1143003774040686782006-03-21T21:02:00.000-08:002006-03-21T21:02:00.000-08:00After reading your blog, my curiosity was piqued, ...After reading your blog, my curiosity was piqued, so headed over to my local Starbucks and asked for a cup of coffee with a quote on it. A few minutes later they handed me a mocha grande with what was clearly a threat to rape me written across its side. I wasn't sure if this was part of the promotion or not, so I started asking around if anyone else had been threatened with rape by their coffee. Starbucks asked me to leave. I loudly made it clear that I enjoyed the coffee, but not enough to let it fondle and/or penetrate me. Less than a second later, I was hit in the throat with a beanbag bullet. I guess what I'm saying is, Starbucks has too strict a policy on what it considers a public nuisance.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7155318.post-1142380878157191482006-03-14T16:01:00.000-08:002006-03-14T16:01:00.000-08:00Now that I can get behind. Space coffee!Now that I can get behind. Space coffee!Matt Vellahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07835310503643647836noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7155318.post-1142369187593609842006-03-14T12:46:00.000-08:002006-03-14T12:46:00.000-08:00I've just been reading their Social Responsibility...I've just been reading their Social Responsibility pamphlet, and they take great pride in their organically grown coffee. It seems like they're practically going overboard supporting the organic farming community - building health clinics and schools, only doing business with suppliers who meet their ethics standards, etc. My question is merely this: Shouldn't we be working toward a day when no one has to eke out a marginal living by spending all day out in a hot field, picking beans off of plants? Norman's point was that we have this romanticized image of the traditional farmer, but in reality its some of the shittiest work and no one should have to do it. Shouldn't the goal be to have our coffee grown, I don't know, directly in space, where it should be - supervised by intelligent robotic worker bees? Sort of an outer space, super-intelligent coffee hive, where the beans can be naturally sun-roasted? That's what Starbucks should be researching.Rowsdowerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11838121237664869405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7155318.post-1142310138986436312006-03-13T20:22:00.000-08:002006-03-13T20:22:00.000-08:00Of course it's an image thing. I'd be curious to ...Of course it's an image thing. I'd be curious to see what percentage (what's 100% of nothing?) of the beans that Starbucks uses are organically grown.<BR/><BR/>Somewhere in between the tamborine man and the corporate schill lies a person who just wants a decent cup of joe.Matt Vellahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07835310503643647836noreply@blogger.com