When you have to argue Starbucks cup design, you have it too good in life
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So, apparently, Starbucks pushes plain red cups, people get offended because they're not Christmasy enough. ?
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FWP du jour
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THEY'RE TAKiNG THE CHRiST OUT OF EXPENSiVE BOiLiNG BEAN WATER
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I had heard that there was some made up controversy, but wasn't interested enough to find out what it was.
No snowflakes on the cups? Really? If this is about a "war on Christmas", show me where the Bible mentions snow in the nativity.
Other things that aren't a war on Christmas:
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Other things that are
n'ta war on Christmashttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington's_crossing_of_the_Delaware_River
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It took him two days to cross a river? I guess the ferries weren't running due to it being Christmas.
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@ben_lubar said:Planned in partial secrecy
So some people knew but not everybody? So, not in secrecy
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It's right there in black and white
@ben_lubar said:December 25–26, 1776
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It's right there in black and white
Are you familiar with how time and days and night work? Or do you write your own date code?
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In discotime, joke gets you
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No snowflakes on the cups
They might do in the stores in Australia...
In a statement to The Washington Post, [Christian internet evangelist Joshua] Feuerstein writes that, "The cup is symbolic of a larger war against Christianity in this country. The policemen of political correctness have demanded that the silent majority bend its knee to a vocal minority."
How ironic that the silent majority who don't give a fuck what's on the cups have to be lectured at by the vocal minority...
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#RedCupsMatter
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"I decided instead of simply boycotting, well, why don't we start a movement? So when I went in and I asked for my coffee, they asked for my name and I told them, ‘My name is Merry Christmas,'" he explains. "So guess what Starbucks? I tricked you into putting Merry Christmas on your cup."
Yeah, that'll show them. Go you.
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It's right there in black and white
@ben_lubar said:December 25–26, 1776
I believe this should win an award for the most blatant bit of quoting something out of context in order to come up with a completely nonsensical conclusion.
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That's actually kind of funny, though.
If you mean "imagining the situation when some crazy guy gets called out 'Merry Christmas' and starts yelling 'ha, you see, motherfuckers, I've shown you! I made you say 'Merry Christmas!' Ha, ha, ha, suckers!' while the baristas and clients watch with a on their faces"... yep, yes it is.
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Every time I bought something at Starbucks I had them call me Adolf Hitler.
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Adolf Hitler isn't christmas you insenstive prick!
By doing that you PERSONALLY destroyed christmas forever!Filed Under: Trying to understand how these idiots think is pretty hard...
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@FrostCat said:
That's actually kind of funny, though.
If you mean "imagining the situation when some crazy guy gets called out 'Merry Christmas' and starts yelling 'ha, you see, motherfuckers, I've shown you! I made you say 'Merry Christmas!' Ha, ha, ha, suckers!' while the baristas and clients watch with a on their faces"... yep, yes it is.
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This really belongs on the FWP thread but I read a while ago an article by some wymyn whose name was Iceis or something and she got upset because the coffee drones never spelled her name right. Well no kidding, lady.
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The thing everybody on all 3 sides of the debate ("war on Christmas" crazies, the straw men that those people imagine are waging said war, and the "Oh my god who the hell cares" brigade) are all missing is that it's actually a really cool design.
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and she got upset because the coffee drones never spelled her name right.
She should be happy that's all that happened to her.
"A mocha frapuccino with soy milk for... uh... I-sis?"
"FBI! EVERYBODY GET THE FUCK ON THE GROUND!"
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"A mocha frapuccino with soy milk for... uh... I-sis?"
This was a couple-three years ago, so ISIS didn't exist then.
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Well no kidding, lady.
Who names their kid Virginia? And not expect things like this?:
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Complaining about not knowing weird American names in Hong Kong?
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a Starbucks branch in Hong Kong
Yeah. Me, I'd make up a name I could remember I was telling people, and just use that, if I had a name that led to that kind of oopsie. The odds are the coffee drone wasn't trying to embarrass her.
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Adolf Hitler isn't christmas you insenstive prick!By doing that you PERSONALLY destroyed christmas forever!
Can you guess how many times I did that?
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Complaining about not knowing weird American names in Hong Kong?
I was going to say something, but it turns out English is an official language, according to WP.
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It's a former BRITISH colony. Not USA-ian.
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Look, it doesn't matter how many times you do it. It's all about that you did it once.
So obviously that one christmas where I didn't get an Iphone was all your fault because you did something at starbucks!
Filed Under: I actually never got an Iphone ever... so you must have ruined christmas quite a while ago!
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Look, it doesn't matter how many times you do it. It's all about that you did it once.
Mmm hmmm.
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It's a former BRITISH colony. Not USA-ian.
Yeah, where do you think we Americans got the name? From England. Why, one of our oldest states is named after an English queen.
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Look, all I am saying is because you did something at starbucks at least once the following things happened:
Christmas got ruined
Children starved somewhere
Discourse got invented
I made multiple posts and therefor keep my TL3 status for longer
Things happened
I still don't have (or want) an Iphone!Filed Under: It's all logical if you don't think about it!
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Look, all I am saying is because you did something at starbucks at least once the following things happened:
OMG...what did I do?
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The state of Virginia was named after England's Queen Elizabeth I. In the early 1600's, all of North America that was not Spanish or French was then called "Virginia" in honor of "The Virgin Queen," and the earliest English colonial expeditions were sent by the Virginia Company of London
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The job of the person riling people up against certain individuals is not to remember what other people have done. I think it had something to do with christmas, though!
Sadly, Discourse wasn't meant to be scrolled up so I can't ever look at the initial post again.
Filed Under: It's all your fault, though!
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TIL that Maryland wasn't named after Bloody Mary but a different queen:
Maryland's name honors Queen Henrietta Maria (1609-1669), wife of Charles I (1600-1649), King of Great Britain and Ireland, who signed the 1632 charter establishing the Maryland colony.
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Xmas instead of Christmas
I like how that link shows a plaque where the full word would be hard to fit and make look nice.
No snowflakes on the cups?
Don't forget, the old cup also had some sort of flying saucer on it.
They're taking the aliens out of Christmas.
I posted this on facebook, but no one's got the joke yet.
Yeah, that'll show them. Go you.
Lol....
That guy is a twat. And he makes apologetics look terribly uninformed. Why people decide they want to defend the Bible and don't bother reading the original language or its context. Literal interpretation, especially of KJV (which we know was interpreted with the intent of putting suggestive reasoning in it) is just sad...
Who names their kid Virginia? And not expect things like this?:
Someone who's capable of knowing state names.
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@FrostCat said:
Why, at least one of our oldest states is named after an English queen.
Maryland, I assume?
FTFM.
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You neither?
I thought it was rather clever.
Here's a search puzzle. Find Jesus in this imagery of Christmas...
Hint: You can't.
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You neither?
I thought it was rather clever.
It just looks like a Where's Waldo thing. It's not clear that there's a joke or a point or anything. And I'm certainly not going to waste time trying to figure out what you're trying to tell me with that. It's less clear than when you use your words!
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I sort of guessed that's what the picture was aiming for, but it's kind of difficult to confirm that the picture doesn't actually contain Jesus.
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Ah.
Hmm.....
I wonder how I can make that clear without ruining the joke.
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So, apparently, Starbucks pushes plain red cups, people get offended because they're not Christmasy enough. ?
Colbert's response to this whole thing was f-ing GENIUS! (If you haven't seen it, go watch it) I don't really like him all that much, but every now and then he punches just right and the schadenfreude gleegasm goes on for HOURS!
inb4Seriously, I love him SO MUCH for doing that bit.
Filed under: I've got your war on Christmas RIGHT HERE!