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RE: War On Christmas: Starbucks Red Cups Are Emblematic Of The Christian Culture Cleansing Of The West

TrudyML · Guru

Riding sent me one of those! It proudly sits in my livingroom!

Nobody Just Nobody · Rib-it! Rrrib-it!

Apparently Donald Trump thinks it's a war on Christmas. He's asking for a boycott on Starbucks due to the assault on Christianity.

I think the Starbucks CEO is a master mind with publicity. He has never paid for advertising and yet Starbucks is always in the news due to something or other.

cadiver · Senior Member

The cup is red and green, the colors of Christmas. Does it really matter it does no have snowflakes?

Lawyerlady · On the bright side...... Christmas is coming! (Mod)

cadiver wrote:
The cup is red and green, the colors of Christmas. Does it really matter it does no have snowflakes?

I'm still trying to figure out how snowflakes would have made it Christian.

just Czech · Give Me Grand's!

Lawyerlady wrote:
cadiver wrote:
The cup is red and green, the colors of Christmas. Does it really matter it does no have snowflakes?
I'm still trying to figure out how snowflakes would have made it Christian.

I'm still laughing at the whole idea that what Starbuck's does matters. lol

Lawyerlady · On the bright side...... Christmas is coming! (Mod)

just Czech wrote:
Lawyerlady wrote:
cadiver wrote:
The cup is red and green, the colors of Christmas. Does it really matter it does no have snowflakes?
I'm still trying to figure out how snowflakes would have made it Christian.
I'm still laughing at the whole idea that what Starbuck's does matters. lol

True dat.

Personally, I think the choice is more economical. They can use any leftover cups for Valentines Day and 4th of July.

Nobody Just Nobody · Rib-it! Rrrib-it!

They used the old cups way after Christmas anyway. This is a marketing ploy for free publicity.

Lawyerlady · On the bright side...... Christmas is coming! (Mod)

Nobody Just Nobody wrote:
Apparently Donald Trump thinks it's a war on Christmas. He's asking for a boycott on Starbucks due to the assault on Christianity.

I think the Starbucks CEO is a master mind with publicity. He has never paid for advertising and yet Starbucks is always in the news due to something or other.

Oh, I don't think this was masterminded at all. I think they had a few designs to look at, didn't particularly like any of them, and decided, "Hey, I don't like these designs, can we just make them red? Keep it simple."

flan327 · Itty bitty's Grammy

Nobody Just Nobody wrote:
Apparently Donald Trump thinks it's a war on Christmas. He's asking for a boycott on Starbucks due to the assault on Christianity.

I think the Starbucks CEO is a master mind with publicity. He has never paid for advertising and yet Starbucks is always in the news due to something or other.

I saw that!

He needs a muzzle!!!

flan

Nobody Just Nobody · Rib-it! Rrrib-it!

LOL It's a marketing ploy. He's been through gun control, gay marriage, anti smoking, breast feeding, and many other topics. He comes out and announces his new "policy" and then the outrage begins. Once the publicity dies down he announces that he is walking back his policies. He is a publicity ho and every single thing he does is calculated for publicity. Two days after the cups came out and the outrage started he said they would be reissuing the old cups.

Lawyerlady · On the bright side...... Christmas is coming! (Mod)

Nobody Just Nobody wrote:
LOL It's a marketing ploy. He's been through gun control, gay marriage, anti smoking, breast feeding, and many other topics. He comes out and announces his new "policy" and then the outrage begins. Once the publicity dies down he announces that he is walking back his policies. He is a publicity ho and every single thing he does is calculated for publicity. Two days after the cups came out and the outrage started he said they would be reissuing the old cups.

Nah. I can't give him that much credit. He still made the cups red. If he was going anti-Christmas, he just wouldn't have changed them.

Lawyerlady · On the bright side...... Christmas is coming! (Mod)

Is he re-issuing the Christian snowflakes or the Christian reindeer?

Ohfour · Hooker

Lawyerlady wrote:
Is he re-issuing the Christian snowflakes or the Christian reindeer?

HAHAHAHAHA!!!!! I think it's the Christian Ice Skates...

cadiver · Senior Member

Isn't the Starbucks logo already Satanic? I thought I heard some theory out there.

Nobody Just Nobody · Rib-it! Rrrib-it!

Many years ago he came out against smoking. Made a big deal about making all his stores smoke free. He even went as far as to say no one would be allowed to smoke within 25 feet of his stores. When questioned about how he would enforce this he said, "My views are that we follow the local rules on non smoking. I would never put one of my baristas in the position to have to confront a smoker." So, back track!

He came out adamantly against guns. Very anti gun. He made it clear he didn't welcome any guns in his establishment. When called on the carpet as to how he was going to enforce this he said, "I plan on following the local laws and rules as to gun control." Again, I can't control it so I will just shrink back to my original nothingness.

Then gay marriage. He stood firm that he believed in gay marriage. Blah blah blah. When asked how he would support gay marriage he said, "I support the individual's right to happiness whoever they are whether they are straight or gay. I don't discriminate. I serve coffee to everyone." Okay, yeah, that's REALLY taking a tough stand there. I just want to sell coffee. That's about the most honest thing he's ever said.

Then there was the breast feeding issue. Some woman was breast feeding and a patron asked the barista to ask her to cover up. He came out and said, "Breast feeding is the most natural thing in the world. If you come to my shop and are breast feeding we will give you a free cup of coffee." When people pointed out that most nursing mothers do not consume tons of coffee he back tracked saying that he will follow the local laws as to what is allowed.

And let's not forget his attempt to make "racial conversation". He encouraged all his patrons to discuss racial relations with his baristas. He informed us all that if you did speak to them they would candidly discuss racial relations with you. This hit the news like a hurricane in July. Every Starbucks had news reporters in it interviewing both baristas and patrons. They all said, "Look, I just come here to get my coffee and leave. That's it." When confronted with this the CEO replied that maybe this was not the venue for solving racial relations. You think?

And these are just the topics I can remember. Trust me, there were more. This guy plays the media like a finely tuned violin. And for FREE! He knows what he is doing.

Lawyerlady · On the bright side...... Christmas is coming! (Mod)

cadiver wrote:
Isn't the Starbucks logo already Satanic? I thought I heard some theory out there.

It's not Satanic. It's a siren.

The Symbol Is Used For:

A classy-looking figure to put on the coffee chain's sign and cups.

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We always thought it was Heather Graham holding up two striped bass.

But the Symbol Actually Means:

Obsession, addiction and death.

If you're familiar with the Starbucks logo, it's probably because, statistically, you are inside a Starbucks right now. If you're not familiar with Starbucks, that's because you're a hypothetical person created just so we could give this paragraph a satisfying structure.

Either way, you may not have realized that the woman in their green label with the perky breasts and weird twin-fishtail deal going on is a siren from Greek mythology.

Via Wikimedia Commons
Her crotch has three handlebar mustaches, which means she may have Roosevelt blood.

According to the Starbucks blog, she was chosen as the logo because Starbucks was looking for a nautical theme to capture the spirit of Seattle. Remember that this was back in 1971, when Seattle was known for sailing and seaports instead of grunge rock, rain and hipsters.

In mythology, sirens are consistently seen as a personification of the ocean -- and that's not a good thing. They're brutal sociopaths who murder you by being attractive. According to scholars, they would sing an "irresistibly sweet" song that "lapped both body and soul in[to] a fatal lethargy." Sailors who crossed paths with a siren would become so obsessed that they would crash into the rocks and die.

Via Wikipedia
Though we like to think they were actually trying to run them over because the sirens played nothing but old Zeppelin covers.

Much in the same way that countless people have been seduced by the lure of overpriced coffee, buying cup after cup until they finally succumb, buying an Apple laptop and spending the rest of their lives at one of those tiny tables, joining the other broken victims.

Lady Gaga Snerd · Guru

Red is festive so what is the problem? However i believe customers would enjoy more fun and festive cups.

Lexxy · My dog name is Sasha, too!

I care more about what is in my cup than what is on the outside. Besides everyone slides the cardboard sleeve over their cup anyway.

TrudyML · Guru

I would enjoy my couch and a beer about now.

Ohfour · Hooker

Lexxy wrote:
I care more about what is in my cup than what is on the outside. Besides everyone slides the cardboard sleeve over their cup anyway.

I agree. I wouldn't even notice...

Lady Gaga Snerd · Guru

Well part of a coffee house is the experience they create. But they are very successful so they must know what they are doing. I would think snomen and ornaments and winter scenes would be more fun.

weltschmerz · Guru

Ohfour wrote:
Lawyerlady wrote:
Is he re-issuing the Christian snowflakes or the Christian reindeer?
HAHAHAHAHA!!!!! I think it's the Christian Ice Skates...

The Christian dog on a Christian toboggan.

Ohfour · Hooker

weltschmerz wrote:
Ohfour wrote:
Lawyerlady wrote:
Is he re-issuing the Christian snowflakes or the Christian reindeer?
HAHAHAHAHA!!!!! I think it's the Christian Ice Skates...
The Christian dog on a Christian toboggan.

LOL! That's the one!!!