Holy Starbucks!
Just got back from my daily Starbucks run. What a wonderful time it is in history. Through the one-stop comfort of the drive-thru window, I can get a delicious cup of coffee, a package of dark chocolate graham cookies and the Sunday New York Times. If this incredible bounty of coffee, chocolate and current events was not enough - they also provide, free of charge, a daily dose of wisdom. For on my coffee cup was a lttle philosophical treatise called "The Way I See It #22":
Everywhere, unthinking mobs of "independent thinkers" wield tired clichés like cudgels, pummeling those who dare question “enlightened” dogma. If “violence never solved anything,” cops wouldn’t have guns and slaves may never have been freed. If it’s better that 10 guilty men go free to spare one innocent, why not free 100 or 1,000,000? Clichés begin arguments, they don’t settle them.
-Jonah Goldberg
Editor-at-large of National Review Online.
What new wonder is this? Free philosophy on every cup of fresh brew. Truly we are all doubly blessed!
For on my coffee cup was a lttle philosophical treatise called "The Way I See It #22":
Everywhere, unthinking mobs of "independent thinkers" wield tired clichés like cudgels, pummeling those who dare question “enlightened” dogma. If “violence never solved anything,” cops wouldn’t have guns and slaves may never have been freed. If it’s better that 10 guilty men go free to spare one innocent, why not free 100 or 1,000,000? Clichés begin arguments, they don’t settle them.
-Jonah Goldberg
Editor-at-large of National Review Online.
Starbucks endorsing state violence? I wish I were surprised at this...
http://www.starbucksunion.org/
Achtung 45
07-08-2005, 23:59
Just like the Bible verses on the bottom of In-n-Out burgur cups. Or the "Jesus Christ is the universe's only unlimited resource" on archery products by Resources Unlimited or whatever.
Katetopiaa
08-08-2005, 03:21
You have a drivethru Starbucks? Why don't I have a drivethru Starbucks!? It is a great injustice that I have to get out of the car and walk into the Starbucks, STAND on the line then STAND and wait. :headbang:
Although I do like that I can sit in there for about 3 hours and no one bitches at me to leave. ;)
Neo Kervoskia
08-08-2005, 03:22
Holy Starbucks!
Holy Fuck!
When did they start doing that?
The Nazz
08-08-2005, 03:24
Just got back from my daily Starbucks run. What a wonderful time it is in history. Through the one-stop comfort of the drive-thru window, I can get a delicious cup of coffee, a package of dark chocolate graham cookies and the Sunday New York Times. If this incredible bounty of coffee, chocolate and current events was not enough - they also provide, free of charge, a daily dose of wisdom. For on my coffee cup was a lttle philosophical treatise called "The Way I See It #22":
Everywhere, unthinking mobs of "independent thinkers" wield tired clichés like cudgels, pummeling those who dare question “enlightened” dogma. If “violence never solved anything,” cops wouldn’t have guns and slaves may never have been freed. If it’s better that 10 guilty men go free to spare one innocent, why not free 100 or 1,000,000? Clichés begin arguments, they don’t settle them.
-Jonah Goldberg
Editor-at-large of National Review Online.
What new wonder is this? Free philosophy on every cup of fresh brew. Truly we are all doubly blessed!Starbucks is quoting Jonah Goldberg? Did Number Two really take over Starbucks after all? :D
Stinky Head Cheese
08-08-2005, 03:28
Just got back from my daily Starbucks run. What a wonderful time it is in history. Through the one-stop comfort of the drive-thru window, I can get a delicious cup of coffee, a package of dark chocolate graham cookies and the Sunday New York Times.
You know, if you were out of toilet paper, you didn't have to by that rag, they have some cheap generic Shitpaper at Wal-Mart. Besides, the times leaves newsprint on your ass.
You have a drivethru Starbucks? Why don't I have a drivethru Starbucks!? It is a great injustice that I have to get out of the car and walk into the Starbucks, STAND on the line then STAND and wait. :headbang:
Although I do like that I can sit in there for about 3 hours and no one bitches at me to leave. ;)
Where do you live???? Of course there's drive-thru. Are you telling me you have to get out of the car??? That is barbaric!!!
Lord-General Drache
08-08-2005, 04:16
Where do you live???? Of course there's drive-thru. Are you telling me you have to get out of the car??? That is barbaric!!!
Actually, I've never seen a Starbuck's drive through, and there are a large number of them where I live.
Society's downfall will have yet another mark, this one being "advice" and such on coffee cups.*nods*
Santa Barbara
08-08-2005, 04:19
I've never met anyone who regularly goes to and drinks Starbucks who also has a soul, but that's just me.
Society's downfall will have yet another mark, this one being "advice" and such on coffee cups.*nods*
Perhaps that would be a more convincing argument if we hadn't been inscribing things on drinking vessels for at least three millenia without any directly-attributable untoward effects coming about as a result.
Lord-General Drache
08-08-2005, 04:21
Perhaps that would be a more convincing argument if we hadn't been inscribing things on drinking vessels for at least three millenia without any directly-attributable untoward effects coming about as a result.
Shh..minor details. The Priests have been foretelling the upcoming apocalypse for the last 14,000 years and they've only been wrong 18 times before!
Shh..minor details. The Priests have been foretelling the upcoming apocalypse for the last 14,000 years and they've only been wrong 18 times before!
Nah: the priests weren't wrong, it was just made unclear exactly when it was about to come due to errors made by the dudes that made the calendars, or so a priest told me.
Lord-General Drache
08-08-2005, 04:26
Nah: the priests weren't wrong, it was just made unclear exactly when it was about to come due to errors made by the dudes that made the calendars, or so a priest told me.
Ahh, makes more sense now. Then it's not their fault. But really, I've never placed much faith in mass-produced advice of any kind placed on commercial products such as cups and the like.
I've never met anyone who regularly goes to and drinks Starbucks who also has a soul, but that's just me.
That's why we drink the coffee. To fill up the empty place where our souls used to be.
Muffins are good for that, too.
OHidunno
08-08-2005, 04:28
Where do you live???? Of course there's drive-thru. Are you telling me you have to get out of the car??? That is barbaric!!!
We have tons of starbucks'... WE DONT HAVE DRIVE THROUGHS.
Not like I'd need it though, I mean, I don't drive.
Since when do you need 3 Starbucks' within walking distance of each other? It's insane.
I hear that somewhere in the states there's a Starbucks across the street from another Starbucks.
Creepy.
The Nazz
08-08-2005, 04:33
We have tons of starbucks'... WE DONT HAVE DRIVE THROUGHS.
Not like I'd need it though, I mean, I don't drive.
Since when do you need 3 Starbucks' within walking distance of each other? It's insane.
I hear that somewhere in the states there's a Starbucks across the street from another Starbucks.
Creepy.Don't know about that but in San Francisco there are more Starbucks than McDonalds and Burger King combined. And more cannabis clubs than Starbucks. :D