No one gets offended if all the colors are used.

[TexasTowelie]

Photo from the Texas Lone Star Bar in Wakefield, Texas:

[Arkansas Granny]

1. Lol! That'll learn 'em.

[marble falls]

2. Now if the coffee only didn't cost an arm and a leg......

[longship]

3. Then there's the fact that it tastes utterly nasty.

So they have that going for them as well.

[marble falls]

4. I wouldn't know: it costs an arm and a leg.

[JimDandy]

10. If you're a Veteran, you can get a free large coffee today

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from Starbucks.

[marble falls]

12. I did my hitch in the Navy, my wife did 28 years with CIA including four years at Udorn ...

and went into Laos ('70-'74). She has better war stories than I do and she has to pay for hers.

Nah. I've had Starbucks and all I felt about it was I was way overcharged.

[JimDandy]

15. Army here. My father was the Vietnam era Vet, though,

and also part of the illicitly waged Laos/Cambodia/Thailand conflict. How interesting about your wife. Stories of women in that conflict are not often heard.

[marble falls]

22. It kinda gets me, I spent my time on a submarine, she was actually very close to the shit.....

there were VC satchel bombers captured and killed at Udorn, and she actually got to know Gen Vang, the leader of the free Lao forces. Like I said. her war stories are better than mine.

I get the free coffee and meals and all the thanks for serving and she gets bupkis. I did get our church to call her to stand up when we vets get recognized.

I did get a vets discount when I bought my first legal pot in Oregon. That was cool.

[JimDandy]

23. Haha! A pot discount for vets!

My dad trained their forces in engineering. Not very fair about your wife alright.

[marble falls]

24. You coulda knocked me over with a stick. Which I promptly lit and smoked most rickytic. Legally.

[TexasBushwhacker]

16. But don't forget, large is small

You'd think they'd give them any damn size they wanted.

[JimDandy]

19. Didn't know that.

I don't drink coffee or frequent Starbucks.

I checked around and what they are offering Vets is their 12 oz 'Tall' coffee. In comparison, McDonald's 'Large' is 16 oz, so yes, that size thing is not equivalent.

[TexasBushwhacker]

21. "Tall" used to be their smallest

But then they added "Short" for certain hot drinks. Then there's Grande (16 oz), Venti (24 oz) and Trenta (31 oz - only for cold drinks). Cuz if you're going to pay that much for a cup of Joe, it better have a fancy name.

[joshdawg]

6. Yep.

Over-roasted and definitely over-priced.

It would seem that the folks who do drink the coffee also have all of the foo-foo crap added to it. Cream, sugar, vanilla, caramel, etc. ad nauseum. Yuk!

[csziggy]

26. Starbucks coffee is some of the worst I have ever had

The only coffee that I've ever had that was even nastier was at an IHOP in a town that used too much chlorine in their water - and IHOP was too cheap to filter their coffee.

Last month I stayed at a very upscale hotel for a seminar. The only complaint I had about the entire place was that they only coffee available in the hotel was Starbucks. My comment to the clerk as I checked out was that I would not stay at another Sheraton if Starbucks was the only option. If I'd had time to get out of the hotel to get another variety of coffee I would have but that was not possible so for a week all I had for caffeine was Starbucks sludge.

[retrowire]

5. /begin false christian outrage

ITS NOT ABOUT THE DAG BLASTED COLORZZ ITS ABOUT JESUSSS!!!

I NEED TO SEE CHRIST ON A CRUCIFIX ON MY CUP AND WANT TO SEE HIS BLOOD DRAIN UPWARDS INTO MY COFFEE SO I CAN FEEL ONE WITH THE FREAKING LORD.

YOURE ALL IGNORANT AND YOURE GOING TO HELL. BLARGHH BLARGH VLARGGGH!!!!

/END false christian outrage

I'm absolutely certain if Jesus came down here today and witnessed what his supposed followers were getting upset about instead of the REAL issues, he would facepalm so hard his hand would go through his face.

He would ask his dad to rewrite the entry rules for the rapture so that it rejected every idiot that went nuts about a cardboard red cup and spread his name in the form of cup hatred.

ugh

[jtuck004]

7. "if Jesus came down here today " < If he was worth a shit he would feed all the kids, clothe the

needy, heal the sick.

Then he'd go get a dog, get it spayed or neutered, and go start his own religion. To hell with this.

[rpannier]

8. If you were Jesus would you come down?

It'd prpbably send him straight into the psych ward

[Mendocino]

14. In the Woody Allen movie

"Hannah and Her Sisters", there's a line delivered by the great Max Von Sydow; "If Jesus came back and saw what was going on in his name, he would never stop throwing up".

[TexasBushwhacker]

17. And they are PROUD to be offended

We got into this at the office yesterday. Someone mentioned the red cups and I said "What do snowflakes have to do with Jesus?" And they said it was all silly.

But then I brought up "Happy Holidays" and one person said "Oh, that offends me" and another said "Me too!" They seem to think that being offended makes them better Christians.

[jberryhill]

28. I just don't get it.

Are they offended that Jews don't celebrate Christmas? Do they get offended if someone says "Happy Hannukah" to them instead?

If I want to wish someone well for both Christmas and New Year's Day, then what is wrong with saying "holidays"?

I'd love to ask someone who is "offended" by "Happy holidays" a number of questions, because it just makes no sense to me at all.

The bottom line in all of this is that humans from every time and culture have built various observances around the fact that the days get shorter going into December, the solstice occurs, and the days start getting longer (and the opposite in the Southern Hemisphere). Everyone noticed this significant pattern, and it got built into all kinds of cultural observances. That's why there are so many holidays around the solstice, and it is why Christianity decided to appropriate the pre-existing European pagan festivals which occur for the same reason.

Don't people know this?

[MattBaggins]

18. I told the priest

Don't count on any second coming
God got his ass kicked the first time
He came down here slumming.

[daleanime]

9. Works for me....

[alc]

11. someone will always get offended

The issue doesn't matter.
The details don't matter.
The intent doesn't matter.
The side doesn't matter.

If enough people see/hear/experience something, then someone will find a reason to be offended. And these days it will get posted to facebook and lots of other people who wouldn't have even noticed the "offense" will jump in and complain that they are also offended.

[hughee99]

13. Exactly. Did you notice that of all the colors,

WHITE was on top? See how easy it is to find something "offensive" if you wanted to?

[Bottoms_Up]

29. White is not a color... how dare you dare treat white like it's just "some color"!

I'm offended. Scientifically, and socially.
Technically, it's comprised of ALL the colors (combined).
Yeah, that's it... it's the KING of all the colors... White is #1!!!

Now you've really done it... you've went and made me offend myself.
I'm super offended now.

[ncjustice80]

20. But what will Reichwingers get upset about next????

[marble falls]

25. That coffee doesn't come in 44 oz "cups" at Starbucks, like at the Circle K.

[Gothmog]

27. Great idea