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El Juno ([info]eljuno) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2007-04-02 13:57:00


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If milk is rape, does that make this prostitution?
The question:

Is it fair/right for a customer to order what we, at my store, call a "ghetto-latte"?

The "ghetto-latte" is ordering any size Iced Americano, with no water and half ice (This lady's drink is an Iced Venti, no water, half ice, Americano). She then takes the drink and goes to the condiments bar and adds her own half and half.


Seems reasonably simple, right?

Not something you'd expect to cause, say, a three-month, several-hundred comment long flamewar which would eventually get heated enough that comments would be closed?

Apparently, none of us know Starbucks that well.


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[info]photosinensis
2007-04-02 06:11 pm UTC (link)
Actually, Starbucks is rape. Wallet rape.

As he said, the value of the drinks is over $10. FOR TWO FREAKIN' CUPS OF COFFEE WITH HALF-AND-HALF! If that's not criminal, I'm not sure what is.

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[info]emiweebee
2007-04-02 06:21 pm UTC (link)
Actually, they're shots of espresso with half and half. A cup of coffee is less than two dollars. :D

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[info]sepiamagpie
2007-04-02 06:59 pm UTC (link)
oh, hi! I forgot to tell you that you're on warning for the minor wank earlier :) So don't get too obnoxious while I still remember that.

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[info]barankhy
2007-04-02 07:19 pm UTC (link)
Fuck, that smiley cracks me like whoa.

I totally blame [info]shakeandbake's icon right below.

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[info]sepiamagpie
2007-04-02 07:26 pm UTC (link)
What did it do?

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[info]barankhy
2007-04-02 07:30 pm UTC (link)
It added the whole "this comment was spoken by Emily Gilmore" effect* to it, and my mind went to hilarious places. Then again, my mind does so when seeing aluminium foil... which probably says I should stop babbling.

* This effect totally radiates. It's scientifically proven. Yeah.

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[info]ixtab
2007-04-03 12:15 am UTC (link)
I am now reading ALL text, including icon text, as being in an Emily Gilmore voice. Mindbending!

Personal fave so far: "Can we fix it? No! It's fucked!"

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[info]barankhy
2007-04-03 12:18 am UTC (link)
This is more than a GIP, this is more than a GIP *chants to self*

*adds deep profound insight on... yaoi?*

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[info]shakeandbake
2007-04-04 05:34 pm UTC (link)
It has strange and occult powers.

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[info]jfpbookworm
2007-04-02 09:10 pm UTC (link)
I know. And the way they march you into the nearest Starbucks at gunpoint and force you to buy a drink... there oughta be a law.

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[info]photosinensis
2007-04-02 09:13 pm UTC (link)
See, I don't patronize Starbucks usually.

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[info]wankaholic
2007-04-02 09:20 pm UTC (link)
I think that was the point they were trying to make. You don't have to, hence no need to overreact. :)

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[info]sorchar
2007-04-03 03:52 am UTC (link)
With a name like Lightnote Blend? C'mon, you're having us on!

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[info]photosinensis
2007-04-03 04:13 am UTC (link)
Back in 2003, I had money. Today, I don't.

Of course, if there were some way for me to keep this account (it's permanent) and change the name, that'd be great.

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[info]sepiamagpie
2007-04-03 07:56 am UTC (link)
Psst: she's making fun of you

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[info]ladyvorkosigan
2007-04-02 11:50 pm UTC (link)
I don't know - as an Oregonian, I'm pretty sure my driver's license would be revoked if my blood Starbucks level tested below the requisite level.

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[info]mmanurere
2007-04-03 12:11 am UTC (link)
Here in Southern California I'm drinking black-market coffee; I have my parents (who are backyard "roasters") smuggle in fresh beans from south of the (county) border so I can get my fix.

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[info]sepiamagpie
2007-04-03 07:57 am UTC (link)
You desperado, you!

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[info]onyxnoir
2007-04-03 08:40 am UTC (link)
They smuggle you beans from behind the orange curtain?

Awesome!

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[info]heddychaa
2007-04-03 06:38 pm UTC (link)
Haha. Try being in Vancouver. That joke in Shrek 2 where all the Far Far Away people run out of one Starbucks right into another across the street? That's what Vancouver looks like. And only three freakin' Tim Hortons, it's mind boggling!

I am appeased, now, though, because Starbucks finally got on it and started carrying black tea lattes

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[info]eljuno
2007-04-03 06:42 pm UTC (link)
Would you believe that I actually live in a good-sized city (>100,000 residents...for up here, that's good sized, dammit) that doesn't have a Starbucks?

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[info]eljuno
2007-04-03 06:46 pm UTC (link)
Wait, a few minutes on the Starbucks website tells me that there may be one hidden somewhere in the airport. My mistake.

We've got over 20 Dunkin Donutses, tho.

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[info]luthe
2007-04-04 01:17 am UTC (link)
Let me guess: you live in northern New England?

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[info]rimrunner
2007-04-04 02:19 am UTC (link)
I live in the last Starbucks-less neighborhood in Seattle, as far as I can tell. (Most of my neighbors can't afford it.)

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[info]ladyvorkosigan
2007-04-04 12:34 pm UTC (link)
Hee - I was talking to one person who works in a good sized office building that literally has a Starbucks on each of its four corners.

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