Article According to recent reports, people are outraged by the change in Christmas style cups. Instead of nice art, they plan on just making it a Red cup and using the Starbucks logo. I personally have no problem with this change, but other people are saying that Starbucks is declaring "War on Christmas". To quote someone from another forum where this article was posted: "For goodness sake... this is like something you'd see in a south park episode. Someone does something stupid, so in response, another person does something even more stupid..." So what are your opinions on this?
I don't have a problem with it either. I know in the past years around Christmas time, that they had decorations on the cups. But now, it's just plain red this year. I don't see what the big deal is about this anyways. Just by reading this article, apparently it's a big deal to Christians and find it offensive to them. What I find ridiculous is that, why did they plan to change the color before December? It hasn't even been Thanksgiving yet.
I blame the deformed lovechild of Fred Durst and Kevin James Josh Feuerstein, as I'm pretty sure he was among the first to bring this "serious issue" to people's attention. He makes quite a habit of scraping the bottom of the barrel in regards to "Christian persecution" and force feeding the dregs to his 1-2 million followers. Aside from that bit of finger pointing, I have nothing much to say. It's so patently ridiculous that it speaks for itself, far better than I ever could. It's so absurd that I think Trey Parker and Matt Stone would have trouble thinking up a way to properly make fun of it, given how hyperbolically 'wtf' it is on its own. Godspeed to them should they decide to take on such a task.
As the population grows at an unsustainable rate, as children die of hunger all over the world, as the planet itself is being destroyed by ignorance and greed... ...I applaud people for realizing that the cups from an overpriced coffee chain are what's really important.
The Starbucks Christmas cups have had snow, holiday shoppers, decorative lights, birds, deer, trees, ornaments, snowmen, carolers and little words like "hope" and stuff. None of that is distinctly Christian; the bits that are even associated with Christianity are old pagan traditions. Christians themselves can't even lay full claim to the holiday of Christmas, which, while it is named after a key character in their religious mythology, existed as a celebration long before they brought any significance to it. And now some random Christians somewhere are upset because some corporation doesn't acknowledge the holiday they were pretending was theirs? Yeah, okay. To be fair, there are some pretty deep Christians roots in this nation, but that doesn't really entitle Christians to the special treatment that a handful of them seem to want. Stop telling me who to marry, and let me just have my coffee, please. I'm assuming companies plan this stuff out many months in advance, to the point where it becomes harder and harder to distinguish the start and end of the winter-holiday season.
Exactly. The fact that we have religious groups arguing and protesting about Starbuck's coffee cups is due to 'Christmas being ruined' somehow by the color scheme, is about as asinine as declaring that 'Fire is hot!' and then going to protest all fire due to this sole reason. There is no reason for this stupidity, but it happens anyway. It's a *squee!*ing cup, get over it! Typically this is the case, especially if they plan to mass produce a product. The new sleek design is most likely to reduce production costs for more quantity. If you had art all over it, it would make the cost to mass produce go up. As I said before, I have no problem with their new design. At the end of the day, all we want is our coffee. Not one thousand excuses to why a cup style is blasphemous to some religion because religious groups say so.
Staff favourite Weird Al has weighed in with an image of the new designs, saying that 'Starbucks has gone too far'. If that was real, I'd drink at Starbucks all the time because that's just seriously appealing to me. Though, I don't know what because their coffee tastes like crap to me.
Now that would be a pretty neat idea, if only we can only convince them to change the logo. I'd probably go to Starbucks more often.
It's just the outrage machine cranking up again. Some people see persecution around every corner. In the old days they'd call them paranoid, lock them up in Colney Hatch and we'd all go down and have a laugh at them while they were in the yard, shooing away the invisible pink giraffes. Now they're called activists.
This image actually serves as funny satire for the whole fiasco with the cups. But I do agree that Starbucks coffee isn't close to what they sell it as. They price crap coffee like it's the most godly thing on earth. Though their decision on a more simpler design for cup is something I can support. The funny thing is though that I heard their pastries were fairly decent if you are willing to pay their unreasonable prices for a freshly baked good.
Starbucks' baked goods have never been freshly baked. They come either frozen or prepackaged, and get unwrapped and placed into the display case every morning. It's essentially the same principle as buying a Sarah Lee cake.
That's fine. I'm never planing to go to Starbucks, but that's what I heard about their pastries. If I want a coffee I'll either go to Dunkin Donut, Gloria Jean's, or if I have no choice, McDonalds for my coffee.
