Starbucks dubbed ‘Slutbucks’ by Christian group because of new logo

[marmar]

from ThinkProgress:



Starbucks dubbed ‘Slutbucks’ by Christian group because of new logo.»

In order to compete with less expensive varieties of coffee, Starbucks recently introduced a new roast in order “to shift toward emphasizing brewed coffee.” As part of the campaign, the Seattle-based company re-introduced its 1971 brown-and-white logo that features a two-tailed mermaid. Apparently, the mermaid has caused an uproar because one Christian group has now called for a Starbucks boycott:

“The Starbucks logo has a naked woman on it with her legs spread like a prostitute,” explains alarmist Mark Dice, of a Christian group called The Resistance. “Need I say more? It’s extremely poor taste, and the company might as well call themselves Slutbucks.“

Jen Phillips at MoJo blog notes, “The fact that Dice doesn’t get the difference between a fin and a foot may be an example of what abstinence-only funding does to education.”


http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/09/starbucks-dubbed-slutbucks-by-christian-group-because-of-new-logo/

[fascisthunter]

1. Yeah... Funny How These People of God so Damn Judgmental and Rude to Boot

what a hoot

[gateley]

2. A MERMAID has her LEGS spread?

These people are so afraid of sex, it's a wonder they procreate.

[Warren Stupidity]

27. Fish sex is sort of not involved with intercourse.

So a mermaid, being fish in the lower half, would emit a bag of eggs and then a merman would swim over and ejaculate around the eggs. No intercourse. Fish don't fuck. These religious folks should outsource their home schooling.

[nichomachus]

29. They don't?

And all this time I've refused to drink water because I thought fish fucked in it.

[Warren Stupidity]

34. Depends on what the meaning of fuck is.

They don't have intercourse: no penetration. Male fish do ejaculate in the water so you should continue to stick with whiskey straight up.

[nichomachus]

35. Which, of course, explains a lot

[gateley]

44. confusion came from the fact that mermaids don't HAVE legs - do they?

[Indenturedebtor]

3. Bwahahah love the quote!

McDonalds is rolling out it's McCafe brand soon... which I personally think is doomed to failure even though their coffee is better. Wrong demographic imo.

[LostinVA]

32. They've had McCafe's in Europe for years

They're actually pretty decent, although I would never eat at a regular McDonald's. McCafe's have nice tables to sit at, give you real plates & mugs, and know how to make a decent scone.

Weird, but true.

[BOSSHOG]

4. Damn, should I give Starbucks some business?

There are so many great places to get a great cup of coffee in New Orleans and none of them are Starbucks. Yeah, I just get all up in arms every time some fucking facist hypocritical asshole "christian" organization goes on the warpath. Hey dice, go get fucked you'll feel better. And I'm not talking about the little girls in your "organization."

[AlCzervik]

5. "the Resistance" does that sound like a white power group to anyone?

[ColbertWatcher]

6. LOL!

Jen Phillips at MoJo blog notes, “The fact that Dice doesn’t get the difference between a fin and a foot may be an example of what abstinence-only funding does to education.”

And why their hatred for evolution is so confusing.

For the purposes of sex-hate speech (abstinence-only) a fin and a foot are the same thing, but for science-hate speech (creationism) a fin is not anything like a foot. Not now not ever.

These people are idiots and they're more of them everyday...

[silverweb]

16. The Duggar woman in that poster is pregnant again.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_on_re_us/18_kids

Revolting.

[RainDog]

17. OMG LOLOLOLOLOL

that poster!!!! not a clown car. I cannot stop laughing.

[PufPuf23]

55. This may be the funniest and true thing I have read at DU nt

[ORDagnabbit]

7. I love idiot christians who dont know their own history. Sheilanagig

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheilanagig

[Hekate]

10. An image so important to the Irish that it survived for centuries carved into Christian churches....

...long after the pagans were converted.

I wonder what our modern-day illiterate, a-historical, American peasants would make of the Sheela-na-gig?

Hekate

[Hekate]

8. It's a genuine historic image from our seafaring past....God save us from the ignorant peasantry. nt

[sinkingfeeling]

9. Since when did a mermaid have legs?

[eleny]

11. Now we know who the next pervert will be to make the news

[midnight]

12. This is another offense that baffles me. I suppose

we need to cover up her breasts because they are meant not to nurish but to serve another purpose of those in the prostitution profession.

[silverweb]

13. I can see where the ignorant might react like that.

Original and updated logos &imgrefurl=http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~sajamato/page_11.html&h=423&w=498&sz=76&hl=en&start=10&tbnid=XkoBX8cs_RFkKM:&tbnh=110&tbnw=130&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dstarbucks%2Blogo%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG">_here_

The original logo is actually a siren from the 15th Century. Interesting history is _here_

I do love Al Gore's Internets and The Google! :D

[Hydra]

14. They flip over mermaids

What would they do if I could summon a Succubus into one of their churches...

That's a great idea! I need to start digging in moldy old tomes for that!

[frebrd]

15. I live in hope....

that some day soon all these Fundies will reach critical mass, their heads will explode, and the rest of us won't have to hear about them ever again (once the mess is cleaned up).

Edited to add:

Or...(alternatively) GET RAPTURED, ALREADY!

[Stinky The Clown]

18. Religiously Insane Christian Group dubbed 'Dumbfuckistanians' by Clown

"Dumbfuckistan ..... its not so much a place as a state of mind" Stinky the Clown

[damntexdem]

19. Oh, I just thought it was what Starbucks coffee did to feet.

;-)

A Peete's fan here.

[marmar]

21. Peete's does blow 'Bucks away.....

n/t

[Warren Stupidity]

26. Starbucks does own Peete's.

Sad, isn't it?

[Fox Mulder]

20. Geezus Christ.

Those people are nuts.

[Javaman]

22. I just can't and refuse to try to wrap my head around such a single

digit IQ mentality.

[Jed Dilligan]

23. Mark Dice has the dirtiest mind in all God's creation. nt

[Ellen Forradalom]

28. Dude should get laid already

and leave the rest of us alone.

[Ilsa]

51. "Try and deny yourself for so long,

... and you end up getting turned on by a coffee cup."

per the comments after the article.
:rofl:

[Ellen Forradalom]

52. By a chick with scaly fins, no less

Kin-keeeeeee.

[Adsos Letter]

24. "...slutbucks..."

Aren't Christians supposed to be out spreading the gospel rather than trying to deconstruct meaning from a corporate logo?

Does Mark Dice get paid for what he does?

Does he drink coffee?

Starbucks, perhaps...?

Does he find himself compelled to stare with lustful heart and mind at a corporate logo?

Inquiring minds want to know...nah, not really.

I gots me a paper to write...

[yowzayowzayowza]

25. Methinkz someone jus needza ...

spanking for impure thoughts. :evilgrin:

[nichomachus]

30. It's gotten so you can tell whether these stories are real or satire

I'm guessing this one's real. However, the following one sucked me in

http://www.larknews.com/may_2004/secondary.php?page=2">Kidney donor cries foul when recipient ditches Christianity

TUPELO — Aleta Smith, who donated her kidney to a 20-year-old college student last year, wants it back now that the student has changed religions.

Smith, a self-described "on-fire Christian," gave her kidney to Hannah Felks, a Lutheran and regular Christian camp counselor, last year after seeing Felks on the local news.

"She was going to die unless she got a kidney," Smith says, sitting on the porch at her home. "They portrayed her as this nice Christian girl who works with kids. I saw it as a great opportunity to help a sister in the Lord."

The surgery grabbed headlines and Smith was lauded for her selflessness. But shortly after the surgery, Felks embarked on a "spiritual journey" to try out other religions, and settled on a blend of Pagan and Hindu beliefs.

"I wanted to get away from the belief system I was raised in and find the truth for myself," she says. She took a semester off to travel the world visiting spiritualists on three continents.

Smith was aghast when she heard of the conversion, and she quickly wrote a letter asking Felks to re-convert to Christianity or return the organ, saying it was donated under false pretenses.

"I feel helpless," she says. "Part of my body, my DNA, is stuck inside a person who's going to hell."

These idiot evangelicals have turned themselves into jokes.

[Z_I_Peevey]

31. Slutbucks...sounds like a promotional coupon

from yer local cathouse.

[baldguy]

33. The same people think Proctor & Gamble is run by Satanists

[Warren Stupidity]

36. I have a mad crush on a barrista!

I just thought I would blurt that out.

[FlyingSquirrel]

37. That is actually not their new logo, I'm from Seattle and that was their old logo

slightly re-done. They dropped it because of similar complaints. Not sure why they're bringing it back now.

[BlooInBloo]

40. I'm from Seattle and I have no clue what their logo looks like.

[FlyingSquirrel]

41. See below

[FlyingSquirrel]

38. Oh yeah... this post useless without pics

Original brown logo 1971 - 1987



Second logo 1987 - 1992



Third logo 1982 - today

[BlooInBloo]

42. She's hawt.

[XOKCowboy]

45. How dare they show breasts.. No wonder Mark got a stiffie..

Thanks to people like Mark the drawing of a naked breast is somehow taboo. Is it any wonder why we're laughed at by most of the world?

[BlooInBloo]

39. Wow. Those are some horny motherfuckers.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

43. They JUST NOTICED the Starbucks logo?

:wtf:

[Jamastiene]

46. You just can't make shit like that up.

:rofl:

[applegrove]

47. That is a little odd.

[DireStrike]

48. I don't really get the logo

why does the mermaid have two fins? Just for symmetry?

[PBS Poll-435]

49. Maybe he was served a "gentleman's" latte

With "full-release"


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-6zA39_0aw

[lightningandsnow]

50. Don't insult sluts...

by associating them with overpriced, crappy coffee.

[and-justice-for-all]

53. That is NOT a women with her legs spread like a prositute!!

How aburd and petty these people are!! Fuck me!

They worship an item that glorifies murder for fucks sake. “The fact that Dice doesn’t get the difference between a fin and a foot may be an example of what abstinence-only funding does to education.” spot on!!

[and-justice-for-all]

54. Oh hell, this Mark Dice? total quack...

http://www.theresistancemanifesto.com/

"Powerful and compelling. A must read."
-- Alex Jones - Infowars.com

“Mark Dice is not a conspiracy theorist, he is a conspiracy realist. This book tells it like it is. I urge every American to read it and pass it on to your friends and relatives. Wake up America.”
-- Ted Gunderson, Senior Special Agent in Charge (ret.) FBI Los Angeles Division

“I highly recommend Mark Dice’s Resistance Manifesto. Every patriotic American needs the valuable information in this outstanding book. Its insights are vital to our overcoming the sinister forces now confronting us on every side.”
-- Texe Marrs - Power of Prophecy Ministry & Author of Codex Magica

“A must read for all Patriots. Mark has the guts most of us wish we had.”
-- Mike Hanson, author - Bohemian Grove: Cult of Conspiracy (Infiltrated B.G. with Alex Jones in 2000)

"Mark Dice has assumed leadership of The Resistance. Forewarned is forearmed and we all have a role to play in the future. Or as Mark puts it, "The Resistance lives within each of us."
-- Jim Marrs, Author of Rule by Secrecy

Some chapters: http://www.theresistancemanifesto.com/modules.php?name=Content
· The 9/11 Inside Job
· Bohemian Grove
· The Illuminati
· Satanism
· Georgia Guidestones
· Mind Control
· Underground Bases and Tunnels
· Skull and Bones
· Terminators


He is an idiot, scroll down on the his website and look at his contributions LOL!!