EVERYBODY, APPARENTLY …
We hate political correctness around here, especially when it involves the sanitization/ erasing of Christmas. So naturally we were up in arms when coffee conglomerate Starbucks released holiday-themed cups that (gasp!) didn’t include snowflakes, reindeer or Christmas trees on them, right?
Um, no …
Apparently there’s a limit to the amount of outrage we can summon on any given day, and this just didn’t make the cut.
Don’t like the new cups? Stop going to Starbucks.
In fact if you want a really good cup of coffee for a change, stop going to Starbucks.
There are tons of amazing locally owned coffee shops out there – like Drip in downtown Columbia, S.C., Black Tap or Kudu in Charleston, S.C., Coffee Underground in Greenville, S.C. or (our personal favorite) The Dripolator in Black Mountain, N.C.
These places serve amazing coffee. And best of all they let you BYOC … including cups that Christmas literally vomited all over …
Seriously, last year’s Starbucks scandal was so much more interesting …
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Husband went to the sheriff’s department to report that his wife was missing.
Husband: My wife is missing. She went shopping yesterday and has not come home…
Sergeant: What is her height?
Husband: Gee, I’m not sure. A little over five-feet tall.
Sergeant: Weight?
Husband: Don’t know. Not slim, not really fat.
Sergeant: Color of eyes?
Husband: Sort of brown I think. Never really noticed.
Sergeant: Color of hair?
Husband: Changes a couple times a year. Maybe dark brown now. I can’t remember.
Sergeant: What was she wearing?
Husband: Could have been pants, or maybe a skirt or shorts. I don’t know exactly.
Sergeant: What kind of car did she go in?
Husband: She went in my truck.
Sergeant: What kind of truck was it?
Husband: A 2015 Ford F150 King Ranch 4X4 with Eco -boost 5.0L V8 engine special ordered with manual transmission and climate controlled air conditioning. It has a custom matching white cover for the bed, which has a matching aftermarket bed liner. Custom leather 6-way seats and “Bubba” floor mats. Trailering package with gold hitch and special wiring hook-ups. DVD with full GPS navigation, satellite radio receiver, 23-channel CB radio, six cup holders, a USB port, and four power outlets. I added special alloy wheels and off-road Michelins. It has custom running boards and indirect wheel well lighting. At this point the husband started choking up.
Sergeant: Don’t worry, buddy. We’ll find your truck.
Good one! +10
100+ ….. added to my collection, and beats mine:
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A lady calls the police to report her husband is missing. The police arrive and ask for a description. She tells them he’s 6 feet 2 inches tall, blonde wavy hair and has a smile that makes everybody love him.
The police then go to the next door neighbor to verify this report and the lady next door tells the police, “You can’t believe her. He’s 5 feet 4 inches
tall, has no hair and he wears a perpetual frown on his face.”
The neighbor then goes and asks the lady why she gave the police such a false report. She replies, “Just because I reported him missing, doesn’t mean I wanted him back!”
A wife got so mad at her husband she packed his bags and told him to get out. As he walked to the door she yelled, “I hope you die a long, slow, painful death.” He turned around and said, “So, you want me to stay?”
… another new one for me!
FITS Cares, that’s who. This is the intelligence, and consciousness, level of Bullshit that affects most FITSNews Groupies.
You might better be careful. The leftwing, bigot coffeehouse philosophers, who fuck up anything they ever touch outside their cubicle at the insurance processing center, LIVE and DIE based on the color of the cups at Starbucks. They vote Democrat-Obama, and have fucked up our country….and they hang on every marching order FITS and the DNC feeds them…
Now the REAL news:
News AOL
Appeals court deals crippling blow to Obama
Republicans declared victory in halting the president’s ‘lawlessness’ Monday after Obama suffered a legal setback in his immigration mission.
Ruling may impact millions in US…..
NOTE: Had to get a Disqus account after vicious and defamatory comments about my children last night.It is being handled.
Who still uses AOL for anything. The early 90s call and requested you send back their internet.
Oh.The story has been reported by ALL news agencies.Even on your favorite liberal news sites.
old dudes like flip
Is an old dude like an old bitch? You appear to be an expert in that area.
Merry Christmas!
You as well.What do you and hubby do on Christmas Day? Pull the wings off of flies,steal crosses from cemetery’s or watch abortion video’s? Dress in drag? :)
Thanks for asking! We start early by attending midnight mass with extended family, then the rest of the day is spent with our beautiful children.
Sounds nice. If it was true.
pogo, no apostrophe is needed in those plural words. Ignorant fool.
Mom let you use her computer today?
It’s my computer,it always has been, and she doesn’t have to “let” me do anything. I’m her official caregiver, and responsible for everything. I pay the bills, I buy and prepare the food, if it gets done I’m the one who does it, or hires it done.
She’s real, not like your fake little absurd perpetual travelling show. You’re a fake person, spewing bile and venom everywhere, in the name of a warped version Christianity and patriotism .
You sound like a good son and I am glad as a caregiver you have time to be on the computer 24/7 spewing your lies and falsehoods about others.
My wife and I have been care givers for grandparents and parents and we never had the free time you have.Hope all goes well in your world of fantasy.
You’ve sure had a lot of free time in the last several years — especially for somebody with such a big family that has numerous disabled and disadvantaged people in it, and you having to haul them all perpetually in an RV between the Midwest, the Southeast, and Las Vegas.
We strap em on top of the motor home and have a grand ole time! Ain’t semi retirement great! :)
You would know. You’re my old bitch.
Rainbow young’uns gettin’ dissed makes people get Disqus accounts.
Lawyers “handle” allegedly defamator statements from anonymous Sybil types like you.
What a strange, strange little world you and your hero GT have created, just for the two of you and your imaginary loved ones.
Imaginary world? Like accusing the mayor of MB of drunk driving and Mark Kelley of multiple felonies?
How did that work out for ya loser?
Better than you might imagine.
Not what I hear.
I long ago apologized, publicly, to JR.
Kelley, I honestly do not give a shit about. It did take courage for him, the late Bill Darby, and a handful of others to start up the Republican party in Horry County. They had to meet in secret in those early days. Kelley has done good, just as has John Rhodes, in many ways.
The lawsuit was bullshit, from day one. The jury was, obviously, composed of people without a clue what real defamation is all about.
It will not stand. Not a dime will ever be collected by Kelley. It will not become case law. It’s just something for you to obsess over and call up in an attempt to intimidate and silence me, when I call you on your bullshit.
You lie again.Nobody met in secret.Kelley owned Shamrock’s and the meetings weren’t ’secret’.
I used to see Clemmons,Wallace and the others all the time.Even though Wayne Gray was a Democrat he would stop in from his perch across the street at the Springhouse.
You are a fool..
/// You lie again.Nobody met in secret.Kelley owned Shamrock’s and the meetings weren’t ’secret’. ///
Idiot. The Horry GOP did not start at that damned bar. All that activity and organizing was later. They met in various locations, and YES, the meetings were in secret, because they feared trouble from the majority in the area who were Democrats at that time.
The more you pretend to know what you are talking about, the more you show how truly clueless you are.
LMAO!.No wonder these people all laugh at you behind your back and believe you to be a damn fool.
If you’re talking about clueless outsiders like you, their opinion means almost as little as yours.
YOU are the one that prattles on and on about how this and that was a result of the Democrats that controlled everything at one point. Now you are claiming they were never a problem at all to the emerging Republican movement in this state. As usual, you own words trip you up. You have gone against your own blatherings.
We are talking about different decades, fool. Kelley was young then. Wallace, Clemmons and Gray were even younger, and not yet old enough to be involved in politics. Kelley was mentored, just as he mentored the Republicans (Gray not being among them) in the Shamrocks era.
Kelley elected both Wallace and Clemmons.You are a stooge and deviant fool.
Only reason ANY of em would have a damn thing to do with you is the old saying ‘keep your friends close and your enemies closer’.
I never claimed Kelley did not help Wallace and Clemmons. I merely said that the GOP in MB started prior to those years, and that Kelley was a young man when it started, who was mentored by others. Sheesh! There is nothing even to argue in that. It’s just a fucking fact!
Just an example on why people don’t trust you:
Boz Martin says:
November 14, 2010 at 3:08 pm
Jeff, while you are digging on this, I hope you will not forget about the “conservatives” here in the Myrtle Beach area who are overtaxing us to pay for their serious mistake in trying to run off loyal repeat tourists that happened to ride motorcycles, and who secretly supported Vincent Sheheen while pretending to be for Haley once she got the nomination. Quite a few of them and their corrupt cronies in Columbia and Charleston, too, so I wouldn’t be surprised if there were a lot of crossover with this “conservative” anti-Haley group.
After Sheheen got the Dem nomination, he was quickly supported by the SC Chamber of Commerce. That group, and many of the individual community CofC’s threw their support behind Sheheen thereafter. Prior to that they had supportered Barrett, of course — who is said to be a target of the joint FBI/IRS investigation into what we call “Chambergate” around here.
The attempt by the local media to cover up this probe, and to continue to prop up the pols implicated in wrongdoing by the revelations that led up the Feds getting involved, is not just another run-of-the-mill case of liberal media bias, is it? After all, the perps were REPUBLICANS, and many of them at least nominal conservatives … so if you’re looking at why “loyal” Repubs/”conservatives” might try to kneecap Haleny, I’d say the whole Chambergate mess is a good place to look. Stories in The Sun News and FITSNews have been almost the only real coverage of this in the nation.
Hmmmmm … Makes you wonder, doesn’t it, why The State (also a McClatchy newspaper) did not pick up on all of these stories (after running a couple of them, there have been about six so far), and why The Sun News did so only when they more or less had to do so — LONG after many of its readers were aware of the Federal probe. Normally, The State runs any important story that comes out of the Myrtle Beach area. What is it about this one that keeps them from running all of articles? That probe began almost a year ago, btw. Both Democrats and Republicans have been deeply involved in trying to keep it all from the public.
Who? What? Where? When? Why? … Dig, dig, dig. The South Carolina media, in general, certainly will not … and therein hangs a tale …
So? What did I say that was not true in that?
Nothing.
fluffer
I won’t be going to Starbucks regardless, but, no, this does matter because it is the sanitation of anything that can be associated with Christianity and what will eventually make religious liberty obsolete.
Bullshit.
Because the cups at Star Bucks are a long standing symbol of Christmas? GMAB. The company was founded till 1971 and didn’t successfully expand until the 90s. I don’t see anyone griping about all the fast food joints not sprucing up their cups or hamburger wrappings for Christmas.
If not having “Merry Christmas” written on the side of your cinnamon dolce latte somehow threatens your faith, then it probably wasn’t very strong to begin with.
It’s cool for a bakery to exercise their “religious liberty” by refusing to bake a cake for a gay couple, but it’s not okay for Starbucks to exercise their own rights by changing their cups?
The difference is NOBODY will sue Starbucks and Christians will take their business elsewhere. If the pervert gay community and liberals don’t get their way or feel offended on an issue they sue and try and destroy the people and business.
sue starbucks for what, don’t you have to damage someone to get sued?
You did and will be served….just not at Starbucks.
oh ok, i would like my dressing on the side.
I threaten to sue people all the time. Especially when I can’t get my nonexistent point across.
You are correct.Slippery slope.Prayer out of schools.No Nativity displays on public property etc…
http://lwr.org/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=dmJXKiOYJgI6G&b=7535365&ct=14558327
Lutheran World Relief Receives $350,000 from Starbucks Foundation
i really don’t think Jesus cares what starbucks chooses to put on their cups. i know i don’t care, actually i think the commercialization of Christmas an anathema.
Yes, what happened to the commercialization of Christmas is shameful rant? I remember when that was such a bad thing. Now it is the exact opposite, they’re pissed because some corporations aren’t using it as an advertising gimmick?
Hear! Hear!
It’s stupid crap like this that makes Christians look ridiculous.
The ‘closet’ Muslim in the wH that professes to be a Christian and yet allows ISIS to slaughter thousands of Christians,advocates for partial birth abortion and perverted marriage is what makes Christians look ridiculous in the eyes of jesus Christ and the world.
I read that last year’s cups had snowflakes. That’s really a Christian symbol. I live in South Carolina, I can’t remember a time I’ve ever seen a snowflake fall on Christmas and yet we seem to survive just fine. If you don’t like their cups find a new source to satisfy your caffeine fix. Brew it at home, or get your coffee from Dunkin’ Donuts both have better coffee than the swill from Starbucks which always seems burnt to me. Though all the “white girls” might have a problem giving up their PSLs.
I had to get a Disqus account because I’m an idiot and butthurt.
I got the shit slapped out of me sooooo hard, I resorted to silly, toothless threats because I can’t handle being called out as POS deviant. God, I’m such a crybaby.
What is the over/under on the number of hours Hank ‘flip’ Geepers will last? Typical of him to take his activity private during his infrequent Disqus episodes.
it won’t be long now, he is already getting all creepy on mamatiger
I had tears in my eyes reading your life history on another thread last night.Have you considered a trip to the Dr.Phil show?
I am driving over to Champaign ,Illinois for the OSU game on Saturday and trying to get out of my mind that you are a graduate.Makes me sick.
Carry on loser.
p.s. you say you are only 54 however knew Bo at OSU?Impossible. Bo was at Michigan.
Ah, confirmation of identity! Still having reading comprehension difficulties, I see.
If you can still find that other thread post, read it again. The 54 years refers to the duration of marriage, not age. And, Bo was Woody’s assistant when I served supper to both in 1959. Both were very nice guys at the Stadium supper table after practice.
The only thing I have confirmed is that you are a soul less moron whose religion appears to be the destruction of the unborn.
Of course that is only my opinion.
Moron? Woody did not believe I earned 51 credit-hours my first quarter, either, until he saw the printed report.
LMAO! You tell better stories than Boz.Carry on.
Not long. He’s still reeling from the incredible bitch slapping he got from me last night.
What a pussy!
My gay son will sue you if you make funny comments about our relationship.
I WILL get your IP address and cry to Will, who employs me, to take the comments down.
God, the internet is hard! Like me in an all male locker room.
Merry Christmas to all.
Never have liked the over priced Starburnt’s coffee.
Happy Kwanza to you. Enjoy your shitty Folgers.
Why the attack? The man just stated he to smart to pay $8 for a cup of coffee at Starbucks.I respect that.
Have fun burning in hell for eternity.
Why do you hate me?
Thank you and I will enjoy my coffee as long as it’s not that shitty Starburnt’s.
Mrs. Olson was hot.
When I go somewhere to share coffee with someone I like a relaxed atmosphere. The SBs I’ve been in the servers are hectic — and to me their coffee tastes burnt.
All that, and they still have the nerve to charge you an “arm and a leg.”
The Donald has suggested people boycott Starbucks. And after he is elected saying Merry Christmas will be mandatory for all. Yikes, will the cops be policing to see if we have strung up our Christmas lights outside too? I’m sunk, it will be prison time for me since I quit putting up a tree several years ago.
He said on Monday that: “If I become president, we’re all going to be saying, ‘Merry Christmas’ again. That I can tell you.”
Gay marriage perversion is now mandatory in our communities.Why not a little Christmas? :)
You said you were gonna be here at 9, after your ‘wife’ left.Where the hell are you ?
Did you check the men’s room stalls? That’s usually where flip can be found.
Sorry, GrandTango had a tummy ache and stayed home today.
Gotta keep the wife happy, right?
When I’m in Myrtle Beach these days, I mostly hang out at a wonderful coffee house run by a Christian ministry. It’s called Fresh Brewed. Amazing coffee! They are not the kind of ministry that hits you over the head with Jesus. Much more subtle and laid back about the message. I only hit Starbucks every now and then. For less money, Fresh Brewed has better coffee. So do at least a half-dozen other coffee houses and restaurants in the area.
When I do hit Starbucks, most often I get a “short cup.” This is an unadvertised feature of the chain. Ask for a “short cup”, and you get just that. An actual small cup of coffee, for $1.65 (more for latte, etc., of course). Still too much, but not insanely too much.
Do they call it Jesus Juice?
How long does it take you to walk from Murrels Inlet to MB? 2 days?
How long does it take you to walk from your house to your most recent job? 25 years?
The friggin cups have a red, green and blue motif. That’s Christmas. Minimalist Christmas, but still Christmas.
My God, the fanatics are worked up into a lather of this. It sure doesn’t take much to ring that “jingo bell” to get those dogs slobbering.
You are the one that appears worked up about it.Any subject on Fits disparaging Christians gets your sorry, Christ hating ass slobbering.
Why the attack? The man just stated his opinion.
Tell me another fairy tale about you attending church.I liked that one.
Believe what you want. No stranger than a hate-filled, unrepentant person like yourself attending church, n’est-ce pas?
See,you are full of hate.I am praying for you.
I appreciate it. Will do the same for you.
I’m praying you’ll get your fish-belly white ass over here,NOW.
Hell must be being stuck in a library sitting next to you and having to read your shitty posts until time stops.
Nobody, and I mean NOBODY, spends as much time on their knees as ME.
I should try some praying while I’m down there sometime.
Pray if you want but don’t start slacking while you’re down there. Might be hard to pray and suppress your gag reflex at the same time though.
I like christianity because I can be a total deviant prick and just be forgiven or whatever.
Plus, it keeps me close to children.
I like being a Christian because I can keep my gay relationship with GrandTango behind closed doors and still be a judgemental asshole to all other homosexual couples.
I don’t know a single christian getting worked up about the red cup. What I have noticed are a lot of atheists condemning christians for being so worked up about the red cup. There seems to be a lot of projecting of anger onto the group that is supposed to be all worked up about the red cup. The only people I see that are all worked up about it are anti christian bloggers and cable news talking heads. Exactly what the advertising executives behind the Starbucks brand intended. In case nobody noticed, they brought back their “Christmas Blend” bagged coffee this year. Oh the horrors when non-christians realize this. Go get em “social justice warriors”.
They are following Apple’s lead.
Expensive, effete, elitist swill. Who give a flying flip?
Actually Col., us effete East Coast elites ditched Starbucks long ago.
We’re now into single origin, shade grown, sustainably harvested, organic, fair trade blends that are sold in whole beans and have to be ground at home…
I have a friend that along with her mother has dual Brazilian/US citizenship. Whenever they go to Brazil to visit they always bring back coffee. She always brings me back several pounds of the coffee that is their favorite. It’s the best coffee I’ve ever had. It comes in fairly plain packages labeled in Portuguese (obviously). They get it at a local market. The stuff is dirt cheap there, I’m sure if you could find it here they’d call it something special and charge $30.00/lb for it.
Starbucks is dead.Here’s their new logo:
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/b1/16/e6/b116e6f791337e905ca4c3057b54c008.jpg
I think you summed it up: STARBUCKS-WHO CARES.
I have never been in a STARBUCKS.
Gave up coffee over ten years ago. Just woke up one morning as the automatic brewer was topping off. Went into the kitchen, and instantly detested the smell. Poured the pot down the drain and never took another swig of it. All this after a lifetime of drinking coffee all day long.
I’m sorry. Was the article about you?
sure was…
Seriously, and an article about Starbucks coffee cups should solicit what kind of comments? You can not have a little fun with some of posts that Fits puts up?
If you don’t care for the comments of some of the posters here, just ignore them, I am not here to please you, only me, and I have fun doing it along with interacting with certain posters…God’s sake, give it a rest, it is not life or death .it was about a frigging coffee cup..
Sorry I bore you, just don’t read my posts.
Don’t you know, it’s all about me these days.
Did the same thing with sodas a few years ago.Hey I didn’t get to tell you how much I appreciated your post on your health a few days ago.Congrats.Sounds like you are doing all the right things in your life.Your posts indicate a man at peace with a healthy mind,heart and body.
I had a health scare a few years ago and it ’shocked’ me into getting back into athletic shape.I played basketball and baseball in college.Diet and exercise keep me fit and feeling good and I no longer am afraid to see my doctor on a regular basis for a check up.
Thanks again for sharing.
You are welcome, I have been feeling better in the last few years than I did years ago. I like to encourage everyone I see to get off their ass, reform a few bad habits, eat healthy, and exercise. It will work wonders.
“when diet and exercise aren’t enough” it’s time to change your diet and exercise.
Don’t like, don’t buy. A private company can do whatever the hell they want.
That’s just some more of that war on Christmas FOXnews regurgitation.
Technically that’s not true (in reference to discrimination) but otherwise yes…if you want Xmas cups for your coffee then go somewhere else.
The real tragedy is what’s inside those red cups.
10++
People get pissed about a glacier, why the fuck wouldn’t they get pissed about a damn coffee cup? Religious entitlement is a thing now, you have to be 500% Christmas or you are a liberal atheist Muslim who hates God.
This is the sum total of GOP values voters….making a big deal about red cups.
“This is the end….beautiful friend…”
T’is the season of the always amusing GOPer “War on Christmas” hysteria and fulminations.
Starbucks? I make my own coffee.
Just shut the fuck up Starbucks and serve goddamn coffee!