Sunday, May 11, 2008

And this why we mock them.


Because they behave like they were dropped on their heads as children. Repeatedly.

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.”

And the oh-so-offensive logo in question?


I’m going back to bed.

5 comments:

Unknown said...

Followed a few of those links, looks like this Mark Dice guy is a class-A nutter. 9-11 and Illuminati conspiracy theories are the least of it, it seems.

toujoursdan said...
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toujoursdan said...

They better not apply for a tax credit. They'd never pass those Bill C-10 censors.

Oh wait! They're American.

E in MD said...

Damned fish sluts!

JJ said...

LOL, who else but a fundie could look at that logo and see something drrrrrty? I've never seen a group of people so completely and totally obsessed with sex. I wonder if they put curtains around the legs of their pianos too.