Starbucks logo "has a naked woman on it with her legs spread like a prostitute,".

[ohiosmith]

By PAUL WALSH, Star Tribune

Last update: May 15, 2008 - 2:50 PM



Seems that one person's smut is another person's morning latte.

A Christian group out of San Diego has found grounds for outrage over the new retro-style logo for Starbucks Coffee.

The Resistance says the new image "has a naked woman on it with her legs spread like a prostitute," Mark Dice, founder of the group, said in a news release. "Need I say more? It's extremely poor taste, and the company might as well call themselves Slutbucks."

The group, which claims more than 3,000 members nationwide and has found a place advancing various conspiracy theories, is calling for a national boycott of the coffee-selling giant.

link: http://www.startribune.com/nation/18969709.html?location_refer=Most%20Viewed:Homepage

[Shakespeare]

1. I was waiting to see when the fundies would notice that Starbucks reintroduced that logo.

Took longer than I thought, actually. Bunch of morans.

edited because I'm a doofus who can't type correctly

[Lex]

2. Honestly, these people need therapy.

nt

[Pale Blue Dot]

3. I'll be in my bunk. nt

[Rabrrrrrr]

4. Funny how these sex-obsessed fundies never point the finger at themselves and accuse

them of being obsessed with sex and thinking about it all the time.

Like the group of jackasses who spend their days videotaping TV shows and watching them, counting sexual references and recording what they are.

Seriously, man - even the most obsessed porn watcher guy doesn't spend that much time thinking about sex.

[Parche]

5. Its What They Do With That Pointing Finger

:woohoo: :woohoo: :hi:

[sniffa]

8. Well Confucius say....

[graywarrior]

9. If it's not sex, they're heads are exploding over taxes on cigarettes.

[Fleshdancer]

6. Granted, I don't know any prostitutes, but I doubt any look like THAT

Certainly receiving money for sex doesn't make your legs look like two boneless mermaid fins, does it?

I think the better question is has this Mark Dice ever seen a naked woman before?

[crimsonblue]

7. I would totally start drinking Starbucks coffee

if they had naked women on the cups.. And not to discriminate, they could have naked guys too.

[Deja Q]

10. Didn't you know? It was replaced with this:

http://www.illegal-art.org/print/index.html#consumer

[ohiosmith]

11. :

:rofl:

[SalmonChantedEvening]

12. Stupid in a colossal way.

I get headaches from how clue-free these people can be.

[MsKandice01]

13. Slutbucks???

:rofl:

[Elidor]

14. * whips out megaphone *

YOU! ON THE SHALLOW END! YES, YOU! OUT OF THE GENE POOL! NOW!

[KSinTX]

15. I'm scared to see what the Resistance women look like

if mermaid fins are what pass for legs in their cult. Get these people filet knives QUICK. :rofl:

[ismnotwasm]

16. Starbucks should have added teeth

To round out mixed mythology and all. Maybe they'd shut up then

[Haole Girl]

17. Just three words for them:

GET A LIFE!!

[Dangerously Amused]

18. Why do her legs have to spread "like a prostitute"?

Why can't they be spread "like an obedient Christian woman fulfilling her sacred marital duties to her god-like husband"?

Honestly. Sometimes I think those people just go looking for ways to project their twisted psycho-sexual issues onto the world.

[Ptah]

19. Not just psycho-sexual, but social-political as well.

Twisted psycho-sexual, social-political issues.

[Dangerously Amused]

20. Excellent point.

Although I am not about to try saying that three times, fast.

:hi:

[Ptah]

22. It would make a good background for a song.

Bass & Tenor (background):
psycho-sexual social-political
psycho-sexual social-political
psycho-sexual social-political
psycho-sexual social-political

soprano:
ooh, I'm hooked on a feeling

Repeat.

:hi:

[Dangerously Amused]

24. ROFL!

ooga chucka ooga chucka ooga ooga ooga chucka...


:rofl:

Dude, you crack me the hell UP!

:7

[Ptah]

28. Earworms-R-Us

http://youtube.com/watch?v=1gxSxoEA2TA

Glad to know you grinned.

:silly:

[Dangerously Amused]

51. : D

You always make me grin, and you just did it again. :7

Hope all is well with you, friend.


:hug:

[grannylib]

35. *lol* I was thinking, "vocational guidance counselor..."

:rofl:

[Runcible Spoon]

34. ....

:rofl:

thanks for that. exactly my kind of humor! :hug:

[Dangerously Amused]

52. Hey!

:hi:

[Deja Q]

21. In actuality, she looks like a mermaid with an extra tail. You know,

one for casual and one for Sunday's best... :shrug:

[Bear down under]

46. She is indeed a mermaid

One with two fish-tails, of the type known in heraldry as a melusine. A regular mermaid has one tail, a melusine has two and takes its name from a mer-lady called Melusine who fell in love with a mortal man in some medieval legend or other. Whether she had one tail or two I can't remember, but as I recall the affair ended unhappily, as encounters between men and mermaids usually did.

Don't these people have enough to worry about over the behaviour of real people that they have to get all heated up over the morals of imaginary creatures?

[BlueDissenter]

23. Maybe someone should....

send him this.

http://www.cafepress.com/godchecker.40443552

[Jade Fox]

25. This "issue" was resolved years ago when Starbucks changed the logo. n/t

[no name no slogan]

26. Check the story-- they're going back to the old one (nt)

[Jade Fox]

27. The weirdest thing about that logo.....

is since when do mermaids have two, er, legs anyway?

[KamaAina]

29. I thought Slutbucks were gift certificates you could buy

honored by participating sex workers. :eyes:

[YDogg]

30. Only prostitutes spread their legs?

:shrug:

[Bucky]

31. Smells like fair trade.

[Orsino]

32. Ask 'em how many prostitutes they've visited.

'Cause I think that the leg-spreading comes rather late in the transaction.

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[Critters2]

36. How would the good Mr. Dice know what a prostitute with her legs spread

looks like?

Just sayin'.

[khashka]

37. Psycho Xtians

What's their problem with sex? As the boy who can't keep his pants on if there is even a hint... I see nothing sexual in that. Badly designed and ugly and whoever did it needs a good hard spanking for doing such a poor job - but sexual?

Khash.

[LibDemAlways]

38. Those people are just plain nuts. Here's a fountain

in the middle of a shopping center parking lot in Palos Verdes in Southern California - home of hoardes of republicans and where I grew up - and to my knowledge no one has ever complained:



Given how the fundies react to an inconsequential coffee store logo, I'm surprised they haven't waged war on the Malaga Cove fountain. Idiots.

[otherlander]

41. That's hot.

[Deep13]

39. They're tails, not legs.

And I would rather have hookers for neighbor than Fundies.

[Rue]

42. You expect them to tell the difference between legs and a split fish tail?

No form of fundie outrage surprises me anymore.

[lutefisk]

40. I see the Queen of Clubs with Giant Prawns for legs.

:shrug:

edit: add link for video of KC & The Sunshine Band performing Queen of Clubs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYVGA3RLYYk

[JVS]

43. That hooker must be very flexible to bend like that!

[pinniped]

44. Where were these Resistance freaks in 1971?

It's her caudal fin, not legs.

[datasuspect]

45. G-D WILL SMITE THE HARLOT!!!!!1111

SERIES!111

[regularguy]

47. Wow, prostitutes have really *weird* legs!1!! nt

[My Good Babushka]

48. Oh! I love mermaids! nt

[xchrom]

49. imagine the surprise of prostitutes

that people think they have fins and pull them around and wave them like pom-poms.

[unpossibles]

53. wait... they don't?!?!?

:D

[noonwitch]

50. I save my rage for Slutz dolls (Bratz)

I have none left over for this abomination.