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Free Starbucks for all! (most of you know im not a spambot.)
#1
Posted 30 August 2006 - 1:14 AM
http://www.snopes.co...g/starbucks.asp
Print as many as you want, take to starbucks, get all the free iced coffee you want so long as it's between 12-9pm. I got like 9 in the past few days. Anyways the link above both verifies the legitmacy of this crazy thing and has the .pdf to print. Just spreading the good word of free coffee, cheers.
#6
Posted 30 August 2006 - 3:38 PM
Jeanie Escribi�:
We dont have Starbucks in Holland. STrange !
Holland is likely on the list of places for the Starbucks empire to conquer! Starbucks are freaking everywhere here. I think it would be safe to say there are more Starbucks around than there are McDonalds or 7-11's or AM/PM's. The big shocker was when I was in London last time and saw a few Starbucks that had popped up since I was in the city 5 years prior.
It's funny because my son equates Starbucks with being the final frontier. Whenever we drive past one, he says "Hey Mama you could live here because there's a Starbucks!" I have nobody to blame but myself for that one.
I think out of all the coffee house chains I like Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf the best, except they are more expensive and there aren't that many around in comparison to Starbucks.
#8
Posted 30 August 2006 - 4:35 PM
whirlygirl Escribi�:
Jeanie Escribi�:
We dont have Starbucks in Holland. STrange !
Holland is likely on the list of places for the Starbucks empire to conquer! Starbucks are freaking everywhere here. I think it would be safe to say there are more Starbucks around than there are McDonalds or 7-11's or AM/PM's. The big shocker was when I was in London last time and saw a few Starbucks that had popped up since I was in the city 5 years prior.
"When deep space exploitation ramps up, it will be corporations that name everything. The IBM Stellarsphere. The Philip Morris Galaxy. Planet Starbucks."
Taking your brain to another dimension!
#14
Posted 31 August 2006 - 12:16 AM
And trust me... starbuck becomes really obnoxious when you're in the field, every time someone uses their pretentious lingo like grande and venti we say "um... we do medium and large here" or they ask for the little things that starbucks does. A lot of my co-workers are vets of starbucks and yet me tell you... they didn't think highly of them.
#15 toomuchstash
Posted 31 August 2006 - 12:26 AM
#16
Posted 31 August 2006 - 12:28 AM
I get what you mean about the venti and grande bullshit. I admit it's highly annoying, especially when you slip up and ask for a large and they "correct" you by saying, "OK, so will the VENTI latte be all for you today?" And some places even make it a point to shout the VENTI order at ear piercing decibles to the barrista so everyone and their grandmother within a city block knows that you probably asked for a large by accident. Even though I frequent Starbucks (because they are everywhere and that coffee smell makes me craaaaaaaaave) when I'm out and about, the sizes will always be small, medium and large to me.
I'm usually not one that consciously pats the backs of corporate food service machines all that often, but I'm not too proud to say Starbucks is my one habitual vice in that department. Maybe they put smack in their coffee. X-D
#17
Posted 31 August 2006 - 2:33 AM
Biff Escribi�:
I work for Peet's Coffee now so we basically make fun of starbucks all day. We're kinda a snobby coffee house..originally began with our founder and the founder of starbucks who then broke off 5 years after we began because they wanted to obviously be more corporatly ambitious before perfecting the product.
And trust me... starbuck becomes really obnoxious when you're in the field, every time someone uses their pretentious lingo like grande and venti we say "um... we do medium and large here" or they ask for the little things that starbucks does. A lot of my co-workers are vets of starbucks and yet me tell you... they didn't think highly of them.
Haha, that reminds me on the job at McDonald's. Seriously, 50% of people say they want stuff "Biggie" sized. I really want to tell them its "Large" sized. Then there's another 45% which say "Super-sized"... I'm cool with that one, though, because thats what we used for years and years. Then theres the last 5% that ask for "King" sized... WTF? Thats Burger King! :x Haha, not that it really matters, I just gotta wonder about IQ when they ask for King sized anything at a McDonalds.
Which makes me think, shouldn't we have "Clown" sized or something?
#18
Posted 31 August 2006 - 3:52 AM
Billions of people say Tall, Grande, and Venti each day, so don't worry whirly, you're in good company. In fact, millions of coffee houses have used the terms Tall and Grande... I've gone to starbucks and ordered in small/medium/large, sometimes to fuck with them. But come on, people just flat out don't pay attention to the world around them thinking that "if I get a frappachino at starbuck, then i can get one at peets's... because both sell coffee."
#19
Posted 31 August 2006 - 4:29 AM
toomuch'stash Escribi�:
I used to work in a coffee place, independent, and when someone would come in with a starbucks cup from up the street, I'd take it away from em and make them a new one for free. Gotta lot of repeat business that way... but, as much as I hate to admit it, I like starbucks, purely on flavor, better than any other small or large chain out there.
It's great that you're actually admiting that because so many people mask their corporate hatred with "it's shit coffee" when I've never had anything blatantly better in my life.
#20
Posted 31 August 2006 - 4:37 AM
My choices were tall, El Capitan, and El Presidente. Now how in the hell was anyone supposed to order an El Presidente sized coffee with a straight face. It took me totally by surprise, like why must drink sizes be more complicated than a large extra hot double shot non-fat latte hold the whip (not that that's what I order). Simply ludicrous. stash and I stood there laughing and the poor girl behind the counter knew how ludicrous those drink sizes were, thank god she had a sense of humor. I think I ended up getting a tall size (which is only really "tall" if you compare it to a dixie cup) not only because it was getting to be late in the hour but because after the brief fit of laughter I had I coudn't bring myself to straight faced order an El Capitan.