The vapidness and stupidity of the American public cannot be overstated. The same douchebags that drive Hummers will buy a $7 cup of coffee. They will actually boast to other douchebags that they spent $7 for a cup of flavored water. I will continue to buy a 16 oz can of coffee for $7 and proceed to brew hundreds of cups over the course of a month for my daily fix.
Nov. 29, 2012, 9:20 a.m. EST
Starbucks offering a $7 cup of coffee
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Starbucks Corp. (NASDAQ:SBUX) is selling a 16-ounce “grande” cup of coffee for $7 in its most pricey offering. Aiming at the premium java drinker, the Costa Rica Finca Palmilera coffee sells for $40 for a half-pound bag. For more budget-conscious, high-end coffee customers, a 12-ounce “tall” cup sells for $6, according to reports. The hot drink is made from a tough-to-grow coffee bean strain known as Geisha. Currently, it’s available only at 46 locations in the Northwestern U.S. that house high-end Clover brewing equipment. “We are now offering more reserve coffees than ever before because of customer demand,” a Starbucks spokesperson said.
KaD says:
I’ll have a cup of Starbucks, or some other coffee house stuff, as an *occasional* treat. Who the hell can afford that every day though? And $6-7 for a cup is insane.
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29th November 2012 at 9:56 am
Eddie says:
I gave up Starbucks years ago. But I will admit they ruined me for mediocre coffee. I buy organic beans and grind them myself.
(Note to self: Need to buy some bulk coffee for the emergency food stash and pack it in the proper manner for long term storage.)
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29th November 2012 at 10:07 am
FT says:
Jeez. I can get a 44 oz. can of ground Yuban for $8 if I shop around.
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29th November 2012 at 10:21 am
ron says:
I guess im a barbarian,i drink instant.I had starbucks coffee a few times.I wasnt impressed.Like German cars,over priced for what you get.
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29th November 2012 at 10:25 am
Stucky says:
A brief story (interesting, actually) behind Geisha coffee, along with nice pictures, can be found here;
http://www.fratellocoffee.com/panama-boquete-the-geisha/
It appears the flavor is awesome. I will try it ….. ONCE. After that, my response to Starbucks can be seen in the picture below.
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29th November 2012 at 10:28 am
Kill Bill says:
More sugar than coffee at Starfucks.
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29th November 2012 at 10:37 am
SSS says:
Speaking of coffee, this happened to me while my wife and I were on a road trip last year.
We stayed overnight at a motel that offered a free hot breakfast. So I get up early in the morning and go down to the breakfast room to get a cup of coffee for her and me. You could smell the freshly brewed coffee in the room.
So the guy in front of me is holding one of those friggin’ coffee mugs the size of a fire hydrant and proceeds to drain the entire coffee brewer completely dry. I swear this mug must have had a capacity of a half gallon. It’s amazing this asshole didn’t need a wheelbarrow to haul his coffee over to his table. What a prick. I hope he ODed on caffeine.
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29th November 2012 at 10:37 am
Eddie says:
SSS
My front office girls do that to me at the coffeepot every morning.
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29th November 2012 at 10:51 am
Screech says:
Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
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29th November 2012 at 11:01 am
Kill Bill says:
More stupid….
Eric Hartsburg, the man who infamously got a Mitt Romney logo tattooed on the side of his head, says he now wants the ink removed because the former Republican candidate is “shameful” and has “no dignity.”
In an interview published on Wednesday, Hartsburg told Politico that he was taking tattoo removal chain Dr. TATTOFF up on their offer to remove the art for free.
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Screech I prophesize you will be gifted with a “Blow Me” in the near future.
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29th November 2012 at 11:08 am
youcanthavemyglock says:
I have a mini Keurig coffee making machine, it’s excellent and I can choose from over 200 flavors, 12 cup boxes are around 10$, Starbucks is garbage, if I do buy coffee it’s green mountain.
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29th November 2012 at 11:23 am
Administrator says:
45-reasons-why-coffee-is-better-than-women
1. You don’t have to put cream in your coffee to make it taste good.
2. Coffee doesn’t complain when you’ve put whipped cream in it.
3. Coffee looks better in the morning.
4. You won’t fall asleep after a cup of coffee.
5. You can always warm coffee up.
6. Coffee comes with endless refills.
7. Coffee is cheaper.
8. You won’t get arrested for ordering coffee at 3 AM.
9. Coffee never runs out.
10. Coffee is out of your system by tomorrow morning.
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11. You can take black coffee home to meet your parents.
12. You can make coffee as sweet as you want.
13. You can smoke while drinking coffee.
14. You can put out a cigarette in a cup of coffee.
15. Coffee smells and tastes good.
16. You don’t have to put vinegar in your coffee.
17. If your coffee pot leaks, you can use a regular paper towel.
18. You can always get fresh coffee.
19. You can turn the pot on, leave the room, and it will be hot when you get back.
20. They sell coffee at police stations.
21. You can always ditch a bad cup of coffee.
22. Coffee goes down easier.
23. If you put chocolate in your coffee, it doesn’t put on weight.
24. No matter how ugly you are, you can always get a cup of coffee.
25. A big cup or a small cup? It doesn’t matter.
26. Your coffee doesn’t talk to you.
27. Coffee smells good in the morning.
28. Coffee smells good when it’s cold too.
29. Coffee stains are easier to remove.
30. Coffee doesn’t care when you dunk things in it.
31. Coffee doesn’t care what kind of mood you’re in.
32. Coffee doesn’t shed.
33. Coffee is ready in 15 minutes or less.
34. You can’t get a cup of coffee pregnant by putting cream in it.
35. Coffee doesn’t mind being ground.
36. No matter how bad coffee is, you can always make it better.
37. Coffee doesn’t have a time of the month…it’s good all the time.
38. When coffee gets old, you can throw it away.
39. When you have a coffee, you don’t end up with a pube in the back of
your throat.
40. Coffee doesn’t take up half of your bed.
41. Coffee doesn’t mind if you wake up at 3 AM and decide to have a cup.
42. INSTANT COFFEE!!
43. You can have an intelligent conversation with coffee.
44. It takes up to 2 weeks for coffee to grow mold.
45. Your coffee won’t be jealous of a larger cup.
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29th November 2012 at 11:33 am
SSS says:
Screech must have gotten up this morning and said, “I think I could use a good verbal mugging from Admin.”
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29th November 2012 at 11:34 am
Administrator says:
Actual picture of SSS before his morning coffee
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29th November 2012 at 11:34 am
Administrator says:
Screech
Go fuck yourself.
Evidently you are one of the fuckwads that would buy a $7 cup of flavored water.
Cordially
Admin
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29th November 2012 at 11:37 am
Colma Rising says:
Eddie: I stand firmly on the side that your front office girls get first dibs on the coffee.
Administrator: While I agree that $7 is ridiculous ans SBES, I know your game:
You drink watered down pots of pre-grind piss fit for the disaster kit and nothing more and point to the most ridiculously priced big chain drink as reason to belittle the poor, like me, who dare to purchase a $3 cup of Turbo Charged coffee (2 shots, rest regular…. many names, it is what it is) when the need for an edge arises.
You cannot fool me. Come and take your medicine. You’re like that grumpy-butt llpoh who wants to raise tuition until I’m drinking puddle water from a used dixie cup.
Next thing you know, you’ll be saying that minimum wage is too much to pay for the nice people who prepare my tasty, energy lifting nectar of the Emperors for a small fee.
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29th November 2012 at 11:39 am
Administrator says:
Screech
Are you getting 7 or 8 mpg in that Hummer you drive?
Douchebags like Screech drive Hummers and drink $7 lattes to overcompensate for their 3 inch dicks.
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29th November 2012 at 11:42 am
TeresaE says:
Things like this lead me to surmise that a whole lot of Americans are STILL living in the pretend world thinking that everything is “fixed” and that we can return to “normal.”
Kinda like my machinist whom went out this fall and went in debt for 7 years at $550 a month to drive a new Ford Edge. It has been two months and she is already freakin’ out. LLPOH would be unsurprised to know that when she was offered OT twice in November, her hairstylist and shopping were more important things to do than make money she swears she needs. I see her checks, I know she needs it.
Our priorities are all f’d up in this country. Ah well, let the ignorant masses enjoy their wasteful ways while they can. Those days look to be increasingly short-numbered.
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29th November 2012 at 12:11 pm
Stucky says:
It is exceedingly distrurbing to me that Admins knows Screech has a 3 inch dick.
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29th November 2012 at 12:46 pm
Davos says:
I used to call Starbucks Fourbucks now I’ll have to call it Sevenbucks
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29th November 2012 at 1:16 pm
ragman says:
Colma: glad to see someone else thinks ll is a grumpy-butt! Admin: how do you know Screech has a 3 inch member? Inquiring minds want to know.
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29th November 2012 at 1:47 pm
Administrator says:
It’s a statistical known fact that all Hummer drivers and $7 latte drinkers have 3 inch dicks. Look it up at:
http://www.tinydicks.com
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29th November 2012 at 1:58 pm
Colma Rising says:
A proportional equation derived by Professor Colma for the benefit of the wall-eyed angry inch:
You can thank me later.
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29th November 2012 at 2:24 pm
Administrator says:
Screech’s truck
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29th November 2012 at 2:27 pm
Administrator says:
Stuck’s truck
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29th November 2012 at 2:29 pm
Colma Rising says:
As SUV’s are classified by the DOT as a truck, the equation applies.
As for the large coffee mugs: The Administrator’s marketing staff, aka his better half, has offered larger size “We Are Doomed” coffee mugs in stylish two-tone fashions…
I suggest everyone purchase these and drain the pot ahead of the likes of SSS, for the hell of it, and because it’s fun to rile him up.
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29th November 2012 at 2:32 pm
Administrator says:
Admin’s car. Do you know how hard it is to wear shorts?
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29th November 2012 at 2:32 pm
Colma Rising says:
Screech’s penis: -
Stucky’s penis: .
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29th November 2012 at 2:34 pm
Colma Rising says:
Admin:
The equation assumes that having a penis involves having a truck….
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29th November 2012 at 2:37 pm
Administrator says:
Colma
Your equation will need to be changed to vehicle to accurately reflect reality.
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29th November 2012 at 2:40 pm
Stucky says:
Actual picture of Admin’s car
Therefore, Admin’s weenie length formula (answer is 22.75 inches)
One of these is Admin. The other, Colma.
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29th November 2012 at 2:53 pm
Administrator says:
I wish I had that much hair.
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29th November 2012 at 2:55 pm
Colma Rising says:
So does Stucky….
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29th November 2012 at 3:00 pm
Colma Rising says:
No less, I have to go to the Coffee shack, not TardBucks, and I agree this beverage is nothing but folly…
I am going to get so hopped up on caffeine that I will derive further equations with ease between piss breaks. I suggest others do so as well.
Thanks for the fun thread….
I heart TBP
Friday’s almost arrived, folks!!!!
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29th November 2012 at 3:14 pm
Stucky says:
“Look it up at: http://www.tinydicks.com ” ——- Admin
I wonder how many people clicked on that link. I know I did. Please vote Thumbs Up if you did, Thumbs Down if you didn’t. (This IS a scientific poll.)
Hot debate. What do you think?
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29th November 2012 at 3:21 pm
Screech says:
I didn’t appreciate Admin’s value until just now. He has given the disenfranchised and emotionally regressed an opportunity to vent and defuse their hatred of the very stuff that they should be attacking. Sadly, his readers now will not pick up that battle rifle and do what they so much proclaim needs to be done.
Every time someone clicks on TBP, the CIA sends Admin a nickle. Sweet!
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29th November 2012 at 3:22 pm
Administrator says:
Screech using big words to make people think he’s really smaart. Not stupid like everyone says. Sadly, his 75 level IQ prevents him from understanding anything debated by the smart people on TBP. Regale us with your crazed CIA conspiracy theories you fucking douchebag.
Actual picture of Screech telling us he’s smart.
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29th November 2012 at 3:29 pm
Colma Rising says:
Screech: Speaking of emotional regression, is that what your stank-ass wet-lipped darling was babbling about between that slobbery pole-bobbing she winced out for me last week?
I was like: “Jeez, woman, the more you bitch about Screech, the longer it will take…. cut the talk and get chowin’….I don’t have all night”
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29th November 2012 at 3:39 pm
Colma Rising says:
Ok, one more thing while the little truck warms up:
Does anyone have roomies or family who steals a cup before the pot’s done brewing? Then, if not caught red-handed, they deny it? You can tell if someone did because the rest of the pot turns into a coffee-tinged pot of hot water.
OK: Two things, as always, I advocate blitzkrieging third worlders for coffee.
This time for reals, gotta go….
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29th November 2012 at 3:55 pm
Administrator says:
I do this every morning since I brewed the pot and I’m the only one awake at 5:45 am
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29th November 2012 at 3:57 pm
Llpoh says:
I have a commercial quality espresso machine – who needs Starbucks? Double shot in the morning pops my eyes wide open. For just a few cents. That sucker is always on.
Oh, yeah, almost forgot – ragdouche, you asshole, you only come around when you see I am not. Either that or your KKK meetings interfere.
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29th November 2012 at 4:39 pm
JJ3 says:
I have a friend, a guy I used to work with who is a food engineer, he engineered a coffee bean that tastes like the Kofe lupa(the coffee from the Bucket List that comes from tree cat poop).
I have been buying it for a while and there is no bitterness. It is really good.
His website is http://www.coffeeprimero.com if you want to check it out. I buy the whole beans and then grind them myself.
JJ3
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29th November 2012 at 5:01 pm
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29th November 2012 at 5:31 pm
Micro-Be says:
I have to be honest, I now come here more to read the comments then I do to read the stories.
Student debt and coffee.
I just graduated in May. On campus the coffee had been “contracted out” to the likes of Starbucks and Einstein Bros. If you ate at the school cafeterias, which weren’t to cheap, you could get your fill of coffee but it tasted like the shitty coffee in the army chow halls (military people are elastic with their coffee standards…). There were lines for coffee on campus. It was just amazing that so many students would be able to pay for coffee and that the school, because of student demand or whatever, would actually encourage this behavior by guaranteeing a monopoly on campus (this applies to food as well). It was fun. Basically, the school has a contract with Aramark for anything to do with food. If it is a school function they are the ones that cater. Then, Aramark gets to subcontract out to chains like Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, Quiznos, Starbucks, etc. Perhaps it is the most efficient manner but from where I was standing it looked like a lot of money was changing hands between the middle men which of course is paid for by the end consumer. So there, I’ve identified 0.3% of the student loan problem. And it was related to coffee. Good day.
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29th November 2012 at 8:21 pm
lllpoh says:
The articles inform – but truth be told we could dig those up ourselves.
We come for Admin’s intros and the commentary. Nothing else like that anywhewre. It is a real hoot. And hooters to boot. And butts. Don’t forget those. And pictures. And flamewars. We love TBP. Everything goes. Nothing is sacred. The monkies rule.
That reminds me – ragdouche you fucking asshole, come out come out wherever you are. I am never gonna stop kicking your sothern racist ass, you prick.
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29th November 2012 at 8:37 pm
Hope@ZeroKelvin says:
If Normalcy Bias is a Force stronger than Gravity, than Stupidity has a density greater than a Obamasium.
Obamasium may be the densest substance discovered by science to date. It creates such a ginormous Stupidity Field that it affects not only the principle element, Obamasium, but EVERY SINGLE ELEMENT THAT INTERACTS WITH IT.
Wow.
And what is Obamasium, you might ask?
Obamasium is a newly discovered particle. It consists of one ginormous nucleus of Psychotropic Narcississium with a shell of negatively charged Marxonium and some positively charged Douchbagonium.
It is frequently found with in association with 47 highly charged Czaraites, 4 networked MediaSyncophantonites and travels in a cloud of 62 million LibtardMoronities.
There is occasionally observed a parasitic particle called MoochellVacationite with the Obamasium. This particle has a pleasing symmetry, especially of its upper atomic structure and is usually surrounded by 24 Assistanteons. Strangely, this particle can only be observed when the rest of the atomic particles are in a rest period.
Under stress, the Obamasium particle is observed to expell ExecutiveOrderites and to completely change its nuclear polarity. It has also been observed to complely destroy other atomic particles if they compete with the Obamasium for space on the periodic chart.
What holds the Obamasium particle together is currently under intense investigation but is thought to be vast dark clouds of UnpayableAtomicDebt, AtomicCollectivism, and the strange phenom of AtomicEnergyWealthRedistribution. Modern science has been unable to recreate these Forces in the laboratory and they remain theoretical at this time.
Obamasium is also thought to have been created in another Parallel Universe, tentatively called UtopianUnicornPoopingRainbowLand, but was extruded when the Reality Particle assumed dominance there. So, it would seem, that Obamasium is not, in fact, native to this universe.
Regardless, it is imperative to continue study into this strange and dangerous particle. Obamasium can rightly be regarded as a threat to the Universe as dire as the vanishing Twinkieoniums, caused by the terrible scourge of Unionilomas, a particle also often seen with Obamasium.
Quark!!! The End is Nigh!!!
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29th November 2012 at 8:58 pm
SSS says:
“I have to be honest, I now come here more to read the comments then (sic) I do to read the stories.”
—-Micro-Be
This followed by Dr. Hope’s stunning comments on Obamasium. Wise choice indeed, Micro-Be.
Incidentally, Micro, do not be misled by the ignoramuses on this site who would lead you into the Darkness on the issue of illegal drugs. Follow my wise counsel, and you and your progeny will thrive and prosper.
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29th November 2012 at 10:59 pm
Mikey says:
@Micro-be
Ignore the aging spook with his backwards comments concerning drugs.
He’s against all drugs that aren’t performance enhancing on the golf course. We all know he has an unlimited supply of that Purest of the Pure that makes up the Hallowed CIA Stash.
Everyone knows that when he says “Selma” he really means pot
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29th November 2012 at 1:43 am