Rupert Everett has branded the Starbucks coffee chain a "cancer"
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Hollywood star Rupert Everett has branded the Starbucks coffee chain a
"cancer."
The actor is backing a campaign to boycott a new branch close to his
home in Bloomsbury, central London.
It will be the first major chain to open on Lamb's Conduit Street,
which is famed for its small, independent shops.
Everett, 47, said: "Starbucks is spreading like a cancer.
"Nobody in the neighbourhood wants it, including me.
"There are plenty of diners and coffee shops there already."
Everett, who starred in An Ideal Husband and My Best Friend's Wedding,
has joined with 1,000 other residents and traders to sign a petition
expressing "deep concern" about plans for the new Starbucks.
The petition claims that the store's opening next month will herald the
end of the long tradition of independent shops in the street.
Ash Ranpura, who lives in the street and helped organise the campaign,
said: "Lamb's Conduit Street is a rarity in central London, having a
genuine village atmosphere where locals know each other, stop and talk
and rally round when their community is under threat.
"It is one of the jewels in Camden's crown and has been quietly
transforming itself into one of the most charming, unique and
interesting shopping streets in London.
"The loss of such a thriving street to global chains would be a great
loss for the capital."
Representatives for Rugby Estate, the street's landlord, defended the
decision to allow Starbucks to open, describing it as a "highly
reputable company."
Starbucks said the store would provide more than 10 jobs.
The company said it looked forward to a good relationship with
residents and "contributing to the community."
Gooserider
<PUSSS...@aol.com> wrote in message
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> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=401223&in_page_id=1770
> Hollywood star Rupert Everett has branded the Starbucks coffee chain a
> "cancer."
>
> The actor is backing a campaign to boycott a new branch close to his
> home in Bloomsbury, central London.
>
> It will be the first major chain to open on Lamb's Conduit Street,
> which is famed for its small, independent shops.
>
> Everett, 47, said: "Starbucks is spreading like a cancer.
>
> "Nobody in the neighbourhood wants it, including me.
If that is the case, then the Starbucks should open to NO customers. While I
agree with the idea of supporting local business, if Starbucks didn't make a
cup of coffee people liked, they wouldn't be as successful as they are.
jwr...@gmail.com
growth and proliferation of Starbucks. Let's face it, coffee is fairly
innocuous as consumer products go. I mean, does anyone HAVE to
patronize Starbucks if they don't want to? Folks (in the US at least)
should be far more concerned about companies like Walgreens
(pharmaceuticals) and Walmart, which force communities to purchase
their essential goods and services from them by becoming the only
option around.
Terry Lomax
gentrification and putting small "mom & pop" shops out of business.
The people who go to Starbucks are total losers: socially incept,
pretentious, bigoted pseudo-intellectuals. The customers are also
obese, as the typical Starbucks "coffee" has many more calories than a
Big Mac combo meal.
There are even more profound reasons to boycott Starbucks. Starbucks
is an Israeli company, contributing millions to Israel's genocide of
good Gentiles.
Starbucks causes huge amounts of rainforest in Central and South
America to get clearcut. Starbucks grows coffee beans by clearcutting
old-growth rainforest. Starbucks exploits people in slave labor to
harvest the beans, then murders the earth some more by transporting the
beans thousands of miles.
Starbucks also murders the earth by using styrofoam containers, using
CFCs that break down the ozone layer, and the containers also pile up
in landfills (on the rare occasions the customers actually put the
containers in the trash, usually they throw the containers out the
windows of their gas-guzzling SUVs).
It's karma whenever a Starbucks customer dies from consuming their
products. One good thing about coffee drinking: the coffee has a
chemical reaction with the styrofoam container, creating a carcinogen.
It is a good thing when coffee drinkers die of cancer.
Terry Lomax
jwr...@gmail.com top-posted:
> Yeah, I could never understand why everyone got so up-in-arms over the
> growth and proliferation of Starbucks. Let's face it, coffee is fairly
> innocuous as consumer products go. I mean, does anyone HAVE to
> patronize Starbucks if they don't want to? Folks (in the US at least)
> should be far more concerned about companies like Walgreens
> (pharmaceuticals) and Walmart, which force communities to purchase
> their essential goods and services from them by becoming the only
> option around.
"Walmart and Walgreens are worse" is not a valid argument to let
Starbucks off the hook. I hate Walgreens because they're morally
bankrupt, giving out abortion pills on demand. I hate Walmart because
governments give them tax abatement and because Walmart is racist and
feminist (over 80% of Walmart workers are white women). I also hate
Starbucks.
Here are a bunch of articles with strong arguments to boycott Starbucks
and why they ruin neighborhoods (similar to the Everett arguments):
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/action/stopstarbucks/
Here's proof of Zionist behavior by Starbucks:
PUSSS...@aol.com
that sell cigarettes...now that's real "cancer"...oh, btw, he smokes,
so I guess they're okay.
Billie
jwr...@gmail.com
> products. One good thing about coffee drinking: the coffee has a
> chemical reaction with the styrofoam container, creating a carcinogen.
> It is a good thing when coffee drinkers die of cancer.
I don't patronize Starbucks all too frequently, but I don't recall ever
seeing styrofoam packaging there. When people are going to rant like
you do, at least have some concrete facts at your disposal. Perhaps
you're thinking of McDonalds - an infinitely more insidious threat to
human health and the world's ecostructure.
While I'm at it, let me rant - isn't it a little hypocritical to focus
on one company for its environmental and social wrongs? After all,
Starbucks DOES represent the essence of what America is all about -
that is consuming resources and proliferating all over the planet. The
rest of the world be damned.
Zeb Quinn
You forgot to take your meds. Go do it. Now.
Gooserider
"*~* Magda *~*" <chris...@hey.eu> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 14:15:52 GMT, in alt.gossip.celebrities, "Gooserider"
> <Goose...@mouse-potato.com> arranged some electrons, so they looked like
> this:
>
> ...
> ... <PUSSS...@aol.com> wrote in message
> ... news:1155996411.3...@75g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
> ... >
> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=401223&in_page_id=1770
> ... > Hollywood star Rupert Everett has branded the Starbucks coffee chain
> a
> ... > "cancer."
> ... >
> ... > The actor is backing a campaign to boycott a new branch close to his
> ... > home in Bloomsbury, central London.
> ... >
> ... > It will be the first major chain to open on Lamb's Conduit Street,
> ... > which is famed for its small, independent shops.
> ... >
> ... > Everett, 47, said: "Starbucks is spreading like a cancer.
> ... >
> ... > "Nobody in the neighbourhood wants it, including me.
> ...
> ... If that is the case, then the Starbucks should open to NO customers.
> While I
> ... agree with the idea of supporting local business, if Starbucks didn't
> make a
> ... cup of coffee people liked, they wouldn't be as successful as they
> are.
>
> Shuuuuuuure... Because, before Shitbucks, people were drinking coffee they
> didn't like.
That's not what I meant, and you know it. I'm pretty anti-corporate, but
Starbucks has brought gourmet(well, faux gourmet) coffee to the masses, and
they seem to like it. Rupert Everett's claim that "nobody in the
neighbourhood wants it, including me" will be proven true if the Starbucks
closes due to lack of sales. Period. I would rather support a small
business, but Starbucks are successful because people want them and they
like the product which is offered, at a premium cost, I might add.
Gooserider
"Terry Lomax" <Lom...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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All of what you say may be true. Starbucks may be a corporation with
questionable corporate morals. I'm not addressing that. I'm addressing
Rupert Everett's claim that "Nobody in the neighborhood wants it, including
me". If the neighborhood does not want the Starbucks, it will fail from lack
of sales. Period. If you don't like it, don't spend your dollars there. But
blocking the store from coming into the neighborhood is as anti-competitive
as Starbucks itself.
avery
<jwr...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> I don't patronize Starbucks all too frequently, but I don't recall ever
> seeing styrofoam packaging there. When people are going to rant like
> you do, at least have some concrete facts at your disposal. Perhaps
> you're thinking of McDonalds - an infinitely more insidious threat to
> human health and the world's ecostructure.
> While I'm at it, let me rant - isn't it a little hypocritical to focus
> on one company for its environmental and social wrongs? After all,
> Starbucks DOES represent the essence of what America is all about -
> that is consuming resources and proliferating all over the planet. The
> rest of the world be damned.
I hate Starbucks! To me, their coffee tastes like battery acid, and I can't
stand terms like "Tall," "Venti (Vent-aaaaaaaaaa-aaay)" and "Grande
(Grandaaaaaaaaaay)" instead of the perfectly appropriate and far less
humiliating Small, Medium and Large. It also really irks me that , after
waiting 10 minutes for your $45 coffee, you have to forge your way over to
some self-service island-cum-trash bin to put in your own milk and sugar.
As far as company environmental hypocrisy goes, I have gotten several press
kits from one of the most sanctimoniously "green," eco-friendly, globally
aware companies in the hemisphere (they use soy-based ink on post-consumer
recycled paper, use minimal packaging and use sustainable ingredients grown
by indigenous peoples to simultaneously preserve Amazonian tribes and the
rainforest itself, all of which is dandy). Shockingly, these press kits -- a
few fact sheets and press releases in a pretty (post-consumer-recycled)
folder -- arrive by courier in huge boxes packed with styrofoam peanuts!
Considering how many of these things they send out, it's just unbelievably
wasteful and unecessary, not to mention a complete contradiction to their
carefully crafted image.
f_pa...@yahoo.com
Terry Lomax wrote:
> It's karma whenever a Starbucks customer dies from consuming their
> products. One good thing about coffee drinking: the coffee has a
> chemical reaction with the styrofoam container, creating a carcinogen.
> It is a good thing when coffee drinkers die of cancer.
Starbucks doesn't use styrofoam cups, and coffee is increasingly
believed to have health benefits.
Messalina
I know nothing of Starbucks' policies, but if Lomax says something I
take it as an article of faith that it is false.
Mez
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"Messalina" <destruc...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>
>
> I know nothing of Starbucks' policies, but if Lomax says something I
> take it as an article of faith that it is false.
>
> Mez
Yeah. Like there's calories in a cup of plain coffee. Imagine ruining a
neighborhood through gentrification (ie, bringing in taxpayers).
Kris
Annie....@gmail.com
PUSSS...@aol.com wrote:
> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=401223&in_page_id=1770
> Hollywood star Rupert Everett has branded the Starbucks coffee chain a
> "cancer."
Get a real cause assbite..how about putting this effort into ACTUAL
CANCER.
Gooserider
"Comcast User" <JohnJo...@comcastic.not> wrote in message
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Well, there are no calories in coffee, but there are lots of calories in
sugar and milk and cream and biscotti and scones.
Annie....@gmail.com
Terry Lomax wrote:
> Everett is correct. Starbucks ruins neighborhoods, causing
> gentrification and putting small "mom & pop" shops out of business.
If mom and pop can't cut it too bad...seriously.
8MilesHigh
*~* Magda *~* wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 16:43:53 GMT, in alt.gossip.celebrities, "Gooserider"> ... That's not what I meant, and you know it. I'm pretty anti-corporate, but
> ... Starbucks has brought gourmet(well, faux gourmet) coffee to the masses, and
> ... they seem to like it. Rupert Everett's claim that "nobody in the
> ... neighbourhood wants it, including me" will be proven true if the Starbucks
> ... closes due to lack of sales. Period. I would rather support a small
> ... business, but Starbucks are successful because people want them and they
> ... like the product which is offered, at a premium cost, I might add.
>
> If the area is touristy, it won't close down any soon. There is a SB close to the
> Beaubourg museum, but I only see teenagers and obese tourists in there. Although it's
> never full, I don't believe it's losing money...
There is only one I know is near a tourist center, here. It's
non-smoking, so none of the locals go there (even the Berliners who
don't smoke take real umbrage at being forced by a business, who
depends on their money, to follow orders. That, and it's waaay too
expensive compared to the Mom and Pops which have better coffee.)
bel
Paris Hilton
life, idiot! There's Darfur and then there's Starbucks, lol! ROTFLMAO!
PH
Lazarus
PUSSS...@aol.com wrote:
> Everett, 47, said: "Starbucks is spreading like a cancer.
>
> "Nobody in the neighbourhood wants it, including me.
>
The proof of that will be the failure of the coffee shop. Now I suppose
it is possible that Starbucks made a mistake with this location. Nobody
there wants it there. That seems so unlikely that the man's statement
kills he weight he might have carried. Call it an eyesore. Point at
traffic problems. Say you hate paying those prices for their coffee.
Please.
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one says SB is an Israeli company. yeppers, Seattle Israel.
Gimmeabreakfuhcryinoutloud.
Gooserider
"mayvenne" <mayv...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Mez you are so right. and the funniest part was when the delusional
> one says SB is an Israeli company. yeppers, Seattle Israel.
While Starbucks may not be an actual Israeli company, their CEO is a HUGE
Zionist.
Google search for "Starbucks + Israel" reveals that Starbucks is going to
close or has closed all its Israeli locations, and brings up this website
with information on Howard Schulz's close ties to Israel.
http://www.inminds.co.uk/boycott-starbucks.html
If people want to boycott Starbucks because of their CEO's support for an
Israeli government they find offensive, more power to them. If people want
to boycott companies who do business with Iran, Syria, or Lebanon, more
power to them, too.
avery
"Gooserider" <Goose...@mouse-potato.com> wrote in message
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Am I shallow and vapid for wanting to remain blissfully ignorant of who's
being blown up as a result of my large coffee with an embarrassing amount of
milk in it?
f5
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"avery" <doom...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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I just want my friggin' coffee.
To be truthful, I don't like Starbucks' coffee either but every once
in awhile their lattes hit the spot.
www.leftturnonly.typepad.com Stories with a Bite!
Annie....@gmail.com
You can't fault someone for being principled. I don't go to the movies
at the theater 1 mile from me, because the guy who owns it is a
notorious, now nationally known homophobic ass. I drive 25 minutes to
another theatre.
sp...@home.com
Gooserider wrote:
> <PUSSS...@aol.com> wrote in message
> news:1155996411.3...@75g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
> > Hollywood star Rupert Everett has branded the Starbucks coffee chain a
> > "cancer."
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > "Nobody in the neighbourhood wants it, including me.
>
I do not go to Starbucks becasue the people that go there are
extremely annoying..
1) They never have correct change....
2) They use Credit Cards to pay for a $ 1.90 dollar cup onf Coffee
3) They have trouble making up their mind what type of " Coffee they
want"
4) The take at least 1 min to pour Cream into their coffee
5)The take and extremely good shot of Cappaciono and order it with a
container fulol of powdered Frappe
6)they are extremely abusinve to the poor kids slaving behind the
Cappacino Machine.. with comments like " its too hot,its too clold, not
enought Foam , to much foam etc etc etc
While I like Sbux Coffee I now buy it by the LB and blend it at home to
avoid lenghty lines and annoying customers.
record hunter
Annie....@gmail.com wrote:
> I don't go to the movies
> at the theater 1 mile from me, because the guy who owns it is a
> notorious, now nationally known homophobic ass. I drive 25 minutes to
> another theatre.
Which nationally known homophobic ass is that?
Annie....@gmail.com
Larry H. Miller. He owns a lotta crap here in the Salt Lake City, Utah
area. Including the huge movie complex in Jordan Commons.
He refused to play the movie Brokeback Mountain in his theaters
claiming it was immoral, yet he continued to show the movie Hostel.
maryanne kehoe
Well, when they opened up near our old place, the only bad thing that
happened was that the local Caribou Coffee went out of business!
maryanne kehoe
Starbucks is too strong when you get it in the shop. You can be jacked
all morning on just one cup. Caribou's (here in Atlanta) is even
*stronger*
mayvenne
figure head board but ownership ) of Caribou. The friggin war in the
mideast is being fought with cawfee talk.
Ok here is the post. And for the record, SB closed its stores in Israel
YEARS ago (the link you all have is from 1998 or 1999).
Here is the ownership thing for Caribous. Check it out on snopes.com
http://www.snopes.com/business/alliance/caribou.asp
f_pa...@yahoo.com
Starbucks' coffee is stronger than, say, Dunkin Donuts', in the sense
that they use more ground coffee per cup of water when they make the
stuff. But it's also darker roasted, which changes the flavor (in a
good way IMO) and decreases the caffeine content. I find it hard to
get wired on Starbucks' coffee. Cheap supermarket brands have much
more caffeine than Starbucks coffee.
Gooserider
> Ok well then for the record look at the ownership details (not the
> figure head board but ownership ) of Caribou. The friggin war in the
> mideast is being fought with cawfee talk.
> Ok here is the post. And for the record, SB closed its stores in Israel
> YEARS ago (the link you all have is from 1998 or 1999).
> Here is the ownership thing for Caribous. Check it out on snopes.com
> http://www.snopes.com/business/alliance/caribou.asp
And if people want to boycott Caribou Coffee for that reason, they are more
than welcome to. There are valid reasons for supporting neither side in the
conflict, IMHO.
record hunter
Thanks. That's one NKHA I don't have to deal with.
Lazarus
Boycott. That sounds so 60's. Think of all those idealistic humans
running about passing out cheaply printed fliers contending if we
lacked their understanding of such and such we were something very low
in the world. We were to boycott this or that because it would bring
about this or that change. Those people probably now work for or own
some of those companies we were to boycott. It seems that a few have
realized that the boycott is a good business against business weapon
and have used it in attempts to get the competition. I buy what a want
and can afford; you do the say. You can certainly ask me not to do as I
like, but obstructing me...
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