So apparently Starbucks have ‘partnered’ with mermaids

And I (polishes halo) always had concerns about Kids Company.

I knew a couple of people who worked for them (lovely people but not very ‘street’ if you know what I mean - very well meaning and unbelieving caring) and our school used to donate to them.

The more I read the more concerned I got that it was more of a cult built around a probably well meaning but naive woman, who thought that throwing money willy nilly at a problem would fix it.

Oh no - I didn’t mean by C4 (heaven forbid). I miss Panorama and what was the other one?

It’s channel 4! I’m sure the investigations will come (like Kids Company and they weren’t even remotely in the same league).

They will. Not by C4, but sooner or later.

🤨

Starbucks has partnered with Mermaids and have made one amazing advert in the process:

more like - "we have a mermaid on the logo and look! we can make some mermaid cookies and the charity is called mermaid! what do they do again? Some charity or something... So cool, so on trend...'

Starbucks planning meeting ...So ya'll, let's do something really cool. Something to distract people from the, ahem, unfortunate tax thing. Let's find the wokest, most vilified lobby group and support it with woke cookies!

It's a shame that these sort of meetings never managed to hit upon the sure fire winner of improving their customer service. Too late for me, I'm afraid. But it might just stop others drifting away.

Well, if you really must - but make sure you have a suitable name they have to yell out (and make sure you are standing at the other end of the shop)

I'm quite partial to a blonde roast flat white, and Starbucks is the only coffee option at my local train station but this has made me think twice. Fuckwits. It's pure virtue signaling. Plenty of other causes they could have supported ( not as many woke points tho)

Right that is me changing my weekly bag of coffee and no more hazelnut lattes, goodbye Starbucks.

It’s channel 4! I’m sure the investigations will come (like Kids Company and they weren’t even remotely in the same league).

I am raging that Channel 4 is involved in this. Can't help wondering that the commissioning team had nothing to do with it and it was ad sales and corporate who thought it a jolly good idea. This from a broadcaster who did Oly Lambert's Trans Kids doc. They should be investigating mermaids not bloody fundraising for them.

Apparently glitter goes right through you (thankfully) and ends up polluting the ocean. Double thanks Starbucks.

With a sprinkling of glittery puberty blocker

Fish fingers mayve?

Yummy fish cookies with glittery sugar on!

Wouldn’t a mermaid taste fishy and a bit salty?

Things covered in glittery sugar taste of nothing but sugar, imo. Taste the disappointment! Which isn't a bad analogy for Mermaids, really.

Well I’ve just seen a photo of haddock chomping on a tail.

It looks cheap and nasty, also flakey, and odd shade of blue and glittery. Not very nice looking.

...And the biscuit looks unappetising too (boom! Boom! 🦊 )

Starbucks planning meeting.

So ya'll, let's do something really cool. Something to distract people from the, ahem, unfortunate tax thing. Let's find the wokest, most vilified lobby group and support it with woke cookies!

So which one shall we support..... let's see
Now who....
Supports and promotes a doctor who's not allowed to practice in the UK?
Trains teachers using offensive gender stereotypes?
Did the most serious GDPR data breach?
Who supports and promotes puberty blockers despite serious concerns there's no evidence they are safe?
Who's own website from 2009 gives the opposite advise to what they promote now?
Who's chief executive took their child abroad for genital surgery on the very day of their 16th birthday?

Why, that would be Mermaids.

YES THEM!!! LET'S SUPPORT THEM. AWESOME. GREAT JOB. WOKE COOKIES ALL AROUND.

What do you mean there's a 4000% rise in girls identifying as trans?? Who gives a shit eh?

The sit in cost is £2.59.

Really? I’d pay 13p, max. I identify my two 5ps as two pound coins and the other 3 pence I identify as 59 pence. No, it doesn’t make any sense whatsoever but when in Rome...

mobile.twitter.com/Channel4/status/1224078788910125056

They need to sell 200,000 to make their donation and I am sure there are that many trans allies and they will all sell out quickly.

I think a) not bothering with Starbucks again and b) an email to the CEO explaining why this is a safeguarding fail on their part is the way to go.

I wonder if Glinner will condemn them... or maybe not after his Donkey Kong 'success'.