So apparently Starbucks have ‘partnered’ with mermaids

[Kenworthington]

So the manager of my local one told me today. She looked aghast when I said I didn’t agree with it then as I started explaining, she had to take a drive through order. We had been chatting about my eldest ds being gay and she obv thought I’d approve of this collaboration. Hah. . I’m thinking of writing down where I stand on it and passing it to her. I take my elderly mum in there every day for a coffee and pastry. Not any more. Sigh. I hate thats it’s made me ‘that’ person

[jadefinch]

The BBC's LGBT correspondent, Ben Hunte, has confirmed this is true. And is happy to promote Starbucks now they're selling a 'trans cookie' with some of the profits going to Mermaids, but he's never once mentioned that a teenager committed suicide following illegal 'treatment' from Mermaids doctor Helen Webberley

[HandsOffMyLangCleg]

Does Ben really care about equality when it comes to the 'L' I wonder?

When asked on Twitter to comment on the attack on lesbian Julie Bindel by 'TownTattle' Ben said nothing.

But a cookie? Is that a woke cookie?

[Needmoresleep]

Costa pay taxes....as do local coffee shops.

[Needmoresleep]

And let's all be "that woman"

[Needmoresleep]

Ah and yes the Ben Hunte story is up on Starbucks UK twitter. No comments yet....

[misscockerspaniel]

Yes, it's on their twitter a/c

//twitter.com/starbucksuk

[HandsOffMyLangCleg]

www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/starbucks-captures-life-altering-moment-transgender-person-trialling-new-name/1672463

[AnneElliott]

I boycott them anyway due to their non payment of tax in the UK. They got very fed up too with lots of people that work in my government department giving their name as 'tax paying British citizen' when they went for a coffee.

The toilet comment is amazing. I may well borrow that.

[Thingybob]

I won't boycott totally but will have to change the name I use in there. Maybe Adulthumanfemale, Genderfree or Genderisbollocks

[jadefinch]

Ben Hunte also failed to cover the fact that police removed lesbians from the National Theatre bar because they wore 'lesbians are women' t-shirts.

And his coverage of Munroe Bergdorf losing their role at NSPCC portrayed Bergdorf as the victim and didn't once mention:

• that Bergdorf was sacked for asking children to privately contact them to talk about sex, in breach of safeguarding rules, and
  

• the person who appointed Bergdorf to the role was also sacked - for filming themselves masturbating in the toilets at work and uploading the videos to the internet.
  

He's one of a number of BBC journalists who've been promoted to a relatively senior role despite not having the qualifications for it, and for repeatedly displaying that they don't care about impartiality, balance or objectivity

[happydappy2]

Starbucks are insane, can’t they see people are seriously concerned about the harm gender ideology is doing to children, which Mermaids specifically is promoting.....this will not end well

[BritneyPeedOnALadybug]

Btw, sorry for doubting you OP and thinking you had the wrong end of the stick. I thought is was doubtful because there was nothing I could find online about it at all at the time of the thread and even when it got updated earlier I could only find one link (posted above) which confirmed it

[BritneyPeedOnALadybug]

I don’t frequent Starbucks but know of the ‘name on the cup’ thing and from what I know, they don’t require you to produce ID to write your name on a cup. I could go into one tomorrow and say my name is Winnie the Pooh if I wanted to and they’d scrawl it on there, surely.

[Kit19]

The ironic thing is that corporate partnerships like these are so hard to get. So many charities in the UK, so many good causes. Generally you only get an in with a global like Starbucks if you have an introductory contact ie. you have well connected and powerful ppl involved with you

Most persecuted powerless minority my arse

[Kit19]

Ha britney so tempted to go in there and say my name is “adult human female”

[EwwSprouts]

They got very fed up too with lots of people that work in my government department giving their name as 'tax paying British citizen' when they went for a coffee.


Adult human female is the one to go with IMO.

[VickyEadieofThigh]

Their coffee tastes like burning tyres.

It bloody DOES!

I haven't gone in there for years, first of all because their coffee is so rank but after I learnt they didn't pay tax I'd have to be feckin' dying of thirst and them the only place to get a drop of liquid before I'd even consider giving them my custom.

In fact, I'd drink my own pee first.

[DtPeabodysLoosePants]

I did this a while ago The barista was bemused.

[Mockers2020Vision]

BBC News have been tol to cut £85M. So far they have sacked Victoria Derbyshire, cancelled a World Service program and announced redundancies at 5Live.

What odds Ben gets a P45, or is he Special?

[VickyEadieofThigh]

What odds Ben gets a P45, or is he Special?

He's feckin' teflon is Ben.

[Poota]

Can you imagine the Beeb getting rid of the super special woke correspondents in cost cutting? I think they'd sooner jettison Strictly. Or maybe, if the poor so and so's who end up watching afternoon daytime telly are lucky enough, Doctors.

[BritneyPeedOnALadybug]

Or maybe, if the poor so and so's who end up watching afternoon daytime telly are lucky enough, Doctors.

Oi! One of my friends is in that show!

[Arseit]

I think explains it

'I tested my new name at the coffee shop' www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-51323246

[rogdmum]

I'm not often in Starbucks but I'd be really tempted to do up an A4 sheet about Mermaids and tape one to the toilet wall every time I'm in.

[EverardDigby]

'm not often in Starbucks but I'd be really tempted to do up an A4 sheet about Mermaids and tape one to the toilet wall every time I'm in

Now I could go in for that!