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

[littlbrowndog]

Why do I read the starbucks twitter handle as starbucks suks 😂😂💪

[SuckingDieselFella]

Costa are part of Whitbread, who also own pubs and Premier Inn.

They're a UK company and pay tax.

Plus, they do decaff Twinings tea!

[WorkingItOutAsIGo]

Today I walked past Starbucks to go to Pret. And will continue!

[Mayomaynot]

It's helpful to know that buying cookies from Starbucks will financially support a charity that lobbies for gender non-conforming children who believe themselves to be trans to be given medication such as Lupron that is used for cancer treatments. Use this information wisely, mothers.

[Lordfrontpaw]

I didn’t buy from pret either - from when they used a loophole so that they didn’t have to put the ingredients on their prepared food and that poor girl died (also the woman who died a few months before that was a suspected allergy attack and they knew about to but still didn’t label their foods (utter contempt for their consumers all just to look ‘home made’).

But Starbucks is on my list now and I have told others about this new thing. Crap coffee anyway.

[traceyracer]

I won't drink from Costa either if they are part of Whitbread (Flora etc).

Pret it shall be!

[NearlyGranny]

Or you might be lucky enough to have a local, independent tea or coffee shop that is run by local business people. My city is thick with them and we never need to use a chain unless we choose to.

[SuckingDieselFella]

@traceyracer Flora is manufactured by Unilever, not Whitbread.

[WomanBornNotWorn]

Like Lush, M&S etc etc they're all about the money and the bandwagon. I now head straight for the local family cafe run by a young couple who make great Freetrade coffee and offer gluten free and dairy free options. I have no doubt they pay their taxes too as they don't have a big team to help them get out of it. I'm trying to think before I choose & buy anything now.

[frazzled1]

twitter.com/BenInLDN/status/1223207646548975619

Few choice comments on this thread:

I’ll have a half caff, double mastectomy, triple caramel maturation blocker, hold the foam.

Exciting! Can't wait to order a Double Mastectomy Mocha and Hysterectomy Americano at Starbucks.

And the ladydique latte!

Hopefully they don’t start using milk from males.

Starbucks are now complicit in the sterilisation of autistic children. Will never visit one again

Shame Starbucks couldn’t put £100k+ into supporting children with disabilities. Instead funding a charity that in years to come people will look back and think what the hell were we thinking supporting Mermaids.

[Lordfrontpaw]

Like Lush, M&S etc etc they're all about the money and the bandwagon as DH says - if it was fashionable to promote mass murder or slavery they’d be all over it.

[ThePurported]

A blog post by Claire Graham about Mermaids and CEO Susie Green:
mrkhvoice.com/index.php/2019/08/11/if-you-knew-susie/

How does any of that align with Starbucks brand values? For example, the Mermaids definition of 'cis' is "happy with gender, fancies opposite sex". By that logic all lesbians and gay men should be trans. Sounds like gay conversion therapy to me.

[Lordfrontpaw]

Well, Starbucks did originate in Wokey Seattle. How stupid do they have to be? Did the HoM really think getting into bed with a controversial ‘charity’ was a good idea?

Hmmm let me think - a few cookies (probably ladened with sugar and E numbers) sold to a few virtues signaling students, or a shed load of coffee, hot chocolate, cakes and sandwiches sold to mums and dads who are concerned about the homophobia and gender stereotypes that are filling their kids head from the minute their discover CBBC? Let me count that one out for them.

Plus all the bad publicity (which as Gerald Rather will tell you ‘not all publicity is good publicity’ and the inevitable scandal of the whole debate that will happen.

[BlackForestCake]

Flora is manufactured by Unilever, not Whitbread.

Apparently Whitbread also sold Costa Coffee off to Coca-Cola in 2018.

[CigarsofthePharoahs]

I'd boycott, but their coffee is terrible and I haven't been there in years.
Let's just hope Gregg's doesn't jump on the Woke train, then I'll really be upset!

[Lordfrontpaw]

Just let people know what they are buying into. ‘mummy, I want a pretty mermaid biscuit! Pleaaaaaaassssee mumeeeeeeeee!’

[rogdmum]

They have an advert on Channel 4 tonight at 9:10. Ugh.

“Tonight's the night. Tune into @Channel4 between 9.10pm - 9.15pm to watch the network premiere of the UK's 1st TV ad' acknowledging the importance of trans identities. @StarbucksUK are raising £100k+ for our helpline services! Thank you.
#WhatsYourName“

twitter.com/mermaids_gender/status/1223907907877646336?s=21

[Lordfrontpaw]

Considering coffee shops never get your name right anyway.

[Lordfrontpaw]

Is it worth going in and ordering the cheapest drink but giving a catchy little slogan name for them to shout our (then a few more times when you suddenly go deaf)... 😈

[MorrisZapp]

I'm pretty sure some 'kind' person is going to share this on my Facebook page. Can anyone suggest a cheerful, non hectoring couple of pithy sentences to let the world know I'm a nice person but that mermaids are utterly ghastly?

[Lordfrontpaw]

No - it’s not worth the effort. Just speak from the heart and don’t be nice. 😇

[MermaidsLegs]

I can never eat the biscuits in Starbucks because they've got nuts in them, or traces of nuts. No doubt the Mermaid Biscuits will have nuts in them or traces - or will they have gone out their way to be truly inclusive and therefore nut free?

[Binterested]

Just accidentally saw that ad. Followed by something else LGBT - wasn’t really watching properly but I think it was for the Renault Clio of all things . It’s all a bit hamfisted tbh. Rainbows vomited over everything.

The Starbucks one is pure gaslighting and if I ever went in there I’d love to tell them my name was Don't Lie to Children. But I never go in there because it’s rank, they don’t pay tax and now they collude in the abuse of children. So no thanks.

[NumberMonkey]

Glad I found this is I saw the ad by accident (love a bit of SAS ). When is the madness going to stop? It’s terrifying.

[TheProdigalKittensReturn]

Can I request Class Action Lawsuit Against Lupron as my name?