Starbucks

[Russell]

Where did Google come in?

Tax dodgers

like Starbucks

d00d... give me the name of 1 company not dodging taxes ?

Berkshire Hathaway

[Coligny]

Frack, you just make me lose my bet with myself... (I owe me a cheezeburger nao...)

I was sure these would come up first...

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

I was sure these would come up first...

Batman is capitalist, environment-raping scum...

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Berkshire Hathaway

Isn't this the bird from Les Miserables? (Still can't believe this is not a story about women unhappy with some G-on-G)
Still corporate rapists, no matter how much Buffet may "give back."

[Taro Toporific]

According to Starbucks Japan's horseshat press releases (Business Wire / 2013May10)...

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..

[yanpa]

Any news on when they will start selling coffee?

[DudeAbides]

My ex-lemur worked at a Starbucks. I met her there actually. She made me coffee at home once and used Nespresso. It tasted a lot better.

[Coligny]

"making coffe" with nespresso... aint that like taking a taxi and calling it" driving a car"

[Taro Toporific]

My ex-lemur... used Nespresso. It tasted a lot better.

Nasty Nespresso vs scheisse fausting schplitzing Starbucks...

In English: http://youtu.be/GhzHRuhzPSE

[DudeAbides]

How many men in the world look that much like Clooney?

I still think my ex lemur made a mean Nespresso.

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

No one have any comments about the tax issues of Starbucks in the UK?

How much tax do they actually pay in Japan?

What is it ...again... with the Britts ?

The world is just trying to get up to speed with your p3dophyles...

Who BTW manage to look creepier than The Tall Man from Phantasm... (4ngus Scrimm who IRL is/was an awesome guy)

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One of those guys is an icon, the other one is a menace...

Sorry to resurrect a zombie thread, but I was thumbing through some online editions of (Australian) football magazines this morning and found this ripper ad from 1980....Are you ready to play? OK!
The copy is also hilarious, dripping with innuendo: Trust British Paints to introduce a new interior matt fashion finish wall paint that won't be intimidated by kids.
You can wash Nu-Vinyl repeatedly and you won't leave tell-tale shiny patches to show where you've washed.

[wagyl]

Wow he still had a contract until recently. The other dirty secret: it looks like British Paints is actually an Indian company, from way back.

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Wow he still had a contract until recently. The other dirty secret: it looks like British Paints is actually an Indian company, from way back.

Sure, can...

More proof the sun never set on the British Empire because Poms couldn't be trusted in the dark...

[legion]

Wow he still had a contract until recently. The other dirty secret: it looks like British Paints is actually an Indian company, from way back.

until he was found guilty of the crime of being famous in the 1970s

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

until he was found guilty of the crime of being famous in the 1970s

All things considered, that is a fairly serious crime...

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Sorry....

[Taro Toporific]

Starbucks at 6:20am on the Tomei yesterday...

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Starbucks @ Ashigara Service Area, Tomei Expressway panoramio map/photo

[GomiGirl]

Sorry....

I am going to need some serious therapy after listening to that...

[wagyl]

Sorry....

I am going to need some serious therapy after listening to that...

It is the portrait with Coogee Bear which does it.

It is his defence case: He doesn't want anybody else. He is self-contained in his desires.

(You don't have to live with the knowledge that he taught your mother how to swim)

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Sorry....

I am going to need some serious therapy after listening to that...

It is the portrait with Coogee Bear which does it.

It is his defence case: He doesn't want anybody else. He is self-contained in his desires.

(You don't have to live with the knowledge that he taught your mother how to swim)

I watched A Cunt Affair footage of the woman accusing Rolf yesterday. I pity Brutain if someone can be arrested there and their reputation sullied beyond repair based on (uncorroborated) statements such as those given by the alleged victim.

[Taro Toporific]

Get high at Starbucks Japan!

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Starbucks -- Shiga Kogen highlands in Nagano Prefecture ...at a preview the day before its limited period opening...
...at an altitude of 2,306 meters, it's the highest among all the company's outlets in Japan.

via House'o'Japan | 2013-December-19

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[Samurai_Jerk]

Tokyo’s venerable coffee houses unfazed by Starbucks’ muscle

The American coffee company is so popular in Japan that it recently announced plans to buy out its Japanese partner for $900 million and take full control of operations in its second-largest market.

But not everyone is a fan of the customizable drinks and free Wi-Fi on offer at over 1,000 branches of the global chain, soon to be found in every prefecture, including remote, rural Tottori.

“The way they make (coffee) is totally wrong. It’s not tasty,” says Ichiro Sekiguchi, the 100-year-old owner of long-established independent Tokyo coffee shop Cafe de L’Ambre, not far from Shinbashi Station in the Ginza district.

[...]

“There are many people who drink coffee in Japan, but they drink bad coffee,” said Sekiguchi, who estimates that there are only “around five” truly good coffee shops in Japan. Naturally, that includes his.

While smoking is banned in Starbucks, the acceptance of clouds of toxic cigarette fumes may be a factor keeping old school coffee shops like L’Ambre afloat.

“Japan is still way behind in terms of anti-smoking policies, especially measures against secondhand smoke,” said Hiroshi Yamato, a doctor and smoking expert at the University of Occupational and Environmental Health in Kitakyushu.

“You can still smoke in a lot of public places in Japan such as office buildings, coffee shops, restaurants and bars,” he said.

Sekiguchi, who smokes a pipe, said new cafes that ban smoking have got it wrong, as “after drinking delicious coffee, you want to smoke tobacco.”

[matsuki]

Sekiguchi, who smokes a pipe, said new cafes that ban smoking have got it wrong, as “after drinking delicious coffee, you want to smoke tobacco.”

Totally disqualifies him as to knowing what tastes delicious...

[Samurai_Jerk]

Sekiguchi, who smokes a pipe, said new cafes that ban smoking have got it wrong, as “after drinking delicious coffee, you want to smoke tobacco.”

Totally disqualifies him as to knowing what tastes delicious...

He smokes a pipe. Good pipe tobacco is not the same as a cigarette. Same with a fine cigar.

[Russell]

Sekiguchi, who smokes a pipe, said new cafes that ban smoking have got it wrong, as “after drinking delicious coffee, you want to smoke tobacco.”

Totally disqualifies him as to knowing what tastes delicious...

He smokes a pipe. Good pipe tobacco is not the same as a cigarette. Same with a fine cigar.

IMHO, it's like the choice between eating dog shit or cat shit...

[Samurai_Jerk]

Sekiguchi, who smokes a pipe, said new cafes that ban smoking have got it wrong, as “after drinking delicious coffee, you want to smoke tobacco.”

Totally disqualifies him as to knowing what tastes delicious...

He smokes a pipe. Good pipe tobacco is not the same as a cigarette. Same with a fine cigar.

IMHO, it's like the choice between eating dog shit or cat shit...

I assume you speak from experience.

Any man who can't enjoy a cigar isn't a man.

[Russell]

Sekiguchi, who smokes a pipe, said new cafes that ban smoking have got it wrong, as “after drinking delicious coffee, you want to smoke tobacco.”

Totally disqualifies him as to knowing what tastes delicious...

He smokes a pipe. Good pipe tobacco is not the same as a cigarette. Same with a fine cigar.

IMHO, it's like the choice between eating dog shit or cat shit...

I assume you speak from experience.

No experience in either case, but it is easy to imagine.

Any man who can't enjoy a cigar isn't a man.

What shall I say, I don't need a cigar to feel like a man...

[Mike Oxlong]

Didn't Siggy say, "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar?"

[Coligny]

For a start, pipe tobacco usually smells deliciously good even for non smockers in the room.

This coming from someone who nearly stabbed a senior salesman in his company with a screwdriver when he entered my office/workshop with a lit smoke. And he was lucky it was a day where my cat stayed home (office cat shitter was out of fresh sand) she would have skinned his head on the spot...

[yanpa]

You have BYOC (Bring Your Own Cat) in France!?