Small is tall (Stupid fucking $tarbu¢ks sizes)
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Stumble ThisA quick story of one shopper's dilemma when buying coffee at an uppity trendy coffee shop.
I don't know about you, but I fucking hate coffee shops and other places that feel the need to be all exotic, especially when the coffee sucks ass and tastes like armpit juice. There's a coffee shop in town that labels their smallest size as "Medium." And it was in a bookstore. I was tempted to go get a dictionary to point out the definition of the word "medium" and how it had no place on the end of a size scale.
I don't know about you, but I fucking hate coffee shops and other places that feel the need to be all exotic, especially when the coffee sucks ass and tastes like armpit juice. There's a coffee shop in town that labels their smallest size as "Medium." And it was in a bookstore. I was tempted to go get a dictionary to point out the definition of the word "medium" and how it had no place on the end of a size scale.
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The rhyming is amusing though. *bravo for the small screen performance.
So, yeah, I didn't bother to watch it, as I thought it'd be crap.
But she's good... very good, very nicely edited, nice flowing script, easy on the eyes also. Just an all round really nice little vid
EDIT: Hmmm, I guess the person working the register didn't know about the shorts or maybe the local Starbucks is just unique. . . .
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Well FUCK you guys if you can't appreciate intrafamilial humor! Pricks.
-but she's so darn adorable!
But noooo!!! Everyone has to have the same self important attitude that their little shop is the ONLY ONE THAT EVER EXISTED.
Customers do it too. I was in Starbucks the other day and a woman ordered a muffin. When they gave it to her she said, "YOU'RE NOT GOING TO HEAT IT UP?!?!?" Like it should be common sense that she likes her fucking muffins hot. (whoa)
You know how to trip them up?
Walk into Starbucks and say:
I TAKE HALF-AND-HALF, SO PLEASE GIVE ME FOURTEEN OUNCES OF COFFEE.
let them figure out the rest.
-Karl
Personally, I'll stick with Tim Horton's - Small, Medium, Large and Extra-Large - nice and simple.
Ahem. Tall is second-smallest. Thank you.
Ok - I'm on board with the idea that they can call the goddam sizes whatever they like, but why is it so hard to "do the conversion" in your head if you work at one of these places?
I mean, isn't it kind of obvious (ok - pathetically obvious) that the 'large' in this nomenclature FUNCTIONS as the medium and the geek on the mike could just play along with the MacDonald's-challenged customer and get him the middle size?
For christ's sake... upvote for making a point long overdue.
When I worked at Tully's in seattle we had to use the Spanish: "Viente"
Also the reason why they call them "talls" is because that is the largest size drink you can get in most italian espresso bars. They mostly drink espresso shots there.
The order is:
1 Shot, 2 Shots, Tall, Grande, Venti
Now it really doesnt seem sooooo out of place.
It's not in Italy. Therefore, it's out of place.
Simple example:
C: "Yes, I'd like a small coffee."
B: "You mean a tall?"
C: "Yes, that's right, a small."
Artistically the video wasn't all that bad besides the self indulgency.
If they were gone tomorrow, they, and every fast-food restaurant on earth, twould be a the herald of a grand and glorious new paradigm on the planet.....
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Upvote for Arsenault's comment about medium not belonging on the end of a scale. That's just mind-bogglingly simple and brilliant.
Actually, that was in my description.
So we have 3 sizes, but not tall, grande, and venti. That would be too easy, probably also copyright infringement. So we have a traditional size (the same as a Starbucks' short), a tall size, and a grande, which are equivalent to their Starbucks counterparts.
It would make sense if "Tall" meant something in Italian like Grande and Venti do, but I digress.
Besides, Starbucks makes some of the shittiest coffee in the world. It also explains why people come into my work and complain the coffee isn't dark enough. It's plenty dark enough, it's just not burnt to shit like Starbucks coffee.
Stop being a whinny bitch and don't fucking make everyone else wait for your coffee cup size definition philosophical debate.
It's just a freaking coffee... or rather "vanilla latte" that's not coffee that is what you Bitch-Ass Nigga drinks.
You know I should make a video about morons who say "I can't function without coffee!" Giving yourself excuses for being a bitch? Coffee usually need hour to affect you, you fucking moron, the caffeine don't have immediate affect on you! It has to travel through your circulatory system. If you think otherwise, then the act of being "ineffectual" is on you, not the lack of coffee and being a bitch is who you really are.
And you dumb bitch... caffeine increase loss of calcium, you need that so you don't get osteoporosis as older woman... and it appears you are getting old.
I'm a bit of English in me, so tea is my brew. No need to ask for seventeen things: "Put hot water in cup, and give me tea bag, sugar, and spoon". It also costs me 1/4th what my cooworkers pay for. And, when they loose their caffine 'high', I'm still buzzing away.
How to kill your election chances (regardless of office at local, state, or federal): Say you will increase the tax on coffee by 0.0000000000000001%. Automatic lost.