Kellye from Huntsville, Alabama spotted these notes posted on boarded-up diner during last month’s G20 summit in Pittsburgh.
Explains Kellye: “The broken windows were caused by a few rowdy anarchists/drunk college kids from Oakland who apparently missed the mark in their defiance of the man. Since the vandals represented only a very small cross-section of protesters involved, other more local-friendly civil disobedients apparently saw fit to apologize for in their stead and offer their respectful patronage.”
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187 responses so far ↓
#1
pony girl
So, if Starbucks gets nailed next, can they sue the notewriters?
Oct 20, 2009 at 9:30 pm rating: 90
#2
oi
Did dear M&P realize that they signed the note as assholes?
Oct 20, 2009 at 9:31 pm rating: 90
#3
Narwhal
Urge to correct spelling… rising.
Oct 20, 2009 at 9:31 pm rating: 90
#4
oi
Switching between capital and small in the first note is fucking delicious.
I know I know.
Oct 20, 2009 at 9:33 pm rating: 90
#5
Perplexed
If you own a restaurant, shouldn’t you be able to spell “restaurant?”
Oct 20, 2009 at 9:36 pm rating: 90
#6
oi
Would it have been less damaging if they had broken starbuck’s window too?
Oct 20, 2009 at 9:39 pm rating: 90
#7
oi
Journey of protesters: from dear to assholes
Oct 20, 2009 at 9:42 pm rating: 90
#8
Canthz_B
When drunken protesters are in town it’s best to remove the “Restrooms Are For Paying Customers Only” sign.
Oct 20, 2009 at 9:48 pm rating: 90
#9
Adrienne
I love that place! Those Lyonnaise potatoes are fucking delicious.
Oct 20, 2009 at 9:49 pm rating: 90
#10
Canthz_B
Does everyone aboard the Galactica have more than one asshole, or is this a congenital anomaly particular to Starbuck?
Oct 20, 2009 at 10:32 pm rating: 90
#11
Starbucks Barista Extraordinaire
Oh, sweet irony! (Alanis, take notes on REAL irony).
Oct 20, 2009 at 10:33 pm rating: 90
#12
B.Marten
Huntsville Alabama Representing!
Oct 20, 2009 at 10:36 pm rating: 90
#13
P&G diner lover
The P&G Diner is a tasty place. Incredible pancakes. And apparently now windowless…
Oct 20, 2009 at 10:40 pm rating: 90
#14
adnoxious
They didn’t forget about Starbucks. Where do you think they got the energy to trash the diner?
Oct 20, 2009 at 10:47 pm rating: 90
#15
kielejocain
Of course, Starbucks is one of the more responsible massive corporations in existence.
Hating on corporations based on size is just lazy. You have principles other than ‘down with large groups of people,’ I assume; apply them.
Oct 20, 2009 at 11:37 pm rating: 90
#16
Cynta
Oh, c’mon. This is awesome. Keeping the fabric of society together.
Oct 21, 2009 at 1:30 am rating: 90
#17
bowloftoast
By order of the City of Pittsburgh chief police, I hereby declare this thread to be an unlawful assembly. I order all those assembled to immediately disperse…if you do not disperse, you may be arrested and/or subject to other police action.
*launch tear gas*
Oct 21, 2009 at 2:04 am rating: 90
#18
Critical Grass
Miss Place and Miss Spelling had a nice dinner at the Assholes’ restraunt. Yeah…
Oct 21, 2009 at 4:35 am rating: 90
#19
eslinger
P&G’s: Now offering al fresco dining!
Oct 21, 2009 at 6:57 am rating: 90
#20
M®
Apparently P&G didn’t have the capital to pay for the “protection” that Starbucks did.
That’s not a mermaid on their cup. It is the Godmother.
Oct 21, 2009 at 8:21 am rating: 90
#21
GhostWriter
Pitt frat boys rarely support environmental, labor or social justice- those concerns rank far below keg access, cute Yinzer party attendance, and midnight excursions to the “O” for a chili-cheese-&-onion dog. To them, “G20″ is a new model of smart phone. In short, they wouldn’t spend their weekend protesting, especially if Pitt has a home football game.
I’m betting those windows were really busted by by “plants” from the local redneck Conservative coalition (i.e., Starbucks management!)
Oct 21, 2009 at 8:59 am rating: 90
#22
Mark
♪ You can get anything you want
at Mom & Pop’s restaurant
excepting assholes ♫
Oct 21, 2009 at 9:43 am rating: 90
#23
M®
Hungarian Protesters are so caring and polite…
Oct 21, 2009 at 9:44 am rating: 90
#24
Charlie
I couldn’t believe the idiots smashed the windows there. Pancakes, man. Pancakes. They also smashed the windows of numerous businesses down Forbes Ave., which was ridiculous. I hate when out-of-towners and drunk college kids come and act the fool.
Oct 21, 2009 at 9:47 am rating: 90
#25
park rose
More mom and pop shops!
More hungry protesters!!
More rotting meat!!!
Brains!!!! Must have brains!!!!!
Cold corpse enterprses MMM…
Cold corpse must co-operate, inter prizes…
Zombie not like cold corpse
Zombie wants warm corpse, rancid corpse…
Mmm, corporal possession…corporeal property…
Rotting, maggot-infested, wriggling mealy-mouthed capitalist/hippy dripping flesh…
*drool*
*drool*
Zombie wants mom and pop shops to thrive over cold corpses…
Zombie wants moms and pops…
Cold corpses and mom and pop in same place very convenient for zombie.
Zombie no can walk very fast.
Brains, must have brains…Zombie needs more brains…Zombie has anger too… Zombie wants to share…
Oct 21, 2009 at 9:52 am rating: 90
#26
M®
Does P&G serve Soylent green, eggs and Ham?
Because Soylent green is people!
Oct 21, 2009 at 10:16 am rating: 90
#27
park rose
Edited.
Oct 21, 2009 at 10:34 am rating: 90
#28
Neeners
If the hungry protesters are so sorry then they should do something useful like take up a collection for the ****in broken window caused by who????? Oh yeah the loving (heart) hungry protestors. By the way which of the hungry protestors don’t agree (most of them are angry)?
Oct 21, 2009 at 1:58 pm rating: 90
#29
Neeners
If I had my own diner, my restaurant would have to be a dysfunctional mom and step-pop business, or a mom and grandma business, or a mom and live-in insane alcolholic druggie boyfriend business/restaurant.
I am a product of the times. I would still love to go and vist ‘Assholes Diner’ they serve the best apple pie.
Oct 21, 2009 at 2:02 pm rating: 90
#30
Mo®
Always a good rule to follow Neeners♥.
Oct 21, 2009 at 2:13 pm rating: 90
#31
Neeners
29.1 How did you know I had a step-sister, Luwanna. She was from Texas need I say more. No offense to most Texans.
She is today no doubt a pole dancer although when I knew her, her idea of a pole was something entirely different from mine.
Oct 21, 2009 at 2:16 pm rating: 90
#32
folic
‘Yeah! Smash the corporations’…typical bunch of arseholes who will probably end up working for a bank and voting Republican within a few years of finishing their degrees.
God, I hate students so much…even though I am one!
Oct 21, 2009 at 2:46 pm rating: 90
#33
Cat
…because vandalism is totally cool as long as you vandalise the *right* places?
I mean, Starbucks are the largest buyers of fairtrade coffee in the world, invest in farmers’ communities above and beyond what’s required for fairtrade certification (and have done for 20 years) and pay their employees well over minimum wage (at least here in the UK), but sure. Smash their windows. Deny their employees a paycheck, it’s not like someone who works in a coffee shop paid by the hour could be strapped for cash. You’re totally showing the big guns who’s boss, not screwing the little people over at all.
Woo! Go protesters! Yeah!
Oct 22, 2009 at 9:03 pm rating: 90
#34
anaceofkidneys
Is is just me or do all “anarchists” have the exact same handwriting?
Oct 26, 2009 at 5:44 pm rating: 90
#35
Dacia
I’m just ashamed that a person who owns and/or works at the diner can’t even spell “restaurant” (although, I’ll allow, this picture was taken in Alabama) but, even worse, they had no trouble with the spelling of “Starbucks”. What a bummer!
Oct 27, 2009 at 11:24 pm rating: 90
#36
the flammer
But where would all the ‘anarchists’ go when they want to be seen writing a page every 5 hours for their new, untitled book that they are publishing themselves?
Oct 29, 2009 at 10:01 am rating: 90
#37
mark
Actually, they found the person who smashed Pamela’s windows and it was a man from the state of California. No one who lives in the oakland area would attack Pamela’s – that would be equatable with a group of farmers going around setting cattle auctions on fire
Nov 28, 2009 at 12:17 pm rating: 90
#38
Kristin
As a Pittsburgh resident, I have to defend the diner as well. These signs were posted by angry (albeit, not the brightest) residents, not the owners of the diner. Pamela’s is a Pittsburgh staple, and everyone was very upset that it got vandalized. These signs were later replaced with one from the diner thanking the community for their support (and their sign had no spelling errors).
Dec 1, 2009 at 4:09 am rating: 90
#39
Aoife
My favourite note I’ve ever seen was in London on May Day several years back (the year after Churchill was given a grass mohican I think),
“Please do not smash the windows of our independent store. McDonalds 50m =>”
Dec 22, 2009 at 12:47 pm rating: 90
#40
PaulBegala2
Um, sorry to bring a serious tone to the levity here, but doesn’t anybody realize that the Starbucks down the street is:
* most likely owned by a different mom and pop who used their money to
* purchase a franchise,
* employ people in the community, and
* provide a service and products that people want?
Damn people giving jobs and coffee to the community.
Down with them!
(Morons.)
Jan 12, 2010 at 11:53 am rating: 90
#41
PaulBegala2
Jet –
The point was not that you were self-conscious or not about that incident. The point was that you sometimes make mistakes, as I did above.
(“Glass houses” and all that.)
I did, however, notice, that you at least had the intellectual honesty not to try and make a case against property rights and their place as the basis for society.
Good on you for that.
Jan 14, 2010 at 11:53 am rating: 90
#42
PaulBegala2
And yet you use the oh-so-urbane “douchecanoe” . . . .
BTW – “morons” was aimed at the protesters.
You might want to reevaluate your understanding of what a tantrum is if you think this stuff qualifies.
Jan 14, 2010 at 7:52 pm rating: 90
#43
park rose
gigglebrax fail.
Paul, why don’t you bring your expertise to the current notes? We’re in January 2010 at present.
Jan 15, 2010 at 5:40 pm rating: 90
#44
oi
ok let me get this straight.
First you came out all serious and pedantic on the three months old entry about how people are being facetious on a humor blog!! Nerve! but with a little bit of wrong information (well when you graciously apologize for being serious you don’t have cover of being facetious, no not even on a humor blog)
jj pointed out that mistake. that was inevitable as you came with such a serious tone and thinking all commenters on this blog are supporting Starbucks destruction.
you are pissed off. shit! am I being criticized that too on such a humanitarian point of view?
*fume fume*
you go find jj’s mistake admitted by himself on all to see blog and say look look people he was wrong too on a subject that does not have to do anything with present topic of said debate. (that was privet property rights, at least in your mind. jj has merely pointed out your mistake not presented his view at all on the topic.)
*huh! came here to correct me! the nerve!! *
during all this glo beautifully pointed out that you are throwing electronic tantrum by not sticking to the subject. Again your blood is boiling how dare people show me I am wrong?
and what did you do again?
grammatically analyzed her post. and found perceived mistakes(may be they really are mistakes. not my field so….) and posted it. did it have to do anything with the subject of debate? NO. (this time it was were you throwing tantrum or not)
so is really a debate going on here? I don’t think pointing out others mistake on random subjects is called debating. or if somebody points out your mistake, going out and finding their mistakes on random subjects rectifies your own mistake.
that is called being …. yep you got that right.
Jan 15, 2010 at 6:05 pm rating: 90
#45
PaulBegala2
Wow are you guys wound tight. Relax a bit.
I made an honest mistake (and acknowledged it as soon as it was pointed out to me) in a comment which was, in fact, on the mark about respecting privacy rights.
Then everyone went nuts with names and what not and it went downhill from there.
Relax guys and gals.
It was just a simple comment. I apologize for interrupting your internet reveries with an actual point.
Again, mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.
Jan 15, 2010 at 10:45 pm rating: 90
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