raging against the little guy

October 20th, 2009 · 144 comments

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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#1 pony girl

So, if Starbucks gets nailed next, can they sue the notewriters?

Oct 20, 2009 at 9:30 pm rating: +13

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- #1.1 infant tyrone
  
  PG,
  
  That’s bound to be season opener for new series “CSI: Pittsburgh”.
  
  Oct 20, 2009 at 11:53 pm rating: +16
- #1.2 Barbara
  
  I work just down the street from this place, the only reason anyone could come up with for the protesters smashing their windows is that President Obama liked their pancakes! McDonalds, Starbucks, FedEx, Wendys, and at least 2 banks withing 1/2 block from there. The protesters we got here were idiots, they got that right at least.
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 2:29 pm rating: +6
- #1.3 Barbara
  
  I work just down the street from this place, the only reason anyone could come up with for the protesters smashing their windows is that President Obama liked their pancakes! McDonalds, Starbucks, FedEx, Wendys, and at least 2 banks withing 1/2 block from there. The protesters we got here were idiots, they got that right at least.
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 2:29 pm rating: 0
- #1.4 infant tyrone
  
  Dayum, Barb…
  
  Thanks for updating us on that…it certainly tell me who I’m not going to cast in my at-home version of “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?” !!
  
  Sidney Poitier ?
  Sure !
  
  Spike Lee ?
  Sure !
  
  His “O”-ness ?
  Not until I check w/ State Farm + get a sign-off from Legal, m’deah !
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 3:00 pm rating: +2
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#2 oi

Did dear M&P realize that they signed the note as assholes?

Oct 20, 2009 at 9:31 pm rating: +47

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- #2.1 infant tyrone
  
  oi,
  
  I heard it was compromise.
  
  Mom wanted to sign “holes in wall”.
  
  Pop wanted to sign “holes in ground”.
  
  Pop wouldn’t take no for answer, but Mom got to write sign.
  
  Pop never noticed switch.
  
  Mom always said, “Pop doesn’t know assholes from holes in ground.”
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 12:19 am rating: +11
- #2.2 clumber
  
  @2.1 Yes, I agree! Remember all, stretching is a vital component to having a great roll on PANcomments! You don’t want to have pulled any tendons or cartilage and then find out you’re in the same thread as RunBarbara or Claw. Seriously, that shit can put you in the hospital if you don’t have your core properly warmed up.
  
  no, it is not a Gigglebrax fail, just a bit ambiguous
  
  Oct 22, 2009 at 4:42 pm rating: +3
- #2.3 infant tyrone
  
  Coach ?
  No clue, man…but I’ll be in the sauna *over yonder* if you come up with anything a little less ambiguous…..Sure you’re OK ?
  
  Oct 22, 2009 at 4:56 pm rating: 0
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#3 Narwhal

Urge to correct spelling… rising.

Oct 20, 2009 at 9:31 pm rating: +16

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- #3.1 pony girl
  
  hehehe.
  It will probably be spelled that way in 100 years, though, since most people pronounce it that way.
  
  Oct 20, 2009 at 9:38 pm rating: +6
- #3.2 infant tyrone
  
  Perhaps in fewer than 100, PG.
  
  There are some variants that it will have to defeat, though.
  
  r-e-s-t-r-a-w-n-t is quite popular nowadays.
  
  For other examples, drop by any 6th through 12th grade classroom.
  
  Stop by cafeteria for h-a-w-t lunch while you’re there.
  
  Oct 20, 2009 at 11:59 pm rating: +7
- #3.3 spottedbuddy
  
  #3.1 pony girl: Sadly, I’d give restraunt about 20 more years tops before it’s in the dictionary.
  
  Coorperate and happend, however, are going to take some campaigning.
  
  Enterprses? I got nothin’
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 3:37 am rating: +4
- #3.4 BlackMarketBeagle
  
  Sadness has nothing to do with it. Languages change- the meanings change, the spellings change- it’s neither good nor bad. (or bad?). It just is.
  If you look up the history of the word “nice” you’d be surprised about it’s origins.
  
  Now, back to the comedy.
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 12:08 pm rating: +2
- #3.5 park rose
  
  You’re the tradegy guy, bmb! Nonetheless, or even so and because of, I agree with you.
  (rose the verbose).
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 5:30 pm rating: +4
- #3.6 infant tyrone
  
  *rose the verbose*
  
  But, if at all, evah so succinctly !
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 6:22 pm rating: +1
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#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: +7

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- #4.1 cheesyMonkey
  
  You know you suck?
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 10:21 am rating: +2
- #4.2 infant tyrone
  
  I think she was going for
  
  “Oh no I know” (a dirty word)
  from “Teen Spirit”
  
  but she *forgot* spelling….
  
  Something like that young lady ?
  
  ET playing *hunch*
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 11:23 am rating: 0
- #4.3 oi
  
  @ 4.1, In your dreams.
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 12:15 pm rating: +8
- #4.4 As you Wish®
  
  Aww they didn’t see Saraswati that is in you or they would have known they were going to get schooled. BAM!
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 12:26 pm rating: +2
- #4.5 oi
  
  ♥ Timo ♥
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 1:31 pm rating: +2
- #4.6 infant tyrone
  
  oi + Mr. As You Like,
  
  You, oi, my deah…like Willie Scott (Kate Capshaw’s character in “Indiana Jones & the TOD”)…appear to have had monkey’s brains for lunch.
  
  Only difference is Willie wasn’t hungry afterward and you must still be starving (Lean Cuisine-ish calorie count on today’s pop-top monkey).
  
  Last thing I heard monkey say came out funny and sounded like sing-song version of Talking Heads oldie:
  
  Take me to the river, dip me in the water
  Washing me down, washing me down.
  
  sorry bout articles…copyright thing ‘n’ all…
  
  ET remembering at last minute to ask ala Dr. Lecter if you had white or red wine with that, or was it Kingfisher or maybe even gin and tonic?
  
  Cheers, carnivores !
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 2:53 pm rating: +1
- #4.7 Mo®
  
  ? ? ?
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 3:04 pm rating: +1
- #4.8 Chatterspot
  
  Infant Tyrone
  
  Really? Willie ate the monkey’s brains?
  I was sure we’d purchased a legitimate copy of the movie where Willie is seriously disgusted and starving by the end of the meal. Of course if she would have enjoyed that delightful looking dessert there would have been no reason for Indiana Jones to knock on her door with a sumptuous looking plate of fruit.
  Wow! I wonder how the version you watched might have ended. Damn bootleggers and their bogus films. I feel cheated.
  
  Oct 22, 2009 at 7:59 pm rating: 0
- #4.9 infant tyrone
  
  @ #4.8 Dear Ms. (Apparently) Chatterspot:
  
  OK, mano a mano al muerte si necessario por que yo creo en la vida despues de esta….
  
  Sheesh, folks like you can ruin a good experience w/ drugs
  
  Or…if the monkey brain scene was the point at which she said something exactly or roughly like “No, thanks…I/we had bugs for lunch”, then you’re probably remembering better than I was doing. But in terms of the posted material, my bad memory was the “perfect mistake”.
  
  Oct 23, 2009 at 3:56 am rating: 0
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#5 Perplexed

If you own a restaurant, shouldn’t you be able to spell “restaurant?”

Oct 20, 2009 at 9:36 pm rating: +21

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- #5.1 pony girl
  
  Well, they did sign it, ‘Assholes.’
  
  Oct 20, 2009 at 9:39 pm rating: +8
- #5.2 Wade
  
  Maybe Aunt Restr is dyslexic.
  
  Oct 20, 2009 at 10:45 pm rating: +10
- #5.3 infant tyrone
  
  And maybe their patrons are dyspeptic.
  
  If your spoon gets hit before Starbucks, you need to seriously look at changing your alfredo sauce’s base from lard back to butter.
  
  Lower sign is signed “Hungry Protesters”, not “Gourmet Protesters”.
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 12:31 am rating: +2
- #5.4 Canthz_B
  
  Aunt Restr is how she referred to herself while speaking to Lamont after she’d been in Fred’s Ripple.
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 3:52 am rating: +6
- #5.5 infant tyrone
  
  Can’t get ma breath…
  Face is turnin’ three shades of Redd…
  
  Oh, it’s the big one, Elizabeth!
  I’m comin’ ta join ya, Honey!
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 4:08 am rating: 0
- #5.6 spottedbuddy
  
  Look, don’t go knocking restraunts until you’ve actually eaten in one. Some of them serve some pretty tasty fude.
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 5:10 am rating: +13
- #5.7 Lhyzz
  
  Also, if you protest corporations, shouldn’t you be able to spell “corporate”?
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 6:01 am rating: +6
- #5.8 Amanda
  
  This is exactly what I thought…
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 7:12 am rating: +1
- #5.9 Wade
  
  Pittsburgh: Where the LOLcats Are.
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 8:08 am rating: +7
- #5.10 Canthz_B
  
  That’s nothing, even Spock expressed emotions when he saw “ENTERPRSES” beneath the display of scale models of USS ENTERPRISE A through D at the Alpha Quadrant Air and Space Museum.
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 8:18 am rating: +3
- #5.11 park rose
  
  LOLcats can has rvlshoon?
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 8:29 am rating: +9
- #5.12 park rose
  
  Wade, at 5.2, I actually think the restaurant is dyslexic and also in favour of elision (maybe it caters to elided fops?)… therefore ‘au’ is either playing hooky, or taking a well earned smoko.
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 9:23 am rating: +6
- #5.13 infant tyrone
  
  rose been on da roll
  
  eateries in da mirror houz
  skippin o’er macaroneese
  auzzies skippin skool tday
  burnin up da leef’s dey pleez
  
  sing it sistah !
  u say ya wanna rvlshun
  betta chng yr mine insted
  marx n lennon…two burnin tigers
  
  Ref 2 hunks a burnin churnin love…
  Tanks, Dahlin’
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 11:41 am rating: +1
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#6 oi

Would it have been less damaging if they had broken starbuck’s window too?

Oct 20, 2009 at 9:39 pm rating: +5

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- #6.1 JetJackson
  
  I am sure Starbucks took the initiative of installing bullet proof glass when they heard the G20 was coming.
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 12:22 am rating: +11
- #6.2 infant tyrone
  
  They probably swapped gallons of coffee with folks at Pittsburgh Plate Glass factory across street.
  
  Barter for Bullet-proof
  Goddess smiles ironic-ly
  Mom and Pop miss spell
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 12:46 am rating: 0
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#7 oi

Journey of protesters: from dear to assholes

Oct 20, 2009 at 9:42 pm rating: +15

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- #7.1 pony girl
  
  Unfortunately (when it comes to protesters) that journey is usually a short one.
  
  Oct 20, 2009 at 9:45 pm rating: +8
- #7.2 spottedbuddy
  
  What a long, strange trip it’s been.
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 3:40 am rating: +3
- #7.3 infant tyrone
  
  Maybe the window was hit by a meteorite…
  
  Plunging like stones from a slingshot on Mars
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 4:12 am rating: +1
- #7.4 park rose
  
  It’s a God-awful small affair,
  to the girl with the mousy hair but. . .
  
  Oh man, look at those cavemen go
  It’s the freakiest show
  Take a look at the lawman
  Beating up the wrong guy
  
  Wonder if we’ll ever know
  Is there life in Ma’s (& Pa’s?) restraunt …
  at the end of the universe (of course).
  
  Sorry to mix up the genres and galaxies there.
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 9:18 am rating: +7
- #7.5 infant tyrone
  
  It’s a ground ball hit sharply, but…
  
  Oh my, it falls as prey to the deadly double-play trio of
  
  Truckin’ to Ace to Bowie
  
  The Red Sox are playing over their heads and out of this world, like creatures from an alien dimension, or as *they* say it “From Ma’s !”.
  
  Final score: Sox 4 Pirates 2
  
  Nite game…”Moonage Daydream” played at 7th inning stretch, w/o irony.
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 11:53 am rating: +1
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#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: +6

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- #8.1 infant tyrone
  
  Or just cover that sign up with one saying
  
  “Closed for menu remodeling…
  but Starbucks is open”.
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 12:53 am rating: +8
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#9 Adrienne

I love that place! Those Lyonnaise potatoes are fucking delicious.

Oct 20, 2009 at 9:49 pm rating: +4

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#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: +6

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- #10.1 infant tyrone
  
  No, CB, just him…Lieutenant Starbuck.
  
  And to think…his next role was Faceman.
  
  Oh, shiza-whillikers !
  
  Is that what “A” stood for in “The A-Team”?
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 1:05 am rating: 0
- #10.2 zombieBlanco
  
  Youse guys are so old school.
  
  Team Kara!
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 1:14 am rating: +4
- #10.3 Canthz_B
  
  zB, I tried to keep it gender neutral for fans of either incarnation of BG.
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 1:49 am rating: +2
- #10.4 zombieBlanco
  
  CB – you’ll never be gender neutral to me
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 2:15 am rating: +2
- #10.5 Canthz_B
  
  ♥ zB. Oh! Now I’m verklempt!
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 2:38 am rating: +2
- #10.6 GK
  
  Oh! Now I’m fur-clamped!
  
  (I told her I wasn’t into that handcuff thing…)
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 3:25 am rating: +5
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#11 Starbucks Barista Extraordinaire

Oh, sweet irony! (Alanis, take notes on REAL irony).

Oct 20, 2009 at 10:33 pm rating: +2

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- #11.1 GoldenShow-Slumbers
  
  You mean rain on a wedding day isn’t irony?!
  
  Oct 20, 2009 at 10:34 pm rating: +3
- #11.2 Critical Grass
  
  Or win the lottery and die the next day?
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 4:30 am rating: +4
- #11.3 GK
  
  It’s like ten thousand quotes from an irritating song when all you need is a funny comment.
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 5:51 am rating: +36
- #11.4 Critical Grass
  
  Oh c’mon it’s a good song, you just have to get the real irony. A song full of non-ironic situations called Ironic. I say that Alanis did it on purpose. We have understand her in a deeper level.
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 11:00 am rating: +2
- #11.5 Massive Tracts o' Land
  
  Oh I will understand her on a deeper level alright!
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 12:02 pm rating: +1
- #11.6 infant tyrone
  
  Six feet deep ?
  
  Or were you working what E. Costello calls a more shallow foxhole ?
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 3:33 pm rating: +2
- #11.7 GK
  
  I must be interrogating the lyrics from the wrong perspective.
  
  Oct 22, 2009 at 3:14 am rating: 0
- #11.8 infant tyrone
  
  @ Massive Tracts…
  
  R U channeling Alex from the ending of A Clockwork Orange?
  
  “deeper”…. almost=…. “cured”
  
  Oct 22, 2009 at 9:45 am rating: 0
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#12 B.Marten

Huntsville Alabama Representing!

Oct 20, 2009 at 10:36 pm rating: +1

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- #12.1 Canthz_B
  
  Huntsville Alabama Representing Pittsburgh!
  
  Oct 20, 2009 at 10:42 pm rating: +7
- #12.2 spottedbuddy
  
  Canthz B: Except you’re supposed to Roll, Tide on the football field, not by flattening neighborhoods.
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 3:44 am rating: +1
- #12.3 Canthz_B
  
  Not quite sure you got that one, Spot.
  
  Re-read the intro at the top of the page, ‘buddy.
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 6:49 am rating: +1
- #12.4 infant tyrone
  
  Dear Friends,
  
  How can you be in two places at once, when you’re not anywhere at all?
  
  F.T.
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 11:57 am rating: 0
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#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: +1

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#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: +19

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- #14.1 infant tyrone
  
  Aye…and ammunition !
  
  Tried eating Starbucks biscotti lately ?
  
  Yet street-legal to carry, until you throw it.
  
  Provisional Soundtrack:
  I Love The Sound Of Breaking Glass, Nick Lowe
  Heart of Glass, Blondie
  Shattered, Rolling Stones
  Street Fightin’ Man, Rolling Stones
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 1:24 am rating: +5
- #14.2 spottedbuddy
  
  Throwing Stones, Grateful Dead
  
  Burning Down the House, Talking Heads
  
  Crumblin’ Down, John Mellencamp
  
  Piss on the Wall, J. Geils Band
  
  Kung Fu Fighting, Carl Douglas
  
  Revolution, the Beatles
  
  Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting, Elton John
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 4:14 am rating: +5
- #14.3 Neeners
  
  Starbucks paid the protesters with free drink cards and day old muffins to wreak havoc. They didn’t even rate fresh muffins.
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 10:33 am rating: +2
- #14.4 Neeners
  
  14.1 Those biscotti are good for toddlers who are cutting teeth. Don’t knock em.
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 10:35 am rating: +4
- #14.5 park rose
  
  At 14.3, I disagree. I think that the heart looks suspiciously like an ‘M’. Don’t blame the protesters, nor Starbucks. Guess who hired them? Another cold corporate enterprise. MacProtesters, the golden an-arch-ists.
  
  Btw, neeners, where’s your doggie?
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 10:36 am rating: +6
- #14.6 infant tyrone
  
  Buddy…indeed!
  
  We missed many, but lest we forget:
  Kick Out the Jams, Motherfuckers! MC5
  
  rose…
  
  On orders from Insane Clown Posse head thug, Ronald McMayhem ?
  
  On the other clown-shoe-shod-foot, I did think Ma & Pa might have (being sinless) thrown the first stone at their own window, hoping their sympathy traffic would far out weigh the cost of replacing the glass. Kind of like some folks pretend offense or incomprehension in a sad bid for martyred attention. (I’ve never seen that personally, but I read it in a psychology book the other day, and it seemed to make sense for *some* people.)
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 12:12 pm rating: 0
- #14.7 Neeners
  
  Rose-
  14.5-I am still a slave to McD’s french fries. They must be eaten directly from the bag from the drive through window. The time window for the proper temperature is optimum only 5 minutes after that. Otherwise just chuck them for the seagulls. Besides that I think Ronald is the antichrist.
  
  I was wondering about my doggie myself. He’s lost. I need to put up a reward sign. If found call …..
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 12:56 pm rating: +4
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#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: +13

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- #15.1 GK
  
  Mine is “down with commercial hegemonisation”, how’s that strike you?
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 3:22 am rating: +8
- #15.2 infant tyrone
  
  I like “Monopolies have a high coefficient of vacuum”, zat work allright?
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 4:15 am rating: +4
- #15.3 Canthz_B
  
  Can I just go with:
  
  “I hate Starbucks because their coffee is too expensive and only an elitist fop would purchase it just to have a Starbuck’s cup in their hand to show just how elitist they actually are and I hate people who would overpay for a commodity and the corporations that prey upon their unfounded wants rather than their actual needs. Mind your business Nike and Reebok, I’ll get to you another time.” (and then breath for a sec or two)?
  
  Can I do that, kielejocain?
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 6:57 am rating: +10
- #15.4 Meesh
  
  Or how about “resist commercial homogeneity?” Some of us want a little variety.
  
  That’s what she said.
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 7:57 am rating: +7
- #15.5 Meesh
  
  BTW, kielejocain, you’re wrong to assume that people have well thought out principles. People are reactionary idiots.
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 7:59 am rating: +9
- #15.6 Canthz_B
  
  No. I don’t care about that (15.4). I just want a cup of coffee to be under 75¢
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 8:03 am rating: +8
- #15.7 Rachet
  
  Nice to know I’m an elitist fop. *thumbs up* Everyone needs to belong to some sort of group. May I take two seconds to say what group you belong to?
  
  Never mind. I’m too busy looking like an elitist fop.
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 8:21 am rating: +2
- #15.8 Canthz_B
  
  Yes, rush off to your impending cardiac arrest. Besides, I belong to no groups as such (because I abhor dogma from any quarter), so you’re better off not trying to categorize me. “Mariah” wouldn’t suit me well, so you can just call me “The Wind”.
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 8:32 am rating: +3
- #15.9 Canthz_B
  
  Face it, Rachet, what you really like about Starbucks is not the taste of their Mochas, Fraps, et. al., it’s that you pay someone to prepare it for you who doesn’t earn enough to purchase the product on a regular basis.
  
  You can’t get that kind of elitist satisfaction at McDonald’s or Walmart.
  I’ll see you at Nieman Marcus later and we can discuss it over a cup of joe.
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 8:47 am rating: +6
- #15.10 anglophile
  
  I have a question. If I regularly get my cappuccino from the Mobil station down the street, am I evil for supporting Big Oil, a hero for undercutting the Starbucks next door, or just a pauper with a horrible palate?
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 9:01 am rating: +15
- #15.11 Phalange
  
  Wait, people actually pay for coffee?
  
  My advice to you all: get a crappy office job and you get all the free coffee you want! The only thing you have to give up is your soul and maybe a little dignity.
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 9:05 am rating: +15
- #15.12 Canthz_B
  
  Pauper, I’d say, ‘Glo…but you probably spend what you have more effectively than a Princess!
  
  Just to add…Yeah, I know…I’m not against coporate success, just consumer stupidity. Okay?
  
  Now go out and don’t forget to stay “hydrated”. The economy depends in large part on folks buying bottles of water…you know, the stuff you pay to have piped into your home?
  God, how I (and P.T. Barnham) laugh when I see someone buy a bottle of water at a convenience store!
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 9:07 am rating: +5
- #15.13 Neeners
  
  15-Spoken like a true manager of a Starbucks.
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 10:53 am rating: +6
- #15.14 Erk Erkson
  
  Solution: convince all your friends to get jobs at Starbucks and get all the free drinks you want! My friends get jobs, I get coffee, and Starbucks gets screwed. It’s win-win-win!
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 11:43 am rating: +3
- #15.15 infant tyrone
  
  Does this work any better if it’s retroactively placed into the correct sub-thread (if that’s even possible…let’s see)
  
  ‘glo…
  
  At the risk of being a little too “inside baseball”…
  (toward the end there, you may need to refer to the Apostle ET’s Epistle to the Australian @17.11 of You’re very welcome)
  
  You may have lurched into a novel manifestation of the deistic Trinity, one suited to the contemporary ethos.
  
  I mean, God ! Be all three !
  
  You have mixed together an image of one who’s taken vow of poverty (or uttered an oath against it), one who’s swinging a terrible swift sword of justice in the fight against creepy corporate hegemony AND overpriced java, and one who is not afraid of being at least a little bit naughty in willingly submitting to the rapacious clutches of the petro-Devil…
  (hey, choices have consequences like cosmetics have precursors).
  
  Why…bless my soul, if it isn’t that punishment-yardstick-wielding, Sister Mary Discipline in the flesh (and PVC habit ! + fishnets !). Come with me, Sister…let us worship together…yes, indeed, come with me!
  
  *ironically clicking “Submit” but thinking of ‘glo as an equal partner or as a prophetess*
  
  Well, on the other side of the wormhole…it looks as if you CAN petition the Lord with prayer…and a nice header…
  
  Oct 22, 2009 at 6:52 pm rating: 0
- #15.16 Yesenia
  
  WOW! Canthz_B knows me like no other! It is amazing that someone can deduce so much about me from the coffee I like.
  
  Dare I say-dare, dare!-that those who enjoy making grand statements like the ones made about people who go to Starbucks are just as much of an elitist as the one at who they are pointing their fingers?
  
  BTW, I actually prefer McDonalds regular coffee and get it more than Starbucks, although it is their Earl Grey Latte that keeps me coming back. Oh wait, no, I just like feeling superior! *thumbs up!*
  
  Oct 25, 2009 at 7:56 pm rating: 0
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#16 Cynta

Oh, c’mon. This is awesome. Keeping the fabric of society together.

Oct 21, 2009 at 1:30 am rating: 0

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- #16.1 infant tyrone
  
  ‘glo…
  
  At the risk of being a little too “inside baseball”…
  (toward the end there, you may need to refer to the Apostle ET’s Epistle to the Australian @17.11 of You’re very welcome)
  
  You may have lurched into a novel manifestation of the deistic Trinity, one suited to the contemporary ethos.
  
  I mean, God ! Be all three !
  
  You have mixed together an image of one who’s taken vow of poverty (or uttered an oath against it), one who’s swinging a terrible swift sword of justice in the fight against creepy corporate hegemony AND overpriced java, and one who is not afraid of being at least a little bit naughty in willingly submitting to the rapacious clutches of the petro-Devil…
  (hey, choices have consequences like cosmetics have precursors).
  
  Why…bless my soul, if it isn’t that punishment-yardstick-wielding, Sister Mary Discipline in the flesh (and PVC habit ! + fishnets !). Come with me, Sister…let us worship together…yes, indeed, come with me!
  
  *ironically clicking “Submit” but thinking of ‘glo as an equal partner or as a prophetess*
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 12:47 pm rating: +1
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#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: +15

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- #17.1 spottedbuddy
  
  By order of the PAN ninja security force, I hereby declare your squad car an unlawful doughnut assembly.
  
  I order you to immediately hand over the maple bars and chocolate raised… if you take one more freaking BITE, you will be arrested and/or subject to other doughnut confiscating action.
  
  *launches broccoli*
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 4:22 am rating: +6
- #17.2 Neeners
  
  or beaten with billy clubs
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 1:03 pm rating: +1
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#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: +3

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- #18.1 clumber
  
  DAMMIT… I got another song title/lyric wrong!? Fuck… whole time I thought it was Alice’s restau(r)ant.
  I guess “♫ you can get anything you want, at Asshole’s restau(r)ant. Walk right in, it’s in the back….♪” does make more sense….
  
  Oct 22, 2009 at 4:53 pm rating: 0
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#19 eslinger

P&G’s: Now offering al fresco dining!

Oct 21, 2009 at 6:57 am rating: +2

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#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: +1

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#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: +5

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#22 Mark

♪ You can get anything you want
at Mom & Pop’s restaurant
excepting assholes ♫

Oct 21, 2009 at 9:43 am rating: +5

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- #22.1 Massive Tracts o' Land
  
  ♬ Walk right in and order up a plate. They got the very best pancakes! At Mom and Pop’s Restuarant… ♫
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 12:08 pm rating: +1
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#23 M®

Hungarian Protesters are so caring and polite…

Oct 21, 2009 at 9:44 am rating: +3

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- #23.1 Mark
  
  That’s because their hovercrafts are full of eels.
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 9:57 am rating: +4
- #23.2 M®
  
  My nipples explode with delight!
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 10:14 am rating: +4
- #23.3 Neeners
  
  sounds so messy
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 12:57 pm rating: +4
- #23.4 M®
  
  Do you want to come back to my place, bouncy bouncy?
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 1:28 pm rating: +2
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#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: +6

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- #24.1 park rose
  
  Hey, Charlie. Long time no read! Sorry about the destruction and louts.
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 10:05 am rating: 0
- #24.2 Timo®
  
  Hallo Charlie!!!
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 10:13 am rating: 0
- #24.3 Charlie
  
  Hi everyone!!
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 10:32 am rating: +2
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#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: +14

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- #25.1 infant tyrone
  
  rose, my deah…
  
  I suppose you don’t need to study for that test on possessives tomorrow?
  
  And ridden by loa Ayizan…the god who ate the Paypal nuncio!
  
  Channeling whom as the Serpent flies over the Rainbow?
  
  You must be *so* sore and *so* hungry…
  Take 2 of these and use me “any old time”…
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 1:29 pm rating: +1
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#26 M®

Does P&G serve Soylent green, eggs and Ham?

Because Soylent green is people!

Oct 21, 2009 at 10:16 am rating: +3

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- #26.1 park rose
  
  By Seuss, I think it does!
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 10:26 am rating: +6
- #26.2 infant tyrone
  
  @ rose-Zombie #25 + Mr #26
  
  from Chemistry Class (Elvis Costello)
  People pleasing people pleasing people like you
  
  M&G’s kitchen motto:
  To serve and infect
  
  Remember kiddies:
  You Are What You Eat
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 1:20 pm rating: +3
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#27 park rose

Edited.

Oct 21, 2009 at 10:34 am rating: 0

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#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: +1

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- #28.1 llamagirl
  
  the signs were actually posted by the outraged public so not knowing how to spell restaurant, well, that’s still pretty pathetic considering it’s a college town. ^.^
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 8:46 pm rating: 0
- #28.2 llamagirl
  
  rumor has it that early Friday morning a peaceful protester actually did go to Pamela’s and offer to pay for the broken window.
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 8:47 pm rating: +2
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#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: +1

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- #29.1 Mo®
  
  Mom and verbally abusive step-pop diner has step-sister on the pole. Don’t get the cherry pie there…just sayin’.
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 2:06 pm rating: +3
- #29.2 Neeners
  
  While cherry is my all time fave, I would never order it from ‘Assholes’.
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 2:11 pm rating: +1
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#30 Mo®

Always a good rule to follow Neeners♥.

Oct 21, 2009 at 2:13 pm rating: +1

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- #30.1 Mo®
  
  Garrrrrr a gigglebrax fail! * sigh
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 2:59 pm rating: 0
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#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: +1

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- #31.1 Mo®
  
  Hey leave my fucking lady friend alone!
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 3:00 pm rating: +2
- #31.2 Mark
  
  Don’t be fatuous, Jeffrey.
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 3:10 pm rating: +2
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#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: +2

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- #32.1 Neeners
  
  Such acid from folic
  
  Oct 21, 2009 at 11:15 pm rating: +3
- #32.2 infant tyrone
  
  Aye…and colic.
  
  Oct 22, 2009 at 9:54 am rating: 0
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#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: +5

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#34 anaceofkidneys

Is is just me or do all “anarchists” have the exact same handwriting?

Oct 26, 2009 at 5:44 pm rating: 0

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#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: 0

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#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: 0

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