Linkdump 15-03-2012

[gominokouhai]

• Hunkerin’ | Mental Floss
  Relive the glories of America's most boring fad of 1959! (I first misyped that as `revile'. Paging Dr Freud.)
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• Starbucks becomes yet more criminally irritating
  Oh for FUCK'S SAKES Starbucks will you just FUCK RIGHT OFF. As far as you're concerned my name is "Here's your coffee Sir, and this time I made an extra-special effort to make it not taste like Satan pissed in it". Don't pretend to be my friend. Don't try to get familiar and don't act like you're my friendly local coffee-house when in fact you're a giant quintessential expression (espression, haha) of everything that should be ripped out of the world. I love coffee, and that's why I despise Starbucks. Stupid bullshit like this is unlikely to convince me to give them another chance.
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• 20 criminal cases solved by using the Facebook
  Read between the lines here. "Users of the Facebook are 43% more likely to consider people trustworthy" is another way of saying "users of the Facebook are morons". All of the statistics on crime are just evidence that users of the Facebook, already known to be cretinous scumbags, are probably recidivists, too.
  (tags: whyfacebooksucks )
• Fukushima was no disaster, no matter how you spin it
  "Climate change is a real impending doom problem and it’s time the anti-nuclear movement woke up to the fact that they are now firmly part of the problem. "
  (tags: nuclearpower )
• Full Fact | Promoting accuracy in public debate
  One to watch.
  (tags: analysis statistics news politics )
• Five ways you can still protect the NHS after the Bill
  Mostly if you quit your job, but still, maybe worthwhile to someone.
  (tags: nhs politics news )
• @GarethAveyard's neighbours are working out their interpersonal problems
  This is possibly the most zeitgeisty screencapture I have ever seen.
  (tags: wifi twitter )
• A4e from a client's perspective
  So A4e are already duplicitous psychopaths and unapologetic fraudsters. Turns out they're also incompetent, arrogant, bullies. Who'd have thought?
  (tags: workfare employment politics news )

Comments

[spacelem]

For the record, I used to work in a coffee kiosk - the police box coffee bars. If I called you by your name, it's because I'd taken the time to learn it, and had probably spent ages chatting. In fact, one of my customers liked me so much, she married me.

This Starshmucks practice of calling you by your name is just fake, and typical of an American company. It's like saying "have a nice day!" promptly followed by "missing you already" with a big fake smile as you leave. We know you don't mean it, please don't say it. If I ever have to go to their coffee franchise, I shall be known as "Mr Grumpy-pants, of the small (not tall) black coffee people".

And their coffee has no taste.

[gominokouhai]

Yes, exactly. Friendship with customers grows organically from good service and familiarity. You can't fake it just because the HR department issued a policy.

Oh how I loathe Starbucks.