[aLICErOBERTSfANkLUB]

Meanwhile, a BBC racing correspondent really tries to order a cup of coffee…

https://twitter.com/#!/CorneliusRacing

I believe this is what you were trying to do.....

https://twitter.com/CorneliusRacing/status/185374787848241153 

How DO you get twitter to do that?

[lagerstarfish]

How DO you get twitter to do that?

More to the point, how did Jasper get Twitter to do that? 

[Nibile]

I was thinking that if I ever go to a Starbucks for coffee (Gods of coffee forgive me, but sometimes caffeine is caffeine), I think I have the right of not revealing my name to a complete stranger. and when the coffee is ready, do they shout your name up in the shop? because if so, I also don't want the other customers to know my name.
it's not like "oh look Lorenzo got his coffee I'm so happy now".
wateva.

[underground]

I involuntarily told them today my name was Denis - one 'N'. The cup looks distinctly like the D is a P....

[SA Chris]

and I checked it twice!!!

Did you want to find out if they're naughty or nice?

I'm not sure how I missed this thread btw (probably the mere mention of Starfucks) Pure UKB Genius.

[aLICErOBERTSfANkLUB]

"My name is 'Bob'"? Just how rubbish is that?


Let's hope his financial advice is a bit more sound and inventive than this pedestrian drivel.

http://blog.moneysavingexpert.com/2012/04/18/the-everyone-tell-starbucks-your-name-is-bob-campaign/

(Odd how for a rant against corporatism you're obliged to prostitute your principles by selling your soul to ISmyFacebothered® in order to respond, init?)

[SA Chris]

Surely if you have that much of a problem with it just don't buy your coffee from there?

[Oldmanmatt]

Must have been to Barstucks three or four time over the last week.
No-one asked my name...

[tomtom]

Its happened to me every time I've been in a Barstrucks in the last couple of weeks (including the usually extra impersonal motorway services). Personally I dont mind.. though it was a bit daft when I was the ONLY person in there and they still called out my name (kind of as an afterthougth mind... the training voices must have kicked in!).

[Jaspersharpe]

Surely if you have that much of a problem with it just don't buy your coffee from there?

This is the right answer.

[aLICErOBERTSfANkLUB]

Surely if you have that much of a problem with it just don't buy your coffee from there?

This is the right answer.

And how, exactly, would that help to appeal and feed a chilidish, immature, puerile, inconsequential. and above all, nugatory intellectual excercise?

[cjsheps]

My friend went for "Darth Vader" yesterday. GREAT SUCCESS!

[GCW]

Should be a few in here:

[battery]

My name is Lola, I was a show girl.

And courtesy of my dad, they call me Andy, it's not my name but i live just round the corner.

[Jaspersharpe]

Surely if you have that much of a problem with it just don't buy your coffee from there?

This is the right answer.

And how, exactly, would that help to appeal and feed a chilidish, immature, puerile, inconsequential. and above all, nugatory intellectual excercise?

Oh I didn't mean re this thread, just re moneysavingfuckoff's shit idea.

[SA Chris]

Likewize.

[aLICErOBERTSfANkLUB]

You can't lkeep a good marketing department down…


http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/jun/05/starbucks-british-tweet-irks-irish-followers?newsfeed=true

Inviting followers on Twitter to "show us what makes you proud to be British" as part of a diamond jubilee promotion must have seemed like a good idea at the time at Starbucks.

But after tweeting the invitation to nearly 2,000 Irish followers of its Twitter account on Tuesday, the coffee giant has been on the receiving end of a backlash over its seemingly shaky grasp of political geography.