Red Cup WTF? Suffer the Cup!

I really resent Starbucks for their red-cup fiasco. It's not what you think, though. The red cup itself doesn't offend me, the way it seems to be offending millions -some of whom don't even drink coffee! No, the thing that's cracking my shell is all the whining and complaining.

Hey! I stood in line for 45 minutes, like everybody else here; I paid my five-seventy-five for a weak-ass latte and now, I gotta listen to some sour puss whine because the color of their cup offends them? Gimme a break. Suffer the cup to live. Let's get on with more serious matters, shall we?

The polar caps are melting, the rainforests are disappearing, cancer has effected the lives 90% of the people I know and ISIS is running up my tail pipes with a suicide note -and I gotta sit here and listen while you rant about the color of a cup! You can go to Oil Can Henry's and get a lube job! Loosen up and suffer the cup!

Even at Starbucks, I can think of bigger things to worry about than the color of my cup -when's the last time you had a good cup o' Joe? I mean, really. These people can sit through the dregs of a watered-down latte that costs as much as breakfast at Mickey D's but they can't manage to drink it from a scarlet-colored cup? What a load of shrimp.

As far as the cup is concerned -it's an attention-getter. That's what this is all about, really, isn't it? Starbucks gets a billion hits on the internet over the color of a cup and their investors smile all the way to the bank. Red is an attention-getting color. Whether it's good or bad attention makes no difference. In the world of high-finance, there's no such thing as "bad press." The thing that I really resent is that they felt they had to resort to such tactics to get attention.