Cute as hell, upvote for cute as hell...ness... I guess.

Ironic that this *femme doesn't deal with the fact that's there's a small that's smaller than the tall.

The rhyming is amusing though. *bravo for the small screen performance.

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I saw this just sitting there on the youtube homepage and thought that there was no way it was going to be any good, what with this being a pretty obvious observation of something that has been around for a long, long time... Starbucks, as well as having some of the most filthy, disgusting brown water to come out of an espresso machine, also have some of the most ridiculous names for their sizes this side of... of.. ok I've got nuthin'...

So, yeah, I didn't bother to watch it, as I thought it'd be crap.

But she's good... very good, very nicely edited, nice flowing script, easy on the eyes also. Just an all round really nice little vid

Starbucks actually has a "short" size that is smaller than their "tall" size, but they don't advertise the prices because presumably they want you to spend more or, perhaps less greedily, not many people order short drinks. Now, is this a product of the fact that they don't post reminders of the existence of short drinks or is the causation the other way around? Anyway, it's time to watch the video to see if this is indeed relevant. . . .

EDIT: Hmmm, I guess the person working the register didn't know about the shorts or maybe the local Starbucks is just unique. . . .

My younger brother and I have a silly running joke about Starbuck's. Every time we meet (which is only about once every 3 or 4 years because we live 2000 miles away from each other), one of us says "Hey, you wanna go to Fourbucks?" You see, because their coffee often costs $4 a cup. Get it?

<crickets>

Well FUCK you guys if you can't appreciate intrafamilial humor! Pricks.

^a sad day when the <crickets> get more of a laugh than you.

You know who does the SAME DAMN THING? Burger King. Fuck those guys. Back in the states, I made it a point to be a hassle every time I went through the drive through. I wanted a large Icee, but all they had was small and medium. Well if they largest they have is a medium, then call it a fucking large. I don't care that your running off of the same scale as your soft drinks. Fuck you. Your damn right MGR. MEDIUM DOES NOT BELONG ON THE END OF A SCALE. Its refuckingdiculousness, and I get off on pointing the sheer stupidity of it all out to the morons at the window of the drive through.

Did arsenault mention that he doesn't do well without coffee?

I only upvoted because she's really cute, the humor fails though.

It's surprisingly funny, put together well, but... it's also about twice as long as it should be.

I agree it was a bit longer than needed..
-but she's so darn adorable!

Great editing. Clever, too!

As someone who spent years working in coffee shops, I don't mind the funny names. Call it whatever you want. What bugs me is when the person behind the counter acts like your an idiot for not knowing their shop's vernacular. Just fucking explain what going on and help the next customer, or better yet, just use some fucking common sense! Oh you'd like a small, OK. Really large Frosty? HERE YOU GO!
But noooo!!! Everyone has to have the same self important attitude that their little shop is the ONLY ONE THAT EVER EXISTED.
Customers do it too. I was in Starbucks the other day and a woman ordered a muffin. When they gave it to her she said, "YOU'RE NOT GOING TO HEAT IT UP?!?!?" Like it should be common sense that she likes her fucking muffins hot. (whoa)

You know how to trip them up?

Walk into Starbucks and say:

I TAKE HALF-AND-HALF, SO PLEASE GIVE ME FOURTEEN OUNCES OF COFFEE.

let them figure out the rest.

Upvote for Arsenault's comment about medium not belonging on the end of a scale. That's just mind-bogglingly simple and brilliant.

Very clever. She is also very cute.

Upvoted because I work next to starbucks, and whenever I go in I say "small"

As long as I understand what a person is saying what is the point of insisting that they use the local vernacular.
-Karl

I thought it was funny...its a nice comment on every high street chains attempt to differentiate themselves from their competitors, and ending up sounding like twits.

A friend of mine has made it a point, when ordering at Starbucks, to order a "large" and when the server says "venti" he reminds them we aren't in Italy.

Personally, I'll stick with Tim Horton's - Small, Medium, Large and Extra-Large - nice and simple.

What gets me more than there not being a "small" size is that there tends not to be drinks that are truly small anymore. Even the smallest size offered at many places tends to be a large proportion. Most of the time places don't even display cup sizes associated with the names they give them. It's gotten to the point where if I order a large drink I expect them to plunk down a 20 gallon fish tank full of ice and soda right after I sign an agreement promising not to sue them when(not if) I develop diabetes.

A SMALL COFFEE AT STARBUCKS IS CALLED A TALL? HOW LONG HAS THIS BEEN GOING ON?!?!

Not that I drink coffee really and I despise Starbucks but the few times I have gone there I just say small. Usually they dont correct me and if they do I just say "yeah the small and that'll be it". I think everyone should join the movement of not accepting what "they" call it, its the English language that we all agreed upon unless of course you're not in a English speaking country but to call medium grande which if i remember correctly is Spanish for large is idiotic. So come on everyone boycott their stupid marketing scheme lol

Upvote for use of the common to you but not to North America phrase "high street chains"



Ahem. Tall is second-smallest. Thank you.

MacDonald's had a variation of this - I went through the drive thru and ordered a medium drink and received the reply, "We don't have medium - we have 'small', 'large' and 'extra-large'."

Ok - I'm on board with the idea that they can call the goddam sizes whatever they like, but why is it so hard to "do the conversion" in your head if you work at one of these places?

I mean, isn't it kind of obvious (ok - pathetically obvious) that the 'large' in this nomenclature FUNCTIONS as the medium and the geek on the mike could just play along with the MacDonald's-challenged customer and get him the middle size?

For christ's sake... upvote for making a point long overdue.

Brilliant editing and I love the "facial" acting of the girl in the clip.

Believe it or not, Starbucks has the copyright on the word "Vente'" in reference to coffee.

When I worked at Tully's in seattle we had to use the Spanish: "Viente"

My smalls a tall baby

thinks hard for the people ordering the drinks, i had to fucking explain it everytime. I am so glad I'm out of there.

Also the reason why they call them "talls" is because that is the largest size drink you can get in most italian espresso bars. They mostly drink espresso shots there.
The order is:
1 Shot, 2 Shots, Tall, Grande, Venti
Now it really doesnt seem sooooo out of place.

Yes it does.
It's not in Italy. Therefore, it's out of place.

I think this joke was funnier when foamy the squirrel did this like 2 years ago. He wasn't quite as nice to the employee as this girl was.

I try to avoid paying $5 a pop for a cup of coffee in a yuppity shop with a bunch of people tapping away on their macs and excel sheets.

Zzzz... I have never bad mouthed a video, but this was such self indulgent cr*p. I think we get it now, you don't deal well with abstractions. It wouldn't matter if the sizes were named Blue, Fish, and Vibration, they'd still be the same size, deal with it by removing your internal definition of THEIR words for THEIR sizes. (See what I did there? Distinction between what is yours and what is theirs...) A rose by any other name and whatnot. If you say small and they don't get it, that's their problem not yours.

Simple example:
C: "Yes, I'd like a small coffee."
B: "You mean a tall?"
C: "Yes, that's right, a small."

Artistically the video wasn't all that bad besides the self indulgency.

Take pride in knowing you are doing your part to ensure fresh beans, various and sundry CD's that usually get tossed out the window, and any accoutrement necessary to my enjoyment of their fine products at home....that place is easy to shoplift the hellout of, hopefully a similar concerted effort on the part of patrons, will keep them going strong, for many years to come.....(store a day in the 90's)

If they were gone tomorrow, they, and every fast-food restaurant on earth, twould be a the herald of a grand and glorious new paradigm on the planet.....

choggie works hard for the benefit of all, everyday....

http://www.videosift.com/video/Starschmucks-Coffee-Sizes-and-their-significance#comment-320508

Nothing a fragmentation grenade, tossed in the general direction of the twittwat behind the counter, wouldn't solve.

>> ^Ryjkyj:
Upvote for Arsenault's comment about medium not belonging on the end of a scale. That's just mind-bogglingly simple and brilliant.


Actually, that was in my description.

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Just leave a tall tip then!

I work at a coffee shop here in Vancouver. It's called Caffe Artigiano. Great coffee, but some idiot decided we should use the Starbucks sizing scheme.
So we have 3 sizes, but not tall, grande, and venti. That would be too easy, probably also copyright infringement. So we have a traditional size (the same as a Starbucks' short), a tall size, and a grande, which are equivalent to their Starbucks counterparts.
It would make sense if "Tall" meant something in Italian like Grande and Venti do, but I digress.
Besides, Starbucks makes some of the shittiest coffee in the world. It also explains why people come into my work and complain the coffee isn't dark enough. It's plenty dark enough, it's just not burnt to shit like Starbucks coffee.

Who give a fuck what they are called. Drink what you want and be done with it. If you get a tall that is what Starbucks sells as small then that is what you get. They sell coffee in smaller cups, I believe it is called short, but they don't want to sell you that because they can't make as much money by selling you smaller amounts of coffee. If you don't like that business practice, don't go to Starbucks.

Stop being a whinny bitch and don't fucking make everyone else wait for your coffee cup size definition philosophical debate.

It's just a freaking coffee... or rather "vanilla latte" that's not coffee that is what you Bitch-Ass Nigga drinks.

You know I should make a video about morons who say "I can't function without coffee!" Giving yourself excuses for being a bitch? Coffee usually need hour to affect you, you fucking moron, the caffeine don't have immediate affect on you! It has to travel through your circulatory system. If you think otherwise, then the act of being "ineffectual" is on you, not the lack of coffee and being a bitch is who you really are.

And you dumb bitch... caffeine increase loss of calcium, you need that so you don't get osteoporosis as older woman... and it appears you are getting old.

The actress does a very good job, and makes the skit amusing to watch. Playing three different roles (narrator, customer and employee), the way you would expect all three to behave.

I'm a bit of English in me, so tea is my brew. No need to ask for seventeen things: "Put hot water in cup, and give me tea bag, sugar, and spoon". It also costs me 1/4th what my cooworkers pay for. And, when they loose their caffine 'high', I'm still buzzing away.

How to kill your election chances (regardless of office at local, state, or federal): Say you will increase the tax on coffee by 0.0000000000000001%. Automatic lost.

But how much for oral?

not. that. attractive.