Starbucks Barista’s ‘Secret Note’ on Cup to Help Young Woman Sparks Heated Debate: ‘What Are Men Supposed to Do?’

New York Post ^ | Oct. 18, 2023

[Clutch Martin]

“The barista acted properly. He/she was looking out for her.”

There are bartenders and establishments in tune with similar situations, hand signals, spoken codes for help etc... bouncers are called over. It’s a service provided and the clientele appreciate it.

[Nifster]

Nonsense. Most folks meet at church or work

I’d kill an older man if they had done this to my daughter

[Nifster]

So you’re a creeper too

[Dead Corpse]

Wouldn’t be my first one today... And there’s still some daylight left!

Off to do more crime.

FReegards...

[Dead Corpse]

I met my former Wife of 25 years in a bar...

[Darksheare]

My coffee in no way is connected to intestinal inversion or full body explosion, nor has it ever been linked to deer acting strangely or altered states of consciousness.
No, never.

[null and void]

So you say. We have copies of your posts...

[Midwesterner53]

Does Starbucks offer to come to the rescue when women have to face men in sports?

[null and void]

Darksheare Coffee?

“WARNING - Not to be taken internally!” - Slings and Arrows

In 12 cup drip percolator pot, fill to 6 cup mark with water.

In filter, put 6 heaping scoops of coffee.

Medium roast works best, just make sure it’s a robust blend.

Found a Maxwellhouse ‘medium roast’ that was rather anemic.

Put pinch of salt in filter, about as much as it would take to cover the surface of a dime with one even layer.

This keeps the coffee from tasting burned too quickly, it doesn’t age well brewed this way.

Brew, recirculate if need be, usually not.

Add sugar and dairy creamer.

Creamora and coffeemate are not recommended unless you like the heart racing that Ranger Pudding gives.

That, and the nondairy creamer will give you both a headache and a buzz with the coffee.

I usually put about 8 spoons of sugar in this stuff, it ends up being like Russian Kava, thick and sweet with that bitter overtone to it.

Oh, and I am NOT responsible for seeming demonic possession of the coffeepot, or the coffeepot ending up acting as if it has been damaged.

Be sure NOT to add creamora or coffeemate to the brew, unless you LIKE ranger pudding style heart racing.


When I brew that stuff for myself, I recirculate the stuff to brew a second time, but that’s me for my own personal enjoyment, and it may wreck the coffeepot.


Don’t forget the salt, it’s important to the finished brew.

[Mr. Jeeves]

There is absolutely nothing wrong with striking up a conversation with someone.

Millennials and Gen Z'ers have been trained to believe that every interaction has sexual undertones - so striking up a generic conversation may lead to a very different response than one expects.

[irishjuggler]

Never said that it was. I was just reacting to the previous poster’s blanket admonishment: “Don’t approach younger women you don’t know. That’s creepy.”

[Robert DeLong]

men are nothing but violent assault machines

That's a true statement, for male Democrats.

[rlmorel]

Ridiculous? Don’t think so.

As a man in today’s society, you can barely look or smile at a kid who is doing something cute or silly, never mind talking to them. Never mind a woman, unless she is elderly. Last time I offered my seat on a train to an older woman who was standing, she looked at me like I had three heads and turned away in alarm. I was a younger man sitting there with my wife. You don’t think this attitude is prevalent?

It IS ridiculous to say “I don’t acknowledge that there are some creepy dudes out there”. Did I say that? No. I didn’t. That is your hangup. Because there are. And there are creepy people in every walk of life of whatever sex and age. That isn’t the issue.

The issue is that this society has degenerated into a bunch of wimpy people who are afraid to go out of their homes, pull their eyes away from their phones, or to even make eye contact with other people. There are adults in this nation in the thrall of “Stranger Danger” and we inculcate our children with it, they have grown up with it.

This society has become so damned risk averse that if someone came into our country on paragliders, we would be pushovers.

We are a nation of cowards afraid of our shadows, afraid to interact with others, and this is just one single manifestation of this malignant and corrosive attitude, and the harm it has done to our society is incalculable.

[rlmorel]

Yes. My point in my posting above. And it isn’t just “Millenials and Gen Z’ers”.

There is a difference between using common sense to determine the danger of something and acting accordingly or just assuming everything is a danger, and this country is full of of the latter.

[rlmorel]

Yes. I got your point on that blanket statement but some don’t understand that.

[linMcHlp]

Thanks to both of you, for your wisdom on these pages.

[MinorityRepublican]

80% of the women (in the dating market) are fighting over the top 10% of the available men.

90% of the available men are fighting for the 20% of the women that are left. It started to be like that 20 years ago but everything accelerated the past decade or so.

[FreedomPoster]

“It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers−out of unorthodoxy.”

Winston in 1984, by G. Orwell.

[rlmorel]

This is a sore spot with me-and it goes deeper than considering the fright someone might feel at talking to any stranger.

It is this...intrusive obsession with safety at any cost, and in my opinion, it has simply leached into the fiber of our national being.

So in fear of everything from being caught in a rainstorm to buying some product that doesn’t have labels all over it saying you might cut your finger or inhale or ingest some product because it has been shown to cause damage in rats when fed to them at 10,000x the concentrations any human would ingest it in.

Look at all the asinine labels that have to be put on everything that is sold in California?

You can’t build a playground in some areas unless you add in a pit with some spongy material under the swing set, if you are even still allowed to put a swing set in a playground.

I see the subject of this story as another manifestation of this bizarre obsession, to the point there are government regulations at all levels put there for “your safety”.

I cannot make any judgements on what some woman in a Starbucks did or didn’t encounter, but I certainly view the “alarm” by others with a skeptical eye, especially since I wasn’t there to see it, and no longer trust my fellow citizens to correctly and rationally assess a threat.

[FreedomPoster]

That plus radical feminism plus the tilt against men in family courts have led to the MGTOW movement. Which last is not a healthy thing, but it is sadly a rational one.