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bbfan1991 02-05-2013 01:20 PM

Starbucks misspells name 'Virginia' as 'Vagina'...
 
A woman was outraged after a Starbucks misspelled the name 'Virginia' as 'Vagina'.

The customer at the coffee shop in Hong Kong ranted on their Facebook page, calling the error "unacceptable".

http://i1.cdnds.net/13/18/618x829/od...isspelling.png

"This is my sister's cuppa from your HKU branch," she posted. "Fancy your staff not being able to spell an American name like Virginia. Forgiving she has been with every misspelled cup.

"Her cup was once 'Virgin'. Every Starbucks experience for her has been coupled with fear and anticipation. But THIS is just UNACCEPTABLE.

"Starbucks HK, you have to buck up or just not spell your customer's name anyway. It is a derogatory attitude even if it is unintentional. What do you have to say about this?"

Reaction to the post from other Facebook users has been mixed, with some arguing that it is perhaps harsh to expect perfect spelling from local Chinese staff.

Jesus. 02-05-2013 01:22 PM

Bunch of ******s.

Niamh. 02-05-2013 01:23 PM

:laugh2:

Vanessa 02-05-2013 01:23 PM

:joker:

Patrick 02-05-2013 01:26 PM

The woman is a ******ing loser for even taking the time to take a photo and rant about it. This is why I hate people.

Starbucks 1 > Silly Woman 0

Me. I Am Salman 02-05-2013 01:52 PM

her thumb is scary

Cherie 02-05-2013 01:54 PM

The Starbuck's employees amusing themselves to pass the time :joker:

Marcus. 02-05-2013 01:54 PM

oh dear

Ryan57 02-05-2013 01:54 PM

Lol, outraged at this. Guess censoring on porn doesn't help.

King Gizzard 02-05-2013 02:03 PM

i was in there with my dad about 2 weeks ago and they spelt his name Drick

King Gizzard 02-05-2013 02:04 PM

Whenever I go in there there's about 6 or 7 nationalities working there all in a line, quite amazing how they do it but they are awful at spelling names alot of the time Lol

Ramsay 02-05-2013 02:07 PM

she obviously just wrote it herself to get likes

Livia 02-05-2013 02:16 PM

Firstly, Virginia an "American name"? Secondly... get over it.

arista 02-05-2013 02:17 PM

The Name I give to them

is Costa
or
Greggs

Apple202 02-05-2013 02:39 PM

typical american

Saph 02-05-2013 03:53 PM

:laugh:

Vicky. 02-05-2013 04:11 PM

What a fanny :bored:

Jordan. 02-05-2013 04:16 PM

Quote:

Every Starbucks experience for her has been coupled with fear and anticipation.
This has to be a joke :joker:

Lee. 02-05-2013 04:17 PM

It saddened me that she doesn't find this hilarious! What's happened to people's sense of humour. Folk are too easily outraged these days.

Marc 02-05-2013 04:59 PM

Tbh I'd have laughed it off

lostalex 03-05-2013 07:57 PM

Oh so when it's an AMERICAN name i's okay to have a bit of a laugh, but if some black woman came in named Shannon and i wrote SHANIQUA on her cup i'd be a racist? Well I would be if i did that.

Virginia doesn't look or sound like Vagina. It was obviously intentional. **** that racist bitch.

Glenn. 03-05-2013 08:04 PM

It was Josy's cup of coffee:idc:

Livia 03-05-2013 08:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lostalex (Post 5973967)
Oh so when it's an AMERICAN name i's okay to have a bit of a laugh, but if some black woman came in named Shannon and i wrote SHANIQUA on her cup i'd be a racist? Well I would be if i did that.

Virginia doesn't look or sound like Vagina. It was obviously intentional. **** that racist bitch.

To be fair, I expect Vagina wouldn't have known how to spell the server's name.

lostalex 03-05-2013 08:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Livia (Post 5973983)
To be fair, I expect Vagina wouldn't have known how to spell the server's name.

well she lives in China, so she probably would have, or do you just assume that all Americans overseas can't speak the language of the country they go to?

So many stereotypes in just 1 thread.

Livia 03-05-2013 08:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lostalex (Post 5974016)
well she lives in China, so she probably would have, or do you just assume that all Americans overseas can't speak the language of the country they go to?

So many stereotypes in just 1 thread.

I'd lay a couple of quid on the fact that she'd struggle to spell the server's name in the native language. That's not a pop at Americans. I'm not suggesting there are many Brits that could. I just think this was a huge overreaction that should have been laughed off, and because such an issue was made it makes her look whiney and superficial.


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