Irritating Statements
June 13th, 2008
Posted in Uncategorized, coffee, evolution, irritation, penguins, porsche, scientists, starbucks
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June 13th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
The English major works at Starbucks… LOL’s
June 14th, 2008 at 3:33 am
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June 27th, 2008 at 8:42 am
That’s not english….
July 2nd, 2008 at 11:28 am
lol! sad yet funny!
July 11th, 2008 at 1:58 pm
Just seen your comic linked from reddit – after quick flick, I’m so impressed. Will be back for more!
Thanks – keep up the good work.
July 14th, 2008 at 1:45 am
Beautiful.
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July 14th, 2008 at 10:12 am
Great comics mate.
July 14th, 2008 at 4:20 pm
Stephen King is an English Major, he seems to be doing fine.
July 14th, 2008 at 7:22 pm
I was joking at Starbuck’s once about them having to make up a word for a size bigger than grande–Venti. The Barista took offence: “It’s Italian for ‘thirty’ because it’s thirty ounces.” I asked what Italian for “ounces” was, but I don’t think he got the joke.
July 22nd, 2008 at 11:14 pm
Doesn’t Venti mean 20?
Hilarious comic. Thanks!
I was just at a friend’s house who was an English Major at the University of Chicago. When he couldn’t find a job using his degree he went to medical school and became a doctor.
July 22nd, 2008 at 11:46 pm
Bring back the good old days when small was small and large was large.
July 23rd, 2008 at 7:08 am
Interesting!
July 23rd, 2008 at 11:00 am
Well,i am glad see this discussion about”Irritating Statements”.This makes me laugh and just seen your comic linked from reddit – after quick flick, I’m so impressed. Will be back for more!
Thanks – keep up this type of good work.
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July 23rd, 2008 at 12:17 pm
my english major friend ended up as a secretary.
August 6th, 2008 at 6:17 am
I irritated the porshe owner and a english major by it.
And guess what they were superbly irritated
Good work man!!!!!
August 7th, 2008 at 1:05 pm
LOLS EVERYWHERE
August 8th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
funny comics
August 31st, 2008 at 2:19 pm
this comic irritates me.
August 31st, 2008 at 3:02 pm
ARE YOU SAY I ENGLISH MAJOR ARE NOT WORK FOR DIS CORPRATIONS DIS NOT COOL WORK FOR MOTER LONG TIME
August 31st, 2008 at 7:27 pm
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August 31st, 2008 at 8:42 pm
Speaking as an English professor, I’m irritated that Starbucks calls a medium a Grande. If you really want to annoy an English major, say “simplistic” when you mean “simple.”
September 1st, 2008 at 12:17 am
cute penguin
September 1st, 2008 at 12:21 am
i still don’t get this stigma. last time i checked, every industry requires writing.
english majors become editors, writers and teachers.
psychology majors make better fodder.
l2p
September 1st, 2008 at 6:46 am
thats great.
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September 1st, 2008 at 7:38 am
[...] Hang in there dear reader – till then I leave you with this humorous swipe at the stereotypical “English Major”. [...]
September 1st, 2008 at 9:10 am
Like fingernails on a blackboard. Oh for the good old days when english was spoke!
lol
September 1st, 2008 at 9:29 am
hey, english majors don’t drink over-priced crap coffee, or work in their money-grubbing establishments….we just get jobs that have absolutely nothing to do with an enlish major, and make every one else miserable, dammit!
September 1st, 2008 at 10:13 am
so funny!!
September 1st, 2008 at 10:22 am
um….ok. That is supposed to be funny?
September 1st, 2008 at 10:41 am
I think that the English major would avoid using the passive voice (is called).
September 1st, 2008 at 12:44 pm
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September 1st, 2008 at 1:04 pm
that is not funny it is rubbish
September 1st, 2008 at 2:41 pm
Number three works on philosophy majors too.
September 1st, 2008 at 2:45 pm
To be a humourless language student, Porsche should have two syllables since it’s a German word. But I’ll stick with the starbucks customer – using faux-authentic terms to try and up the cred of an american coffee chain is stupid.
September 1st, 2008 at 11:52 pm
vente is twenty for twenty ounces
i dont know what italian for ounces is
i refuse to say grande, dont get mad if teh barista says grande they may not be correcting you they are supposed to say it.
September 1st, 2008 at 11:58 pm
My friend is a Porsche guy, and I can’t express how true the two syllable thing really is. It drives him crazy.
September 2nd, 2008 at 2:55 am
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September 2nd, 2008 at 4:41 am
um, they’re prnguins.
September 2nd, 2008 at 10:44 am
Actually, if you really want to irritate someone (like me) who works in a coffee shop, order something like you would at starbucks. because they’re the only place that bullshits their menu and forces you to bullshit them back.
September 2nd, 2008 at 1:07 pm
As an English Major making six figures, I believe you have me on the wrong side of that counter.
But on the RARE occasions when I visit Starbucks, it does irritate me that I need to order by their bullshit menu. That’s one of the (many) reasons my visits are so rare.
I’d venture that most English Majors would be more irritated by the bullshit sizing than having to work there, but that’s just one opinion…
September 2nd, 2008 at 4:49 pm
Funny that no one else has said this but Porsche is a two syllable word if you ask any german speaker they will tell you that and I also know this cause it is the familys last name and the gradson of the guy who started the company told me how to say it once
September 2nd, 2008 at 4:54 pm
…yeah, okay. All English majors don’t drink starbucks’ retardedly named coffee. Just to let you know.
September 2nd, 2008 at 7:40 pm
Was the joke how pretentious the starbucks workers are when it comes to the coffee words? I asked for a cappuccino once and the lady laughed and was like “I think you’re used to buying from gas stations. The correct term is frapuccino. They call it cappuccino because of the cap.”
“Give me a cappuccino, bitch.”
September 3rd, 2008 at 7:50 am
From what i understand this is saying that an english major is a useless qualification, some people cant seem to understand this. Maybe it should be changed to an Art degree or something.
September 3rd, 2008 at 1:37 pm
this is stupid
September 3rd, 2008 at 3:54 pm
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September 3rd, 2008 at 11:24 pm
For a second there, I was like “hey! Taking English as a major offers one plenty of vocational skills, training for academia…etc.” Then I remembered “Shit, I’ve got work in the morning”.
September 4th, 2008 at 11:31 am
i work for starbucks…
when starbucks initally started, there was only short and tall (makes sense as far as sizes go) but when the tall wasn’t large enough, we came out with the grande (means large in spanish or italian)
then when that wasn’t big enough, venti (20 in Italian, for 20 ounces). That’s the explanation for our absolutely bizarre sizes. Incidentally, the iced venti drink is actually 24 ounces.
No, we don’t force you to order your drinks by “our bullshit standards.” You can say small, medium, or large, and i’ll understand you just fine and i don’t get annoyed at all. However, when i call it back to the person making the drink, i’m required to say tall, grande, or venti.
also, we have frappucinos AND cappucinos. Whoever said “you must mean frappucino” is an idiot.
September 4th, 2008 at 8:30 pm
hahahahaha! that’s super funny. i have a degree in neurobiology and i worked at starbucks for 6 months!
September 4th, 2008 at 11:18 pm
Hahaha nice
September 5th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
Hehe nice. Why penguins?
September 5th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
i lol’d
September 5th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
Screw Starbucks, if i wanted to get ass raped by coffee prices and weird words I would go to Columbia. XD
OH, Hilarious comic btw.
September 5th, 2008 at 7:21 pm
Wait, does anyone realize that the science one is retarded? A theory is a guess (albeit one that has enough evidence to be widely accepted) no scientist would get irritated by that
September 5th, 2008 at 8:31 pm
As an English major who works at Starbucks, I’m going to go cry in a corner now.
September 8th, 2008 at 9:49 am
Funny. Though, from the comments, it looks like the way to irritate English majors is to make a comment that their major is more likely to get them to work behind a Starbucks counter, rather than to get them a professional career. But some of us English majors can take a joke.
September 8th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
Neverlution is a fraud. Also, calling a small coffee “tall” is fraud.
September 9th, 2008 at 4:06 am
Sad, but very very true. Especially the Porche-ahhh.
September 9th, 2008 at 6:56 am
What do say to a Arts school Graduate?
Can i have a burger with the lot please? :p
September 11th, 2008 at 11:04 am
the third works for a starbucks employee. unless you decided to drop the frame-to-frame parallelism and are insinuating that the customer is the english major being annoyed by the clerk being annoyed by the customer–because in that case the last frame would actually be funny.
September 11th, 2008 at 6:51 pm
I’m pretty young and not even in a college yet, but fortunately, I learned the sad truth about psychology before it was too late. Most end up in the service industry, “drawn by better salaries”. Doh. They definitely make better fodder than English majors.
September 15th, 2008 at 12:08 am
This was great, and I plan on posting it at work.
Which btw, funny thing…I work for Starbucks. I hate the names for the sizes, but whatever. When Someone comes in and says, “Can I get a large or a venti or grande or whatever you guys call it?” I simply reply with, “You CAN just say large, I do understand English.”
It’s not rocket science, and it’s not over priced. You get what you pay for. Does no one appreciate quality and friendly customer service anymore? Sorry our menu offers too many options.
September 17th, 2008 at 8:42 pm
sorry but customer service at starbucks when it comes to the actual drink is a joke, The employees are courteous at best. More often than not my shots sit for 30+ seconds while the neophyte steams the milk. And I can get a less bitter tasting latte across the street at the joe muggs for sub $3 with my books-a-million discount card.
The employees are courteous at best.
September 18th, 2008 at 8:34 am
hahahah those penguins are cute! more where these came from please!
September 18th, 2008 at 9:01 am
hey, starbucks has great benefits.
September 24th, 2008 at 1:11 pm
Dead on! Hilarious.
September 28th, 2008 at 11:50 am
it’s shopped. you can tell from the shadows
September 28th, 2008 at 6:34 pm
You are kidding, right?
October 21st, 2008 at 9:26 pm
ahhh yay for a starbucks joke with penguins. carlos mencia for life
November 9th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
English majors: I can’t afford Starbucks.
January 5th, 2009 at 5:22 pm
Majoring in English gets you working at Starbucks!
January 10th, 2009 at 11:22 pm
as an english major, doctoral student in education, I am now relegated to making art for a living…there is no justice…and I wouldn’t walk into a starbucks to order their pretentiously priced and horrid coffee.
January 14th, 2009 at 11:40 pm
lol English is such a bullshit major.
February 10th, 2009 at 12:11 am
awesome evolution is a theory stupid people need to be reminded of this evolution has 20000 holes its such a crackpot
July 22nd, 2009 at 1:43 pm
Too Funny Man! Reminds me of another joke: What do you do when a Musician shows up at your door? Answer: You take the pizza, you give him the money, you close the door!
September 10th, 2009 at 8:37 am
Hi! I was surfing and found your blog post… nice! I love your blog.
Cheers! Sandra. R.
June 3rd, 2010 at 7:57 pm
I don’t drink starbucks because they’re against my ganj-smoking habits.
oh and their coffee sucks