The Starbuck's chain mistakenly tweeted all its Irish customers (rather than its UK customers) during Queen Elizabeth's Diamond Jubilee celebration, asking them to "show us what makes you proud to be British."

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From: [identity profile] lollardfish.livejournal.com


COME ON OUT YE BLACK AND TANS
COME ON AND FIGHT ME LIKE A MAN!

From: [identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/


Oh, ffs.
Not at all good.
(The Welsh and the Scots might not have been too keen, either, though being Anglo-Welsh myself, I tend to think that our current royal dynasty is All The Scots' Doing.)

From: [identity profile] barbarienne.livejournal.com


And just like that, Starbucks single-handedly destroys the Good Friday Accords.
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