Beautiful Existence; I weep for humanity.

[_glitch_]

Some crazy broad changed her name to 'Beautiful Existence' and ate nothing but Starbucks for a year straight last year.

I wish I were joking.

www.nydailynews.com/life-style/eats/seattle-woman-eats-starbucks-food-year-article-1.1563828

Of course, she's getting a disproportionate amount of media attention, because this stuff is modern-journalism gold - a simple, mindless story that the public finds fascinating that can be repeated ad infinitum for a week or so until the Next Interesting Thing happens.

[Phil]

Weirdness sells. I guess we can't help but wonder is this person nuts or just plain attention starved. Probably the former to be that much the latter. But that's ludicrous. She should have named herself Wild 4 Attention. That might be more fitting.

[Jersey]

Phil's post is the perfect response for this woman so there isn't much for me to say. But I will say that someone that re-dubs themself "Beautiful Existence" must have some kind of God complex or at least a heaping dose of arrogance.

That aside, I've never stepped foot into a Starbucks and have no intention to do so. Many of the people that frequented the one on campus back when I was living on it were the nose in the air types, and Starbucks endorses that kind of behavior. So no interest in the chain here. I'll keep with my Dunkin.

[Classicblast]

hahaha. Obviously it takes all kinds. Does she think that Starbucks is good for you? Obviously. food is nutrition of some kind as you can survive on it all if that's all that was there to eat. But its really not right to plan on chain restaurant food as if its what you should live on.

And in my playing years I did a lot of the time because that's what was available easily but its not for three squares a day everyday for a year. And what a stupid thing to name yourself. Like Phil said Starved for attention would be better.

[Phil]

That's plain silly

[_glitch_]

Jan 6, 2014 9:40:38 GMT -5 Jersey said:

Phil's post is the perfect response for this woman so there isn't much for me to say. But I will say that someone that re-dubs themself "Beautiful Existence" must have some kind of God complex or at least a heaping dose of arrogance.

That aside, I've never stepped foot into a Starbucks and have no intention to do so. Many of the people that frequented the one on campus back when I was living on it were the nose in the air types, and Starbucks endorses that kind of behavior. So no interest in the chain here. I'll keep with my Dunkin.

You're not missing out on much. Starbucks is just OK coffee at independently-owned-and-roasted prices. I'm lucky... we have an incredible local shop right down the road from my house that roasts their own beans and makes the best cup of coffee I've ever had in my whole life. It's a really nice atmosphere, too - it's a family business and it's obvious that the father and son who run it have no agenda other than making great coffee. It's the anti-Starbucks.

[Phil]

Perhaps I'm old school, but I just drink coffee. Not all these 300 flavors they have now and cappuccino is really not for me. Coffee isn't suppose to be cold. If I want something cold to drink I'll have cola.

[angel607]

i think that's a lot of money $600.00 a month for food. I am glad I am a picky eater and don't eat out much. I never ate at starbucks either but people have said the snacks and coffee is pretty good.

[Classicblast]

I don't pay much attention to the grocery bill Blastgirl mostly does the shopping but I'd say its about $140 a week That's us and our two sons. Family of four. Probably we go out for dinner about twice a week maybe more in the summertime.

That puts it at us spending about a grand a month to feed 4 people. that would then be saying that spending $600 a month to feed one person at Starbucks is a lot.

[Phil]

That's about our grocery bill too we have 1 more kid. But that amount is about right.

[angel607]

i am only one person so my grocery list is much smaller. I am also a picky eater. I am not sure if she ate 2 or 3 meals a day there but maybe that's why it's so much. much cheaper to eat at home. I go out every now and then but I couldn't everyday. I would be sick of the same place even after a week.

[Phil]

Its always cheaper to eat at home. That goes for everything, I can do most of my own car repairs, and most of my own home repairs that saves thousands of dollars a year.

I am slowly training my kids to do as much as possible to have them be as independent as they can.

But the woman in this story is an attention starved whack job.

[angel607]

i agree I don't get what the point of this story is. why does anyone need to eat out for a year just so they can get attention. I would rather hear about the pay it forward stories and people doing good deeds. this woman is upset she didn't receive much attention after all that but there are homeless people in the cold streets everyday and they don't receive enough attention. I have been in philly and I have given money to homeless people but it's really sad how they have to live. this lady should be thankful she has the money to go out to eat.

[Phil]

This is a little different, but the World Wrestling Federation has the Ultimate Warrior from about 1987 to about 1995. The Warrior's name is James Helwig. After leaving the WWWF, WWF owner Vince McMahon made some attempts to prevent Helwig from using the Warrior gimmick. So Helwig changed his name legally to Warrior.

That's a little stupid, but I get it it had professional copyright legal reasons.

[angel607]

i never knew about the names being copyright so I learned something new. I do love the rock and have not seen wwf in years.

[Classicblast]

Jan 23, 2014 11:21:05 GMT -5 angel607 said:

i never knew about the names being copyright so I learned something new. I do love the rock and have not seen wwf in years.

It can be if it's not an actual name. There was a basketball player who became a Muslim in the 70s and renamed himself Kareem Abdul Jabbar. His birth name is Lousi Alcondor.

A football player in the 90s named himself that also when he became a Muslim. He was born Sharmin Shah. The former basketball player sued him on name infringmetn rights so the football player revived it to Abdul Kareem al-Jabbar. That was different enough to avoid conflict.


But had they been born with those names there would be no infringement problems at all.

[Phil]

I remember when that was a topic of controversy. The fact that neither was a family name but a chosen name allowed the basketball player rights to the name. And James Helwig was afraid that the character of the Warrior might be locked exclusively the the WWF if McMahon wanted to block him from playing that character outside his promotion. So he made Warrior his legal name to avoid being stopped.