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Hippies and Liberals love Pope Francis, so why dont I quote him for you guys. "There is NO SALVATION outside the Catholic Church" 
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Re: Boycott Celestial Seasonings Tea! [Re: Almond Flour] 3
#16637962 - 08/03/12 03:10 AM (11 years, 8 months ago) |
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having another pissed off day?
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Re: Boycott Celestial Seasonings Tea! [Re: Almond Flour] 2
#16637965 - 08/03/12 03:11 AM (11 years, 8 months ago) |
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Will do. Fuck them. I will also send them a message saying they no longer have my regular business.
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Re: Boycott Celestial Seasonings Tea! [Re: King Klick] 1
#16637973 - 08/03/12 03:12 AM (11 years, 8 months ago) |
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Quote:
King Klick said:
Will do. Fuck them. I will also send them a message saying they no longer have my regular business.
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Re: Boycott Celestial Seasonings Tea! [Re: Almond Flour]
#16637981 - 08/03/12 03:15 AM (11 years, 8 months ago) |
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taking cynical to another level. REAL CA MILK
Btw, i won't buy their products. boo on them.
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Re: Boycott Celestial Seasonings Tea! [Re: akira_akuma]
#16637987 - 08/03/12 03:18 AM (11 years, 8 months ago) |
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akira_akuma said:
taking cynical to another level. REAL CA MILK
Btw, i won't buy their products. boo on them.
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Re: Boycott Celestial Seasonings Tea! [Re: Almond Flour]
#16637998 - 08/03/12 03:22 AM (11 years, 8 months ago) |
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Message sent. I hope your not bullshiting and i'm gonna feel retarded for it. "I have heard your company is suing a local small business tea shop in california for "having similar named tea flavors." I am just letting you know that you have lost a regular customer due to this incident."
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Re: Boycott Celestial Seasonings Tea! [Re: Almond Flour]
#16638000 - 08/03/12 03:23 AM (11 years, 8 months ago) |
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Re: Boycott Celestial Seasonings Tea! [Re: akira_akuma]
#16638017 - 08/03/12 03:30 AM (11 years, 8 months ago) |
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Out of curiosity, just how similar are the names of the teas from the small shop?
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Re: Boycott Celestial Seasonings Tea! [Re: Almond Flour]
#16638019 - 08/03/12 03:30 AM (11 years, 8 months ago) |
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What does herbal tea even do?
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Re: Boycott Celestial Seasonings Tea! [Re: Almond Flour]
#16638024 - 08/03/12 03:32 AM (11 years, 8 months ago) |
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Mmm, I'm gonna go make some of their tea right now. 
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Re: Boycott Celestial Seasonings Tea! [Re: s240779]
#16638027 - 08/03/12 03:33 AM (11 years, 8 months ago) |
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Quote:
akira_akuma said:
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superhigh said:
What does herbal tea even do?
Green tea stimulates dopamine and serentonin reproduction. I don't think "herbal" tea is anything different than normal tea.
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Re: Boycott Celestial Seasonings Tea! [Re: s240779] 1
#16638031 - 08/03/12 03:33 AM (11 years, 8 months ago) |
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Quote:
superhigh said:
What does herbal tea even do?
Gets you high as shit. 
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Re: Boycott Celestial Seasonings Tea! [Re: The Phleg]
#16638081 - 08/03/12 04:01 AM (11 years, 8 months ago) |
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Hey OP did you attend chick-fil-a appreciation day?
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Re: Boycott Celestial Seasonings Tea! [Re: Dorian Gray]
#16638089 - 08/03/12 04:04 AM (11 years, 8 months ago) |
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chick fil a is a decent company imo.
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Re: Boycott Celestial Seasonings Tea! [Re: King Klick]
#16638132 - 08/03/12 04:41 AM (11 years, 8 months ago) |
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Chick fil a is the best food ever. I support gay marriage but I love chick fil a
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Re: Boycott Celestial Seasonings Tea! [Re: Syd Barrett]
#16638157 - 08/03/12 04:53 AM (11 years, 8 months ago) |
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Chick fil a is the best food ever. I support gay marriage but I love chick fil a
I've never heard of it up until the big gay shit came up. Who gives a fuck? They still give equal opportunity employment.
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Re: Boycott Celestial Seasonings Tea! [Re: King Klick]
#16638277 - 08/03/12 05:57 AM (11 years, 8 months ago) |
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i heard they spend millions on keeping gay marriage illegal? or something like that. that's fucking stupid, i wouldn't buy anything from them but there isn't any around where i live and i don't want to eat fast food anyway. lol so it doesn't really take away my business that wouldn't go to a business like that in the first place.
check this nugget from mcdonalds lol, some retard returned this nugget and actually asked for more nuggets instead of their money back. 
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Re: Boycott Celestial Seasonings Tea! [Re: SurReality]
#16638289 - 08/03/12 06:05 AM (11 years, 8 months ago) |
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^^The fuck? Are those mycelial spokes? 
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Re: Boycott Celestial Seasonings Tea! [Re: SurReality]
#16638322 - 08/03/12 06:19 AM (11 years, 8 months ago) |
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mmm
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#16638469 - 08/03/12 07:01 AM (11 years, 8 months ago) |
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This is what companies do- blame the stupid laws. A company has to defend their trademarks or at least make the attempt to show that they are trying to defend their trade marks or they can potentially lose them. I've seen the same thing happen in the beer world where a brewery sent a c and d to a homebreweing store that sold a clone kit for one of their beers. The name was too close and they had to change it.
Believe me, these companies would rather not fork over piles of cash to blood sucking lawyers. There are just miles and miles of rules and regulations in this country so they have no choice.
On the chicken front: I don't think this was the wisest battle for the gay community to choose and the saber rattling by the liberal mayors is backfiring. If they really want to change things in society then how about the work on a positive message?
It is always better to be positive and constructive then negative and destructive. It is always better to be "for" something than "against" something. I have an idea: how about a few organizations representing the "gay community" reach an olive branch to chic fil'a's charity and work together on something they both can agree on. Anything from building habitats for humanity to feeding the homeless.
Glitter attacks, flash mobs, "kiss-ins", and general disruption of a business really rubs the general population in the wrong way. Especially when it is over something covered by the first amendment.
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Re: Boycott Celestial Seasonings Tea! [Re: abltsandwich]
#16638482 - 08/03/12 07:04 AM (11 years, 8 months ago) |
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Quote:
abltsandwich said:
Out of curiosity, just how similar are the names of the teas from the small shop?
I'm also curious about this. IMO it is ind of weak for a massive company like that to screw with a mom and pop business. Assuming the business is small enough, I wouldn't care unless they were selling counterfeits. That, of course, could legitimately interfere with a business' reputation.
But just how close were these names?
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Re: Boycott Celestial Seasonings Tea! [Re: CidneyIndole]
#16638498 - 08/03/12 07:11 AM (11 years, 8 months ago) |
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I will never waste any money on their shitty product. And its funny because I was in Walgreens looking for Tea one day and I saw their product. I decided that I could find better and just kept walking 
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Re: Boycott Celestial Seasonings Tea! [Re: CidneyIndole]
#16638506 - 08/03/12 07:15 AM (11 years, 8 months ago) |
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i don't think whether or not a name is close means it is copyright infringement. there are plenty of "similar names" out there for products that are practically identical... look and e-cig juices: there's "nuport" "palmall" "winson""marbow" yada... http://www.aromaejuice.com/E-Juice-E-Liquid_c18.htm
or generic soda like "dr. thunder"
no one fucking cares how close the name is, its not the same name and thats all that matters.
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Re: Boycott Celestial Seasonings Tea! [Re: SurReality]
#16638507 - 08/03/12 07:15 AM (11 years, 8 months ago) |
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Re: Boycott Celestial Seasonings Tea! [Re: CidneyIndole]
#16638511 - 08/03/12 07:16 AM (11 years, 8 months ago) |
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CidneyIndole said:
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abltsandwich said:
Out of curiosity, just how similar are the names of the teas from the small shop?
I'm also curious about this. IMO it is ind of weak for a massive company like that to screw with a mom and pop business. Assuming the business is small enough, I wouldn't care unless they were selling counterfeits. That, of course, could legitimately interfere with a business' reputation.
But just how close were these names?
That is, until the Mom & Pop sue the big company first.
Or if the big company knows about it and chooses to let it slide, then the mom & pop shop gets bigger and starts expanding, the trademark infringement becomes an issue. When the big company sues, the M&P shop will say that the big company knew of the product and didn't sue when they found out. It weakens their case.
Or, it gives other small mom and pop shops everywhere free reign to copy the products as well.
It might seem like bullying, but it could snowball into something really bad for the big company if they just choose to ignore it. But hey, it's Shroomery, knee-jerk reactions are all we do here so scratch everything I just said:
CELESTIAL TEA IS THE MOST OPPRESSIVE COMPANY EVAR BOYCOTT BOYCOTT!!!! THEY HATE THE LITTLE GUY JUST LIKE WAL MART!
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Re: Boycott Celestial Seasonings Tea! [Re: King Klick]
#16638514 - 08/03/12 07:17 AM (11 years, 8 months ago) |
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King Klick said:
Message sent. I hope your not bullshiting and i'm gonna feel retarded for it. "I have heard your company is suing a local small business tea shop in california for "having similar named tea flavors." I am just letting you know that you have lost a regular customer due to this incident."
Usually the lawyers will send out a 'Cease and Desist' order before filling a lawsuit. It's much cheaper to do it that way.
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Re: Boycott Celestial Seasonings Tea! [Re: Its Pat]
#16639281 - 08/03/12 11:17 AM (11 years, 8 months ago) |
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I looked through the lists of herbal teas on both company websites and I can't see much similarity between most of the names. Humboldt has an "Orange Spice" and CS has a "Mandarin Orange Spice", I guess those are pretty similar. There seem to be several tea companies that offer teas with similar names though, e.g. Bigelow has an "Orange & Spice". I guess it's hard to really make a judgement whether there's any merit to their complaint without knowing which specific names they're saying are similar.
http://humboldtherbals.com/organic-bulk-teas.html
http://www.celestialseasonings.com/products/herbal-teas
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Re: Boycott Celestial Seasonings Tea! [Re: psi]
#16639303 - 08/03/12 11:21 AM (11 years, 8 months ago) |
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This guy, Real CA Milk, makes threads and I usually read the first post.
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I think suing over a very common-place name like "orange and spice" is almost the height of litigious ridiculousness.
It brings up an interesting question about copyright/trademark law.
I could see if the name was "Ultra Orange Spice" and the knockoff was "Mega Orange Spice".... that would be CLOSE. But when the product is tea, and the name of the tea merely reflects the primary flavoring ingredients?
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Re: Boycott Celestial Seasonings Tea! [Re: CidneyIndole]
#16641907 - 08/03/12 09:21 PM (11 years, 8 months ago) |
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that's fucking bullshit, its not even an original name like "mountain dew" or something its just basically the names of the ingredients. that would be like mcdonalds suing every other place that sells "hamburgers"
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Re: Boycott Celestial Seasonings Tea! [Re: Almond Flour]
#16642539 - 08/03/12 11:44 PM (11 years, 8 months ago) |
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How dare u.
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