Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/05/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]What amazes me here is that despite Starbucks charging international prices - RM10 for a coffee - they're doing extremely well despite the average daily wage before tax being only about RM 100. The mind boggles. On Jun 1, 2009, at 1:40 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote: > I have a shot of Leica in Wetzlar shot through the golden yellow > arches next > door. I almost even didn't do it on purpose.. > The first set of golden arches I used to go to as a kid after > playing > touch football. I grew up in Northfield it was 20 minutes SW from > us in Des > Plaines, Illinois, USA. > We never got the burgers just the fries. > My fries and I all took fries very seriously. > > I also was a patron of the very first Starbucks. > And Walgreen's. (the oldest one maybe not the first) > > All of which I'm sure will be at the top of the Eiffel tower by the > time I > get there. > I'll get the fries with a latte. Maybe a green river from Walgreen's. > Capitalism I'm mainly for it. But it gets ugly. > But wish all my childhood hangouts on the North Shore of Chicago > had not all > been turned into Starbucks. As well as anything anywhere else. > > > > > Mark William Rabiner > > > >> From: Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> >> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 01:10:40 +0100 >> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Subject: Re: [Leica] French Caf? Women >> >> "Kevin Argue" <kargue at sympatico.ca> >>>>>>>>> >> Just got caught up on looking at photos. Nice photo >> with the Rolleilex except >> for one thing, McDonald's in the background. What a way to ruin a >> french slice of daily >> knife. >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/ >> cafewomen_bord06.jpg.html >> <<<<<<< >> >> Thanks Kevin, I'd like to say that was an ironic comment on the >> pervasiveness of US cultural imperialism in the form of the >> McDonalds arches >> undermining European architecture - and in particular the dix >> huitieme >> siecle architecture of Bordeaux, while, at the same time, sabotaging >> European culinary identities and subsuming them under a monolith >> of burger >> blandness, but that would be wrong. I happened to have the camera >> on the >> table, saw the elegant women, and took the moment of discussion in >> the >> moment! > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information THEIN Onn Ming *photohorologer ming at www.mingthein.com www.flickr.com/mingthein