# If I was locked in a room with Johnny Rotten & a zombie frappuccino, would he set me on fire? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 31, 2017, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-was-locked-in-a-room-with-johnny-rotten-a-zombie-frappuccino-would-he-set-me-on-fire/800317 "2017-10-31T19:31:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2017, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-was-locked-in-a-room-with-johnny-rotten-a-zombie-frappuccino-would-he-set-me-on-fire/800317/1 "2017-10-31T19:31:13Z")
Yesterday after school I bought my daughter a zombie frappuccino from Starbucks and tweeted a picture. Instantly a newish follower unfollowed me and\* told\* me about it, to make sure I didn’t miss his consumer protest. I feel this is a case of unrealistic expectations on his part. I’m a cishet white woman living near Seattle. I gotta be me. My husband and I have been watching a lot of documentaries about the early punk scene, so I have the Sex Pistols on the brain. It occurs to me that if Johnny Rotten wouldn’t mind my zombie frapp, then anyone who does is trying, very hard to be a prick. So what would he think of my zombie frappuccino? Malcolm McLaren said he’s “a good boy desperately trying to be a bad boy,” which I tend to believe. I also know that he’s addicted to iPad apps and loves Candy Crush, so _he_ isn’t anti-corporation or anything. So what do you think: if I were shut in a room with Johnny Rotten and my zombie frappuccino, do you think he’d set me on fire? Please discuss. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2017, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-was-locked-in-a-room-with-johnny-rotten-a-zombie-frappuccino-would-he-set-me-on-fire/800317/2 "2017-10-31T19:51:59Z")
While I don’t think he would set you on fire, I also believe he’d be more likely to set you on fire than I, or about 99 per cent of people, would. So I picked the “it’s complicated” option. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2017, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-was-locked-in-a-room-with-johnny-rotten-a-zombie-frappuccino-would-he-set-me-on-fire/800317/3 "2017-10-31T19:59:48Z")
How flammable are you? That Rotten seems kinda lazy to me… ---
**Author:** ![Anamorphic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anamorphic/32/3057_2.png) [@Anamorphic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anamorphic)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2017, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-was-locked-in-a-room-with-johnny-rotten-a-zombie-frappuccino-would-he-set-me-on-fire/800317/4 "2017-10-31T22:00:16Z")
Johnny Rotten made a [commercial for a butter company](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hzQsvxtLTM). I think that should answer your question re his setting people on fire for their consumerism. ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2017, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-was-locked-in-a-room-with-johnny-rotten-a-zombie-frappuccino-would-he-set-me-on-fire/800317/5 "2017-10-31T22:04:48Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > How flammable are you? That Rotten seems kinda lazy to me… I thought Sid was the sod. ---
**Author:** ![Weisshund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ba8739/32.png) [@Weisshund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weisshund)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2017, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-was-locked-in-a-room-with-johnny-rotten-a-zombie-frappuccino-would-he-set-me-on-fire/800317/6 "2017-10-31T23:42:51Z")
> [@Sattua](#): > > if I were shut in a room with Johnny Rotten and my zombie frappuccino, do you think he’d set me on fire? Please discuss. Are you going to ask him stupid questions? If not, i dont think he could care less what you are drinking ---
**Author:** ![AnalogSignal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/analogsignal/32/1085_2.png) [@AnalogSignal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AnalogSignal)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2017, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-was-locked-in-a-room-with-johnny-rotten-a-zombie-frappuccino-would-he-set-me-on-fire/800317/7 "2017-11-01T00:41:14Z")
John Lydon (aka Rotten) is 61 now. His days of setting people on fire for drinking frappuccinos are long gone. Of course, he has his limits. Take a sip of a Venti Iced Skinny Hazelnut Macchiato in front of him and he will start a conflagration that would put Burning Man to shame. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2017, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-was-locked-in-a-room-with-johnny-rotten-a-zombie-frappuccino-would-he-set-me-on-fire/800317/8 "2017-11-01T00:58:44Z")
Wait, what’s so objectionable about a zombie frappuccino (whatever that is)? ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2017, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-was-locked-in-a-room-with-johnny-rotten-a-zombie-frappuccino-would-he-set-me-on-fire/800317/9 "2017-11-01T04:32:14Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Wait, what’s so objectionable about a zombie frappuccino (whatever that is)? It \*was \*pretty disgusting. Kiddo gave me the leftovers and I only managed one sip. > [@Weisshund](#): > > Are you going to ask him stupid questions? No, but after seeing that butter commercial I will probably have an irrepressible case of the giggles. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2017, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-was-locked-in-a-room-with-johnny-rotten-a-zombie-frappuccino-would-he-set-me-on-fire/800317/10 "2017-11-01T16:05:12Z")
Bikers in minnivans I can live with. Deadheads with a Lexus is another thing I can accept. Punks at Starbucks is where I draw the line. Johnny is maybe a coin flip but Sid would be looking for the nearest lighter fluid.