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xp DO IT WMC

And soda rules, btw. Who cares if it's bad for you. Most of the best things in life are bad for you: cigarettes, nuclear weapons, slap fighting

I pretty much never drink soda. So when I do drink soda, it's amazing. I used to do it on the reg but I could never allow it to become so pedestrian and underappreciated an experience again.

Coca-Cola is queen of the colas, and colas rule the roost among standard (i.e., common fountain) sodas. All reasonable people agree on this.

But non-standard sodas have their own separate hierarchy: Gosling's ginger beer, Pennsylvania Dutch birch beer, San Pellegrino Pompelmo, ginger ale, Dr. Pepper, Dr. Brown's black cherry, root beer, cream soda...

I don't drink regular soda because I'm diabetic. But the difference between Coke Zero (tastes like what I remember Coke tasting like) and Diet Coke (tastes like I poured a battery in my mouth) is astonishing to me.

Love Coca-Cola more than ketchup, but the former has even more all but fallen from my diet, even as a sometimes food. In fact, soda consumption in the US at least has been dropping precipitously. (Hence, shrinking sizes: http://www.coca-colacompany.com/stories/less-is-more-for-coca-cola-small-packs-mean-big-business/ ;not coincidentally, American weights have been dropping as well.) Related or perhaps coincidentally, iirc Coca-Cola not too long ago started making "Mexican" Coke (that is, made with real sugar) exclusively for the US market while introducing HFCS into Mexican Coke sold in Mexico (still one of the top if not the top soda consuming nation). It's as if they've given up on the US as a will-consume-anything and are focusing their energies elsewhere. See also: cigarette companies.

FWIW, I think the "I don't watch TV" thing really coincided with the rise of iPads and stuff, and is therefore somewhat disingenuous. All those "I don't watch TV" people are clearly watching the hell out of other, smaller screens. Like, I don't watch the news, not a minute of it, and haven't for years. And I don't watch sports. So I don't have cable, and, functionally, don't watch TV. But I stream lots of movies, and old shows, and surf the web, etc., which has supplanted TV. My kids, for example, literally never ask to watch TV, and I'm not sure even understand the concept of shows you can only watch once a week. But they sure watch "TV."

nah, I know people who have done this "I don't watch tv" thing for years. Most of them just really aren't into scripted entertainment which is kind of weird, but hey, do your own thing.

it's perfectly fine for people to listen to Drake

i feel like we're so close to crossing over with unacceptable fetishes now

http://adequateman.deadspin.com/how-to-find-ethical-porn-1747377597

Show real sex and real pleasure. One producer says, “There’s no expectation that the performers be ‘open to the camera’ or hamming it up for the viewer. They simply do what they do and I try and capture what I can.” Some companies exclusively work with real couples.

is this porn rockism? lol. if you're a pornographic performer who is proud of his or her ability to earn a living from a performance & you're told that it is actually Bad For You that you've been performing, that doesn't seem v ethical to me....

i prefer my porn free range & organic

there is no ethical consumption under capitalism ppl cmon

also like the line between performance and real is not... real

feeling virtuous about your consumption choices while literally jacking off has gotta be peak america

all consumption under capitalism is ethical

ethical consumption fits right under capitalism like toast under beans

my controversial opinon is capitalism is actually pretty good and just needs to be restrained like in scandinavia

i recognize that this not actually controversial

hmm i expected you to be more of a revolutionary tbh

i guess that's hoos' field

I actually don't think consumerism is bad per se but I do think capitalism is bad

I am all for a post-capitalist consumerism. Fuck it, full communist consumerism. Bring it on.

as far as that free range appropriate porn article idgi

wanting to not watch videos where ppl are coerced or obviously incapable of consenting to the video's production seems ok

not sure thats what that aritcle is really about

hmm i expected you to be more of a revolutionary tbh

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waiting for ppl to come up w better revolutions

hence why idgi

"you need to jerk off to a racially and ethnically diverse cast of happy ppl" seems kind of fucked up as a sentiment

shiny happy ppl fucking for money --rem the band

If I can't soda then I don't want to be part of your revolution

--Emma Coldcan

You can still soda in America.

-Nehi Ranger

we keep adding new varieties and possibilities to the soda experience

capitalism would be great for places that don't have it yet but is not the best for places that have had it for a while already

what is best for places that have had it for a while

fascism

to die soon iirc

wld be curious to see a low regulation high welfare state

let the business ppl run wild as long as everyone gets free everything

obvs wld need some level of regulation so they dont destroy the environment and so forth

"you need to jerk off to a racially and ethnically diverse cast of happy ppl" seems kind of fucked up as a sentiment

it seems like culturally we've determined that what turns a person on shouldn't be obligated to social justice concerns but if someone refuses to jerk off to non-white porn stars they're probably bigots right?

what if they have some thing where they only want to watch women who look like their wife

"I guess this looks a little bit like a laotian version of my wife, so it's cool"

FWIW, I think the "I don't watch TV" thing really coincided with the rise of iPads and stuff, and is therefore somewhat disingenuous.

Disingenuous now maybe, but the Onion's "Area Man Constantly Mentioning He Doesn't Own A Television" piece is from January 2000 and the Mr. Show "TV is a nickname, and nicknames are for friends, and television is no friend of mine" bit is from December 1996.

yeah feel like if anything that sentiment is at its nadir

the "i don't watch tv" thing was surely usually a snobby thing coming from people who believed that tv shows were pabulum, lot less people believe that now than probably ever before in history what with the emergence of the golden age of tv drama and the prestige and critical acclaim of tv shows

i know that if i didn't watch tv shows that as a liberal arts degree having 30 something i would be a bit of a dinner party pariah

can confirm.

"I don't watch tv" is just code for "I play a lot of micecraft." people should just admit to playing a lot of minecraft imo.

Sorry, but I'm still not getting the point on the Christmas thing.

Most people are celebrating family, friends, gifts, food, drink, winter, decorations, television, films. The name is the only really Christian thing left.
At this point nativity plays seems like Dickens' A Chistmas Carol, Grinch and The Great Escape. I guess it depends on where you live.

put the crüt back in crütmas

just to clarify, it's "i don't EVEN watch tv". the even is very important