start a victory garden and ration your IRRATIONALLY ANGRY feelings, part 3

I am a real warm grandpa!

Robot phone calls where, when you ask the robot if it's a robot, it has a preprogramed little laugh and then lies "No!"

Exactly the answer I'd expect from a robot.

Your ego is so big that being an artist is not enough. You also have to be a public personality. Ugh

the phrase "alright I'm gonna let you go" must immediately precede goodbyes and departing the call. if you continue to talk about stuff long after that, I'll excuse myself politely and drop off abruptly. i hate phone calls enough as it is, false endings make them even more intolerable.

Neanderthal otm; I love my wife inordinately but she uses "I'm gonna let you go" to mean "I want you to stop talking." It is not especially honest, but to her it is seen as a polite figure of speech or an acceptable euphemism.

People who talk and use the hand gesture of snapping something out of the air with their fingers

Why does humanity disgust me
I’m such a misanthrope
Something I would like to change

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People who use the "talking on the telephone" hand gesture (thumb up, pinky down next to your mouth) when they're right in front of you, telling you that they called someone.

To whoever at The Coca-Cola Company who keeps changing for formula for Sprite: please stop. You've changed it again recently and now Sprite tastes like floor cleaner smells.

^^ "I think it's time we ended our relationship. And just to be clear, it's you not me."

Took the kids to McDonald's recently and found that they are phasing out sugar in drinks, so you can now only get diet sprite, diet fanta, etc. The only drink with sugar was regular coke. I cannot stand any kind of artificial sweetener (and have seen research that they are almost as bad for you as sugar) and can't drink caffeine after mid-day, so this left me absolutely zero options. I mean solution is to not go to McDonald's again, which is fine by me, but going to complain about it here too.

Artificial sweeteners are really bad for people with Chron’s Disease too.

Ugh, Camaraderie. The chalky taste of Aspartame/NutraSweet is repellent to me; I would rather just have water or juice. And I am not a big fan of caffiene either, if I have any intention of sleeping any time soon. I don't think my children should have either of those things. I guesss we are back to apple juice, the Karen of the beverage world.

Freshly squeezed lemonade is the best and cheapest way to go (add a few drops of pomegranate juice for pink lemonade).

^ just made this last night!

I found out a couple of years ago that there's often a way to get just sparkling water out of most self-serve soda fountains, which has been useful to me when I end up in a McDonalds or other fast food place. I don't like artificial sweeteners either and am trying to cut back on sugar and caffeine.

Took the kids to McDonald's recently and found that they are phasing out sugar in drinks, so you can now only get diet sprite, diet fanta, etc. The only drink with sugar was regular coke. I cannot stand any kind of artificial sweetener (and have seen research that they are almost as bad for you as sugar) and can't drink caffeine after mid-day, so this left me absolutely zero options. I mean solution is to not go to McDonald's again, which is fine by me, but going to complain about it here too.

UK sugar tax strikes again

The chalky taste of Aspartame/NutraSweet is repellent to me; I would rather just have water or juice.

I had to drink Diet Pepsi this past weekend. It was like sloshing liquid Sweet 'n' Low around in my mouth. Horrible. When someone at a food establishment asks "Is Pepsi OK?" the correct answer is to just turn around and walk out.

The thing I used to hear from people who drink a lot of cola years ago was that Coke was better than pepsi but diet pepsi was better than diet coke I think? But Coke Zero is better than both? I don't know, I like the taste of Coke, think Pepsi is fine and mostly avoid all diet versions, though weirdly Diet Dr Pepper actually kind of works.

As a diabetic, I can't drink regular full-sugar sodas.

Coke Zero is sugar-free Coke. It tastes like Coke.

Diet Coke is sugar-free New Coke (the one from the 80s that they discontinued). It tastes like a battery, but I'll drink it if it's all that's available.

Pepsi products come straight out of Satan's urethra.

Pepsi Max Cherry is OK. Diet Pepsi Apricot is the devil's urine.

Diet Dr Pepper is more than passable, as is Fresca.

Apricot ? What is this sorcery

wtf is diet pepsi apricot?? I have never seen this.

It sounds like liquid misery

Love artificial sweeteners lol. If I am mistakenly served a regular soda it feels like pouring sugar in my mouth. There's a film!

I love Fresca and miss it. I was a hardcore DC person my whole life but realized maybe 5 years ago that I prefer diet pepsi.

I had to drink Diet Pepsi this past weekend. It was like sloshing liquid Sweet 'n' Low around in my mouth. Horrible. When someone at a food establishment asks "Is Pepsi OK?" the correct answer is to just turn around and walk out.

― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Thursday, February 29, 2024 10:38 AM (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink

Like swishing nutrasweet. It would have had to have been Tab to taste like Sweet n Low.

I miss Tab so much.

Fresca is still very much available.

Coke Zero tastes the same as Diet Coke, just slightly less “sweet”

Is "Starry" just Sierra Mist repackaged?

We hosted a German exchange student many years ago. He thought the name "Sierra Mist" was hilarious, since "Mist" in German refers to animal dung.

Fresca is still available, yes, but not in the UK. Tab was available in the US until 2020 but very hard to find.

Surge came back a few years ago and I had it and was like "eww gross why did I love this shit in high school"

the grocery store. god, the grocery store, let me do my boomer rant here

first off the stupid sodas are all "buy two, get three free", i live in a _city_ i _walk_ to the grocery store how the fuck am i supposed to carry FIVE 12-PACKS of soda? also nobody stocks my favorite brand anymore, which is diet mountain dew major melon, YES i know it's disgusting and i fucking LOVE IT, it's not feasible to mail order that shit though. they're also really obviously trying to drive up soda consumption by getting people to buy more soda than one ever has a need to have in a household, DON'T THINK I'M NOT ONTO YOU BASTARDS

and then the coupons, fucking coupon culture is noxious. they want you to scan some bullshit card with an "app" to get discounts, but their app is shit and their coupons don't work. i mean at least it structurally penalizes people who _aren't_ poor by making people go through hassle and inconvenience to save money.

now on top of that i go in and try to buy a box of cheerios some numbnuts (i can say that, i've had mine surgically removed) has decided it's a great idea to put fucking GENDERED LANGUAGE on all of the boxes, i have to go through a dozen before i find one in the back that doesn't have "DAD" printed on the front. god dammit you just can't get away from this shit, i spend hours upon hours changing my voice, take hormones for five years, lose my house, lose my partner, lose my friends, go through more shit than i can possibly fully account for, and then i go to the grocery stores and all of the cereal boxes are misgendering me. why? what fuckbythenavel in marketing decided this would be a good idea?

and the only people who get to complain about petty, insignificant shit like this are fucking fascists complaining about the "woke agenda". my day is filled with minor, petty inconveniences and the only people who get to complain are people who aren't facing any inconveniences at all. is that too meta? even if that's meta, it makes me irrationally angry that only assholes have the right to be irrationally angry about things.

fuckbythenavel??!?

look if it was good enough for the good people of chester in the early 14th century it's good enough for me

Fair enough.
Many a true word is spoken in Chester.

There's a new limited edition Coke flavor called Coca-Cola Spiced, which I expected to be similar to the limited Coca-Cola Cinnamon from a few years back which I liked.

Nope, it's fucking raspberry! In tiny print elsewhere on the label it says "Raspberry Spiced." Why you do this to me, Coke?

If you're going to make a spiced Coke, how about Coca-Cola Clove?

I donate blood pretty regularly. Sometimes there's an added promotion of a gift card or something to attract donors, and I figure "bonus!" because I'm going to be there anyway. But I've never actually been given a gift card!

Things that make me rationally angry: Not being allowed to give blood anymore

Changing it from a lifetime ban to like, I don't know, a one-year ban? That's even worse, because then it's like, when was the last time you had gay sex? Like I'm sorry I'm voluntarily giving you my precious bodily fluids here, that's a pretty rude question.

Of course maybe there's now no ban at all and I just never got the memo.

I think there's no ban on gay sex anymore (or whatever the catch was). For sure I know my wife was banned for 20+ years because she lived in Germany for part of the '80s (mad cow), but even that ban was rescinded.

There's a new limited edition Coke flavor called Coca-Cola Spiced, which I expected to be similar to the limited Coca-Cola Cinnamon from a few years back which I liked.

Nope, it's fucking raspberry! In tiny print elsewhere on the label it says "Raspberry Spiced." Why you do this to me, Coke?

If you're going to make a spiced Coke, how about Coca-Cola Clove?

― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, March 12, 2024 7:36 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

That sounds vile. I was skeptical of the cinnamon diet coke but I actually really liked it. Cinnamon is one of my fave flavors though.

Since when is raspberry a spice?

ever since the marketing department decided "spiced" did better with focus groups than "raspberry enhanced"

I bought some “Christmas” flavored Bundiberg root beer a few years ago that was out of control with the Christmas spice, like drinking a cold candle

Might as Well Go All the Way with new Coca Cola Spiced: Raspberries. Buy now!

lol no

"It's Coca‑Cola, only spiced. Coca‑Cola Spiced transforms the familiar into the extraordinary. Blending the iconic taste of Coca‑Cola with a burst of refreshing notes from raspberry and spiced flavors, Coca‑Cola Spiced offers an uplifting taste experience."

This sounds so weird. Why would they do that?? Raspberry doesn't go with spice! This makes no sense. I have to find some.

Please do and let us know.

I saw the raspberry Coke Zero at the store today and passed in favor of cherry Coke Zero, which is pretty bad, too, but I thought it would go well with the turkey sandwich I was having for lunch. I was right.