The Glade 4.0

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ ... 1839.story

I can't believe they actually went through with it.

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Holy shitsnacks!

Why Mus? It's been ten years in the making since the big attack on tobacco.

First they came for the smokers but I wasnt a smoker.

Then they came for the fat people...

My guess is mandatory excercise is next or football.

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I prefer to think of them as "Fighting evil in another dimension"

I suppose it's too much to hope for that this idiocy drives people out of NYC and Chicago and thereby weakens their political power.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

so as of this act... New York officially joins my list of places that can lick a sweaty, unwashed, summertime-humidity-in-the-south, diseased taint

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Darksiege
Traveller, Calé, Whisperer
Lead me not into temptation; for I know a shortcut

A what?

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

I think this is a good thing.

Some people lose their marbles when they get angry.

DS loses his commas.

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Holy shitsnacks!

Let me see if I can possibly string it together in a somewhat less confusing manner....

New York has joined the illustrious ranks of those places that needs to lick a sweaty, diseased and unwashed taint that is heavily modified by a good summertime humidity in a southern climate region (96+% humidity).

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Darksiege
Traveller, Calé, Whisperer
Lead me not into temptation; for I know a shortcut

Oh, ok. taint was the noun. I thought your sentence got abruptly chopped off because you got distracted and hit submit or something and "taint" was referring to something else that was tainted.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

yes sir, apologies. I am really tired right now.

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Darksiege
Traveller, Calé, Whisperer
Lead me not into temptation; for I know a shortcut

DS's taint?

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Maybe I was right all along!

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

I would thank you kindly to remember that my taintal region is not part of this discussion....

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Darksiege
Traveller, Calé, Whisperer
Lead me not into temptation; for I know a shortcut

Yeah, we don't have the bandwidth to discuss a region of that magnitude.

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Holy shitsnacks!

What's stopping customers from buying two 16oz drinks? If you're going to ban 32oz beverages for the people's own good, you have to stop them from buying that quantity of soda entirely.

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Buckle your pants or they might fall down.

This is a grave concern. Clearly, we need to track daily drink purchases through a centrallized database.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

Nothing, but you know that. This is for people literally too stupid to know how unhealthy large drinks like that are; the people that order them every day for lunch and then complain when they're fat and diabetic.

Why can't that be on them?

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I prefer to think of them as "Fighting evil in another dimension"

Who will just go refill more often, or order another drink. It's not like they won't notice they're drinking half as much.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

The majority of fast food is taken to go, so no refills there. The net result is people that upgrade to a "large for only 30 cents more!" are drinking half as many calories as they would otherwise.


It can be, and it is. Maybe people will start buying multiple drinks. I find it hard to get upset about something that will help people more than hurt them, though. In all honestly, 32-64oz drinks should have never been allowed in the first place. They're part of the reason that the USA is (disgustingly) two-thirds overweight.

And?

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"It is true that democracy undermines freedom when voters believe they can live off of others' productivity, when they modify the commandment: 'Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote.' The politics of plunder is no doubt destructive of both morality and the division of labor."

So Lenas,

Are you in favor of banning Alcohol for people who are too stupid to not drink and drive, or people who are too stupid to know it's ruining their liver and their relationships?

Are you in favor of banning cigarettes for people who are too stupid to know that smoking causes cancer?

There is absolutely no difference.

There is a difference. Soda isn't being banned, just a particular size of consumption and only when sold in places also serving food. You're all smart enough to recognize that this is not anywhere near a ban on soda. It's frustrating that I'm even getting questioned about banning alcohol or cigarettes, because it's not the same **** thing. BARS ARE ALREADY REQUIRED TO NOT SERVE YOU ALCOHOL IF YOU'VE HAD TOO MUCH. Who determines what too much is? Oh, right, the gov't.

I don't smoke, yet I sigh and shake my head every time one of those heavy-handed "Stop smoking, losers!" ads comes on the television or radio. If people want to legitmately stop, sure, help them get the information and assistance they need. For the ones that don't? STFU.

I made the switch to diet cola over a year ago. And I still feel the same way about this law as I do the methods in place to "force" people to stop smoking.

If people want to be "unhealthy" (and I'm using quotes here because even what constitutes as a healthy person is still a grey area), then it is their freedom and choice to do so. But I suppose this really has absolutely nothing AT ALL to do with wanting people to get healthier. It's all about looking good on a political stage. And when people limit freedoms just to make themselves look good, then everybody loses.

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Les Zombis et les Loups-Garous!

I predict that this will have exactly zero impact on obesity in NY.

But even if I'm wrong, I'd rather deal with an obesity "epidemic" than a nanny state.

By the way, when did we stop having problems and start having epidemics? I'm guessing it was around the same time that we started declaring war on social issues.

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Sail forth! steer for the deep waters only!
Reckless, O soul, exploring, I with thee, and thou with me;
For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,
And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.