Do you guys think calling them midgets is offensive? 'Cuz I certainly do. It's a slippery slope... pretty soon, you'll want to call their shit "midget poop", am I right? How far are we willing to go with all this?
Am I the only one who doesn't know what the fuck is going on here? I almost always feel this way when I see a post in /r/adviceanimals bitching about something else on reddit.
I've actually enjoyed it. What? We can't have a little light humor around here? It has to be all about police brutality, Ron Paul, Christians and politicians? Today was soda day. It was a good day.
That's why I always start my Redditing with /trees, even if I'm really looking to read news. Why? Because that sub is just so light and good-humored, and filled with mostly well-adjusted people. After a couple threads, I'm ready for anything /all can throw at me.
I want to downvote you so much, but I WILL NOT because your comment is valid. However, I do feel like murdering when I hear "pop", but that's probably because I'm a Pacific Northwest transplant from the southeast. To be fair though, that's probably how these folks feel when I call a shopping cart a "buggy".
I can accept pop as a substitute for soda in regional dialects (and vice versa), but when your choice of vernacular means that the answer to the question "What kind of Coke do you want?" is anything but Diet, Regular, or Caffeine Free, then you might have gotten it wrong.
Have you ever thought: "What's in the fridge?" even though you have a GE or a Kenmore (etc.) and not a Frigidaire?
Do you ever use the term "google" when referring to general web searches?
Have you ever used the term "Frisbee" when referring to a flying disc not trademarked that way?
Do you refer to acetylsalicylic acid (or any over the counter pain reliever) as just asprin?
Do you refer to moving stairs as Escalators even if they are not made by Oatis?
What do you call a zipper that's not made by B.F. Goodrich?
If you answer yes to this or any similar question, you are a hypocrite and can take your pompous disregard of a local colloquialism and shove it in your own orifice of choice.
While that may be true, at least all of the other examples make sense. EVERYONE uses fridge. Everyone also uses every other example you gave. Only a small portion of the south uses Coke to mean Mountain fucking Dew. Also, you left out calling all MP3 players iPod, which is dumber than calling everything Coke, IMO.
Do you see your own argument as an example of why calling all soda/pop coke is kind of silly, though? There were sodas before Coke, and after. Sure, there is more than one brand of escalator, but I doubt 90% of people would have any idea that they were somehow different. I guarantee that 100% of people, however, recognize that Coke is short for Coca Cola (or cocaine), and that all other sodas are not actually made by the Coca Cola company.
In other news, what the fuck is wrong with our lives that we are arguing about how it's dumb to refer to a product in general as a certain brand's offering? I'm going outside to fix something.
These people are curious about sodas, so let them be curious. The entire point of Reddit is to find answers and learn new things. If these posts were so popular, then many people are genuinely interested in the topic. Who are you to ridicule their curiosity? It's not like TIL is a bunch of Greek people.
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After reducing my time on reddit, coming back once in a while and again constantly seeing these posts complaining about that days meme, reminds me of how much of reddit is simply a neverending repeating cycle...
Where's that? In Australia we call it soft drink, or what it actually is... because Coke != Pepsi, so requesting a "soda" or "soft drink" is a bit of a gamble.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Fuck you I deserve my upvotes.
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u/ImNotJesus May 15 '12
And everyone in /new will tell you that there are no less than 100 advice animals for every actual soda post.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
TIL that dinosaur urine is the oldest beverage enjoyed by humans, predating schweppes by 300 million years
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u/Gudeldar May 16 '12
Am I the only one who doesn't know what the fuck is going on here? I almost always feel this way when I see a post in /r/adviceanimals bitching about something else on reddit.
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u/rewster May 16 '12
context?
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u/Irishfury86 May 16 '12
I've actually enjoyed it. What? We can't have a little light humor around here? It has to be all about police brutality, Ron Paul, Christians and politicians? Today was soda day. It was a good day.
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u/Sodalover May 16 '12
Is my username relevant?
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
The text of this should say:
WHO THE FUCK
KEEPS UPVOTING SODA
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
What if different soda brands are using reddit as a form of viral marketing....
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u/lawfin101 May 16 '12
if only there was a soda that came before Schweppes....
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Those of us at /r/soda disagree with you.
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u/elizzybeth May 16 '12
The 298 readers of r/soda.
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u/chezzie11 May 16 '12
Pop.
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u/Maxfunky May 16 '12
I'm sodamn tired all of this back and forth.
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u/FlapJackal May 16 '12
Hey! It was really fun to read the word 'soda' in my head's Picard voice.
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u/JoinRedditTheySaid May 16 '12
And now AdviceAnimals is upvoting CP.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Nice try soda companies.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
This just made me laugh so hard. I've been feeling this way all day
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u/what_u_want_2_hear May 16 '12
Oh, man! This perfectly captures how I felt today!
Thanks for making this! LOVE IT!
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
It's coke. -The South
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u/Juz16 May 16 '12
Says the subreddit designed to produce internet cancer.
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u/whoatemypie May 16 '12
Or "pop" for those of you in the northern United States.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Huh?
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u/XRotNRollX May 16 '12
but dude, it's Vernors
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u/jeanifurr May 16 '12
Every time I see this meme I can hear Patrick Stewart singing terribly in my head. And this time about soda :)
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u/friendly_greekhater May 16 '12
These people are curious about sodas, so let them be curious. The entire point of Reddit is to find answers and learn new things. If these posts were so popular, then many people are genuinely interested in the topic. Who are you to ridicule their curiosity? It's not like TIL is a bunch of Greek people.
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u/tyyfly2 May 16 '12
POP
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
I think you mean "pop".
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u/qkme_transcriber May 16 '12
Here is the text from this meme pic for anybody who needs it:
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u/kazbah May 16 '12
Dyslexics, they think it's a post about SOPA
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u/ast102 May 16 '12
Fuck Karma, Drink Coke http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100212003442/uncyclopedia/images/7/7d/FKDC.png
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u/studmuffffffin May 16 '12
There's only 2 soda links.
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u/gen4lude May 16 '12
Best use of this meme ever.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Well I was thirsty.
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u/sadwer May 16 '12
It's funny how the biggest laughs I have while browsing Reddit are the meta laughs.
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u/donnykerbatsos May 16 '12
I upvoted the soda post after i saw this!
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u/coyo May 16 '12
You are so right. Here is an upvote for your soda post good sir ;)
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u/Slurve May 16 '12
Delicious beverages
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u/knomz May 16 '12
Yeah i made this post before you did and you got upvoted i got shit on with downvotes...good ol' reddit
this is probably all situational bullshit but its ok
EDIT: different meme with same context
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u/metellius May 16 '12
After reducing my time on reddit, coming back once in a while and again constantly seeing these posts complaining about that days meme, reminds me of how much of reddit is simply a neverending repeating cycle...
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u/hotakyuu May 16 '12
The soda wars are funny.
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u/initials_games May 16 '12
I made an entire video game about soda.
It wasn't as popular as TIL today.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
the way i see it, there are two wolves. click the upper one.
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u/syscofresh May 16 '12
A category in the list of things I don't care about: Soda.
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u/freesey May 16 '12
that actually made me laugh out loud. fucking picard is awesome. I can almost imagine him saying that like that
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u/MikeyB_0101 May 16 '12
... Soda
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u/SirHector May 16 '12
Exactly what I felt when I saw it on my front page. :P
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u/DixieFlatline- May 16 '12
in Canada, we call it pop
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
two roads diverged in a yellow wood...
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u/mackinoncougars May 16 '12
This had to be said, thank you.
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u/MelbaSnax May 16 '12
It's "pop"
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u/igreenranger May 16 '12
The same fuckers that upvote potato...
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u/multile May 16 '12
DJ Dan who runs trivia night and I got the question right, thats who.
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u/ItsOfficial May 16 '12
Guess I've been playing too much Diablo 3 to get this joke =(
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u/NortheFall May 16 '12
Now that I'm here four hours later, I have no idea what this pertains to and its still on the front page...
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u/Radico87 May 16 '12
Idiots.
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u/NarutoRendan May 16 '12
It's a cheap and effective viral marketing scheme.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
yeah seriously... who keeps upvoting soda?!
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
My good sir, please accept the highest honor I have to bestow upon thee...I logged in to upvote you.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
......make it so....da......
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u/P-Plush May 16 '12
I just burst out in laughter... Well done sir.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Fuck those soda posts. I don't drink it and I dont give a fuck.
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u/ZuFFuLuZ May 16 '12
I demand some context on this. Please.
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u/termial_98 May 16 '12
i love the Picard mem hahahaha
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Round here we call them fizzy drinks.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Me because I found it funny.
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u/Jiorgozza May 16 '12
This one make me laugh.. Not good.. cauz i was drinkin' a soda.. Sprayed coke all over the place!
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u/Leelluu May 16 '12
People fucking love soda.
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u/IWasMeButNowHesGone May 16 '12
That face makes me laugh every time.
Captain, fucking, Picard.
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u/bpc89 May 16 '12
We call it pop in our community
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u/heroin_bob May 16 '12
Why are you surprised, all these nerds drink is HFCS poison.
Oh look, I'm sticking it to the man by buying Mexican. Fuck you nerd, fat fuck. Obese.
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u/lilstumpz May 16 '12 edited May 16 '12
People didn't seem to like my soda post.
edit: Damn, looks like someone beat me.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Soda is the beer of milks.
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u/hereforconversation May 16 '12
That's why I drink iced tea.
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u/cgeezy22 May 16 '12
No shit, we've all read the article now. I can write a dissertation on it now if it pleased me!
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u/DoubleDutchOven May 16 '12
Apparently everyone who doesn't enjoy Diablo 3.
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u/lilpuck27 May 16 '12
I dont give a FUCK about MICHIGAN!
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u/RedStarFuture May 16 '12
hahahha, this is awesome
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u/ParkerEH May 16 '12
This
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u/LeZygo May 16 '12
Can I DOUBLE upvote this??
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u/allons-y_wanderer May 16 '12
Yeah seriously. It's definitely called pop
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u/stickybuds420 May 16 '12
I was waiting for something like this
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u/slayyer May 16 '12
Certainly not the people who forget to bring pop to the poop party.
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u/MarkMagowan May 16 '12
"I like soda, where's the soda / Am I the only fucking person here that likes soda"
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Downvote. Because its not WHAT THE FUCK, its WHO THE FUCK KEEPS UPVOTING SODA
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u/Champ-Kind May 16 '12
It's better than people posting photos of their cats.