NYC bans sweet drinks

[Lackadaisical2]

Well, I suppose the intentions are good, but this could be done in a better way. Maybe something more gradual.

16 ounces or less could be viewed as gradual.

What about diet pop?

[Trotskylvania]

Which isn't in the constitution.

It;s in the declaration of indepenence.

Which isn't a law, organic or otherwise, of the United States of America.

[A Republican Empire State]

Well, portion sizes have gotten out of control lately. Stemming that tide may be a good idea if there's evidence of real health problems that could be linked back to this which are also becoming any kind of major issue.

They can have my 64 oz. Classic Coke when they pry it out of my cold, sticky dead hands.

Seriously.

[Wamitoria]

Well, portion sizes have gotten out of control lately. Stemming that tide may be a good idea if there's evidence of real health problems that could be linked back to this which are also becoming any kind of major issue.

This.

[Novaya Tselinoyarsk]

Well, I suppose the intentions are good, but this could be done in a better way. Maybe something more gradual.

16 ounces or less could be viewed as gradual.

What about diet pop?

Evidence diet pop is any better then actual pop?

[Pope Joan]

What surprises me most is that it would be a ban and not just another tax.

See, the state of NY wants to add huge taxes to these drinks, in the name of public morality, but an outright ban would kill that golden governmental goose.

[Divair]

The utter fuck? How did this pass?

Well when a group of people (preferably a majority) elect a liberal douchebag to office...

How is banning soda a liberal idea?

[Novaya Tselinoyarsk]

What surprises me most is that it would be a ban and not just another tax.

See, the state of NY wants to add huge taxes to these drinks, in the name of public morality, but an outright ban would kill that golden governmental goose.

Yo:

Mayor Michael Bloomberg, frustrated he couldn't get a 'soda tax' passed, is ordering restaurants and delis to stop selling sodas

He couldn't get it taxed, like YOU said.

[Blazedtown]

They can have my 64 oz. Classic Coke when they pry it out of my cold, sticky dead hands.

I know. I know your pain. I down 4 a day if I'm really going. Diet coke for me, though. Still, I get it.

How do you drink that much pop?

[Wamitoria]

The utter fuck? How did this pass?

Well when a group of people (preferably a majority) elect a liberal douchebag to office...

Yes, the fact that he basically is the preferred candidate of Manhattan is what makes him a liberal.

[Trotskylvania]

This part seems to have been missed by most:

in restaurants, delis, movie theatres and sports arenas.

You are free to chug as many 2 liter colas as you like. You just can't buy them in restaurants, delis, movie theater and sports arenas.

Let's not get all alarmist.

[Lackadaisical2]

Bloomberg is an asshole. He' doesn't even live in NYC. He sleeps there, but he spends all his time off in Bermuda. he flies there every weekend. My sister knows a guy in his office, its not just a rumor.

Eh, hearsay is just about the definition of rumor.

[Aurora Confederacy]

two words

NANNY

STATE

[Mike the Progressive]

Well when a group of people (preferably a majority) elect a liberal douchebag to office...

How is banning soda a liberal idea?

Because the government knows what is best for me, from social security to health insurance to smoking to using naughty-naughty words.

[Blazedtown]

Well when a group of people (preferably a majority) elect a liberal douchebag to office...

How is banning soda a liberal idea?

Liberals make sweet sweet love to the nanny state when the constitution is out of town.

[Novaya Tselinoyarsk]

This part seems to have been missed by most:

in restaurants, delis, movie theatres and sports arenas.

You are free to chug as many 2 liter colas as you like. You just can't buy them in restaurants, delis, movie theater and sports arenas.

Let's not get all alarmist.

It's obviously a ploy to make us buy more overpriced non-refillable drinks!

[Divair]

How is banning soda a liberal idea?

Because the government knows what is best for me, from social security to health insurance to smoking to using naughty-naughty words.

Except liberalism usually means more freedoms, not less

[Christmahanikwanzikah]

This part seems to have been missed by most:

in restaurants, delis, movie theatres and sports arenas.

You are free to chug as many 2 liter colas as you like. You just can't buy them in restaurants, delis, movie theater and sports arenas.

Let's not get all alarmist.

movie theaters and sports arenas

The two places this would actually matter to me.

[Mike the Progressive]

Because the government knows what is best for me, from social security to health insurance to smoking to using naughty-naughty words.

Except liberalism usually means more freedoms, not less

Eh, I'm using liberals as is defined in the United States.

[New England and The Maritimes]

I know. I know your pain. I down 4 a day if I'm really going. Diet coke for me, though. Still, I get it.

How do you drink that much pop?

Well, there's a straw. See, using a series of muscles, I change the air pressure in my Esophagus after sealing the straw with my lips. This change in pressure creates suction, pulling the liquid through the straw and into my mouth. From there, I toggle the valve in the throat which determines whether the substance in question heads to the bronchial tube or the digestive tract.

[Frisivisia]

I voted for all 10 options, shitty poll is shitty.

[Lackadaisical2]

What surprises me most is that it would be a ban and not just another tax.

See, the state of NY wants to add huge taxes to these drinks, in the name of public morality, but an outright ban would kill that golden governmental goose.

Indeed so, but theres still the home market and sizes less than 16 ounces.

16 ounces or less could be viewed as gradual.

What about diet pop?

Evidence diet pop is any better then actual pop?

I don't have any(I don't think theres anythign wrong with pop in the first place, within moderation). Its not a 'high sugar drink', but it is pop and the excerpts I read didn't clarify the issue.

[Divair]

Except liberalism usually means more freedoms, not less

Eh, I'm using liberals as is defined in the United States.

So that's different as well?

I knew about right vs. left wing being different, but liberal vs. conservative is different too?

[Blazedtown]

How do you drink that much pop?

Well, there's a straw. See, using a series of muscles, I change the air pressure in my Esophagus after sealing the straw with my lips. This change in pressure creates suction, pulling the liquid through the straw and into my mouth. From there, I toggle the valve in the throat which determines whether the substance in question heads to the bronchial tube or the digestive tract.

I was serious. I can't drink more than a 3 cans a day.

[Wamitoria]

two words

NANNY

STATE

If people could take care of themselves, then they wouldn't need a nanny.

I suppose we can expect the states' rights folks to start calling for the federal government to intervene in the commerce issue?