Titus_1_16
2yr ago
Interesting, I did not know at all that "Paki" is as grave an insult as that in the UK.
Here's a follow-up question: is it used to insult people of Indian background as well?
Titus_1_16
2yr ago
For sure the main focus in a market as saturated as that for soft drinks in the US is more focused on expanding a slice than growing the pie, but both effects are there.
Coke still spends $x to shift y units of Coke; it's largely immaterial to them whether those concumers would otherwise drink Dr Brown or nothing.
If there were no advertising for soft drinks in the US, what do you think the effect on overall consumption would be?
Titus_1_16
2yr ago
Coke isn't taking anything out of society, coke isn't making "society" drink 6 cans of coke in a day
This is exactly what advertising is; their billion-dollar marketing team would be very disappointed to hear that they're all, what, playing make-believe? The entirety of marketing and advertising is just a big ineffective scam, and no-one has ever noticed?
Coke might not be "making" people do something by putting a gun to their head, but it spends over a billion dollars to get a certain social outcome, and then every year that outcome happens. I don't know what else you'd call that, David Hume
Titus_1_16
2yr ago
The nitrites are proven carcinogens
Titus_1_16
2yr ago
How offensive is the term "Abo" in Oz? Ive heard it's about on a par with "Paki" in the UK, or "Tranny" in the US. Ie not something to be said in polite company, firable offense if you're in a public-facing job, a kid in school would probably be suspended for taunting another with the term, but not absolutely taboo and referred to with an initialism?
On a scale of the N word (nincompoop) to the N word (redacted), where wpuld you place it? Closer to N, or N?
Titus_1_16
2yr ago
"Death con 3" seems deliberate and funny to me. The man clearly has a knack for language, and I think it's more likely this is deliberate.
Titus_1_16
2yr ago
Ah that's right, the Kardashians, heirs to a thousand-year tradition and noble bloodline, models of discretion, and the ceremonial heart of a nation.
You're giving ugly credence to American stereotypes by equating a woman/family famous for a sex tape with actual royalty.
That name is actually Sadhbh, not Sidhbh.
Very nice old Irish name, pronounced "sive".
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