Good Riddance

[thebes]

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/17/business/bill-backer-who-taught-the-world-and-don-draper-to-sing-dies-at-89.html?_r=0

[ZEUS121996]

I liked the commercial, I forgot how butt ugly some people can be (myself included)

 

Mark

[oldtimer]

Timely Thebes.  Requiem For The American Dream singles out advertising as a force for the corporate elites in controlling the masses.  My wife loves Mad Men, while it usually just pissed me off...

[Wolfbane]

Too bad the greedy coca-cola company decided, subsequently to this commercial (i.e. 'new coke'), to sweeten their sugar water with HFCS which is the beginning of two full generations of obese consumers in the USA.

 

Thankfully, in most countries across the planet, many featured in that commercial, coke is still sweetened with sugar.

[oldtimer]

Except sugar is not good for you either.  HFCS is simply worse.

[thebes]

Just another hijack of an honestly held spirit of togetherness that was growing at that time. 

 

Anything interesting, or profound, or helpful, or creative, or different or just about anything will be hijacked, beat to death and/or exploited for the betterment of the bottom line. 

 

Hey look what happened to the internet.

Edited May 19, 2016 by thebes

[oldtimer]

Not to mention what happened to us.

[Woofers and Tweeters]

Not a Coke fan

[oldtimer]

When they took the cocaine out I asked "what's the point?"

[Woofers and Tweeters]

<snip> exploited for the betterment of the bottom line. 

 

Hey look what happened to the internet.

Agreed, but what's the solution? If not (insert company), then the competition will. 

[Woofers and Tweeters]

When they took the cocaine out I asked "what's the point?"

I don't like coke, but I do like the smell of it. 

[oldtimer]

 

<snip> exploited for the betterment of the bottom line. 

 

Hey look what happened to the internet.

Agreed, but what's the solution? If not (insert company), then the competition will. 

 

Correct.  So let's jump off the cliff before they do.

[oldtimer]

 

When they took the cocaine out I asked "what's the point?"

I don't like coke, but I do like the smell of it. 

 

It was never my favorite.  The bpd was too low.

[Woofers and Tweeters]

 

 

<snip> exploited for the betterment of the bottom line. 

 

Hey look what happened to the internet.

Agreed, but what's the solution? If not (insert company), then the competition will. 

 

Correct.  So let's jump off the cliff before they do.

 

Cut costs, raise profits or go out of business. Export, then offshore, now nextshore. It's all about the $. 

 

I want to hear solutions. 

[oldtimer]

Solution.  Don't buy coca Cola or any of their products.  Let them die for penance of poisoning idiot consumers.  Let idiot consumers die for being idiots.  Solution.

[Woofers and Tweeters]

Agreed. It's all consumer driven. 

I do without before I give Coke or McDonalds my money. 

[Mallette]

Growing up a coke was a rare and wonderful thing.  The bubbles leaping up when opened like fireworks, a peppery and sweet aroma, and a taste like nothing else.  My mother gave me coke when I was sick at my stomach and even when I couldn't keep water down I never threw up coke. 

 

Sugar is bad for you?  No, it isn't.  Excellent food and near perfect fuel.  What's bad is excess.  And regardless of whether HFCS is better or worse than sugar it tastes nowhere near as good as pure cane sugar.  We're keeping Pepsi around now as they are making the real thing (no offense to coke intended) again with sugar. 

 

Dave

[oldtimer]

Yes sugar is bad for you.  Look what happened to the Hawaiians when sugar as a crop was introduced.  Sugar is empty calories as much as alcohol.  Sugar has destroyed as many cultures as alcohol, and/or disease.  Sugar is disgusting and unnecessary when you can get all you need from fruit and unrefined sources.

[oldtimer]

We are evolved to have a preference for sugar, because it was rare and helpful at the time----like you said, it's bad in excess.  The problem is it is abundant now and always used in excess.  The Brits (your favorite foreigners) created sugar plantations to feed their addiction, (they put it in everything) which led to a massive amount of economic slavery (not to mention actual slavery) and to this day put sugar in everything, which is a major cause of English teeth syndrome (lack of).  At the same time there is the US sugar subsidy which protects our own industry and causes the price of sugar in the US to be sky high compared to the rest of the world.  Therefore we get HFCS because of a different subsidy.  Corn versus cane, and everyone loses except the corporations who profit from whichever is cheapest.

[Dr Morbius]

No Coke, Pepsi.