“we’re simply forcing you to understand”
In case you haven’t heard, the 128oz big gulp from 7-11 isn’t chock full of vitamin and minerals. And totalitarian prick Bloomberg thinks you’re too stupid to know that and wants to force you to. This after he says he’s not taking any rights away. Yes, you nanny-state busybody, you are. Someone’s right to buy a 20oz Cheerwine.
At the end of that bit, Coca Cola responds with a statement.
The tyranny of doing something. We must do something, even if it’s wrong or stupid. And I like Ken’s plan of every good citizen of New York downing a Mountain Dew and pissing on the lawn of Gracie Mansion.
June 1st, 2012 at 10:02 am
And today he supports National Donut Day.
I’m not kidding.
June 1st, 2012 at 10:06 am
I always like to bring up early doctors doing blood letting on patients weak with disease.
I’m sure countless patients died who might have recovered had they not been further weakened by loss of blood.
Hey, but they were doing SOMETHING.
June 1st, 2012 at 10:33 am
Psh, Aint nobody drinking Cheerwine up here, Unk. I didnt even know what it was until you talked about it.
June 1st, 2012 at 10:38 am
I’d say piss on Bloomberg, himself. Or,even better. Send him a months supply of ‘recycled’ Mtn. Dew. In 12 ounce bottles, of course.
June 1st, 2012 at 10:42 am
Seems to me this is a violation of Roe V Wade, and your right to privacy.
Isn’t this a personal health choice one would be making to drink the big gulp?
June 1st, 2012 at 11:13 am
Hey, when you have a government paying for health care, you don’t get to complain when they start demanding preventive actions to keep costs down.
At least he hasn’t started mandatory exercise periods every day, monitored via 2-way TV. Yet.
I wonder if there is black market in Big Gulps about to start up. After all, will the government go to the trouble to prove those 44oz cups next to the milk dispenser, next to the soda machine, aren’t used ONLY for milk?
June 1st, 2012 at 12:34 pm
pelt his dumb ass with full cans of soda.
June 1st, 2012 at 12:36 pm
Cheerwine. Hells to the yeah.
June 1st, 2012 at 1:02 pm
40 oz Malt liquors aren’t banned.
Drink those in public in NYC.
June 1st, 2012 at 1:03 pm
HL, you speak perhaps truer than you truly know. Coca-cola was once a “folk abortifacent.” It’s a wonder it survived Roscoe Arbuckle.
I had a neighbor, born in Hesse in the 1870’s, in later years a Nazarene. She preached the anti-soda-pop gospel with particular frenzy. All crotchets old are new again.
June 1st, 2012 at 1:37 pm
The Bloomburg Special – two 12 ounce cups of pop!
June 1st, 2012 at 1:45 pm
Point of privilege:
1)Bloomberg still lives in his private apartment which is nicer than the city’s mansion.
2) March with two-liter in hand and throw it over the fence at City Hall. Tangible mess…
This whole thing is sublimely absurd! By banning the container type they actually achieve about the same result as they would by outlawing drinking left handed!
I would love to see the major corporations that sell soft drinks go after this in court.
June 1st, 2012 at 2:09 pm
Comatus, It also is useful for cleaning your windshield or cooking your country ham! Truly a wonder elixir!
June 1st, 2012 at 3:10 pm
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
C. S. Lewis
June 1st, 2012 at 4:41 pm
When, pray tell, is a group of NYC citizens going to finally get together and ban this despicable lout Bloomberg?
June 1st, 2012 at 9:15 pm
And no one commented on the Bloomer’s use of the term “forcing.”
June 3rd, 2012 at 10:50 am
He’s in the pay of the soda cup manufactures.