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The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to Just Post@lemmy.world · 8 months ago

It's unstoppable

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It's unstoppable

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The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to Just Post@lemmy.world · 8 months ago
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  • WagnasT@lemmy.world
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    pop is getting smaller and towards the midwest, eventually it will just be minisoda.

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      Ah, a pop joke.

    • UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world
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      Don’t ya know now

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      Take my upvote damnit!

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      As a French, I find pop really endearing and might even include it in my vocabulary.

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    We have them on the run, boys!

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      If they showed Canada on this map, you’d think otherwise…

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        We’re up here drinking our pop while sitting on the chesterfield

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          Tabernac!

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        How aboot some fizzy maple.

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    • InFerNo@lemmy.ml
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      https://xkcd.com/1138/

    • The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldOP
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      As inconsequential as it is, it makes me mildly sad to see things like this become more homogeneous.

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  • djsoren19@yiffit.net
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    Maybe the Pop and Soda users can at least band together to get Coke removed forever before returning to their own fight. I don’t know really know which of those two I prefer, but it is insane to refer to a Mountain Dew as a Coke.

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      Not at all surprised where it’s concentrated though. The poorest, least educated, least healthful States in the country, where corporate branding has superceded basic terminology.

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      Would you like a Coke?

      hands you an orange crush

    • bitchkat@lemmy.world
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      Have you ever asked for a root beer and been given a Dr pepper?

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        Just the other day, I tried to order a root beer at a taco bell and the guy said they didn’t have it, did I want a dr pepper instead. I was speechless for a second because it was so baffling that he thought that was the closest replacement.

        Then he listed the other options and I got a Baja blast, not because it’s the closest thing to root beer but because hearing that one reminded me that I don’t really care that they don’t carry root beer.

        Though still, wtf @ them not carrying root beer.

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          And Taco Bell sells pepsi so if they did have root beer, you’d have gotten Mug which is better than Barqs. Jersey Mikes is great because they sell Stubborn root beer (a Pepsi “craft” brand) which is pretty good for a crafty pop.

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      I’ll never forget my horror when I asked for a medium coke and the lady just handed me some random beverage. She didn’t even ask what kind of coke I wanted.

      Though nowadays the only coke I drink is la croix.

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      It’s not all that different from Kleenex, Scotch tape, Xerox, etc. Sometimes brand names become the common name for a product.

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        A Kleenex and any different facial tissue are very similar. A Coke and an Orange carbonated beverage are very different.

        • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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          Yeah imagine if we started calling all paper products of any kind “kleenex?” Yeah write that down on a sheet of Kleenex and mail it to me in a Kleenex box.

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    I’m from GA, and I never understood people calling all soda a coke. Giving someone a Pepsi when they asked for a coke is enough to start an altercation around here – they are not at all considered interchangeable

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      I mean, I assume part of that standoffishness is simply local pride since Coca Cola is headquartered there.

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      You ever say “Scotch tape” when referring to a transparent tape that wasn’t made by 3M?

      Is it any different?

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        I’ve been asked if I want a coke before and was handed a diet ginger beer. in what world are those interchangeable?

        It’s like asking for a piece of Scotch tape and being handed a piece of painters tape

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    It’s pop and I will die on this hill

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      Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. I prefer the word soda. Prepare to die.

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        You dropped a D bro

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          You will get the D later ;)

    • go $fsck yourself@lemmy.world
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      Can you show me any other examples of when people use the latter part of the word when shortening it? Or is this somehow the only acceptable one for you?

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      Where do you live? That’s horrifying

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    In Australia, they’re called soft drinks because they have little or no alcohol in them.

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      We call them soft drinks in America too.

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        I was today years old when I learned that the soft on soft drink is the opposite of hard in terms of liquor.

  • criitz@reddthat.com
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    Pop propaganda

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      Sodageddon

      Popaganda

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 🏆@yiffit.net
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    Soda is carbonated water.

    Pop is dad.

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      Dad’s is root beer (a type of pop).

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      It’s petty popular to pop open a pop with your pop. You should pop in some time and give it a try.

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      Soda is carbonated water made with sodium bicarbonate and citric acid (as opposed to natural carbonated water and modern injected carbonation). Pop is something that goes pop.

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    Born in a pop stronghold, and it is still holding. Coke is a brand, not all pop!

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    Softdrink

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    Dr Pepper is king either way

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      The Dr’s less educated, libertine cousin Mr Pibb is even slightly better IMO.

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        Mr. Pibb, may he rest in peace, is no longer with us… only his edgy gamer brother.

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    sodi pops

    • MehBlah@lemmy.world
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      But we buried you grandpa. How can you be on lemmy?

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        i made a deal with the devil
        don’t tell gam gam

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    Pass me a fizzy beverage, my good sir.

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