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May 27, 2005 12:04 AM
Broken: Pepsi vending machine sign
Ciarán Bohane sends in this photo from a motel in Dunedin, New Zealand, and says: "I was thirsty, but not that thirsty." (Punctuation counts!)
i agree with sr. incenpr & mr. slaughter. this is broken, but i doubt it would cause any problems. i have generally learned to overlook the nonexistent grammatical skills of others.
Oh noos, Incenpr is back with that god awful site that demonstrates everything that is wrong with the web.
Depending on what the conversion rate of new zealand to us dollars, this might not be broken, but I assume that they're just missing the decimal.
What annoyed me was for a while gas here was $20.59 a gallon. The 9 was smaller because it's supposed to be .9 cents. I thought they just made a simple mistake on one side of the sign, but I looked at the other side and it was the exact same. Then I saw a sign in a nearby city said the exact same thing. I'm not sure how people manage to get things so wrong.
Yes. This is broken and not broken. It says it is $100 but it is easy to tell that they ment $1.00 or another posibility is that someone took the decimal point as a joke.
INCENPR STOP ADVERTISING your website here. It stinks. I tried the artificial intelegence talk and i typed I think this website is reatarded and it asked why than i typed because it is and it said something like i agree
There is something else broken here:
You say you were thirsty?
Did you know that most pop/soda/whatever-you-call-it actually dehydrates you MORE?
Ya, apparently, pop is very hard to digest.
Drink water!
Some vending machines offer water.
Coca-Cola can dissolve a nail. There shipment trucks with the coca-cola syrup have tanks made out of super ultra mega strong titanium nuclear whatever metal.
A nail? Really? I that coca cola mixed with a nail dissolving liquid or just straight?
I doubt the titanium thing since aluminium seems to work just fine when it's in a can. The syrup might be stronger, but the cannister can be thicker as well.
Straight coca-cola can dissolve a nail in 1-2 weeks DEPENDING on the nail.The syrup is a lot more acidic than when it is mixed with the water. So it needs a higher grade metal.
no unknown is right it's worse when they all get together like on a big truck osmosis or something oh shut up mink owar
Mink'O'War, your source of information is broken.
From http://www.snopes.com/toxins/water.htm
"the idea that one must specifically drink water because the diuretic effects of caffeinated drinks such as coffee, tea, and soda actually produce a net loss of fluid appears to be erroneous. The average person retains about half to two-thirds the amount of fluid taken in by consuming these types of beverages, and those who regularly consume caffeinated drinks retain even more"
You people get a clue! Who the hell honestly thinks you would be paying $100.00 for a can of Pepsi? Don't you have anything else to do?
Doug: I'm well aware that coffee doesn't dehydrate you, I heard about a study debunking that old-wives-tale on the news. I said nothing about caffiene at all.
I was simply referring to the acidic and high sugar levels, which, I was under the impression, had to do with the dehydration caused by the energy spent digesting them. That information seems to be broken as well though :)
Onery: About as much as you do considering you came on here to tell us all that we are clueless. If you don't enjoy a site, why bother stopping by and even more so, why bother writing a comment on said site? Could it be that you are the one in need of a clue?
Survey says: YES!
That is not true that Coke is stronger than Pepsi!!!! Pepsi is stronger than Coke!!!!!!
Actually Pepsi is number 1.:)
Also, did anyone notice on the vending machine the trademark simbol is only after the second "P" , so I ges that we shuold start calling it "Pep" now!
Also, did anyone notice on the vending machine the trademark simbol is only after the second "P" , so I guess that we shuold start calling it "Pep" now! (I am posting this a second time because of a spelling mistsake)
unknown, you failed to correct both 'simbol' and 'shuold'. C'mon, man! if you're gonna re-post because of your spelling, at least fix it all!
I tried dissolving my tooth in Cherry Coke once. (after i lost it) It didn't work. I filled a pill bottle with the Coke, put the tooth in it, and left it there, czeching on it every once in a while. After the first day, most of the enamel was gone, but after that nothing really happened. I'll wager it's because the bacteria that would have dissolved my tooth were aerobic, i.e. they need oxygen. It's the bacteria, not the Coke.
I wouldn't really care if Coke or Pepsi syrup dissolved a nail. Orange juice concentrate could do the same thing, but we sure as hell drink orange juice.
I wouldn't really care if Coke or Pepsi syrup dissolved a nail. A strong orange juice concentrate could do the same thing, but we sure as hell drink orange juice.
1 NZ dollar is actually pretty cheap for a can of soft drink nowadays (at least for a vending machine).
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I often wonder if these kinds of punctuation mistakes result in an inability to use a system. Obviously a hundred bucks for a can of soda is comically overpriced, so I don't think any users assume it is labeled correctly and decide not to buy a drink after all. Has anyone found similar cases which are truly ambigious?
FYI: This is pretty much exactly the same as a post from a few weeks ago:
http://broken.typepad.com/b/2005/05/advantedge_disc.html#comments
Posted by: Robby Slaughter at May 27, 2005 12:47 AM