The Pop Is The Weasel: How Soft Drinks Are Poisoning Our Planet | The Daily Cannibal
Sweetened beverages, or so-called “sugary sodas,” have acquired a nasty reputation as major contributors to child — and adult — obesity. But the damage they cause is not confined to that alone. Sugary sodas, experts warn, also play a significant role in climate change, pollution and in income distribution inequity.
In which a commenter calls nemo a “fucking douche.”
About Bill Quick
I am a small-l libertarian with conservative leanings on most issues, except on many traditionally conservative social issues, where my stance would be regarded as hopelessly liberal by most social conservatives. My primary concern is to increase individual liberty as much as possible in the face of statist efforts to restrict it from both the right and the left. If I had to sum up my beliefs as concisely as possible, I would say, "Stay out of my wallet and my bedroom," "your liberty stops at my nose," and "don't tread on me." I will believe that things are taking a turn for the better in America when married gays are able to, and do, maintain large arsenals of automatic weapons, and tax collectors are, and do, not.
This went much better than I had thought. The idea was to use the standard techniques of the nanny-state hysterics to propose and support an obviously false premise, complete with amazing distortions, leaps of logic, “expert” citations, really, really big scary numbers and tongue-clucking admonitions.
You’d have thought the “gaseous emissions” thing would have given it away, but — no.
I thought it was hilarious.
I think I pissed my pants a little. To be fair to the dolt, while you aren’t technically a douche, you were playing one on the internet.
I know three people who would have responded (seriously) the same way (but they would have hidden the last snark). All liberals. Go figure.
LOL!~
It’s getting funnier, nemo. You just trolled another sucker named Richard Phelps, who admires your “lucid and researched post that actually takes a non-cynical position,” and adds the admonition that you not let Sarah Palin see it.
Great fun!
Good one, nemo -
So…how long do you let it go before you let ‘em know they’ve been had? Couple of days?
Some, of course – like Christopher Shafer – have already scoped it out…
(I really like “Sarchasm”, BTW – I’m so stealing that, and actively going looking for opportunities to cite it…)
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Do you think maybe the fact that all of the “experts” I cite have the same names as Elizabethan poets might have been a tip-off?
I’ll run a follow-up tomorrow. Thanks, Bill, for the linkup.
Er… Elizabethan poets? I think you’re mistaking the readership for people who have actually been educated in English literature rather than Johnny Got His Gun and other propaganda.
(Fun fact: I’ve probably read more Chinese poetry than English, if you discount offerings such as Maya Angelou’s spatters and other “deep, meaningful” metabolic waste so beloved of high school and college English teachers.)
(Fun should-be-a-fact: Did you know that Maya Angelou puts her spastic colon to use? She does! She reads the pattern in her size-86 drawers like a Rorschach blot and takes poetic inspiration from it. It’s obvious once you’ve learned her secret and read her poetry.)
Now that I think on it, though, I wonder if the Phelps comment might not be a counter-troll…?
Very likely.
nemo, you are a bad boy. And yes, it’s almost certain that Phelps is a counter-troll.