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[–] [email protected] 189 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 79 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There it is. That should have been the post title.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You can edit titles on Lemmy

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago (3 children)

It's too late now. OP must commit ritual suicide by mixing all the flavors

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

A joke from Kingdom of Loathing.

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[–] [email protected] 84 points 1 month ago (12 children)

It's also annoying to use, slower and can't serve multiple people at the same time.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 month ago (18 children)

I think the extra annoyance is counteracted by the gains in customizability IMO

Where else are you going to be able to get Peach Sprite or Vanilla Fanta?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago

Or diet everything.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (3 children)

The only reason why I like them is because I can cherry all the things. Cherry Coke, Cherry Sprite, Cherry root beer... You get the idea.

(I also like that cherry lime drink that several restaurants advertise under different names as their "exclusive" beverage. On the top of my head I know that Jack in the Box and Firehouse Subs both have it, with their own branding slapped on the name.)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That's the reason I originally thought they were cool, however, in practice, they almost never allowed you to mix anything with anything, and it was purely a limit placed in the software. I couldn't cherry anything but coke and dr pepper on any of them I ever used. I couldn't add lemon to anything but the already raspberry flavored Fuze tea. I couldn't add vanilla to the root beer or have grape flavored sprite. Shit pisses me off, because it wasn't that they didn't have a certain flavor, the interface just didn't show the flavors available for every possible soda on the machine. Especially when I would see people elsewhere with them setup in the way you really want, where you could cherry everything. 😬

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

I like them, but I'm always behind someone who looks like they've never used technology more advanced than a telegraph before

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Yeah, we had two of these replace the old school style drink stations at the hospital I work at. They had to bring back one of the old machines because the new machines were causing so much congestion in the cafeteria. Pretty sure the hardware in these predate blackberrys, they take forever to recognize any input from the screen.

Plus if you are just trying to get water, it gets slightly contaminated from whatever beverage the last person got. Especially if it's blue powerade for some reason.

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 month ago (16 children)

Nothing open to the public should have a touch interface. Has Covid taught us nothing?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There’s also a QR code you can scan to control it via your phone. I’m sure no one has exploited that.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

And at least your phone has (mostly) only your own fecal bacteria on the screen.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I use my semi erect pinky to push it just to be safe.

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 month ago (3 children)

That's rich coming from the "why not cum from where we pee?" Species

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If breathing and eating don't get separate holes, piss and cum certainly aren't getting that luxury

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

At least in males they aren't getting that luxury.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (2 children)

water man

You can use the term "Aqua Man" to sound fancier.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Nah, that's different. Water man is the grown up version of the water boy.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (3 children)

And the water always tastes like shit out of these because they don't clean the tip. On the old style it was always sharing lemonade or Powerade and you could just run the line for a second or two to clear it

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)

All of that is unholy because the Coca Cola company is pure shit.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

It gets worse. They hired hitmen to kill trade union leaders in Colombia.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I also remember when gas pumps had a separate hose and nozzle for each grade of gas.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

You don't have that? Where are you?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Most modern pumps in the US have one hose and buttons to select the grade. You’ll get a bit of the previous customer’s selection from what was left over in the line, but it’s not a huge difference if you’re getting 10 gallons. It can be a bigger deal for something with a small tank, like a motorcycle.

Diesel still gets its own hose, as putting diesel into a gas car or vice versa can be very bad.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

I have selected premium several times and then the tank stopped filling 30¢ early and my receipt said regular despite selecting premium when filling up my moped. I think the machines try to account for the gas type difference sometimes or maybe the pumps I was using were a bit dodgy.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (11 children)

...do I want to search up what a cloaca is?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (3 children)

The Wikipedia article describes the biological act of a "cloaca kiss," which may or may not be exactly what it sounds like depending on an individual's imagination.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

What the hell!?

I clicked the comments just to share my fun "cloacal kiss" fact!

Ugh. I'm going back to reddit.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

I feel like the context of "the opposite of 1 hole per beverage" gives a good vague explanation. Another is "how I pictured women's anatomy before I took a health class."

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I don't care what it comes out of as long as the machine is properly and regularly cleaned.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I am afraid your out of luck either way.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Lime coke from those machines is delicious. Fight me.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Counter argument: Vanilla Coke

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Also being able to get anything in diet instead of just one or two things.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (6 children)

This hurts as someone who fixes both.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

you can use pressurised air to clean the duct. Some verterbrates like to call it farts

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Fun fact: the Coca Cola Freestyle machine is designed by the Pininfarina company, of the same Pininfarina legacy of classic Italian car design fame.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Cloaca-cola, as envisioned by Pininfarina!

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