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YellowRubberDuckie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-30-04 10:57 AM
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If you're buying Ho Hos, Ding Dongs, and a Fruit pie...
Why are you buying a DIET COKE!?
I was just at the Convenience store. In front of me is a heavy set girl, spending her breakfast meal. On the counter was Ding Dongs, Ho Hos, a large bag of Cheetos, a fruit pie and A DIET COKE. Is this absurd only to me?
Oh, and FYI, I'm a fat girl, so I'm allowed to criticize, especially since I bought a Diet Coke with Lime and a Weight Watcher's Cereal Bar.
Duckie
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JohnKleeb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-30-04 10:58 AM
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1. because skinny people are weird Duckie
and I'm heading back up to the school in 10 mins, so don't accuse me of playing hookie.
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shaolinmonkey Donating Member (812 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-30-04 10:59 AM
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2. Yes. It is absurd, but I do it all the time.
Quarter pounder with cheese value meal, diet coke. Just plain stupid.
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sui generis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-30-04 11:04 AM
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6. actually
the concentrated sugar in a regular coke is probably worse for your system than the fat in the burgers and fries. If you're going to be bad with fast food a diet soda is probably a good idea.

But if you're just buying a bunch of sugary stuff and then a diet soda you're just confused. Go all out, by a five pound bag of sugar and a funnel and get it over with.
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markbark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-30-04 10:59 AM
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3. To steal from their ad... "Just for the Taste of It"
Regular Coke tastes like a mix of malted battery acid and Karo Syrup!

plus... an added bonus for us computer geeks, Diet Coke doesn't get all sticky when spilled (no sugar, no sticky)


--MAB
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chenGOD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-30-04 11:31 AM
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11. Diet Coke - taste the Nutrasweet/aspartame.
Or whatever artifical sweetner they use.

Blech, yech, and some othere word that ends with -ech and means bad-tasting...
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sniffa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-30-04 11:00 AM
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4. the diet coke offsets the megacaLoried junk food
it's a fair and baLanced meaL. :P
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CornField Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-30-04 11:00 AM
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5. Maybe she was diabetic?
My husband is a type 1 (insulin-shot dependant) and will often need sweet food to bring his blood sugars up. Regular soda, however, would push his numbers through the ceiling -- for diabetics, it's like drinking pure glucose. So, he often picks up a Little Debbie or something along with his Diet Pepsi.
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Spinzonner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-30-04 11:13 AM
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7. And here I thought that this thread
Edited on Thu Sep-30-04 11:21 AM by Spinzonner
was going to be about Interstate Bakery's bankruptcy

http://www.nydailynews.com/business/story/227322p-195234c.html

Junk Food Junkies, get out there and "Save the Twinkies"

(Who's making the T-Shirts ?)
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Dedalus Donating Member (136 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-30-04 11:27 AM
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8. OH MY GOD...
...You're the first one to ever make a joke about this!! I've never heard a third-rate stand-up comedian do so even once. Do you have any observations for us about the ways in which men and women see things differently, or perhaps how white men dance?
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Spinzonner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-30-04 11:29 AM
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9. Haven't had your caffeine fix this morning yet ?
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YellowRubberDuckie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-30-04 12:15 PM
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16. Not joking...
This really happened...And for the record, newbie, you need to lighten up. You're in the lounge, not GD.
Duckie
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Phillycat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-30-04 11:30 AM
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10. Because when you are fat you get used to diet soda when
you're like 12 years old and you drink it for the rest of your life.
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nutsnberries Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-30-04 11:36 AM
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12. Just because she was having a bad breakfast...
-and maybe it's a common occurrence- doesn't mean it makes MORE SENSE for her to heap 150 more calories and 37 more carbs* on top of it all, each time.

*12 oz coke versus diet coke.
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SemiCharmedQuark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-30-04 11:41 AM
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13. Might be dentist's orders
My husband has been ordered by our dentist to never drink regular soda again since it's done a number on his teeth over the years. He's kind of a soda junkie so the dentist said that if he MUST have a soda to go for diet because it's better for you.
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pagerbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-30-04 11:43 AM
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14. You've put an awful lot of energy
...into what someone you don't know is eating. Is that your normal custom?

And why does being a fat girl (your words) allow you to criticize anyone? Anyone at all?
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YellowRubberDuckie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-30-04 12:17 PM
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17. I do know her...
I just think that if you're fat and you're criticizing a fat person it's better than if I were Barely 100 pounds dripping wet talking about it. It a fat person is like WOW it must be bad.
Duckie
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MissMillie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-30-04 11:55 AM
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15. because diet coke actually tastes sweeter than regular coke
I can't drink carbonated stuff at all anymore, but between coke and diet coke, I always preferred diet coke.
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DinahMoeHum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-30-04 12:28 PM
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18. "in the daytime I'm Mr. Natural, just as healthy as I can be. . ."
"...but at night I'm a junk food junkie,
Good Lord, have pity on me..."

- Larry Groce


:evilgrin:
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hyphenate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-30-04 12:35 PM
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19. Some people just like the taste of diet soda
Not me--I can't stand it. I'd rather have anything else before I would drink diet soda.

On the other hand, I like sweet-and-low in my tea and coffee because it dissolves better than sugar.
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YellowRubberDuckie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-30-04 12:36 PM
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20. I'm the same way...
But this Diet Coke with lemon is great.
Duckie
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