Comments on: Coke Light http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/coke-light/ falling indelibly into the past Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:33:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: KF http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/coke-light/comment-page-1/#comment-612 KF Wed, 11 Oct 2006 15:31:29 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=322#comment-612 <p>You know, I never did.  But here’s the funny thing:  I went on sabbatical for the spring semester and rented out my place.  I left about a month after this post, and had utterly forgotten about the light can, still sitting in a corner on one of my countertops.  When I came back in May, the can was gone.  I don’t know if my tenant drank it, gave it to someone else to drink, or simply threw it away.  But the tenant is fine, and I haven’t heard of anyone coming down with deadly diseases that they came into contact with in my house, so I’m assuming that everything’s okay. </p> <p> Since then, I’ve come across a couple of other such anomalys, though none so clear as this one.  I’ve had a can that felt about an eighth lighter than the others, which I opened and drank and was fine.  And about a week ago I opened a can that was so full that it immediately bubbled up through the opening and filled the top of the can.  So I’m telling myself that this particular can was just a rather extreme manifestation of such can-filling variation. </p> <p> But I’ll confess that part of me regrets not finding out for sure… </p> You know, I never did.  But here’s the funny thing:  I went on sabbatical for the spring semester and rented out my place.  I left about a month after this post, and had utterly forgotten about the light can, still sitting in a corner on one of my countertops.  When I came back in May, the can was gone.  I don’t know if my tenant drank it, gave it to someone else to drink, or simply threw it away.  But the tenant is fine, and I haven’t heard of anyone coming down with deadly diseases that they came into contact with in my house, so I’m assuming that everything’s okay.

Since then, I’ve come across a couple of other such anomalys, though none so clear as this one.  I’ve had a can that felt about an eighth lighter than the others, which I opened and drank and was fine.  And about a week ago I opened a can that was so full that it immediately bubbled up through the opening and filled the top of the can.  So I’m telling myself that this particular can was just a rather extreme manifestation of such can-filling variation.

But I’ll confess that part of me regrets not finding out for sure…

]]> By: jcdrang http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/coke-light/comment-page-1/#comment-611 jcdrang Wed, 11 Oct 2006 14:56:31 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=322#comment-611 <p>So...Did you ever open the can?  Or have someone else do it for you outside? Then pour it into a disposable cup?  I’m really curious. </p> So…Did you ever open the can?  Or have someone else do it for you outside? Then pour it into a disposable cup?  I’m really curious.

]]> By: KF http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/coke-light/comment-page-1/#comment-610 KF Fri, 11 Nov 2005 16:43:06 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=322#comment-610 <p>Are you KIDDING me?  You want to come over and open it, be my guest.  I have all kinds of ideas of things that are lighter than diet Coke, things that could fill the can while giving it the sensation of being less-than-full, and none of them are good.  Unleashing that into my home strikes me as a bad plan.  Pandora’s diet Coke can, and all that. </p> <p> Plus, I’m a big chicken. </p> Are you KIDDING me?  You want to come over and open it, be my guest.  I have all kinds of ideas of things that are lighter than diet Coke, things that could fill the can while giving it the sensation of being less-than-full, and none of them are good.  Unleashing that into my home strikes me as a bad plan.  Pandora’s diet Coke can, and all that.

Plus, I’m a big chicken.

]]> By: Shhh http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/coke-light/comment-page-1/#comment-609 Shhh Thu, 10 Nov 2005 07:28:20 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=322#comment-609 <p>Open it, woman! Now we’re all dying to know what’s inside! </p> Open it, woman! Now we’re all dying to know what’s inside!

]]> By: jeremy hunsinger http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/coke-light/comment-page-1/#comment-608 jeremy hunsinger Wed, 09 Nov 2005 20:58:37 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=322#comment-608 <p>shhh, once people find out that the system is imperfect… they’ll think they are free. </p> shhh, once people find out that the system is imperfect… they’ll think they are free.

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