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[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 179 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 75 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You can edit titles on Lemmy

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 36 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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A joke from Kingdom of Loathing.

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[–] InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works 81 points 1 month ago (12 children)

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

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 64 points 1 month ago (12 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?

[–] Makeitstop@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago

Or diet everything.

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[–] Psythik@lemm.ee 28 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.)

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 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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I like them, but I'm always behind someone who looks like they've never used technology more advanced than a telegraph before

[–] TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee 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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[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 64 points 1 month ago (14 children)

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

[–] mercano@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago

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

[–] turnip@lemm.ee 12 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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

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[–] MTK@lemmy.world 55 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 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

[–] Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] CubitOom 43 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] ulterno@programming.dev 21 points 1 month ago (2 children)

water man

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

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 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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[–] Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de 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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[–] spicytuna62@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (3 children)
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[–] UpperBroccoli@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] PanArab@lemm.ee 9 points 1 month ago

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

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[–] mercano@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

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[–] CreatingMachines@fedia.io 17 points 1 month ago (8 children)

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

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 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.

[–] moakley@lemmy.world 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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[–] Signtist@lemm.ee 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."

[–] higgsboson@dubvee.org 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] CreatingMachines@fedia.io 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Even if you know what it is, it may surprise you that more that one species can breathe out of it.

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[–] frezik@midwest.social 13 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Lime coke from those machines is delicious. Fight me.

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[–] kipo@lemm.ee 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.

[–] WraithGear@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I am afraid your out of luck either way.

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[–] Squorlple@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Counter argument: Vanilla Coke

[–] Makeitstop@lemmy.world 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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[–] ExtantHuman@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Or like 3 different nonstandard fruit flavored sprites. At once

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[–] HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 month ago (6 children)

This hurts as someone who fixes both.

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[–] Timecircleline@sh.itjust.works 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.

[–] sga@lemmings.world 10 points 1 month ago

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

[–] noxypaws@pawb.social 9 points 1 month ago

Cloaca-cola, as envisioned by Pininfarina!

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I love those machines. Diet cherry decaf vanilla etc etc etc....

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