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[–] [email protected] 188 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 79 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

You can edit titles on Lemmy

[–] [email protected] 37 points 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago

A joke from Kingdom of Loathing.

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[–] [email protected] 84 points 4 weeks ago (12 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 66 points 4 weeks ago (16 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 4 weeks ago

Or diet everything.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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] 63 points 4 weeks ago (16 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 weeks 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] 9 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 44 points 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 44 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)
[–] ulterno 21 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

water man

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 weeks ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

You don't have that? Where are you?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 weeks 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.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 weeks ago (10 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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."

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks 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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[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I am afraid your out of luck either way.

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

Lime coke from those machines is delicious. Fight me.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 weeks ago (8 children)

Counter argument: Vanilla Coke

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Or like 3 different nonstandard fruit flavored sprites. At once

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 weeks ago

Cloaca-cola, as envisioned by Pininfarina!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago (6 children)

This hurts as someone who fixes both.

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