"Coca-Colanisation is coming to Britain"

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http://www.theguardian.com/commenti...isation-britain-coca-cola-london-eye-coke-red
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Just a small quote from the article

Guardian said:
It’s the normalisation of Coca-Cola that worries me – its insinuation into our lives. In London it’s hard to get away from the Eye. You glimpse it unexpectedly all the time. The corporation doesn’t need slogans or the jingly tunes it once employed to get into our heads. We know what the red on the wheel represents. And it is red, of course – the full sugar colour. Not the green of the lower sugar brand, nor the black of Coke Zero.
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Essentially it's someone going on about how Coca Cola sponsoring the London Eye is a bad thing, as we all suddenly start drinking Coke and how it's going to be the norm, because the London Eye will now be a shade of Red.

I don't remember having uncontrollable urges to fly British Airway, so why will a Coke sponsored London Eye suddenly make everyone drink more Coke?

"Won't somebody think of the children" brigade might need a new primary colour to replace Red, otherwise, they might start drinking Coke like they need it to survive every time Christmas or Chinese New Year arrives.
 
I presume the cost of sponsoring the London Eye isn't trivial, even for a company as big as Coca-Cola, and corporations don't like spending those kinds of sums of money unless they get returns. Just like all those tobacco companies who spent millions on advertising even though they were directly banned from promoting smoking.

I think in 50 years time we'll look back on sugary, fizzy drinks like Cola in the same way that we look upon smoking now.
 
I didn't have a mobile phone before, but when the millennium dome changed to the o2 arena i just couldn't resist taking out three monthly plans.
 
Coca-Cola will only remake the wheel smaller with fewer pods just like Kraft messed with the Creme Egg :mad:

#britssellingouttoyanks
 
Coke is only useful for one thing, getting rid of corrosion on metal, and making them shiney again

I expect its not doing much good to your insides



I guess its like the blackpool rollercoaster pepsi max or so it used to be called, instantly made you want to drink pepsi
 
thep02 said:
The green stevia coke is a bit of a let down they don't seem to have swapped much of the sugar for stevia.
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yeah tasted like watery diet coke. :p

Well as long as they give free samples out when im on the Southbank in summer consider me utterly /carefaced
 
DJMK4 said:
I guess its like the blackpool rollercoaster pepsi max or so it used to be called, instantly made you want to drink pepsi
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A bit of failure if its goal was to have you wanting to drink Pepsi Max.

The taste of Coke does the job of having me want to drink Pepsi, the London Eye should be adorned with the red and blue yin and yang of Pepsi, that is the real tragedy.
 
scorza said:
I think in 50 years time we'll look back on sugary, fizzy drinks like Cola in the same way that we look upon smoking now.
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Except that sitting at a table next to someone drinking coke isn't extremely unpleasant and doesn't leave you stinking like an ashtray :p
 
I'll just leave this here..

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Shamelessly stolen from Wiki...

"The modern American version of the suit can be attributed to the work of Thomas Nast for Harper's Weekly magazine, although it is often incorrectly thought that Haddon Sundblom designed the suit in his advertising work for the Coca-Cola Company. Sundblom's work did standardize the western image of Santa, and popularized the image of the red suit with white fur trim."

My thoughts: Thick people ruin everything.

FoxEye said:
How much coke do you need to drink for it to be genuinely harmful?
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You're doing it wrong. :p
 
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