Back to work, you slackers!

[write-light.livejournal.com]

I'm sensing that this will NOT keep workers happy...

Comments

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

The proto-Keurig! I'm wondering how it made soft drinks. I guess it has a CO2 bottle in there? I guess that would make it a proto-SodaStream, too.

But why just put it near work areas? Block the exit doors with that sucker! Nobody's goin' nowhere!

[kyoko-godaikun.livejournal.com]

I remember back in the 60's they had 'soft drinks" it has no bubbles, just the flavor. so it tasted like flat pop. I know that several koolaid like companies made them and sold them beside the koolaid like things. so no soda stream. those things needed them!

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

I guess "soft drink" became associated with carbonated beverages later on. Come to think of it, the origins probably have something to do with being the antithesis of hard drinks that contain alcohol.

So it sounds like this was basically a water cooler with individual Koolaid packs.

[franklanguage.livejournal.com]

My parents had a seltzer maker that took little "whippet"-sized CO2 cartridges. (Which went right in the landfill, of course; it amazes me the amount of sh!t we used to throw in the garbage. It amazes me even more to realize that all the recycling we now do is just busy-work that doesn't really help our environmental situation (http://www.treehugger.com/clean-technology/why-recycling-plastic-bottles-doesnt-help-the-problem-video.html).)

Unfortunately it was only for grown-up drinks, and I didn't like the taste of club soda.

[write-light.livejournal.com]

I have a hard time taking Free Republic articles seriously. That same point can be made by way of arguing that our recycling (like our climate change efforts) is a drop in an ocean of garbage (CO2) vs what everyone else iworldwide is pumping out. But even that is an elitist view, though it doesn't disdain environmentalists, at least. What we need are broadly effective solutions, not negativity.