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Community => General Talk => Topic started by: Eirikr on August 14, 2013, 12:22:48 AM
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There was an experiment done many years ago back when work places kept pop in the fridge and you'd just stick 50 cents into a can. People not actually paying for the pop (theft) dropped by some ridiculous amount (75%+) when they taped a pair of eyes to the change can.
What is this "pop"?
Aaaaaaaaaaaand go!
;D
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What is this "pop"?
Aaaaaaaaaaaand go!
;D
I think he means "coke."
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No it means any carbonized drink.
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No it means any carbonized drink.
And here I thought "lollipop".
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And here I thought "lollipop".
Pop=Soda, its the same thing.
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I think he means "coke."
Coke as a generic word for soda is the worst slang ever! It refers to a specific type of soda! I can't tell you how many times when I used to work in a restaurant some Texan would get all mad after saying they wanted a coke and got a coke. "But I wanted a fanta!"
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He he he.... we had the same thing happen when I was in the Navy. :D
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He he he.... we had the same thing happen when I was in the Navy. :D
Yea, I encountered it in the Army too. I mean seriously. You order a *insert alcoholic beverage here* and coke, and you're going to get a tiny splash of booze mixed with a cola product and drowned in ice. Everyone knows this. So when you ask for a coke, you should expect to receive a cola product.
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I'm friends with an army brat, and he actually calls it "cola". He's the only one I know who does that.
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LOL, why are we even having a thread titled "Fizzy drink" ::)
On another note, I know it as soda.
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Coke as a generic word for soda is the worst slang ever! It refers to a specific type of soda! I can't tell you how many times when I used to work in a restaurant some Texan would get all mad after saying they wanted a coke and got a coke. "But I wanted a fanta!"
No.
If someone asks for a Coke, you ask "what kind?"
Granted, the guy shoulda known something was wrong when you didn't.
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No.
If someone asks for a Coke, you ask "what kind?"
Granted, the guy shoulda known something was wrong when you didn't.
No. If someone asks you for a coke, you give them a coke!
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No. If someone asks you for a coke, you give them a coke!
Even as someone who has ordered a soda as a "Coke", I agree it is a fair assumption to just bring the person a damned Coke.
That said, I'm usually pretty happy with the result either way.
(Until the Dave and Busters waiter mixes Coke and Sprite [50-50] in response to my request for Ginger Ale, of which, they apparently had none.)
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Even as someone who has ordered a soda as a "Coke", I agree it is a fair assumption to just bring the person a damned Coke.
That said, I'm usually pretty happy with the result either way.
(Until the Dave and Busters waiter mixes Coke and Sprite [50-50] in response to my request for Ginger Ale, of which, they apparently had none.)
Ginger Ale?
Man card. Hand it over.
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Soda!
Cola!
Let's call the whole thing off.....
http://strangemaps.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/popvssodamap.gif
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Ginger Ale?
Man card. Hand it over.
Go drink a Mind Eraser and say that again. :)
(Layered drink, carefully poured over a bar spoon: 2oz Kahlua, 2oz Vodka, 4oz Ginger Ale. Drink as fast as possible through a straw.)
Plus, I was... 14? at the time (and no, not ordering alcohol haha).
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No.
If someone asks for a Coke, you ask "what kind?"
Yes - regular, diet, or cherry :P
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In Canada, pop is the short form of: soda pop.. I didn't mean to derail the thread lol
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Yes - regular, diet, or cherry :P
You forgot vanilla and zero. ;)
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Or the most recent large scale study on this and 120 other linguistic particularities....
http://www4.ncsu.edu/~jakatz2/project-dialect.html
Yes, that site will consume you for days.
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Go drink a Mind Eraser and say that again. :)
(Layered drink, carefully poured over a bar spoon: 2oz Kahlua, 2oz Vodka, 4oz Ginger Ale. Drink as fast as possible through a straw.)
Plus, I was... 14? at the time (and no, not ordering alcohol haha).
That's a mind eraser, not a ginger ale. Therein lies the difference. But at 14... Well I suppose.
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I didn't mean to derail the thread lol
Ah, but I did. And it worked! Muhuhahahaha!
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You forgot vanilla and zero. ;)
We should all forget vanilla and zero... and diet and cherry for that matter.
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We should all forget vanilla and zero... and diet and cherry for that matter.
Bah, vanilla is good! Best in canned or homemade, though.
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Soda!
Cola!
Let's call the whole thing off.....
http://strangemaps.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/popvssodamap.gif
This map is interesting to me because I've never noticed all the peculiarities in counties aroud shapes the country. that is AWESOME! but yea i think that survey wasn't the greatest. I've never heard a single person in my county call it coke and yet that is what my county is colored.