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[Sullichin]

If i'm getting soda with a meal, 16oz is honestly not enough to quench my thirst, and I'm by no means obese. I mean obviously water would be better at quenching my thirst but I prefer soda/iced tea with many meals. I hate when restaurants give you cans of soda. Don't really have a point here I'm just sayin.

 

[BattleMonkey]

So this only applies to restaurants? You can get a sub at a supermarket and then buy a six pack or liter of cola off the shelf and it's fine?

 

[JetBlackPanda]

THE SODA MUST FLOW!!

 

[Guevara]

I think putting a tax on soda is probably a better curb for obesity.

I'm pretty liberal but this makes me cringe.

That would never pass. Bloomberg tried it for years.

 

[Manos: The Hans of Fate]

The worst part of this is it's nothing but useless "feel good, accomplish nothing" rule making that Bloomberg has such a mad on for.

 

[Forceatowulf]

So a grown ass man can't even decide if he wants a large drink or not... Best City in the world, huh? LOL

 

[Dude Abides]

Soda is bad sure, but telling people that they cannot have it is a very fine line for me. I don't agree with that at all. I don't even agree that drugs are banned either. If you want people to not drink soda then educate them on how many calories are in a 20 oz and how much sugar they are drinking and what the affects are of doing so, but taking away their freedom is just really stupid imo. I drink diet soda, and know it is bad for me, but I am not consuming sugar (just cancer) and I would be affected by this ban also because they probably lumped it in with regular soda when it actually isn't filled with sugar.

Stopping soda will not cure obesity, educating people from a young age, providing healthy meals (that taste good) at schools will help far more then banning somebodies right to have soda.

They didn't. Why don't you try actually reading the OP you're ostensibly responding to?

 

[Davidion]

"Bloomberg’s proposal makes clever use of what economists call “default bias.”"

Bingo. Everyone whose brains checked out at the word ban (read: everyone acting even remotely upset at any of this) should probably read this whole article and see what it's actually about.

 

[Bulbo Urethral Baggins]

Thankfully, I still live in a free city. Poor New Yorkers.

 

[Angry Fork]

Yes the government should mandate everything to fulfill your personal moral code.

Well that's why I said I would like that, it's not as if I have the ability to make it happen.

 

[Czigga]

Well, one is much worse than the other (hint: not marijuana), and they're banning the quantity that can be sold as a single product, not the product itself.

I don't know how I feel about this ban, but obesity is an epidemic in this country and it's costing lives and it's costing money.

The most effective way to curb obesity is to not force everyone else to pay for their behavior.

EDIT:

Well that's why I said I would like that, it's not as if I have the ability to make it happen.

There's a lot of things I would like also but I wouldn't want the government to force you to like it as well, even if I did have the ability to do so.

 

[ReBurn]

I'll have 7 small sodas, please.

 

[Raistlin]

Are 2 and 3 liter bottles banned?

A guy I work with uses something like this to drink Pepsi directly out of 2 liters lol

 

[Emwitus]

So, When are they going to ban a full pack of cigarettes? I personally believe smokers should get those things in packs of 2 each costing 20 bucks! Just saying.

 

[echoshifting]

So this only applies to restaurants? You can get a sub at a supermarket and then buy a six pack or liter of cola off the shelf and it's fine?

Yeah, unless they changed it before it passed I believe that's correct.

 

[Manos: The Hans of Fate]

Bingo. Everyone whose brains checked out at the word ban (read: everyone acting even remotely upset at any of this) should probably read this whole article and see what it's actually about.

Bloomberg being a douchebag like always?

 

[- J - D -]

I wonder if many people here actually read further than the title.

 

[njean777]

They didn't. Why don't you try actually reading the OP you're ostensibly responding to?

My bad I missed that part, but still this ban is ignorance at its finest. Lets just ignore the root cause and place a scapegoat out there.

 

[Manos: The Hans of Fate]

My bad I missed that part, but still this ban is ignorance at its finest. Lets just ignore the root cause and place a scapegoat out there.

Well it is Bloomberg after all.

 

[Ovid]

I know the mayor is trying to help but enacting such a law only hurts society. People should be able to buy what they want. Government shouldn't dictate what people want to consume.

 

[Nert]

I can't say that I agree with outright banning larger soda sizes, but the behavioral economics behind it is pretty compelling (smaller default sizes will automatically lead to less consumption on average even if people still have the choice to just buy two or more 16 oz. drinks).

 

[Emily Chu]

i never drink soda anymore anyways enjoy your kidney stones

only ice cold water for me

and sometimes beer when I at the GAF meetups but still mostly water.

fight dat diabeetus

 

[Guevara]

Limit your soda and people get really upset. It's almost like people are addicted to caffeine and sugar.

 

[Joates]

My bad I missed that part, but still this ban is ignorance at its finest. Lets just ignore the root cause and place a scapegoat out there.

Is part of the "root cause" not intake of ridiculous amounts of calories from soda by drinking it in excess?

Sounds more like that and less of a "scapegoat" as you put it.

I know the mayor is trying to help but enacting such a law only hurts society. People should be able to buy what they want. Government shouldn't dictate what people want to consume.

Out of curiosity, how does it really hurt society (sans slippery slope argument)?

 

[Shambles]

Does NYC not realize how many calories are in things like beer and fruit juice? How can you possibly be this narrow minded.

 

[Dude Abides]

I can't say that I agree with outright banning larger soda sizes, but the behavioral economics behind it is pretty compelling (smaller default sizes will automatically lead to less consumption on average even if people still have the choice to just buy two or more 16 oz. drinks).

Behavioral economics sounds like a bunch of liberal egghead bullshit. Wake up, man, fascism is on the march! They'll claw my 32-ouncer out of my cold dead hands!

 

[Davidion]

Bloomberg being a douchebag like always?

Anyone complaining about the "douchebaggery" of Bloomberg must have conveniently evacuated from their brain any traces of the last few mayors we had.

If anything all the negative response goes to show that people are a bunch of fucking nimrods.

 

[Godslay]

Don't like the size, don't buy it or drink it. It really didn't need intervention. Stupid law.

 

[echoshifting]

Limit your soda and people get really upset. It's almost like people are addicted to caffeine and sugar.

Yeah, I'm not so interested in how upset people are about this right now. It'll be more interesting - and revealing - to wait and see how upset they still are in six months or even a year.

 

[Tex117]

We must protect people from themselves!

Actually, we don't.

Bad on you NYC.

 

[B-Dubs]

Are 2 and 3 liter bottles banned?

A guy I work with uses something like this to drink Pepsi directly out of 2 liters lol

A restaurant can't serve you a drink of that size but you can still have it. This ban only applies to the movies and restaurants.

 

[Guevara]

Yeah, I'm not so interested in how upset people are about this right now. It'll be more interesting - and revealing - to wait and see how upset they still are in six months or even a year.

It feels exactly like the smoking ban did years ago. "Bloomberg taking my freedoms" etc.

 

[BattleMonkey]

Limit your soda and people get really upset. It's almost like people are addicted to caffeine and sugar.

I don't even drink soda and I find this awful.

 

[buhdeh]

If i'm getting soda with a meal, 16oz is honestly not enough to quench my thirst, and I'm by no means obese. I mean obviously water would be better at quenching my thirst but I prefer soda/iced tea with many meals. I hate when restaurants give you cans of soda. Don't really have a point here I'm just sayin.

got damn

 

[Messofanego]

Outside of America, I've never seen 20 oz bottles, those are huge!

 

[Derrick01]

It's an extreme measure but someone has to do something if people won't take care of themselves by ingesting such a nasty poison constantly. It's either this or the government finding out a way to give every soda drinker a kidney stone which, while more expensive due to the health care hit, would at least wake up most of these people more than an outright ban would. That's what got me off of soda.

 

[MVP]

 

[Ovid]

I must say a large fountain drink at the movie theater is CRAZY big. It's beyond ridiculous. How much sugar is that thing?

 

[Manos: The Hans of Fate]

Anyone complaining about the "douchebaggery" of Bloomberg must have conveniently evacuated from their brain any traces of the last few mayors we had.

Did those Mayor's have a habit of spending taxpayer money to harass lawful commerce in neighboring states or basic constitutional rights?

 

[Pimpwerx]

Wow! Really? This sucks. I rarely drink soda, but if I want one, I get one. I prefer to go to a Walgreens or supermarket and buy a 2L instead of buying a big gulp at a fast food joint, but there are some nights when I like to hit Taco Bell and grab a large soda. Taco Bell easily has the best soda concessions of all the fast food restaurants. You get such a large order of soda for a relatively low price. This seems silly. If people want to buy fatty foods, that should be their prerogative. Oh well. Score another one for the nanny state. PEACE.

 

[Razgriz-Specter]

Going to a movie without a large oversized soda would be torture.

 

[Alebrije]

Meanwhile in Mexico :

Result :

 

[LQX]

I hardly drink soda but this is some disgusting shit. Fucking nanny state idiots.

 

[commish]

I know the mayor is trying to help but enacting such a law only hurts society. People should be able to buy what they want. Government shouldn't dictate what people want to consume.

You're many, many years too late on this front.

 

[Neuromancer]

I sympathize with aggravated New Yorkers, but this whole spectacle has been hilarious to watch. Jon Stewart is going to go ballistic.

Yep I can't wait for the next Daily Show.

 

[maxxpower]

Just buy 3 small sodas instead then.

 

[-COOLIO-]

just hearing '20 oz soda' makes me wanna barf

 

[Manos: The Hans of Fate]

Yep I can't wait for the next Daily Show.

Really? Has it been driving him nuts?

 

[out0v0rder]

cant wait for the california hippies to get jealous and try to do the same thing.

 

[Mudkips]

A losing battle, that is not being fought?

Drugs
Trans fats
Raw milk
Large sodas
etc.

Get back to me when it's not being fought.