[TheCelestialOne]

http://www.cnn.com/2003/EDUCATION/08/22/sprj.sch.soda.ban.ap/index.html

[Warlock]

Yet one more example of the Government taking over a parent's job.  I can 'almost' see the reasoning for this at the Elemnetry level,...but Jr High ? ? Personally I'd have been pissed if I couldn't decide wtf to drink at 14 or so.

[Grey Wolf]

Can't be as stupid as my school, even though I haven't read the article yet. It's a high school, and has soda, drink, and snack machines, but they turn the bloody soda machines off during the day, and the snack machines off during lunch. Morons.

[Knight Templar]

Actually, I never really thought of soda machines in Elm. Schools. Seems kinda weird. But that was one of the 'big things' from going to 6th to 7th grade, getting a soda machine at out school


... not that it was ever stocked

[mikhael]

I'm all for this. Why?

1. You're all a bunch of fat lazy lardasses. So am I, but I'm 30. Its expected.

2. The last place corporate advertising should be is in a public school. That's all soda machines are: product placement to get impressionable young minds to consider soda a viable beverage for day to day drinking.

Of course, while I advocate removing soda and junk food from schools, I also advocate lowering the drinking age to 16 or 18, so take my opinion for what its worth.

[diamondgeezer]

Originally posted by mikhael
You're all a bunch of fat lazy lardasses.

Bagsy I'm not

[Krackers87]

i think its more of an example of people with to much time on their hands.

edit: if they wanna ban stuff they need to ban all those little debbie ****s, like zebra cakes and double choco sponge cake, and honey buns and skittles and M&M's and Starburst (compressed and colred sugar)

the list goes on..

[diamondgeezer]

On the subject of Starburst: why the Brits are superior to the Merkins

[Krackers87]

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[Woolie Wool]

Some Californians want to secede from the US. Well go ahead. The nation will be better without California.

Californication

That's a good one.

[diamondgeezer]

Ye gods Woolie, do you mean to tell me you don't have the Californication CD?

[Woolie Wool]

WTF is that?

[diamondgeezer]

How can you possibly have not at least heard of Californication? It was a stupidly good album. Chili Peppers pwn j00.

You never cease to astound me, Woolie.

[Woolie Wool]

Almost every song in my collection was made before 1980. MTV raped popular music so badly that it's all a load of crap now.

Speaking of MTV, whoever does those "Talking Baby" MTV ads should be institutionalized.

[Knight Templar]

Woolie, you wouldn't happen to be from say.. Alabama, would you?

Not owning Californication should be a crime.

[diamondgeezer]

The talking baby thing worked for Del Amitri

[Kamikaze]

My 8th grade english teacher once talked about the topic. A few years back he and a few other teachers went about creating a "healthy lunch" plan, which would rid of soda, extravagantly sweet stuff, and replace it with their healthy counterparts (or something like that). He took the plan up to some specialist people in the administration for evaluation, and they said "NO".

The reason is, because the school needs money to function. Apparently soda profits are an integral part of a school's funds. Sure, the school may value students' health, but to improve on that would mean a decrease in funds, which means an inferior learning environment (although I'm puzzled what the administration people meant, did they think that students wouldn't eat/drink the healthy stuff? (that would decrease funds) Or does soda get more profit?). An unfortunate conclusion.