Poll of the Day > Not to get political guys, but what the fuck is up with american fanta?

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https://imgur.com/ILra0i4

Is it orange because its dehydrated piss, or because it has no actual fruit in it?

also thats not my picture so don't think "hurrdurr i can finally see kimbos reflection"

Its orange because its orange flavored.

Is it orange because its dehydrated piss, or because it has no actual fruit in it?

yellow 6 and red 40

Red + Yellow = Orange

FrozenBananas posted...

Its orange because its orange flavored.

orange juice is yellow.

Kimbos_Egg posted...

orange juice is yellow.

But orange flavour is orange.

screw the toxic american color wtf is up with the stupid foreign bottle

Nade_Duck posted...

screw the toxic american color wtf is up with the stupid foreign bottle

its german, they're always like that

Kimbos_Egg posted...

its german, they're always like that

German soda bottles look like bombs?

That is a bit sus...

Dikitain posted...

German soda bottles look like bombs?

That is a bit sus...

well it used to be a swastika, but they've gone all "woke" and "pc" now.

Also this is obviously a joke i don't really think getting rid of swastikas is woke >_>

to be fair getting rid of swastikas is probably about as woke as you can get.

Nade_Duck posted...

to be fair getting rid of swastikas is probably about as woke as you can get.

Its kinda ironic too, seeing as nazi germany and their lack of coke is the reason we have fanta.

Nade_Duck posted...

to be fair getting rid of swastikas is probably about as woke as you can get.

I, for one, applaud the wokification of Nazi Germany.

Nade_Duck posted...

to be fair getting rid of swastikas is probably about as woke as you can get.

I mean, it is a symbol of peace and prosperity in Hindu...

But I doubt that is the first thing that pops into people's heads when they see it.

Yeah, that's a symbol that nobody's really in a rush to reclaim.

adjl posted...

Yeah, that's a symbol that nobody's really in a rush to reclaim.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_Cafe

That's not really reclamation, given that it was used in that context specifically as Nazi symbolism.

Kimbos_Egg posted...

Its kinda ironic too, seeing as nazi germany and their lack of coke is the reason we have fanta

Was literally coming into this topic to point this out.



adjl posted...

Yeah, that's a symbol that nobody's really in a rush to reclaim.

Debatable. There's a fair few Asians who still use it in its original religious context and get a bit pissy when people complain about it. Sort of a "I think our thousands of years of symbolic meaning outweigh what those German assholes did with it" attitude.

It's mostly Westerners who get uptight about it (for obvious reasons).

It'll actually be interesting to see what happens with it over the next few centuries, honestly. It's still a raw wound in the West because it's relatively recent, but time has a way of erasing all context and wariness.

Or to put it another way, the atrocities of the previous century are always going to sting a lot worse than atrocities from more than a millennium ago. Most people today don't really give much of a shit what the Romans were up to or who they were killing. Or the ancient Greeks. Or... etc etc.

I think we're already getting to the point where WWII is barely "real" to most of the younger generations. A few more generations and we might see a shift in how things are perceived overall.

Well, "we" won't see it. We'll all be dead. But you know what I mean.

This may be an unpopular take but the bottle that's narrow in the middle is concerning me more that the color.

SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

This may be an unpopular take but the bottle that's narrow in the middle is concerning me more that the color.

shrinkflation

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Debatable. There's a fair few Asians who still use it in its original religious context and get a bit pissy when people complain about it. Sort of a "I think our thousands of years of symbolic meaning outweigh what those German a******s did with it" attitude.

It's mostly Westerners who get uptight about it (for obvious reasons).

This is true. Arguably that's not so much reclamation as it is rejecting the Nazis' efforts to despoil it, but it is nonetheless an effort to use it in a non-Nazi fashion.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

It'll actually be interesting to see what happens with it over the next few centuries, honestly. It's still a raw wound in the West because it's relatively recent, but time has a way of erasing all context and wariness.
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I think we're already getting to the point where WWII is barely "real" to most of the younger generations. A few more generations and we might see a shift in how things are perceived overall.

WWII is indeed far enough away now to start being more of a hypothetical idea than a real event (at least for younger people that have never encountered a WWII veteran, which I think is the strongest tie we can have to a historical event without actually being there), but I don't know that the swastika has lost any of its Naziliciousness for the passage of that time. Mostly, I'd attribute that to the fact that neo-Nazi groups still exist and use the symbol to represent the same ideology, so swastika=Nazis is also a present-day observation and not just history. Until Nazism goes away entirely (and that's likely to be a couple centuries, if ever), I don't think we're going to get to a point where Western people think of anything other than Nazis first when a swastka shows up.

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