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Banning Bottled Water Sales

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by YankeeFan, May 7, 2012.

  1. Batman

    Batman Well-Known Member

    In Ohio, if you don't have a brewski in your hand you might as well be wearing a dress.
     
  2. RickStain

    RickStain Well-Known Member

    Or wearing batting gloves.
     
  3. JR

    JR Well-Known Member

    You might want to stop treating words like they have a meaning you want them to have.

    Only a corporate shill would argue that an institution not allowing the sale of a product on their property is censorship.

    No one banned a product. No one said that if you showed up on campus with a bottle of water, you would be sent to an Evian Re-Education camp.

    Your comparison to book burning is offensive
     
  4. Stitch

    Stitch Active Member

    It helps to read the story, lest you sound like you don't have a clue as to what you are talking about.

    According to your rationale, the university not allowing hard-core porn in the campus bookstore is akin to book burning.
     
  5. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    The tap water in New York City is the absolute best. In Chicago, it's pretty good.

    In Boston, Houston, and St. Petersburg, the water tasted like shit. Had to run it through a Brita.
     
  6. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    Well, you just attributed a whole to me that I never said.

    But I turn words into what I want them to mean.
     
  7. JR

    JR Well-Known Member

    I didn't attribute anything. Try harder

    You said--and I quote, " restricting a choice to use an otherwise LEGAL product is most certainly censorship."

    You DID say that, right? Did I misquote you? Did I take your comments out of context? Uh, don't think so.

    Well, guess what?

    Institutions have the choice to determine what products they choose to sell. That does not constitute censorship any more than a bookstore making choices about the titles they choose to stock means they're discriminating against the other hundreds of thousands of titles available to them

    Consult a dictionary every so often

    You should probably stay clear of arguments that stray out of your ideological backyard because you often look foolish--like your comparable in this situation to book burning.
     
  8. dooley_womack1

    dooley_womack1 Well-Known Member

    Only because you weren't the one creaming it.
     
  9. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    I hope your house isn't a commune with a few thousand people, and there wasn't an edict that said, "No more creamed spinach for ANYONE!"

    That would totally suck for the people who do like it -- even if there are just 2 or 3.
     
  10. imjustagirl

    imjustagirl Active Member

    <3
     
  11. RickStain

    RickStain Well-Known Member

    All rules prevent someone from doing something they want to do. If nobody was going to do it, you wouldn't need the rule.
     
  12. trifectarich

    trifectarich Well-Known Member

    Water is going to be THE environmental issue of the 21st century, and everything that can be done to bring attention to the issue will help. You go, kids!
     
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