I will gladly pay you £5 tomorrow for a hamburger today, or...

[The Good Reverend Roger]

The 1.25L bottles go flat fast.  If you live by yourself and only drink soda on occasion, the smaller but more expensive bottle is the better bet.  Flat soda sucks balls.

But... they're cheaper. Even if you only drink the same amount of soda as is in the smaller bottle, it's still a better deal.
Unless they go flat in the time it usually takes you to drink 500ml?

Drink faster.

Then you can belch the entire song "God Save the Queen".

[Luna]

The 1.25L bottles go flat fast.  If you live by yourself and only drink soda on occasion, the smaller but more expensive bottle is the better bet.  Flat soda sucks balls.

But... they're cheaper. Even if you only drink the same amount of soda as is in the smaller bottle, it's still a better deal.
Unless they go flat in the time it usually takes you to drink 500ml?

These ARE teenagers.  If they take long enough to drink a large bottle of soda for it to go flat, I'd be worried about them.

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The 1.25L bottles go flat fast.  If you live by yourself and only drink soda on occasion, the smaller but more expensive bottle is the better bet.  Flat soda sucks balls.

But... they're cheaper. Even if you only drink the same amount of soda as is in the smaller bottle, it's still a better deal.
Unless they go flat in the time it usually takes you to drink 500ml?

The bourgeois don't know how to drink soda. They also don't know how to walk to the store. That's where you went wrong.

This "ml" and "500" integer that you talk about are also foreign to them, perhaps you could speak in terms of "how big does the bottle appear to be?". And, "how far does it seem to be away from my pie-hole?"

[trippinprincezz13]

The 1.25L bottles go flat fast.  If you live by yourself and only drink soda on occasion, the smaller but more expensive bottle is the better bet.  Flat soda sucks balls.

But... they're cheaper. Even if you only drink the same amount of soda as is in the smaller bottle, it's still a better deal.
Unless they go flat in the time it usually takes you to drink 500ml?

This. Along with the fact that I'd probably drink the flat soda anyway rather than dump it out and there probably wouldn't be much left anyway.

[Telarus]

But the one in the building is actually much harder to get to.  You're using the lift to go down anyway, it takes an extra second to hit the bottom floor, then walk straight out.

Whereas the vending machine is in a common room, which is situated almost equal walking distance away and requires two additional security checks to get past.

But if they walk out the front door, chances are they'd forget what they'd gone out for, RIGHT?

[Dysfunctional Cunt]

I bring in a 2 liter bottle every Monday to work for the week.  It still has fizz on Friday.  I am not going to pay a dollar every day for a soda when I can get a 2 liter for 79 cents. 

[Luna]

I bring in a 2 liter bottle every Monday to work for the week.  It still has fizz on Friday.  I am not going to pay a dollar every day for a soda when I can get a 2 liter for 79 cents. 

Wait... You still have soda by Friday?   

[Triple Zero]

2L / 5 days = 400ml per day = 2 maybe 3 glasses per day. I don't buy cola very often but when I do, it doesn't last me that long

[Dysfunctional Cunt]

I bring in a 2 liter bottle every Monday to work for the week.  It still has fizz on Friday.  I am not going to pay a dollar every day for a soda when I can get a 2 liter for 79 cents. 

Wait... You still have soda by Friday?   

2L / 5 days = 400ml per day = 2 maybe 3 glasses per day. I don't buy cola very often but when I do, it doesn't last me that long

I pour a cup to go with my lunch, sometimes it is my lunch HA HA.  But yeah, I'm back to drinking coffee all day again, I only do the soda for something cold to go with my sammich at lunch.

I used to drink a 2 liter a day, had to stop that shit.  I make it last.

[AFK]

Apparently, Americans have been buying less cola over the past decade.

http://bottomline.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/09/9251474-americas-favorite-sodas-americans-are-losing-their-taste-for

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Apparently, Americans have been buying less cola over the past decade.

http://bottomline.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/09/9251474-americas-favorite-sodas-americans-are-losing-their-taste-for

Yeah I don't drink it very often at all anymore.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Every once in a while, I like to have a Coke. Usually a Mexican Coke from Don Pancho.

[Eater of Clowns]

I wonder just how much of an effect the enormous market for energy drinks can account for the decrease in cola sales.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

They're owned by the same people anyway, arent they?

Secret for keeping those 2 liter bottles from going flat: Squeeze until the soda's up in the neck, then cap tightly. Less exposed suface = less fizz leakage.

I don't drink it any more either, though. It makes you fat as fuck.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

I wonder just how much of an effect the enormous market for energy drinks can account for the decrease in cola sales.

Probably quite a bit. I don't like those much either though. I'm not as big on sweet tasting stuff as I used to be.

Honestly, the most common things I drink are coffee (nature's energy drink!), water, beer, and whiskey. Anything else is an infrequent thing.