No Coke.Pepsi

Does India need Coke or Pepsi or can they be persuaded that they do? So how much money are they going to have to spend in India to persuade them that they do? Is India persuadable about this?

The probable answers are No, Maybe, Lots and Maybe.

Better than communism, no doubt about that, but it does seem like a pointless waste of time and money over carbonated, colored, flavored and sugared or aspertamed water.

Well if a 39 year old ponytailed college dropout says it's true then it must be true.
I am willing to bet that a study done regarding men with ponytails would not be very flattering to men with ponytails. The term loser comes to mind.
I have no interest in the actual story because I could give a fuck about India, but I thought I'd throw a shot at any of you ponytailed freaks out there.

Yea! tell that fuckin' hippie he's messin' with capitalism!Who cares if people are being lied to and hurt? Some American corporation is making a buck off it.Hell American corps. do it to Americans all the time.Anybody whos against makin' a quick buck off of anothers suffering is just a pillowbitin',godless commie!

I would like to hear more about this before jumping to any conclusions. We have a knee-jerk reaction to assume that anytime a large american corporation is accused of wrongdoing, that it's automatically true. While it often is true, that's not good enough for me. And Chairborne, that was hilarious, but how do you know the guy has a ponytail? I didn't see that anywhere.

Chairborne is just jealous about ponytails. He hasn't had hair since the agent orange ate it.

No doubt that corporations exploit the cheap labor and lax regualtions in India. But India's problems with pollution are hardly Coca-Cola's creation. This guy is trying to make a name for himself by latching on to a bigger name and fashionable scapegoat.

Jim

Joe,
Here it is...

," the pony-tailed, 39-year-old college dropout told dozens of students at Smith College in Northampton, Mass. "That is the story of Coca-Cola in India."

Northguy, my father was in viet nam, not me. Besides, even when men lose their hair it is usually on top, so there is still an opportunity to do the ponytail...Think "Arrested Developement's Jeffery Tambor".

Did I offend you Northguy? Do you happen to have a ponytail?

Better a Coke plant than Union Carbide.

-Apu's cousin in Bhopal

Take Coke and Pepsi out of India and what do you have left? Dozens of local soft drink manufacturers, selling sugared, flavored and carbonated water.

The big, evil American capitalists didn't disrupt some pristine natural balance by offering the wogs a Coke. The fact is that people like the stuff, and in many poor parts of the world it's at least something clean to drink.

Wogs? They've got your job. Take a few minutes, I can see you've got the time, and read the whole story. Most of the accusations seem wild, but Coke stubbed their toe too.

So now we know where all the water is going .Damn free market corporations , we need to print more articles about all these natural resources being used up , especially the ice caps in the arctic , blue bunny ice cream has to be the capitalist culprit there , the penquins are going to revolt . Does this mean that home depot and lowes will be a culprit for selling garden soil , top soil , damned land grabbers !
Damn , they must be selling alot of Coke to drain rivers over there . Let's give them water from the euphrates , bottle it first , make a quick buck .

I do not appreciate you filthy americans making fun of my country and giving us your sweet poison to drink.

You dare call us wogs? You dogs. You make fun of Amit, calling him pony-tailed dropout and loser? He is better than you or your children will ever be. He does not need to attend your lousy schools. We are too bright to need to go to school to learn your ways of thinking.

Ranveer
Mumbai, India

Ranveer:

"We are too bright to need to go to school to learn your ways of thinking."

That's why there are so many of you here hey??!!

By the way....what's a WOB??

In Wisconsin

Sorry, meant WOG.

Ranveer - One guy used the word "wog". Most Americans have no idea what the that word even means. I believe its a British term. But you referred to us all as "filthy americans" and then stooped lower by mentioning peoples' children.

There are over a billion Indians. I won't judge them all by your ignorance even if you can't extend us the same courtesy.

Jim

Wog is a British term that comes from their Indian Empire days of the late 19th century. It stands for westernised oriental gentleman and may have originally been just a descriptive term for an Indian educated in England but later became a racist one applied to any Indian and anybody else from Asia or the Middle East. Fuzzy-wuzzies was their equivalent for blacks in Africa. This sort of thing seems inevitable when advanced cultures get involved with less advanced ones. Americans calling the Vietnamese gooks and the Iraqis and other Arabs sand niggers is the same thing.

Brit Man in the USA.

Brit Man:

Thanks for the explaination.

I am sorry I just included children in my comment on filthy americans. I should also have included your women.

White American women are filthy and carriers of STDs. They can not compare to our women. Your girls start sex when they are 12, 13. You raise prostitutes. You do not understand what a joke you people are in my country.

And then you have the gall to talk about not finding anything pure to drink in India other than Coke? Even our cows' urine is more pure than your drinks.

Ranveer
Mumbai, India

Ranveer-
Um, let's see...how do you say, um

FUCK OFF.

Rudolph the red nosed Ranveer,

We are too bright to need to go to school to learn your ways of thinking.

One of Spud's favorite "fun facts" about India is that at the onset of the aids epidemic, the official line of the Indian government on the subject was that "Indians are too moral to need to act on this new information". Which meant no public education on the subject which in turn led to massive rates of infection that continued to rise until today, where the Indian aids crisis is now second only to Africa where it's so prevalant it's scary.

...but Coca Cola is the BIG problem!

Riiiiiiiiiiiiigghht

Ignorance aint Bliss.
Wot cha don't know CAN hurt you.
Sometimes the light at the end of the tunnel is an oncoming train.

Be Well.

AIDS only effects low caste people so whatever you say is rubbish.

But really, you should show more respect to people who are better than you. We are a true democracy and have a higher standard of living and have better moral values. No Indian would even spit on your country.

And FUCK YOU too. Fuck you and your prostitute women and prostitute children and your Coke and your burgers.

Ranveer
Mumbai, India

Ranveer-
Man, I'm impressed. Not so much for the content, but the persistence is admirable.

Again -- Fuck off.

Later all.

That's it Ranveer....Now you really pissed me off! Say what you like about me. Say what you like about my children. But when you start picking on the Coke and Burgers you have gone waaayyy to far!!

I'm reporting you to, uh, hmmm...SOMEBODY! Nobody says "Fuck you" to our Coke and Burgers and gets away with it!!

I can understand why RANVEER says "F@!# Your Burgers" (considering the sacred cow and all that) but COKE?

And incidentally, the last time an Indian took his vacation at the resort where I work, he was trying to screw everything in site. He was especially interested in blondes. We kicked his skinny ass off the grounds.

So much for "better moral values."

Twinpac

Meant "sight." Hmmmm . . . usually more better than that. LOL