Community residents outraged over '40 Ounce' water bottle

[UglyCasanova]

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/com...esembles-malt-liquor-offensive-021257955.html

An activist group in Brooklyn, N.Y., has demanded that a brand of water be taken off their local market’s shelves, claiming that its packaging, which resembles a bottle of malt liquor, is “detrimental to the community.”

Ounce Water, founded in 2015 by “Sons of Anarchy” star Theo Rossi and his wife Meghan McDermott, has found itself at the center of the controversy in Canarsie after a neighbor went into Food World Supermarket to discover its problematic packaging. According to co-founder McDermott, it’s part of a strategy to make “hydration easy” by packaging water in the well-known 40-ounce design.

Outraged I tell ya! 2019 has been pretty fun thus far. I wish I had enough time and energy to get all bent out of shape about stuff like this.

 

[woolfe9998]

You didn't mention what they were outraged about. I thought it might have been an environmental objection based on the large amount of plastic, but I had to read the article see that wasn't the case.

Anyway, yeah, the outrage seems ridiculous. If the black community has bad history with malt liquor, I don't see why turning that around into something healthy is a bad thing.

 

[balloonshark]

They should be outraged that we can't get safe, clean, tasty, and affordable water from our own damn homes.

 

[UglyCasanova]

You didn't mention what they were outraged about. I thought it might have been an environmental objection based on the large amount of plastic, but I had to read the article see that wasn't the case.

Anyway, yeah, the outrage seems ridiculous. If the black community has bad history with malt liquor, I don't see why turning that around into something healthy is a bad thing.

It was in the first sentence of the OP

claiming that its packaging, which resembles a bottle of malt liquor, is “detrimental to the community.”​

 

[realibrad]

You didn't mention what they were outraged about. I thought it might have been an environmental objection based on the large amount of plastic, but I had to read the article see that wasn't the case.

Anyway, yeah, the outrage seems ridiculous. If the black community has bad history with malt liquor, I don't see why turning that around into something healthy is a bad thing.

He did. He said that it was because it looked like liquor.

 

[Blackjack200]

You didn't mention what they were outraged about. I thought it might have been an environmental objection based on the large amount of plastic, but I had to read the article see that wasn't the case.

Anyway, yeah, the outrage seems ridiculous. If the black community has bad history with malt liquor, I don't see why turning that around into something healthy is a bad thing.

Remember the bubble gum cigarettes?

 

[Victorian Gray]

As is often the case a somewhat complex issue gets reduced to click-bait.

Enjoy your 'concerns'.

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

If a clear plastic bottle with the number "40" on it triggers you then you have some severe cognitive issues. Fucking morons.

 

[Greenman]

As is often the case a somewhat complex issue gets reduced to click-bait.

Enjoy your 'concerns'.

It ain't complex, it's stupid. Stupid people angry over a stupid marketing ploy. A stupid reporter that thinks stupid squared equals a good story to be used as stupid filler for a stupid click bait website.

I've lost three IQ points just responding to this stupid shit.

 

[whm1974]

It ain't complex, it's stupid. Stupid people angry over a stupid marketing ploy. A stupid reporter that thinks stupid squared equals a good story to be used as stupid filler for a stupid click bait website.

I've lost three IQ points just responding to this stupid shit.

I wonder if the outraged folks will get even more outraged if the Reporter called them out on it? Or better yet, start pointing out far more important things they should be outraged about, but aren't.

 

[Victorian Gray]

It ain't complex, it's stupid. Stupid people angry over a stupid marketing ploy. A stupid reporter that thinks stupid squared equals a good story to be used as stupid filler for a stupid click bait website.

I've lost three IQ points just responding to this stupid shit.

That's it, revel in it.

 

[realibrad]

That's it, revel in it.

If his post is him reveling it in, what is your post? What does it make you when you follow the followers that you look down upon?

 

[ivwshane]

If his post is him reveling it in, what is your post? What does it make you when you follow the followers that you look down upon?

A quibbler?

 

[darkswordsman17]

That's silly but so is trying to carve out a niche in bottled water by aping malt liquor packaging.

 

[ch33zw1z]

Sounds like free speech and free market at work.

 

[Victorian Gray]

If his post is him reveling it in, what is your post? What does it make you when you follow the followers that you look down upon?

Quibbles 'n bits

 

[Greenman]

That's silly but so is trying to carve out a niche in bottled water by aping malt liquor packaging.

Boobs would have been the way to go.

 

[ch33zw1z]

Out of curiosity, anyone here drink 80 ounces of water per day?

 

[UglyCasanova]

I probably do. Is that the recommended amount?

 

[UglyCasanova]

Boobs would have been the way to go.

A bottle with a vagina at the bottom and maybe even put some sort of soft material on it so it could double as a water bottle and fleshlight.

 

[ch33zw1z]

I probably do. Is that the recommended amount?

It's what the ounce company sets as a goal, hence the 20 and 40 ounce containers, cuz math is hard. It's in the article.

Fwiw, I drink between 70-100 oz

 

[UglyCasanova]

What is that in terms of glasses?

 

[pmv]

It ain't complex, it's stupid. Stupid people angry over a stupid marketing ploy. A stupid reporter that thinks stupid squared equals a good story to be used as stupid filler for a stupid click bait website.

I've lost three IQ points just responding to this stupid shit.

You forgot to add...'obsessive curator of stories about outrage fails to overcome compulsion to add it to his collection of concern about outrage'.

I dunno about the story - bottled water is environmentally damaging anyway. But people who have problems with addiction or know addicts or who have just 'seen the light' and kicked a habit can often get super-sensitive about the substance in question. I suppose it's a relative of 'the zealotry of the convert'. It will probably always be that way.

 

[FirNaTine]

What is that in terms of glasses?

They would be 10 standard 8 ounce cups, or roughly 4-5 red Solo cups.

And I'm usually closer to 1 gallon on days I'm working, and up to 2-2.5 gallons/day if I'm teaching (firefighting) in hot weather.

I'd actually be interested in some of their big bottles of water for my cooler for afterwards, but usually stick to 8-16 ounce servings at a time while teaching. Otherwise it gets heavy in your stomach and you feel sick.

But, anyway at the end of the day, this person got what they wanted, very cheap name exposure.

 

[HomerJS]

Seems silly to start a thread about a topic the OP considers silly.

Or maybe the OP gets to show fake concern while he points out black people being ridiculous.