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spidey07 said:
I don't have a facepalm big enough to respond to this. You do know the difference between genocide and suicide, right? I know you do.
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Apparently, you missed the idea that because a tragedy happened before most posters here were alive, it's no longer relevant. Don't make me send you back to remedial reading.
 
spidey07 said:
I don't have a facepalm big enough to respond to this. You do know the difference between genocide and suicide, right? I know you do.
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You do know that not all of the people in Jonestown willingly commited suicide don't you?
 
spidey07 said:
The phrase has been around for a long time and it's roots are vested directly to that event. "drink the cool-aid" means one is so enamored by something that it may not be good for them or that by drinking it one has lost better judgment.

It's a perfect fit for food that is so good, you know it's bad for you, and yet you want it. It's marketing brilliance IMHO. That a scant few people would be upset is a reflection on just how pussified we've become. That those few scant people could cause this kind of reaction in a free society is even more troublesome.
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yea dude making fun of people brainwashed into a cult to commit suicide and murdered is so fucking funny!!! i guess you find the dead babies at the compound hilarious as well.

you disgust me.
 
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MagnusTheBrewer said:
Apparently, you missed the idea that because a tragedy happened before most posters here were alive, it's no longer relevant. Don't make me send you back to remedial reading.
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I see you have drank the kool-aid as well. WTF is wrong with you people.
 
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cardiac said:
I dang near drove off the road laughing when I saw this billboard. There is one about 7 miles from my house. Hacienda is a decent restaurant, too.....
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If I bothered with paypal, I'd send you $10 so you could go have one of those drinks just cause the ad is funny.
 
Eli said:
1978? Too soon? lol.

"Drink the kool-aid" has become a pop culture saying. The billboard is amusing, and not out of line.
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It's somewhat ironic that people use that saying, because those employing it are guilty of the same, i.e. not checking the facts and just believing what they're told.

Why? Because the majority of people in Jonestown didn't drink Kool-aid. They drank Flavor-aid.
 
They should drink some more Haterade. Don't eat at the restaurant then and tell your friends. Whining and bitching to have it taken down because you personally are offended requires such hubris.
 
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hahaha...this is one of the comments:

This article brings back a lot of bad memories for me. Luckily I was a newborn at the time of the 1978 Jonestown cult massacre. But I do have a personal attachment to it. My father was actually lured into this cult, which in turn caused my Mother to file for divorce. She was pregnant at the time and we moved to Carmel, Indiana, where I was born. I'll try to keep this as short as possible but I wanted to let everyone know that billboards like this do strike a nerve in certain people. I hope you can understand that. The funny thing is, I work as a Marketing Director for Kool Aid now. I guess I was kind of born into it. I loved drinking Kool Aid as a kid, (My family jokes that the first words out of my mouth were OH YEAH, like the Kool Aid guy) haha. When I really think about it, it gets down right creepy how much Kool Aid has influenced my life. During the mid 80's my Mom and I moved from Indiana to the San Fernando Valley in California. The economy was in tought times, so my mom turned to the one business that was booming at the time. Porn. She wasn't in porn, but worked as a secretary to the director. I used to go into her office and drink a lot of Kool Aid, they always called the "The Kool Aid Kid" Seeing that my tounge was turned blue from drinking the blue kool aid one day, the director got an idea to make a smurf porn. He had the male actor drink a bunch of my kool aid before performing mouth pleasure on the actress. I still recieve royalties on that movie for my part in it. I can be found in the credits under "creative influences" I think eveyone should go grab some kool aid today. And hopefully, it can influence your life as much as mine.
 
MrDudeMan said:
The billboard isn't really that funny. It is on the border of what would be considered socially acceptable. I'm not offended but it was tasteless.
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This.

It's one thing to make jokes about drinking the koolaid as it has become a generic for going with the masses. But then refer to a cult and the 'To die for' tagline point directly to the Jonestown tragedy. All to sell drinks?

Yes, tasteless.
 
I would really like to know what it is like to be "offended" by something. I don't even think that is a real emotion/feeling.

There should be studies on this.
 
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