whidbey: I didn't realize your opinions were "fact."   You must be one important dude here.

Damn straight

theBigBigEye: Fark that place and fark the people who voted in and tolerate this shiat.

Tolerate?  Bloomberg is a visionary and a crusader for our children's health.  That says as much about the kind of people who oppose him.

Bloomberg is an idiot just like his buddy Handy Andy Cuomo. They both have God complexes.

When will he ban 5 lb bags of sugar?

Only thing I saw in the article:

Hurr Bloomberg's gonna have to pry my cold dead fingers from my bottle of Mt Dew, motherf*cker
HURRRR DOOORRRP

oMaJoJ: Just because your "ideological oppenents" are against this does not excuse the fact that this is a terrible, overreaching law that needs to be stopped and that Bloomberg is still and will forever be a massive condenscending, nannying Masshole.

No. It is just more butthurt from the continuously butthurt. Do  you live in New York? Do you sell soft drink syrup? These people are my ideological opponents because they are on the wrong side of EVERY issue that really does matter.

whidbey: Hurr Bloomberg's gonna have to pry my cold dead fingers from my bottle of Mt Dew, motherf*cker
HURRRR DOOORRRP

fark that, I don't need Michael Bloomberg to treat me like a child.

oMaJoJ: fark that, I don't need Michael Bloomberg to treat me like a child.

Then stop eating/drinking like one.

Convenience stores are exempt from the ban.

I don't know why they reference Big Gulps at all.

oMaJoJ: whidbey: Hurr Bloomberg's gonna have to pry my cold dead fingers from my bottle of Mt Dew, motherf*cker
HURRRR DOOORRRP

fark that, I don't need Michael Bloomberg to treat me like a child.

You're already acting like one.   Your "need" for junk food is trumped by the fact that it's a big reason why our health care costs are so high in this country.  And you're clearly not seeing that.

this is why you don't vote democrat. Those morons will never stop.

BeSerious: Convenience stores are exempt from the ban.

I don't know why they reference Big Gulps at all.

With any luck this is just a start.  Once we get these things out of convenient marts and grocery stores, we can move on to fast food.

RexTalionis: [i2.asntown.net image 800x479]

Oh man...thanks for yet another image that I will never be able to burn from my memory. Goddamnit.

you know how much more money coke is going to make by "having to" sell you a six pack instead of a two litre?  Sounds like a scam to me.

hideous: you know how much more money coke is going to make by "having to" sell you a six pack instead of a two litre?  Sounds like a scam to me.

This...<puffs on a cigarette >...follow the money.

SpdrJay: You little froggies feeling that water getting warmer yet?

Because taking measures to civilize society is akin to slowly boiling a frog in water.

Your logic.  It amazes.

HarleyMarlboro: I understand why he's banning Big Gulps, since those are intended to be one serving.  (I don't agree, but I understand)

I don't understand this.  A 2 liter has a little over 8 servings.  What's next, no one can buy more than one 16oz bottle at a time, because they might drink more than one?

Do people realize that the NY Post is a troll newspaper? This is basically like yelling "DEATH PANELS!" every time we talk about Obamacare. People want to complain about "Nanny" Bloomberg, so they re-interpret the law into something that victimizes them. Has anybody gotten in trouble over the things the article talks about? No? You people eat it up with a spoon, it's sad.

GUTSU: whidbey: oMaJoJ: whidbey: Hurr Bloomberg's gonna have to pry my cold dead fingers from my bottle of Mt Dew, motherf*cker
HURRRR DOOORRRP

fark that, I don't need Michael Bloomberg to treat me like a child.

You're already acting like one.   Your "need" for junk food is trumped by the fact that it's a big reason why our health care costs are so high in this country.  And you're clearly not seeing that.

fark individual freedoms! Any action that doesn't benefit the collective most be purged! Proletarii vskh stan, soyedinyaytes!

Thanks for proving my point. :)

computerguyUT: Hahahahhahah....New York now officially deserves their own tag.  they're as retarded as Florida any more..

Florida has their own tag because of all the Douche NY transplants who spend more time whining about Florida than doing anything productive

You would be surprised how many NY transplants in FL who are shocked that they have to work while on the job....and hate that they cannot go randomly mug people because we have non criminals with guns that will shoot to defend.

NExD: this is why you don't vote democrat. Those morons will never stop.

Seems a lot more moronic to me to buy some overpriced corn syrup water from a pizza place, but I guess that's just me.  And a lot of other reasonable people who aren't posting in here.

SpdrJay: You little froggies feeling that water getting warmer yet?



Your jib - I like the cut of it.

Go be fat somewhere else.

DrPainMD: Brick-House: What gives this blooming idiot the authority to do this?

Americans have decided, by voting for Democrats and Republicans, that there is no limit to the power of government. None.

...and?

Will some intern please give this guy a blowjob; cigars optional.

Captain Couscous: L.D. Ablo: Yet another reason why Los Angeles is better.

No it's not. Horsemeat and foie gras are banned in California.

clane:
But you still have your plastic bag law... that might trump the coke law...

Lots of good derp here

Bloomberg is getting kickbacks somehow, even though he's a billionaire

That's what you get for voting for a democrat, even though he's an independant

I'll never visit NY because of this, who cares?  NY won't miss you and you're a child if you can't drink a sixteen ounce soda for a few days of sight seeing

LA is better, nope urban sprawl surrounded by better cities isn't better than NYC

/Still stupid

GUTSU: MNguy: Go be fat somewhere else.

Translation: "It's okay to make things illegal that I don't enjoy, why are you all complaining just because an out of touch billionaire is deciding what you can drink, eat, and live your lives?"

I smoke, and I pay a farkload of taxes.  Welcome to my world.

RexTalionis: [i2.asntown.net image 800x479]

Goofus greedily guzzles both 2 liter bottles of Coke.
Gallant is content drinking a single 16 oz bottle of ranch.

jenlen: The only question that comes to mind here is why New Yorkers keep voting this Mussolini-wannabe tinpot dictator in as mayor?

Oh, and nice to see Fark's favorite Statist Pothead Authoritarian Fan weighing in on Bloomies side.

You can still get your coke, you know.

They're getting the government they deserve.

Can we build a wall around NYC and empty all the countrys prisons inside the wall?

GUTSU:
I'm not overweight but I think I should be able to go down to my local convenience store and buy a thousand 2-liters if I wanted too. I also think you should be able to smoke where ever the fark you want, I also think you should visit an Indian reservation. Seriously, tax free smokes.

If someone is doing something that harms the public good, reasonable restrictions on that behavior are fine with me. I'm happy to pay my fair share of taxes.  Well, not happy, but I do anyway.

MNguy: If someone is doing something that harms the public good, reasonable restrictions on that behavior are fine with me. I'm happy to pay my fair share of taxes. Well, not happy, but I do anyway.

Think of the poutrage that will follow a ban on the poison we call "fast food".

Oldiron_79: Can we build a wall around NYC and empty all the countrys prisons inside the wall?

I have chandeliers on my car, can I come?

Mrbogey: Silverstaff: Until Lord Bloomberg decides to regulate that too.

Maybe regulate pizza sizes, maybe ban people from eating more than a certain amount of food per meal.

Well for a long time there's been a loophole. People go to food markets and they get whatever they want with no supervision of whether or not it's healthy. Sure, we can put on the side of a 20oz bottle of soda that it's 2 servings and hope the person divides it up between two meals but there's no real way to enforce it. So what we have to do is close the bulk food loophole and make every item sold one serving. That way a person will have to consciously decide to eat twice as much food as they should.

Every year fatties cost America billions in healthcare costs. Since this is paid for by the taxpayers it's only fair that taxpayers work to end their subsidization of these free riding fatties.

/parody

or prophecy?

whizbangthedirtfarmer: Meh, I can't imagine that folks would want to pay out the arse for a 2-liter with soda anyway.  Here, they charge something like 3 or 4 bucks; I can walk down the street and get a 2-liter at the grocery store for 1.25.

And you can buy a frozen pizza at the grocery store for $4 so why would anyone want to pay $25 to have one delivered? Oh wait, maybe because it's conveniently cooked and ready to eat, and maybe they figure paying an extra buck or two for a 2 liter is worth the convenience of having it delivered to them along with their meal.

GUTSU: I'm also not even going to bother replying to GoldSpider since he has a major hard on for telling other people how to live, and if his nose was any further up Bloomberg's ass his shoes would be the only thing visible.

It's discouraging that my temporary caricature of a metropolitan statist went completely unchallenged by more reasonable liberals here.