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What's a 'Pepsi challenge'.
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I recall a series of commercials with this very thing featuring Sammy Sosa, who is a former Chicago Cubs (baseball) team member from the Dominican Republic.
The idea is that Sammy Sosa invites you to "take the Pepsi Challenge." Participants are presented with Pepsi and Coca-Cola without being told which is which. The "challenge" is to try both beverages and not select Pepsi as the superior tasting choice.
Naturally, it's part of an ad campaign for Pepsi, their point being that anyone who is anyone will choose Pepsi over Coca-Cola every time because it just tastes better.
I guess people use the phrase to make a point about a choice between two things being obvious even if one does not know which is which. Like if I tell somebody to listen to Radiohead vs. Coldplay songs without telling them who the songs are by in order to make a point about one being objectively more pleasurable than the other.
The idea is that Sammy Sosa invites you to "take the Pepsi Challenge." Participants are presented with Pepsi and Coca-Cola without being told which is which. The "challenge" is to try both beverages and not select Pepsi as the superior tasting choice.
Naturally, it's part of an ad campaign for Pepsi, their point being that anyone who is anyone will choose Pepsi over Coca-Cola every time because it just tastes better.
I guess people use the phrase to make a point about a choice between two things being obvious even if one does not know which is which. Like if I tell somebody to listen to Radiohead vs. Coldplay songs without telling them who the songs are by in order to make a point about one being objectively more pleasurable than the other.
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I believe that somewhat iconic ad campaign began sometime in the 1980s and that the ad you remember starring Sammy Sosa was probably part of a more-recent effort to capture the attention of younger customers by featuring a popular celebrity and using a once-successful slogan (with the hopes that it would still resonate with a younger demographic). And obviously, Pepsi also hoped to reconnect with older viewers who remembered the old commercials, with some nostalgic appeal in it for them perhaps.
I might be wrong about all this but you know this sort of thing happens on a regular basis in advertising.
I might be wrong about all this but you know this sort of thing happens on a regular basis in advertising.
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This is one motherfucking educational thread.
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Wikipedia wrote:The challenge originally took the form of a taste test. At malls, shopping centers and other public locations, a Pepsi representative sets up a table with two blank cups: one containing Pepsi and one with Coca-Cola. Shoppers are encouraged to taste both colas, and then select which drink they prefer. Then the representative reveals the two bottles so the taster can see whether they preferred Coke or Pepsi. The results of the test leaned toward a consensus that Pepsi was preferred by more Americans
Apparently this started in 1975. Mindblowing stuff.
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The funny thing is that the results of me actually talking to people in real life throughout my history on this planet have led me to conclude that most people think Coca-Cola tastes better. Especially out of the soda fountain at McDonald's. So fuck Pepsi up its ass, in all honesty.
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I dunno about regular, but diet coke tastes better from the fountain because it's sweetened by a mix of saccharin & aspartame. So good.
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In my community college biology class we were broken up into groups and had to set up stalls on campus where we served samples of Coke or Pepsi to people and had them guess what it was they were drinking.
Our professor pretty much told us in advance that it had already been "proven" that people could not tell the difference, and any data we turned in that suggested otherwise resulted in a huge loss of credit and was evidence that we were doing everything wrong. After 2 weeks of getting upset at the whole class for not coming up with the results we were supposed to, and completely losing it one day because everyone's rough drafts were terrible, he was basically like "You know what, fuck this class, you're all stupid! Final papers are due Friday! Class dismissed!" He hated teaching and it was obvious that he resented the fact that his career had plateaued at a rural community college. He was also a militant atheist and a misogynist.
One kid in my group was playing music really loudly on his phone in the science building hallway, totally oblivious to the fact that we were set up about 5 feet from a professor's office. His door was open and he was sitting right there grading papers. He got totally pissed and cussed us all out and said we needed to learn some respect for others.
I still get mad thinking about the whole experience.
Our professor pretty much told us in advance that it had already been "proven" that people could not tell the difference, and any data we turned in that suggested otherwise resulted in a huge loss of credit and was evidence that we were doing everything wrong. After 2 weeks of getting upset at the whole class for not coming up with the results we were supposed to, and completely losing it one day because everyone's rough drafts were terrible, he was basically like "You know what, fuck this class, you're all stupid! Final papers are due Friday! Class dismissed!" He hated teaching and it was obvious that he resented the fact that his career had plateaued at a rural community college. He was also a militant atheist and a misogynist.
One kid in my group was playing music really loudly on his phone in the science building hallway, totally oblivious to the fact that we were set up about 5 feet from a professor's office. His door was open and he was sitting right there grading papers. He got totally pissed and cussed us all out and said we needed to learn some respect for others.
I still get mad thinking about the whole experience.
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coke tastes best from a fountain in a styrofoam cup with ice, drank through a straw, served with a cheeseburger or hotdog. the only way to soda.
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^ You can't fuck with that man's soda game.
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So fucked up for two reasons. First & foremost, I could discern pepsi from coke 999 times out of 1000, and the remaining 1 time is a data entry error. Secondly, without a huge sample size, which I doubt you had, it's feasible that people could randomly guess correctly much more often than not (and vice versa). Flip a coin a hundred times; I will literally bet $10,000 that you won't get 50 of each. Mitchell Stirling could explain it with standard deviations & whatnot.undo wrote:Our professor pretty much told us in advance that it had already been "proven" that people could not tell the difference, and any data we turned in that suggested otherwise resulted in a huge loss of credit and was evidence that we were doing everything wrong.
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There's a large section in Thinking, Fast and Slow on this.
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27,225 flips are needed to determine with 99.9% certainty the true likelihood of getting heads.
You need in that order of Pepsi/Coke tests to say what the probability of correctly guessing either is.
You need in that order of Pepsi/Coke tests to say what the probability of correctly guessing either is.
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ClosetOfExhaustion wrote:coke tastes best from a fountain in a styrofoam cup with ice, drank through a straw, served with a cheeseburger or hotdog. the only way to soda.
I also enjoy it in a red cup with ice, served with pizza. Otherwise 100% OTM.
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Is this how you Americans picture Waylon as well
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Pretty much.
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yeah. as much as i think we would get along, meeting waylon irl isn't worth the shattering of mystique he's built around himself.
yancy, otoh, strikes me as a what you see is what you get as it relates to boarding & irl personas.
yancy, otoh, strikes me as a what you see is what you get as it relates to boarding & irl personas.
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I'm fascinated by your collective perception of me as a persona. I'd love to see it summarized into a character sketch some time. It would help with my novel!
As for the photo I guess it's close to how I see myself if you lose the hat and lower the waistline.
As for the photo I guess it's close to how I see myself if you lose the hat and lower the waistline.
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Sunny.
Still see Elliot Gould.
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personally feeling 5 of these. curious to see if that's more or less than duff:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/lukelewis/very-british-problems
http://www.buzzfeed.com/lukelewis/very-british-problems
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zero for me, but i'm guessing 11 for Duff?
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Can someone please explain #20?
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symbolic display of haste to allay petrol station cashier's fear that you are going to do a "drive off"
wading a little too deep into the paranoid/neurotic waters of the national psyche for any empathy in these quarters
wading a little too deep into the paranoid/neurotic waters of the national psyche for any empathy in these quarters
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I scored a 12
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Bruegel wrote:personally feeling 5 of these. curious to see if that's more or less than duff:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/lukelewis/very-british-problems
I was British for 28 years until I figured out how to be American, I think.
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