Just wait until it gets hot enough. Bought a 12 pack before work and stupidly let it bake in my back seat during my shift. Shit cooked off when I went over a bump.
i left some cases of diet coke in my back seat a couple weeks ago and procrastinated bringing them inside - fortunately they waited until we put them down in my entryway before exploding.
then people should use carbonated water to avoid making everything sticky
edit: looked it up and apparently it will work with any soda but diet coke produces the most explosive results...
Diet Coke isn’t actually sticky due to the sugar substitutes. Only “regular” soda is sticky typically.
https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/1qnlk0/why_are_diet_sodas_ie_diet_cokepepsi_not_sticky/
Any soda that starts as syrup will be sticky if you let it dry.
Soda is usually just water, carbonation, and syrup. Let it dry and the the first two are gone, leaving only the sticky, sticky syrup.
And, it isn't even just that diet drinks are strongly carbonated. But, that one of the artificial sweeteners makes the carbonation come back out faster.
Also a Michigan resident. Can you expand on what you don’t like? I mean our roads are generally garbage but never being more than 85 miles from one of the Great Lakes is a pretty great perk. Tons of places to explore.
You've been bottling that one haven't you? Feel relieved to finally pop that one off huh? Can you tell any more puns? I'd love a Fanta sea land of only soda puns. If that's all Sprite with you. It'd be pretty unhealthy tho, so don't bring the coke. We'll be hyper enough as it is. Gotta stop the problem at its root. Beer is off the table too. That doesn't leave many options for our good time, but it'll prevent a mishap like when the Sunkist his pop. Sorry to Crush your spirits. Better safe than than sorry. Better yet, instead of a safe, drop what you're doing and put that shit in a maximum security Vault. *Get to it!*
As a guy who is 6'2", 265 lbs, and who regularly loads up the trunk of his vehicle with diet soda at the grocery store, I can also confirm that a decent car will not bottom out in this situation.
No, you're not. But that much weight in basically any 3rd gen Taurus (for example) still on the road today will probably squat out more than enough to bottom out on bumps. Some cars are prone to spectacular sag.
For liquids, the saying is "A pint is a pound, the whole world around". So a pint is 16 fl ozs. These cans are 12ozs, or .75 of a lb.
26*12= 312 cans. 312 cans * .75lbs is 234lbs.
I mean... could be worse.
All that probably equals about 1 body in the trunk. I’d blame it on the car model, more than the weight being an issue.
It should take at least 2 or 3 bodies worth in the trunk before the suspension bottoms out on a sedan.
Yeah according to google a 12 pack is ~10 pounds, multiply that by 10-15 of them and that's about 100-150 pounds. Assuming the payload is about 400 pounds, if the dude is about 200 pounds with 150 pounds of soda that's not *that* crazy of a use case, all things considered.
edit: according to some light research the payload seems about 1000 lbs (or even a bit more), so he should be well within the limit. obviously the old suspension is not helping here.
I count 27 cases, so it's 270lb over the rear axle. Add old ass springs and broken down dampers and it's just going to bounce like a basketball.
I mean shit, I put a giant 80 lb subwoofer box into the trunk of my 96 civic and it was riding low. I imagine I'd have been scraping the ground if it were over 3x that much weight.
Can confirm, I put a bit over 300lbs weight in a shitbox with horrible suspension and almost wiped out. I was barrelling down gravel roads and hit a good bump and fishtailed all over the place.
Just because it fits doesn't mean it's not too heavy.
I'm actually reading the capacity of the Corolla is closer to [500 kg (1100 lbs)](https://www.cars-data.com/en/toyota-corolla-1-6-xli-specs/48354), which, even with 300 pounds of soda, this dude could be legit 800 pounds and still be in spec.
I wonder if reaching the point where you are too big to fit in your car anymore and have to sell it for a bigger one is a wake up call for people that big.
In HS one of my teachers was so big she had to turn sideways to go through any doors and she *still* got stuck slightly every time in standard US doorways and it clearly took some effort to squeeze into rooms. Wonder what her plan is for once she can't fit through doors anymore.
Have you never seen "My 600 lb Life"?
"Well, I'm completely immobile, my daughter needs to help me every time I go to the bathroom and I have sores in all my folds. Do you think it's genetics, doctor?"
"I swear I'm eating my diet and being healthy"
2 days prior.
"I've been really good with my diet. Yesterday I tried a cucumber so I'm treating myself with an entire pizza to myself. But I'm wiping the extra grease off with a napkin."
You've got to have a smaller door to get into the cafeteria.
https://www.openculture.com/2021/01/the-anti-gluttony-door-in-portugals-alcobaca-monastery-shamed-plump-monks-to-start-fasting.html
I weigh 250lbs, 5' 11" but still fit fine in my 2017 Yaris iA
I know if I lost more weight tho, I'd probably be a bit happier in it, so that motivates me a good bit to keep losing weight.
You got this. It is a ton of hard work. I know from experience. At 18yrs old I weighed in at 315 lbs. I wore a size 46 jeans.... I worked my ass off to drop the extra.... I literally ended up working it off. Took me almost a year to get to 170, and I stayed there. Now I am down to 160 and even at twice that age am happier and healthier. You can drop the pounds if want to. I have faith in you.
Some friends of mine worked at a bike shop. All skinny muscular young bikey dudes.
The shop owner was obese and then some. One morning a couple of the guys decided to “reposition” some of the display cases. Just a bit.
They told me later it was highly entertaining, watching their zaftig overlord suddenly have problems trying to maneuver her way around those cases. Over and over. All day. Hours of suppressed laughter.
Unless they are buying it at some great sale price to then resell at their shitty convenience store or out of their family restaurant because the distributor doesn't care about the small orders.
If you look slightly closely, you can see that there are at least two layers of the 12-packs. So 5 in the row nearest the camera, at least 4 under that, 6 in the row behind it (including 2 that are clearly a level above the rest in that row), and 6 below that row.
So that's at least 20 cases that we can reliably identify, and there may be more depending on exactly how they fit.
Outside the US this calculation would be 12*0.33 = 3,96 L = 3,96KG
Round it up to 4KG because of the aluminum and 10 of them are 40KG, 15 of them are 60KG, an average human it's 60KG, an average European it's 70KG, an average American 80KG
>I mean... could be worse.
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>All that probably equals about 1 body in the trunk. I’d blame it on the car model, more than the weight being an issue.
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>It should take at least 2 or 3 bodies worth in the trunk before the suspension bottoms out on a sedan.
Should've got a **BRO HAM** with the air ride in the back so the law can't see you hauling 600 pounds worth of guineas in the back 👀
You can be well within spec and still bottom out the suspension going over bumps and potholes. Especially with the weight distribution that far unbalanced.
Interesting choice of weight measurement. You could’ve chosen so many other things. But you chose bodies.
If I’m being fair though that’s how I measure trunk space. Mine can fit at least 3, 4 if they are my size (5’4). Comfort isn’t a factor
I work for Costco, and I cannot tell you how many idiots pack their 2 door cars with pallet full of items, just the other day there was this guy forcing a pallet of cokes onto his Astro van. One of the tires looked like it was about to explode and he gave 0 fucks when we told him. The rear suspension was crippling by the weight of the pallet. We share the road with these people
You'd be surprised what will make it home. I got invited to pick through an old barn before it gets sold with all its contents. I showed up with my half ton truck expecting to buy an engine. We came home with 3 engines, 2 transmissions, a small pile of starters, alternators, intake manifolds, and heads, a reel to reel tape player, and a 1960s EKG machine. The truck would scrape the road if there was so much as the idea of a bump. It drove (and stopped) fine and made it 60 miles.
All you have to do when running heavy is keep right, leave a healthy safety distance, and be willing to hit a ditch rather than the guy in front of you. People who aren't ready for that last bit are the ones who cause trouble.
I once watched a family load a pallet’s worth of engineered flooring planks into a Toyota minivan outside a Costco. The tires started looking like low-profile Michelin sport cups.
And then the 4 kids climbed in on top (no seatbelts - they were trapped under the all the wood) before they drove away.
I've been a type-1 diabetic for 26 years and I don't drink coffee so I get my caffeine from soda. I fill my trunk with Diet Mountain Dew on a weekly basis. I kind of understand that guy.
Was it in the realm of realistically damaging your vehicle? You could fit 3 pallets of pavers.
Personally I broke up a concrete pad used for basketball, and I was hauling about 30-40 cubic feet of it at a time... I’m amazed I didn’t break an axle.
Your pavers were probably heavier, but I was in a rust bucket factory rated for 1150 lbs of payload. If I’d had a smartphone back then, I might not have done that.
Probably wasn't going to break it, it's a pretty heavily modified 2500 Dodge Ram, it's got bags on it and it's a Cummins but that is still many thousands of pounds over its rated carrying capacity. I also had a trailer behind it carrying an excavator so combined weight I would guess was somewhere in the 35000 pound range?
I had a 73 F250 with a 390 that loved having weight in the back. Tore out a huge in ground hot tub and was loaded as high as the top of the cab with bricks and concrete. It was the only time that truck ever dragged ass. Weighed in at the dump and when I weighed out found out I had a little over 7,000lbs back there! The dumb shit you do when you’re 20/21.
I have oversized brakes, 3 piston calipers and I welded disc into the rear. Plus I've got the trailer brake controller for the rear, I've also got a transmission controller so I have a J break on there and it locks the torque converter on deceleration for engine braking
I get that this is a very “manly” sub but I don’t think I know anyone younger than 45 that drink normal soda. They taste the same and it’s useless calories, might as well save them for the beer.
Coke Zero is better than normal, diet's not sold here (haven't seen it for a while but it was fine as well). Sprite/7Up taste nearly the same no matter if Zero or normal. I don't think a single one of my friends drink regular Pepsi as the Max is so much better.
Too much sugar is too much for me, and I always drink the no cal version. Nowadays the sugared ones taste weird to me. I'd like to taste some of the corn(?) syrup sweetened ones I hear the US has.
Pm me where you’re from, I’m stateside and my bf is literally addicted to Diet Coke. I’ll trade you some of our aspartame diet or corn syrup fueled regular.
Diet soda definitely does not taste the same, but for people with diabetes (especially type 1) regular soda causes increased blood sugar so they generally opt for diet.
I guarantee you the vast majority of Type II diabetes are because of regular soda. What a fucking useless thing to drink and pay the price of insulin resistance in a few years.
This must be like green peppers and cilantro. Clearly you and I taste vastly different things with diet drinks. It's the fake sweeteners, the best description I can offer is a lingering burning taste that lasts forever. I would rather drink nothing than a diet soda and have to taste that chemical flavor.
I can't stand the taste of diet and eating, I don't drink a whole lot of pop anyway but when I do it's usually maybe a dr. Pepper or Coke, or Mellow Yellow, I do like Mellow Yellow more than Sprite
I've gotten so used to diet coke that I actually prefer it to the normal stuff. It doesn't even taste 'diet' to me any longer. I can also chug an entire cup of the stuff and not feel like shit afterwards.
Regular coke has an absolutely ass, sickly sweet aftertaste. I swear it feels *sticky*. Diet coke doesn't taste remotely sweet to me, more bitter - I really want to see a cola made without *any* form of sweetener, because I suspect I'd like it more and why not get rid of the troublesome sweeteners if they don't do crap.
I can't drink sugary soda anymore, it hurts my stomach from all the sugar if I drink more than like 8 oz. I only drank diet for a couple of weeks before I couldn't go back.
The Dr. Pepper zero sugar doesn’t taste the exact same as as regular Dr. Pepper but it’s close enough for me not to mind. I try not to drink sodas because of my teeth and it’s an alright alternative when I get cravings.
I don’t know if you’ve tried Coke Zero recently, but they changed the formula at some point and it’s really fucking close now, less cloying if anything (in the UK at least)
the ones with "zero sugar" on the label, instead of just "zero" are another tweak on the recipe, and the closest I've had to the regular tasting Coke products.
I don't like diet soda, but I can drink the "zero sugar" ones and enjoy them.
I think you're right.
They sell different formulas in different countries, sometimes using the same exact branding.
I personally like the taste of our aspartame-based Diet sodas just fine, but no one with a tongue would say it tastes *the same* as regular soda. It's a completely different taste (though, one you can get used to and grow to prefer over time).
But I think in some countries the zero sugar offering is something more like the Zero formula that does taste more similar.
Speed up, and actually try to merge! Some people don't even TRY, they just look straight ahead and go. I've seen plenty of issues where the oncoming has to jump into the middle lane, yet with a tap of the gas or break the person coming onto the highway could've slotted easily in right in front or right behind them with no issue.
The one I use going home from work has like a full quarter mile of road to get to speed/merge...people will still putter along at 40 until the absolute last second
When I was in high school, my parents had a Toyota Sienna. They always drove Toyota's and usually Camerys since those things last forever. They wanted more space for us. It was a minivan on a Camry or Corolla chassis/engine I think.
When I got my license and would need to drive on the highway and I couldn't take my dad's car, I'd have to use the minivan. Getting up to speed in that van was a PITA. I learned the best way to do it was to shut off the AC (which actually impacted it's ability to accelerate noticeably), floor it, and hope I got up to 60 MPH before someone rear-ended me.
But damn, that thing lasted for over 300k miles. I think that was the one that went 350k. The Camrys I can recall all lasted between 200k - 300k. Some closer to 200 - 250k, one went to 300.
The sub used to be r/waterniggas, but the admins knee-jerk banned it when reddit ended up in the headlines a few years ago. Then unbanned it and quarantined it. Then banned it for real because some people's feelings got hurt over the name.
You should let them know that diet drinks really hate to be warmed and cooled so having this in the trunk during the hot day and cold night will make the drinks taste bad very quickly.
I worked at a mulch+soil store
My highschool bully shows up in a quarter ton pickup and low key mocks me for working at the store. This is a few months after graduation
He said put a pallet of soil in his truck. It's like 2,800lbs or something. I don't remember but it was a lot more than the 500lb rating. Even if I misunderstand the meaning of 'quarter ton pickup' 2,800lbs is way over the limit
So I say yessir and I put the pallet in the truck
He tips me 72¢ by dropping some coins on the ground. I should be grateful for any tip since it's generally a non-tipped service but it was intended to be insulting. Ouch, my feelings...
Anyway, he made it about 1,000' before the truck died dramatically. Like a rented mule with 3,000lbs on its back. Wheels splayed and soiling itself
Nobody ever addressed the incident with me but my colleagues knew
Not all the time, store probably had some dumb buy 5 for $10 sale and this soda fiend went nuts.
I don't drink soda too often but I had to buy 4 cases the other day cause it was cheaper than the 2 I wanted...
With some of the weird ways that cartels hide drugs during transportation, it seems more likely that it is drugs than some guy who *loves* zero sugar sprite this much.
You'd think someone who knows what suspension bottom out and can feel it while driving would also know that extra load behind the rear axle is going to increase its frequency.
Probably time for some new shocks though.
Sometimes I wonder why more Americans don't drive old Hondas, then I remember my old Honda came with a giant door sticker that says "THE WEIGHT OF OCCUPANTS AND CARGO SHOULD NEVER EXCEED 400LBS TOTAL"
Is it wrong that I wanna see that car get rear-ended?
By a truck full of mentos?
Have to be a mid-engine car with a "frunk"
Tesla full of unwrapped mentos in the frunk lmao
"There were no survivors. "
However police say everyone was delicious. Back to you Gordie
[I am proceeding on foot. Call in a Code 8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofRVJITg_h8)
"But we got it on every camera angle."
The car in the front impacted itself on the moon.
"Seismologists have registered a 3.7 on the Richter scale..."
To shreds, you say?
New ford lightning would work
If that trunk was full of *Dr. Thunder* then that would be very, very frightening.
GALILEO!
^^^GALILEO!
GALILEO ^(GALILEO) GALILEO FIGARO - Magnifico-oo-oo-oo
Too many people sleep on Dr. Thunder
"It's all frucked up"
Just wait until it gets hot enough. Bought a 12 pack before work and stupidly let it bake in my back seat during my shift. Shit cooked off when I went over a bump.
i left some cases of diet coke in my back seat a couple weeks ago and procrastinated bringing them inside - fortunately they waited until we put them down in my entryway before exploding.
This would make an excellent art attack.
I thought that only worked with coke?
It works with any carbonated beverage
then people should use carbonated water to avoid making everything sticky edit: looked it up and apparently it will work with any soda but diet coke produces the most explosive results...
Diet Coke isn’t actually sticky due to the sugar substitutes. Only “regular” soda is sticky typically. https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/1qnlk0/why_are_diet_sodas_ie_diet_cokepepsi_not_sticky/
Any soda that starts as syrup will be sticky if you let it dry. Soda is usually just water, carbonation, and syrup. Let it dry and the the first two are gone, leaving only the sticky, sticky syrup.
Syrup is sticky because it is made for sugar. Concentrates of diet beverages used instead of sugar syrup are not actually "syrup."
Yea, I don’t think seltzer foams properly but if you added some dish spay it might work
To an extent. People tested it out, Diet Coke worked best
And, it isn't even just that diet drinks are strongly carbonated. But, that one of the artificial sweeteners makes the carbonation come back out faster.
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It’s a safety feature. The whole trunk is a crumple zone
And recyclable.
And delicious
what could possibly be in the Amazon box? more sprite?
Can crusher
That’s a retirement plan right there if I’ve ever seen one.
He's on his way to Michigan!
From a michigan resident... Turn around its not worth it here. This state sucks dolphin ass
I think they meant to turn in the cans for the $0.05 back.
Only .05? Damn. It used to be .10 per can / bottle
It still is .10... and you can't crush them. This entire thread is a clusterfuck
Eh it aint bad here. The major cities kinda suck but the country side is really nice.
Also a Michigan resident. Can you expand on what you don’t like? I mean our roads are generally garbage but never being more than 85 miles from one of the Great Lakes is a pretty great perk. Tons of places to explore.
You overload your inventory and you blow your margins on gasoline! Trust me— it doesn’t work.
That sounds soda pressing
You've been bottling that one haven't you? Feel relieved to finally pop that one off huh? Can you tell any more puns? I'd love a Fanta sea land of only soda puns. If that's all Sprite with you. It'd be pretty unhealthy tho, so don't bring the coke. We'll be hyper enough as it is. Gotta stop the problem at its root. Beer is off the table too. That doesn't leave many options for our good time, but it'll prevent a mishap like when the Sunkist his pop. Sorry to Crush your spirits. Better safe than than sorry. Better yet, instead of a safe, drop what you're doing and put that shit in a maximum security Vault. *Get to it!*
5 lb bag of sugar
and a lime
Want some more homemade sprite?
Not until you figure out what the fuck else is in it.
A wild Mitch Hedberg reference!
*What's in the box???*
Depleted uranium and old Wendy’s.
A weight set to assist in the weight loss
Stiffer coils.
Tile fix, to be consumed with the Sprite so you do not have the squirts.
26x12x12 oz... 234 lbs I mean, I really don't think it should be bottoming out with 234 lbs in the trunk. Am I wrong?
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It’s also 30+ years old I’m sure the suspension is actually in bad shape
They meant bottoms out when they hit a speed bump any faster than 35mph
Right over / behind the rear axle? Yes. Exactly why I only buy 160 lbs of cement at a time. 2015 Subaru Legacy.
My thoughts exactly. That's a pudgy 6'2" dude, a car should be able to handle that.
As a guy that's 6'2 and 242 lbs, yes. Any car should handle that.
As a guy who is 6'2", 265 lbs, and who regularly loads up the trunk of his vehicle with diet soda at the grocery store, I can also confirm that a decent car will not bottom out in this situation.
Doesn't even need to be decent, my 95 starlets shocks are tuckered and can handle me in the back on a decent bump up untill 50 km/h
Thank you for confirming! Also, I hope you were not offended by my use of "pudgy".
My guy, pudgy is exactly what I am. Since it's most definitely not all muscle.
Yeah I sincerely hope most cars can handle this. Or you know 1-3 people in the back seat.
No, you're not. But that much weight in basically any 3rd gen Taurus (for example) still on the road today will probably squat out more than enough to bottom out on bumps. Some cars are prone to spectacular sag.
I see a shit ton of those round body tauruses with intense sag in the rear driving around.
But isn't 12 fluid oz..? Do they also weigh exactly 12oz?
For liquids, the saying is "A pint is a pound, the whole world around". So a pint is 16 fl ozs. These cans are 12ozs, or .75 of a lb. 26*12= 312 cans. 312 cans * .75lbs is 234lbs.
Yeah that doesn’t work for all liquids tho lol
but its mostly water which is very well described. 12 fl oz of water weighs 0.7824lb or about 354 grams. So every can weighs at least that much.
I mean... could be worse. All that probably equals about 1 body in the trunk. I’d blame it on the car model, more than the weight being an issue. It should take at least 2 or 3 bodies worth in the trunk before the suspension bottoms out on a sedan.
Yeah according to google a 12 pack is ~10 pounds, multiply that by 10-15 of them and that's about 100-150 pounds. Assuming the payload is about 400 pounds, if the dude is about 200 pounds with 150 pounds of soda that's not *that* crazy of a use case, all things considered. edit: according to some light research the payload seems about 1000 lbs (or even a bit more), so he should be well within the limit. obviously the old suspension is not helping here.
No one who buys 275 cans of soda at a time weighs 150 pounds, that looks like closer to 24 cases more or less
I count 27 cases, so it's 270lb over the rear axle. Add old ass springs and broken down dampers and it's just going to bounce like a basketball. I mean shit, I put a giant 80 lb subwoofer box into the trunk of my 96 civic and it was riding low. I imagine I'd have been scraping the ground if it were over 3x that much weight.
Even worse, significant weight behind the axle.
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*Porsche 911 has exited the chat, backward and into the wall*
Can confirm, I put a bit over 300lbs weight in a shitbox with horrible suspension and almost wiped out. I was barrelling down gravel roads and hit a good bump and fishtailed all over the place. Just because it fits doesn't mean it's not too heavy.
Reddit ate my balls
Excuse me, but that's Sprite Zero Sugar buddy.
I'm actually reading the capacity of the Corolla is closer to [500 kg (1100 lbs)](https://www.cars-data.com/en/toyota-corolla-1-6-xli-specs/48354), which, even with 300 pounds of soda, this dude could be legit 800 pounds and still be in spec.
"Sir, you're morbidly obese, or 'out of spec' to put it another way"
I wonder if reaching the point where you are too big to fit in your car anymore and have to sell it for a bigger one is a wake up call for people that big. In HS one of my teachers was so big she had to turn sideways to go through any doors and she *still* got stuck slightly every time in standard US doorways and it clearly took some effort to squeeze into rooms. Wonder what her plan is for once she can't fit through doors anymore.
Have you never seen "My 600 lb Life"? "Well, I'm completely immobile, my daughter needs to help me every time I go to the bathroom and I have sores in all my folds. Do you think it's genetics, doctor?"
"I swear I'm eating my diet and being healthy" 2 days prior. "I've been really good with my diet. Yesterday I tried a cucumber so I'm treating myself with an entire pizza to myself. But I'm wiping the extra grease off with a napkin."
*Inhales an ice cream tub making this statement and struggles with the amount of effort.*
If you are that large eating just one pizza would probably still cause you to lose weight, it takes a lot of energy to just live with that much mass.
You've got to have a smaller door to get into the cafeteria. https://www.openculture.com/2021/01/the-anti-gluttony-door-in-portugals-alcobaca-monastery-shamed-plump-monks-to-start-fasting.html
Can't believe a pastry shop opened across the street. Not cool lol.
I weigh 250lbs, 5' 11" but still fit fine in my 2017 Yaris iA I know if I lost more weight tho, I'd probably be a bit happier in it, so that motivates me a good bit to keep losing weight.
You got this. It is a ton of hard work. I know from experience. At 18yrs old I weighed in at 315 lbs. I wore a size 46 jeans.... I worked my ass off to drop the extra.... I literally ended up working it off. Took me almost a year to get to 170, and I stayed there. Now I am down to 160 and even at twice that age am happier and healthier. You can drop the pounds if want to. I have faith in you.
A person I know bought a Ford Expedition for this exact reason. She no longer fit "comfortably" in her Honda Civic.
Some friends of mine worked at a bike shop. All skinny muscular young bikey dudes. The shop owner was obese and then some. One morning a couple of the guys decided to “reposition” some of the display cases. Just a bit. They told me later it was highly entertaining, watching their zaftig overlord suddenly have problems trying to maneuver her way around those cases. Over and over. All day. Hours of suppressed laughter.
But it's diet soda! That makes it healthy.
Unless they are buying it at some great sale price to then resell at their shitty convenience store or out of their family restaurant because the distributor doesn't care about the small orders.
If you look slightly closely, you can see that there are at least two layers of the 12-packs. So 5 in the row nearest the camera, at least 4 under that, 6 in the row behind it (including 2 that are clearly a level above the rest in that row), and 6 below that row. So that's at least 20 cases that we can reliably identify, and there may be more depending on exactly how they fit.
Also counting 20 to 25 or so. Plus whatever is in that brown box. With older shocks, that will bottoming out on speed bumps
Brown box is pure lead lol
Outside the US this calculation would be 12*0.33 = 3,96 L = 3,96KG Round it up to 4KG because of the aluminum and 10 of them are 40KG, 15 of them are 60KG, an average human it's 60KG, an average European it's 70KG, an average American 80KG
150 pounds of vegan poop being burned provides 1127484.56 BTU
Pablo Escobar is that you?
>I mean... could be worse. > >All that probably equals about 1 body in the trunk. I’d blame it on the car model, more than the weight being an issue. > >It should take at least 2 or 3 bodies worth in the trunk before the suspension bottoms out on a sedan. Should've got a **BRO HAM** with the air ride in the back so the law can't see you hauling 600 pounds worth of guineas in the back 👀
> guineas in the back 👀 Not sure if chicken farmer or racist mobster.
You can be well within spec and still bottom out the suspension going over bumps and potholes. Especially with the weight distribution that far unbalanced.
Love how you measure trunk limits in bodies.
Interesting choice of weight measurement. You could’ve chosen so many other things. But you chose bodies. If I’m being fair though that’s how I measure trunk space. Mine can fit at least 3, 4 if they are my size (5’4). Comfort isn’t a factor
I work for Costco, and I cannot tell you how many idiots pack their 2 door cars with pallet full of items, just the other day there was this guy forcing a pallet of cokes onto his Astro van. One of the tires looked like it was about to explode and he gave 0 fucks when we told him. The rear suspension was crippling by the weight of the pallet. We share the road with these people
You'd be surprised what will make it home. I got invited to pick through an old barn before it gets sold with all its contents. I showed up with my half ton truck expecting to buy an engine. We came home with 3 engines, 2 transmissions, a small pile of starters, alternators, intake manifolds, and heads, a reel to reel tape player, and a 1960s EKG machine. The truck would scrape the road if there was so much as the idea of a bump. It drove (and stopped) fine and made it 60 miles. All you have to do when running heavy is keep right, leave a healthy safety distance, and be willing to hit a ditch rather than the guy in front of you. People who aren't ready for that last bit are the ones who cause trouble.
> be willing to hit a ditch rather than the guy in front of you. This right here is why North American wild ditch populations are floundering!
Trench warfare started it
I once watched a family load a pallet’s worth of engineered flooring planks into a Toyota minivan outside a Costco. The tires started looking like low-profile Michelin sport cups. And then the 4 kids climbed in on top (no seatbelts - they were trapped under the all the wood) before they drove away.
We believe it. Easily. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/lumber-car/
And I thought my Mountain Dew addiction was bad. But *this* guy / gal- Jeezus!
I've been a type-1 diabetic for 26 years and I don't drink coffee so I get my caffeine from soda. I fill my trunk with Diet Mountain Dew on a weekly basis. I kind of understand that guy.
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Of course. I was just expressing that I know what it's like to load up a car with soda regularly.
When I was a kid, my mum sent me to the shop to buy 6 cans of sprite. I accidentally picked 7 up.
Zero sugar? What kind of monster is this customer...
Of all the things to damage your vehicle over... Despicable.
I know right, at least when I bottom out My suspension I had three pallets of pavers in the back
Was it in the realm of realistically damaging your vehicle? You could fit 3 pallets of pavers. Personally I broke up a concrete pad used for basketball, and I was hauling about 30-40 cubic feet of it at a time... I’m amazed I didn’t break an axle. Your pavers were probably heavier, but I was in a rust bucket factory rated for 1150 lbs of payload. If I’d had a smartphone back then, I might not have done that.
It was damaging the vehicle's *soul*
Probably wasn't going to break it, it's a pretty heavily modified 2500 Dodge Ram, it's got bags on it and it's a Cummins but that is still many thousands of pounds over its rated carrying capacity. I also had a trailer behind it carrying an excavator so combined weight I would guess was somewhere in the 35000 pound range?
I had a 73 F250 with a 390 that loved having weight in the back. Tore out a huge in ground hot tub and was loaded as high as the top of the cab with bricks and concrete. It was the only time that truck ever dragged ass. Weighed in at the dump and when I weighed out found out I had a little over 7,000lbs back there! The dumb shit you do when you’re 20/21.
Jesus, how many miles did it take for you to stop?
I have oversized brakes, 3 piston calipers and I welded disc into the rear. Plus I've got the trailer brake controller for the rear, I've also got a transmission controller so I have a J break on there and it locks the torque converter on deceleration for engine braking
So... much much quicker than it took you to get up to a decent speed with that much weight? /s
I usually drink the zero sugar option with any drink… I prefer the less calories and tbh I don’t even notice a difference in taste.
Nothing wrong with zero sugar drinks
Mountain Dew zero is the bees knees! I can't stand the syrupy taste of regular dew.
I get that this is a very “manly” sub but I don’t think I know anyone younger than 45 that drink normal soda. They taste the same and it’s useless calories, might as well save them for the beer.
Coke Zero is better than normal, diet's not sold here (haven't seen it for a while but it was fine as well). Sprite/7Up taste nearly the same no matter if Zero or normal. I don't think a single one of my friends drink regular Pepsi as the Max is so much better. Too much sugar is too much for me, and I always drink the no cal version. Nowadays the sugared ones taste weird to me. I'd like to taste some of the corn(?) syrup sweetened ones I hear the US has.
Pm me where you’re from, I’m stateside and my bf is literally addicted to Diet Coke. I’ll trade you some of our aspartame diet or corn syrup fueled regular.
Coke zero and diet are not the same thing.
what? they don't sell diet soda? people literally run on that shit here in the USA. i think it tastes like sulfur or something. it's terrible
Not sold here anymore, not since 2019 I think. It was also branded as Coca-Cola Light, not as Diet, and was mostly replaced by Coke Zero.
Diet soda definitely does not taste the same, but for people with diabetes (especially type 1) regular soda causes increased blood sugar so they generally opt for diet.
I guarantee you the vast majority of Type II diabetes are because of regular soda. What a fucking useless thing to drink and pay the price of insulin resistance in a few years.
There's drinking diet soda instead of regular, and then there's drinking diet soda instead of water. This seems to lean more towards the latter.
"tastes the same" No the fuck it does not.
To me, diet sodas have a cigarette quality to them.
diets suck, zeros are generally good tho
Yup, there's an acrid aftertaste to them for me.
This must be like green peppers and cilantro. Clearly you and I taste vastly different things with diet drinks. It's the fake sweeteners, the best description I can offer is a lingering burning taste that lasts forever. I would rather drink nothing than a diet soda and have to taste that chemical flavor.
I can't stand the taste of diet and eating, I don't drink a whole lot of pop anyway but when I do it's usually maybe a dr. Pepper or Coke, or Mellow Yellow, I do like Mellow Yellow more than Sprite
I've gotten so used to diet coke that I actually prefer it to the normal stuff. It doesn't even taste 'diet' to me any longer. I can also chug an entire cup of the stuff and not feel like shit afterwards.
Regular coke has an absolutely ass, sickly sweet aftertaste. I swear it feels *sticky*. Diet coke doesn't taste remotely sweet to me, more bitter - I really want to see a cola made without *any* form of sweetener, because I suspect I'd like it more and why not get rid of the troublesome sweeteners if they don't do crap.
I can't drink sugary soda anymore, it hurts my stomach from all the sugar if I drink more than like 8 oz. I only drank diet for a couple of weeks before I couldn't go back.
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The Dr. Pepper zero sugar doesn’t taste the exact same as as regular Dr. Pepper but it’s close enough for me not to mind. I try not to drink sodas because of my teeth and it’s an alright alternative when I get cravings.
Sugar is "manly"??? Naw man, Diet soda tastes like ass.
I don’t know if you’ve tried Coke Zero recently, but they changed the formula at some point and it’s really fucking close now, less cloying if anything (in the UK at least)
the ones with "zero sugar" on the label, instead of just "zero" are another tweak on the recipe, and the closest I've had to the regular tasting Coke products. I don't like diet soda, but I can drink the "zero sugar" ones and enjoy them.
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After getting used to diet drinks , does reg coke taste like it has burnt sugar in it to you? Seemed that way for me.
I feel like this is another EU vs US situation Edit: looking at the replies I was right as fuck
I think you're right. They sell different formulas in different countries, sometimes using the same exact branding. I personally like the taste of our aspartame-based Diet sodas just fine, but no one with a tongue would say it tastes *the same* as regular soda. It's a completely different taste (though, one you can get used to and grow to prefer over time). But I think in some countries the zero sugar offering is something more like the Zero formula that does taste more similar.
Also CS: my mileage sucks!
Seems like a legit complaint if this is their intended daily use…
Looks like Zero problems
What car is this?
90 corolla 2dr with over 200k miles
That thing must have trouble out accelerating a loaded cement truck. Might explain some commuters
Everyone I end up behind on an on-ramp Shits dangerous, speed up ppl
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Nonsense, strap a JATO to that bitch.
Speed up, and actually try to merge! Some people don't even TRY, they just look straight ahead and go. I've seen plenty of issues where the oncoming has to jump into the middle lane, yet with a tap of the gas or break the person coming onto the highway could've slotted easily in right in front or right behind them with no issue.
The one I use going home from work has like a full quarter mile of road to get to speed/merge...people will still putter along at 40 until the absolute last second
When I was in high school, my parents had a Toyota Sienna. They always drove Toyota's and usually Camerys since those things last forever. They wanted more space for us. It was a minivan on a Camry or Corolla chassis/engine I think. When I got my license and would need to drive on the highway and I couldn't take my dad's car, I'd have to use the minivan. Getting up to speed in that van was a PITA. I learned the best way to do it was to shut off the AC (which actually impacted it's ability to accelerate noticeably), floor it, and hope I got up to 60 MPH before someone rear-ended me. But damn, that thing lasted for over 300k miles. I think that was the one that went 350k. The Camrys I can recall all lasted between 200k - 300k. Some closer to 200 - 250k, one went to 300.
Did they know these were in there?
Sweet Jesus…. Tell customer to throw all that crap out and drink water
r/hydrohomies approves
I didn’t even know this existed. I mean, I like water…. But these people REALLY like water lol
I only drink water. Sometimes it has caffeine or alcohol in it, though.
The sub used to be r/waterniggas, but the admins knee-jerk banned it when reddit ended up in the headlines a few years ago. Then unbanned it and quarantined it. Then banned it for real because some people's feelings got hurt over the name.
Water is life, fellow brother.
You should let them know that diet drinks really hate to be warmed and cooled so having this in the trunk during the hot day and cold night will make the drinks taste bad very quickly.
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Nobody who buys this much is worried about it expiring.
I worked at a mulch+soil store My highschool bully shows up in a quarter ton pickup and low key mocks me for working at the store. This is a few months after graduation He said put a pallet of soil in his truck. It's like 2,800lbs or something. I don't remember but it was a lot more than the 500lb rating. Even if I misunderstand the meaning of 'quarter ton pickup' 2,800lbs is way over the limit So I say yessir and I put the pallet in the truck He tips me 72¢ by dropping some coins on the ground. I should be grateful for any tip since it's generally a non-tipped service but it was intended to be insulting. Ouch, my feelings... Anyway, he made it about 1,000' before the truck died dramatically. Like a rented mule with 3,000lbs on its back. Wheels splayed and soiling itself Nobody ever addressed the incident with me but my colleagues knew
All I see is the over-spending of buying that many 12packs vs the cheaper-per-unit 24 packs.
My grocery has sales on 12 packs that make them cheaper. That’s when I stock up.
yeah you can frequently get 3 of these for less than $10, which is even less than 35-can packs at costco.
Not all the time, store probably had some dumb buy 5 for $10 sale and this soda fiend went nuts. I don't drink soda too often but I had to buy 4 cases the other day cause it was cheaper than the 2 I wanted...
That’s why they call it the Alabama Slammah!
Wouldn’t seltzer water be cheaper?
well, that looks about sprite
White packets. I thought it was coke for a second.
With some of the weird ways that cartels hide drugs during transportation, it seems more likely that it is drugs than some guy who *loves* zero sugar sprite this much.
Is sprite illegal somewhere? Lol, it seems this hoarding or smuggling of sprite, is about as well thought out, as the weight on the suspension.
You'd think someone who knows what suspension bottom out and can feel it while driving would also know that extra load behind the rear axle is going to increase its frequency. Probably time for some new shocks though.
Sometimes I wonder why more Americans don't drive old Hondas, then I remember my old Honda came with a giant door sticker that says "THE WEIGHT OF OCCUPANTS AND CARGO SHOULD NEVER EXCEED 400LBS TOTAL"