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I'm convinced that diet sodas are addictive. After a week of drinking Diet Pepsi I started craving it and needing it. Perhaps it's the artificial sweetener, aspartame, which apparently turns into formaldehyde at like 80 degrees Fahrenheit or something like that.


And with regular soda comes diabetes. There's just no winning .

CorpPunk wrote: And no, the only men I've known who drank diet Coke/Pepsi compulsively were English.

Well I drink 3 or 4 cans of Diet Coke a day and I'm not English. I don't drink Diet Pepsi or Pepsi Max cos it's crap. Diet Irn Bru is very nice and actually causes me a high - I'm sure it must contain ephedrine or something, but it's useless for cider hangovers, where even keeping water down is an issue. Oh, and the worst possible advert for Diet Coke has to be:
http://theinternetforum.co.uk/bigbrothe ... john1.html

Johnny M wrote:

hallucienate wrote: note: JB mentioned here is not James Blast

Git!

If you weren't 6' 5" and a goth ( ) in denial, we would be having some serious words.

But the 'JB' quote sounds very remeniscent of the Jack Nicholson Diner Scene fron 'Five Easy Pieces'?

Jesus! Easy there John! It ain't even you either. It's yet another JB. Track 19 on the Tenacious D's album. (Tenacious D is Jack Black's band). Now take back that bit where you called me a wotchamacallit (no not tall).

hallucienate wrote:

Johnny M wrote:

hallucienate wrote: note: JB mentioned here is not James Blast

Git!

If you weren't 6' 5" and a goth ( ) in denial, we would be having some serious words.

But the 'JB' quote sounds very remeniscent of the Jack Nicholson Diner Scene fron 'Five Easy Pieces'?

Jesus! Easy there John! It ain't even you either. It's yet another JB. Track 19 on the Tenacious D's album. (Tenacious D is Jack Black's band). Now take back that bit where you called me a wotchamacallit (no not tall).

I just love the smell of Heartland confusion in the morning.

I'm sorry I called you a *cough* goth *cough*

I drink diet "soda" and I am not ashamed.

I've lost about 2 stone since I switched from "full fat" Pepsi to Pepsi-max

</terminal caffeine addict>

markfiend wrote:I drink diet "soda" and I am not ashamed.

I've lost about 2 stone since I switched from "full fat" Pepsi to Pepsi-max

</terminal caffeine addict>

Yeh, but you are a goth.

markfiend wrote:

andymackem wrote:But I was always ridiculously skinny. Such is life.

Me too. Don't have a sweet tooth at all, not even as a kid, so I've always been a pudding dodger. Don't eat sweets, although I get through a lot of mints in the car since I stopped smoking, and the only time I ever have pop is to dilute spirits and then its always full fat.

Have you ever had a gin and tonic with diet tonic? jesus hairy christ on a bike it's bad enough to make you voluntarily drink neat Taboo or that aftershock stuff just to get the taste out of your mouth

I say "pop" too, but I thought I'd use the term soda cos it seems to be more universal.

Pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop.

The Pope wrote:Perhaps it's the artificial sweetener, aspartame, which apparently turns into formaldehyde at like 80 degrees Fahrenheit or something like that.


And with regular soda comes diabetes. There's just no winning .

Is that true?

So if you take a couple cans of diet pepsi, heat them up to 80 degrees and drank them you could get high or die trying?

What is formaldehyde, exactly?

nick the stripper wrote:

The Pope wrote:Perhaps it's the artificial sweetener, aspartame, which apparently turns into formaldehyde at like 80 degrees Fahrenheit or something like that.


And with regular soda comes diabetes. There's just no winning .

Is that true?

So if you take a couple cans of diet pepsi, heat them up to 80 degrees and drank them you could get high or die trying?

What is formaldehyde, exactly?

Embalming fluid. Or a terrorvision album.

d00mw0lf wrote:

nick the stripper wrote:

The Pope wrote:Perhaps it's the artificial sweetener, aspartame, which apparently turns into formaldehyde at like 80 degrees Fahrenheit or something like that.


And with regular soda comes diabetes. There's just no winning .

Is that true?

So if you take a couple cans of diet pepsi, heat them up to 80 degrees and drank them you could get high or die trying?

What is formaldehyde, exactly?

Embalming fluid. Or a terrorvision album.

Ah, I wont be trying that little experiment out then.

nice thing to have on the can though - "Warning! Heating pepsi may result in bradford-based rock bands"

It'd make me buy it

The Pope wrote:Perhaps it's the artificial sweetener, aspartame, which apparently turns into formaldehyde at like 80 degrees Fahrenheit or something like that.

that's what keeps me looking so young

If it ain't got a percentage, it ain't coming in.

lazarus corporation wrote:

The Pope wrote:Perhaps it's the artificial sweetener, aspartame, which apparently turns into formaldehyde at like 80 degrees Fahrenheit or something like that.

that's what keeps me looking so young

Yes - Bela Lugosi (or was it John Caradine (sp?)?....or possibly both) had a formaldehyde habit and he looked embalmed - although that was probably not harmful to his movie career

nick the stripper wrote:

The Pope wrote:Perhaps it's the artificial sweetener, aspartame, which apparently turns into formaldehyde at like 80 degrees Fahrenheit or something like that.


And with regular soda comes diabetes. There's just no winning .

Is that true?

So if you take a couple cans of diet pepsi, heat them up to 80 degrees and drank them you could get high or die trying?

What is formaldehyde, exactly?

"When the temperature of Aspartame exceeds 86 degrees F, the wood alcohol ASPARTAME coverts to formaldehyde and then to formic acid, which in turn causes metabolic acidosis. (Formic acid is the poison found in the sting of fire ants). The methanol toxicity mimics multiple sclerosis; thus people are being diagnosed with having multiple sclerosis in error. The multiple sclerosis is not a death sentence, where methanol toxicity is."

I don't know if it's true...there are dozens of websites that say it is, however snopes.com begs to differ: http://www.snopes.com/toxins/aspartame.asp

I don't really trust the soda companies and I don't know who's behind snopes.com and who's paying whom off, etc.

The Pope wrote:I don't really trust the soda companies and I don't know who's behind snopes.com and who's paying whom off, etc.

Ah, another conspiracy theo...sorry, hypothesis.
Scary thoughts...

nick the stripper wrote:What is formaldehyde, exactly?

Let's just say when Von's not being wheeled around various dodgy Euro festivals bashing out ancient tunes... he's in his little jar....

it also has a usefull effect.. but lets not go into that..

Big Si wrote:You can't count Irn Bru (Diet or not) in with this!

It's a hangover cure!

Irn Bru is a much-maligned drink south of the border (and near impossible to buy outside of major cities and Corby).

and it's ferking lush;especially when hungover-the only mixer i can stand with vodka,barring oj.

but diet?hideous.aspartame central.

eastmidswhizzkid wrote:Irn Bru is a much-maligned drink south of the border (and near impossible to buy outside of major cities and Corby).

They exported it to Russia... well it is a good mixer...

Wish i'd stuck to diet coke last night instead of FAR to much cheep red wine!.Just out of bed ,thumpin' head,bad guts,pink teeth and a mouth like a winos jock strap !Diet coke will get my vote more in future!