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Disgusting truths about the corporate world. (pg. 2)
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| Estella |
| quote: | Originally posted by placebo
hasn't killed me yet...who gives a ? |
tomorrow hasn't come yet. |
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| Scottaculous |
| quote: | Originally posted by Estella
(FYI... the active ingredient in coke is phosphoric acid. its pH is 2.8. |
Until recent years the substances with pH of 2.8 and lower was considered hazardous. Coke had that lowered to 2.7 :disbelief |
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| placebo |
| quote: | Originally posted by wwu.punisher
I was in my organizational communication class the other day, and we got to talking about some of the disgusting things corporations do with their products and marketing to draw in customers and otherwise make profits.
Here were some of the highlights...
- Coca Cola reportedly uses small amounts of the raw "Coke" syrup to clean grime from the engines on their delivery trucks. Apparently, it is corrosive enough to take off the dirt but doesn't do "much damage" to the engines themselves.
- Dasani bottled water, which is owned by Coca Cola, contains a significant amount of sodium. Sodium is salt. Salt makes you thirsty. Think about that one for a minute.
- The McDonald's Corporation originally chose red and yellow as their company colors because the first colors that babies see as they develop are... you guessed it... red and yellow. Apparently, company executives wanted to groom people from birth to identify red and yellow with the McDonald's name.
(This one is mine... I used to work at McDonald's as a teenager...)
- You know the little chopped up onions that you get on hamburgers and cheeseburgers at McDonald's? Those are rehydrated. Before you add water to them, they basically look like sand in a bag. If you use water that is too warm or too cold, one of the preservatives in the onions reacts to the temperature and the whole batch turns bright pink.
- Employees at McDonald's almost never throw product out once it's cooked. They aren't supposed to keep it in the cabinet for longer than a few minutes. (15 to 20 at most.) Guess what? If you visit the restaurant outside of rush hours, there's a good chance that your hamburger patties and chicken nuggets have been sitting there for upwards of two hours in a low-heat holding container!
- Several common household objects, such as the lightbulb and the microwave, were originally designed to last forever. (Edison's lightbulb, in fact, is still capable of burning. It is held at the Smithsonian.) The process of altering an original design so that the product MUST be renewed is called "planned obsolesence".
- By the year 2030, we will have used up almost all of our copper reserve producing electrical wiring. At that point, some speculate that the government will be forced to circulate pennies minted before the 1970s out of the economy so that they can be melted down and cleaned so that the copper can be reused.
If you have any more facts like these, please post them! Interesting (and scary) stuff. |
- The McDonald's Corporation originally chose red and yellow as their company colors because the first colors that babies see as they develop are... you guessed it... red and yellow. Apparently, company executives wanted to groom people from birth to identify red and yellow with the McDonald's name.
It could also be the fact that red and yellow look good together.
- Coca Cola reportedly uses small amounts of the raw "Coke" syrup to clean grime from the engines on their delivery trucks. Apparently, it is corrosive enough to take off the dirt but doesn't do "much damage" to the engines themselves.
Re-read that statement again. They aren't pouring COKE onto the machines, they are pouring the syrup. The syrup becomes extreme dilluted after you add water.
Dasani water does contain salt though, I didn't know that. I always drink the cheap bottled water...it's all the same really. |
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| Estella |
| quote: | Originally posted by placebo
- The McDonald's Corporation originally chose red and yellow as their company colors because the first colors that babies see as they develop are... you guessed it... red and yellow. Apparently, company executives wanted to groom people from birth to identify red and yellow with the McDonald's name.
It could also be the fact that red and yellow look good together.
- Coca Cola reportedly uses small amounts of the raw "Coke" syrup to clean grime from the engines on their delivery trucks. Apparently, it is corrosive enough to take off the dirt but doesn't do "much damage" to the engines themselves.
Re-read that statement again. They aren't pouring COKE onto the machines, they are pouring the syrup. The syrup becomes extreme dilluted after you add water.
Dasani water does contain salt though, I didn't know that. I always drink the cheap bottled water...it's all the same really. |
YOU are one of THEM ! :nervous: |
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| dj_inferno |
| Gatorade contains salt also. I always thought it was to replenish all of the salt you lose from sweating. |
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| Estella |
| quote: | Originally posted by dj_inferno
Gatorade contains salt also. I always thought it was to replenish all of the salt you lose from sweating. |
^ :eek: I use to be addicted to yellow Powerade ! |
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| est |
Not exactly sceintific fact, but here's what I have to add off the top of my head.
* Seats and tables in McDonalds are deliberately made uncomfortable so as people move away as fast as possible.
* If a real women had the bodies of female mannequins, they would have to crawl around on their hands and knees becuase of the proportions.
* Last time i bought a burger in McDonalds (about 6 years ago), I got a mouthful of salt - I opened up the burger and you could see the salt in it - mingin. I took it back to the counter: "It's meant to have salt in it". What's next? Salt on the ice creams???
* I've had 2 pieces of furniture from Ikea - both badly designed (I had to set my computer monitor on phone books so as it would fit), and both fell to bits after less than a year. Yet they keep telling us that they are a design-focussed company. Shoppers think they are getting a bargain, but really it's the entrance door to being fully paid up members of consumer society, where people mindlessely keep on buying the latest fashions.
Society has been dumbing down for years - we're being taught to take what companies/poloticians tell us at face value and cynicism isn't fashionable. Knowledge is power though - if you have an indepedent mind and what you're buying then you'll be able to make your own decisions, free(er) from the influence of capitalism. What's the point in having a brain if you don't use it????? |
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| occrider |
| quote: | Originally posted by wwu.punisher
- Dasani bottled water, which is owned by Coca Cola, contains a significant amount of sodium. Sodium is salt. Salt makes you thirsty. Think about that one for a minute.
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Hey, what do you do when you sweat? Think about that for a minute. |
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| beats and beeps |
| Most all of you (the consumers) are law breaking hypocrites who are only concerned about your own welfare, so why would you expect the people who run corporations to be different than you? |
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| kid nyce |
ipod's battery + simple functionality = monopoly
this is a marketing technique flawed by production design to generate higher revenue by attracting mass appeal to a satisfiable gratification.
the above expression states that mac as a company released a superior product with a flawed battery. this technique is used to dominate the market that it comes into. pioneers of electronics tend to do this because their design and concept usually gets copied real quickly. they do this since there is something that distinguishes them from any one else who will copy them yet superior enough to persuade their consumers to continue buying the same product. how many ipod generations are there and has the batter life improved yet? Nickle vs Lithium? cmon lets be real @ 300 a pop.
its a decent strategy that potentially ruins the branding, then again how famous was mac's branding pre-ipod era? only existed in design departments and professional artist using mac machines to generate art. the ipod generation enabled mac as a company to open retail stores, it brought appeal to the unique designs of their computers, it did alot for the branding but destroyed alot for the product.
corporations have much more enron stuff to disgust, but product design by flawed theory is a leverage to those who can produce it. yea it stinks but thats how they are making their empire. |
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| occrider |
| quote: | Originally posted by wwu.punisher
- Several common household objects, such as the lightbulb and the microwave, were originally designed to last forever. (Edison's lightbulb, in fact, is still capable of burning. It is held at the Smithsonian.) The process of altering an original design so that the product MUST be renewed is called "planned obsolesence".
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I dunno about the microwave, but Edison's bulbs are indeed still burning and they'll probably continue to burn for several hundre years. But there's nothing magical about that. Those bulbs are operating at reduced power levels and thus glowing dimly. There is no filament material that can operate indefinitely at yellow-white heat. The life of a filament is determined by how quickly its atoms evaporate or sublime from its surface. Modern tungsten filaments operate at about 2500° C. At that temperature, the filament loses atoms slowly enough that it lives for about 1000 hours. If you were to operate the filament several hundred degrees colder, it would last a lot longer but it wouldn't emit nearly as much light and what light it did emit would be reddish. The design of incandescent bulbs is a trade-off of energy efficiency and operating life. |
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| beats and beeps |
Aw man punisher, you're even duller than I thought.
The amount of sodium in the water, is not enough to make you thirsty, not nearly enough.
Secondly, the sodium in it actually makes the water safer for the consumer to drink, than if it had none.
People have died from drinking too much water after a race, in effort to produce a urine sample, and of course, we all heard the ecstasy water overdose cases.
There are hundreds of deaths due to this every year, and you don't always have to drink a stupid amount, one marathon runner died after 3 bottles of filtered water.
If the water contains sodium, it is much harder to over dose on it, and as a result much safer to drink especially in an athletic environment. |
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