I like Dr. Pepper, but not their website

[pyesetz]

The Chinese Democracy album from Guns 'N' Roses is like the Duke Nukem Forever game: it's been vaporware for so long that the release date is a joke synonymous with "when Hell freezes over/pigs fly".  In March, Dr. Pepper said they'd give out free soda-pop to everyone in America if Axl Rose finished the thing this year.  Well, it went on sale today, so Dr. Pepper has a website where you can sign up for your free drink.

I will not sign up.  The website has three strikes against it:
1) They say they're offering the free product to "every American" (that's me), but actually it's for US addresses only (not me).  I suppose this is reasonable by American standards of isolationism, but I would have to have the coupon sent to my brother-in-law's house.
2) and 3) By signing up you agree to their Privacy Policy and their Terms of Use, but both of the referenced documents give 404 errors.  I do not agree to terms that will be selected later!

Comments

[ducktapeddonkey.livejournal.com]

Now I'm really curious what those terms would be. Some of them are simply so ridiculous that I couldn't ever see a judge actually enforcing half the crap on them.

....But then again, I've been shocked into a stunned silence by more than one judicial decision.

I wonder if there's a cane sugar version of Dr. Pepper produced anywhere?

Barring that, there's always dropping a shot glass of cherry whiskey into a glass of beer a-la "boilermaker" style. If you drink it all down in one shot, it has a lovely Dr. Pepper-ish aftertaste.

*hic*

[loganberrybunny.livejournal.com]

I wonder if there's a cane sugar version of Dr. Pepper produced anywhere?

Yes, there is. Dr Pepper is reasonably popular here in the UK, and almost all non-diet fizzy drinks are made with sugar here. How the tastes compare I don't know as I've never drunk US-spec Dr Pepper.

[ducktapeddonkey.livejournal.com]

In my experience, any soda made with corn syrup is vastly inferior to one made with sugar.

[pyesetz]

Greetings, Donkey!  This is your furst comment on my journal!

There is no corn syrup in Mexican pop, because Mexicans won't drink the stuff.  I think there is less corn syrup in the Canadian blends than the American ones.

You would think that 404 errors would mean that the contract has *no* privacy policy or terms-of-use, since unilateral terms added later are blatantly unfair.  But remember the blatant unfairness of C-61 (making all Canadians into serfs owned by multinational American-dominated music conglomerates).  If the law says that people are serfs, and judges are people who have been willing to work with the law as it is for the years needed to get a judicial appointment, then judges will tend to rule that people are serfs like the law says.

I have never tried a boilermaker, although Wikipedia mentions the "Jägerbomb" which is a shot-glass of Jägermeister dropped like a depth-charge into a half-pint of Red Bull—which must then be consumed ASAP before it goes flat.

[ducktapeddonkey.livejournal.com]

I thought I'd replied here before. But my memory has been known to be preemptive.

I'd heard that the Mexican soda was sugar instead of corn syrup. I also heard that Kosher Coca Cola was sugar too. Supposedly that can be found in the right places in the GTA. Although possibly only during certain times of the year.

The Jägerbomb sounds pretty much like the right method for making a Dr. Pepper. I'm not sure about mixing it with Red Bull though. Never tried it. I do like both Grey Goose vodka and Hill's Absinthe with Red Bull.

[pyesetz]

Yes, I purchased cane-sugar-only Coke in Toronto last spring.  It is available only during the month before Passover (during which observant Jews of Eastern European origin do not eat corn-based products, despite the official pronouncement from the rabbis that this prohibition is "stupid").  So the next opportunity for purchase will be in March.  2-litre bottles only, with an unusual cap colour (yellow, I think).

I have never tried absinthe.  The US now allows sale of absinthe as long it contains only negligible amounts of thujone, where "negligible" is defined as 10mg/kg.  Ontario allows only 1mg/kg, which then is beyond "negligible" and into the "infinitesimal" range.  The Hill's website doesn't mention the word "thujone".  Is there any detectable psychoactivity in Hill's?

[aethwolf.livejournal.com]

I don't understand why they have to mail you a coupon when they could simply just let you print one off the website.

[xolo.livejournal.com]

Because that gives them your mailing address, and establishes a 'business relationship', so they can spam you.

[pyesetz]

They tried online coupons during the dot-com bubble.  It was too technically difficult to ensure that unscrupulous customers couldn't print large numbers of coupons.  It's much harder to get yourself a bunch of postal addresses than a bunch of browsers to visit a website, plus snail-mail ensures that you are actually in the target market of US residents.

Blockbuster used to print online coupons (maybe still?).  The store policy where we lived was that if the op-scanner couldn't scan it, it was not valid.

[danruk.livejournal.com]

you forgot:

4.) Dr. Pepper is the vilest sickest most ludicrous soda flavor ever invented by mankind, so really who in their right mind would want a free one anyway?

[pyesetz]

I didn't *forget* that.  I just thought it wouldn't fit in well with the title of my post.