I too was complaining about any tax on soda, but
you don’t seem to read too closely, only focusing
on those ‘scientific’ facts I got wrong, or ways in which
I misread (GOD FORBID!) the intention of your precious thread, which now looks like a little Venus Flytrap experiment.
Funny, what starts out as just a pleasant conversation people like
you tend to turn into an excruciating object lesson in not
crossing the teacher. Pretty austere, dude, you are.
Try to grow a sense of humor when you have time.
Hope you get help.
You don’t get: When someone says something stupid to me, I call them on it. It could be on one of my own threads. It could be on somebody else’s thread. It could be on the subway. I have a zero tolerance policy for stupidity. When a person’s feelings get hurt, they have three choices: They can walk away, they can admit they’re wrong, or they can persue the line of stupidity until they’ve made a complete ass out of themselves: A vain attempt to somehow make whatever it was they said correct. You chose the third option. I’m constantly wrong. I usually chose to own up to it. Sometimes I walk away. When I let my pride force me to fight it out, I generally regret it.