Everybody wants a piece of the action

[venta]

This is a fairly pointless post, made in order to see what the score with the new posting form is. Everyone seems to be moaning about it, but beyond it being different, and a little ugly-ly laid out, I've yet to work out why it's so heinous.

If you know, you're welcome to tell me.

And just because I want to know:

[Poll #354591]

Comments

[al-fruitbat.livejournal.com]

It's a bit more vanilla-ey, but the chief benefit is the absence of that horrible tooth-clingly sugar stuff, which means that should you spill some then it dries to a smooth finish as opposed to making everything within reach faintly tacky.

[venta.livejournal.com]

The chief malefit[*], though, is the presence of the vile-tasting sweetners they put in instead. I'd agree that non-sticky-drying coke would be a bonus, but I'm not prepared to drink something that tastes awful just in case I spill some.


[*]If it isn't a word, it should be.

[cardinalsin.livejournal.com]

malefit

Surely just as one can be beneficient or malevolent, one can have either a benefit of a malevot. Though somehow malevon sounds a little nicer. Anyway, I must disagree, malefit it a horrid horrid word that should be neither seen nor heard.

[venta.livejournal.com]

You've got your opposites confuse there - the opposite of beneficient is maleficient, and the opposite of malevolent is benevolent.

Honest, I'm not making these ones up :)

Malevon sounds like a proprietary skincare product, I'm sticking with malefit.

(To be pronounced mal-a-fit, of course, or it'd be silly.)

[cardinalsin.livejournal.com]

Hmm, good point. However, I still intend to write to my MP requesting that this word not be put in the dictionary.

[froglet.livejournal.com]

Vanilla diet works suprisingly well. Much nicer than ordinary diet and roughly as nice as ordinary coke though not quite. Vanilla ordinary coke is minging though.

The vanilla is also less minging if you have massive cravings and can't wait for the bottle to cool down in the fridge before you have some.

[venta.livejournal.com]

I take coke out of the fridge a while before I want to drink it, to allow it to reach the correct temperature. At work I have a tray of vanilla coke (which I kind of acquired accidentally), which lives on the floor under the desk, and is just nicely cool without being chilly.

So sue me :)