They might as well hire someone full time to censor their Facebook fan page.

I thought that Dasani is filtered water that comes from the taps of whatever city the water is being bottled in... you know, locally...

as a matter of fact that is one of the reasons i don't buy it. it has a texture that boarders on slimy.

i do, however, drink a ton of Carbonated Mineral water from various sources.

@Jesse: Paid for being on facebook? I mean, I have that job now, just not officially.

[swastika-info.com]

hitler ruined the symbol for everyone.

I know this article is focused on Coke's facebook page, but just to touch on that Dasani mention... that's been a problem for quite a while.

BBC report: [news.bbc.co.uk]

To be honest, I'm not sure Coke is any more "evil" than any number of other large corporations out there - certainly they have their transgressions but they seem to take more punishment than some other offenders.

In case anyone's tempted to think otherwise, the Coca-Cola charm probably predates the appropriation of the swastika by the Nazi party.

On an marginally related note, the story of Coca-Cola in Nazi Germany is an interesting story that includes the birth of Fanta.

@calquist: me too, I spend all my day on the computer. to get paid to do it would be awesome

oh so you can delete people's things on your wall?

I posted something on my friends status and it disappears. I've done it about 10 times and within minutes it's gone. I thought it was a server bug but I guess she's just deleting them

@B1663R: At least in the Northeast Dasani is bottled in North Philadelphia, perhaps the worst section of Philadelphia.

[en.wikipedia.org]

Coke gets their water the same place you do: from the tap. They run it through some filters, put it in a plastic bottle and sell it for 4000% markup on the cost of the water.

Penn and Teller did an episode of their Bullsh!t show about bottled water. Super funny but had a lot of information too.

@kompeitou: The swastika was also used in pre-Christian Europe by pagans. That is the origin of Hitler's interest in the symbol.

Its not exclusive to the east nor was it stolen from them.

@Michael Belisle:

"You get tired genociding, have some Fanta, Anne Frank's hiding!"

next up: facebook introduces fan pages that you can't post to

Stuff falls from the sky, you know.

@reservoir_dog: Aquafina (Pepsi) and Deer Park also both use filtered tap water but I think part of the issue is that they have owned up to it. Coke seems to still be in denial.

@Starfury: like the 20/20 episode where they did a blind taste test and people ranked NYC tap water as #1 and Evian/Naive last?

@Starfury:

@sleze69:
Philly has awesome water. I'd buy Dasani if it were Philly water. You should see the cloudy crap we have in Tucson.

@AppleAlex:
Yup. I have family members that are always posting their religious propoganda on my FB page. I can't delete them as friends, but I delete their posts immediately.

I don't know what they're so upset about. Are they naive enough to think that Coke is bottling the water downstream from a toxic waste dump?

@kompeitou: he also ruined the name Adolf and the Charlie Chaplin style mustache for pretty much everyone...

@MooseOfReason: so why does my tap water smell like rotten eggs?. it's not my piping

@tbax929: Correction, Philly has wooder.

@sleze69:
Because you know, crime equals bad water.

Philadelphia water is disgusting, I'll give you that...but North Philly drinks the same water as the rest of us.

@AppleAlex:

"Rotten egg" smell is basically always hydrogen sulfide (H2S). Is it from both taps? If it's only from the hot tap--the culprit is your hot water heater.
NoThe good news is the human nose is actually a pretty keen instrument, and in most cases, the odor is not indicative of a real health problem. If you have city water--report it. If you have well water, get it tested; the smell could indicate a bacteria problem.

@AppleAlex: Ah, sulfur water. Wikipedia has a suggestion ([en.wikipedia.org]) but I think that some aquifers just are a bit sulfurous.

@kompeitou: Stupid Hitler...

@kompeitou: Well, I always tended to lean anti-Hitler, but this... this caps it.

@cmdrsass:

As long as its filtered and meets the drinking water standards, I don't care where it's from. Why does it matter?

@sleze69: Well, good for them for that...at least there are some jobs in the neighborhood.

@B1663R: Harpo Marx changed his first name from Adolph to Arthur in 1938. I wonder why?

@kompeitou: Ha seriously. I was about to say, if the swastika is red, with optional dots between the crosses, it becomes the Hindu Swastika, which is considered very very auspicious.

I love the symbol myself, for its symmetry and everything, and I also have a tee with swastika on it, but dang I cant wear it in this country.

Per the Dasani website:

"To create DASANI, Coca-Cola bottlers start with the local water supply, which is then filtered for purity using a state-of-the-art process called reverse osmosis..." and so on.

Don't know what the big mystery is

@Jesse: yeah, that. or they could just stop hiding the answers to the questions being asked. but they'll probably opt for option #1--it's pretty obvious the source is undesirable.

@DefineStatutory: I don't think most people are worried that the water is actually unsanitary - they'd just like some labeling transparency from Coke.

@cmdrsass: There are people who very strongly believe that 9/11 was an inside job, and that by this time we should all have been sent to Reeducation camps by Obama, and that by this time next year, we'll be soylent greening old folks and special needs babies.

And they spend a huge amount of their time being annoyances.

I bet there are people who do the same with the Coca Cola Co. (as a part of the larger Big Co Conspiracy Theory)

@tbax929: Wow, I didn't know that - you can't delete friends? Is that a FB rule or just a family rule? If it's a FB rule, it's just another nail in the "I won't join Facebook" rant I've got going. :)

@kompeitou:

I stumble into town just like a sacred cow
Visions of swastikas in my head
Plans for everyone
It's in the whites of my eyes

Do we REALLY need the swastika imagery? I mean, seriously ... how is that sort of thing going to convince Coca-Cola to disclose the source of its water? How is this not utterly childish?

BTW has no one ever heard of Godwin's Law ... ? When you resort to invoking Nazism, you've already lost your argument.

@Jesse: They probably do...heh.

@B1663R: "So apparently no one dresses up for Halloween here. I wish I had known that before I used grease paint for my mustache. And I can't even take off my hat... because then I'm Hitler." --Pam, The Office

@humphrmi: You can remove friends, but you might get in trouble if you remove your mother. It's not can't it's won't because they don't want to deal with the fallout.

@Michael Belisle: From Wikipedia: "In the wake of widespread popular usage, the Nazi Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP) formally adopted the swastika (in German: Hakenkreuz (hook-cross)) in 1920." -- [en.wikipedia.org]

The page you linked to indicated that the Coca-Cola fob is from the 1920's...so they may have developed in parallel, for unrelated reasons.

@humphrmi: Nope, you can definitely delete friends. I have a rule that I don't do it to people I will likely have to see and interact with in the next year...so that includes family.

@tbax929: I have a friend that has been posting angry, hate-filled comments on my wall about the current health care reform. I finally ripped him a new one over it last night, after he commented on a non-partisan comment I made about the validity (or lack thereof) of "death panels." Next time, I'm removing him as a friend. I rarely see him and am discovering that I like him less and less by the day. Oh well...

I've had a grand total of one sip from a bottle of Dasani. I tossed it. It was horrid! And I'm no bottled water snob. The grocery brand always works for me! I'll never drink that crap again.

@reservoir_dog: There are too many "evil" corporations to name all, and we don't know the half of it. I'm not sure how "evil" coke still is, but they are indirectly (possibly directly) responsible for their worker's deaths in places like Colombia.

@Starfury: I like the P&T bit, but Lewis Black does a great job of tearing apart bottled water too:

NSFW!

I see the birther movement has set its sights on Dasani. I can see why. That name don't sound American noways.

I buy bottled water from Wegmans here locally. Yes I know it's a waste of money but it tastes better than my tap water (Hilton, NY), it's always cold and comes in a convenient carrying vessel.