This is why I always let the first second or so spray into the splash tray.
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If you are drinking any of those drinks you deserve to drink from the cloaca. Just drink water, it won't hurt you.
I've never seen either of these machines irl.
You’ve never seen a pop fountain? They’ve got them in all kinds of restaurants and movie theaters. Do you not go out much?
On the plus side, you can often position your cup in the often un-mixed stream to get more syrup.
you can use pressurised air to clean the duct. Some verterbrates like to call it farts
~~Cloaca~~ master orifice
This hurts as someone who fixes both.
Nothing open to the public should have a touch interface. Has Covid taught us nothing?
I use my semi erect pinky to push it just to be safe.
Hey fellow semi erect pinky pusher!
There’s also a QR code you can scan to control it via your phone. I’m sure no one has exploited that.
And at least your phone has (mostly) only your own fecal bacteria on the screen.
I also remember when gas pumps had a separate hose and nozzle for each grade of gas.
You don't have that? What are you?
Most modern pumps in the US have one hose and buttons to select the grade. You’ll get a bit of the previous customer’s selection from what was left over in the line, but it’s not a huge difference if you’re getting 10 gallons. It can be a bigger deal for something with a small tank, like a motorcycle.
Diesel still gets its own hose, as putting diesel into a gas car or vice versa can be very bad.
I have selected premium several times and then the tank stopped filling 30¢ early and my receipt said regular despite selecting premium when filling up my moped. I think the machines try to account for the gas type difference sometimes or maybe the pumps I was using were a bit dodgy.
Cloaca-Cola
There it is. That should have been the post title.
You can edit titles on Lemmy
It's too late now. OP must commit ritual suicide by mixing all the flavors
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That's rich coming from the "why not cum from where we pee?" Species
If breathing and eating don't get separate holes, piss and cum certainly aren't getting that luxury
At least in males they aren't getting that luxury.
In females it's the same. Skene's glands sit on the urethra.
females don't pee
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That's just plain science!
It's also annoying to use, slower and can't serve multiple people at the same time.
The self serve suck for high volume but personally I hate when people butt in while I'm getting a drink. Wendy's seems to do a pretty good job but they are Crew serve units(for drive through) upside is more than eight flavors.
I think the extra annoyance is counteracted by the gains in customizability IMO
Where else are you going to be able to get Peach Sprite or Vanilla Fanta?
Or diet everything.
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The only reason why I like them is because I can cherry all the things. Cherry Coke, Cherry Sprite, Cherry root beer... You get the idea.
(I also like that cherry lime drink that several restaurants advertise under different names as their "exclusive" beverage. On the top of my head I know that Jack in the Box and Firehouse Subs both have it, with their own branding slapped on the name.)
Five Guys has it too. Freestyle is the name I know. It’s fantastic.
That's the reason I originally thought they were cool, however, in practice, they almost never allowed you to mix anything with anything, and it was purely a limit placed in the software. I couldn't cherry anything but coke and dr pepper on any of them I ever used. I couldn't add lemon to anything but the already raspberry flavored Fuze tea. I couldn't add vanilla to the root beer or have grape flavored sprite. Shit pisses me off, because it wasn't that they didn't have a certain flavor, the interface just didn't show the flavors available for every possible soda on the machine. Especially when I would see people elsewhere with them setup in the way you really want, where you could cherry everything. 😬
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Cloaca-cola, as envisioned by Pininfarina!
...do I want to search up what a cloaca is?
It's the omni-genital.
The Wikipedia article describes the biological act of a "cloaca kiss," which may or may not be exactly what it sounds like depending on an individual's imagination.
What the hell!?
I clicked the comments just to share my fun "cloacal kiss" fact!
Ugh. I'm going back to reddit.
I feel like the context of "the opposite of 1 hole per beverage" gives a good vague explanation. Another is "how I pictured women's anatomy before I took a health class."
Even if you know what it is, it may surprise you that more that one species can breathe out of it.
Even humans can absorb oxygen through the intestines
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I love those machines. Diet cherry decaf vanilla etc etc etc....
You can find some unusual things on there!
Fun fact: the Coca Cola Freestyle machine is designed by the Pininfarina company, of the same Pininfarina legacy of classic Italian car design fame.
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