I drink just like Mommy and Daddy now!
Posted by macbros | Under News | 328 views Monday Apr 23, 2007
Two questions come to mind when I read this article.
- Who thinks this stuff up?
- Who let it go through?
So apparently the fact that it was being sold in Liquor stores in Calgary pissed off the members of MADD. But in my opinion, they go off at the slightest bit of a disturbance in the force.
A bubbly, non-alcoholic children’s drink for sale in Alberta liquor stores has upset Mothers Against Drunk Driving.
Robby Bubble comes in a champagne-style bottle with colorful cartoon characters on the label and the words “Party, Party!”
On the drink’s website, children are shown dancing with a cartoon band and drinking the sparkling fruit juice out of champagne flutes. The product’s slogan is “Celebrate like the grown-ups.”
Tracy Franklin, the president of Mothers Against Drunk Driving in Calgary, told CBC.ca that Robby Bubble sends the wrong message to children and doesn’t belong in stores, especially liquor stores.
That’s right kids! You should be drinking the REAL stuff like Mommy and Daddy! Not that fake shit! How the hell are you supposed to get a buzz on with Robby Bubble?
Yea, I suppose they could have marketed it a bit better, and having it in the Liquor stores was a bad idea IMO, but I don’t think it’s a bad thing to have in a corner store or supermarket. Who can remember going fishing with your Dad, Uncle, Older Brothers, or your best Friends Dad and feeling like one of the Guys, sipping on a can of Ginger Beer?
I can. And the message I got was, “Hey, this is fun. I’m really enjoying this healthy time out fishing with Dad/Uncle/The Bro’s/My Friend and His Father or whoever.” Quality time well spent. It’s not like some perverted Pop Star trying to get you to drink up some of his Jesus Juice.
I think the Robby Bubble drink is a good idea! If they had that when I was younger, I might have been drinking that instead of sneaking a beer or two from the fridge and sneaking off with my friends to get a buzz on.
I remember when I was younger there was this teen club that was only open to kids in their teens. It was just like a real Night Club, with all the fancy drinks like you would get at a real bar, but non-alcoholic. It had the dance floor, and a shit load of video games. It was fun going there with friends, but MADD stuck their noses in and shut it down because they thought it was giving the wrong image to teens.
MADD, I can appreciate what you do, but sometimes you overreact and ruin it for the kids too. When they shut down the teen club, it was back to the nightly mischief.
Kids these days want to be so much like Mommy and Daddy, why not let them have the fake champagne? Better than the real thing IMO.
But like everything else on this site. This is just another one of my opinions and you’re entitled to it.
PS: if you goto the Robby Bubble site, check out the video. You’ll get a good laugh.
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The way to send the right message to kids is to hang drunk drivers by their thumbs (or perhaps other *cough* more personal parts) in the public square with an invitation to the public to pelt them with dung, rotten veggies, etc.
Of course, drunk drivers who kill someone should have their life earnings confiscated (essentially made into slave labor) and be worked to death… or simply placed in an open field with about 50 well-trained, professional drivers (executioners) in cars who’ve been told to sloooowwwly kill him with the cars… Could be a tough job, but I’d not mind auditioning for a hand at the wheel.
If the penalties for driving drunk–particularly for harming persons or property (property is just man-hours of folks’ lives, you know) while driving drunk–were seriously harsh AND seriously PUBLIC, MADD would get better results in drunk driing abatement than with this kind of nannystate
shit, urm, “stuff”. *heh*Although I agree with your comments. But this was more to the point of MADD sticking their noses into places it shouldn’t.
Keep kids safe, but don’t take the fun out of their life.