Beijing is experiencing severe air pollution so they've closed down a couple of hundred factories.  But one enterprising millionaire has been selling fresh air in soft drink cans.  You have to laugh.

The sales figures so far are 8 million cans at 80c each in ten days. 

This topic is nothing but air. Nobody wants to talk about canned air, you maniac.

Considering the season, if I were to purchase (cough) canned air, it would only be something like this.

I was wrong.

Originally Posted By Mark (1 FEB 2013 6:13pm)

I was wrong.

Nothing new about that. 

I distinctly remember there being a movie where they sold canned fresh air, though I can't remember which one.

Spaceballs?

What now??? it does smell and breath differently!

It's like buying bottled water instead of taking it from the tap, it's all about taste.

Originally Posted By CB (6 FEB 2013 10:56am)

Spaceballs?

No, it was more of a cyberpunk/near future movie where the world was polluted to the point where fresh air was something that only the rich could afford. 

There was a movie where a woman slept with men so she could breath their oxygen.  They slept in small cubicles like those hotels in Japan. Gosh, a long time ago, maybe even the 70s era of sci-fi.

Originally Posted By Fnord (6 FEB 2013 6:49pm)

Originally Posted By CB (6 FEB 2013 10:56am)

Spaceballs?

 

No, it was more of a cyberpunk/near future movie where the world was polluted to the point where fresh air was something that only the rich could afford. 

Do you remember the year (or at least decade) of it?

I remember this but i'm not sure where.

Idiocracy perhaps? In Time perhaps?